The Type Ahead Find

Is anybody else using the newest version of Mozilla?
I installed 1.2a last week, thinking that I’d play with it a little here and there, but it’s quickly replaced galeon as my browser of choice. Now, don’t get me wrong. Galeon is a fine browser. It’s a fine browser, Stuart, does lots of spiffy things, but it doesn’t have the type ahead find, Stuart.
You know that Jonny Wurster kid, the kid that does the backend for that other website? He’s a foreign kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don’t believe it.
Anyway, for his tenth birthday, all he wanted was a Burrow Owl. Kept bugging his old man. “Dad, get me a burrow owl. I’ll never ask for anything else as long as I live.” So the guy breaks down and buys him a burrow owl.
Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there’s the Wurster kid, looking up in the tree. I say, “What are you looking for?” He says “I’m looking for my burrow owl.”
I say, “Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick! Everybody knows the burrow owl lives. In a hole. In the ground. Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?” Now Stuart, do you
think a kid like that is going to know about the type ahead find?
You know what, Stuart? I like you. You’re not like the other people, here on the Internet.

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107 thoughts on “The Type Ahead Find”

  2. Heh. Dead Milkmen? Another obscure reference I understand. What’s the score now? Wheaton 2,113, Shell 28? (No, I’m not using the new Mozilla.)

  7. y’know, If I was an owl, I wouldn’t be burrowing, I’d be like, “hooo hooo I ain’t no burrowing owl, hoo hooo”

  10. burrow owls stink? man, if I was a real owl, I’d be like “hooo hooo, I ain’t no burrowing owl, they smell! hoo hooooo”

  18. OH MY GOD WIL!!! Finding this website a few weeks ago boosted my respect for you a LOT. You are a whole lot cooler than one might expect.
    But THIS? The Dead Milkmen???? Oh god, I think my respect just doubled. I haven’t even HEARD that album in over ten years.
    Amazing

  19. You know…..It’s hard to come up with a witty reply, when you can’t remember most of the lyrics to that damned song. Now I gotta go listen to the album again.

  20. OK I have never posted here, just vicariously read it, but I had to say thanks for making my day with the Dead Milkmen bit there. Hey, remember– Stuart was a daredevil, just like his ole man…
    This site is very cool. And now I will go back to my regularly scheduled program of work. I thank you for the great song in my head to collate to. I was told I could listen to my music at a reasonable volume while I collate.

  21. Wil
    Your just full of fun facts. I did not know that there was a owl called a Burrow Owl. Your just full of interesting info. As for your new browser, how could we get hooked up with that browser oh great and wise one? Also read the artical about you in the Star Trek Communicater. It was a fun read, just like your website.
    Your Fans In Seattle
    Terry

  23. Unh, my hed hurtz.
    Why the F is he STILL LOOKING for the DAMN Burrow Owl. He shoulda found that a while ago.
    Did i mis it?

  24. And to think some of us are just content to catch a little Mork and Mindy while drinking our Coors cool 64 ouncer…….I guess I’ll have to switch from publications from Pueblo to here =)

  25. The lyrics have taken over the blog now.
    I thought we were shot of them, but they’re back…
    *sigh*
    Wil’s obviously having a relapse, everyone.

  28. Wil,
    I know I know I saw da Burrow Owl in this Blog before, but I just searched all the archives and I CAN’T FIND IT. WTF? Are you playing funny games with my head Wheaton? Have PITY!
    AAARGH!
    Later.

  30. Ahhh…good old Dead Milkmen.
    When I was in high school, a friend and I tried to do this in the school’s “lip sync” show. We were told that since the song contained a reference to beer (“Throwing back a Coors 40 oz”), we couldn’t do it.
    But “Sex Shooter” was ok.
    Yeah, right!
    THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE QUEERS ARE DOING TO OUR SOIL!!!

  31. Wil,
    for once I must admit it, I am completly stumped by your post…..but on a good note you are posting.
    whooo whooo goes the owl,
    best to you and your family,
    until your next post……
    Matt……

  33. Mozilla is my browser of choice. I’ve been using it since it’s beginning…milestone 5 or 6, before that it wasn’t really a browser, just the Gecko engine.

  35. I would like to thank Google for helping me to understand this entry and for possibly increasing my level of cool (but probably not).
    Let’s all go to Des Moines.

  37. Glad to see you like Mozilla…. I’m running Netscape 7.0 and thankfully Moz addons work with it… however I cannot seem to make heads nor tails of the instructions… perhaps you can explain “Accel+/ (Find as you type) and Accel+’ (Find as you type links)” business???
    THANKS!
    ***THE BEEJ***

  41. Wil, I thought my wife and I were the only people that still knew about the Dead Milkmen!
    I am posting this comment using the Mozilla browser, a product that I think was made in a large underground installation near Des Moines — A U.S. city with a large underground homosexual population… Love to see references to the Dead Milkmen man, love em!
    Keep Smokin Banana Peels,
    Sef Tarbell
    Des Moines, IA

  42. Okay that was tooo weird- LOVE DM- but that song was one of the first my (now DH)and I listened to while dating..scary I know…and I used to call him Stuart..so the weird part is today is his birthday and last night we had some folks over for dinner/cake/etc and I wrote Stuart on his card
    ..havent called him that in YEARS..so then we ended up explaining the reference…and then todays entry…twilight zone! Which really just proves my theory that is truly is all about me.

  43. That Wil. I stop by his web site today, hoping for some of his usual Epic Tales Of Adventure. I get burrow owls. Burrow owls? At first, I think, “Moron. I Hate You, I Love You.” Then I Hate Myself for thinking that. After all, Wil is like God’s Kid Brother. He’s the man. He makes this Big Scary Place called the Internet feel like Beige Sunshine and fuzzy pink rainbows.
    I feel bad for my traitorous thoughts. I think, “Why, If I Had a Gun… maybe the Little Man In My Head would stop talking…” and I would be able to appreciate him better and be worthy of understanding his blog entry today.
    So, I take a walk around the room to clear my mind of unpure thoughts and think more deeply about Wil’s Words, and guess what happened? Yup. I Tripped Over The Ottoman. I thought, “Man, that was Plum Dumb of me to do. I gotta stop dreaming my Silly Dreams of understanding The Great Big Wil and watch where I’m going.”
    Life Is Shit that way. But, it proves a point. Don’t think negative thoughts about Mr. Wil Wheaton Dot Net or you’ll be feeling the heat of Belafonte’s Inferno! Okay, maybe I’m being a little bit dramatic, but I’m serious when I say that bad things will happen to you if you think bad thoughts about TV’s Wil Wheaton.
    But still… At The Moment, I feel like I’m missing Part 3 in the book trilogy “The Secret Of Life and other answers” that everyone has a copy of, but me. Out of all the people All Around The World, am I the only clueless one who doesn’t know who this Stuart guy is? (And what about this Johnny Wurster kid. Is there really a ten year old kid who runs the backend of the other website?)
    Is this How It’s Gonna Be with Wil’s blog entries? I hope not. I never get the obscure references. My Punk Rock Girl head hurts at trying to comprehend all the words and verses of The Conspiracy Song that it seems like all The Big, Sleazy loyal Wil fans sing. I need to take a break and listen to some Bleach Boys for a while and ponder the meaning of Wil’s entry, my Bitchin’ Camaro, My Many Smells, Wonderfully Colored Plastic War Toys, and other intellectual stuff.

  45. So I was at the fair buying a SNOWCONE and this guy’s HEAD came flying through the air and rolled about 40 feet past the concession stands…. I wonder if he was using Mozilla or not??

  46. I love Mozilla too. It basically changed the way I use a computer, and finally got me to dump Micro$oft for good.I highly recommend it to anyone who has a basic understanding of their computer.

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