Planetary exploration
In recent weeks I’ve thrown a couple of new items up on the sidebar without comment. They’re called widgets, and I’ve had fun setting up and rolling out a few, such as the countdown (currently called “Now for the pink center”) and the rolling list of “Who’s come a’calling.”
Since then I’ve received a few e-mails from wiseacres (of which I seem to have inherited more than my fair share … the only explanation I can think of is simple bad luck) complaining of Big Brother-style monitoring. Dudes, get over it. Personally I think it’s interesting to check out who’s visiting from where. And if you’re going to be such a poophead about it, you can always click on Options and instruct the widget to ignore your browser. That way you can sneak in and sneak out with no one else the wiser.
You may have noticed that in Hillary Clintonesque fashion I recently moved the goal posts on the pregnancy countdown. What can I say, we just having a hard time with the idea that this campaign must end. We considered trying to take it all the way to August, but now the party elders and experts have stepped in and are pressuring us to shut it down by July at the latest. So after secret behind-the-scenes negotiations (variously described as “very productive” and “positive”) we expect to announce the date of our concession speech shortly.
Oh man, I really need to get a life.
Back to the widgets. I’ve just replaced the previous “Name the bellydweller” poll with a new one focused on middle name suggestions. So thank you for your thoughtfulness, creativity and downright stoopidness with your votes in the last poll. Yes I’m talking about you, Mario. So please take some time to read the instructions before going on to ignore them completely as usual. And here are the final results of the previous poll. No repeats in the new one!
Original Poll: Suggest a name for he who dwells in the belly
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June 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Cool - I filled up the whole Widget with Perkasie, PA. Now, back to work . . .