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October 11, 2005
A service to you, the faithful reader
From time to time, as a service to readers, Minor Tweaks examines the list of search phrases that lead people to the site. In some cases, it seems, they have come here by mistake and have no doubt left feeling unsatisfied. This is unfortunate and must be remedied.
-- The person searching for "extremely disturbing video" instead found a bunch of cheese reviews and dog columns. Sorry, dude (and you’re certainly a dude). I suggest renting "The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement." It'll freak you out.
-- Another person searched for "madeleine peyroux pronounciation." For starters, you slipped one too many Os into pronunciation, but I’ll help you out anyway: The "m" is silent.
-- This was addressed in a previous post, but there continue to be people who arrive at Minor Tweaks using some variation of the search phrase "how to summarize an article." This is obviously a major problem out there. So here’s a quick tutorial. First, read the article. Then read the article a second time, making note of the author’s key points. Next copy those sentences down verbatim and hand them in to the teacher as your own work. Guaranteed "A." Trust me.
-- And for the 114 people who have come to the site in hopes of finding "nintencats," I have some bad news: They don’t exist. However, if each of you sends me a check for, say, $20, I will laugh myself silly and then go buy some really nice furniture.
Posted by teb at October 11, 2005 10:21 AM