There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!
November 29, 2020 8:39 AM Subscribe
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Google is the new black Go..... no can't go there, can not type that letter.....
posted by sammyo at 8:50 AM on November 29, 2020
posted by sammyo at 8:50 AM on November 29, 2020
“Hi! I'm from Google. I'm a Googlebot! I will not kill you.”
posted by euphorb at 10:26 AM on November 29, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by euphorb at 10:26 AM on November 29, 2020 [3 favorites]
They should meet the Autocompleter first.
posted by batter_my_heart at 8:36 PM on November 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by batter_my_heart at 8:36 PM on November 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
There really is a creepy guy on the other end at Google. He keeps emailing me asking me to come to job interviews, and no matter how many times I tell him I'm not interested, he just won't stop.
posted by Cardinal Fang at 2:34 PM on November 30, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Cardinal Fang at 2:34 PM on November 30, 2020 [1 favorite]
This is fun. I'm not absolutely convinced it's useful, but it's cheap and harmless and possibly useful, which is pretty good as studies go. (Classifying connections between monitors and computers in the same category as networks between computers seems a bit surprising. But, one can only have so many categories.)
Thinking about what I'd draw is interesting. Using abstract symbols that only mean something because I've read textbooks on related topics is really hard to resist.
I think I'd go with a 1950s style robot using a rolling library ladder to pick documents from an enormous 2D grid of cubbies labeled with alphabetized words on both axes. In the second panel, each scroll gets shoved into a capsule and tossed into a pnuematic tube and fired off to a wall-mounted kiosk in my living-room. But, even that requires quite a bit of outside knowledge to interpret and more than a bit of ironic sensibility to appreciate. (And more drawing skill than I possess, without resorting to labeling things.)
posted by eotvos at 7:30 PM on November 30, 2020
Thinking about what I'd draw is interesting. Using abstract symbols that only mean something because I've read textbooks on related topics is really hard to resist.
I think I'd go with a 1950s style robot using a rolling library ladder to pick documents from an enormous 2D grid of cubbies labeled with alphabetized words on both axes. In the second panel, each scroll gets shoved into a capsule and tossed into a pnuematic tube and fired off to a wall-mounted kiosk in my living-room. But, even that requires quite a bit of outside knowledge to interpret and more than a bit of ironic sensibility to appreciate. (And more drawing skill than I possess, without resorting to labeling things.)
posted by eotvos at 7:30 PM on November 30, 2020
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But then I remember, before the internet, trying to get health information from one-paragraph or two-paragraph encyclopedia entries and dictionary entries, even, and my dumb-as-me also-pre-teen and early-teen friends, and I figure a 1 or a 2 plus the internet probably isn't so bad.
posted by XMLicious at 8:40 AM on November 29, 2020 [2 favorites]