Went last night with some friends to see Avenue Q. For those who have never heard of it or seen it, think of Sesame Street for adults. It was a blast. Some how we ended up with front row center seats. If you ever get to New York city, London or select city’s in Australia you should really see it. (Assuming that adult humor does not offend you.) They also have some national tours going on right now which would be another way to see it.
I was so surprised at the number of kids that came with their parents. It was clearly labeled as not for kids, yet I saw parents bringing their kids assuming that since there are “puppets” that it was a kids show. If they didn’t find out in the first couple of minutes that it wasn’t a kids show, they surely found out when they did the bit about how the “Internet is for Porn”.
This weekend I went to the southern part of West Virginia ( 37°38’15.41″N / 81°56’16.29″W , Mingo County) for a memorial for a Co-worker/Friend who passed away on October 21, 2009 from lung cancer (he was a non-smoker and only 33 years old.) This was the first time I had been to the southern part of the state (furthest south before that was Charleston). It was hard to tell that they had major flooding there back in May ( youtube video of floods). It is more of a shock to see how people live down there compared to where I live. Some of the most shocking is the sheer number of mobile homes (aka trailers) and the bridges that go over little creeks to their home. Those bridges look rather unstable to me. The other interesting sight was that in one small town I drove through there was a church that actually had a 6 foot tall fence around it with a fenched gate for the entrance to the parking lot. I always thought church’s were supposed to be an “open” place, but this present it as some what of a private church. Interestingly the house right next to it was completely fenched in as well. So I can only guess that it was a high crime area? Another site I saw, and didn’t get to take a picture of it, was a house that looked like it had caught on fire, but they hadn’t demolished it yet. It was leaning so far to the left it almost looked like it was going to fall on the house next to it.
The other weird thing is that the mountains are so steep in that area, that there is no cell coverage and it made my XM Radio cut out. And if you ever out for an adventure in driving, drive the stretch of road east on US-52 from where WV-44 meets US52. There is a reason they call it Horsepen mountain.
Probably about the closet video to represent some of what I saw is Jesco White Dancing Outlaw on youtube.
Finally just one to take a moment to mention that my Friend served his country for 11 years in the Navy. I had only known him for a year through work. He was a great person and will be missed, but never forgotten by any of his co-workers or family.
Looking through some logs I noticed a bunch of traffic coming from bing.com. Funny thing is, it is NOT people searching for something and my site coming up. It appears that bing is doing keyword searches. For example here is a list of words it has looked for so far this month:
about
adelphia
adobe
airways
cameras
cdrecord
channel
channels
cisco
citrix
clear
client
cloning
comcast
cooking
december
demand
desktop
digital
drive
drives
dtrace
dynamic
dyson
early
error
family
funny
fusion
gravelly+point
hospitals
house
january
jetblue
morgantown
mount
movies
mysql
nikon
october
opensolaris
overcurrent
passwd
password
patch
peanut
photography
photoshop
pictures
ponytail
postgresql
procmail
psrinfo
question
radio
random
replication
restoration
sendmail
server
service
should
solaris
studio
surprise
system
syswatch
table
thomas
tivoli
today
toilet
tomcat
transition
travel
trying
tvgos
update
upgrade
usairways
vacation
vmware
vsphere
weblog
The reason I can tell that it is not a person is that one, the requests are coming from a BOT. The second is that when some one actually uses BING to search for something there is additional stuff “left” on the referrer string. Is bing really that stupid about how it indexes a site? So I guess the point of this is, if you want to have your site on the top of the list with bing, just put a dictionary on your site .
Found out that the problem with my TVGOS on my one TV is that KDKA doesn’t seem to “know” about Morgantown’s zip codes. So I sent them this tonight, will see what happens or if I even get a response:
Hello,
Currently I have a TV that uses Macrovision’s (Rovi’s) TVGOS system to display the TV Guide program guide. When the signal was coming from the analog WNPB PBS Station in Morgantown WV everything seemed fine. However now that I get the signal from your station on Comcast Cable in Morgantown, the TV can never find the listings for Morgantown. I found that if I put in the zip code as 15222, it will display the comcast info for Pittsburgh, however that information is not correct for Comcast in Morgantown. Is there any way you can add Morgantown’s zip code and channel info to what ever transmits that data? Specifically 26505 or 26501.
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