t'internets a bit big

So I was thinking, discussed Internet searching today in terms of research and the amount of guff we have to sort through and what not. Its crazy just the amount of stuff that is actually on the Internet though. It's just incomprehensibly massive. It brings about the sort of headaches you only usually get from being asked questions like "how big is the universe?", "How can creation be explained?" or "how come in back to the future when Marty goes back to the future there's not a new Marty from that timeline waiting there? 'Cause like...if it’s a new timeline then he never went back in time in the first place...so he's still there. And if he didn’t go back in time in the first place then he hasn’t changed the past so shouldn’t everything be the same as when the film started?" The kind of questions that keep the world up at night. It's why they break your search results into nice, manageable chunks. If they showed you every possibly hit at once it would probably cause your brain to explode, melt, fall out of your nose and then explode again for good measure.

So its probably good getting shown how to search properly before we start a research task. Reading over the sheets, the information we were given on how to narrow down our search looks like it will be really helpful. Before I would have just typed in all the key words and started trundling haphazardly through the hits. It should help hack off some of the guff I mentioned earlier.

Google whacking sounded fun. Yet another tool to add to my mighty procrastination workshop. Thought I might change it a bit though, spice up the broth if you will*. Thought I would try it with Youtube. My work did not progress as well as I would have hoped. My arsenal of nonsensical word groups was failing (bookshelf cat mania, Dr. Asspancake, keanu reeves)
My hope was dwindling, as was my patience, but I mustered the spirit to go for one last epic grasp for glory.
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No videos found
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Eureka.

To be fair though the phrase used was:
"Large man sitting in a wheelbarrow eating yesterday's Times"
But it was a victory none the less.



*In reference to this phrase, my father made quite a timid broth earlier. It upset the family.