More Google confusion
So, I'm reading this amusing item at KSK.
And, being a visual person, I'm visualizing Will Leitch and Cris Carter as I'm reading the dialogue. And having met Will at the Blog Expo and moderated a couple of panels he was on, I know what he sounds like, so I'm also hearing the Leitch-voice for the Leitch-lines. Carter, I have a harder time remembering what he sounds like, so it throws off the dynamic a little, but anyway...
And for what it is worth, I find that if you read some of the KSK dialogues while internally using certain voices for the people involved, it can make them funnier. Like, whenever I read the Wade Phillips/Jerry Jones stuff, I imagine Wade sounding like Butters from South Park, Jerry Jones sounding like the crazy Texan on the Simpsons, and Jason Garrett sounding like the kid with the 4.0 from Yarsdale in the South Park movie.
Anyway.
So I read that piece, and I start thinking that Will Leitch looks like someone. I ruminate, and then think, "He looks like James Spader."
And he does:
via es.geocities.com
So. To test my theory, I go to the upper right hand corner of Firefox and type "Will Leitch" with quotes in the Google box. And as I'm typing "James Spader" with quotes after it, I get as far as "J, and it automatically shows "james spa..." in dropdown.
I think, oh, good, that's what I want, and click on it.
But then it occurs to me...is this such a common similarity that this showed up in the Google suggestions for me? Do so many people do searches for "will leitch" "james spader" to see if they are the same person or long lost twins that the quotation mark-j after "will leitch" brings this up? Or had I made this search once before, and Google remembered and auto-suggested it because of that?
And because I went ahead and did the search before I started contemplating, it is automatically going to auto-suggest it from here on out, and thus I can't go back and tell if I had done that search before.
I have a problem sometimes with thinking I've come up with something new, and discover that not only have other people thought of it before, but I, in fact, have thought of it before. For proof, go do a search for "cabbagehead" on Lone Star Ball.
It is like that episode of Seinfeld, where George tells Jerry that he's come up with what his name would be if he was a porno star, and Jerry says, "Buck Naked?", and reminds George that he (George) had come up with that some time before.
So anyway...I just wanted to share.
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Apologies in advance...
...if this offends you, Adam, but do you go out drinking on Thursdays?
This seems like something you would overhear while sitting at a bar…
"sorry, I'm usually a dick by pointing these things out but 'concepted' is classic" - ab03
by Suicide Prince on May 22, 2008 11:57 PM CDT reply actions
No
I’m sober. I pretty much quit drinking around the time I got married.
by Adam J. Morris on May 23, 2008 12:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Hurleyhurler
wishes he could say the same…
""I want George W. Bush to say, "All things equal, I screwed up this country far worse than I did the Texas Rangers."" - Chris Ballard
Ok...
...again, not trying to offend but that is a really weird, late-night post.
"sorry, I'm usually a dick by pointing these things out but 'concepted' is classic" - ab03
by Suicide Prince on May 23, 2008 12:07 AM CDT up reply actions
If it makes you feel any better...
I have these “senior moments” too. I’m 25, and have never had a drink in my entire life. Alzheimer’s, here I come!
I did that before
woke up married to a Vegas Stripper, never drank again.
"Before I leave, I once again condemn the despicable buffoonery of D.J. Cahill." - Huck
Your talking
about OC
""I want George W. Bush to say, "All things equal, I screwed up this country far worse than I did the Texas Rangers."" - Chris Ballard
I love me Random Thursdays
What’s next, an interview by Arsenio Hall with Vanilla Ice talking about a feud with M.C. Hammer?
This is the best LSB post ever.
I’m going to forward this like it’s hot.
Also, if you’re such a big buddy of Leitch’s how come I didn’t see a Rangers preview in Deadspin this year, hmmmmm?
BTW
Google did not suggest Will Leitch, James Spader to me.
And this is the number one search result for that now.
Downtime between cases, eh AJM?
A Lonestar in California - 2.0
David Murphy rocks, so Ellsbury can just go get himself a taco or something.
Need a picture of the current
heavier Spader with a rounder face.
"Before I leave, I once again condemn the despicable buffoonery of D.J. Cahill." - Huck
Leitch
looks like a grown up version of a Dickensian orphan.
...and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git.
Can't you just try the search from a diferent computer?
"For the record, I did not and do not like the Volquez trade, even though Hamilton is awesome and our best player and I think he’s going to be one of the best players in baseball." philikid3
Leitch
looks like a giant, pompous ass of a douche. Oh wait…he is!
...it's the weekend, so why the hell not?

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