Stan's seemingly random wanderings in southwest Missouri and eastern Oklahoma reminded me that I needed to get back to planning this summer's vacation. Since no one has invited me anywhere, I decided I would visit California -- since according to the Discovery Channel and the History Channel it is in imminent danger of being crumbled by an earthquake, wiped away by a tsunami, or becoming uninhabitable because of Hispanic gangs.
While actually meeting people that you meet online is clearly not a good idea, I have toyed with the idea of arranging a meeting with the blog's most frequent visitor, who resides in Sunnyvale, California. While some of you visit twice or more a day, my Sunnyvale visitor drops in almost every hour on some days. Besides, Sunnyvale is just a cool-sounding place to visit.
Since the visitor from Sunnyvale has never left a comment, I knew it was going to take a little thought as to how to identify who it was, and how to set up a meeting -- all somewhat delicate undertakings. I started by searching for information about Sunnyvale -- I knew that it was mostly fruit factories before it became part of Silicon Valley. It has a giant fruit-can water tower (photo above). I live not far from a giant catsup-bottle water tower (photo below). That's not enough to build a friendship on, but it would get us through one or two courses of dinner.
As it turns out, Sunnyvale is also home to Yahoo! and my most-frequent visitor is not a people but a bot, one of the little devils that search engines send out in order to index the web. Bots find page content, which is then stored on the search engines computers -- when you use a search engine, you are searching its index and not the web per se. All of which means that I have no actual person in Sunnyvale with whom to share the Chicken Tikka Massalaa and some Kebabs. Oh well, maybe my second most-frequent visitor will have chromosomes.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
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I also wandered into Arkansas the other day, but no, I didn't see any rusty-fendered Camaros (Camaroes?) driven by guys with three teeth...between them.
I did, however, see an ad for something called "Mule Beer" which contains real Ozark water; a free-standing, vending-machine (and pickup-bed) sized unit of post office boxes—not secured to any building (that's great postal security right there); and this fine establishment on the Mo./Ark. border.
Isn't this a great country?
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Branson changed that whole part of the world a bunch, the hillbillies are driving Ram trucks and attending NASCAR meets!! :)
this is what the real Ozarks used to look like:
Isn't Sunnyvale where Buffy the Vampire Slayer lives, or is that Sunnydale?
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and, I thought I had strange TV viewing habits :)
I get someone from Sunnyvale almost daily as well, but it's always via search engine. They're looking up the story
I did on the haunted Toys R Us store in Sunnyvale, CA.
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I remember that post, I haven't been able to play with my Mr. Potato Head since
We don't have food towers here. However the KFC that was here in the 1970's used to have a sign that was a big chicken bucket. In the mid-1970's a hurricane hit and it bent the sign so that the bucket was hanging upside down. My dad would kid and say that all of the chicken fell out.
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I had forgotten the KFC's had big buckets, some revolved I thing -- I also seem to remember that in Texas they were all Hart's KFC -- I like your dad's sense of humor
Hey, if I still lived in Charleston, I would invite you to come vacation there. Although it beautiful and historic, Charleston, SC may not be the best choice for a summer vacation anyway. Somehow I don't think a vacation in North St. Louis County is quite as interesting.
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I went in the Wal-Mart south of I-270, it was interesting!
Portland's pretty close to the beach....
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I've heard about Collins Beach on Sauvie Island :)
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