Three Strikes
I suppose the right thing to do when you have a personal website is love thy visitors; never chide them for peculiar behavior, unless of course it is discernibly malicious. Not unless you want to be a PR 3 until your hosting runs out, and you move on to another hobby, like playing jarts.
Alas, being an avowed statswhore, I cannot help but be amazed, befuddled, and on occasion dismayed when I see the work of linkspammers–of late mostly exas-tay oldem-hay oker-pay sites–which bring all manner of obviously confused and truly bizarre visitors to my site.
And then I see something like this.
- Windows ME. Lord, have mercy on this poor bastard.
- Okay… Cancel #1. How DARE someone look at my website with Opera 5.11.
- It came from a linkspammer site. Good grief. Surf porn, man. If you want to gamble that bad, take a trip to Reno or whatnot.
Its okay if you come back, but please, for the love of God, get it together.
I’m watching you.
15 Missives So Far
01 xvdxf said on Mon Aug 15 4:53:09 EDT
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02 Mad said on Mon Aug 15 7:49:42 EDT
Poor guy must think the internet and puters in general are terrible. That set up would convince me to leave IT forever. :p
03 josh said on Mon Aug 15 8:05:51 EDT
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Not you, Crazy Polish Guy. You can come and post your wacky UTF-8 whenever you want.
04 Gone Away said on Mon Aug 15 8:29:54 EDT
It is good for us to realize occasionally that not all have discovered the path to enlightenment. Let us take pity on the Firefox-challenged and be gracious in our scorn of those who fell for once-much-hyped operating systems.
Mind you, I say that as a Win98 user...
05 Andrew Kaufmann said on Mon Aug 15 9:40:23 EDT
That's a nice looking stats package -- which one is it?
06 Jeremy said on Mon Aug 15 13:39:40 EDT
The Windows ME person is me. Unfortunately, for now I have no choice in the OS or browser (IE) as it's my parents house and I'm here for the summer.
Sorry that you had to waste an entire article on all of though. I wish you would post better articles like before.
07 josh said on Mon Aug 15 14:43:05 EDT
Clive - Win98 is not nearly as dreadful as ME.
ME was a turd-polishing of the worst kind, so I have a built-in sneer for it whenever I cross its path.
Andrew - its called bbclone, and it is a php-page specific counter.
Jeremy - They can't all be sheer genius, so I try to make some of them amusing.
08 freak2532 said on Mon Aug 15 17:41:47 EDT
I had ME at one point for about a year and hated every day of it(although, i had no choice in it). Its been awhile though. I'm a hardcore dedicated Windows 2000 user. Bought XP awhile back but sold it to a friend and went back to 2000.
09 Gone Away said on Tue Aug 16 19:43:50 EDT
By the way, just noticed that it says PR 4 on my little FF PR meter, Josh.
10 josh said on Tue Aug 16 23:19:10 EDT
Yep. Its been PR:4 for about 3 months now, actually. The "Stuck at PR:3" thing was just a theory of mine about where most people can successfully stop caring about such things. Once you're a 4, you're locked in.
11 Mark said on Sat Aug 20 16:30:43 EDT
Mac OS X and Firefox here, the perfect one-two punch!
YOU HAVE JARTS?? Can we play with them in here. I promise not to put anyone's eyes out. Promise!
BTW, I thought this WAS a porn site.
12 josh said on Sat Aug 20 16:41:59 EDT
Yes, I confess; the name was intended as one-quarter entendre.
If you can't be brilliant, you might as well be titillating.
13 Mark said on Sun Aug 21 17:14:28 EDT
"titillating"
There you go again with your double entendres.
14 The roots of racism said on Mon Aug 29 13:59:33 EDT
Program on the emergence of civilization.
"14 species of large animals capable of domesitcation in the history of mankind.
None from the sub-Saharan African continent.
13 from Europe, Asia and northern Africa."
Favor.
And disfavor.
They point out Africans’ attempts to domesticate the elephant and zebra, the latter being an animal they illustrate that had utmost importance for it's applicability in transformation from a hunting/gathering to agrarian-based civilization.
The roots of racism are not of this earth.
Austrailia, aboriginals:::No domesticable animals.
The North American continent had none. Now 99% of that population is gone.
Organizational Heirarchy
Heirarchical order, from top to bottom:
1. MUCK - perhaps have experienced multiple universal contractions (have seen multiple big bangs), creator of the artificial intelligence humans ignorantly refer to as "god"
2. Perhaps some mid-level alien management –
3. Mafia (evil) aliens - runs day-to-day operations here and perhaps elsewhere ("On planets where they approved evil.")
Then we come to terrestrial management:
4. Chinese/egyptians - this may be separated into the eastern and western worlds
5. Romans - they answer to the egyptians
6. Mafia - the real-world interface that constantly turns over generationally so as to reinforce the widely-held notion of mortality
7. Jews, corporation, women, politician - Evidence exisits to suggest mafia management over all these groups.
Survival of the favored.
Movies foreshadowing catastrophy
1986 James Bond View to a Kill – 1989 San Fransisco Loma Prieta earthquake.
Journal: 10 composition books + 39 megs of text files
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