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Friday, January 25, 2002

Google What?

I've been too busy today to play, but I lost a good chunk of last night when I could have been practicing my Scrabble skills or playing a recent RPG download or playing the Sims (How are they coming, Mark?) because I was GoogleWhacking. No, wait, come back. I mean, I spent hours searching for unusual pairs of words (considered valid if they have both have definitions at dictionary.com) that returned a single google result together, and then scored by multiplying the number of hits each word would have got individually.

Need an example? The best one I've found myself is viridian acetaminophen: just one lonely PDF file (until Google finds this page). Searching for each of the words alone, Google found "viridian" 75,500 times and "acetaminophen" 150,000. So my score for it is 11,325,000,000. (The Google Results totals vary from time to time, so your numbers may be different.) Pretty good, but apparently people have made scores above 100 Billion. Wow.

Anyway, I now have lists of odd words and search results on pages of scratch paper strewn across my room now. Sigh. Guess we all know what I'll be doing for entertainment this evening.

(Link via David Sim.)

07:24 PM PST (link)

Thursday, January 24, 2002

Unempowered.

Can I just mention how furious I am that we still, over 24 hours later, still do not have power in our house? And that we won't have power until sometime this afternoon? Nothing like being sick in the dark and watching all the groceries I bought this weekend spoil. I finally gave up and came to work today instead of sitting around in the dark. We'll see how long that lasts. I mean, I support reducing one's dependence on electricity, but going cold turkey is just not my style.

10:38 AM PST (link)

Tuesday, January 22, 2002

Malfunctioning.

I've been out of commission the past few days. Both the Boyfriend and I were not quite well this weekend and spent date night playing cribbage and going to sleep early. I was supposed to be up and productive yesterday but that wasn't happening. And that included posting anything of value, even a song for Dr. King (2.3Mb).

So today I've called in sick again, and have spent the morning trying to dislodge whatever has taken up residence in my throat. I'm armed with tea and word puzzles (and I'm drinking plenty of fluids!) and hopefully will resume normal operations tomorrow.

(Links thanks to Chris and Philo.)

03:50 PM PST (link)