Google sets
Sep. 5th, 2003 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
resonantI'm amusing myself to no end with Google Sets, found via a link from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
officialgaiman. You enter a few words, and Google tries to predict other similar items.
Sometimes it seems like Google has two or three themes in mind, but other entries are quite mysterious.
For instance, enter Fraser and Ray, and you get back line segment, Prince Rupert, Phil Chouinard, Dave, Edith, RAB1C, Surface and, come, Joe, go far, go deep, Al Wahdawi, and shaft.
Enter Mountie and cop, and you start out with a bunch of police-related terms (apprehend, arrest, copper, pig). But then you get some randomness (ant, flags, snowbirds), followed by an unexpected left turn into somewhere between therapeutic roleplaying and, well, that other kind of roleplaying: Caretaker, Supportive Adult, Old Coot ... Construction Worker, Babe, Hitman, Elvis Presley, Naughty Nurse, Dominatrix, Omicron Demigod, Punisher, and Cowboy.
Glom is also on the list.
I foresee many wasted hours.
officialgaiman. You enter a few words, and Google tries to predict other similar items. Sometimes it seems like Google has two or three themes in mind, but other entries are quite mysterious.
For instance, enter Fraser and Ray, and you get back line segment, Prince Rupert, Phil Chouinard, Dave, Edith, RAB1C, Surface and, come, Joe, go far, go deep, Al Wahdawi, and shaft.
Enter Mountie and cop, and you start out with a bunch of police-related terms (apprehend, arrest, copper, pig). But then you get some randomness (ant, flags, snowbirds), followed by an unexpected left turn into somewhere between therapeutic roleplaying and, well, that other kind of roleplaying: Caretaker, Supportive Adult, Old Coot ... Construction Worker, Babe, Hitman, Elvis Presley, Naughty Nurse, Dominatrix, Omicron Demigod, Punisher, and Cowboy.
Glom is also on the list.
I foresee many wasted hours.
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Date: 9/6/03 12:40 am (UTC)-Remus Lupin (fair enough)
-RELIGION (whoa! where'd it get that??)
-SUDAN (ditto)
-Arabella Figg (tangential, maybe, but related)
-Combat (definitely, once you have Snape and Black involved)
-Mundungus Flencher (it's got this OotP groove going, hasn't it?)
-Mad Eye Moody (more of the same)
-Minerva McGonagall
-AFRICA (it really thinks HP is taking place there, eh?)
-SOCIETY (HP is a Big Deal!)
-Aging
-Food Water
-Albus Dumbledore (I suppose these three fit together, vaguely. Really vaguely. Sherbet lemon?)
-Rubeus Hagrid
-Weasley family (one entry for all of them?)
One could spend a great deal of time doing this.
Hey, maybe it'd make for a cool challenge. Input the pairing of your choice, and then you have to write a fic incorporating all the words that it spits out.
Hi:) You hardly know me but. . .
Date: 9/6/03 01:05 pm (UTC)I was actually a bit surprised that slash + fanfic gave back such a consistent list -- including Alex Krycek. And Sherlock Holmes? Hmm.