But that’s cool. I’m okay with that.

Here’s the thing: I’ve been home sick for a few days, and this virus-induced deliruim has spawned in me a sudden, profound appreciation…

…for Weird Al.

The thing that I love about this song is that I am almost certain that my White & Nerdy score is higher than yours. Let’s compare. And, to keep things nerdy, let’s express each score as a binary value.

• First in my class in MIT: 0
• Champion at D&D: 1
• M.C. Escher favorite MC: 1
• Keep your 40, I’ll have earl grey tea: 1
• My rims never spin (they are stationary): 1
• My action figures are cherry: 1
• Stephen Hawking in my library: 1
• MySpace page pimped out: 0. Clearly, I need to get on this.
• People begging for top 8 spaces: 0
• Know Pi to 1000 places: 0
• No grills, still wear braces: 0
• Sandwiches with mayonnaise: 0
• Wiz at Minesweeper (play for days): 1 (I welcome all challengers)
• Fingers move so fast set the place ablaze: 1
• No KillerApp I haven’t run: 1
• At Pascal I’m #1: 1 (this i, perhaps, a stretch)
• Do vector calculus just for fun: 0
• Ain’t got a gat, got a soldering gun: 1
• Happy Days favorite theme song: 0
• Kick your butt in a game of ping pong: 0
• Ace any trivia quiz you bring on: 0
• Fluent in Javascript as well as Klingon: 0

2nd verse:

• X-Men comics you know I collect ‘em: 1
• Pens in my pocket I must protect ‘em: 0
• Ergonomic keyboard never leaves me: 1
• Shoppin’ online for deals on writeable media: 1
• I edit Wikipedia: 1
• Memorize Holy Grail really well: 1
• Can recite it right now, have you ROTFLOL: 1
• Got a business doin’ websites: 0
• When my friends need some code who do they call (do HTML for ‘em all): 1
• Even made a homepage for my dog: 0
• Got myself a fannypack: 0
• They were havin’ a sale down at the Gap: 0
• Spend my nights with a roll of bubble wrap (hope no one sees me gettin’ freaky): uh…0
• Was in AV club: 0
• In glee club: 0
• And even the chess team: 0
• Only question I thought was hard: like Kirk, or like Picard: 0
• Spend every weekend at the Renaissance faire: 1
• Got my name on my underwear: 0. But I know you don’t believe me.

Bonus points! Video only events!

• Made video of self swinging pole around like a Jedi: 1. I mean, who hasn’t.
• Gave powerstrip as a present: 1
• Play badmitton with preppy white crowd: 0
• Bought bootleg Star Wars Christmas Special: 0. But I know someone who did. That’s right, I’m talkin’ to you, Santo.

Thus, my W&N score is 21/45. That’s solid, people.

It says something about my last few days that I’ve listened to this song like fifteen times. And very little else. However, I gotta tell ya: for my money, if you are in the mood for Weird Al, there is no better place to go than the video of Trapped in the Drive-Thru.

I gotta say, that there video thang makes me snort and giggle uncontrollably. Why, though?? Why???

“Doctor! I think this blog is dying!”

“You’re right. We have no choice. Quick! Fire up that defibrillator!”

“But… doctor! The heart… it isn’t even fibrillating!”

“Never mind that! We’re in a fictional context here! We’re gonna treat this device, which is used in real life to stop the beating of a spasming heart altogether, as if it were used to trigger the heart to restart, biology be damned! It’ll be way more dramatic that way!”

“…”

“CLEAR!”

<electrical zap sound, lights flicker>

{…} {…}

“Doctor, we have a pulse!”

“IT’S ALIVE!!!!”

…

FYI, what you are seeing is the newly WordPress-powered version of my blog. I have finally successfully imported all of my Blogger data into WordPress, which I believe will be more suited to my needs.

Please ignore the detritus for now; the site navigation is all wacky, and there’s a couple of things I need to fix with the way WordPress does its magic. But, the remarkable thing is that I can fix these things. As opposed to Blogger, where if I want to do something unsupported, I am simply screwed.

It’s good to be back. The patient is still on life support, but it just might pull through.