{"id":3453,"date":"2019-11-05T22:04:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjmaclayne.com\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2019-11-05T22:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T05:05:01","slug":"strange-things-in-research-iwsg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjmaclayne.com\/?p=3453","title":{"rendered":"Strange things in research #IWSG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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November 6 question – What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever googled in researching a story?<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The awesome co-hosts for the November 6 posting of the IWSG are\u00a0Sadira Stone,<\/a>\u00a0Patricia Josephine,<\/a>\u00a0Lisa Buie-Collard,<\/a>\u00a0Erika Beebe,<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0C. Lee McKenzie!<\/a><\/div>\n
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Good question! This week I googled myself for a blog post, and that was pretty strange. I’m fairly boring, but I did find people who shared my name that were more interesting. (See Monday’s blog post.)<\/div>\n
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I google a lot about guns for both of my series. But that’s not really strange.<\/div>\n
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More interesting, to me anyway, are the fancy driving stunts I search for, and how do do them. Not that I would ever try, but a couple of my characters do, as a hobby of sorts. And to evade pursuers, be they the bad guys or the good guys.<\/div>\n
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Then there’s the self-defense techniques the heroine in my mystery series uses. Thank heavens because she’s always getting herself into trouble.<\/div>\n
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But even those aren’t strange. You know when I get into really interesting topics?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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When I get off track.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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When I see something shiny and go down the rabbit hole. My blog post \"\"about googling my name led me to a page about about bridge jumping. (Bridge Day in West Virginia). And the report of two political opponents who had a gun fight after a meeting.\u00a0 Looking up information on jet boats in Oregon led me to the web page of a lodge in Oregon you can only get to by boat.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Then there’s the stuff that comes up at work. We have interesting discussions. Like the gradual salt intrusion into the fresh water aquifers of Florida. Or the logos of car manufactures no one has ever heard of. Or the farthest geographic compass point location for each direction for the continental Unites States. (Hint- at least one of them you would never guess!)<\/div>\n
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Still, I don’t know if I’d rank any of these as\u00a0 strange. I’d call them fascinating.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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How about you? Google anything strange lately?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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