1) Awhile back, one of my younger brothers (who has a comp sci degree from Brown and works for some fancy tech company down in silicon valley) asked me how many hits I had on my blog. When I told him, he was like, "oh." And pretty much stopped talking to me about the internets. WELL SCREW YOU, SAM! AND your fancy degree! Because I just did the math, and right now with 195 posts (this is 196) and 11, 805 unique visitors, I'm averaging about 60.5 visits per post! (And our IP is blocked, so it's not counting Brett OR me.) I may be not be in the league of facebook, youtube, or even maybe even this douche, but I don't think I'm THAT unpopular. Geez.
2) For the last few years, Brett and I have had all of our tv/video equipment monitored by the Nielsen Media Research company. It was fun while it lasted (and the stuff on tv these days is much more my taste than it was before), but alas - I was notified this morning that our survey has ended, and that someone would need to come by to "deinstall" us.
It's kind of bittersweet; I'm sad that it's ending and that what we watch on tv will no longer matter to The Man, but at the same time it'll be nice to be able to move our tvs/dvd players/etc. around again, because right now they all have wires coming out of the back of them that connect them to creepy boxes that are connected to our phone line, and when we want to move them around we have to schedule an appointment. :P
3) I uploaded a new photo set to flickah:
Brett's Parents' House
4 comments:
1. What the HELL is a 13 year old watching BORAT for? What are his parent's thinking?
2. WOW! I want to go to Brett's parent's house! Their aviary is awesome!! I've wanted one forever...what do they do for the birds in the winter? Cockatiels are desert birds...do they do okay outside?
3. I love your photography...you is a talented laday.
4. It's fun pissing firefox off by misspelling things on purpose....=)
1) Yeah...I don't know. I think people seem to treat 13 like it's pretty old these days...I could see a 13 year old watching Borat.
Don't get me wrong; I don't think that kind of humor is appropriate for kids that age, nor do I think it is even POSSIBLE that a kid that age would be able to grasp most (if any) of the political satire hidden between all the poop and cock jokes in that movie (which would make the whole movie pretty pointless and offensive, imo); I'm just not surprised that he's seen it. I bet a lot of 13 year olds have seen it.
2) Ya know...Brett's parents' house is seriously like two blocks away from you guys. The next time we go over there for dinner we should call you guys and you can walk over with the kids or something and see the birds.
I don't know how the birds survive the winter, but I'm pretty sure he's always wintered them outside and they've always done fine. This will be their first year in this new aviary, and their first year without the shelter of the big evergreens they cut down, but he still thinks they'll be fine. I would imagine that when it gets bad he'll cover the roof so they don't get snowed on, and maybe put a heater out there or something. Though I don't recall him ever having to put a heater out there before...so I don't know.
3) Thanks! :D
4) It's especially fun when you do it by making up new words, like pressie or breakies or Startifartblast, which is what I've been calling Star lately. And if anyone reading this gets that literary reference, I'll love you forever.
i know what startifartblast is!!!! it's for slartibartfast, which i think actually derives from startifartblast because i heard DA started with something too rude for the radio and switched letters around until it was not too bad but you could still probably tell.
now you have to love me forever! HAH.
Silly Brett...I would love you forever regardless. :)
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