i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage

man, i think about that stuff all the time too. (and maybe someday, google will pay me to think about it.) it's usually from a bit more of an AI angle than a librarian one, but still. i love the way the internet and its users slowly teach each other how to get along... sort of the way dogs and their owners do. i mean, i know google has me fairly well trained. :)

in The Future, i want to be able to give google a jpeg and have it tell me what it's a picture of, what sites are devoted to the subject, where i can buy one, and some sort of probabilistic analysis of where in the world i must be to have taken it. like, i could snap a picture on my cell phone, send it to google, and have it give me directions to the post office.

also, i had to stop reading those search string posts, because although my officemate is a nerd, he's not that kind of nerd, and i just don't think he'd understand why they had me snorting and giggling for 20 minutes straight.