Say, for example, that you find one day that you need a new bead for your nose ring, your glasses adjusted and a Bank of Montreal ATM. And that, for example, your schedule in which to finish these things is really pretty tight.
Well, if you live in this part of town, you have no worries!
You can get all of these oddly disjointed tasks done in 30 minutes at half past noon on a Wednesday. On foot. And with not a single penny spent.
I love Vancouver.
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Q: “What’s the plural of jackass?”
A: “Michaels.”
Result:
One slightly used, vastly pregnant wife, free to a good home.
Last week sometime I setup a PHP application on this li’l ol’ site to keep track of the people who come by for a visit. This is all well and good, and interesting information to no one but me. And I can live with that.
But.
My blog is traded, publically. On a stock market. For blogs.
Am I being serious? Yes. No. Sort of. Not really.
Ehm. Let me try and explain.
I discovered one day about a week ago, reading through the SQL database of site visitors, that one particular ‘user agent’ (read: browser) kept coming up as ‘Blog Shares Bot.’ Now, I didn’t know what that meant, either. So I hied over to blogshares.com to find out more.
It’s a game. A big, strange game, where people (from all over the world) can pretend that blogs (also from all over the world) are companies, in various industries, and can buy and sell them like stock.
I have to admit that I find this perplexing. The only people that I can think might be interested in this game are stock brokers. And wouldn’t they have had enough stock broking at their stock broking jobs? Or are there really people in the world who really want to experience, first hand — though vicariously — the high-stress world of commodities trading?
Anyway, that’s about as far as that got.
But I was just looking through the SQL stuff again and saw ‘Blog Shares Bot’ for the every’th day in a row. So I went and tried to find out how much this thing that you’re currently wasting your day reading is worth. In fantasyland.
$1,000! That’s right! $1,000!
I don’t even know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. But I do know that, with the outgoing link to the people that make the blog software I use, I’m actually valued at $1,100.
But there’s been no volume. And that’s my problem. My blog is up there, for people to buy and sell and trade, but nobody is.
So. If you’re reading this and are one of the blogshare blogtraders, see what you can do for me there. I feel a little down about the no volume thing. But don’t tell anyone that I asked you to do it.
I don’t want to room with a virtual Martha Stewart.
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