Peruvian Nights and Jamaican Days

TRACKERS AND FORTUNE COOKIES

I keep track of visits to my blog by monitoring the embedded trackers I have about twice per week. I got a new one recently. It not only records visits to this blog, but also to which entry someone is directed by Google or Yahoo or whatever. My most popular entry, to date, is as follows:

Friday, June 06, 2003


WARNING!!! THIS PAGE CONTAINS NO JAMAICAN OR PERUVIAN PORN, WHATSOEVER

So these are all searches people did on Google, Yahoo, MSN or some other search that led them to my blog. Suddenly, it's all about the Jamaican porn..and dog-pimp costumes..

-"Jamaican porn movies"
-"jamaican porn" (twice)
-"jamaican porn industry"
-"jamaican nights"
-"jamaican porn" (again)
-"jamaican themed graphics"
-"pimp costume for your dog ebay"

-m

# posted by m @ 6/6/2003 10:26:29 PM

(I think I'm looking at another banner day, now..)

Dog pimp costumes?!?

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The other day, I found a fortune in my coat pocket. From a fortune cookie. It reads: "Quality counts and you've got it." I can't remember where I got this one - I have a tendency to keep these things and stick them to my wall - but I remember I got it when I was reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Serendipity. I laughed (privately, so as not to have to explain), when I got that one. After old Pirsig goes on for 400 pages about QUALITY®, here, wrapped in a concoction of egg whites, sugar, salt, butter, flour, and vanilla, is a small slip of white paper informing me that whatever the Christ it is, I have it. Splendid.

Trusting in the serendipitous splendor of the World Wide Web, I enter the lucky numbers, from said fortune, into a Google Image search. I find:



An image of Dale. Which is somewhat appropriate for this time o' year, since, when we were very little tykes, my sister and I would play this silly little game where we would hide this decrepit old Dale (or maybe it was Chip) Christmas tree ornament somewhere in the tree and make the other one find it.

I also find:

An adorable picture of a massive female Czech weightlifter:



Some weird brick game picture that spells out "2-1-3," which was the number of my freshman dorm room:



And...well...whatever this is:



-m