Tom's Journal

• William Shatner
• Reboot parody
• Family Guy parody
• This American Life gets 4 people that don't know each other to play Rocketman (see Act Three)

Are there any others? (the one from Reboot is my favorite)

http://www.gawker.com/news/park-slope/ the-park-slope-hat-spat-read-all-the-emails-166214.php

New York mag has a cute front-of-book item today on an only-in-Park-Slope battle that recently raged on an email list for earnest and progressive parents in that earnestly progressive Brooklyn neighborhood.

A few weeks ago, a member of the Park Slope Parents e-mail forum who’d encountered a stray piece of winterwear in the neighborhood posted a notice to the group titled “Found: boy’s hat.” … [S]ubscriber “Lisa” went public with her problems regarding the gender-specifying description of the hat.

Mark Jason Dominus has started a blog. The LJ feed for it is markdominus.

(Thanks to petdance for pointing this out to me)

Yesterday I heard this on the radio. You have to listen to this story on This American Life:

Act One. American Goth. There are the people who take two hours to get dressed every day, who dress primarily to be seen, and then there are most of the rest of us. Writer Sarah Vowell decides to make the leap into the two-hours group. As part of her lifelong quest to look meaner, she takes lessons in Goth. Goth is the subculture of people who dress in lacy black clothes and dark eye makeup. (15 minutes)

And if you deal with “at-risk” youth, or are concerned about how we can best deal with gangs and help kids escape them, listen to

Act Two. Lifesaver. Ira tells the story of Lucia Lopez, a former gang member who would beat you up if she caught you looking at her... and how her life changed when she put herself in a position where hundreds of people were looking at her.

Today I was watching the logs on my web server and noticed that people coming to my site without going to the index (i.e. were coming from a web search engine) quite often were going to an article that I serve about how to give the best fellatio, which I didn’t write. I simply copied it off a mailing list.

Since I keep logs of what pages get hit since the beginning of the server (July 2000) I was able to generate some interesting statistics:

1. 19106 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/data/fellatio.txt -- ”How To Suck Cock - A 14 Lesson Tutorial”
2. 16206 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/ -- My homepage
3. 10763 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/dnssoa.html -- ”tal explains DNS SOA records”
4. 4566 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/resumetips.html -- ”Tom’s Resume Writing Tips”
5. 3769 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/ip-theft.html -- ”Preventing people from stealing IP addresses”
6. 3719 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/starting-ntp.html -- ”Getting Started with NTP”
7. 3563 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/photos/2001-08-25-Jersey-City-Pride/ -- ”2001 Jersey Pride Pictures”
8. 3029 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/data/ -- ”Index of interesting articles”
9. 2951 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/abouttom.html -- ”About Tom Limoncelli”
10. 2616 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/credit-reports.html -- My advice about getting your credit reports
11. 2430 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/mywritings/dimsum.html -- Polyamory and Dim Sum
12. 2335 hits: http://whatexit.org/tal/data/cheeseweasel.txt -- Cheese Weasel Day

Interestingly enough, by looking at the logs I can tell what search keywords were used at Google that brought them to my site (Google includes them in the “referer” URL. That plus some other statistics helped me realize:

• People go to the “fellatio” page nearly twice as much as any other page, 50% more than the main page itself.
• Web search engines direct people to my outdated “resume tips” article, which has been replaced by this newer edition.
• A huge number of people need help with starting to use NTP, and and figuring out what DNS SOA records are about
• You know all those adverts for “free credit reports”? Well, it turns out that people search for that too, and often find my advice. (Now I know why there are so many people advertising on that topic!)
• If you are looking for a good place in New Jersey to get Dim Sum, and search for “Dim Sum New Jersey” on Google, your best link is to my article on Polyamory and Dim Sum, which doesn’t help you find restaurants at all. In fact, it only mentions New Jersey by accident.
• A lot of people search Google Images for “leather men” and get a link to my page about Jersey City Pride in 2001, since I captioned a photo “Sexy leather men!”

Amazing!

His review of 2-0-5.

By the lovely folks at Jib-Jab.