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When you're testing something that involves some typing - as in, you need to send a test email, or make a test blog post - what piece of text do you usually type in?

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When you're testing something that involves some typing - as in, you need to send a test email, or make a test blog post - what piece of text do you usually type in?

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If no one else is going to see it, I instinctively type "trala." I don't know where that came from. A second iteration, if necessary, will be "tralala," and so on. If someone else will see it, though, it's always "Testing.", with the punctuation - evidently I am shamed by my own tralalaing.

These rules are suspended when it's a search query of any kind, because regardless of whether anyone's watching, I always feel it necessary to search for "elephants." I can't explain that, either. I guess I just want some elephants.

So I have had another revisionist anime dream.

Before bed last night I was considering my vague dissatisfaction with Saiyuki, and my feeling that it was not going anywhere quickly. My subconscious mind solved this by forcing its narrative into a rigid plot-token-intensive infrastructure. Apparently there are four angels, with six magical guardians each - and they have some relationship to suits of cards, I think? Just to make all this even more codified - and Sanzo is one of the angels, Hazel is another, and a third is a little girl who looks vaguely like Flonne from Disgaea, except it was clear that she was doomed to die tragically.

Considering this logically, Kougaiji is probably the fourth angel - I don't think it's Ni, because he is Not A Team Player. But basically, they will all have to gather up the remainder of their teams of magical guardians for a final battle, and that's where the plot movement's going to be.

"There," says my brain triumphantly. "I fixed it!"

Brain, listen. The current make-up of Team Sanzo is obviously geometrically perfect. You did not fix it.