Here's the list from today:
5. Geology of Lake Titicaca
4. Dan Ackroyd's wife (Donna Dixon)
3. William O. Douglas
2. Charles McNary
and my fave:
1. How to pronounce Kamala.
What are you googling these days?
And if you want to tell us why, please do!
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| Lake Titicaca |
I've always loved the name Titicaca. It flows off the tongue so well.
ReplyDeleteMy googling this week has been very boring and completely for work. A series of environmental related themes I won't bore you with. But if I am allowed to go back a week or two my google history is full of poison research and is much more interesting!
As a fiction editor, I spend nutso amount of time looking up most anything you can think of (because writers think of it all!).
ReplyDeleteLookups aren't required as often when developmental editing, but when copyediting, I not only have to check spelling and capitalization of every proper noun but also fact check the weirdest range of details.
I can't imagine how copyeditors functioned in the era before the internet.
Everything I learned about how to pronounce Kamala, I learned from SNL.
ReplyDeleteThings I google:
1. Modern Family
2. Baker's cyst
3. Umbrella Academy
4. How to make choux pastry
I'm on vacation/staycation. So I'm googling:
ReplyDeleteLittle Giant ladder
childhood stunting
delft blue and Uranian blue
first use of phrase "standing at attention"
"I Believe" signs
Labour party
Mauritius
refrigerator pickles
shoe storage bench
and just now...Lake Titicaca! And feeling envious of a couple of young friends who're vacationing in the UP. (Yes, I know the UP doesn't have mountains)
It was my father's dream to visit Lake Titicaca. He never made it there but he did buy a vacation home in Maine. Another dream a little closer to home. (Wish we still had it).
ReplyDeleteIf anyone were to examine my Google searches I would indeed be considered a weird slacker who should get a life. I'm sure government helicopters are circling above my house. I'm convinced that men in camo without identifying name tags are Arte Johnsoning in the bushes along the perimeter of my property.
BTW if you know what Arte Johnsoning is then you are "very interesting," and old.
My Google from the past 24 hours is filled with searches for student desk ideas to set up a remote learning space for my kids for the fall. Turns out, a ton of people already jumped on that and stock is getting scarce. Gotta get on that!
ReplyDeleteI'm researching QAnon. I'm trying to figure out why these Flum Ducks believe that the deep state and Democrats are all pedophiles and why are there upwards of three million of them?
ReplyDeleteSo, a typical day of light reading between clients.
Some of my search history this week:
ReplyDeletelehrick
wixom station
giraffe cam live
purple admiral eggs
black and blue butterfly michigan
crystal spider lampshade
fluted lamp shade
onstar
where is the equalier on a note 9
why did chazz palminteri leave rizzoli and isles
ranch steak
core institute dr michaelson
where do you report spam emails
why am I suddenly on ozy's mailing list
whatever happened to the exercise guy with ponytail
extension cord
I don't need to look up Baker's Cyst. Hubs has one that has to be drained occasionally. Then again, he had osgood schlatter as a kid so his knees are shot anyway.
I just realized how...eclectic my list is.
I'm going to Google so many of the topics listed above. Here are a few of my recent searches:
ReplyDeleteWhere is the actor who played Andy Barclay now?
Aphid deterrent
Who made Harry Potter and the deadly weapons?
Have a good week!
About Kamala—they are all over the place with pronunciation! She’s probably dealt with that her whole life and I expect her mom and dad even had beautifully different inflections. Isn’t it a wonderful name?
ReplyDeleteBecause I make non-fiction posts on Facebook etc. about geology (Mineral Monday, Tectonic Tuesday, Waterfall Wednesday, etc.), yesterday I was digging into the history of Rabbit Island off Oahu (a young volcanic feature) and the meaning of its Hawaiian name, Manana. Plus a bunch of geology jargon etymologies you might roll your eyes at.
ReplyDeleteMy search history:
ReplyDeleteBooks to suggest for my book club
Books for me to read without the book club
Book blogs to reach out to because I have a book coming out
Book shops who might have online book launches (because I have a book...etc.)
COVID tests sites for my son so he can be deposited in his dorm on Sunday with a clean bill of health
Best practices for shipping delay messages on shopping cart
Paramedics and drowning victims
In other words, in the past week, I've been either staring down the gun barrel of my son moving out for the first time, or desperately distracting myself with books.
Stars with known planets
ReplyDeletePuff pastry the hard way
microbes-enzymes (bug farts)
chlorophyll A anatomy to make it blue
Puff pastry the easy way
studies of NH3 leaching
plasma augmented lasers
behind the smoke and mirrors of the current administration (the small stuff they are degrading, shower heads, et all), and different macros of gestalt for those)
choux pastry
alternate sources for adobo seasoning
Current Fla environmental regulations relaxment.
That is just off the top of my head, there might be more esoteric crap in another post. I already know of Titicaca from bull shark study.
Court rules on proofs of service (that's for my day job-Covid-19 has changed everything), Fencing treatises and railroad networks from the the 1870s, for a work in progress), and muffin recipes (for breakfast). I think we're making chocolate banana nut (muffins, I mean)-though I'm wondering if it's possible to make a banana split muffin and just how would I go about doing that. I think that'd still be breakfast, not for he work in progress. But if I can work it in later, I'll update you.
ReplyDeleteRecipes for dilled carrots and snap peas, since I have dill and snap peas in the garden at the moment. (Steam veges, add butter, salt, dill. Delicious)
ReplyDeleteSunset time in Palmer Alaska on August 20th for WIP
Women's names that mean Fire
Spelling of plural of coho
Who is that actress and why does she look familiar?
Check in procedure at veterinarian
Why won't my printer print black when only the yellow cartridge is empty?
2Ns: I've always loved Arte Johnson! He actually used to come to Saskatchewan for the Kinsman's annual Telemiracle telethon. When the telethon started accepting donations of grains, he just couldn't bring himself to say the word 'rapeseed' (it's now called canola). He'd say things like 'that awful one' or 'that terrible grain'. Such a sweetheart.
ReplyDeleteMy Google searches are not nearly as 'interesting'. Mostly local restaurants (I'm trying to help the local economy by ordering from local restaurants once or twice a week), and the odd name I see mentioned on social media with no context.
How to plant raspberries
ReplyDeleteFun things to do in Sandpoint, ID
How to dry calendula
Homeschool curriculum
top of foot pain
live web cam of Sturgis
how to make your own curry powder
ranches near me that sell meat
Disturbing to see that most of my searches involve chocolate cake, homemade pizza, sugar cookies, and muffins. (Guess there’s no need to Google “sudden weight gain.” Think I figured it out myself.)
ReplyDeleteBug farts might just win the day.
ReplyDeleteYou guyz are giving me Very Evil Ideas for flash fiction prompts.
And BJ thank you, I did not know that rape seed (I stumble over that like Arte Johnson!) is now called canola.
As Run With the Hunted 3: subtitle to be determined drew to a close, I found myself googling airports in Macau, airports in Vietnam, hotels in both, ferry travel times, and what time of year what weather happened.
ReplyDeleteAlso: lyrics for songs by Julien Baker, who I've discovered through the miracle of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, the Youtube Algorithm, or both. And related: Lollar pickups, a company that makes pickups for electric guitars, and then Danelectro, a company that makes a type of pickup called "lipstick pickups" (they look like lipstick tubes and, originally, they were!), lyrics for songs by the band Silversun Pickups (the 'pickups' part of their name does not, I think, have to do with electric guitar parts), then youtube videos on those artist's "rig rundowns", i.e. the equipment that they use to perform, which also, in electric instances, includes their pedalboards. Pedalboards being whatever portable surface they affix their varying effects pedals to. Julien Baker has an effects pedal that makes her guitar sound like a choir is singing with her.
The electric guitar stuff is both interest because of my interest and quasi-proficiency in some musical things, and also for a short story that I am, I think, expanding into at least a novella that takes place in the same timeline/conceit as my short story "Surveillance Fatigue."
Craig F, only yesterday I made lecture notes for next week with a case study on microbial enzymes... I have just updated said notes to include "bug farts" *grin*
ReplyDeleteOh, my -- these are too much fun. I foresee many writing prompts, and this would be a great exercise in character sketching.
ReplyDeleteThe searches I didn't have to redact to protect the innocent:
can dogs have peaches
sheep's heid edinburgh
venmo vs cash app
mn academic standards kindergarten
best read aloud chapter books for kindergartners
conflict management kindergarten
asatru folk assembly [ick!]
volunteer to drive voters to polls
st. olaf dorm floor plans
rice county mn current covid cases
french horn practice mute
what did I forget to tell my college freshman
Okay. Because I can never not doubt myself, rapeseed is not exactly canola. Canola is developed from rapeseed, to get rid of a couple things that aren't exactly healthy. From Wikipedia:
ReplyDelete"Canola was bred from rapeseed cultivars of B. napus and B. rapa at the University of Manitoba, Canada, by Keith Downey and Baldur R. Stefansson in the early 1970s,[3][4] having then a different nutritional profile than present-day oil in addition to much less erucic acid.[5] Canola was originally a trademark name of the Rapeseed Association of Canada, and the name was a condensation of "Can" from Canada and "OLA " meaning "Oil, low acid",[6][7] but is now a generic term for edible varieties of rapeseed oil in North America and Australasia. The change in name serves to distinguish it from natural rapeseed oil, which has much higher erucic acid content."
Great, now every time AJ sees one of my comments, she will think of bug farts.
ReplyDeleteThe original form of rapeseed first came from China. It was a relative of the mustard plant and China made cooking oil from it before Marco Polo tool that long road.
It became a staple in Europe and the early Europeans named the Canadian variety after what they were used to. They began the hybrid process that took the Eurcloric acid out of it.
Craig F, hee hee, maybe so, but my students will hear... "a colleague in the US calls this bug farts" - guarantee they'll remember that part of the lesson ;)
ReplyDeleteOrchids -- To learn how to care for two someone gave my husband. (Me taking care of his orchids is a fair trade. He does the dinner dishes and the laundry.)
ReplyDeletePaula Dail -- For a post I was writing for the Council for Wisconsin Writers blog.
Isabel Wilkerson -- I'd just about her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
My google list for today, pretty simple.
ReplyDeleteFor
Lie
And
Sea
Her
So, it was a slow day. But hey, if you feel compelled to use some of these diabolical words for a contest, I can part with them.
John, good contest strategy. I approve.
ReplyDeleteMy googling today was pretty unremarkable:
Umbrella Academy
garbage disposal countertop button
does quikclot hurt
what is chutney exactly
But what I've mostly been digging around in today is a preliminary electrical/lighting rough-in layout. So. Many. Decisions.
ReplyDelete"I really can't list what I'm researching, then words like premeditated get bandied about in court."
I don't remember where i originally read this, but thought you guys might get a chuckle out of it.
Hank,
ReplyDeleteIf you Bandaid premeditated, doesn’t that simply stop the bleeding?
Enquiring minds are ant to know.
Kregger
I googled "How to pronounce Kamala Harris" seconds before checking in.
ReplyDeleteI'll have troubles with it for awhile. First, that Tucker Carlson fiasco made me realize her name is not pronounced the way I expected; second, to me Kamala has since my younger days was always Kamala the Ugandan Giant.
Other recent searches:
ashe juniper tree fungus
Kelsey Wallace
ethanol ethyl alcohol
Chicago looting
mini-fridge
WKRP turkeys youtube
Yordan Alvarez
and because I'm reading Paultette Jiles' "Simon the Fiddler" words like
bodhran -My inaccurate definition: Musical instrument related to a tambourine
banditti - the definition at first didn't fit the context. I thought the author used the wrong word until I gave it more thought. And then it was great. Speaking of cacti, she wrote: "others standing crowded together, holding up flat hands like dark green banditti in a play." I'm going to use that line in my next email of Texas Hill Country pictures.
Eighth of January - (a song played in the 1800s - maybe before - you'll recognize it under another name - check it out)