meme: fun with Google Images.

[dragonlady7]

From killerwhaletank.
I like this one. I kind of edited it, though, so I might be cheating on the meme. I may not really do search engine optimization anymore but I still love playing with Google. The meme doesn't specify any methods of searching-- are we allowed wildcard characers, quotation marks, hyphens, or any of the advanced search techniques I learned as an SEO and every searcher should know? Or do we have to do it plain and simple with no manipulation? (But where's the fun in that?)

Go to Google Images, and post the first postable result for a search on:

• your hometown


• where you live now


• your name


• your grandmother's name


• your favorite food


• your favorite drink


• your favorite smell


• your favorite song


• your favorite shoe

So, results below:

Melrose, NY:

That's Kira Lawrence, who went to the high school where my mom teaches. Apparently she plays basketball for Dartmouth.
The fourth result for that search, btw, was one of mine:
http://www.bridget.kelly.name/Pictures/annie/annie-Pages/Image5.html

Buffalo, NY:

Um, I'm just pasting the link, as it's 1700 pixels wide.
http://docs.unh.edu/NY/buff01ne.jpg
An old map of north Buffalo. This is my neighborhood.

Bridget:
Erm, the first one, in thumbnail, looks like girls in their underwear wrestling. Sadly, it is a file-not-found when you click it.
This is the second:


From a Sigma Chi fraternity page. Oh boy, sorostitutes in clashing zebra print. Great.
(if I search on Bridget Kelly, the first photo is a boy and a girl standing together. If I search on Bridget-Kelly, the first photo is a tombstone. Either of those, I get two results in the top ten: http://www.bridget.kelly.name/novel-in-progress/wordcountScreenshot100K.jpg (Laughs. There's me writing a novel last year, screenshotting the wordcount. Points if you can guess my desktop wallpaper.) and http://www.bridget.kelly.name/Pictures/BlueOlive.jpg, which is Alexander the betta fish in his new glass looking cute.

Betty (my maternal grandmother):


Big surprise there. My other grandmother was Margaret:


I don't have a favorite food. I spent a little while typing in a few of the foods I enjoy but didn't come up with anything that amused me.

Milk:

But I was really amused by this one, not work-safe, which was in the top ten: http://hometown.aol.com/magivolveart2/images/got-milk.jpg

the smells were a tie.
Spring:

and horse, but this one was too large to post so it's a link to a photo of a painting, apparently:
http://www.finearts.uvic.ca/~maltwood/storage/horse/deta-horse-good.jpg

As far as songs, I don't really know. I'll go with...

The Outlandish Knight.

From a really, really tacky webpage! Awesome! (warning: music auto-plays.)

Um, my favorite shoe. I... don't have a favorite shoe. That's a really odd thing to ask.
Um, the left one?



And there you have it. Not as cool as I'd thought it might be, but it amused me while I was eating my oatmeal.

Comments

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Hee! Funny. I may have to play this one...

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Yours turned out better than mine. :)

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

I liked the White Russian on mine. :-)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Yes, he was, wasn't he.

And might I recommend getting a bathing suit with real fasteners? They're much easier to cope with than those pesky back-tie ones.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Probably a very good idea. Raoul the Cabana Boy's not always around to help tie me up tie on my suit.

[natashaahoar.livejournal.com]

Don't mind me, I wondered in here from Jen's journal *innocence* Quick question - did you get that shoe off some poor South African art student's site? Because, DAMN, those are the exact shoes 90% of the kids wore in my highschool (S.A. schools believe in uniforms), and my art teacher made us do a crummy 'draw your shoe' exercise just like that in grade eight. *snorts* Ah, memories . . .

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I googled "my left shoe" I think.
The fellow who drew it was talking about how he wasn't an artist at all but was at some "university camp" for junior high kids and they did art projects and he drew his shoe and some other stuff...

I've had to do crummy 'draw your shoe' exercises and the like too, so i think that's universal. But that guy would be pleased to know that his shoe was well-drawn enough that you could recognize it as that type. I imagine that would be kind of amusing, to look at all the drawings of identical shoes... Sorta takes away from the whole 'artistic self-expression' thing, eh?

I've gone to schools with uniforms but have never had the shoes very precisely specified. But I imagine there are only so many sorts of shoes... As I recall, all the girls wore nearly-identical chunky black shoes with big square heels.