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I lost my job yesterday. Relatively sure I'm not even eligible for unemployment, though I put through a claim yesterday to see what happens. Prudential was nice enough to cash out all my unused vacation time (which I'm thinking amounted to 1.5-2 weeks, though I can't remember exactly and have no way of checking right now.) I also have 8.5 days of work they haven't paid me for yet, so all that should be getting here soon and should keep me going for at least a little while.

If I can get unemployment, that'd make this all more bearable. If I cut out every last thing that isn't essential (except for DSL) I can live on roughly $600/month. I'm fairly sure unemployment should come out to be about that if I can get it at all, and I could survive indefinitely and be a lot less worried.

... and wow, I somehow left this post here for 3-4 hours unfinished. I guess that's enough for now.

I can't embed this video (disabled by request at youtube), but here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbWabi63NJk

Watch it and come back. I'll wait.

All done? Good. Someone on Twitter posted this video saying it's "proof" magic is real. This person seriously thinks this was genuine magic. It reminds me of something Kurt and I say. "That's IMPOSSIBLE to fake! It's REAL MAGIC." (After a comment I saw on a youtube video once where someone basically said the exact same thing.) I will admit, it's a good trick. However, there's a few things you have to take into consideration:

1) It wasn't a continuous camera shot. It was broken up.

2) He moved everyone

3) You'll notice prior to moving everyone he very explicitly asked the bystanders (several times even) if everything was legit. He moves them all and has a break in the shot and doesn't mention again, asking if everything is still legit.

Obviously, he changed something. I very highly suspect everyone in the crowd is in on the trick. The video is blurry so I can't say for sure, but I'd imagine he put in some sort of fake front and had the girl squeeze in under there and come up through a hole. Do this trick again in the same manner with a continuous camera shot and then I'll be impressed as hell. Until then, it seems obvious he was changing stuff during the cut.

I should really tweet this entry. :>

I was just lamenting about not being able to get at my old Sims 2 save data on my external hard drive (which conveniently stopped working) and decided to try it now. what do you know? It worked! I copied the Sims 2 data off it and a few other save games for other games. Now, if I recall correctly, I just have to drop my old directory overtop the new one. (ie, I backed up starting at "The Sims 2" directory and everything underneath. I think I just have to overwrite everything currently there with that data and I'm good to go.)

That worked out quite well.

But first I have to go see my mother. I always mean to go there early, around noon or one, but somehow never really leave until 3 or 4.

*Edit: I just realized I need to re-download Ikea Stuff. I originally bought it electronically and never bothered to redownload it on the new computer because it wasn't that great... but I used some of the furniture in my old save, and I'm assuming something bad will probably happen if it isn't installed. doh.*

I called Wachovia. They're full of shit for the reasoning behind the overdraft fee. I decided not to argue with them because I know it's pointless from my own time in call centers. Basically the reason is as follows: We like finding reasons to charge people overdrafts. We'll manipulate the transactions in every way we can to see if it'll create an overdraft situation.

I'm not surprised by this, not one bit. Rather than argue with them, I'm moving my money to another bank. Any suggestions? I know Commerce Bank (who has had a name change and I can't remember the new name) is supposed to be good and there's one right up the street from me. Maybe I'll look into them.

More than anything else, I think the rep I was talking to was surprised I didn't argue with him. I had to deal with similar situations in credit cards with over limits and some people go berserk and start screaming at you about it, threatening to sue if you don't waive the fees, insist they never went over, etc. No, no. None of that for me. I'm just moving my money. It'll have a greater impact than me just arguing with a rep.

Okay, I'm getting sick of this Wachovia overdraft bullshit. They did the same fucking thing to me this time as last week. I had $36 in my checking account and there was a charge for $1.50. I get charged a $35 overdraft fee and then a second one because the $1.50 was an overdraft. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT? They pulled this same bullshit right before my last paycheck too. (But I ended up paying $300 in overdraft fees that time.) I'm completely pissed off now. I never got a chance to call them about that $300 because of my mother. Dunno if they're open today or not, but I'm calling them and finding out.

*edit: Okay, I misread that. I only got one overdraft fee, but still... there was no reason. The transaction brought me to under $35 and I get charged an overdraft. I have $36. Charge $1.50. Now I have $34.50 ... then I get charged an overdraft fee of $35. WHY?!*

Spore!
Decided to start playing Spore again, as I bought the Galactic Adventures expansion and hadn't tried it yet. I have to say, it adds a lot of fun to the space stage. No bugs encountered yet, but we'll see. I've heard lots of stories of bugs. By my standards, I have a sprawling space empire (13 planets) and kind of forget everything going on, so I sort of want to start a new game so I can keep better track of everything.

Played the existing game for a while and went out and discovered the Grox. Silly looking things are they. I know there's a wormhole key somewhere, but I forget what it does. I can fly right to the wormholes but they don't do anything. I'll have to research that. I couldn't find anyone selling a key, but I'm assuming I didn't buy it already. The Grox don't seem to hate me and they don't attack on sight. Getting to the center of the galaxy should be easy, once I get a powerful enough engine to make it. As I get closer, my traveling distance is reduced and it gets harder to travel. I'll have to see if there are anymore engine upgrades out there. Oh, I also dropped my first ever Monolith and promptly forgot the location of the planet. Oh well, what a waste of sporebucks. I don't think I'll come across the planet again anytime soon as I was in the middle of nowhere trying to get to the Grox when I did it.

I was surprised at the depth of the Space Adventure editor. I'm actually gonna have to plan something out rather than create it on the fly. I'm thinking a good old fashioned "kill everything that moves" mission is a good one to start with.

I did have one crash, but that was on the cellular stage of my new creation. doh. I'm assuming that's likely unrelated to Galactic Adventures.

Gonna go see my mom soon, and I should really mow the lawn today. Probably do it after I visit her. Then I should take the mower in to have it fixed before it breaks further. But the grass is so long right now I can't wait two weeks (how long it took to service it) to mow. Gotta get it cut down now and then take the mower in.

And I keep thinking it's Saturday because I had most of yesterday off. At least the weekend is going to seem extra long this way.

I just get home tired as hell. I found out I'm not going to have a job in 3 weeks. 4 if I'm lucky. Get home, try to start relaxing and start playing The Sims (decided to restart) ... phone rings. It's a nurse from the nursing home my mother moved into today. She's throwing a goddamn fit and threatening all sorts of shit if she doesn't get what she wants. The only way to calm her is for me to take this fucking garbage to her. that'd be fine if it wasn't a FORTY FIVE MINUTE drive EACH WAY. It's 9:10. I haven't eaten yet. I'll be lucky to be home by 10:45. Probably 11.

Buying fast food is out of the question now that I've found out about my job. (Plus I had Wendy's for lunch today before I knew, and I wouldn't eat it twice in a day regardless.) I guess it's PB&J sandwiches for dinner because I can't think of anything I could make at 11pm that would be done in a reasonable time. I was going to make spaghetti tonight, but I really won't have the time as I like to simmer my sauce for a half hour to 45 minutes (jarred source) and it tastes so much better if you toss some cooked hamburger in there befor eit simmers.

Why the fuck is my mother being like this? She specifically demanded I do it. Fucking hell.

At least I won $1 today in scratch off lotto. (Again, before I knew. Card was $1 so I broke even.) I think I may take my giant pile of change and cash it in at one of those machines this weekend.

It's been six days since I last checked LJ. I think, after years and years, I'm finally starting to get bored of the whole LJ thing. I think I opened my account in early 2002. It's now mid 2009. 7 1/2 years isn't bad, I guess.

I seriously doubt I'm reading all these entries.

Hey! Everybody who lives in Georgia!
Go read this entry: http://jathomas.livejournal.com/104555.html?view=2139243#t2139243

It's a yard sale to help raise money to fix his cat's leg. If you're near, please go check it out. Here's the flyer he made for it as well:

Seriously, if you're near, please consider going. It's for an excellent cause.

This is a crazy interview Steven Colbert did on the O'Reilly Factor. I'm assuming he knew O'Reilly was going to attack him, so he went out in character and basically said constant good thing about O'Reilly. It's hilarious, O'Reilly can't attack without looking like a dip shit, so the entire interview just gets silly. I love it.

06/10/09 - Finally!
Way back in mid 2007, I read an article in a video gaming magazine about a game called Prototype. It was loosely inspired by Grand Theft Auto, in the sense it was an open world (sandbox) game where you ran around killing people and only had to do the missions/quests if you wanted to. The staff at this magazine (which I think was EGM, but I'm not sure) had reviewed an extremely early version of the game. The main character is named Alex, and he's a morph. He can turn into anyone, can grow extra appendages to beat the crap out of people, can fly, etc. I think he can "drain" information from their brains as well. He's supposed to be mostly unstoppable. Gameplay is probably better described as inspired by The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, honestly. (Except for the fact I'm not sure if Hulk came out before Prototype's design started. Hulk came out in 2005, but if they had a playable version of Prototype in 2007, design must have started quite a good bit before that.)

Anyway, I was immediately interested in Prototype. I had just gotten a 360 and was psyched to find out it was being released on 360. The game has been delayed many times so far. It was originally slated to come out in "Fall 2008", then got moved to April 2009 and is now coming out on June 10th, 2009. Here's the problem: My 360 is broken. I'm sending it back as soon as possible (I have it all packaged up with a shipping label from Microsoft), but seeing as the 10th is next week, there's no way I'm getting it back in time. My computer is a bit above the specs for the PC version of Prototype, though. (ie, requires an Athlon x2 64 4000+, I have a 4400+. 1 gig of RAM, I have 2. The video card is the only thing that's slightly questionable. It requires a 7800 GT with 256 megs of memory. I have a 8600 GTS with 256 megs. That sounds a lot better, but it isn't. If you look up benchmarks comparing the 7800 GT and 8600 GTS, the 7800 tends to slightly outperform the 8600. I have a 16x PCIE slot on this motherboard, so I could easily upgrade to something a lot more powerful, but don't want to do that just yet. Rather, I think I'm gonna see how it plays and how it looks. I actually may upgrade specifically for this game, because I want to play it that much.)

And I guess that's that, since this entry has been sitting here without me updating it for the past 15 minutes.

So, I was awoken this morning at roughly 6am by my mother screaming like a maniac. I'm not even exaggerating at all there. It sounded like bad acting out of an old B movie. (Then again, even when she's legitimately scared of something, such as a mouse, she'll start screaming and it sounds like she's trying, and failing, to sound scared. It's bizarre.)

Anyway, I get dressed and go down there. Apparently she can barely breathe at all. She's shaking enough that it looks like a minor seizure. (But, unless there's such a thing as a 90 minute seizure, it's not.) She's insisting she has to go to the hospital... and then immediately refuses to go when I say okay. What the fuck? I cannot stand when she pulls this shit. she was doing it about two months ago. She'll insist she has to go and then immediately refuse to when someone agrees that she should. I mean immediately. As in, less than 30 seconds after she says she has to go, she'll refuse.

Anyway, I think she may actually mean it this time. However, just like always, she's refusing to go in an ambulance. No matter how bad the condition is (and this goes for her or anyone else in our family) we have to be driven there in a car. Ambulances are unacceptable. It's fucking ridiculous. The one single time she went to the hospital in an ambulance was around 2003 when I called and told them. It's pretty funny because they practically had to force her onto a stretcher over her protests that she wanted me to drive her there in the car. (And, just for the record, talking with a doctor a day or so after that, it turns out she probably would have died before I could have gotten there if I'd attempted to drive her to the hospital, since she probably would have waited several more hours.) She's very insistent she has to take all her morning medicine first, but that should be done any minute now. (The whole process takes about 90 minutes because there's a lot of it and she needs to wait an hour after taking one of them before she can take anything else. I have no idea why she just doesn't take that one last, but she insists on doing it first.)

Anyway, I just realized I'm starting every paragraph with the word anyway. I'm pretty sure I'd do that in every entry if I didn't stop myself. She keeps insisting she'll go after she does one more thing. So it's not quite critical (unless you count the fact she can't even walk two steps because she almost collapses. Hell, she can barely drink. She takes a sip of water and she's panting for air afterwards because she had to stop breathing while she swallowed. Yeah, something is seriously wrong here.) I have no idea how she thinks she's going to be able to make it into the car, but she insists she has to go that way.

I kinda don't think I'm going to work today. If they give me any shit about calling off, I'm going to freak the hell out on them. (They're likely to do so, because technically policy says unless we schedule vacation, we aren't allowed to miss work for any reason. Honestly, I was expecting them to give me shit about having jury duty last year. They didn't, for the record.) And now I have to go. I think she's done with medicine.

Screened comments because I'm pretty sure no one wants to see anyone else's answers.... not that I expect anyone to actually answer this. It's more of a test of my theory that everyone will think, "ewwww!" and skip it.

1. Would you let me fuck you?

2. What positions?

3. Would you go down on me?

4. Would you let me fuck you hard?

5. Would I fuck you the first night we met?

6. Would you let me pull your hair while we fucked?

7. Would we fuck in the bathtub?

8. Would you handcuff me or tie me to the bed and then fuck me?

9. Would you have a 3-some with me?

10. What about me makes you want me?

11. Would you talk dirty while we fucked?

12. What locations would we fuck?

13. Would we do it in front of people?

14. Would we fuck more than once?

15. Would we fuck in the rain?

16. Would you have phone sex with me?

17. Are you gonna re-post this to see if and how I want to fuck you?

Thunderstorm is coming, which is fine. For whatever reason, I'm just thinking about the insane restrictions my mother used to put on me and my sister during thunderstorms.

1) We weren't allowed to use the bathroom because she was convinced lightning could come up through the toilet and kill us. I don't know if something like this is even possible in theory, but I've never heard of it happening.

2) We weren't allowed near any windows, because lightning could come through it and kill us. (Again, never heard of it happening.)

3) We had to stay in one room (the living room) during the storm because my mom was convinced that we'd somehow die from lightning if we didn't. (I forget her reasoning on this one.)

4) No sort of electronics (TVs, Radios, etc) were allowed on during a storm. (This was my dad's restriction, because he was worried about surges. He even made us unplug everything.) At least this one is reasonable since we didn't use surge protectors then.

5) We weren't allowed to open the refrigerator or freezer. (This one is again from my father. He was convinced it'd let cold out, we'd lose electricity, then everything would go bad because it wasn't cold enough. Reasonable, but very paranoid.)

The first three were fucking ridiculous. My father was an electrical engineer. He had to know how insane that was. However, my mother is stubborn. More stubborn than anyone you've probably ever met, in fact. He probably figured it was easier to go along with her than argue. Even if he could have conclusively debunked those three, it wouldn't matter to her. It still isn't safe because she has a "feeling" it isn't. (Her and her "feelings" ... whenever they're right, you always hear about it. Whenever they're wrong, she never brings it up again. Then she'll claim they're "always" right and only use examples where she was right if you challenge her on it. That's her ultimate argument killer and she won't listen to anything you have to say after she brings that out. Bring up one of the times she was wrong and she'll just insist it never happened or that you're misremembering. Also, I suspect that she retroactively inserts the feelings into events. Like, for instance, I broke one of my teeth in 1986 while I was riding my bike. Years after that, she always insisted she had a "feeling" that I shouldn't ride my bike that night. Funny how she never mentioned it that day.)

Also... and she swears this never happened... when I was about 8 or 9, I was riding my bike outside while my father was walking. I rode next to him. My friend Stephen was with me. We got anxious to get home so, when we got to our street, we crossed it by ourselves to get to the side our house was on. My mother apparently saw us and yelled at me. A thunderstorm was coming (which I was terrified of at that age) and she told me God was sending a thunderstorm to punish me for crossing the street by myself. What the hell? I mentioned this to her a few years ago and she said it never happened and that I imagined it. Bullshit. I did not.

And that's enough of that.

Unleashing the horror upon an unsuspecting net...
So, back in 1984 I got a hardbound diary type book from my parents for Christmas. In it I wrote 4 things. Three stories that can vaguely be defined as fan fiction and one original story. None of them are any good. I didn't understand the concept of describing anything. For instance, in one, I just mention "the woman" without saying anything else at all about her. It's really awful. Really, really awful. 25 years later, I'm embarrassed to read it. They're all extremely short, thankfully. Most less than two pages. Some less than one.

So, of course, I have to post it on the Internet. Anything in square brackets is me making fun of my 9 year old self. For the record, this was written about two years before Invasion Worldwide From Outer Space, which I posted on my LJ a year or so ago.

Here we go... I've tried to copy the punctuation, spelling, and capitalization exactly.

( Story 1: He-Man ... oh dear lord. )
No, seriously. I wrote that. I remember thinking it was a great story. I remember what I was thinking with that "@!?@@" weirdness. I saw it in a comic and asked my parents what it meant. they told me it was how you write cursing. So, effectively, I made He-Man curse. A true precursor to bad fanfiction! I apparently was so proud of my story I put two by lines on it.

This isn't so much fanfiction as a dissertation on Smurfs. A very horribly written one, in fact.

( Smurfs! )
Almost no periods and I managed to misspell "Smurfs" every time. My writing was so freaking huge back then that takes up almost 3/4ths of a page. bule? surf berries? This isn't even typed. It's all handwritten. Embarrassment growing to unbearable levels... I'll do one more tonight, because I'll be overwhelmed by embarrassment other wise.

( Ghostbusters! This one is the second longest. )

Oh God, I'm dying inside at reading that because I'm responsible for unleashing it on the world. It just ends like that. I kind of wonder if I had intended to write more. Good ol' Joe and Tony. And the leader. AND the ghost busters recruiter! All great characters who should have never been in the movie and weren't. Joe and Tony reappear in another story: the one original one I wrote. There's also a character named Steve, and I remember being so worried that people would think it was me that I killed him. Oops! Spoiler! I think Joe dies too. Oops! Another spoiler! .... like anyone cares.

I like how that "At least they thought so" leads to absolutely nothing. Also, I remember thinking calling the road "scary mible road" was the greatest literary device of all time. Because, you see, she's scared and her road contains the word scary in it. mible, for the record, is pronounced to rhyme with "tribble." The word comes back as "niple" in the original story. (still rhyming with Tribble, btw, not sounding like nipple.)

More later this week.

Just saw Star Trek in IMAX. I didn't like it that much. I didn't hate it, though I didn't think it was great either. Some parts were good, the bits with Scotty were, for instance. Trying to stay spoiler free here, so let me very generally state my feelings:

I didn't like a lot of the changes they made. They abused physics horribly in terms of the main plot. _If_ (and this is a big if, since I'm more of a Relativity guy) I understand the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Psychics correctly, the entire plot cannot have happened. I believe the Many Worlds Interpretation would allow it to happen, though. I think. I don't know much at all about Many Worlds. All this is based on assuming.. umm.. something I can't mention or it'd be a spoiler. Okay, it goes under a cut.

( Spoileriffic! )

I don't know. I just don't like the deviation from things as they were under the original series. You'd think I'm used to massive shakeups, especially since (for instance) John Byrne's Man of Steel Superman reboot is one of my favorite comics ever. Then again, this is John Byrne we're talking about.

I was also intensely annoyed by the inability to keep the fucking camera still during the movie. That drove me apeshit. I was about ready to walk out of the movie due to that. I think it's getting popular as I notice House is doing it a bit as well. Sure, a little camera movement is all right to emphasize shaking or heavy movement. (I would have been fine with it, for instance, if it had only happened during that sky diving sequence.) The redesign of the bridge looks ridiculous. AND THERE WAS NOT A BRIDGE LURCH. NOT EVEN ONE. (Come on, you know the Bridge Lurch. It was a staple of TOS. Someone shakes the camera and tilts it a bit and everyone throws themselves to one side. Usually used to simulate explosions. BRIDGE LURCH LEFT!)

Okay, fine. That Bridge Lurch thing was a joke. Sort of. Mostly. Just a little.

And why didn't anyone use Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development to fix the Vulcan problem? THAT WOULD HAVE SOLVED EVERYTHING. I need more Deus Ex Machina endings in my Star Trek! Now I'm just making fun of TOS. (Though that law of parallel development was real, from The Omega Glory episode of TOS.)

Seriously, though, back to the movie. I thought a lot of the casting was straight on, so that's a plus. Scotty was particularly good, I thought. Though Uhura was written completely differently and I'm still not sure how much I liked it. In TOS, Uhura was just sort of there. She didn't do much.

You'd think I'd be better about reboots, seeing as I thought Transformers was great. (And virtually everyone I know who saw it hated it.) Anyway, it's getting late and I'm getting real tired. I will say this, though: Given the opportunity, I would actually watch Star Trek again, but only after some time has elapsed to let me think about it a bit. I can think of several movies and/or TV shows I didn't like at first and started to like them more after seeing them again. (It pains me to say this, but I didn't like Monty Python when I was 11-12. Not even a little. We all know how much that has changed.)

All right, tired now. end of entry.

I just thought to myself, "I wonder when that destined-to-be-shit Dragonball movie is coming out?" I checked. As it turns out, it came out April 10th and is already gone from almost every theater.It earned a whopping 9 million dollars in 3 weeks. (Compared to, say, the 80 million Wolverine earned in it's first weekend.)

I imagine it'll be on DVD in a few days.

Idiocy, yes...
So, here's a video I found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI

Not embedding it because it's trash. It's basically an Atheist trying to "prove" God does not exist. That's all fine and good, but there's a problem: The arguments sound hollow and unconvincing to religious people... just as an Atheist would likely find the arguments of a religious person to be hollow and unconvincing. This post isn't to try to convince anyone of anything, I'm sure you've all decided on your views by now.

Rather, this is to show the utterly nonsensical argument this person has used. I'm basically making fun of him. Be warned, that video is 9 minutes long and you'll feel like you've wasted your time if you watch it. His basic argument comes down to this:

"Christians often say that when you pray, God has one of three responses. Yes, no or wait." (I've never heard that, by the way.) He goes on to give a hypothetical example of a milk jug. You pray to the milk jug knowing the milk jug will answer your prayers with yes, no or wait. You pray for something and you get it. Yay! The Milk answered your prayer! You pray for something else and don't get it. Whoops, the milk said no. The point, of course, is that the events were random and milk doesn't grant prayers. Fair enough. Milk doesn't. The only he's proven so far is milk can't do anything.

All right, so this is his conclusion: The only possible outcomes of asking for something would be a response of yes, no or wait. Therefore, since all requests fall under yes, no or wait, God doesn't exist.

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What? How the hell does that even make sense? By that logic, no one who can grant requests of any kind exists. Loan officers? They don't exist because they can only say yes, no or wait in response to your loan request. Credit card issuers? They don't exist either! Obviously, they do exist. This guy gets a Logic Fail.

And that's that.

I had this bizarre dream that my dad was still alive. That's not the bizarre part. But in it, this giant truck was outside our house. Mounted on the back of the truck was 3 or 4 gigantic subwoofers. (And by gigantic, I mean the sub itself was 7 or 8 feet across, and the cabinet that held it was even bigger.) Do subs that big even exist in real life? Anyway, there were 3 or 4 of them on there back of the truck and they could rotate around. They could be pointed at anything. And they were pointing them at our house and playing really, really loudly. It was pissing my dad off and he kept going outside and threatening to call the police.

I remember at some point, this sort of "cone" extended from the front of the sub, that was apparently an acoustic amplifier because they made the subs even louder. They apparently did not fear the police. There was more, but that's all that I really wanted to mention. Now I must go see if subs like that really exist.

Old School Internet?
Who here knows of the Internet Oracle? (http://cgi.cs.indiana.edu/~oracle/index.cgi) You send questions and it's answered by someone else who asked a question of the Oracle. My answers have always been disappointing, but I did get a question in return. It was:

> What question has no possible answer?

Err... okay. Here's the answer I sent back to this anonymous fellow:

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That is a good question, but unclear. Every question has an answer, even if it makes no sense. For instance, you may ask me the following question: "If Train A leaves the Kalamazoo station at 10:43 heading North and Train B leaves the Los Angeles station at 1:54 heading East, how long will it take for you to realize the trains will never intercept?" Surely an odd question, and I could, for instance, answer it by yelling "CHICKEN STRIPS!" at you.

I answered the question, thus making it a possible (if nonsensical) answer. Perhaps you meant what question has no CORRECT answer. The correct answer is "Not Many." However, a practical answer is this: "What are 3 things George W. Bush did during his presidency that were beneficial to the country?" Thing 1 would be leave office. However, there are no answers for 2 and 3. Therefore, this question has no possible correct answer. Though you could make answers 2 and 3 CHICKEN STRIPS! if you really wanted.

In repayment for this answer, you owe the Oracle a 6 piece Chicken Strip meal from the restaurant of your choosing.

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Err.. yeah, okay. I think this is the third time I've asked a question of the Oracle since I first discovered it circa 1994. 3 questions in 15 years isn't really that much. Holy shit, I've been on the Internet for 16 years. There are some people with MySpaces who weren't born when I first got on the Net. Yikes.