See, but knowing that doesn’t make it any less funny.
My WAG: “Dissertation paper” isn’t just for dissertations, you know. OK, most people who aren’t using it for theses are using it for resumes and cover letters; but maybe a few are using it for wedding-related correspondence–some people would think their Special Day deserves archival-grade paper.
And weddings do lead to pregnancies (more often than doctoral defenses do, anyway :)). If even a few people used this paper for wedding correspondence, then bought a lot of pregnancy-related products from Amazon, that would look important to the software.
Now I’ll try to figure out what the hell I bought that makes Amazon think I would like a penguin-shaped humidifier.
My trouble is that recent purchases/ratings seem to be weighted MUCH more heavily than earlier ones. So, at the moment, I’m awash in recommendations for Star Wars novels and graphic novels because I rated a few of the graphic novel collections. The really interesting acid folk recommendations that came out of my purchase of a Circulus album? Lost forever, or at least buried so deep in the recommendations that I’ll never find them again.
I also wish that it wouldn’t use product views. I looked at a kids rideable triceratops toy that someone mentioned because it was frickin’ awesome, and now all it wants to show me is toys.
Finally, an observation: People who buy Raymond Chandler novels apparently only ever buy… other Raymond Chandler novels. o.O