{"id":139,"date":"2011-09-05T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=139"},"modified":"2011-08-26T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:13:16","slug":"the-games-i-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/the-games-i-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The games I play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlewhack.com\/\">Googlewhack<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 That was the game where you entered two, hopefully disparate search terms with the goal of returning one\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand only one\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhit on a Google search. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become harder to do (did you know there are 816,000 hits if you search for cantankerous vortices?) which might be why I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear people speak of it as much.<a href=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tokens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-143\" title=\"tokens\" src=\"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/tokens-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve created a new game but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a name for it yet. Maybe you can help me. The game goes like this:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Identify a blogger who is obsessive about checking their stats: number of visitors, from whence their visitors came, and, most importantly, what search terms were used to arrive at their blog.<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Google the following without the quotation marks: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name] eats babies for breakfast.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (The more specific you can be about the person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name, the better. If they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an author, put \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcauthor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 before their name. If they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a painter, put \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpainter.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00c2\u00a0If you know the city where they live, add the city. The object is to get a hit that will take you to their blog.)<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Click on any result that leads to their blog.<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sit back and watch that person freak out (on their blog, on Facebook, via Twitter) about the weird stuff people Google to find them.<\/p>\n<p>5)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Repeat with other weird phrases [(person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name) undulates with saturnine munchkins] for added amusement.<\/p>\n<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good name for a game like this?\u00c2\u00a0 I feel like \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcevil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 should be in the title\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Googlewhack?\u00c2\u00a0 That was the game where you entered two, hopefully disparate search terms with the goal of returning one\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand only one\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhit on a Google search. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become harder to do (did you know there are 816,000 hits if you search for cantankerous vortices?) which might be why I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear people speak of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianfarreybooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}