In Other Words

Bunions and Onions

So far I’m proud to say that I single handedly more than double the number of hits to this site.  Yes, my two daily visits contribute about half of the people that come through here.  I was right!  Now we’ll have to see if Liana was right as well, as she’s also put up a counter (though hers is hidden away at the bottom of her site where most people wont stumble across it). 
 
I had a bit of strange anomaly going on where people seemed to be coming to my site from Xanga sites, but I fixed that up right easy.  It turned out that people were still hitting my old blog and that somehow got counted into this counter (the reason being that this counter was simply moved over here).
 
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in recent days.  It is no longer possible to unsubscribe from free things on the internet.  I’ve tried unsubscribing from my sitemeter so that I could use my normal E-mail address for this new site and that didn’t work (that’s why I had to move it over).  I also just tried to kill my old blog and that didn’t work either.
 
I guess it comes down to these sites that offer free services being able to tell advertisers that they have ‘this many subscribers’ despite that fact that nearly half of their accounts are inactive or duplicates since nobody can delete them.  Its not exactly lying, but it is a bit deceptive. 
 
So we met Shazam’s mother yesterday, which was an interesting experience.  She was a very interesting women though she did enjoy telling us stories about her cataracts and arthritis, which didn’t really have me jumping for joy (Mind you, I know they are out there but I’m not really sure why I have to reminded of that just before dinner (which was excellent, I might add)).  Well, at least she wasn’t talking about her bunions or her frustrating weakening of her anus muscle.
 
She made Sri Lankan food, which wasn’t terribly surprising seeing as she was actually Sri Lankan.  The rice was oh so fluffy and the chicken was hmmm hmmm good (where did that come from?)
 
As always I’m supposed to be working right now and as always I haven’t done terribly much yet, though I did do some riddles.  This one is brilliant:
 
“This is an unusual paragraph. I'm curious as to how quickly you can find what is so unusual about it. It looks so plain you would think nothing was wrong with it. In fact, nothing is wrong with it! It is unusual though.  You can study it and think about it, but you still may not find anything odd with it. But if you work at it a bit, you might find out.”
 
Tell me if you figure out what’s wrong with it. 
 

posted by Symbol @ 20.7.04