Whose Faulty Vision

Link: “My cone is melting in the sun”

Sorry about the lack of posts. I’ve been super-busy with social activities, something going on every night. Which is nice, don’t get me wrong, but it doesn’t leave me a lot of time or energy to blog about it.

When I was a kid, I loved the cartoon “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” For some unknown reason, there was a particular line that my brother and I latched on to as being incredibly hilarious. It was Shredder, the main villain, asking his lackey Baxter to do something, and Baxter replied, in a whiny voice, “but my cone is melting in the sun!” Anyway, I finally tracked down a copy of the line on Youtube. It’s in this episode of the show, at 4:55.

3000!

This is my 3,000th post to this blog!

3,000 posts, more than 7 years. It’s really a fixture of my life. I’ve relied on it sometimes to vent my feelings, and it’s nice to have somewhere I can always go and ramble.

So here’s to 3,000 more.

Off to Michigan

I’m off to Michigan for a week of vacation. Posting is likely to be light to non-existent until I get back.

Aah, Spamfree

I’ve been getting increasing levels of comment spam in this blog lately–going from one or two a day a couple of months ago, to 20 or 30 a day lately–and it had been getting really annoying to go through and delete all of them. I tried blocking keywords, I tried blocking web hosts being linked to, and nothing reduced the tide for very long.

But I’ve finally found a solution, in the form of a WordPress plugin called Akismet. Haven’t seen a spam comment in days. It’s such a relief.

Test post from iPhone

I finally got an iPhone, replacing my poor dying Treo. And lo and behold, they just released a WordPress app for it. So this is just a test of the new app. I expect there’ll be more posts about the phone itself as I play with it.

Update: Cool, it worked perfectly. Posting from the go has never been easier.

Tooth Fairy

Man, I’ve been getting absolutely socked by comment spam lately. Of course, I don’t let you, my devoted readers, see it–I moderate all comments. But I’ve gone from one or two a day to dozens, and my filters aren’t helping a lot.

Anyway, what I’m here to post about: Who was the first parent who thought of the Tooth Fairy? Who was the first one who said, “hey, kid, that part of your body that just fell out? Just put it under your pillow and you’ll get some cash tomorrow.” What a weird concept.

Lack of Posts

Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. Busy, and for some reason not all that inspired to write. Hopefully I’ll be doing fun things to write about, or coming up with interesting ideas to write about, again soon.