Twelve days between posts
Dec. 21st, 2009 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threemonkeysMy number geek inclinations have may have shaken me out of my blog fatigue.
For reasons not unrelated to the next episode of Top Gear I googled the phrase "passes through the andes". It gets 451,000 hits. I then googled the more specific phrase "not many passes through the andes". The second phrase search results must be a subset of the first right? I mean the first phrase is completely contained in the second - it must be more general - right? Yet the second phrase gets 2,220,000 hits.
How can that be??? Confusion.
Before you start wondering, I did work out the answer. It makes a really big difference whether you do that search with or without the quote marks. I did it without. The mental fogginess that gave me that confusion is the reason for the blog fatigue.
Must get some rest.
For reasons not unrelated to the next episode of Top Gear I googled the phrase "passes through the andes". It gets 451,000 hits. I then googled the more specific phrase "not many passes through the andes". The second phrase search results must be a subset of the first right? I mean the first phrase is completely contained in the second - it must be more general - right? Yet the second phrase gets 2,220,000 hits.
How can that be??? Confusion.
Before you start wondering, I did work out the answer. It makes a really big difference whether you do that search with or without the quote marks. I did it without. The mental fogginess that gave me that confusion is the reason for the blog fatigue.
Must get some rest.