18\u00a0 89%\u00a0 28%\u00a0 0mph NNE\u00a0 bar 30.12 steady windchill17\u00a0 Imbolc<\/p>\n
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Opened up my e-mail program today and had 29 messages.\u00a0 A big morning for me is 5 or 6.\u00a0 What the hell?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another lesson in the cyber world.\u00a0 There are bots that crawl the web seeking out certain words or phrases, then link their source to another web page.\u00a0 In some instances that’s google and can help others find your website if the title words you use resonate.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Each one linked by some $%#@! algorithim to the words I had inadvertently used as the title for a post:\u00a0 damn it!\u00a0\u00a0 A month or so ago I had a post that had the words body and flesh in it.\u00a0 This was about the earth and her products.\u00a0 You can imagine the links I got then.\u00a0 Cyber world folks call these ping backs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I have had three ping backs out of hundreds that I kept, that is didn’t delete as spam.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It’s a good thing wordpress has a straightforward, if not quick, way of eliminating ping backs.<\/p>\n
In case you missed it–like you live in Singapore or Bangkok for instance–today is Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0 I\u00a0tried 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.\u00a0 A spokesman did say, \u201cthe Super Bowl is a good event in the \u2018off season\u2019 (cold months) to drive volume\u201d<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 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\u00a0because they’re the underdogs.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Allison wondered if I plan to blog while in Hawai’i.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Like football I’ve developed an interest in blogging, though this interest predates my football jones by quite a few years.\u00a0 I have three bookshelves of journals of various types and sizes.\u00a0 I imagine this habit came with mother’s milk, or should I say father’s ink and lead.\u00a0 Dad wrote a weekly column for the Alexandria Times-Tribune, Smalltown USA, for many, many years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There is something about being able to read the breadcrumbs of your life, sprinkled out at various ages and stages.\u00a0 In some instances it’s revelatory, in others it’s “Oh, my god.\u00a0 What was I thinking?”\u00a0 I suppose its a similar feeling artists get from paintings and sketches made over many years.\u00a0 Or photo albums and all those home movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
18\u00a0 89%\u00a0 28%\u00a0 0mph NNE\u00a0 bar 30.12 steady windchill17\u00a0 Imbolc \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Crescent of the Winter Moon Opened up my e-mail program today and had 29 messages.\u00a0 A big morning for me is 5 or 6.\u00a0 What the hell?\u00a0 Another lesson in the cyber world.\u00a0 There are bots that crawl the web seeking out certain … Continue reading Bloggin with Palm Trees<\/span>