2: February 2002 Archives

via My Yahoo:

The National Weather Service in Austin/San Antonio has issued a wind
advisory for today over parts of Central and South Central Texas.

Light winds ahead of the front are expected to become North and
Northwest around 20 to around 30 mph later today. These winds may
cause loose objects to be moved around...Therefore securing trash
cans...Lawn furniture...And other loose or light weight objects is
advised.

...and I just sit here and laugh. Because, I mean, 20-30 mile/hour winds are nothing. That's a normal day in Corpus Christi. In fact, the forecast for today in Corpus Christi calls for winds from the east/southeast from 20-25 miles/hour, and they don't have any stupid weather advisory.

I think Austin meteorologists just like to get everybody in a tizzy over nothing. And they have the nerve to call it a severe weather warning?? I mean, bah.

Everything was going really smoothly until yesterday, when I got back to my office after lunch and my phone started ringing. It was a great friend of mine, my ex-roommate, who is coming to town this weekend and wants to stay in my apartment.

Okay, minor panic.

My apartment is a big mess, and the last thing I really wanted to do this week was clean it in the evenings. And, I mean, I can't wait to see her, but I wonder if she realizes (even though I told her) that she would wind up sleeping with at least two cats. She doesn't like cats. It's her one downfall.

And I reminded her of this when I spoke to her later yesterday, and she said she'd think about it. I can't help but hope she'll stay at her cousin's condo, if that option is available. I think it would make our time together much more quality time.

In other news, I just got an email from someplace that -really- looked like a personal email. I went to the website associated with the mail address, and it looked an awful lot like some of the journal sites I frequent. The whole thing is wickedly clever really -- I get annoyed by all the spam email I receive in the course of a day (or a week or a month...), but I'm always sort of impressed by the level of ingenuity some of these places demonstrate in convincing people to open the messages. (Not unlike CY's story of ingenuity in the name of frequent flyer miles.)

Just what I needed -- something to waste my time at work.

I may have to kill Phil, who just introduced me to the concept of Googlewhacking, a highly addictive and terribly time-consuming pasttime.

The goal is to find unique sets of two Google search terms, which together return only one result. This was my first one: sphygmomanometer necrophilia

And then, as if looking for these wasn't bad enough, you can score them based on their relative rareness by multiplying the number of results found by each search term alone. So for that example, sphygmomanometer returns 11,100 results, while necrophilia returns 22,700 results, for a total score of 251,970,000.

Also:
callipygian obelisk score: 204,880,000
antipathetic frisbee score: 1,398,260,000
deoxyribonucleic philandering score: 844,900,000

I'll add to these as I think of more. Feel free to add your own to my comments.