Because everyone seems to be paralyzed with fear by TypeKey and my comments have dwindled to a trickle, I've given up obsessively checking for new comments and have had to turn elsewhere for validation. I give you:
It's marvelously delightful and has everything you could want to know about who's visiting your site. For example, I now know that, though too aloof to deign to comment, certain people from Halifax, der Universität zu Köln, Glasgow University, and NEPA [or Hazleton, as StatCounter has it] are dropping by, which makes my heart sing a little.
I've also learned that random people have me on their blogroll, that an unexplained screenshot of one of my older posts comprises the bulk of a post on a random site, and that a random livejournal community has an entry direct linking an image on my server. Okay, so maybe the last one's not entirely random; the name of the community is prettyboys_kiss and the image is of Dom & Viggo, but still. Who would have thought?
And while we're on the subject of random, I was introduced to StatCounter by this post on a blog I don't even read, but on which I found an adjacent post while googling some group of hair-related keywords that I don't even remember.
Talking of randomly finding blogs via google, I found a link to the above on this blog, which I in turn found via this post, which I happened upon whilst googling "think different think sexy," as research for my ipod engraving. [I think I'm going to get this:]
I had originally wanted lyrics or something tolly punk rock, but I couldn't think of anything worthy enough, so after reading this [shut up!], and seeing that someone had "sexy." engraved on his, I was inspired.
And thus ends my linking spree. Except! Jamie of thinkdifferent.typepad [i.e., the "this blog" link] also had gama-go linked, and I pretty much think this tee is awesome. And I might even be able to ease off my pink addiction, 'cause the gold one's pretty sexy. And then of course there is also the awesome unicorn tote.
Ahh, capitalism. [PS: Dalai Lama's birthday today. Free Tibet!]
[And yes, I'm posting at 10 in the morning because I'm off from work today as reward for my ridiculous overtime hours! Cha-ching!]
You and your flashy Typekey sorts.
You caught me! But I read your blog all of teh teim.
When I bought my iPod, I agonized so long over what to get engraved on it that ultimately I just went to Radio Shack and bought a plain one. I still don't know what I would've picked. Probably a Radiohead lyric. I was leaning towards "we moved through the stars // in astral cars," but u no how things goes.
I want an @mit.edu address, dammit! Hopefully at this time next year I will have one.
I already have sitemeter on my blog. It's great!
The Cologne university one would be me, I visited your site at work a couple of times.
"There was a not very scholarly monk from my Namgyel monastery who came out of Tibet to India around 1980. Since we knew each other, we were casually chatting one day. He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referring to a threat on his own life. But when I asked, "What danger?" he answered, "Losing compassion toward the Chinese." He considered this to be the danger! Most of us would feel proud to tell others about how angry we got, as if we were some kind of hero."
-How to Practice, HH the Dalai Lama
I don't believe you watched the pink-haired man without me!
HAHA! Princes of Mirkwood and the guy that REALLY wanted his cheese pizza says "hi."
Funny coversation...
Me: The issue I have with anime is that I can't tell the difference if they're a boy or a girl.
G: Well, if you look at their chest you can basically tell
Me: Oh, so I should fixate on the chest area?
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Me: So I was at the MIT movie theater and I was watching 'Gravitation' when I had the issue as I have mentioned before, because it was a whole bunch of guys and they were all in love with each other
G: Why was MIT showing porn?
Me: It wasn't... it was anime!
i'm a total victim of typekey but i'll try not to be
Nothing like a whingy "no one comments" post to rake in the comments.
Emma, how cosmopolitan do you think I am? Of course I knew it was you, darling, you're the only one I know at the University of Cologne.
Comments are a difficult thing to figure.