Finals Time!

Friendly Vultures Pray At Drafty Auditoriums
Friendly Vultures Pray At Drafty Auditoriums
Facts Values Problems Alternatives Decision Analysis
Facts Values Problems Alternatives Decision Analysis

That is the case resolution model for Health Care Ethics… I got it wrong on the midterm so I have been keeping it on loop for awhile

Friendly Vultures Pray At Drafty Auditoriums
Facts Values Problem Alternatives Decision Analysis

A little over two years ago I did a post called One Year of Statistics where I went through my logs from the start of the blog (April 9th, 2005) until that post (March 28th, 2006)

Now that it has been over three years since that first post I figured I would come out with some more statistics (these include search engine spiders!!!)

Top 10 Pages:
RSS Feed – 64809 hits*
ATOM Feed – 63454 hits*
Home Page – 48224 hits
Ghetto Prom Pictures – 10184 hits
Comments Feed – 7714 hits*
Ghetto Prom Afterparty – 4925 hits
Logs for April 2005 – 4715 hits
Firefox Gets 50 Million Users – 3956 hits
Conservatives file FCC Petition without watching show – 3851 hits
Thinking of a new project – 3284 hits (which never took off)

Top Five User Agents:
Yahoo! Slurp – 102356 hits
MSN Search Bot – 26241 hits
Google Feedfetcher – 23612 hits
MSIE 6.0 – 19647 hits (I combined all MSIE 6 users)
Googlebot – 18741
The rest are all sub 10,000

Top Five Referring Pages:
MSN Search for “ghetto prom” – 2293
Fark.com’s ‘Top 10 Viral Videos Of The Year’ Comments Page (2005) – 743
Slashdot’s Apple 500 Million Songs – 248
Yahoo Search for “ghetto prom pictures” – 236

If you take into account only actual visitors, since November 15 2005 there have been 22,805 unique visitors and 43,101 pageviews (not including spiders)

I have made a total of approximately $113 off of those Google ads surrounding the site in the past 3 years (with only one payout in late 2006)

The most interesting thing is between February 5 and February 12 2006 I had the largest spike in traffic ever, with 2571 unique visitors and 3,380 pageviews over 7 days… almost all to that ghetto prom post, and almost all from the MSN search engine. That Ghetto Prom entry was posted April 30, 2005…

I really dislike those ghetto prom pictures… I just copied them 3 years ago, and when I took them down a year ago people kept commenting in every comment box on the site ‘where are the pictures’

And this is the 622nd post on the system

* I moved my RSS feed to FeedBurner a few months ago, so those statistics are not 100% accurate

I was (am) doing some work on my main desktop and was closing the case door after plugging in my hard drives (I had unplugged a few while I was messing around with the operating system, as a precaution)

I always have the problem of some of the power cords getting stuck inside of a little grove that the computer door goes into when it shuts, so I sorta shut it and push those wires up… Not realizing that those are live wires I am fidgiting in the dark and putting pressure on

Needless to say, a few arcs later I quickly closed the case, got back, took a deep breath in, and went to do the most logical thing I could think of: go check to see if the computer is grounded… by touching it

There has been some drama going down with a group that I am involved with… (so I guess this post is aimed at them)

It is one of those “the people versus the power”, only “the people” have no clear idea why the hell they are donating pitchforks to the people leading this whole escapade.

We (the people) seem to be clinging on to some abstract hopes for things that are months away and for which we have little control; being lead like sheep by shepards who honestly believe they are saving us from the flood that has almost no chance of happening.

So, 20 emails and an abstract livestock analogy later I come to realize that I am participating in this not for any specific goal, but simply because these ’shepards’ and the interaction the ’sheep’ have with them is the most pure form of entertainment: people thinking that they are much more powerful than they really are.

If this group wants money and trips, that is what they will end up getting even if they do NOTHING. The people at whom the ’shepards’ have the pitchforks lined up towards are going to do what the ’shepards’ want no matter what. Shut up and stop beeping my f*cking blackberry or I’m going to keep ‘reply-to-all’ ing you all as if I give a f*ck.

I was bored and decided to pull up my online poker client. I used the new “instant transfer from bank account” feature and threw $50 into the system from my checking account. Went into a $2/4 Limit Texas Holdem game and started playing. Got a few good cards and started to play a little loose and all of a sudden I took the $20 I went into a table with into $50. I left for the night with a balance of $120

I went back in earlier today and went down to about $90. Then I came back tonight and got it up to $102

Then I cashed out with another “direct transfer to checking account”

And promptly lost the $2 in a No Limit Holdem one-table tournament. I had an A in my hand and an A came on the flop. I thought the other person was bluffing so as they ramped up to get me out of the game I went all in. They didn’t have anything other than a JQ suited (and neither a J or a Q were on the table.) Of course, the Turn and the River came up to be hearts and my pair of aces lost to a freaking Q high flush.

I knew I had the high hand when I was going in and the other player was just trying to buy me out… But there is no way you could have seen a flush coming.

So, I’m up $50… better returns than my investment in Apple