05/03/10: You Complete Me
Category: General
Posted by: LiteraryHero
I'm going to take a short break from my vacation writing today. Actually, I already wrote the blog entry, I just have to resize pictures and organize everything, and I am just too lazy to complete it. Instead, I will point out how ridiculously ridiculous people are in the world. Now, if I can call someone ridiculous, you know it must be bad. The sad thing is, apparently the average person is a total bozo...I wonder what that makes me.
You might wonder why I started this train of thought. Well, I'll tell you. I have an ebook reader, and sometimes I have to get books via someone shady means. To that end, I was curious about how these people scan the books to make them available for ebook reading. First you have the problem of the book's binding making it hard to scan. Next you have the difficulties with improper scan jobs giving you errors and other such things. So, I decided to see how it is done by checking Google.
I am sure that by now you have noticed that Google tries to help you by autocompleting things that you start to type. I usually tune them out, but happened to notice some ridiculous things this time. For example, I was trying to type 'How to properly scan a book', which is exactly what I was looking for. When I finished 'How to', I got some quality stuff.
The first one, about tying a tie...well, I can tie my own tie, but I guess it is reasonable that people don't know how. But from there it gets weird. How to kiss? Is that something that needs explaining? How to lose weight fast...hey I have a great idea, stop eating and start jogging! The next is the creme de la creme...how to get pregnant...I don't have anything more to say.
I kept typing, though, to try and find the answer to my original query. However, I got to 'How to properly s' when I got a whole slew of other crazy questions.
I guess nothing more needs to be said. Oh, actually, one more thing. I happened to find an old autocomplete picture on my computer...take a look at number three and wonder about what people are thinking when they look for this stuff.
You might wonder why I started this train of thought. Well, I'll tell you. I have an ebook reader, and sometimes I have to get books via someone shady means. To that end, I was curious about how these people scan the books to make them available for ebook reading. First you have the problem of the book's binding making it hard to scan. Next you have the difficulties with improper scan jobs giving you errors and other such things. So, I decided to see how it is done by checking Google.
I am sure that by now you have noticed that Google tries to help you by autocompleting things that you start to type. I usually tune them out, but happened to notice some ridiculous things this time. For example, I was trying to type 'How to properly scan a book', which is exactly what I was looking for. When I finished 'How to', I got some quality stuff.
The first one, about tying a tie...well, I can tie my own tie, but I guess it is reasonable that people don't know how. But from there it gets weird. How to kiss? Is that something that needs explaining? How to lose weight fast...hey I have a great idea, stop eating and start jogging! The next is the creme de la creme...how to get pregnant...I don't have anything more to say.
I kept typing, though, to try and find the answer to my original query. However, I got to 'How to properly s' when I got a whole slew of other crazy questions.
I guess nothing more needs to be said. Oh, actually, one more thing. I happened to find an old autocomplete picture on my computer...take a look at number three and wonder about what people are thinking when they look for this stuff.
Tuttle wrote:
Hmm, yes, thanks for that, I'm sure it's just that easy.