Epic

Oh, yeah. And I have a new addition to the blog header.

I Hate To Do This

Turned on word verification, because I'm just tired of deleting spam. Blogger's interface is easy enough, and it doesn't take much time in the big scheme of things, but I'm weary of it.

A Slightly Different Slant

A new tactic for spam?

I tend not to drop many remarks, however i did some searching and wound up here "Crossroads". And I actually do have a few questions for you if it's allright. Is it just me or does it seem like a few of the comments appear as if they are left by brain dead individuals? :-P And, if you are posting at additional online sites, I would like to keep up with everything new you have to post. Could you list of all of all your social pages like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?

And similar - no I didn't check to see if they were from the same place. I'm sure they are.

 I almost never comment, however i did some searching and wound up here "Crossroads". And I actually do have 2 questions for you if it's allright. Is it only me or does it look like a few of these comments look as if they are written by brain dead visitors? :-P And, if you are writing at additional places, I'd like to follow anything new you have to post. Would you make a list of the complete urls of all your shared pages like your twitter feed, Facebook page or linkedin profile?

These words brain dead you keep using? I do not think they mean what you think they mean. Now they are insulting you all while spewing nonsense. I'm sure that's gonna make me click through to their redacted links and spend lots of money so they'll get rich. Yeah, that's the ticket. Me and Morgan Fairchild - my lover.

Spam Roundup

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You used to pay a visit to my web site? That's a pretty piss poor job of kissing my ass, man. Off with your head, clearly there is no connection anyways.

And that's all for the spam roundup for today. I have open comments for the benefit of one person, mostly, but even though it's a pain in the ass, it can prove to be somewhat entertaining just so see what these geniuses/genii? will come up with next, with their tenuous grasp of the English language.

Well, F^(K You Too

Got this in the ol' spam trap:

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Then, a link to whatever they are selling.

Is this some sort of reverse psychology - trying to piss me off to make me buy throwback jerseys?

I'll whine all I want, a$$hole. My blog, not yours. If you had any sales ability, you wouldn't be spamming everyone you possibly could. You do, however, have an alarming lack of morals. So once again, fuck you.

I Love Me A Good Story

Today, I went to the beachfront with my children. I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She put the shell to her ear and screamed. There was a hermit crab inside and it pinched her ear. She never wants to go back! LoL I know this is entirely off topic but I had to tell someone! Also see my web site (redacted link to fuhree "teeeeeeen" Pr0n)

Ya had me till ya stepped sideways, spammer.

Oh, The Ironing

Found this in the ol' spam trap today:

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The ironical part is which post of mine the spammers attempted to use.

The New Disinfectant In Town.

I'd think disinfectants would be a priority if one was dealing with a Kardashian. Just sayin'........

Works for Me

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Lots of pink stuff - NASCAR painting their curbs pink, pink cars and drivers in pink driving suits, among other shows of support for the Susan B. Komen Foundation. Is this legit or someone trying to cash in, hoping to set some breasts free for his/ her enjoyment?

Well, you know me - always in favor of keeping our Nation's supply of boobies safe. I'm so easy I'm sleazy.


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All joking aside, ladies: Take care of your assets. You know the drill. If I can suffer through a doctor probing where no man has gone before to check the ol' bowels and prostate for the big "C," you can get yer boobies mashed in a machine to make sure you don't have it, either.

Nope, Won't Work

Man, it seems like this blog has been besieged with spam lately. Fifty or sixty spam comments are usually waiting in the ol' folder after twenty four hours. I don't think Feedjit or Site Meter are tracking them, but they do show up on TraceMyIP. Most are just the generic blast a bunch of drug names and a link, presumably where I can get fleeced thinking I'll be able to buy Ambien. Or maybe I'll really be buying Abmien or however they misspell it. Wonder what it does...

This kind of comment always makes me laugh:

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Ha ha, mother*&^%r.

This Was Interesting

Well, to me anyways. My posts about my home fire were linked by several prominent bloggers in the past couple weeks, and it's been interesting to compare statistics considering the traffic potential they bring when they do link.

Just for the record, I posted about finding out about my house on the 26th. On the 27th of June threecollie of Northview Diary and GBBL of the Gunblog Blacklist both passed on my predicament, as did drjim of Every Blade of Grass as did Jinglebob (Robert Dennis) of Dennisranch's Weblog.

On the fourth, my old internet friend The Anarchangel posted in the Guncounter forum.

Then on the fifth, Tam of View From the Porch mentioned me in a post, along with Bobbi of The Adventures of Roberta X - who owns the house where she and Tam reside. Og noticed at Neanderpundit. Also, my buddy Bog Agard of Bob's Blog started working on having The Instapundit link me. Professor Reynolds wanted me to put up a Paypal link first - so it took me some time to get that set up, since I was back at work. He linked me on the 18th.

I hope I remembered everyone and their roles - if I missed someone, let me know - I plead being a tad distracted.

Anyhoo, it was interesting to compare traffic during these times, because the initial rush did have more people linking me, but the second rush was from the Instapundit. I'd never gotten an "Instalanche" before - the resulting crush of traffic a link from him generates. I had, however, gotten a "Tamalanche" in the past. So, who brought me the most traffic?

This is what Sitemeter says. This is also distinct visits. The gun blogosphere sorta blew Insty outta here.

And thus we have the tale from Google - in pageviews, not distinct visits, so this stat is higher than what Sitemeter was tracking.

The complete tale of traffic sources:

I got significant traffic from other iterations of Tam's blog as well - different variations on the addy of her post.

I found all this somewhat odd because I'd always understood that an Instalanche was generally overwhelming. In this particular case, I'd say the gunblogging community won, if this was a contest.

So, I thank you all. It's been a hell of way to generate traffic, and frankly, I'll be glad to be a little less notorious, thank you very much!

Edited to add: Jed tells me Kevin linked me as well, and I missed it. I don't comment much on his site, but I do have him in my Google Reader and try to keep up. He's one of the bloggers I've actually met - at a big blogmeet in honor of 9/11 in Plano, TX - at the du Toit place so many moons ago. Hell of a nice guy, and a freaking genius to boot. I do have certain debating skilz, but I'd surely detest the thought of going against Kevin - he's formidable, thorough and meticulous in his arguments.

I'll Be

Just noticed the post count for this blog on Blogger's Dashboard. This post will bring the total to 1601.

I had no idea. Over 4100 comments, too.

Time flies when her havin' fun, I guess!

Sorry

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but if you've not been keeping up with keeping the takeup in your clutch adjusted, even if there is any left, you've probably toasted the lining. On The Other Hand, maybe you have and it's just worn out. Either way, the future of the current clutch is probably pretty short.

Get a new clutch brake installed while it's all apart, too. Get one that's two piece, so when it wears out, some intrepid mechanic won't be required to wave the blue wrench all over through the access hole to try and cut it out to replace it.

What The H. E. Double Toothpicks

Yeah, I know this was topical several weeks ago, but when I saw this on That Large Social Site, well, I had to "share." Plus, I, of course, am on the road, pooped for the day, and lacking inspiration for a real post. So this is whatcha get. My standards are truly relatively low, as y'all may have noticed in the past.

Being A Disappointment

This is not the blog you seek. Which is fine with me.

Found In the Spam Trap

Found this comment by - surprise - an anonymous poster on this post.

ummm, what happened is the white/ latino crazy guy George murdered a black kid who was walking home with Skittles and an ice tea...he flat out killed the black kid in cold blood, and yet you and your gun nut friends spew racist bullshit about 'lunch mobs' which just proves my observation that ignorant/ insane gun nuts don't know the meaning of the word 'irony'...sweet holy jeebus what a buncha hateful fuckin' morons

So, nice to know YOU were there and I'm sure the grand jury will be calling upon you to testify. Good to know now that you really were an eye witness, or your crystal ball was really tuned in, or you drank the right kind of KoolAid. I guess just saying the New Black Panther Party call him a white guy and put out a $10k bounty on Zimmerman makes me a racist. Hmmm. Not sure how that works. I didn't call him anything. You just did, though, so methinks you abuse the term racist a tad bit.

Irony? You haz it - you just fell into the same characterizations I was condemning, thus proving my point. Moron? I may be a moron, but I'm not proposing "lunch mobs." I hope I don't get mobbed at lunch. That would be bad.

You are full of assumptions - have you ever heard of the definition of assume? Make an ass out of you and me? Well, me, not so much in this case. If it is proven that Zimmerman shot the kid in cold blood I'll be right there with everyone else calling for his head, because the "Stand Your Ground" law does NOT make it legal to shoot someone over a disagreement. Us gun nuts are kinda touchy about people who endanger others in situations like that, not that it's ever occurred to you to notice. If, however, it is proven that Zimmerman was attacked and injured, and was justified, I'd expect you to apologize for your poor behavior. If you'd been born with any sense or manners, none of which you display now.

Personally, I do not carry open or concealed. I generally have a gun close to hand, just like I do certain other tools as well. I guess I'm also a hammer nut, because I don't go without one of them handy. Or a wrench nut, because I've learned my life is far easier carrying a full set of metrics and SAE wrenches, as well as socket set. Socket nut, anyone? I also carry wire ties, the better to handcuff you with, should you attempt to attack me. Oh, yeah, I use them for tons of other things to. So, I'm a wire tie nut. I just cannot get along without my heavy cheater bar at work, so I'm a dangerous dude carrying that heavy striking instrument with me. I must be a cheater bar nut, too. I bet if I walk into a bank carrying that puppy and scowling, I'd attract all kinds of attention. Better get to dissing tool users, dude. That is what a gun is in the flyover Wild Wild West. You're slipping by missing that opportunity, man.

And it's nice to know you are so proud of your opinions that you sign your name, Mr. Anonymous. I've never met anyone with that name before, so this is all new to me. It's good to see you have the moral fortitude to claim your comments as strictly your own. So, I'll "give" you that. Heh.

How Descriptive!

Paints a pretty picture, no? The sad thing is that exact string of words can be found on this post.....

Well, That Was Interesting

I got to the motel tonight and fired up the ol' laptop, and when my browser displayed (as it usually does) the cached version of this site, I automatically hit refresh.

Only to find "This site has been removed."

Total surprise to me!


Well, a little digging into Blogger's online help session informed me that there had been suspicious activity in my account, so I had to get a text verification sent to my phone, and select a much better password.

When I opened up Gmail, I also discovered that "I" had been sending spam.

So, if you got one of those messages from me, I apologize, and hopefully this doesn't happen again.

Sorry fuckers....

A Phone Call

In Belle Fourche SD tonight - and while I'm probably not gonna have time to stop and visit personally, I couldn't let the opportunity pass to talk with one of my online blogging pals Robert Dennis (aka Jinglebob) of Dennisranch's Weblog. I'll just bet most of you know who he is, too. I'm more farmer, and he's more old school stockman, but we decided we had quite a bit in common.

We can't stand to be boxed in by the country we're in - too many trees and mountains make us nervous.

On the other hand, we like rough country - like some of the hidden draws and bluffs in Kansas and the rolling rock formations on the plains in South Dakota. Guess that's the cattlemen in us - good pasture land, it is.

Some folks in other areas are strange.

We didn't agree on flat ground. Robert has gone out of his way to avoid Kansas in the past because he's heard it just hour after hour of flat ground. I think that's been oversold - it's a rolling, humpy flat with hidden draws and cuts breaking it up after a few miles. You've gotta climb on something tall (which won't be a tree, for sure) to see for miles and miles.

I have got to meet this guy in person, just like I need to take the time to see this esteemed blogger.

Huh?

Hmmm. I've spent several nights in Belle Fourche over the years, once at the Super 8 and the rest at the AmericInn (which is a great motel, btw). I guess I missed out and should have been giving the Motel 6 my business so I'd be detoxed and cured of cancer. Silly me.

Restaurant Fun

Cripes Suzette posted about eating in Chinese restaurants today and this line stuck with me:

You’ve already replaced the sugar in the dispenser with salt.

Well!

That isn't subtle at all - it's difficult to dispose of so much sugar and you won't have enough salt. One wants to disguise the operation as much as possible. Let me tell you what we used to do.

Of course you realize the "we" in this case may or may not include moi or my friends, as it were. Or "what we used to do" is not an admission of guilt in any sort of way. Perhaps someone told me about this technique, many many moons ago.

Yeah, that's the ticket. Me and my wife, Morgan Fairchild. Who I've seen naked.

What you want is to put sugar in the salt shaker without it looking like there is anything other than salt there. You need sugar, of course, and a salt shaker as pictured above - clear glass with a screw on top. Then, you need a paper napkin. Unfold the napkin until it's down to a single ply, then tear a corner off larger than the diameter of the salt shaker. Unscrew the lid, place the napkin fragment flat on top. Slightly poke and form the napkin so it bellies into the salt shaker - but not very deep. You want the metal lid to hide the napkin when seen from the top and sides. Then, fill the depression with sugar and carefully screw the lid on over the napkin. You should have a salt shaker with paper napkin hanging out the lid all the way around the circumference. Now, carefully tear away the excess napkin. You can also tuck some under the lid. The important thing is that there is nothing left to call attention to the lid. Be sure and wad up the remnants of the napkin in one ball so there is no immediate evidence of impropriety.

Now, you have a sabotaged salt shaker, good for several "salt" applications. Plus, when the sugar runs out, no salt will be dispensed, adding to the fun.

I've heard - because of course I am completely innocent in these matters - that the degree one is toasted can increase the level of difficulty of achieving success in this endeavor. But I wouldn't know anything about that.