post the hundred-fifteenth, 2013

here's what i learned today: aioli is mayonnaise. whaaat? HEY. AIOLI! what are you playing at? okay, technically, you are mayonnaise with garlic, but still. STILL. i thought you were some fancy french sauce with fancy french sauce ingredients. HA. not so much. "garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, and egg yolks", id est: M.A.Y.O. colour me disappointed.

here's what i found yesterday: google ngram viewer. google "google ngram viewer" and you can find it, too. what it is is a search across all the books in the google book index, including books published in 1800 up through 2008. how it works is you type in your search terms and in return you see a chart which demonstrates frequency of those terms in the books. because it's a chart, you can really see the ups and downs of a word's use through the years. so, that's fun in and of itself. even MORE fun is to enter two similar words -- simian and ape, kindergarten and nursery school, blacktop and asphalt -- or three if you can think of three. it's cool to see words that go in and out of favor.

here's what the weather lady just said: this is the 6th coolest start for july on record. 6th coolest! maybe if it wore a leather and drove a harley it could move up the list.