The latest version of my journal software allows me to see some graphs that show me the amount of spam journal comments I receive. It was staggering! I’m glad it automatically removes the stuff or else I’d have a full time job just moderating the comments. Here’s some interesting graphs:
This first graph shows the number of spam comments I get per day. Apparently October was a big month. It almost looks like even spammers are hitting hard economic times recently though:
This next one compares the amount of spam I get versus real comments. Come on people, you can do better than that!
My sister Jaci had her first baby, Kadence, this week. She was 8lb 7oz, and 21.5 inches long when she was born. Kudos to Jaci for 36 hours in labor! Let’s hope that myth about women having a hormone that lets them forget the pain of pregnancy turns out to be true!
Isn’t Kadence adorable? check out my photo page for a few more pictures of her.
I was at work today and saw out my window a large number of emergency vehicles pulling up next door. So I went out to investigate and learned that a man was threatening to jump off the bridge into some very shallow water containing very sharp rocks. He was tearing papers and throwing them into the water and yelling things like “Being good doesn’t matter” and “you need insurance to get help” and “I don’t care anymore”
His papers floating around the water:
One of the papers happened to float close to me so I went and grabbed it and found that it was part of the Torah (most holy of the sacred writings in Judaism, source of the Old Testament). I can’t say I was too surprised to see it was religious text. Before I got a hold of it, I expected it to be either something religious, or a Dear John letter.
The guy is there on that little ledge with the police talking to him form directly above (click on it to make the picture slightly larger):
Luckily, the police were eventually able to convince him to go with them. Either they were persuasive or it was the fact that it was ridiculously cold and windy outside, he didn’t have a coat, and he just wanted to go somewhere warm. I was wearing a coat and I was even freezing my butt off, so I wouldn’t discount the latter.
We have some very interesting Native American names for all our rivers here in the Seattle area. Here’s a list of them. If you don’t live here, I bet you can’t even pronounce one of them. There’s actually one or two on there even I’m iffy on.
Newaukum
Tolt
Snoqualmie
Skokomish
Skykomish
Bogachiel
Skagit
Stillaguamish
Puyallup
Nooksack
These rivers are all threatening to severely flood tomorrow. First snow then heavy rain and dangerous winds, someone did something to really piss Mother Nature off. My guesses:
- Father Time cheated on her with that hot Venezulian chick from accounting, La Nina.
- She tried taking Ambien, had a bad reaction, and now she’s straight tripping, boo
- She wants to help with the American auto industry bailout, and by destroying Seattle she’ll take out almost every Subaru Outback ever manufactured.
Yep, I’m pretty sure it’s one of those.