Just finished reading Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmel. It's a long book, although not huge, at a little over 600 pages but I flew through this rather quickly. This was my first Gemmel book and I completely enjoyed it. He keeps the pace of the story going with the ups and downs in all the right places.
Zardoz Claus is checking his list. Twice.
I've got one of those stat counters hooked up to my Vox. It allows me to see which posts are getting hits and where the viewers are located. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but I assume that when it says someone in Spain is looking at my picture of Scott McCaughey's shoe, then there's actually someone in Spain looking at my picture of Scott McCaughey's shoe. (For some unknown reason, his shoe is very popular throughout the world.) I know you can get these things routed all over the place to hide your true location, but I don't get into that. As far as I'm concerned, Spain = Spain and Oman = Oman.
As Valerae recently mentioned in a post covering similar territory, there seems to be a trend where people from Middle Eastern countries trawl Vox for titillation. I've noticed over the last six months or so that about a fourth of my hits are coming from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and a mysterious place called Yemen. From what I can tell, they're not here to read my opinions on books and music. Instead, they seem to hit the same slightly suggestive images over and over again. I'm not sure what the internet is like in that part of the world, but I'd assume that their access to smut is severely limited when compared to mine. They're doing the best they can with what's available to them.
More to the point, I've decided to gather all my most popular titillating images together in one spot. That way my friends on the other side of the world won't have to waste so much time going through the 2,800+ images in my library. The attraction of some of the pictures is obvious. The popularity of others only becomes apparent when you realize I've given them misleading names like "sexy results" and "big cock" (for the watermelon and the rooster sign, respectively). But anyway, here they are all together for the first time ever. Enjoy!
Martin Brodeur, of the NHL's New Jersey Devils, has just broken Terry Sawchuk's all time shutout record by recording his 104th. You can find many highlights of Brodeur's career here.
I got a box of Christmas cookies in the mail today. At least I think they were Christmas cookies. The snowman is definitely Christmassy and the tiny gingerbread men probably count, but I think the pumpkin and the bunny might be leftovers from other holidays. I'm not sure how the squirrel and the foot fit in either. And that's to say nothing about the most disturbing cookie of all...the hand that appears to be giving me the finger. I swear the cookie arrived with its fingers already broken. I didn't break them as some sort of protest against rampant holiday consumerism.
I just dropped by to remind you that today (December 21) is GOFPD. Because I'd hate you to miss a perfectly pseudo-scientific reason to 'gasm.
Make love, not war.
I had a good day on the slopes today as Kimberley Alpine Resort had their free day for locals. It was cloudy and a bit foggy today so the light was really flat but it snowed a bit each of the last few days and the slopes were in great shape. The clouds also kept the temperature at a reasonable level overnight and it was just a couple degrees above or below zero most of the day. Usually the place is jam packed on the free day but the crowds seemed a little thin this year. Maybe the extremely cold weather last week scared people off?
Lady and I were having a discussion with Dude over dinner a week or so ago and he said something about one his friends having a girlfriend. So of course we followed up with "Do you have a girlfriend?" which was answered with many denials.
