by tarastar on March 7, 2010
I took a look at my Google Analytics today and discovered the “keyword” feature, evidently a tracking of what people type into a search in order to arrive at my site. First it’s clear I should be writing about actual bed bugs. Number one sounds like an S&M site, and I’m afraid to google it. [...]
by tarastar on February 13, 2010
I get a significant amount of spam comments to my blog. They far outweigh the real comments, which hover somewhere around zero. They are often poetic in a sort of lunatic fringe kind of way. It’s like Engrish. Or like poetry from space put through a translator. So this is what I got today, as [...]
by tarastar on February 7, 2010
Does this ever happen to you? You’re looking for say, a heart shaped fried egg mold, and you fall down a rabbit hole and end up nowhere you want to be? This happened to me yesterday, in the Interwebs. One second I was looking at guinea pig huts for our guinea pig, and the next [...]
by tarastar on October 19, 2009
It’s possible I just haven’t been paying attention to Halloween costumes in the last couple of years. My kids were younger. The twins especially had no opinion on what costume they might wear and only last year did the light bulb go off about the miracle of trick or treating. But in this year’s search [...]
by tarastar on April 22, 2009
What the what? Just when I thought Urban Outfitters had the monopoly on hideous, enter American Apparel. There are a few things amusing about their offerings, I won’t bore you with the spandexy details, but I think this outfit to the left (coming soon! reads their catalog) might rival the confusing khaki shorts Urban Outfitters [...]