5-in-5 Day 4
09.04.18
Brooklyn, NY
I never really thought about people going through my search history, it’s probably filled with recipes, dog pictures and celebrity drama. However, I decided to look into my search history and check how many times I ACTUALLY GOOGLE something in a day. (I excluded the data from my phone since I can’t figure out which day I used google, since it’s was on private mode).
I have used google 24 times during the past 24 hours. And they are all… things that aren’t really help?? I googled some words I wasn’t sure how to spell, why isn’t my Arduino wasn’t working, that was kinda helpful, why I had a migraine, etc,. Not that they are useless, but they are far from anything academic related. Nothing saying they have to be, but I definitely feel like I abuse the internet a lot in terms of how long I’ve been on Netflix.
So to make this more interesting and also somewhat educational, I decided to do the following:
- Document how many times I used google to search.
- Create a list of number starting from 1, based on that data. (in my case 1–24)
- Create a page and line generator.
- Grab any book and copy the sentences based on what the generator says.
- Arrange them in the way that makes the most sense.
- Modify the punctuation to make it both grammatically correct and more coherent if possible.
Here is the generator I created, very similar to my last one.

Results:

It’s kind of insane while I was rearranging them I was almost certain they won’t make sense. However, as I was looking through each sentence, I can definitely sense there is a flow to it. After I modified the paragraph, I asked couple of my friends to read it and see what they think. Couple of them have said, even though the conversation itself doesn’t make perfect sense but they can definitely tie strings to it.
It could be that all passages are from the same book, but it’s very interesting to see how our brain can connect things supposedly with no connections together.