January Referrer Madness

Continuing the tradition from December Referrer Madness, here’s this month’s list of the Top 20 Sites From Which Nice People Came To Look At The Monkey In The Window.

There were 14171 unique visitors to this little corner of the Internet last month – up from 7955 in December and including all the ones that just took a peek via Google or some other search engine and the ones that came to see Whiny or Pepperkat or the other parts of solonor.com and maybe never even knew there was a blog here! These are the 20 blogs that they came from most often due to a link on their site. I thank these people (and all visitors) profusely.

1. Too Much to Dream – Also known as “Hobbiton on the Web,” this site is kinda like the killer rabbit of the blogosphere. You go there to see the fluffy bunny LOTR talk, never suspecting that she’s got nasty, sharp, pointy teeth.
2. Inside Gretchen’s Head – Somehow, she’s morphed from “Gretchen the Agent” to “Dark Mistress of the Blogosphere.” She’s one scary bookworm, let me tell ya.
3. Ain’t Too Proud to Blog – Home of thehe newly-tiara’d Princess of the Blogiverse.
4. Random Ravings – The home of Brian Peace. That is such a cool name. “We come in Peace. Brian Peace.”
5. Gnome-Girl – The favoritest person named Cheyenne that I know. (Don’t ask how many other Cheyenne’s I know.)
6. The Gamer’s Nook – The newly-crowned Baron of the Blogosphere!
7. Dandelion Wine – I stopped paying her college bills, so she’s dropped from Number 2 to Number 7. Young lady…
8. Amish Tech Support – It is a measure of the power of this blog that I only got on his blogroll last week, yet it is the Number 8 referrer. Fear the power of the Amish Hordes!
9. C:\PIRILLO.EXE – Even though it’s listed in my referrer logs as a direct link, this one’s probably not fair. I don’t think I have a blogroll link on Mr. Gretchen’s site. The wave of little gnomies checking out the big goof that won his blog-madlib (blib) game probably put this here. Not that I mind! We half-elves have always welcomed gnomes to our land. Just don’t mess up the carpet.
10. Billegible – By day, mild-mannered (shaa-right) cat fancier and aerobics instructor. By night, Egg-Noodle Girl!
11. Blissfully Bitter – One of my two favorite Kat’s. This is the one that’s got you all slobbering over the thought of the Nude Bloggies. Um, when I say “you” I mean “me” but let’s move on, shall we?
12. Pizza Dreams – If I ever need someone to beat upon, Statia’s always there to take the hit. She’s like my own, inflatable Bozo the Clown punching bag… except that she hits back.
13. Techfluid – Chari’s back! Last month’s move traumatized us, as we could not get our daily dose of Orlando’s second snarkiest blogger.
14. Thymewise – The Baroness of the Blogosphere continues to cook up creative crumbs for cretins (like me) to consume.
15. Flablog – When I want to know what’s really going on in my adopted state, this is where I turn.
16. Shattered Buddha – When I want to know who died before Laurence does, this is where I turn.
17. Anarchtica – I received several Golden Finger Awards from the distinguished readers of this fine publication. I shall always endeavor to be worthy of them.
18. Blogwhore 2 – Yes, this month saw my glorious two or three days as a blogwhore. Easy come. Easy go.
19. Blogging in a New York Minute… – I ran into Lambchop at the aforementioned Anarchtica. Ever since, she’s been going around telling people that I’m funny. Excellent. The web-delivered psychotropic drug experiment is working…
20. Feral Living – I love the latest bug line: “As sono as Gamma learns to spele ‘Feh’, Mig’s out of biusniess.” Were truer words ever spoken?

Finally, I must add that, even though I don’t get a lot of hits from her blogroll, a high percentage of my traffic comes from A Small Victory. Without Michele’s hypercurious fans clicking on my idiotic comments in her blog, my traffic would be cut by a couple hundred hits. Thank you, oh, Queen of Mount BiteMe.

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And All the People Say, “Awww”

And now, the long-awaited picture of Domino’s new baby!

Sarah and her new sister

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STS-107 Tribute

After a while this weekend, I had to step away from the blog. That’s why I missed Chris Pirillo’s wonderful Tribute to the Columbia Astronauts.

I have a link here, so you don’t use his bandwidth (even though it’s a highly compressed, teensy file). It also requires Windows Media Player 9, I think.

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Arrrgh! I Can’t Keep This Up!

Annessa doesn’t fight fair! She triple-timed me. Sadly, I must leave this battle, as I have work to do. So, I will leave you with a final salvo until tonight.

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Batten Down the Hatches!

Arr, mateys! Another salvo has been fired in the Parrot Joke War! We must retaliate.

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How To Be A Crackhead, Vol. 2

The main customer for our software and services is the convenience store industry. Thus, I get daily news from the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS). Most of the time it’s boring stuff about inventory shrinkage, cash control or the latest low-fat potato chip. But sometimes you learn things like this:

Police and Retailers Work to Raise Awareness of Rose Tubes’ Illegal Use.

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Parrot Joke War!

Annessa counters with her own parrot joke, and so I must retaliate.

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Now For Something Completely Different

To bring us back to where we ought to be here: a rolled-around-the-Internet-via-email dead parrot joke! Yay!

A woman brought a very limp parrot into a veterinary surgery. As she lay her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird’s chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, “I’m so sorry, Polly has passed away.”

The distressed owner wailed, “Are you sure? I mean, you haven’t done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something.”

The vet rolled his eyes, shrugged, turned and left the room, returning a few moments later with a beautiful black Labrador. As the bird’s owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the dead parrot from top to bottom. He then looked at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

The vet fussed the dog and took it out, but returned a few moments later with a cat. The cat jumped up and also sniffed delicately at the ex-bird. The cat sat back, shook its head, meowed and ran out of the room.

The vet looked at the woman and said, “I’m sorry, but like I said, your parrot is most definitely, 100% certifiably …..dead.” He then turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill which he handed to the woman.

The parrot’s owner, still in shock, took the bill. “$150!”, she cried, “$150 just to tell me my bird is dead?!”

The vet shrugged. “If you’d taken my word for it the bill would only have been $20, but what with the Lab report and the cat scan……”

BADUM-BUM!!

[ via Ric the Schmuck (and now that you know there’s more than one of us out there, aren’t you a little bit scared?) ]

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I Surrender (Revised)

A lot of the time, I have a real problem with blogging. The temptation is too great to spout off a quick rant without sitting down to think about what I really mean to say. Then, when I get around to saying it, someone (or more likely a dozen someones) have already beaten me to it. Of course, just to rub salt into the wound, they have the audacity to write more eloquently than I. Bastidges.

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Thanks! I Needed That

Whenever I’m down, I can always count on my friends to try and pick me up. They usually don’t have a forklift available, but it’s the thought that counts.

An Ode From Branophelia
how do i love thee?
let me count the ways…

your eyes are like pools;
cesspools.

your teeth are like stars;
they come out at night.

being with you is like…
nailing jello to a tree.

how do i love thee?
oh sol, my love for thee is great
like a 3-ton elephant with some ‘gas issues.’

Thank you, my schweet. I may now resume my regularly scheduled snarkiness.

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