A recent episode of the Reply All podcast had a few of the hosts digging into each others search history. The results were interesting and funny, so I thought I’d dig back the past few weeks of mine to see what kind of interesting things I’ve been looking for. You can find yours (if you use Google) on this page: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
Here are some of mine that I thought were noteworthy:
onomatopoeia
I saw this come up in conversation, but it’s a word I often can’t remember, so I looked up the official definition to put into my Anki collection.
alien head suckers fortnite
I play a bit of Fortnite with my daughter, and the new season has these alien parasites that clamp onto your head and slowly kill you. I didn’t know what they were called or how to get rid of them, so this was my first search in that trail.
stunning image of a blue whale under a small fishing boat
Someone posted an amazing image of a blue whale just under a small fishing boat, but it seemed photoshopped so I was investigating a bit.
windows 11 release date
I’ve heard lots of buzz about Windows 11, so I was curious when it would be released (this coming winter).
stanford pitcher
I saw some folks feeling bad for the Stanford baseball pitcher, but their posts didn’t say much so I was curious why. Turns out he threw a game-ending wild pitch, which is indeed a tough way to lose.
connect m175nw to wireless network
Our printer at the office was having some issues, so I was getting it reconnected to our network.
you can’t change the profile picture for this account google
A client was getting this message in his Google Workspace account, so I had to figure out why and how to fix it.
chrome hyperthreading
If you have a Chromebook, you can re-enabled hyperthreading to make it run about 10% faster, with essentially no downside.
it crowd do you trust me
We were talking about an old episode of “The I.T. Crowd” and this scene came to mind, so I had to look it up.
reset uconnect 8.4
My wife’s Jeep Cherokee is having some issues with the entertainment unit. They can generally be resolved if we just reboot it, but it turns out that’s a very complicated thing to do!
how many advertisements is a person exposed to in a day
Working on a related post and wanted to find solid numbers here. Best I can find is that it’s somewhere between 4,000 – 10,000. That’s a lot!
the office dwight’s wedding hay bale holders
Someone posted on Facebook “You must be xx old if you know what these are”, and I was quite sure the photo was hay bale holders like the ones that Dwight had at his wedding in The Office, but I had to make sure. 🙂
madden 22 stadia
Madden 22 was announced, and I wanted to see if it is coming to Google Stadia. It is, and I preordered it!
where to stream billy madison
My daughter and I wanted to watch Billy Madison, so I looked up where to stream it. Turns out it’s free on Hulu right now, so that was pretty cool.
truist park 109
I went to a Braves game recently and our tickets were in section 109, so I was curious to see exactly where that was.
lingering calf pain after cramp
I hurt my calf while running six weeks ago, and it’s still lingering a bit. Not too bad, but just annoying. Working on getting it healed back up.
All of these searches were within a two week period, and were just a small fraction of my total searches. I suspect this is about normal for me, and probably for you as well, but it was fun to dig back in and see some of what I’d been looking for recently.
Are there any fun recent searches in your history?
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