tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post1309299104683988632..comments2024-03-28T18:39:59.184-07:00Comments on SearchReSearch: SearchResearch Challenge (9/14/22): Can you find the characters from Moby Dick in other places?Dan Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13603209997260423532noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-18129299278916607472022-09-27T07:21:21.936-07:002022-09-27T07:21:21.936-07:00Good morning everyone,
I’m replying to the origin...Good morning everyone,<br /><br />I’m replying to the original post due to the fact that I didn’t redo my search based on the Wikidata hint.<br /><br />I initially searched for various combinations of [find character name fiction] or [search character books fiction]. Many of the suggestions refer to how to find a book title when you don’t remember the name such as “I know the cover was green and it had someone named Hagrid.” Those suggestions are great when looking<br />for a specific title but not so much looking for a list of other works with the same character name.<br /><br />One result pointed out that a tool we have repeatedly used in the past has an advanced search with a ‘character’ operator - <a href="https://www.worldcat.org/" rel="nofollow">WorldCat</a><br /><br />Drilling down with the parameters of their Fiction Finder gave me the results of 207 books with a character named Starbuck<br /><a href="https://experimental.worldcat.org/xfinder/FictionFinder?q=ch:Starbuck+NOT+ch:moby+dick&ffmt=book&startRec=0&searchType=advanced" rel="nofollow">https://experimental.worldcat.org/xfinder/FictionFinder?q=ch:Starbuck+NOT+ch:moby+dick&ffmt=book&startRec=0&searchType=advanced</a><br />A problem arose when I tried to search for a character named [Queequeg]. It returned zero results. Not even Moby Dick. That’s when I realized that it worked from summaries of the books and not the entire text.<br /><br />Rethinking about a new strategy, I went back to previous challenges we had looking for database search strategies. Google Public Data Explorer wasn’t helpful. Neither was this post “<a href="https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2020/11/searchresearch-11420-looking-for-data.html" rel="nofollow">SearchResearch<br />(11/4/20): Looking for data? Here are 3 Google data set sources</a>”<br /><br />This distracted me to just how many challenges have been about “<a href="https://searchresearch1.blogspot.com/2014/05/answer-four-six-small-challenges.html" rel="nofollow">Moby Dick</a>”<br /><br />krossbowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07877826327758153784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-81410964201942206052022-09-21T07:52:22.891-07:002022-09-21T07:52:22.891-07:00instructional & inspirational…
Newport News, V...instructional & inspirational…<br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/science/katherine-johnson-dead.html" rel="nofollow">Newport News, Va., precise trajectories,2016 -“Hidden Figures”</a><br />“I couldn’t wait to get to high school to take algebra and geometry,” Mrs. Johnson told The Associated Press in 1999.<br />"summa cum laude in 1937 with a double major in mathematics and French"<br /><br /><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nasa-hidden-figures-katherine-johnson-honors_n_59c834a2e4b01cc57ff2fa2e" rel="nofollow">Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility</a><br /><a href="https://www.space.com/reaching-for-the-moon-katherine-johnson-excerpt.html" rel="nofollow">Excerpt</a><br />remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-31993156487437009492022-09-20T18:21:37.959-07:002022-09-20T18:21:37.959-07:00Here is the ultimate “math girl”.
http://www.coll...Here is the ultimate “math girl”.<br /><br />http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-030618a-barbie-inspiring-women-doll-katherine-johnson.html<br /><br />Barbie Katherine accompanied me to a math conference. She was a big hit. After my talk, several attendees took photos of her. I told them, “Barbie used to have a convertible and a boyfriend. Now she has a good job.”<br />Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-26609308287604740912022-09-20T18:20:26.429-07:002022-09-20T18:20:26.429-07:00I have a general comment about this challenge. Sin...I have a general comment about this challenge. Since I mostly didn’t know what I was doing and got a lot of results with extraneous and irrelevant information, knowing to use the CTRL F key was a great help in finding the good stuff. That might seem obvious to most of you but I didn't know about it until a few years ago.Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-56320315803151730392022-09-20T16:00:31.995-07:002022-09-20T16:00:31.995-07:00clever humor — thanks - led to a new reading list?...clever humor — thanks - led to a new reading list? and database… (btw, I used dwarf mistletoe, poor choice)<br /><a href="https://sciencebookaday.com/2015/08/06/math-girls/" rel="nofollow">science book a day</a><br /><a href="http://bentobooks.com/mathgirls/" rel="nofollow">math girls… leave it to the Japanese</a><br /><a href="https://sciencebookaday.com/2019/04/08/wayfinding-the-science-and-mystery-of-how-humans-navigate-the-world/" rel="nofollow">Wayfinding</a><br /><a href="http://www.jeannecavelos.com/" rel="nofollow">Jeanne Cavelos</a><br />wonder where this one is headed?…<br />"ANOTHER APPEAL FOR HELP: I'm also looking for more experts in the fields of biotech, genetics, embryology, and obstetrics. If you're willing to answer various novel-related questions, please contact me."<br /><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/" rel="nofollow">The Internet Speculative Fiction Database</a><br /><a href="https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?3331" rel="nofollow">Cavelos</a><br /><a href="https://extension.umn.edu/plant-diseases/dwarf-mistletoe" rel="nofollow">…not on the ground, nor suitable for actual dwarfs — WK?</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-60184902408704850322022-09-20T14:47:33.248-07:002022-09-20T14:47:33.248-07:00remmij - That’s the book. According to the author’...remmij - That’s the book. According to the author’s web site: “I am a writer, editor, scientist, and teacher. I began my professional life as an astrophysicist and mathematician, teaching astronomy at Michigan State University and Cornell University, and working in the Astronaut Training Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center.”<br /><br />Her Facebook page contains some gardening advice: “When you bury a body cover it with endangered plants so it’s illegal to dig it up.”<br /><br />And a joke: “A man walks up to a librarian and asks, ‘Do you have any books on Pavlov’s dogs and Schrodinger’s cat?’ The librarian replied, ‘It rings a bell, but I’m not sure if it’s here or not.’”<br /><br />She looks like someone I should get to know better.<br />Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-78639012358093554892022-09-20T14:00:52.304-07:002022-09-20T14:00:52.304-07:00Golden Pole Star<a href="https://przekroj.pl/en/society/a-golden-pole-star-zygmunt-borawski" rel="nofollow">Golden Pole Star</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-83125461551951940082022-09-20T13:48:29.891-07:002022-09-20T13:48:29.891-07:00took a while to find… Mikołaj related - posted on ...<a href="https://i.imgur.com/BDa0W.jpg" rel="nofollow">took a while to find… Mikołaj related - posted on his fb</a><br /><a href="https://przekroj.pl/en/articles/feuilletons/we-could-all-use-an-octopus-teacher-mikolaj-golachowski" rel="nofollow">Octo, a teacher</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-66422482567315967352022-09-20T13:36:11.836-07:002022-09-20T13:36:11.836-07:00Enzo Bianco Avus - a different sort of white whale...<a href="https://www.autoblog.com/2022/06/26/one-of-one-white-ferrari-enzo/""" rel="nofollow">Enzo Bianco Avus - a different sort of white whale</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-66165465398176409242022-09-20T13:29:47.690-07:002022-09-20T13:29:47.690-07:00I thought it was 's Euro/GB HQ… am easily con...<a href="https://arquitecturaviva.com/works/apple-campus-2-en-proyecto-2" rel="nofollow">I thought it was 's Euro/GB HQ… am easily confused</a><br />enjoyed the piece by Bourdain… such a waste, but he must have believed it was time…<br /><i>"“It is no short hop to Antarctica, and no easy thing to see it the way it should be seen. The last un-fucked-up place on Earth.”"</i><br /><a href="https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/56368343/sample-gchq-mathematics-aptitude-test" rel="nofollow">short & long questions</a><br /><br /><a href="https://m.facebook.com/GolachowskiOZwierzolkach/videos/how-whales-change-climate/1559403137575717/?locale=pt_BR&_rdr" rel="nofollow">Golachowski, whales post</a><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=trphic+cascade&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab" rel="nofollow">Trophic cascades</a><br /><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leopard-seal-hunting-gentoo-penguin-also-snags-first-place-in-world-nature-photography-awards-180979715/" rel="nofollow">mortality play</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-23352699942302462362022-09-20T10:46:32.413-07:002022-09-20T10:46:32.413-07:00I’ve never really studied number theory but – this...I’ve never really studied number theory but – this one seems hard. I computed the differences between the consecutive powers and looked for a pattern or commonality, considering whether the change was positive or negative. Then I thought of the number of three-digit primes and seemed daunted. On second glance, if I understand the problem, p > 877. A little better.<br /><br />Thanks, but I don’t think I’ll be applying for a position there.<br /><br />Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-43022022335573582172022-09-20T09:46:47.103-07:002022-09-20T09:46:47.103-07:00mateojose1 - I never thought of using list of char...mateojose1 - I never thought of using list of characters- brilliant! I suppose I was thinking of the SERP as a list of sources but it is really the characters we are wanting to identify. Actually, the challenge asks us to find works of fiction but the characters seem to lead to that discovery.<br /><br />I was privileged to spend two weeks (virtually) with Miko last year and he is one of my heroes. Not just as a scientist but the reverence he has for the animals and the land he studies. He told us about the horrors of the whaling industry and then that there are whales alive today who remember it and they forgive us as their fellow mammals. Miko took us on a tour of the Arktowski station. He has been going to Antarctica for 20+ years.<br /><br />A famous chef did a show from there. It does have a coffee house.<br />https://explorepartsunknown.com/antarctica/episode-intel-from-antarctica/<br /><br />Not totally off topic since Antarctica and the Southern Ocean have come up in previous challenges. <br />Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-91879974874057891202022-09-20T09:40:05.177-07:002022-09-20T09:40:05.177-07:00bone tag
"In 2018, Scully's password to d...<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/x-files/images/e/e8/Queequeg%27s_name_tag.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100424103713" rel="nofollow"> bone tag</a><br />"In 2018, Scully's password to deactivate her house alarm is revealed to be Queequeg."<br /><a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/x-files/images/6/64/Queequeg_runs_from_Dana_Scully.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100424005834" rel="nofollow">moments before the plesiosaur-like creature encounter? or a white gator?… ambiguity</a><br />"Despite having been aware of the potential craziness that a dog being killed on television would probably elicit in viewer response, The X-Files' team of writer/producers have since joked that they brought Queequeg back in "Quagmire" just so they could have him be killed in a grisly fashion." as the South Park crew might say — ' they killed Queequeg - those bastards'remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-51788252196298749952022-09-20T09:23:31.268-07:002022-09-20T09:23:31.268-07:00I not only enjoy the specifics of an sRs challenge...I not only enjoy the specifics of an sRs challenge, but I like the unexpected things & directions that bubble up…<br />there is the "chaff from the wheat" thing, but the road less taken, or seen, is engaging too… causes less silo thinking…<br />how many ants can I count at the insectary during this multi-year, covid funds, funded study…? it's making me want to cry uncle…<br /><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/497577458813458402/?nic_v3=1a5NsqjtI" rel="nofollow">far ant</a><br /><a href="https://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/household/ants-house/ent-2013/" rel="nofollow">not aunts</a><br /><a href="https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1394091" rel="nofollow">mulling tedium while in a snit</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/x-files-clyde-bruckmans-final-831505/" rel="nofollow">Q was a dog…<i>"dog, Queequeg, who didn’t last even a season in The X-Files universe before he was eaten by a creature during an investigation …"</i></a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stDtcPoW5uk" rel="nofollow">X - Repose</a><br />ant trail —<br /><a href="https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Queequeg" rel="nofollow">"Queequeg0925@hotmail.com" <i><b>"Scully had called her father "Ahab" and he had called her "Starbuck."</b></i></a><br />fwiw, R.I.P. - "Queequeg was tragically killed and eaten by an alligator in 1996." & Peter Boyle – one of the greats<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=book+The+Science+of+the+X-Files&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-ab" rel="nofollow">was it science or REAL science?</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-65221625224034468642022-09-19T17:52:47.025-07:002022-09-19T17:52:47.025-07:00Found without a search engine: Some time ago someo...Found without a search engine: Some time ago someone gave me a paper and ink book, The Science of the X-Files. I looked in the index and found an entry for “Queequeg”. I found a reference for “sweet little Queequeg in ‘Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose’”. Then I resorted to an online search and it appears the epithet “sweet” was a bit of irony and Queequeg’s sad end was perhaps poetic justice.Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-31065067898915769482022-09-19T16:16:19.551-07:002022-09-19T16:16:19.551-07:00Agreed on how it would be tedious. (More Starbucks...Agreed on how it would be tedious. (More Starbucks, please?)<br /><br />Your idea of prefacing the search with "list of" seemed intriguing, so I tried it. And, after tweaking it a couple of times (list of characters named "Starbuck" "Queequeg" -"Moby Dick" -"Melville"), I got some promising results after looking through the entire SERP's first page (thanks again for the reminder): Though it still featured "Moby Dick" characters, I also saw references to "Battlestar Galactica," "The X-Files," and "Aquaman."<br /><br />So, I modified it further based on using both "list of" and the intext: operator (list of characters -"Moby Dick" -"Melville" -"Ishmael" -"Ahab" intext:("Starbuck" OR "Queequeg")), and got even better results, including two "Battlestar Galactica" characters with the callsign Starbuck, a character in the Vonnegut novel "Jailbird," a character in the puzzle game series "Professor Layton," "The Starbuck Chronicles," a character from the first "Mad Max" movie, a character from the "Lone Star" series, and an NBC detective show called "J.J. Starbuck." It wasn't complete (there was no mention of "The X-Files"), but it was longer than before.<br /><br />I had only gotten results for Starbuck, so I removed that and searched for just Queequeg (list of characters -"Moby Dick" -"Melville" -"Ishmael" -"Ahab" intext:Queequeg). And, I got the following results: A villain from "Aquaman," a character from the TV series "Voltron," a character in "Age of the Dragons" (which was a fantasy based on "Moby Dick"), a dog in "The X-Files," a "Metal Gear Solid" character, a submarine in "The Grim Grotto" (book 11 of the series "A Series of Unfortunate Events" / listed in season 3 of that TV series), and a minor character in the game "Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge."<br /><br />Were either of these complete? I doubt it. But, they gave the best results I'd gotten so far. And, I'm looking forward to the technique Dan shares. <br /><br />The scientist you mentioned (Mikolaj Golachowski) seems like a really interesting person, and like a book about his time in Antarctica and studying elephant seals would be a must-read. I also found out that the station he was stationed at (Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station) was named after a Polish meteorologist who came up with the concept of wind chill, who has several places in Antarctica named after him, and who has a medal awarded by the National Academy of Sciences named after him. Too, he fortunately left Poland in 1939 for a conference in the U.S. before Germany and the USSR invaded, so he missed out on the subsequent Nazi occupation (and the Soviet one that followed). Sadly, though, he was never able to return home. mateojose1https://www.blogger.com/profile/01451698070009188360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-43007373876747826662022-09-19T13:36:37.765-07:002022-09-19T13:36:37.765-07:00off subject, for mathlady
at the bottom - Sample q...off subject, for mathlady<br /><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/ccc68ffc-7c1e-11e9-81d2-f785092ab560" rel="nofollow">at the bottom - Sample questions from the GCHQ maths entrance test</a><br />example, all very British… written by David <i>BOND</i><br /><i>"Q2 — 353, 46, 618, 30, 877, 235, 98, 24, 107, 188, 673 are successive large powers of an integer x modulo a 3-digit prime p. Find x and p (without using a computer)."</i>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-72335298214666278512022-09-19T12:36:56.642-07:002022-09-19T12:36:56.642-07:00courtesy of mateojose… the hive mind
Starbuck peak...courtesy of mateojose… the hive mind<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/54%C2%B044'00.0%22S+36%C2%B012'00.0%22W/@-54.733333,-36.2,14482m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x6698ae4e66e7ed96!8m2!3d-54.733333!4d-36.2?hl=en" rel="nofollow">Starbuck peak</a><br /><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214936/https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:14486" rel="nofollow">USGS</a><br /><a href="https://www.ukclimbing.com/news/2016/11/venables_and_richardson_on_south_georgia-70814>Starbuck - climbing, not reading</a><br /><a href=" rel="nofollow">the author - Alexander Starbuck - Goo Books</a><br /><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=shb0vgEACAAJ&newbks=0&hl=en" rel="nofollow">also into Free Masonry</a><br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Alexander+Starbuck%22" rel="nofollow">Starbuck SERP</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-40231590040833534892022-09-19T11:35:09.231-07:002022-09-19T11:35:09.231-07:00The rocket sled photos are of John Stapp, reputedl...The rocket sled photos are of John Stapp, reputedly the uncle of one of my high school friends. We had Physics together.<br /><br />Those photos are in a book entitled Mathematics from the Life Science Library. My mother gave me that inspiring book when I was about 13 and it set me on my path. Thanks for reminding. I incorporated the book into a talk I gave and a woman in the audience told me she had the exact same experience.Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-43980797971268768542022-09-19T11:17:49.808-07:002022-09-19T11:17:49.808-07:00I found going through the results of these searche...I found going through the results of these searches somewhat tedious. It was difficult for me to cull the relevant matches. I wanted an orderly list, so I tried prefacing some of our searches with “list of” and the results were not what I wanted. I got a list of works by Anthony Starbuck, etc. I’m guessing that we have not yet found Dr. Russell’s “non-obvious” method. I have high hopes for that.<br /><br />Also irrelevant, there is a glacier and station in Antarctica with my grandmother’s family name. If you have any interest in Antarctica, check out Mikolaj Golachowski. Great scientist, greater human being.<br />Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-67490981190345801502022-09-19T10:11:52.362-07:002022-09-19T10:11:52.362-07:00Interesting and not related to Challenge. However,...Interesting and not related to Challenge. However, related to books, traditions and the passing of Queen Elizabeth.<br /><br />Today, I read that bees were informed. In a tradition of centuries. <br /><br />Searched for the book [Telling the Bees and Other Customs] and more links provided Ramon Gonzalezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16129830563029534511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-24283013060978517302022-09-18T16:03:02.174-07:002022-09-18T16:03:02.174-07:00fwiw… Queequeg may be Bono… or the Edge
also a SRS...fwiw… Queequeg may be Bono… or the Edge<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJsWWTpagUQ" rel="nofollow">also a SRS lament…</a>remmijhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17985809654574916217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-36701332242664413592022-09-18T15:06:22.523-07:002022-09-18T15:06:22.523-07:00Mathlady: Good points about the sources those resu...Mathlady: Good points about the sources those results appeared in (though I was only looking at the SERP). And, I guess I should've gone further down the list of results (it doesn't do much good to have 50 results there if I don't look at most or all of them), to see if there were others, like you did. Had I done so, I would've also noticed what you pointed out, namely that Queequeg and Starbuck also appeared in "The X-Files."<br /><br />Too, that was an interesting point about how Mt. Queequeg is in Antarctica. So, I did some looking and found out that there's a glacier in Antarctica named after "Moby Dick's" Starbuck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbuck_Glacier). I kind of doubt there are any Starbucks there--though, if there were, I imagine they would have excellent iced coffee.mateojose1https://www.blogger.com/profile/01451698070009188360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-53895658888334916522022-09-18T14:17:51.651-07:002022-09-18T14:17:51.651-07:00Great results. I originally intended to extend you...Great results. I originally intended to extend your successful strategies to the issue of Starbuck and Queequeg appearing together in a work of fiction. First, I tried to replicate your results.<br /><br /> [fiction intext:queequeg]<br /><br />yielded non-fiction works such as Encyclopedia Britannica and a character analysis of Queequeg. Non-fiction reviews can list fiction works even if the fiction works are not exactly found. Results were not necessarily fictional, but about fiction. Aha! Now I know what “fiction” in the query really means. <br /><br />Using [wikipedia queeqeg] and [wikipedia starbuck] gave your results and maybe a few additional ones. <br /><br /> [fiction -"Moby Dick" -"Melville" -"Ishmael" -"Ahab" intext:queequeg intext:starbuck]<br /><br />started off with numerous crossword clues. The names of Moby Dick’s characters must be common crossword solutions. The query resulted in few relevant results. How do I know if there are things out there that I am not finding?<br /><br />I did learn that Dana Scully’s childhood nickname was Starbuck and she had a dog named Queequeg. After he met a tragic end, Agent Scully used “Queequeg” in her email address and the password for her home alarm system.<br /><br />Interesting, but irrelevant: There is a Mount Queequeg in Antarctica.<br /><br />Google Books, which has been an invaluable research tool for me so many times, did not appear to be so useful here, which seems ironic because many of the desired results would be books.<br />Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953008377950396317.post-61821909189143166412022-09-17T11:21:44.412-07:002022-09-17T11:21:44.412-07:00Different coast, different cuisine:
https://www.m...Different coast, different cuisine:<br /><br />https://www.mobyskabob.com/<br />Mathladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05805035115941387152noreply@blogger.com