Asymptomatic

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Reconsidering Advertising
June 01, 2005

A while ago I added Google AdSense ads to the site after asking if anyone cared if I did so. People had different opinions and I tried to keep the ads low key and still render a profit. I should receive my first check from Google soon, a full 10 months after I signed up for the service. Admittedly, I only recently added the ads to this site (had been showing them on the much less trafficked RedAlt), say within the past couple months.

But the AdSense ads aren’t covering but a fraction of my costs, and I would really like them to do more than take up all that room and make a measly 10-50 cents per day.

Today in the News
June 01, 2005

The secret of Deepthroat is revealed! It turns out that Deepthroat (of Watergate fame, as reported by Woodward and Bernstein) has been uncovered as W. Mark Felt, who was the second or third in command at the FBI during the Nixon administration. Ah, that era always arouses some nostalgia for the classic days of spies. Callsigns, passphrases, miniature cameras, and hidden tape recorders - weren’t those times the best?

Hold the phone! Paris is marrying… Paris? It seems that Paris Hilton is engaged to a guy named Paris Latsis. What amuses me most about this news story is how it completely glosses over the two Paris’ marrying each other. Paris! And it’s a city, too!

Understanding People
May 31, 2005

I have met a few people that I have been sadly unable to classify or fit wholly into my worldview. It comes as more of a surprise that these people are people that I’ve known for a long time; long enough in some cases to think I know them well.

I find myself wondering why certain people under certain circumstances seem ingenuine. for example, when confronted with someone else’s hardship, one of these people might spill out condolences in a fountain of sympathy that even the recipient feels is unneccessary. It’s almost embarassing.

Fallen Tree
May 30, 2005

I moved into the house I’m living in now when I was 10. It was my parent’s house then, and it’s mine now, but regardless of whose house it was, a huge tree in my neighbor’s yard has provided shade on my home and yard for all that time. Until Saturday.