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Why I Like My Shop Vac ... and Google... So Much
October 13, 2009
So last week I got the new furnace, and that inspired me to get handy around the house (or as handy as I can get around the house), so I went to the most perfect store (Target) and bought a shop vac. Then I vacuumed: the garage, the breezeway, the driveway, the front walk, the basement, the fence (leaves and spider webs), the garage ceiling (more spider webs), the breezeway ceiling (the spiders hung around there, too), and tried to think of a reason why I might need to vacuum out my sinks -- since this puppy vacuums dry AND wet stuff. It's amazing -- sucks up everything I put before it.
Since I was a literature major (a B.S. in literature, and that's not a typo), of course I had to think of online metaphors in re: my wonderful new acquisition, and inevitably, Google came to mind. It, too, sucks up everything on the web, be it wet or dry. It, like my shop vac, does not make extensive use of complex filters (algorithms, yes) and you can suck everything up in one fell swoop. Of course, sometimes what you get from a Google search can be likened to the tangled, dusty insides of a shop vac when you finally go to empty it, but the point is -- you do get everything without shorting out the machine. My dust buster doesn't do this, neither does my 4.5 horsepower mega-vacuum (an M&M -- plain -- can bring that machine to a halt). Of course, I can search in pockets of Google (images, books, etc.) if I want to pick up specific kinds of things (just as I can put the brush attachment on my shop vac to get the dust -- and spider webs).
And the moral of that? (asks the Duchess). I guess I just love having all that concentrated power -- in vacuuming as in searching.
`Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.' [see link, above]09
Cheryl
Posted by Cheryl LaGuardia on October 13, 2009 | Comments (1)
