Just in case you thought that my life was somehow more interesting than yours

[featherynscale]

Last night, I made a crucial decision. I had written earlier, in adammaker's comments that I was considering whether to rush right out and buy the new Martin book in a fit of literary passion, or pretend to disdain it until I could one day buy it in paperback, under the cover of darkness, preferably with no witnesses. I thought I could hold out against the temptation, but I am weak, and I had a 15% off coupon at Borders, and so I bought the thing on my way home. I had no thoughts but of cracking it, preferably shortly after arriving at my house, but it was not to be.

For lo, it was my night to cook dinner, and I did cook something that was entirely edible involving chicken, yellow rice, red bell peppers and garlic. And then, lo, I was distracted, for I had remembered that I was going to make saffronhare a "pajama ambassador" icon. So I sat down and began to google. And I googled 'nightgown' and I googled 'pajamas' and I googled 'sleepwear' and there was nothing there that would help me in my task. And suddenly, something else dawned on me. There was no porn! You can google for anything, anything at all and get porn! Winnie the Pooh porn, Harry Potter porn, Little House on the Prairie porn, donkey porn, turnip porn. But there is no sleepwear porn. I related this to the rest of the household, and there was shock and amazement.

"Maybe there's just less porn on the internet," we thought. kittenpants tested the theory. "Wisconsin," she said, "I googled Wisconsin, and there's no porn."

I looked over. "That's because you spelled it wrong."

"Dammit." She corrected the spelling, and suddenly, there it was. Porn. On the first page.

At this point, it became very funny. Now it was a game. Type in something innocuous in the google image search and see how many pages it takes you to get a porn result. Anything that does not yield porn in ten pages of images is considered "safe". This got funnier and funnier for a while. "Ack! Furry porn!" was heard to echo around the office on a number of occasions. "Is that a carrot or a sex toy?" was asked. And then, zylch arrived. The office window was open. She hallooed at us. We hallooed back. "Come on in," we said, "We're playing the google porn game!" The neighborhood really wanted to know that. She hung out a while and suggested some search words. You will be pleased to know that "spork" is safe.

Then, just as I was returning my thoughts to the Martin book, kittenpants reminded me that I hadn't finished reading fionnabhar's manuscript yet, and we couldn't do any editing or critiquing until I was done with it. So, I was forced to put off the Martin book yet again, this time in favor of the were-children. Which was, overall, quite good. Later today, I will send fionnabhar some preliminary notes, and then, kittenpants and I can really get to hacking on it.

So, the book remains unopened, although I did open to the last page while I was in the bookstore to see if this would be the last book in the series or not. It will not, which is good for me, but bad for triadruid, who has sworn never to start a series unless the author was either finished with the series, or dead. I expect it will be a long time before I can discuss plot points with him.

Comments

[taran-stone.livejournal.com]

Relating to your google game, you might have not noticed the new "SearchSafe" feature on the Google images search. It is set to moderate by default, filtering explicit images from all images. Try turning it off and seeing what you get.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought, that I had safe search on, but no. I had turned it off some time ago...

[taran-stone.livejournal.com]

Didn't mean to sound condescending or anything.....

But if it is off...hmmmm......

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Didn't think you were. Just wanted you to know I thought of that too.

There is a part of me that sees this as a quest, to create and disseminate (as it were) disturbing images to the internet so that all words return alarming things. Not necessaraily porn, because really, porn is sort of passe. But you know.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

The only thing about the dead quallifier is that sometimes, even though they are dead... they keep printing new stuff *from them*

This occured to me when I was reading the *NEWEST* book from some author and it dawned on me that she had been dead for almost 10 years. Her kids were writting stuff under her name. As of yet, 20 years later... the series still gets *NEW* stuff printed. It hasen't ended.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

He's mostly on about the ones that are multi-part stories (one story arc that continues across several books, like Lord of the Rings, etc), rather than ones in which there are continuing characters but each book still contains its own story arc.

I think you're talking about VC Andrews, yeah? I haven't read those, but sort of thought that they were more like the second sort than the first.

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I am talking VC Andrews and they are, in fact, a combination of the two. She had many series, many many many and died in the middle of one. So her daughter, at first I think, finished it. Then made a whole new one based only on her mom's notes. Then I think her son wrote a few and he is the one doing the current series. Generally speaking, there are 5 books per family and none of them have anything to do with the others, at all, other than they are about teens and children, and children of children who are abused, mentally, physically, sexually, you name it they are fucked up families.

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

It's so frustrating to get invested into a series and have to wait, and wait, and wait. lol.

[malvito.livejournal.com]

Is there Kansas City Porn? Mickey Mouse Porn?

Gods and Monsters, another reason I need to get a decent computr and online service; this is not a game I could play at the library, what with their Net Nannies.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

this game amuses me muchly.