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Show brian he's a dumbass, round 2

brian_d_foy on 2003-01-25T04:01:39

Besides missing the train to McHenry today (and missing my chance to hang out with Andy and Ed), other things today convince me I am a dumbass. Can you score better than me?

Regular: All Things Considered started a story with "Unless you have been living on another planet, you know this weekend is ..." What is this weekend? I did not know. Do you?

Unleaded: Today I ran into a Perl error that I have never seen or knew existed. Like a dumbass, I just kept running the program over and over thinking the error might go away. What does it mean to be "unintroduced"? For extra points, what sort of syntax error leads to this compilation warning?

Premium: While looking for a particular album on Amazon.com, I discovered that this composer did the soundtrack for Tron and Clockwork Orange. Who is the composer that I did not know did the soundtrack for two movies I have on DVD and watched last week?

Diesel: Based on what I have published elsewhere this week, you might be able to guess what album I was looking for.

Hydroelectric: This composer also worked under another name. What was it?

Solar: Which Perl module would this composer likely use? Which Perl module would this composer likely write? (Seriously---remember, this composer scored Tron) Anyone with a good answer gets points.

Comments enabled, no Googling, Amazoning, IMDBing, Randaling, void where prohibited.

Dumber

petdance on 2003-01-25T04:28:22

It's Super Bowl weekend. I have $5 against my Dad that the Raiders will lose.

The rest are all new to me.

Re:Dumber

brian_d_foy on 2003-01-25T05:08:04

Andy wins those points, but he's not dumber---I did not know any of those, and he knew one. He gets discretionary points because he also knows who is in the Super Bowl.

%s never introduced

rafael on 2003-01-25T14:35:01

I know this one, because I was looking recently with Dave Mitchell at the regression tests for the warnings emitted by the source file pad.c in bleadperl. I noticed that this warning message hasn't a regression test -- it's marked as to-be-written. However I was unable to come up with a short case that triggers the warnings, because I don't fully understand the guts of lexical variables. I didn't try very hard, though.

Re:%s never introduced

brian_d_foy on 2003-01-25T16:46:02

You know it but you did not answer the question! That's the right error message though.

If no one posts a situation where it comes up, I will show what I did to get it.

Clockwork Orange Soundtrack

dws on 2003-01-25T17:29:11

I would have guessed someone else wrote the score for Tron, but I used to own the Clockwork Orange soundtrack. That was Walter Carlos, before he became Wendy Carlos (or Wendy after being Carlos -- one or the other). You were probably looking for "Switched on Bach", or maybe "Switched on Brandenburgs".

Re:Clockwork Orange Soundtrack

brian_d_foy on 2003-01-25T18:01:39

We have a winner!

Yes, W(endy|alter) Carlos scored Tron and A Clockwork Orange, which I discovered while I was looking for Switched-On Bach on Amazon.

She did a lot of stuff with a Moog synthesizer, including Bach's Well Tempered Clavier (or, Synthesizer in this case).

You win the Premium, Diesel, and Hydroelectrical points. Andy won the regular points.

The Unleaded and Solar points are still available.

Re:Clockwork Orange Soundtrack

ziggy on 2003-01-25T23:28:06

The Unleaded and Solar points are still available.
With that much of a clue, the Solar points should be for Switch.pm. :-)

Re:Clockwork Orange Soundtrack

pudge on 2003-01-31T16:01:23

I'd guess MIDI.pm.