{"id":16200,"date":"2017-01-23T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2017-01-23T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T18:27:30","slug":"strange-real-life-queries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/23\/strange-real-life-queries\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Real Life Queries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dustbury has a long-running series called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/23760\" target=\"_new\">Strange Search Engine Queries<\/a> where he rounds up the week&#8217;s strangest search engine queries that lead people to his site.  I would do a series like that, but I don&#8217;t have my stat counter configured properly (or don&#8217;t pay enough) to see search engine queries leading to my site, and I don&#8217;t get enough traffic weekly to warrant it.  I&#8217;m pretty sure most of the search engine queries are looking for book reports to plagiarize for books I&#8217;ve read, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/17\/book-report-the-sire-de-maletroits-door-by-robert-louis-stevenson-1985\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Sire de Maletroit&#8217;s Door<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have gotten asked some strange questions in real life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh, you have a library?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I forget what I was talking about with the school secretary, but I mentioned having a large library, and she asked this question.<\/p>\n<p>Do I have a library?  I do.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2010ReadShelves2.jpg\"<\/p>\n<p>That image is from the <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/19\/noggle-library-2010\/\" target=\"_new\">Noggle Library 2010<\/a> post.  In the intervening time, we have gotten even more books, but only one new small book case.  We have a little space in the basement these days, so perhaps I should get a couple more to spread them out.<\/p>\n<p>I used this question as a pretext for going to ABC Books in December; I told Ms. Earhart, the shops proprietor, that I needed just a couple more books to make my library more notorious.  That was the first of three trips to ABC Books in late December.  Surely, my library is notorious <em>now<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have either one of you been a dungeon master?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A friend at the martial arts school I attend asked my wife this question because her son was interested in tabletop RPGs.<\/p>\n<p>A dungeon master?  I&#8217;ve done more than that.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, I have all my old RPG stuff handy, too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/2010BriansClosetRPGs.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve run games in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dungeons and Dragons<\/li>\n<li>Villains and Vigilantes<\/li>\n<li>Twilight: 2000<\/li>\n<li>Call of Cthulhu<\/li>\n<li>Paranoia<\/li>\n<li>Marvel Superheroes<\/li>\n<li>Dangerous Journeys<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And so on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You&#8217;ve written a book?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I get asked this all the time.  I&#8217;m not the best at IRL self promotion (and my Online Brand either, judging by the number of books sold), so sometimes my beautiful wife brings it up in conversation that I&#8217;ve published a book.  Well, <em>technically<\/em>, I&#8217;ve published a novel, a book of plays, and two chapbooks of poetry.  I don&#8217;t need to put a picture of my book below because they&#8217;re in the sidebar (well, not <em>Unrequited<\/em> and <em>Deep Blue Shadows<\/em>, the aforementioned poems).  You can click and buy them if you want.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1990s, I listed them on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sff.net\/bfob\/files\/Noggle,_Brian_J.txt\" target\"_new\">Basement Full of Books<\/a>, and the listing is still up.  However, I no longer live in Lemay.  Funny, only when looking for the listing now did I realize the list was initially created by Vonda McIntyre, who wrote the movie adaptations of a couple of Star Trek movies that I would review <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=Vonda+\" target=\"_new\">many years later<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At any rate, that&#8217;s a couple of real life questions where there&#8217;s a meaningful pause when someone asks them to me.<\/p>\n<p>Because, well, <em>YES!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dustbury has a long-running series called Strange Search Engine Queries where he rounds up the week&#8217;s strangest search engine queries that lead people to his site. I would do a series like that, but I don&#8217;t have my stat counter configured properly (or don&#8217;t pay enough) to see search engine queries leading to my site, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16207,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/16207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}