In the almost 1 year that I have been blogging, I’ve noticed something that strikes me as extremely funny, which also affects how I think about and do my job:
People on the Internet will read anything when they are looking for porn.
I scan my blog visitor stats, and am always interested in seeing what brought people to my blog. The most frequent hits are from other blogs that link to me, or from comments I’ve made on other blogs. But I also get found via search engines.
Since my post about the very funny series of billboards that cracked me and Jill up as we drove north on I-85, 4 people have searched for the term "topless" and landed here.
I cannot imagine how disappointed they must be.
I mean, this blog just isn’t salacious, unless maybe you have a fetish for pregnant women who read a lot. I’m debating erasing the last part of that sentence, since I’m a little squicked out by the idea that someone might google the phrase "f*t**h for pregnant women" and increase my pron-related hits. Especially since I also use the word t*pless in this post, and I’ve been conciously avoiding using the word les*ian. I mean, think about what weirdos that combination of terms might draw here.
Now, I have been of the opinion since ~1999 that web filtering technology that worked solely based on keywords was essentially worthless. That’s how you wind up with filters that block breast cancer sites or chicken breast recipes.
But I did think there were "pornier" words where a lower threshold might make sense. And I think the technology that uses complex algorithems to assess the "porniness" of a page is pretty accurate, although I know that I’ve radically increased the chances of this blog being false-positively identified by such technology with this post.
Ok, I’m done blathering about this. My sister sent me some EXTREMELY funny images of the family as South Park characters that I’m going to conclude this post with and go to work.
Here’s her rendition of me and of Jill. 
Fruit & Veg Count, 12/29: 1 organic gala apple, 1 bite pickled beet, 3/4 cup braised green cabbage, 2 "winter squash pancakes" — tasted like bland potato pancakes to me, but supposedly they included some mysterious form of winter squash (total volume, ~1 1/4 cup veg matter).
