Bag of Randomness

  • First of all, thank you to everyone that has voted for my Southwest Airlines Blog-o-spondent audition video – I really appreciate your help.  Contest rules states something to the effect that the top ten vote getters will get an interview, and from that ten, three will be selected to go to Vegas.  At the time of this posting, I’m in fifth.
  • Regarding this contest, I’m frustrated with who is in first place.  I’m not bothered that she has a popular blog and asked her readers to vote, I’m bothered that her video is first and lacks any effort or creativity.  She’s received over a thousand votes in less than 48 hours and leads second place by over 400 votes at the time of this post.  I feel like Frank Grimes.  Actually, I feel like I did in the 7th grade when I ran for a student council office that I put a lot of work into and lost to pretty blond girl who did nothing but look good.  I want those on top to have ‘earned’ their place.
  • Speaking of popular blogs, I thought I had a somewhat popular blog until this contest.  The main tool I use to track visitors is StatCounter, and from that I gather I get around 1600-1900 unique visitors a day.  Here’s a look at last week’s traffic:
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    So I thought with those kind of numbers, I could pull around 600 to 800 votes.  But I’m guessing now that I may have only about 100 dedicated readers and I get a lot of passer-by-traffic from the Google.  What gives me the idea that I only get about 100 dedicated readers?  Well, on Wednesday I posted a simple little poll about bath towel usage.  It doesn’t take any effort to participate in the poll other than clicking on a selection, so who wouldn’t participate, right?  At the time of this posting, there were less than 90 votes.
  • With all that said, I might take blogging and this little website too seriously.  I really enjoy blogging and finding all these tidbits on the Intertubes and sharing, but if this is all it is for, then I have to re-evaluate my commitment to BON.  My hosting contract ends in middle November.
  • Here’s a nice little update on your favorite Saved By The Bell cast members.
  • The NFL season starts next Thursday.  I noticed right after the game McCain will be accepting his party’s nomination.  I bet he’ll like that ratings booster.
  • It seems weird that Major League Baseball is allowing the use of instant reply this season.  I would think it’s something they would have wanted to start at the beginning of a season.
  • I have eaten at a lot of Tex-Mex places with lots of different friends in my almost 33 years of life and I have never seen anyone dip tortilla chips into butter and eat them until the last two months where I have now witnessed performed by two different people.
  • If your life involves project management as mine does you might enjoy this video, especially if you are a developer.
  • It would have been cool to have been in Denver.
  • As much as I like and admire Ted Koppel, I really like the new Nightline.
  • Very smart, strategic, classy move Senator McCain made last night with this commercial.
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AirKick

AirKick® is a sport and adventure device that will send you flying and get you wet. It propels participants through the air in a pre-calculated parabolic trajectory using a special combination of air pressure and water recoil technology. The participant sits in a specially constructed seat at the back end of the catapult arm and 3,2,1…Liftoff.

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Kittens I’ve Killed

Every time you click refresh a kitten is killed.

The gun shot sound effect is a nice touch.

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