Nothing Much

As of yesterday morning (Sunday) Sitemeter said I had an average per day visiter count of 14 visits (which is different from pageviews for those of you who aren’t familer). 

Saturday’s count was a bit higher than usual, people searching for information on the chicken jerky caution.  Some of the search terms were a bit odd, but not too weird.  I didn’t think much of it.

Sunday morning I was catching up on Facebook and came across reference to a “Blue Buffalo Recall” related to the chicken jerky caution and went WTH, there’s no recalls related to that?!  Did some digging, and discovered that someone was spreading rumors.  Well, that always annoys me so I posted on it. 

According to Sitemeter I had 94 visitors yesterday, almost all of them coming in after I posted the above mentioned post.  Assume 14 or so are my usual visitors (the large majority of which I can thank the GunBlogBlackList for, THANK YOU!), and holy cow.  Basically all of them came in via search engine searching for information on a Blue Buffalo recall.  A few came in via Facebook, at least two different folks linked to me there (it appears anyway, if any of you reading this came via Facebook I’d really like to know WHO and WHERE I was linked too please).

I’m shocked.  A check of Google puts me in the front page for most variations of “Blue Buffalo Chicken Jerky Recall” as search terms.  The rest are all reposts of the spam message that went around Facebook yesterday.  Hopefully the large majority of those folks went away with the tools to figure out if there was a recall now, and in the future, so they won’t be caught believing spam again.

Brigid over at Home on the Range did up a very nice post on the power of scents on your memory.

I can’t do nearly as nice a post, but one scent hit me:

Then the smell of a hospital, a smell I hate to this day, watching someone become more and more body and less and less self, until the self was so wrapped up in pain all that was left was the body, wasting away, releasing its scent to the room.

When I was 15 I watched my dad’s mother waste away in a nursing home, her mind long gone to Alzheimer’s, because my uncle refused to allow the machines to be unhooked, and yet he never once came to see her while she was there, either before her mind totally went or after.  To this day the smell of a nursing home (not that much different than that of a hospital) triggers a “RUN AWAY” reflex I don’t think I’ll ever get over.

I’ve lots of positive scents in my memory, but it was just about this time of year when she finally passed away, so it struck me.

I normally hate getting Christmas stuff before Thanksgiving, but I’ll forgive Think Geek for this one.

I want these holiday lights.

And these holiday cards (though I don’t think I’d dare send them to my reletives)

and one of these t-shirts….

Warning, if you’ve never browsed Think Geek before, and you have a geeky side at ALL, be prepared to be tempted to spend lots and lots….

And I quote:

Then the stupid doubled-down. The tech monkeys at the place where the special-giving-stuff computer physically lives couldn’t figure out how to pull a small box out of a slot, insert a new box that looks just like it into the now empty hole, and press a button to trim and shape and form that part to behave as it’s supposed to. Really, they made a monkey fucking a football look dignified, elegant, and capable of all sorts of rocket surgery.

cause I wanted to post on something they’d done a great write up on, but either their blog is wonky this morning, they’ve converted to Islam and decided to help spread the good news, or they got hacked?

Edited: and since I’m sure they’ll fix it as soon as they figure it out (unless I’m right about the convert to Islam thing), here’s a screen grab of the current page:

To all the Veterans out there.

Weekend Pundit linked to a page where someone asked for differences between the US and other countries, things that really struck those folks when visiting the USA.  So of course I had to go read.  I am less than halfway through the page, and about to be late for work lol, but I had to comment on this one, less than  halfway through the page, and its been repeated 4 times already with mimimal variations:

there is police everywhere in the US and they are not friendly or helpful, yet they display slogans like “protect and serve” without a hint of irony on their cars. also: they drive like complete idiots.

Yah, its bad when the non-citizens notice it that clearly too.

Non Sequitur

Someone from JPMorganChase found my Spam and Scam week post searching for information on cscalllog.com.  Hope it helped!

(whats odd is I can’t get my blog to come up in Google using that set of search terms.  Oh well!)