18 89% 28% 0mph NNE bar 30.12 steady windchill17 Imbolc
Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon
Opened up my e-mail program today and had 29 messages. A big morning for me is 5 or 6. What the hell?
Another lesson in the cyber world. There are bots that crawl the web seeking out certain words or phrases, then link their source to another web page. In some instances that’s google and can help others find your website if the title words you use resonate. In most instances and certainly the most annoying instances the links go back to such intriguing locations as Addiction Levitra, Texas Facts Auto Insurance, Mexico Amoxil and HCL Dosing Tramadol. Each one linked by some $%#@! algorithim to the words I had inadvertently used as the title for a post: damn it! A month or so ago I had a post that had the words body and flesh in it. This was about the earth and her products. You can imagine the links I got then. Cyber world folks call these ping backs.
I have had three ping backs out of hundreds that I kept, that is didn’t delete as spam. One came in from a website for the Teaching Company from whom I buy the occasional lecture course, another from the NFL website and a recent one from Paul Douglas, the WCCO weather guy and his Climate Change website. It’s a good thing wordpress has a straightforward, if not quick, way of eliminating ping backs.
In case you missed it–like you live in Singapore or Bangkok for instance–today is Super Bowl Sunday. I tried to find out much beer we consume on Super Bowl Sunday but according to the Beer Institute (I know, but there really is one.) it’s not possible to track single day consumption. A spokesman did say, “the Super Bowl is a good event in the ‘off season’ (cold months) to drive volume”
Each year I wonder why I watch football, yet, somehow, I’ve developed an interest and now have enough years watching to have a sense of historical perspective. That makes it, for me, much more interesting. So, yes, I’ll be there in my seat, though sans beer, sans snacks and sans favorite, though I lean toward the Giants just because they’re the underdogs.
Allison wondered if I plan to blog while in Hawai’i. Yep. Like football I’ve developed an interest in blogging, though this interest predates my football jones by quite a few years. I have three bookshelves of journals of various types and sizes. I imagine this habit came with mother’s milk, or should I say father’s ink and lead. Dad wrote a weekly column for the Alexandria Times-Tribune, Smalltown USA, for many, many years.
There is something about being able to read the breadcrumbs of your life, sprinkled out at various ages and stages. In some instances it’s revelatory, in others it’s “Oh, my god. What was I thinking?” I suppose its a similar feeling artists get from paintings and sketches made over many years. Or photo albums and all those home movies.