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Oh, Internet

I know, I know.  It’s been a while.  It’s been snowing like we’re in New England or something, plus there have been boxes to move (long story – I didn’t move) and work to do and a new semester of grad school to start and WHEW!  It’s exhausting being a massive underachiever.  Underachiever because I don’t feel like I have a handle on anything PER SE, but I’m doing OK.  See?  It’s OK.  I’m not doing GRAND, mainly because I hate winter and because grad school is hard and because I’m not excelling in everything I do and touch.

But enough about me!  Let’s talk about my dog.  He’s adjusting to a new companion.  My parents’ dog Bailey came to live with us for a little while.  She’s about twice Jake’s size and three times his age.  They are getting along, however.  How could they not?  Look at that face!

thanksgiving 015

They are still getting used to each other, so I don’t have any hilarious videos of them playing yet, but they do some funny stuff.  I’ll save that for another post.

Since it had been since December since I visited my own website (for shame!) I decided to weed out the spam comments, since I can’t figure out how to turn my Askimet on (Blog Daddy, help me!), and I came across some fun ones.

from penislargementy.com
“Brim over I to but I dream the post should acquire more info then it has.”

–Had I know for to your comment earlier may have deleted some.

from granvillepolice.org
valium, xanax, ultram, accutane

–guess it’s hard times for the Granville Police.  Actually, it’s a real website, for a police force in a town called Granville, MA.  I’m sure some hacking is involved here, though their site is a little weird.  Not at all government-y.  Maybe a fake?  Who knows.

from thekochfamilyblog.com
aciphex, buy tramadol without priscription

–again, either the Koch family has fallen on hard times, unless their site got hacked or whatever.  Because I doubt they want to use pictures of their kids hanging Christmas ornaments to sell valium or whatever.  **Incidentally – I realize that “Hacked” is an antiquated term or whatever and I don’t care.  Correct me if you want to.  At least THAT would be a legitimate comment.

from home-businessreviews.com
“just became a member of this forum here”
“enjoy the environment around here”
“enjoy the quality of the posts”

–this is a really lame business tactic.  This is not a forum, nor is it an environment.  It is more like a dry and desolate desert, akin to something out of The Gunslinger, where you expect to see tumbleweeds at any time.  That’s my fault.  I’m just sayin.’

soulpitchhustle.com
auto insurance quotes

–Soul. Pitch.  Hustle.  That’s the most awesome name for a website ever.  I just don’t know why the website that calls itself “Da Urban Vehicle for Straight Raw Gritty Newz. From the Streetz to the Boardroom! ~It’s More Than A Lifestyle~” would want to sell me insurance.  Is this more of that internet tampering I’ve been hearing so much about?

paydaytown.com
The writer of www.notalwaysaboutmonkeys.com has written a superior article. I got your point and there is nothing to argue about. It is like the following universal truth that you can not disagree with: triangular sandwiches always taste better I will be back.

–this is a payday loan site.  It just gave me this funny mental image of a person standing in front of their fridge with their hands on their hips, saying “There’s no food in here!” and someone else saying, “Hold on a minute, let me go down to Payday Town to get some money.”  And then a song plays.  I do agree, however, that triangular sandwiches taste better.

genericwpthemes.com
Good post and this post helped me alot on my college assignment.  Say thank you for as your information.
(on kid stuck behind the couch post)

–if my personal opinion helped out some weird computer bug that had a college assignment about the “Kid Behind the Couch” post that went viral, OK by me.  Generic WP.  Whatevs.

largehamstercage.org
thanks, very useful information.  I have been looking for something like this for a long time.

–this comment was deposited on my review of “Harvard Man,” so I very much doubt that a real live person at LargeHamsterCage (which is actually a business that sells large hamster cages – with the tubes for the hamsters to run through and stuff) was surfing the old web and really needed my insights on a weirdo straight-to-DVD POS starring the guy from Entourage.

That’s all I’ve got for tonight, Folks.  I have ten pages of prose to polish, a ton of reading to do, and lots and lots of work to do.

I Have No Excuse – Also, My Opinion on That “Kid Stuck Behind The Couch” Video

I have no excuse as to why it has been so long since I’ve updated my poor, neglected blog.  Maybe it was the 20-plus page papers I had to write to finish out my first semester of graduate school.  Maybe it is the entire month’s worth of work that I neglected while I was writing said papers.  Maybe it’s because I have felt VERY uninteresting lately and haven’t wanted to bore you.

Obviously I have gotten over the last one.

As a writer, I prowl around the internet looking for interesting things to write about.  Aol is a surprisingly great source for some of the blogs I write for, as well as some entertaining nonsense that amuses me.  I ran across this opinion piece and figured you shouldn’t be deprived of MY opinion on the subject.

So there’s been this video zinging around the internet of a little kid who is stuck behind the family couch.  This article that I linked to above denounces the parents in the video for recording their kid’s discomfort for a few minutes before getting him out from behind the couch.  If that’s not bad enough, between the crazy amount of spam comments on the post, there are people sniping back and forth about how this is “child abuse” and one person even shares their personal tragedy of their parents taking a picture of them when they had bad poison ivy.  Others talk about how “real” fear involves the child being beaten, and that people really need to find a better way to spend their time than denouncing some parents who want to share a cute family moment with the entire world-wide internet.

Here is the video.  See for yourself.

I realize that I promised to share MY opinion on the subject – something well within my rights since this is, after all, my blog.  The problem is that people are so lame and stupid that it practically takes all the fight out of me.  It makes me want to throw up my hands and burrow down into the couch cushions.  Do I think it’s OK for people to put their personal family videos on the internet?  Yeah.  That’s kind of their prerogative.  Do I think that they have a right to put videos of their kids on the internet?  Again, that is their prerogative, as long as it is wholesome and all that.  Some of my favorite stuff on the internet involves cute kids saying cute things or cute cats with stupid captions.  In that way I am like 90% of the internet population.

So, sorry about me.  I don’t think the kid in the video above is in real distress.  I don’t think he’ll be traumatized by this event, nor do I think that his parents are bad parents for pausing to record a funny moment with their kid and to teach him to tell the truth when he gets into a sticky situation.

That’s what I think, Folks.  What do you think?

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Look Ma! I’m a Dot Com

Except I don’t sell anything or offer any service, unless you count me offering up my thoughts and feelings about things a service. I feel the need to really amp up content and stuff, so get ready for some heartfelt blogging from my end. On your end all expect is your utter adoration and devotion, and a link now and then.

I don’t really expect anything. A girl’s got to hope, right?

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