TANIA MILLEN ................ WRITER. RIDER. ADVENTURER.
  • Writer
    • Books >
      • Pack em Up, Ride em Out
      • Go Horse Camping
      • The Joys of Horse Packing
      • Rockin' Whitewater
    • Freelance Articles
    • Services
    • Funding Dreams
  • Rider
    • 2018 -2020 Trips >
      • 2020 Badger Pass 4
      • 2020 Palliser Pass
      • 2020 Mt Assiniboine 2
      • 2020 Morocco
      • 2019 Muskwa-Kechika
      • 2019 Telegraph Trail
      • 2018 Trips
    • 2016 - 2017 Trips >
      • 2017 Trans Canada Trail
      • 2017 Waterton 2
      • 2017 Writing-on-Stone
      • 2016 Crossing the Rockies
      • 2016 Brazeau 3
      • 2016 Badger Pass 3
      • 2016 Waterton 1
    • 2013 - 2015 Trips >
      • 2015 Barkerville
      • 2015 Badger Pass 2
      • 2014 Spatsizi 3
      • 2013 Cypress Hills & Grasslands
      • 2013 Kakwa
      • 2013 Spatsizi 2
    • 2010 - 2012 Trips >
      • 2012 Brazeau 1
      • 2012 Best of Banff
      • 2012 Pobokton Brazeau Nigel
      • 2012 Spatsizi 1
      • 2011 Willmore
      • 2011 Twintree Lake
      • 2011 Jasper & Willmore Solo
      • 2011 Mt Assiniboine
      • 2010 Jasper & Mt Robson
  • Adventurer
  • Connect

How to stump Google

3/23/2016

0 Comments

 
Picture

​Have you ever wondered what isn’t on the internet? And if something isn’t available on the internet, does it mean the subject doesn’t exist? That nobody else thinks about it? And (this sounds ridiculous) but if something isn’t ‘google-able’, where, oh where, does one find out about it? 
​
When I stumped Google, I started thinking about these things. Here’s how it went.

I needed a word to describe ‘someone who inspires others’, and I came up with an ‘inspirationist’. Sounds reasonable to me, but I wasn’t sure whether it was a word or not. Not that I’m worried about that, but if it is a word, I wanted to know the definition and make sure that I was using it correctly. So I googled it, right? I mean, that’s what we do these days.

Well, Google just ground away with a blank screen and never produced anything. I mean, not anything. Blank screen. That’s it. So I tried again. Another blank screen. So I checked my internet connection. Yup, working. Tried again….ah ha… third time lucky. (And here I was thinking maybe I'd come up with an innovative word or idea!)

According to Merriam-Webster, an inspirationist is: one who holds a theory of, or belief in, inspiration. Very good. That’s the word I need.

But what about Google? What happened there?

If you’re a conspiracy theorist, you might think that Google (them) doesn’t want the rest of the world (us) to be, um, inspired. Heaven forbid we discuss inspiration with others – maybe even in person! -rather than sit at our electronic devices.

And an inspirationist? That’s you and me. We’re the one that inspire others – not our electronic devices. They’re just mediums for transmitting the message.

However, thanks to a few glitches, today I WAS inspired by a computer program. Inspired to go outside, breathe the rainy air, and escape this electronic device (for now). Thank you Google.

Hope you’re inspired to escape your device, too. And while you’re contemplating the wonderful world beyond your device, maybe think about those inspirationists – you and me – who, each in our own way, inspire others. (Who are also you and me).

 Happy inspiring!

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Hoof Prints on the Trails

    Updates from trails under hoof. Inspiration to get you out there.

    Archives

    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • Writer
    • Books >
      • Pack em Up, Ride em Out
      • Go Horse Camping
      • The Joys of Horse Packing
      • Rockin' Whitewater
    • Freelance Articles
    • Services
    • Funding Dreams
  • Rider
    • 2018 -2020 Trips >
      • 2020 Badger Pass 4
      • 2020 Palliser Pass
      • 2020 Mt Assiniboine 2
      • 2020 Morocco
      • 2019 Muskwa-Kechika
      • 2019 Telegraph Trail
      • 2018 Trips
    • 2016 - 2017 Trips >
      • 2017 Trans Canada Trail
      • 2017 Waterton 2
      • 2017 Writing-on-Stone
      • 2016 Crossing the Rockies
      • 2016 Brazeau 3
      • 2016 Badger Pass 3
      • 2016 Waterton 1
    • 2013 - 2015 Trips >
      • 2015 Barkerville
      • 2015 Badger Pass 2
      • 2014 Spatsizi 3
      • 2013 Cypress Hills & Grasslands
      • 2013 Kakwa
      • 2013 Spatsizi 2
    • 2010 - 2012 Trips >
      • 2012 Brazeau 1
      • 2012 Best of Banff
      • 2012 Pobokton Brazeau Nigel
      • 2012 Spatsizi 1
      • 2011 Willmore
      • 2011 Twintree Lake
      • 2011 Jasper & Willmore Solo
      • 2011 Mt Assiniboine
      • 2010 Jasper & Mt Robson
  • Adventurer
  • Connect