Oh. My. God. How embarrassing.
Lill: I just dropped by to see whether I get the same Xtian home schooling curricula ads on your page that I get on my page. Apologia, my Aunt Fanny!
(So, I asked her if I had ads on mine, too.)
Lill: Well, you do. They’re having a sale on Apologia at a Christian book seller or you could get a free tool to find out your own personal water footprint, or find out more about Vegas. Looks like gambling, drinking or religion on your sidebar.
Oh, wordpress. How could you betray me so?
Love the picture because I did that fairly recently. The restaurant that I work at is located in a part of our downtown that was historically the market. We do still have Wednesday and Saturday farmers markets as well as Shakespeare, buskers, kids playing in the fountains. And I walk across this big area every day between the parking garage and the front door and back.
And of course halfway across the square I realized I was trailing toilet paper, that I’d been trailing it from the employee bathroom in the very back, through the kitchen and the dining room and then the door.
These moments build character in us, you know. :) In fact, try it again tomorrow with spinach in your teeth and report back!
I had to look up “buskers,” by the way.
Busking is the practice of performing in public places for tips and gratuities.
Oh dear, we don’t allow any of that here in The OC. One must gas up the SUV and travel to Venice Beach (or some such place) to see that sort of thing.
No, no, not on your blog. It was on our Facebook pages that I saw the ads.
I once walked across a crowded plaza in Boston, carrying a kid whose diaper had opened and was, er, dispensing “pellets” amongst the lunchers there. I can’t look at a can of Boston baked beans without remembering it with a chuckle.
Ohhhhh. :o
Just this week, I was looking at the wp “upgrade options” wondering if I should shell out the $29.97/yr (or 8 cents a day) to keep my blog pristine as the driven snow. I’ve heard that when wp sticks ads on the blogs of those who don’t pay up, the author can’t see them, just visitors. So, that’s my excuse: my brain was already looking for evidence of exploitation.
Eww, by the way. [Note to self: don't lunch w/Lill or Sam.]
I see no ads. I have Firefox with AdBlock, which bestows the blessing of ad-free surfing. I do not question Firefox’s ways, yet know it it superior to all other browsers. I surfed in frustration, seeing ads galore, annoyed by pop-ups and screaming in frustration over irrelevant sidebar ads, until a friend enlightened me as to how much better my (internet) life could be if I would only accept Firefox as the one true browser. Now I cannot believe I ever surfed another way. All hail Firefox, or be doomed to a lifetime of annoying ads.
I too am a disciple of the church of Adblock. It is right to give it thanks and praise.
I have passed into the era of depending on the teenaged son to set these things up. He too favors Firefox and other non-standard things and tells me when I need to change to something or other. I see no ads and have no idea why and it is lovely. :) Ah, senility — just relax and enjoy it. :)
@ Nance – I use my 10 year old son for the same thing, but he tends to “Mod” my computer to the point that when I sit down in front of it I can’t figure out what the hell to do when I just want to check my e-mail. The eye rolling I have to endure when I ask him to “un-mod” it so it looks “normal” instead of walking me through a 100 step tutorial is almost unbearable. I never knew I’d be this old this early.
I had no idea what this post was even about. Now I know why. I literally don’t see what you see.
So I’m with everybody else — Mozilla Firefox with Adblock and children who can take care of all that for me. (Why do you think we still home-educate? Can’t do without my fulltime tech support!)
I doubt my daughter will ever be much help to me as tech support; she is, however, the most patient person I’ve ever known. Maybe it’ll rub off on me before I attempt switching to Foxfire with Adblock, enthusiastically recommended by all. Though maybe I should wait for the temps to dip into the double digits before I even think about it. :)