Our Dumb Blog

The internet is such a weird place. Statistics are always weird.

In December, Our Dumb Blog had twice as many hits on Thursdays as any other day of the week.

The following search terms were typed into search engines and led people to this site. This list keeps getting weirder. (The number is the number of people who used that search term to get our blog.)

dauchands 3 10 %
miniature dauchands 2 6.6 %
scandinavian keyboard 2002 2 6.6 %
nerbun 2 6.6 %
miata engine making noise 1 3.3 %
train timetable paris to marseilles 1 3.3 %
monster uders 1 3.3 %
snow forecast for lake arrowhead 1 3.3 %
i taste ice cream.you got a dart in your head dumb shit. 1 3.3 %
god rest ye jerry mandelbaum 1 3.3 %
okaz keyboard 1 3.3 %
littlemissmatched 1 3.3 %
mazmart 1 3.3 %
recipe for raveoli 1 3.3 %
blog sayre oklahoma 1 3.3 %
frambose raspberry 1 3.3 %
how to replace cv boots on vw beetle 1 3.3 %
alternator and miata and belt noise 1 3.3 %
mattress crazy 1 3.3 %
blog berck 1 3.3 %
alieve 1 3.3 %
red alert completetion 1 3.3 %
joanna beth sallisaw 1 3.3 %
mazda no heat temp gauge pegged 1 3.3 %
sr-71 gun blackbird bullet

So, as far as I can tell one person was clearly looking for Our Dumb Blog. The other dozen folks…. makes you wonder why they clicked onn our blog when it popped up.

More interesting are the search engines used. It seems that Yahoo really likes my blog. I never even submitted my blog to yahoo, so I’m not sure how they got it. Means that someone’s linking to it.

These are the number of hits the blog got from each search engine.

– Yahoo 24
– AltaVista 6
– Google 1

It seems that Google is smart of enough to realize that my blog is not of any interest to the general public. Yahoo is not so smart.

We also got hits from the following non-US countries:

gr Greece gr 11 71 411.75 KB

au Australia au 2 8 85.36 KB

sg Singapore sg 2 2 38.68 KB

mx Mexico mx 1 6 20.84 KB

fr France fr

They’re posted! There’s 74 of them. We might should have culled a bit more, but posting them is free. (Link in upper right hand corner.)

The other day Diane Carr asked me what my earliest memory was.

I remember my 2nd birthday party. My mom made an intricate cake in the shape of a ladybug, with licorice strings for antennae and gumdrops for dots. A lot of people were invited, and we were going to have it outside, but a downpour forced us into the carport. I remember my mother placing the cake down on the coffee table, looking quite incongruous on the concrete floor. My bestest friend Cara Catlett was there beside me (her birthday was two days later than mine, and we usually celebrated together…I think she had a cake there too), and a highchair was set up with a baby in it (I’m pretty sure it was Rebecca Traylor).

This was what I considered my earliest memory. Until I realized another memory I had must have predated it.

This one also involved the coffee table (good toddler height). On it Mom had a plastic loaf of bread with scripture verse “fortunes” sticking out of it. I think it’s called a Daily Bread thing. It looked very much like a toy, and the papers sticking out of it intrigued me. So one day I pulled myself up and reached for it. But my mom rushed in at that moment with a very worried look on her face, yelling, “No no no!” The Daily Bread got moved to a taller location.

So I must have been younger than two, since that was the first time I had been able to reach the Daily Bread. And because I was unable to tell my mom what I wanted to: “You don’t understand. I’m not trying to destroy the plastic loaf of bread. I just wanted to get a better look at it. I wanted to examine the slips of paper and see what was written on them. There’s no call for alarm.”