it’s spring. March 5, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : birthdays in history, fun with google, music & concerts, rants & raves, the photo project , 5 commentsNo matter what you try to tell me, the little men in my head have decided that it’s finally spring and my mood today reflects that proclamation. I feel great today.
For starters, I have a new favorite song. Not an all-time favorite song, mind you - Madonna still has that market cornered for me. I just have a new song of the moment. I bought Brandi Carlile’s most recent album The Story yesterday after “Turpentine” was playing on the radio when I woke up, and I’ve been listening to that song ever since. Take a listen in a background window while you read the rest of this entry, and you will be afforded a multidimensional sensory image of my current state.
yesterday after “Turpentine” was playing on the radio when I woke up, and I’ve been listening to that song ever since. Take a Another great thing about today, aside from the bright sun and the thirty-five degree weather, was something that happened to me at the Rock as I was coming out of my first English class on the way to my second. I generally ignore whoever’s out there when I pass by - they’re trying to get me to sign up for their club or come to their event or do something else I have no interest in - but today, there were dueling causes. One kid was sitting at his dinky little table trying to sell baked goods for the benefit some human rights protest somewhere. I can’t be sure. He didn’t even have a sign.
various items of the day March 3, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : birthdays in history, fun with google, ten-second updates, the photo project , add a commentGoogle search term of the day:
“lobster harness vault”
Photo of the day:
(It’s a post. Get it? A post!)
Historical birthday of the day:
Frank Wigglesworth (1918). Best name ever? I think so.
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yes. February 28, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : (pointless) humor, fun with google, ten-second updates , 1 commentGoogle search term of the day:
“piano playing lobsters”.
Come on, guys. Lobsters don’t even have fingers.
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you probably thought i was kidding February 20, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : (pointless) humor, fun with google, the idiot box, ye olde sporte , 1 commentLadies and gentlemen, I did it.
I just submitted the form to register for the upcoming tryouts for Rockstar Curling. The registration form asked me about things like my previous athletic achievements and why I think I could be a great Rockstar Curler (Answers: I played a year of JV hockey in high school, and I think curling is underappreciated as a ridiculous-looking sport and I want to bring national attention to its merits, respectively, tongue planted firmly in cheek). I also may or may not have an RSS subscription to the Rockstar Curling blog.
I was mostly kidding when I filled out the form, but at the same time there’s definitely a part of me that thinks it would be totally sweet to go to Lake Placid and learn to curl for free and become an obscure, useless television star.
In other news, I’m irrationally amused by Google search terms. Here are the two winners of today so far.
-“is Ryan Seacrest vapid?”
Even though this one’s a plant by my sister, I still think it is search-term gold. It’s an excellent question and a thoroughly comedic sentence. The answer, my friends, is a resounding “yes”.
-“lobsters having fun”
I’m relieved that someone out there is concerned about whether or not lobsters have fun. The first Google result defines “fun” in a way I wasn’t quite expecting, but the first Google image result is even better:
Anybody see any lobsters in this photo?
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let me check the Googles. February 18, 2008
Posted by Abby T in : (pointless) humor, fun with google, rants & raves , 1 commentMy favorite thing about checking out the “Blog Stats” area of my dashboard is seeing what search terms brought people over here. So, in honor of my 683rd pageview, here are some lists of things people have Googled to get to my blog, in various orders according to various criteria.
Most Searched
Coming in first is the phrase “you are my brother forever” with a whopping fifteen hits. This is not at all surprising. When I was writing the series of entries about American Idol’s Renaldo Lapuz I figured it contained about a zillion buzzwords that would bring traffic to the post. Sort of a cheap trick, but hey, it worked, and it was mostly unintentional.
This key word beats the runner up on my list by 11 hits. There really aren’t any others worth mentioning in this category, so I’ll move on to…
The “What Were They Thinking?” Searches
Ladies and gentlemen, these are pretty good. We’ll start off with my favorite of the Weird Search Terms: “can you get sick eating dead lobster”. One soul searched this and scrolled through seven other results to get to me. What gets me about it is this: this person is Googling the effects of eating dead lobster as if he or she were accustomed to an alternative. That alternative, I can only imagine, is eating… live lobster? I personally have a thing about eating food that remotely resembles what it looked like while alive, but I’m fairly confident I’m not the only one who would think twice about eating a live lobster.
From way out in left field comes “make lobster on keyboard decisions”. I’d go on about this but I really can’t for the life of me figure out what it means. And here’s the interesting thing: my blog doesn’t show up in the first 20 pages of Google results for those terms. Somebody felt strongly enough about these key words to go through more than 200 results to find me. That’s dedication, whoever you are. That’s the type of person I like to have hanging around here. Come back any time, you, who are so concerned about making lobster on keyboard decisions!
Other choice items from this category are “underwater theme dental”, “recipe bacon prune loaf”, “tie clip, lobster” and “one off tractor”.
Hopefully the next 683 (read, arbitrary number, until I feel like doing this again) pageviews will provide me with more delightfully odd, delectably random search terms. Until then, I recommend that nobody make any lobster on keyboard decisions until we can get this issue solved.
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