How about a 96 square foot house?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/04/27/carollloyd.DTL

The comment spam on my blog here was getting to the point of just being silly... around 4,000 spam comments per day (breaks down to about one every 15 seconds 24/7).

I decided to try and do something about it so I don't have to weed through them manually (the time consumption on this task is one of the biggest reasons I don't post as often as I used to).

So let's see how it works... if you see me posting more often, then you know it worked.

The San Diego Padres won their season opener against San Fransisco 7-0. Let's just put that in perspective for a moment. That puts the Padres on track to go 162-0 (undefeated the entire season, which no team has ever come remotely close to doing). It also puts them on track to outscore opponents 1,134-0. The Yankees last year went 97-65 last year, and outscored opponents 930-767 for the season.

Craziness I say...

I don't recall how I came across this image, but I was rather surprised to see it randomly (considering it's me)...

Some sort of heat map where people look at an image, and decide what's the most interesting part of it by clicking somewhere on it...

So people thought my face was interesting I guess... either that or they knew their click would register a red dot and were just trying to cover my face up.

The original image was taken from this blog (over here).

This is one of the funniest skits I've seen on MadTV in awhile...

People crack me up sometimes... Some dude from Iran figured out how to make infinite free energy, and all he needs from me is $1,000/month or else he will close my AdSense account...

Bahahahahahaha... stupid dumb ass. man, that fire hydrant goes flying.

Want to see some crazy stuff? In some areas of the world, you can zoom in to an absurd level. Pretty close to being able to actually identify an individual.

Let's take this scene for example... some people in Africa with their herd of camels and cows, gathered around a well. I mean come on... you can see footprints, and some dude who must have known his picture was being taken, because he's looking right at the camera.

Almost looks fake huh? Well you can see it for yourself here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f...m=1&iwloc=addr

So like maybe Google could use some of their satellites and computing power to find Osama bin Laden and collect whatever huge reward there is for him... just a suggestion for anyone listening...

One reason I haven't been writing on my blog is that I just haven't had the free time to sit around and look for cool/interesting things all day (ahhh... the good old days when I had nothing to do... hah)

I've been trying to keep up with comment moderation on the blog (doing it once every few days), but check this screenshot out of what I just finished.

That was about an hour of my life wasted with comment spam moderation... fun!!!

So there was that astronaut chick a couple days ago that tried to murder and kidnap someone, and I guess I missed this part the other day, but it makes the whole thing a whole lot funnier.

This is what happens when you piss off a customer who happens to be an engineer.

This is a rather good idea for something to do when a telemarketer calls you.

Sweet... how would you like to be isolated on the International Space Station with a murderer?

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/06/astronaut.arrested/

This is so stupid it's actually funny...

Hahaha.... funny.

Okay, after that other World of Warcraft video, I started looking around for other funny ones... This one is kind of funny... still no idea what they are talking about most of the time, but Leeroy runs in by himself and gets everyone killed.

I have no clue what half the stuff this guy is talking about, but this video is funny. I guess it was a Warcaft raid leader (leading and coordinating 40 people, so they are all listening to him) on some raid of a dragon's den...

All I know is if I was in his raid group, I probably would fall out of my chair from laughing so hard and die anyway...

And whoever recorded him and then did the animation for it is a pretty funny guy... hah

Went over all the doors, door finishes and door hardware for the house today... I never knew there were so many options for door. Glad that's over.

Digital Camera magazine has some really cool photos people took of animals for their photographer of the year contest... the top 3 were these:

You can find more over here:

http://poty2006.dcmag.co.uk/CategoryWinner.aspx?category_id=413

For everyone that has been asking me (or asking others to find out)... I didn't die.

I also didn't get thrown in jail...

...nor did I run off with some girl...

...I also didn't get kidnapped...

(these were all theories I've heard so far)

The quick version is this... I went to Mammoth for 3 days, then I was sick for a couple days, then the Chargers lost, so I didn't feel like writing. Now I feel like writing something, but I don't really have anything to say... So for now, I'll just tell people where I've been. It's not that easy to think of something to write about *every* day you know.

Sorry for not writing on the blog in awhile (I know Bobby loves it when people say that.. heh)

A random email I just got...

Oh my god!!! Someone's wife found him looking at my blog. That marriage is over I guess. Sad... so sad.

Well that was pretty lame if you ask me... Tom Brady and his 12-1 post season record can kiss my ass.

Now I'm MySpace, Google *and* Visa...

Send me your gift card... I will buy stuff with it until I can't buy anymore. I will then let you know how much I charged. That should be a pretty close number for you.

Well sorta anyway... since Apple officially announced their iPhone, Apple stock has gone up $11.14 per share. I bought 100 shares a long time ago (it's since split twice, so now I have 400 shares). The value of my shares has gone up $4,456 since yesterday morning. More than paying the $500-600 price tag for one if I wanted one.

It does look like a pretty pimp phone, and includes pretty much everything you could ever want (Wi-Fi, movies, music, GPS, QWERTY keyboard, etc, etc.)

Too bad they will only work with Cingular and their over-priced data plans. But whatever... free is still free (sorta... heh)

http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/

This is hilarious... who in the hell comes up with this crap? Do they really think some thief is going to report it as "Other Income"? And even if they did (which would be funny), wouldn't the government sort of be an accomplice since they are benefiting from criminal acts? It almost makes me want to go out and steal a pack of gum just so I can put something in the stolen property section of my tax return. haha

This is clip from page 88 of the IRS handbook for individuals (PDF version here).

So what do you learn from this? If you steal a car, return it before December 31 so you don't owe taxes on it! haha

Alternately, treat it as "borrowed property without the owner's permission", but that's a little more grey area and might not fall under the IRS' safe harbor guidelines.

Shoemoney had an interesting post where he posts some of the analytic stats for his blog, so I decided to do a little of the same (I'm too lazy to take a bunch of screenshots and make them all fancy with shadows like he did, but here's one for you...)

Thankfully, the #1 keyword (besides my name) is amputee porn. haha nice!

Also, the "goal 1" that is defined are Google AdSense clicks (tracked with the script I made to do it). Interesting to see the click through ratio variations depending on the entry keyword as well as how many pages of the blog someone views based on keyword (for example people searching for Shawn Hogan or Weird Stuff tended to browse around a lot).

The majority of my traffic comes from referrals not search engines (the #1 referral for the year was Digg.com), but search engine keywords are much funner to look at.

Not a bad year for this guy (not that there really was any question he was going to win both)...

Maybe add Super Bowl MVP to the list?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2721299

I'm not much of a gamer, but I did buy an Xbox 360 last summer. Anyway, I finally found the best use for it... "beaming" your media from your Mac to it (music, photos and movies). The only annoying thing is all the music you buy from the iTunes Music Store doesn't work since it's DRMed with Apple's Fairplay stuff. And since that's the only place I get music anymore, none of the new stuff I have will work. Oh well... still cool none-the-less...

http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360

In the 80's, it was Denny "Blazin" Hazen, then in the 90's it was Eminem. For this decade, I would like to nominate this guy for taking the title of "Lyrical Genius Of The Decade". His voice is also quite remarkable.

The Chargers are currently the favorite of Las Vegas bookies to win the Super Bowl (5-2 odds). The Chicago Bears are the 2nd favorite, coming in at 7-2.

You know what's kind of annoying? 10,000 drunk people in one place.

I think I did get free gas, because I was at the same gas station today and the pump I used before was now "out of order". I knew I wasn't crazy!

BTW... I just wrote this from my cellphone because I'm awesome! Haha

Okay, so now that the regular season is over for th Chargers, they get a first-round bye and home field advantage for all playoff games. Sweet.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/recap?gameId=261231024

Going through emails today...

People think I'm Google *and* MySpace now. Here's a link for you... http://www.myspace.com/... is that helpful?

Another email (in it's entirety) I received today...

Well that's neat. I am a person.