The most amusing exchanges
I'm still catching up from this weekend, but like most people with a site, every few days I browse through the referrer logs to have an idea of who is linking and what they're saying.
I so love them, as it doesn't really require any real thought, and I often back-track and leave little notes at the sites, like thank-you's or the like. Really just depends on the amount of time I have, or what I'm avoiding doing, but I figure whoever runs the site gets a warm fuzzy.
It's pushing it if I have to register for something, like a forum, but sometimes I get carried away... There's a guy out there who still doesn't know how I got into his wiki, but he seemed nice about it and I didn't hurt anything...
If someone is very (un)lucky, and I'm in a random mood, I leave really strange comments peppered about the web, because I figure someday when I'm famous someone will try to google me for their book/article, find all this weird stuff, get very confused and start to wonder what they've gotten themselves into. That's the excuse I use anyways, although it doesn't really explain the weirdness that spews from my outbox sometimes.
It can also be some random site I come across, but finding them via the feeds or referral link pushes the odds of weirdness up, as I assume they have an idea not to go into anything I say without a salt mine. I.E., I was granted 'diplomatic immunity' by the M.A.W.B. Squad after a small misunderstanding involving this comment:
"you know, i just realized i'm not even on your blogroll. Oh well, i still want to hump you... FYI, 'hump' is finnish for 'shake your hand vigorously' so don't be offended."
Luckily her significant other is very understanding, although that comment spurred a downward spiral that led to the weirdest set of pictures involving The Cow to date ending up on their site. Photoshopping doesn't really count, but its so weird it deserves a link.
Anywho, there is an exchange over at the Purdue MUG forum regarding DrunkenBlog, and yours truly, that had me in stitches. Perhaps I'm too tired to fully process this, and I know that this site is always a comma from getting out of hand, but asking what credentials someone named "drunkenbatman" has in a serious way just strikes me as absurdly funny, let alone how someone would really answer it, what they'd point to, or how they'd rank them.
Being a friend of DrunkenBlog must be really hard sometimes.
It isn't like there are a whole lot of other Bible salesmen who happen to use the Mac and who happen to be geeky to compare myself to. This could possibly improve soon, as there is now a surprising amount of applications for the Mac that revolve around the Bible. I'm particularly impressed by whomever came up with the names 'iBible', 'Hangman Bible', 'MacSword', 'BiblePod' and 'Got Word?'.
We complain about the lack of vertical apps on the Mac sometimes, but Linux has it much worse, aside from games. Besides lacking Photoshop and iTunes, the state of Bible software on Linux is downright deplorable -- let alone Bible software with such marketable names. It doesn't necessarily mean they're all heathens, but one could make the argument it's implied the platform tends towards the atheist and agnostic.
Ah, I can sleep now.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 01, 2005, at 01:37 AM
Comments (13)
Posted by: Tobias Linds at August 1, 2005 02:58 AM
I consider myself to be stupid, but I am having difficulty knowing if you are joking or being serious about the Bible Salesman part. You are more flippant here about it than in the other interview, but have you said elsewhere?
Posted by: Tobias Linds at August 1, 2005 03:00 AM
Correction! I consider myself to NOT be stupid, but didn't show it this time! :-)
Posted by: foo-test at August 1, 2005 03:40 AM
Awesome fanboy image, but the M.C. Hammer image made me laugh even harder. Drunk, didn't you say you weren't a developer?
Posted by: Twist at August 1, 2005 05:23 AM
How is the state of bible apps for Darwin? You reminded me of that preacher from a few years ago who was going on about Apple being satanic because of their support of Darwin and BSD which has a devil for a mascot. I am pretty sure it was a hoax but it was still pretty funny at the time.
Posted by: Setch at August 1, 2005 05:33 AM
Going to have to save your "big post" till lunch, but must say that hang man app looks awesome!
Posted by: vaakamambo at August 1, 2005 07:05 AM
oh geez thanks, drunkenbatman, i can't wait for all the people who want to 'hump' with me or any other finn. you just saved my hand-shaking life!
Posted by: Zooley at August 1, 2005 08:31 AM
I was a Purdue student for 6 years, now an employee, and mac user and had no idea that the PUMUG forum existed! ...And now I have "It's a small world after all" stuck in my head.
Posted by: Sandy at August 1, 2005 12:03 PM
So, do you prefer the New International Version or the New King James? I'm partial to the Revised Standard Version personally.
I've tried to stop the Genetic Bovine experiments, but I can't watch the lab all the time, so there are no guarantees.
Your Aspiring Female Dictator,
Posted by: foresmac at August 1, 2005 12:08 PM
Eh, I just guessed you were a dev and hoped that might quell the argument? confusion? Anyhowways, like I said I have no idea how that thread ever got so serious. It was posted to the "Social SIG" for the love of pete!
I feel confident about the other things I said, and that prolly you have some inkling of a clue as to what you're talking about. So that's excuse enough for me to go to Chicago and trying to talk a bunch of Mac nerds into eating at the Chicago Diner or Soul Vegetarian.
Posted by: Ed Finkler at August 1, 2005 02:25 PM
aaand PUMUG embarasses itself yet again. ;)
Posted by: Josette at August 1, 2005 05:03 PM
oh come on, my 'steve bartman' comment wasn't good enough to blog? i've got more blog cred than you have vertebrae!
Posted by: Keller at August 4, 2005 10:44 PM
Hey DB. You're right, I still don't know how you got into my wiki, but as you said, you didn't hurt anything, and it was cool to see a little surprise note from you a few months later. =)
You are going to hell, dude.