Personal Shoe Invasion
Posted on | April 9, 2006 at 3:53 pm | 11 Comments
Obviously I need to create a blog category for “clothes”. And one for “food”.
Another household mystery. I’m pretty sure the maid tried on one of my athletic shoes last week. They are my main everyday pair and are not worth coveting by anyone. The maid comes once a month and I noticed that when I tried to put on my shoes the morning after her last visit, the laces were all wonky on one of them (but not the other). The laces were all stretched out and loose like someone with bigger feet had tried it on. What’s up with that? Nothing else seems to be out of place.
Okay, time to install the MaidCam. Although I can’t complain about the maid too much, since she brings in my UPS, FedEx, etc. packages, which always seem to show up on the day she cleans.
BTW, the greatest low-fat snack chips on the planet are Stacy’s Pita Chips. But only the Simply Naked variety. Why don’t they sell these at grocery stores? I wish I didn’t have to go to Cost Plus, Whole Foods, or Wild Oats to get them.
Hello to anyone finding their way here through One Million Blogs. Yep, I signed up (#613) and bought some squares. That’s what the new button in the sidebar over there on the right is about. I found out about this through Editrix. Anyway, I hope you find something entertaining here. If I’m still looking for my voice, will you lend me yours?
Latre.
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11 Responses to “Personal Shoe Invasion”
April 9th, 2006 @ 7:17 pm
Okay, I don’t get this One Million Blogs thing. What I specifically don’t get is how it could possibly not be a scam. One million is an extremely large number: there’s no way, even if he gets a million submissions, that he’d be able to post them all (never mind reviewing them). Let’s say it takes ten minutes to post up a link (generous, since he has to receive the e-mail, read it, process the payment, and update the site). That’s 10 million minutes, or 166,666 hours and 40 minutes, or 6,944 days, or almost 20 years. Even if he’s automated the process, I gotta wonder if PayPal is thrilled at 10^6 one-dollar transactions
So as far as I can tell, he’s collecting money, with his only promise being “when” he gets to 10^6 he’ll distribute it. Yeah right.
Okay, I’m a humorless poop. Or something.
I like this guy’s grandiose project way better.
April 9th, 2006 @ 7:55 pm
Good point about the time frame, assuming your math is right. I’m too lazy to check. And that assumes people are submitting non-stop. Maybe he should’ve gone for 10,000 blogs. …
I just saw it as a very low-cost way to get a little advertising/publicity for my blog – I like the way it appears on the Big Grid and I had fun making the squares. I have no expectations of making any money back from it (and was actually surprised to see that was a component) – I learned my lesson on such things long ago.
April 9th, 2006 @ 10:01 pm
I’m curious why you even want more traffic for your blog from strangers
Isn’t that a good question? I think anyone with a blog gets a little charge when a stranger stumbles across it, no matter how much you’re not doing the blog for strangers. Heck, I like reading about people’s lives whom I don’t know – sometimes the more boring, the better.
Oh yeah – the red paperclip thing. Forgot to mention that in my reply to 2fs. I saw the guy interviewed on Attack Of The Show and he’s definitely got it going on.
Fahey’s new WordPress blog looks good – though it’s a little strange having it inside a frame of the larger site.
April 9th, 2006 @ 9:37 pm
I’m curious why you even want more traffic for your blog from strangers – if you’re trying to meet people there are other ways to go about it. I guess, to me, a blog is a way to keep a wide range of friends and family updated on your doings without retyping all your stories.
That red paperclip site is cool too. I used to do things like that a lot – start out with some broken calculator found on the sidewalk and see how nice a computer I could end up with – but this guy aims high and has done impressively well.
Speaking of, the wife has just gone all Wordpress on her site (formerly, I’d have to do a fair amount of by-hand processing on an article before shoving it into a homebrew management script) and I’ve been fiddling with all the things there are to fiddle with. If only I knew any PHP I could probably have saved 3-4 hours this afternoon just with adding that darned survey function!
April 10th, 2006 @ 1:05 pm
Those Pita Chips–so delicious, addictive, and hard to find!
Blog being read by strangers: interesting concept for others, but I’m pretty happy with my 50-odd readers/day.
I am delighted when old friends and acquaintances discover my blog (which has resulted in some nice reunions) but strangers probably wouldn’t find enough universal meat to stay interested.
And yes, Universal Meat is a good band name, I’m totally using that.
April 10th, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
Universal Meat = Pork. There aint’ nothin’ that you can’t use pork for!
April 10th, 2006 @ 2:47 pm
Pork :: Risky served as sashimi.
April 11th, 2006 @ 10:04 am
At least it’s just your shoes (you hope, anyway). Lewis and Floorwax* were talking this morning about service people going through the underwear drawer when the owner isn’t home!
* Local self-proclaimed moron FM DJs, for you non-Colorado folks.
April 11th, 2006 @ 10:08 am
Anyone who goes through my underwear drawer gets what they deserve.
April 12th, 2006 @ 4:50 pm
When I first read this entry, I assumed that “One Million Blogs” was similar to the “Million Dollar Website”. In that one it was just some guy who wanted a million dollars and was selling his webpage (which was a 1000×1000 pixel bitmap) for a dollar a pixel (minium of 100 pixels). That was a managable size. One Million Blogs is going to be at least 900 times bigger, which sounds a lot less managable.
April 12th, 2006 @ 7:19 pm
“Anyone who goes through my underwear drawer gets what they deserve”: not even a mime deserves that.