I am avoiding packing by wasting time on today’s blog post. At least I have a cool experience to relate. I saw, live and in person, the legendary Wienermobile. Words and photos do not do justice to the awesomeness that it represents. The Wienermobile has been an obscure icon until raised to legendary status by Dave Barry, the pullet-surprise winning columnist, and thanks to the Internet, you can even read it here before the lawyers make it go away. I took three photos with my mobile phone.
It’s times like this I actually wish my mobile phone didn’t have a shit camera. Still, it’s better than nothing.
I got a Google Alert today, as I often do, when my name appears somewhere new in the Google search engine. Most of those entries are either not me (the photographer, the stock scam artist, the musician, and so on) or updates to profiles at various sites. Today’s match was a site that estimates the worth of your site based on your site’s Google rank. It said darsys.net was worth about $48,000 (hahahaha) and darsys.com was worth $42,000 (still laughing), and my work is worth $40,000. I am not sure what the scam is, but it has to be one since they think panthershockey.net is worth $45,000 and Umbrella Hat Society is worth $49,000. I know the traffic levels of these sites and relative worth of that traffic. Those numbers are absolute rubbish and meaningless. But it’s fun, so plug in your own site. I was unable to get any site below $40,000 no matter how obscure. If anyone wants to buy my domains for that sum of money, let’s talk. (I’ve typed in domains that don’t even exist and get random numbers in the $40k to $50k range.)
I want to thank Dan for this URL which is a compendium of cool signs from the Tokyo subway. This is for Liz and Maury especially because I know you’ll appreciate it being subway geeks like me. The site is in Japanese and will not display properly if you don’t have the appropriate character set installed, but if you click on each picture, you get a larger version with English on it as well. The blue box under each picture is the “back” button. This isn’t a joke URL and is the real Tokyo Metro official website which makes it all the more double-plus awesome.
Everyone needs a story of revenge. I am not referring to Kenny, either. I’ve mentioned LameBook before but this is the best post I’ve ever seen there. Maybe one of the best anywhere. It’s just perfect. I want to be friends with this guy. He’s awesomely clever. It’s the perfect crime.
I have discovered I have been blocked by someone I thought was my friend. Most confusing. Her loss I suppose. Today is the first day of winter. I guess that’s appropriate.