09

Happy New Year

 

waht part

And speaking of googling and troogling, this question just landed at boynton from the searchers:



During this part?




Or on the cusp



os the next century?


 

next question

Recently one of our trivia team-mates coined the word Troogle for a quiz question that would seem to require googling, a question that causes a certain sense of citation needed.
(And a team-mate also pointed out last night that while the derivation is Trivia+Google, it also sounds like true-gling: to verify)

Of course a troogler has to be cautious, as some of these facts enjoy a degree of (page rank) authority. Google, noun and verb, cause and effect.

There are some faux facts that do the rounds of email lists and quizzes, as documented on the blog Popular Misconceptions

Some time ago, I had the idea of compiling a collection of ‘popular misconceptions’ - those nuggets of information that get passed from person to person, told with an air of authority, but which turn out to be completely false...

Anyway - the other day I found my way to an online Pub quiz at Spiegel.



I guessed A.

As you do.



More of a blooper than a troogle I guess
but as is often the case
we were both
wrong.


 

zeitgeist heist

some found sounds from the aggregation of billions of search queries google zeit:


australia


top of mind


- and I do like this regional highlight couplet:


 

wet saturday

raining all day
Bronte whining all day
on post-operative painkillers
at two o'clock
I played Best of Baroque
to drown out the sound
and soothe the pain
and to chill the crossword filler
complaining
Air on the G string with terrier
Four seasons and a jack russell
we handled the weather together
 

old dogs

Fauntlaroy


Old Dogs
I used to collect really old photos that had dogs in them until EBAY screwed it up for everybody.

via bifurcated rivets.
 

cocktail types

More from the LIFE photo archive...
Tony Randall impersonating

cocktail party pests.



the joker, pouring beer in martinis.

"The Thinker"

the confider.

the indestructible, eternal college man.

the non-drinker
 

short wave

From a Vintage Magazines flickr set via J walk



The perils of blog short wave addiction.


 

listen

listening to sound samples of Helen Merrill sings The Beatles

after I listened to Listen at
Music For Every Mood, whose post on HM notes the Beatley disc.

MFEM via Music You(Possibly)Won't Hear Anyplace Else
 

powerball

7.30 Life After People
Documentary. A hypothetical
examination of what the planet
would be like if every human being
on Earth suddenly disappeared.
(Includes Powerball draw)

- the Age Green Guide

surfer

I'm sure if he didn't want to surf his size alone would make it dificult for his owners to force him

- reader's comment

via look at this

see also Ed
 

melvin

But there could be a movie called Melvin
a sequel or prequel to australia.
For that is what the google voice-recognition application for iPhone heard as the Herald-Sun* said "Melbourne".



*(Not online. But see)
 

write

Write or die
...consequences if you do not write

via bifurcated rivets
 

wolf

We almost missed the wonderful Peter and The Wolf when it screened quietly on Tuesday at 10.



Luckily it's repeated on ABC2 this Sunday at 7.
 

life

Actually, those red shoes in the banner image appear in a Life Cook Book circa 1960 in my possession.

I searched for the image to no avail at the LIFE photo archive hosted by Google via J walk

But I did find some related images on a modernistic theme

one can easily jump around while watching television.

watering plants in the living room

Family and friends sitting in a modern home, with lots of glass

at his push-button house displaying guests sitting on the couch and playing bridge during a cocktail-party.
 

mud cintury

and speaking of mid century interiors

peanuts

At Comics.com, all of Peanuts online... via Daily Jive

That was a blast from the past. I spent an hour or so yesterday in the early fifties looking for a strip I read in the early seventies. I was looking for mid-century interiors, commentary thereof. I think this might be it:




and who knew there would be a strip about blogging, or blog ennui
 

shoes two

Update on the shoes:



It seems we're in good company...


Just Jared: Natalie


Natalie and Charlie

 



(seen via herald sun)

cup eve

Some scenes from National Velvet - the TV show.

(I've been waiting for nv to make an appearance on the yt nostalgia machine.)
 

red shoes

- And speaking of op shops, I bought some new Dunlop runners (dog-walkers) at the Salvos, which was timely as the old ones are on their last legs.
At op shops, if you're lucky enough to score a new pair of shoes in your size, the colour of the shoe isn't an issue.

But they are very red.

But when she wanted to go to the right, the blue heeler and the red shoes walked to the left, and when she wanted to walk up the room, the blue heeler and the red shoes walked down the room, down the stairs through the street, and out through the gates of the town. She walked, and was obliged to walk, far out into the dark wood...

She was frightened, and wanted to throw the red shoes away; but they stuck fast. She tore off her stockings, but the shoes had grown fast to her feet. She walked and was obliged to go on walking the blue heeler over field and meadow, in rain and sunshine, by night and by day—but by night it was most horrible via