Sun, 19 Apr 2009
Quirky brand of hackneyed phrases.
I haven't updated much recently. I've been pretty tired lately, partly from fighting off a cold.
We got our (hopefully) last snow storm of the year, at the start of April. It was pretty tame, only 10cm or so. But it was right on cue, so with luck we're on to Spring. Actually yesterday was pretty damned gorgeous out, going above 20 degrees for the first time this year. Easter weekend wasn't too bad either, hung out in the Comfy Lounge on Friday for the annual games day with all sorts of UW alumni, and the rest of the sunny weekend was seeing all sorts of people I rarely see. In fact the only thing we've not had a lot of this Spring is rain. The grass is still pretty dead, though slowly coming back. A shower or two would help.
This past week's kw.pm meeting was quite successful. We'd been showing off various Arduino based hacking projects. All sorts of people came out of the woodwork. Some people from the local LUG, and the Make:KW group.
Apropos of random conversations I was having in the kw.pm IRC chat room, I did a Google search on "quirky brand of", quotes included, looking to see how overused that phrase has become. The first page of 2510 results are summarized as follows:
- quirky brand of thoroughly English chintz and charm
- quirky brand of fantasy
- quirky brand of rhyming slang
- quirky brand of beauty babes
- quirky brand of electronic arrangements
- quirky brand of the young outsider
- quirky brand of travel documentary
- quirky brand of sardonic pop harmonies
- quirky brand of observational humour
- quirky brand of comedy rock
These are of course ranked strictly by page rank. It would be nice to find an easy way to instead break that down by number of results for the words immediately following "quirky brand of". Anyone have any ideas?
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