25 January 2009

searching for answers

after realizing how revealing my amazon.com search history was, i was curious to see what my google search history could say about what my priorities are. here are a few highlights in alphabetical order:

  • 10 virgins
  • various foreign-based airlines
  • various bike routes
  • various camp sites
  • various central american cities
  • adjustable wire shelf
  • all things denote there is a god
  • aerial acreage
  • ashley samantha mackay
  • babymaker generator
  • balkan beat box
  • bucket toilet
  • bulk castile soap
  • buying a bike in Dublin
  • central park sledding
  • chickens for sale
  • cob
  • covey quadrant system
  • desk clacker
  • effects of over-watering
  • ethanol cons
  • glory box
  • jetsons pill meals (seriously, i searched for that)
  • jump the shark
  • mays walsh undefeated
  • mitosis v. meisos
  • new york road runners
  • nuclear energy cons
  • osu michigan football game
  • permaculture
  • pi
  • poker hands
  • quitters (i have no idea why i searched for that)
  • rampage kamryn pump red (if anyone can find these anywhere in size 8.5 , i would pay a lot of money for them)
  • red hook apt
  • ragbrai
  • sawdust toilets
  • self-sabbotage
  • speed laces
  • triathlon calendar
  • traveling gnome
  • try try again
  • unused pneumatic tubes
  • vegetable protein
  • village halloween parade
  • weather machine
  • wind solar generator
  • words that rhyme with nostril
  • write in presidential vote (and yes, i did--don't blame me, i voted for middleton/bryner)
  • wwoof
  • zelda
that pretty much sums up my life.

23 January 2009

this is what i love about life

Amazon.com does this thing where it will suggest items for you to purchase based on your search and purchasing history.

These are some books amazon suggested for me:

*Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar
*Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them
*The Renewable Energy Handbook
*Building Green
*The Triathlete's Training Bible
*The Non-Runner's Marathon Guide to Training
*Effective Teaching Methods
*5-minute Math Problem of the Day
*101 Science experiments
*The Essential Ghandi
*Motorcycle Diaries
*Guerilla Warfare
*various Lonely Planet country guides
*everything by Gunter Grass

These are some products amazon suggested for me:
*The Pretty Princess Dress-up Board Game
*Scrabble
*french pop CDs
*red zebra-print high heeled pumps

How does amazon know me so well?