Mar. 20th, 2011
I'm not worried about "evil" right now
Mar. 20th, 2011 04:50 pmI'm not even really thinking about stupid, no, yes I am.
Sometime in the moderate past Google decided I was too stupid to know how to type. Not that I might make mistakes, and completely bork a spelling, but that I might make a little one; say putting, "pecunium" in a search string when I meant "pecuniam".
Ok, I mean the form of the word I use is much less common because it's most normal usage is in quotations, where it's been declined, but they changed how they do that. It used to me that they asked me if I meant whatever the possible typo was. That was, actually, tolerably useful, because it expanded my search (if I'd made an error, be it typographical, or conceptual, in the spelling of a word, someone else might have too, and I'd get to see their site, as well as being able to find the canonic spelling; two for the price of one.
Now they pre-empt this possibility. I have to opt-out of the correction. Today I went to look up the greek letter, mu, and I got, "Showing results for unicode macron. Search instead for unicode micron".
I suppose if Google, which knows god knows what, would learn (I am pretty much always signed into my google account, even if I don't have gmail open) that this time, just like the last umpteen dozen time I've searched for "pecunium" I really meant it, this wouldn't have irked me to the point of making a public comment.
Assuming I am stupid... does not make me happy. Assuming I am stupid, as opposed to making the odd mistake, and so forcing me to figure out when they will decide I am not typing what I want to type; and put it in quotation marks, is not the way to give me a warm fuzzy about the way google sees people.
Just sayin'.
Sometime in the moderate past Google decided I was too stupid to know how to type. Not that I might make mistakes, and completely bork a spelling, but that I might make a little one; say putting, "pecunium" in a search string when I meant "pecuniam".
Ok, I mean the form of the word I use is much less common because it's most normal usage is in quotations, where it's been declined, but they changed how they do that. It used to me that they asked me if I meant whatever the possible typo was. That was, actually, tolerably useful, because it expanded my search (if I'd made an error, be it typographical, or conceptual, in the spelling of a word, someone else might have too, and I'd get to see their site, as well as being able to find the canonic spelling; two for the price of one.
Now they pre-empt this possibility. I have to opt-out of the correction. Today I went to look up the greek letter, mu, and I got, "Showing results for unicode macron. Search instead for unicode micron".
I suppose if Google, which knows god knows what, would learn (I am pretty much always signed into my google account, even if I don't have gmail open) that this time, just like the last umpteen dozen time I've searched for "pecunium" I really meant it, this wouldn't have irked me to the point of making a public comment.
Assuming I am stupid... does not make me happy. Assuming I am stupid, as opposed to making the odd mistake, and so forcing me to figure out when they will decide I am not typing what I want to type; and put it in quotation marks, is not the way to give me a warm fuzzy about the way google sees people.
Just sayin'.
Another Saturday, Another Protest
Mar. 20th, 2011 08:13 pmWisconsin is still up in arms about the mess Walker, and the Republicans have done/intend to do. It's not clear if the bill was lawfully passed. Nothing stops them from doing it again; in the same, purely majoritarian way the National Republicans think is unfair to attempt in the US Senate.
But the protests continue, 10,000 people in Madison yesterday. It was, of course, all over the news; because it's not every day that 10,000 people turn out in the snow to protest that their government is trying to take their rights away, and we all know how liberal the media are.
Or, ya' know, not.
But the protests continue, 10,000 people in Madison yesterday. It was, of course, all over the news; because it's not every day that 10,000 people turn out in the snow to protest that their government is trying to take their rights away, and we all know how liberal the media are.
Or, ya' know, not.
Spring is coming
Mar. 20th, 2011 10:58 pmWell, for the coast of Calif. it has already arrived. In the last couple of weeks, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
tenacious_snail and I got a raised bed built. She told me what she wanted for size, and we laid it out. She bordered it with bricks, and I dug the base down about a foot, and filled it in with some really nice manure, to a depth of about 20 inches. This week I need to start putting the plants in. The arugula decided, last week, that it was tired of being small, and is starting to be of a size that pinching a few leaves for one's sandwich is possible. The dill is sprouting as are the various lettuces I seeded three weeks back.
Last years artichokes sent up suckers, and are already in "fruit"
The First of the Season
Those two are the already eaten. There are at least four more ready soon for the pot.
Tokens of Modesty
In another couple of weeks this will be all over leaves. It looks to have about half a dozen fruits on it, but they won't be ripe until May/June.
tenacious_snail and I got a raised bed built. She told me what she wanted for size, and we laid it out. She bordered it with bricks, and I dug the base down about a foot, and filled it in with some really nice manure, to a depth of about 20 inches. This week I need to start putting the plants in. The arugula decided, last week, that it was tired of being small, and is starting to be of a size that pinching a few leaves for one's sandwich is possible. The dill is sprouting as are the various lettuces I seeded three weeks back.Last years artichokes sent up suckers, and are already in "fruit"
The First of the Season
Those two are the already eaten. There are at least four more ready soon for the pot.
Tokens of Modesty
In another couple of weeks this will be all over leaves. It looks to have about half a dozen fruits on it, but they won't be ripe until May/June.