The complexity of the human race absolutely amazes me, but I fear that our species is at its breaking point in the hierarchical chain of being when search terms such as “zoo for sex couple wife in jamica” are actually being used by some disturbed web surfer. What’s even more frightening is that it somehow lead them to this site. Is SpittingLlamas a harbinger of the extinction of the human species?
The idiocy of government knows no end. Today marks the restart of Tennessee’s Click It or Ticket program. This program basically allows the police to setup checkpoints to ensure seat belt usage or to pull you over simply for not wearing a seat belt. Even though I wholeheartedly endorse the use of seatbelts, I don’t think it’s the government’s place to legislate against stupidity. This law also allows makes it easier for cops to have a reason to search your vehicle and person. The roadblocks that this program mandates also hinder our ability to move freely from place to place.
I just don’t understand why weraing a seatbelt is a law. If you want to increase your risk of dying in an accident, then that is your prerogative. It’s very similar to the motorcycle helmet laws. Everyone knows it’s dangerous to ride without a helmet but should you really be punished for being stupid enough to do it? I realize that part of the government’s mandate for existence is to protect its citizenry, but since when ddo they need to protect us from our own bad decisions. These decisions only affect the person making them and maybe their families, but that’s the problem. The government intrudes into our lives so often and no one seems to care anymore. Shouldn’t the police be doing something better with their time like investigating the rapes and murders that occur weekly in this town?
The best solution I’ve heard to this program is that they can go ahead and fine the people not wearing the belts, but if you go through a roadblock and you do have a belt on, the police pay you $50. I could see me driving around trying to find all the roadblacks in town. I need the money.
I use the title errata when I’m not feeling very creative. That way I don’t have to push myself to think up a title, and I can save my limited energy for higher level activities like breathing, racing fellow employees to the coffee machine before it’s empty, hitting the copy machine, writing sub-standard copy for clients, sending IM’s to Taranis about my naughty parts, and spamming our IRC room with completely useless messages about cosbysweater’s naughty parts.
According to wordtracker.com, these were the top 5 words typed into search engines last week.
1. mp3
2. games
3. hotmail
4. yahoo
5. cars
OK, here’s what I don’t understand. If you know you are looking for hotmail or yahoo, why don’t you just type in hotmail.com or yahoo.com? Why the fuck are you searching for hotmail in a search engine? That reminds me of a client I worked with last year. I do some free-lance web work with non-profit companies. I set up a web site, reg’d the domain, and pushed it all live. A few days later the president of this unnamed company called me saying she could not find their website. I asked her if she was typing the address in correctly, being careful to not spell it wrong. She said yes. So I asked, “what browser are you using?” She answered, “um… yahoo?” I questioned her further to find out what was going on. It turns out she was typing the URL in the yahoo search bar, then expecting the site to just pop up.
Thanks for Flash, everyone who thinks they are slightly funnier than a bowl of warm jello are making their own cartoons. Here is another site to that end. You probably shouldn’t click on it. Waste you’re time elsewhere, by staring at the sun for example.
I just have to bring your attention to Trillian - the ultimate chat program. This program does what Odigo always promised. It allows you to connect to MSN Messenger, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC at the same time using it’s clean and skinnable interface. I suggest you try it out. I am online at these names (MSN: sonvolt49, ICQ: 44001972, AIM: sonvolt49, Yahoo: Taranis49, and IRC: irc.dynamix.com:6667 - #spittingllamas). See you there.