---
title: 'Recent Googlings'
date: '2003-08-15T13:23:34-04:00'
permalink: /recent-googlings/
tags:
    - networks
---

Why is it that folks who find Planned Obsolescence via net searches mostly show up in the wee hours of the night?

And why are they searching for:

– [what’s after postmodernism](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=utf-8&q=what's+after+post-modernism&spell=1)  
  
– [none of us is as dumb as all of us](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=none+of+us+are+as+dumb+as+all+of+us)  
  
– [times roman](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22times+roman%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&start=40&sa=n)  
  
– [helen ludo or genius or brilliant or smart “last samurai”](http://www.google.com/search?q=helen+ludo+or+genius+or+brilliant+or+smart+%22last+samurai%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&as_qdr=all&start=20&sa=n)  
  
– [rick moody, opinions](http://www.google.com/search?q=rick+moody,+opinions&hl=en&lr=&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&start=20&sa=n)  
  
– [advance reading](http://www.google.com/search?q=advance+reading&btng=google+search&hl=en&lr=&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8)  
  
– [on leave in academia](http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=on+leave+in+academia&meta=)  
  
– [intuitionist book summer reading](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=intuitionist+book+summer+reading&btng=google+search)  
  
– [greenblatt mla tenure book](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=greenblatt+mla+tenure+book&btng=google+search)  
  
– [unspoken helen “sports night”](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=unspoken+helen+%22sports+night%22)  
  
– [verizon can you hear me now?](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=iso-8859-1&q=verizon+can+you+hear+me+now%3F)

That last is my favorite. I get an average of a hit a day off those commercials. And always around 3 am.