that is the question – who is jealous of ferrets? nobody. they aren’t as cute as hamsters, not as ugly as mice. they’re clearly more jerk-ish than the average rodent – look at the scowl on that face. but as rodents go, they really don’t offer much.

you’re not gonna get your kid a pet ferret. who wants that? take a look at those two – they permanently have scowls etched on their faces. if i was a psychologist, i would probably analyze them this way – lesser rodents, jealous of their superiors (hamsters, gerbils, rabbits), knowing they will always be the “ugly duckling” – and as such, always living with a chip on their shoulder – hence the scowl and grumpy demeanor.

just something i’ve been thinking about.

hey, check this out! a video of the making of last friday’s pib.

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google’s got this whole suggestion engine going on, and i’ve sorta had some weird fun recently playing around with it. basically, google anticipates what you’re going to type when you make a search. so you’ll type “sports” and it’ll finish it off as “sports team”. fair enough. it will take the most popular searches with that first word and show you. help you out. simply one more step towards google flat out mind reading you (something i am not TOTALLY adverse to. if a company is going to mind read you, at least it’s google… and not like, mcdonalds… who would receive thoughts from me like “if you deliver big macs to me i will eat them for every meal”. they cannot get ahold of that information).

but for now, i thought i’d see what the world thought, and what the world searched, about certain non-typical topics.

what’s up, world? whatcha wonderin about?

i typed:

what should

some of my favorite google suggestions:

what should i do with my life?

i don’t know what google is gonna tell you, fella. if you can’t figure this out on your own, i don’t think a search engine is going to tell you. i searched the phrase and went to the first page that came up. well, internet, do you have an answer for life’s eternally unanswerable question?

first page referred me to buy a book, suggested by oprah herself, with the title “what should i do with my life?”. referring me to a print book, internet? you fail me once again.

the next “what should” was even more down to business.

what should i do?

wow! not what should i do with my life, but what should I DO. in the PRESENT. well, internet? what should I DO. tell me what TO DO.

google referred me to “whatshouldido.com”. and guess what? it didn’t tell me what i should DO. now what am i supposed to do, internet? you fail me yet again.

…….. tell me what to do internet, ill do it! should i go get a sandwich? i await your command….

the next thing i got google to suggest is the pretty standard query, what is. this is probably the thing you most likely start your own google searches with. “what is the name of that guy in die hard” “what is the proper way to cook steaks” “what is the best way to dispose of a body”, three searches i made just this afternoon!

the first result:

what is love

woooooo good one! everyone wonders “what is love” (baby don’t hurt me) , and what better place to find out than the internet superhighway. the answers to everything are found on the internet, why not the answers to life’s most pressing questions?

the first site google retrieved was a dictionary definition for love, which read ”

a strong positive emotion of regard and affection; “his love for his work”; “children need a lot of love”

which… you know… kinda takes all the poetry out of it. “a strong positive emotion of regard and affection”? … i guess that fits.

i guess partial point for the internet.

next suggestion?

what is twitter and how does it work

this search was CLEARLY originally made by your mother. she, of course, watches headline news all day and sees the correspondents quoting twitter – “our man on the ground in iraq is filing his report over twitter, and his tweet reads…” – your mother is clearly confused. she goes to google and makes the very straight-forward, down-to-business search: WHAT IS TWITTER AND HOW DOES IT WORK”. based on the results google brought back, she’d be able to figure it out, and be able to “tweet” within minutes. and i hope she would. yo mother is hilarious. her tweets would be all “just had hot flashes lol you guys” ok ill stop this now

see ya

jkd