Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Pandora's Litter Box: Rest Room For Pandora's Cat

  1. Go to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/.
  2. Type Pandora's Litter Box into the big text area box.
  3. Select "English to Japanese" in the drop-down menu.
  4. Click the "Translate" button.
  5. Get really #%*!ing annoyed when babelfish does not understand the apostrophe means a possessive noun and leaves the orphaned 's' floating around.
  6. Click the "Help" link and get even more #%*!ing annoyed when it is beyond useless.
  7. Go back to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/.
  8. Type The litter box of Pandora into the big text area box.
  9. Select "English to Japanese" in the drop-down menu.
  10. Click the "Translate" button.
  11. Select and copy the translation.
  12. Paste it back into the "Translate again" box.
  13. Select "Japanese to English" in the drop-down menu.
  14. Click the "Translate" button.
  15. Stare blankly at the monitor when it decides you meant Rest room for Pandora's cat.
  16. Go to bed. It's 2 AM!

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