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08/26/2004 Archived Entry: "Recent Referals"

Recent Google-Based Referrals (or You Can Tell it's a Slow Day for Innovative Thinking)

  • Topic Sentence Generator: The person who got here from this search is either working for the MSU Writing Center ("anybody googling us?" ) or seriously looking for a way to make a topic sentence. Word of advice: Nobody really sits down an makes up a topic sentence before writing. Look: I just wrote this without thinking up a topic sentence first. Amazing, ain’t it? This search generates 22,900 hits. Yikes. Pedagogy walks backwards.
  • Cowboy Hat Superstitious: This is one of those interesting moments of juxtaposition where two or more entries respond to a user's keywords search. Very Burroughs-oriented in its combination possibilities. This search sounds like a band's name or a mantra to repeat at night in order to calm (or provoke) one's nerves. I'm ranked 7 on this search. Right behind an excerpt from a cowboy novel from Books for a Buck.com.
  • How to Make Instruction Rice. Hey, I'm on a Thai Google search! Cool. How do you make an Instruction Rice anyway? Three parts Bear Bryant (GET OFF YOUR ASS), two parts Dylan (mumble mumble the woman I love mumble), one part All Funk, baby. 305,000 hits on this search. Dang, I'm good.
  • jeff rice. This one always confuses the hell out of me in a very non-Alan Berliner way. Who on earth is looking for me? Mom? An old girl friend (we lost touch in second grade; you used to run away when I asked to borrow your pencil...)? A publisher who desperately wants to put out The Rhetoric of Cool (yeah, right)? Someone who refuses to bookmark this site and wants to see every now and then if I've finally found something worthwhile to write about? Probably that one. 1,010,000 hits. My more than fifteen minutes. Hey wait a minute! That's not me! And that neither! Hmmm. Maybe nobody wants me after all.....

    Replies: 2 comments

    I know. Sid told me. How spooky is that?

    Posted by j @ 08/26/2004 06:19 PM EST

    Laurie Taylor tells me there is new grad student named Jeff Rice at Florida.

    Posted by cbd @ 08/26/2004 05:33 PM EST

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