Friday, January 19, 2007

Your questions answered twentyfourseven

IMG_4961_1A somnambulist is someone who walks in their sleep. Yes, I am one. No, I didn't just use the name to sound cool.

The musical notes for every good boy deserves fudge are coincidentally EGBDF, as in Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. Funny how that happens.

The line "it's like riding a unicycle on a dental floss tightrope over a wilderness of razor blades" is from a Matthew Good song, 21st Century Living, to be exact, off the album Avalanche.

"great big sea newfie rap instruments used" Hmm... I'm not sure what you're talking about, but I'll put my money on the bodhran, pronounced BOR-on. Only a moron can't play a bodhran.

Okay, sending a fax to Norway can be a little tricky. Whatever you do, you have to resist the temptation to dial 9. True, that will get you out of the building, but only for local numbers. No, you must instead dial 47. I learned this through trial and error. One day you too may learn the ways of the fax.

For the last time, I don't know Bosco. Please stop calling me.

The fish in water thing is sort of a metaphorical way of saying that some things are hard to see because they're ubiquitous. In other words, you don't notice them because you couldn't possibly imagine or understand having things any other way. The person who discovered water was not a fish because the fish's whole world is water. Living in a world without water is completely impossible, and having it around seems so natural to the fish, it's not something the fish would notice, let alone question. Same goes for dominant ideologies. They're everywhere. You don't notice them unless you're looking for them precisely because they're everywhere, embedded in the way we think, act and experience reality.

Yes, I'm pretty sure Ikea sells three-pronged extension cords. The exact kind of extension cord you get would depend on what country you're in.