In honor of his being my 600^th commentor, I have devised a way to honor G. Murry. That is his is now a featured blog!

Yay!

So, I made a little banner and it appears at the top of my blog. It'll stay there for the week or until I get sick of it, whichever comes first.

Woohoo!

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In celebration of my 600^th comment by G. Murry of the House of the Future, I am giving out free link-love to him all week long without any consideration to what he posts.

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!

Unconditional link-love? HAHAHAHAAA!!!!

I am such a kidder. Link-love is never unconditional, baby.

But because you were number 600 with the revelation that "playa" in "Ugly Jerk-Playa" refers to the slang pronunciation of the word 'player' and not the Spanish word for 'beach' and also because of your generous outreach to the Muslim community, I offer this bit of linky-love.

Try not to spend it all in one place.

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In reverse, though.

I'm JEALOUS because Snoozey is nearing the 100K mark on hits while I'm nearing the 7.5K. I want to be nearing the 100K visitor mark! He's been blogging since 7/29/2003 and I started 9/8/2003. That's less that two months difference. What gives?

Which brings me to... I'm ANGRY because clearly you people are not doing your part. I have it on good authority* that I am still responsible for 75% - 95% of the visits to my site on any given day.

Look. I don't ask for much. Here is a list of YOUR responsibilities:

• Visit my site as often as you can from as many different computers and IPs as you can.
  
• Comment. I had regained a lead in posts over comments until late yesterday and I'm gaining again. You guys should be WELL in the lead by now.
  
• Vote for me for President. Your job should give you time to vote. You should use that time to vote. You should vote for me. November something. Mark your calendars.
  
• Buy me stuff. I got very few things from my Christmas list. You know where to find it. I'll put up my Amazon list soon and a paypal link. You are expected to contribute. Capisce?
  
• Get your friends to do the same. I don't care if you have to twist their arms. DO IT!

You better get crackin' because I'm watching now. Come on! Click something already! Click it again!

AGAIN!

Sheesh! I have to do everything myself!

* The International Compendium of Made-up Facts & Figures 2004 vol 137

Slanderous Update: Jim has pointed out several facts in his comments that lead me to two conclusions. 1) He is my evil, gay twin and 2) as such he is cheating. Stop reading his nefarious blog now because you're only encouraging him. Read here instead. Thank you.

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Kate might not be blogging for much longer. She needs to find a better host.

Kate! Mine is fatcow and I like them. Can they help you?

I'm not techie enough to help, but I hope someone comes through soon.

Update: Kate has found a new host. WHEW!

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Thanks to Suzie!

create your own visited states map

Update: I forgot that I've been to Massachusetts and I added Louisiana because I'm going there in less than a month for one of my half-marathons.

Update: Clancy has informed me that thanks to a couple of jaunts on 95N and the Jersey turnpike that I have actually been on Delaware's sacred ground. Imagine that!

Update: Boring Man reminded me that I've also been to Arizona.

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At Toby’s behest (CTRL+F, “Mark Steyn”), I read Mark Steyn’s article on gay marriage. By far most damning passage I would like you all to consider is this:

What happens when you tinker with that organizing principle – with instant divorce, common-law relationships, “partners”? Well, in Europe, as Brooks has noticed in another column, you wind up with 1.4 children per couple. Italian women whose mothers had six kids by the age of 23 now have one designer child at 39. In other words, the state’s interest in this question is as basic as it gets: on the evidence of the last 40 years, when society experiments with traditional family models, it winds up with no children – and thus, as Europe and Japan are discovering, no future.
[emphasis added]

The relationship of citizen to government is one of cause and effect. The government is the effect of individuals agreeing to work and live together completely as traders and the resulting social system is that of Capitalism. To the degree that by government sanction some violate that agreement, a state adopts a degree of tyranny and individuals, not groups, are enslaved.

Steyn’s comment is an obvious inversion of the causal relationship between government and citizen. The principle behind the remark is that the citizen exists to be governed. The result of following that principle is any variation of slave-nations in which the government grants permission to its citizens ‘the privilege’ of life. Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia. Cuba. Saddam’s Iraq.

What would Steyn propose if by consensus Americans experienced negative population growth? Breeding farms?

Step this way sir to do your civic duty. Semen here. Ballots here. Thanks and have a nice day!

Ma’am, our records show that you’re ovulating. Up in the stirrups, please. You will now serve your country with this turkey baster. That’s it. Way up in there where you’re good and fertile. We’ll be stopping by again in two weeks to see how you’re coming along. Have a nice day!

It’d be like the Handmaid’s Tale, except seed-collecting females might wear blue dresses from the Gap. And he calls himself conservative! I can’t really say I’m surprised, though.

I said it once and I’ll say it again, Democrats and Republicans are playing the same game and the prize is power. Gaining that power means fighting the idea that man can and must be free.

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At Toby’s behest (CTRL+F, “Mark Steyn”), I read Mark Steyn’s article on gay marriage. By far most damning passage I would like you all to consider is this:

What happens when you tinker with that organizing principle – with instant divorce, common-law relationships, “partners”? Well, in Europe, as Brooks has noticed in another column, you wind up with 1.4 children per couple. Italian women whose mothers had six kids by the age of 23 now have one designer child at 39. In other words, the state’s interest in this question is as basic as it gets: on the evidence of the last 40 years, when society experiments with traditional family models, it winds up with no children – and thus, as Europe and Japan are discovering, no future.
[emphasis added]

The relationship of citizen to government is one of cause and effect. The government is the effect of individuals agreeing to work and live together completely as traders and the resulting social system is that of Capitalism. To the degree that by government sanction some violate that agreement, a state adopts a degree of tyranny and individuals, not groups, are enslaved.

Steyn’s comment is an obvious inversion of the causal relationship between government and citizen. The principle behind the remark is that the citizen exists to be governed. The result of following that principle is any variation of slave-nations in which the government grants permission to its citizens ‘the privilege’ of life. Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia. Cuba. Saddam’s Iraq.

What would Steyn propose if by consensus Americans experienced negative population growth? Breeding farms?

Step this way sir to do your civic duty. Semen here. Ballots here. Thanks and have a nice day!

Ma’am, our records show that you’re ovulating. Up in the stirrups, please. You will now serve your country with this turkey baster. That’s it. Way up in there where you’re good and fertile. We’ll be stopping by again in two weeks to see how you’re coming along. Have a nice day!

It’d be like the Handmaid’s Tale, except seed-collecting females might wear blue dresses from the Gap. And he calls himself conservative! I can’t really say I’m surprised, though.

I said it once and I’ll say it again, Democrats and Republicans are playing the same game and the prize is power. Gaining that power means fighting the idea that man can and must be free.

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I'm like David, in that I've always wanted to live in NYC. I've visited it and I am sold. It's a wonderful place... to visit apparently.

I will pay 50.8% more in state and local taxes in New York than I will in other states.

I can't believe they're doing that to my city.

*sigh*

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I'm like David, in that I've always wanted to live in NYC. I've visited it and I am sold. It's a wonderful place... to visit apparently.

I will pay 50.8% more in state and local taxes in New York than I will in other states.

I can't believe they're doing that to my city.

*sigh*

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So, Tim knows how to work his audience, doesn't he? (See comments here)

So, of course I went to check out his blog wherein I found the following in the very first post on the page:

(In other words, it's okay if some people are considered inferior, as long as their masters are kind.)

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So, Tim knows how to work his audience, doesn't he? (See comments here)

So, of course I went to check out his blog wherein I found the following in the very first post on the page:

(In other words, it's okay if some people are considered inferior, as long as their masters are kind.)

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The REASON I'm not leaving the office right now is because I want to finish my Financial Management homework before I go. Now, I realize that in order to finish, I have to start, but I'm putting that in the "details" category while I handle the broad strokes over here on my blog.

One thing I would like to do right now is put links to people I didn't know until recently (the last couple of weeks-ish) thanks to me trying to find who is linking to me and why. So, without further ado:

Juggernaut of Love
Eric's World
The Rob Log: Life the Way I Think You Should See It
Small Dead Animals
biliousyoungfogey
Blood and Oranges (Do not click on this link.)
Pragmatic Conservatism
Drama Queen

Also, I added House of the Future to my blgoroll because I've been up in his business lately and he seems cool and also because I am a flibbertigibbet. What? The President can be a flibbertigibbet. I promise I won't abuse my control over the FBI for my flibbertigibbeting, though. (Guess what my favorite word of the moment is.)

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The REASON I'm not leaving the office right now is because I want to finish my Financial Management homework before I go. Now, I realize that in order to finish, I have to start, but I'm putting that in the "details" category while I handle the broad strokes over here on my blog.

One thing I would like to do right now is put links to people I didn't know until recently (the last couple of weeks-ish) thanks to me trying to find who is linking to me and why. So, without further ado:

Juggernaut of Love
Eric's World
The Rob Log: Life the Way I Think You Should See It
Small Dead Animals
biliousyoungfogey
Blood and Oranges (Do not click on this link.)
Pragmatic Conservatism
Drama Queen

Also, I added House of the Future to my blgoroll because I've been up in his business lately and he seems cool and also because I am a flibbertigibbet. What? The President can be a flibbertigibbet. I promise I won't abuse my control over the FBI for my flibbertigibbeting, though. (Guess what my favorite word of the moment is.)

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It's late at night. I'm about 8 hours past my bedtime at this point, I think. ok. Maybe not 8, but I do know that whatever time it is (yes, I know I can look in the bottom right-hand corner of my screen, thank you.) it's already tomorrow, I am not planning on going home yet (yes, I'm still at the office) and I am supposed to be in bed yesterday not too long after the sun goes down.

So, I've become entirely too dependent upon trackbacks to tell me who's linking to me. First of all, Boi from Troy is blowing out my trackbacks with all those pings. I might have a Suzie fit about it in a second. Oh yeah. That's right. I'm talking about you.

Just kidding. I take the linky-love anyway I can get it, baby.

That's how we win elections, isn't it?

So, I found this really funny post over at The Rob Log

Hello, uptight Middle-aged woman reading the New Yorker. I am not trying to read the cartoons over your shoulder, no matter what it looks like. So stop sniffing at me.

[...]

Hello again, New Yorker woman. Stop sniffing. I know I smell mountain-fresh, and you're starting to weird me out.

[...]

Oh, and New Yorker Woman? If you sniff at me one more [f!bombing] time I will become scarier than Scary-Looking Puerto Rican Guy with the Bulging Eyes. I will disembowel you with the pen I stole from work and wrap your intestines around the pole in the center of the car, which is now unused since Alec Mapa left for Queens. Don't push it lady!

But I found that site and that very humorous (Did I say thanks? Thanks!) post by way of... umm... somewhere. Did I mention it's past my bedtime? Technoratty or something.

Anyway, I have devised a new way to find out who's linking to me:

1) Check trackbacks.
2) Check NZ Bear.
3) Check Techno-something-about-a-made-up-word-but-it's-ok-this-time
4) Check referrer logs
4a) Site Meter
4b) That other site meter thing I use, which I like better anyway.

It's pretty complicated, but I've found that I do find some nifty things in my vanity trolling.

Which reminds me of a funny thing that happened the other night, which I will tell you about before I stop this post.

Scene: At a party.

Our Favorite Piano Pedagogue (OFPP): I haven't read your blog in a while.

Trey Givens: When did you read it last?

OPFF: I don't know. A couple of days ago.

Trey Givens: A couple of days? I write a bunch of stuff. Something big probably happened since then and now it's old news!

OFPP: I have a job you know. [We work together - Trey, again.]

Trey Givens: Oh yeah. (Turning to another guest) All she does all day is read my blog, you know.

This garners chuckles from the audience who is undoubtedly enthralled by my online life.

OFPP: Pauses to let the air clear and raises her glass slightly. Yes, that's true. But no matter how much I read your blog, it will still be less than you read it. And then she takes a sip from her glass to the roars of laughter.

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It's late at night. I'm about 8 hours past my bedtime at this point, I think. ok. Maybe not 8, but I do know that whatever time it is (yes, I know I can look in the bottom right-hand corner of my screen, thank you.) it's already tomorrow, I am not planning on going home yet (yes, I'm still at the office) and I am supposed to be in bed yesterday not too long after the sun goes down.

So, I've become entirely too dependent upon trackbacks to tell me who's linking to me. First of all, Boi from Troy is blowing out my trackbacks with all those pings. I might have a Suzie fit about it in a second. Oh yeah. That's right. I'm talking about you.

Just kidding. I take the linky-love anyway I can get it, baby.

That's how we win elections, isn't it?

So, I found this really funny post over at The Rob Log

Hello, uptight Middle-aged woman reading the New Yorker. I am not trying to read the cartoons over your shoulder, no matter what it looks like. So stop sniffing at me.

[...]

Hello again, New Yorker woman. Stop sniffing. I know I smell mountain-fresh, and you're starting to weird me out.

[...]

Oh, and New Yorker Woman? If you sniff at me one more [f!bombing] time I will become scarier than Scary-Looking Puerto Rican Guy with the Bulging Eyes. I will disembowel you with the pen I stole from work and wrap your intestines around the pole in the center of the car, which is now unused since Alec Mapa left for Queens. Don't push it lady!

But I found that site and that very humorous (Did I say thanks? Thanks!) post by way of... umm... somewhere. Did I mention it's past my bedtime? Technoratty or something.

Anyway, I have devised a new way to find out who's linking to me:

1) Check trackbacks.
2) Check NZ Bear.
3) Check Techno-something-about-a-made-up-word-but-it's-ok-this-time
4) Check referrer logs
4a) Site Meter
4b) That other site meter thing I use, which I like better anyway.

It's pretty complicated, but I've found that I do find some nifty things in my vanity trolling.

Which reminds me of a funny thing that happened the other night, which I will tell you about before I stop this post.

Scene: At a party.

Our Favorite Piano Pedagogue (OFPP): I haven't read your blog in a while.

Trey Givens: When did you read it last?

OPFF: I don't know. A couple of days ago.

Trey Givens: A couple of days? I write a bunch of stuff. Something big probably happened since then and now it's old news!

OFPP: I have a job you know. [We work together - Trey, again.]

Trey Givens: Oh yeah. (Turning to another guest) All she does all day is read my blog, you know.

This garners chuckles from the audience who is undoubtedly enthralled by my online life.

OFPP: Pauses to let the air clear and raises her glass slightly. Yes, that's true. But no matter how much I read your blog, it will still be less than you read it. And then she takes a sip from her glass to the roars of laughter.

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I think I hurt myself laughing at this.

I can't stop looking at it. What's wrong with me?

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oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap...

I think I hurt myself laughing at this.

I can't stop looking at it. What's wrong with me?

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I was reading this piquant post over at the Binary Circumstance and noted this interesting bit of statistical data:

[Howard Dean] was open-minded enough to realize that the "no control whatsoever" was working pretty OK by Vermont folks (with the second-lowest crime rate in the nation), so obviously "guns" aren't the problem, it's "bad people with guns".

Critics and advocates of gun control may be quick to point out that Vermont is very small compared to other states and does not have as much densely-populated, urban areas as other states.

But I still found it interesting and will maintain that this does at least hint that there is a connection between reduced crime and the amount of freedom with which the citizens bear arms.

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I was reading this piquant post over at the Binary Circumstance and noted this interesting bit of statistical data:

[Howard Dean] was open-minded enough to realize that the "no control whatsoever" was working pretty OK by Vermont folks (with the second-lowest crime rate in the nation), so obviously "guns" aren't the problem, it's "bad people with guns".

Critics and advocates of gun control may be quick to point out that Vermont is very small compared to other states and does not have as much densely-populated, urban areas as other states.

But I still found it interesting and will maintain that this does at least hint that there is a connection between reduced crime and the amount of freedom with which the citizens bear arms.

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Fortunately, my presidency will permit me more travel opportunities.

create your own visited country map

For the record, there are THREE countries there: US, Peru, and Bahamas. So there!

Thanks, Boi from Troy!

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Fortunately, my presidency will permit me more travel opportunities.

create your own visited country map

For the record, there are THREE countries there: US, Peru, and Bahamas. So there!

Thanks, Boi from Troy!

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Now I'm mad at GW Bush again. I just heard how he didn't do jack to keep the Mars Rover from stopping what it was doing. And he wants to go build a base on the Moon? Oh, sure, sign me up for that one.

I'll stick to my own moon base, thank you.

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Now I'm mad at GW Bush again. I just heard how he didn't do jack to keep the Mars Rover from stopping what it was doing. And he wants to go build a base on the Moon? Oh, sure, sign me up for that one.

I'll stick to my own moon base, thank you.

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I am a medal winner, y'all.

Skill Badge: Expert Wingman

The most valuable ally any drunk can have, this heroic hooch head will distract, disempower and, yes, romantically engage the hideous sidekick so his pal may seize an alluring prize.

Also, I'm the proud bearer of the Vermouth Wings! I actually have stories related to this that might one day interfere with my presidential campaign.

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I am a medal winner, y'all.

Skill Badge: Expert Wingman

The most valuable ally any drunk can have, this heroic hooch head will distract, disempower and, yes, romantically engage the hideous sidekick so his pal may seize an alluring prize.

Also, I'm the proud bearer of the Vermouth Wings! I actually have stories related to this that might one day interfere with my presidential campaign.

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