Intriguing Irrelevancies

The Internet links us all to a vast array of information-sometimes more than we expect, and to sources we didn抰 know even existed. When searching for 憃nline dictionary?I pulled up a variety of 憃rdinary?dictionaries, and such sites as etymology dictionary (www.etymonline.com). Adding 慸esert?to my search query pulled up sites as diverse as:
Dream Dictionary (http://www.soulfuture.com/dream_dictionary/dream_dictionary_main.asp)
and The Astrodigital Online Dictionary of Meteoritics (http://www.astrodigital.org/astronomy/metdict.html)

Like a lot of people I sometimes get diverted from what I抦 doing by this kind of interesting link appearing in front of me, of which is entirely irrelevant to what I抦 doing. In this case, I looked up a definition of the word 慸esert?which I subsequently found, but in the end didn抰 end up using. My search had nothing to do with meteors called 慺ireballs?which are much brighter than normal meteors because they are roughly the size of peas, some even the size of a grain of sand. I love discovering this kind of trivia. Thankfully, using the Internet makes researching much faster so I can spare a few minutes to connect with interesting web sites, and still learn what seeing a desert means in a dream, before getting back to connecting with the facts I need to know today. You know the next time I see a very bright meteor, I may remember it is a 慺ireball? and why it is so bright.