And so the trip begins...

So I got to the airport a little early, and I figured I would try this mobile blogging thing. I didnt think I would have time for my computer this week, so, I'm trying this on my phone. Im just going to put a couple things down since the qwerty keypad on my phone isn't second nature to me yet, and ny wrist is already hurting! I thought I'd go over the contents of my carry on bag, cause its funny. Digital camera, Ipod, various chargers, BOM, sunglasses, baseball glove, frisbee, season one of scrubs. That is not as exciting as I thought it was going to be. But, Since it took me 4 minutes to type, it's staying. Man, I'm excited for this trip. Brewer game and whatever other shinanigans we can come up with within the next 16 or so hours. Ill have photos to prove it. Ali has no chance regarding the 'whoever's pictures look the most fun wins' game. NO CHANCE. ok. 15 minutes typing on this phone is all I can take. Hmm. I wonder if I just typed more words per minutes with my thumbs than George can normally? Just kidding buddy. ;)

Google Says I am... & The Bees Game...

So I was bored the other day, and happened to be on Google. I can't tell you what made me think to do this, but, I did.

I guess Google has a relatively new feature where as you start to type a search term, it provides you with what I am assuming are the most popular search terms related to the things you have already typed in. I started typing in "(someone's name) is" and seeing what Google said people search.

Here's the results:

Derek is:

Derek is Eric
Derek is casey your girlfriend
Derek is a fag
Derek is dead

Interesting set of results. I'm not happy that people are looking up whether or not Derek is a fag. What's even really funny about it to me, is that they aren't even looking it up. People are actually typing "Derek is a fag" into Google. Who tell's Google who is and isn't a fag? That seems a little unfair. Google is supposed to tell us stuff.

Anyway, here is Greg, John, & George:

Greg:

Greg is not an alien
Greg is so evil
Greg is a fag
Greg is gay.com
Greg is not a alien
Greg is evil 3
Greg is the best

There we go. People telling Google that Greg is a fag. Really? & a gay.com? Jeez.

John:

John is his name
John is traveling to a meeting that is 28 miles away (????)
John is dead
John is a poop
John is not really dull
John is dead beatles
john is an idiot
John is awesome
John is fit
John is a retard

I love this. "John is a poop" Haha. Someone typed that in. Someone typed it in enough that it's apparently one of the top search "John is" phrases. and "John is traveling to a meeting that is 28 miles away" I am assuming this is the beginning of a popular story problem in 9th grade math books across the country, and kids use Google to cheat. I know I would. Just as I suspected: Math Problem

George:

George is getting upset
George is jones
George is on
George is getting angry
George is mine in 09
George is my friend (doubt it)
George is my friend cartoon
George is dead call me back
George is getting very upset
George is jones ruins

These are funny too. I like that George is upset, angry, and getting very upset. That sounds just like my roommate George. Also, "George is my friend"? Sorry guy who typed that in. But, if you have to TELL Google that George is your friend, he is probably not your friend.



Anyway, this got me thinking. There is no way in hell that anyone has ever typed "Derek is a fag" into Google. It just doesn't make sense. So, I looked up what Google Suggestions actually were, and got the following:

As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time. This is similar to Google's "Did you mean?" feature that offers alternative spellings for your query after you search, except that it works in real time. For example, if you type "bass," Google Suggest might offer a list of refinements that include "bass fishing" or "bass guitar."

So what is it that is causing "Derek is a fag" to show up. And what can I do about it? Here's how my research has begun: http://www.bing.com. I searched Derek is a fag on MSN's search site, as to not let Google know I wanted to search the term. The results I get are less than useful. They have nothing to do with Derek being or not being a fag. I just don't get it.

I next used Google Zeitgeist to try and figure out if there are any specifc trends behind the word "Derek" and behind the word "Fag" No correlations. It really doesn't add up. Either Google is playing an elaborate joke on me, or their suggestions system is flawed. I've decided to write Google. I found their email address :D labs+suggest@google.com Here's the email:

Hey Google,

I’ve typed the term “Derek is” Into the google.com search page, and I have gotten the suggestion that “Derek is a fag.” Not only is this not true, but it also doesn’t make any sense. When using BING.com search, I find no reason for this to be any sort of relevant to anyone. I’m not about to give Google the gratification of actually doing that search. If you could give me any specific details on this situation, I’d love to hear about it!

Thanks!

Anyway. It appears that Google doesn't respond personally to email, so it appears this mystery will never be solved. Whatever. I know Google is wrong, and that is all that matters to me. For now.


Oh. And the Bee's game last night. Let me go over some of the highlights of the night in short phrases, as I feel like I have been typing for awhile, and I don't want to overload you / myself:

Ali

Corn Dogs
Fries
Ice Cream
Wood smell air freshner
Little kid head to Ali's knee
Little kid confused on whether or not he should cry
1.5 L of Water
Home Run Derby
Bryce Harper
Christmas Color teams playing eachother
Tie Game (Boring)
Front Row seats to fireworks.

They postponed the actual Bee's game and had a Home Run Derby and hand some 18 and under teams play eachother. It wasn't bad. But, what's pretty cool, is that with the Bee's tickets from last night, you get 2 tickets to a future game, a Jazz Preseason game ticket, and a ticket to an even at Miller Motor Speedway. I'm not going to the MMS, but, I'll use the other two perks. Pretty cool.

To the driver of the Green Nissan Altima....

Today is Thursday, $4 taco soup day at Bajio in Draper. My favorite lunch day of the week. So, you can imagine my excitement when lunch time came around and it was time to head over and pick up my food. I started my lunch break a little late, so I was in a bit of a hurry. When I get down to my car in the parking lot, this is what I see:

As you can see, that Altima is full up on my grill. Yeah. I said "Full up on my grill." It really was. How is this even possible. Firstly, it's obvious when you bump a car's bumper. I know this from experience. The driver of the Altima had to know he did it. What amazes me though, is the fact that he just left the car there! Who does that? If it would have been me, I would have backed up, like nothing happened, as everyone else you know would have.

I took this photo of the car with the license plate, incase of you guys know this person, you can give them hell. The license plate number actually seems a little familiar to me. I don't know why. Either way, I wasn't angry, I was just really really surprised that someone could just park their car against mine. I have the worst luck with my car in the parking lot!


I got back up to my desk, and started telling people about it, when a particularly funny girl gave me the idea of leaving a note for the person who had tapped my car. I got to working on the note. I even included a picture of our cars kissing. Here's the note (Click on it, to see it nice and big) :

So far, I haven't received a call from the perp. Hopefully it's not some big buff guy with an attitude, or I'm dead. I think it's nice enough though. And seriously, just a lunch? Let's hope the guy, or, more than likely, woman, considering this does have to do with poor driving, gives me a call. I'd love to make me a new "Bumper Buddy"

Derekiscool.com

I bought a domain for my blog. http://www.derekiscool.com . I'm pretty excited about having a blog. I feel like buying a domain name, one that I think is funny, will commit me to actually using the blog.

I can already tell I am going to be one of those, "Look at how cool I am" bloggers, as commented by Lish on my last post. But there's a fundamental difference between them & I: I AM COOL. I don't HAVE to prove how cool I am through blog posts, that's just, what is probably going to happen.

Or maybe I do have to prove it. In fact, I care a lot about what other people think. More than I care to admit. But I have a blog now. I can admit it. And I just did. I'm going to work on that. Why would the coolest guy I know (me) need to worry about what other people think? Yeah. I agree with me. You got this D.

Anyway, Facebook, Tweet, Digg, StumbleUpon, Text, Email, or just flat out tell people about the site. http://www.derekiscool.com . It's awesome. And it wasn't free. ha.

"Start Blogging"

So I decided to sign up for a real blog account finally. Will I use it? I doubt it. They made it incredibly easy... to sign up. Typed in my Gmail UserID and Password, came up with a riveting blog name, signed up for the http://derekc2003.blogspot.com URL, and then, all I needed to do was click "Start Blogging" Easy, huh?

They make it seem a lot easier than it actually is. I'm not one for writing, especially not one for writing anything I think anyone might read, or would even want to read. Whatever. I'm "Gen Y". I have to have a blog. No I don't. But I want one. Maybe.

It's Ali's fault I started this thing. She read something from the one I put together almost 5 years ago and she said she liked it. Or something like that. And that's all it takes for me. One person to say they like it. Haha.

BTW, Here's link to my old ones, if you're interested:

This one is titled "Derek's crap for crap." There are some funny photos, and it looks like most of my posts were just before I moved to Utah for Britnie all those years ago. I was absolutely twitterpatted in those posts. It's funny to read. I used to be sooooo sweeeet. Awe.

http://derekc2003.spaces.live.com/

Here's my old myspace blog. It's dumb. I say some silly things in there. I was a kid. It's kind of the reason I'm afraid to blog now. I don't want to say a bunch of dumb things that pisses people off. But, it's just in my nature. What can you do?

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&friendId=3560938

Anyway. Is this a good enough start to a blog? I've got nothing else specifically to write about, that I really want to share in a publicish forum. So, for now, I think I am going to finish this off.

"Publish Post"... Blogging is so easy.