Can You Google, “Google” on Wikipedia?
We saw, The Incredible Hulk over the weekend. Pretty damned awesome movie.
But you already knew that, didn’t you? Alrighty. Let’s move on. We’ll come back to Dr. Banner and his, ahem, hulkish alter-ego in a bit.
We’re moving. We’re buying a house and moving out of the City.
We initially saw the house and were impressed. We went back and saw it again. Measured some stuff. Checked some things we hadn’t been 100% on previously (example: we wanted to check the specs on the electrical power to the house). We felt even better about the house. So what’s the next step?
Call the bank?
Call the lawyer?
Nope — Google it. Wiki it.
Yup, before putting in an offer on a house, we looked it up on Google and Wikipedia. Not the house itself, of course, but the town and the village. The outerlying areas.
We looked up the school district. We followed links to westchester.gov and did Google searches for different restaurants, banks, supermarkets, etc. We punched in different destinations (my folks’ house, her folks’ house) to see how long it would take to drive to each.
Is this something other folks do, or are my wife and I just super-nerds?
And, if you’re making a major financial investment, do you really want to trust wikipedia.net to guild your way?
To be fair, we’ve also spoken to several folks about our new neighborhood and what we’re hearing matches up with what the ‘net has to say. But what if it didn’t? What if they told us to run screaming like our hair was on fire. Would we? Or would we tsk tsk and wave them away. “Wikipedia says you’re wrong.”
Which brings us back to Mr. Hulk.
We saw parents on either side of the marriage this weekend — dinner with mine, lunch with hers — and talked to both about The Incredible Hulk. We told my folks and her folks that we loved the movie. Loved it, yes. Their response?
“The reviews didn’t sound so good. Probably we’ll skip it.”
Getting scary out there, folks. At least, that’s what I read on Wikipedia . . .
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