it’s interesting (or stupid) how long it takes me to realize that i’m in the middle of suffering from (allergy-caused) migraine.
i could have noticed when i decided to lay down with the notebook on my belly instead of sitting in front of the pc. or when the only source of light i didn’t switch off was a soft lamp that only lightens the ceiling. but the crucial hint was that i had to tilt my notebook’s display so i wouldn’t have to wear sunglasses…
hey, i finally found a thumbnail of the creature mentioned in my post titled “hillbillies all around me”. it’s located here: giant half-chicken half-squirrel!
i also found an entry in the urban dictionary…
[quote of the day]
“Well, Butters, you better stop having nightmares, or else you’re gonna be grounded!”
update: here’s the clip from southparkstudios:
some time ago, i read about this cool new google feature called “google maps” at eric’s journal.
recently, an even cooler feature has been added to google maps: switching between the maps and the realistic satellite views. this is also possible for the rest of the world (the mapping system only works for northern america), but there’s only a vast overview available.
so here are some interesting locations that my brother anton and i have looked up:
- the very large array, new mexico — when zooming in, all the dots you see are giant satellite dishes, resulting in the resolution of a single antenna 36km across)
- arecibo radio telescope, puerto rico — they made a giant satellite dish of a valley (some “eupeptic” information)
- the mauna kea telescope complex, also known as the “heavenly twins” — the two white dots in the middle are the twins, and there are a lot more facilities up there! however, i believe that the white *area* is a cloud…
- area 51, nevada — probably the world’s most famous secret
- mount st. helens, washington state — recently showed a lot of activity again; i was there in september 03!
- steward island, new zealand — i’ll have to get back to that topic sometime…
- denia, spain — our holiday apartment is just above the mainland’s east cape
yeah, we really got lost playing around…
this happens a lot to me, lately:
i’m the “thinker type” of person, and i do think a lot. (the second half sounds so crappy and presumptuous, i had to add it! ;-))
everytime my intense contemplation yields a result – like another landmark decision, or just a little “a-ha” about certain phenomenons interacting – it doesn’t take long until i read about that same topic (with about the same attitude) on somebody else’s blog.
i am reading some blogs regularly, but not too many. and this effect only takes place on a small number of blogs.
this could either mean that we’re all just “thinking in circles”, with the same questions and basic fears rising again and again.
OR there are some people out there who are very very much like me, sharing my thoughts and arriving at the same conclusions as i am.
if so, there’s a lot i can learn about myself by just reading what they’re up to…
i can finally check something off my website-related to-do list:
i’ve successfully tested and activated my new image search script. this should be especially useful for all of you who are looking for images they found through google…
the script’s core was “borrowed” from the built-in wordpress search-feature, which handles multi-word queries very, very efficiently.
something else: i just added this link to the right menu-bar of the blog. apparently it’s a trap that catches spambots (the email address collecting type). or, as the folks over at spampoison.com like to say:
- E-mail collecting robots will be sent in an infinite loop and will get dynamically generated fake e-mail addresses, adding enormous quantities of bogus data to the databases of the spammers, thus poisoning those files so badly that they become essentially useless :-)
OR they just want to get high google-ranks so they can earn money through advertisings…
but since i got a lot of referer-spam lately (which is highly likely to coincide with bots – think about multi-functionality), so it can’t hurt to link there
in my excessive efforts to document everything, i have kept a record of my allergic conditions over the last three spring seasons.
what i logged:
- the weather
- the currently abloom allergens (hazel*, alder, yew, poplar, elm, willow*, ash*, birch*)
here‘s a statistical calendar of pollen-stress in innsbruck/austria (pdf)
(* marks the pollen i’m certainly allergic to, i’m not sure about the other ones) - my general preference of food (sweet, sour, fatty, hot, salty, meaty)
- the medication i took (which was not very much)
- my amount of sleep (4,5 to 11 hours)
- my meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
- the strength of allergic symptoms (barely, slight, medium, high; with “+” and “-” as add-ons)
looking back at this log (screenshot)
about two weeks ago, google’s image-crawler hit my site and was given a tasty meal. actually it was manipulated a bit, so it would find my photos, because the galleries are not (yet) fully accessible to searchengine-bots.
since google indexed my pictures, there has been a constant number of about 70 visitors a day, most of who came looking for certain photos.
besides, many users have come here in search of time-lapse stuff – so that’s a dramatic rise in daily visitors!
on a little side note: apparently, the bot that revealed itself as “Googlebot-Image/2.1″ in the past, has been renamed to “Mediapartners-Google/2.1″. maybe this is the first sign that google is preparing to index more kinds of media. this is of course just vague imagination, which was triggered by somebody at google stating that they were peering to index the part of the net that is not yet accessible to searchengines… (see the relatively new compatibility of .ppt-files, for example)
haha – speaking of the devil:
- date: Monday, 11.Apr.2005 @ 20:59:13
hostname: crawl-66-249-65-208.googlebot.com (ip: 66.249.65.208)
browser: Mediapartners-Google/2.1
