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Using your penis to highlight bad search engine practices

Let me start by saying that this is actually an at-least-somewhat serious entry about the relevance of search engine results. No, really!

There've been many jokes about how some search engines serve up ridiculously goofy results for some queries. Take Google's AdWords program, for instance, which has recently served up eBay ads for everything from Greed to Guilt ("Guilt for sale...")

I know eBay (and its affiliates) must bring a whole lot of moolah to Google, but this seems to me as disturbing as it is amusing. Whatever happened to AdWords' relevancy requirements?

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 14:00 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness
- Commented on by 3 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

What the…?!—entertaining and strange photos from yours truly :)

After a bit of somewhat heavy, angsty musings, I figure it's a fine time for some photographic frivolity

Check out the 90 second slideshow of some weird, wacky, and wonderful photos I've taken and posted on Flickr.

Note that you can click on any photo during the slideshow to see a larger version and more details, and you can still pick up right where you left off.

- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 16:44 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness • Photography
- Commented on by 2 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

One salesman that ain’t getting promoted any time soon

A phone call to me a few moments ago went like this:

SALESGUY: "Adam... on [name] street?"
ME: "Yep, that's me."
SALESGUY: "I'm calling about your Forbes Magazine subscription. Are you currently receiving this magazine at your address?"
ME: "Nope, and I really don't have any interest in it."
SALESGUY: "I sure don't blame you. Thanks, and have a good day."

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 13:35 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness
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My experience at a camp for swingers

Recently I attended a special weeklong camp for swingers.

Every night we swung in different rooms, swapping partners frequently. Sometimes we barely spoke a word, just motioning for someone to join us, or even just flashing them a smile and a come-hither look. Typically, most of our encounters lasted about 3-4 minutes, but occasionally they went on a bit longer. Sometimes slow and sultry, other times fast and furious... definitely a lot of variety!

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- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 22:30 Permalink
- Filed under Dancing • Grab bag • Wackiness • Personal
- Commented on by 10 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Canada: “Show us your tits!” (and naughty bits)

Oh Canada!
A fleshy tribute written by yours truly

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Canada has a shortage of boobs
The inflatable kind, like inner tubes
They've auditioned hot strippers from far off lands
Inspectors coo-coo'ing "Oh, you're in good hands!"

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, December 5, 2004 at 18:21 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness • Society • Politics
- Commented on by 2 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Odd signs and other miscellaneous tidbits

The other night at Stanford, I noticed a sign on the wall of their Roble Gym: "Maximum Occupancy 299"

What's up with that? I mean, really, who decides this sort of thing? Do they actually do a test of some sort? "Okay, people... 295, 296, 297... alright, squish in a bit more... 298, 299... come on... almost there... aaaaaaaaaaghhhhh!"

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- Blathered by Adam on Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 16:56 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness
- Commented on by one person so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

A gym jolt

Recently I decided to FINALLY go back to the gym.

Looking through the schedule, I settled on a "Camp 24" class. I figured, how bad could camp be? You know, Camp Snoopy, leisure camping, and so on.

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- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 14:30 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness
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Someone’s either really stupid or a VERY strange fetishist

So here I am, alone on a Friday night, thinking about deep issues such as global prosperity, world peace, and...

Oh, who am I fooling. I'm thinking about... computer stuff, and I'm looking through all the e-mail I've not yet dealt with.

One message particularly caught my eye: "Adam, let's get to know each other."

Hell, yeah, I could take a break from my computer for something like that!

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- Blathered by Adam on Friday, October 15, 2004 at 20:02 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness
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Google Desktop Search—A review via an EXCLUSIVE interview!

I was able to score an exclusive interview with Adam Lasnik, supreme geek, Google connoisseur, and Google Desktop Search expert, and I'm very pleased to offer the full transcript below.

Adam, thanks for coming today. To start, why don't you give us a quick overview of what Google Desktop Search ("GDS") does?

It's delightful to be here!

Well, GDS enables any personal and business user to search their computer's hard drive much as they would search Google... typing in a search term using Google's general search syntax and getting a results page in under one second.

Specifically, GDS searches both the filenames and contents of the following: Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail, AOL instant messages, Internet Explorer (Web page history), text files, and also files from Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.

Do note that GDS only works on Windows XP and 2000 at this time.

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- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, October 14, 2004 at 13:45 Permalink
- Filed under Geekery • Search engines • Google • Grab bag • Tips
- Commented on by 5 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Bunch o’ fat smelly slobs

You know, this used to be such a nice feathery neighborhood. But now it's populated by a bunch of fat, loud, belching slobs, hogging up all the sunny deck spots. And Doris wonders why I'm suggesting we fly further South for the Winter..."

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 16:40 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness • Photography
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