Taciturn

I was having a great day, ho ho yes. Comedy night on the ABC, a bit more Stepmania source hacking in the evening, and an altogether livable day. Hell, with a new NIN album just three days away, who wouldn't be happy?

Hold on... today is the 2nd of March - 2005-03-02. The trailer said 5_03_05.

That's the problem with date formats. Given either the non-US (shall we say Australian, British, worldwide?) standard date format or the international date format, you get the 5th of March, 2005. In this case, however, I'm pretty sure it's referring to the 3rd of May 2005. If it was really referring to this Saturday, I'm sure there'd be posters around, Sanity and Amazon would be listing Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth, and there'd be leaked versions on the internet from a few CD saleskids with access to the pre-release stock.

So there are two or three leaked songs. I've heard that the first was a ~4th gen radio rip, which I refuse to listen to. The other one (or two?) are reported to be good quality rips. Being the good, Trent-loving person I am, I was going to wait for the full album. Slip it into some CD-playing device with some loud speakers, and hear it from start to finish without interruption. Except that I was planning to do this on Saturday, not in two months' time.

Of course there's the argument that it's my own fault and I should stop whining and this should all have nothing to do with whether or not I download the leaks because it's all nasty e-pirate debauchery anyway.

Well fuck that. I'm almost definitely going to grab a copy... it should be running wild on Your Favourite P2P network, and I am, without doubt, going to buy the full album once it's released (and most probably any "limited edition" money-grubbing special release), on CD, with the booklet, jewel case, and small fries. This date format rubbish shits me. Modifying your parent tongue to suit yourself is fine, but when it comes to the point where someone has to guess which figure is the month and which is the day, it's gone too far. That's the reason there's no popular language using English words, constructed into gramatically correct English phrases, but with completely different meaning. It'd be far too confusing, and so are the conflicting US/British date formats.