Seasonal

Last week I finally had my winter tires off. This evening I freshened up the blog template. Tomorrow, I’m tackling the dog doo in the back yard.

It must be spring.

Update on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 9:06AM by rebecca

Becky asks about the flower in the photo. It’s a pasque flower. Clicking on the photo will get you a larger view.

Do You Think the Name Gave It Away?

We have strong indicators that http://rebecca-writes.com is written by a woman (100%).

This result is from GenderAnalyzer, which uses “Artificial Intelligence to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman. Behind the scene, a text classifier hosted over at uClassify.com has been trained on blogs written by men and women.”

What does the GenderAnalyzer say about your blog?

(I’m down for the count with something kind of nasty, which means I’m only up to posting trivialities today.)

Answering the Questions in the Queries

Four questions that showed up in the search queries during the past week:

• perpiscuity?
  Do you think the searchers—and there were a few—wanted to know how to spell this word or find out what it means? The answer to both questions can be found here. And without looking, do you know whether these searchers got the spelling right?


• what is the only possible value of x when both x plus 5 and x times 5 result in the same answer?
  Fortunately for these elementary algebra students googling to take the easy way out on their homework, algebra is one thing I haven’t forgotten. Here’s how I would solve this problem:
  

  5x = x + 5
  5x - x = 5
  4x = 5
  x = 5/4



• headless chicken lifespan?
  I am just never going to get away from this one, am I? The answer is that the lifespan of a headless chicken is indefinite, unless there is an untimely choking incident.


• what does the resurrection mean to believers?
  I’m thinking there are two possible ways to take this question. Is the word resurrection refering to Christ’s resurrection or the believer’s own resurrection? If it’ referring to Christ’s resurrection, then we’re good to go.