Friday, January 13, 2017

Someone is Trying to Game Uncle Silas

Relax as there's nothing melodramatic and it's just a matter of numbers with hits to Ithaka.  Sometimes the number of hits will skyrocket for no apparent reason since there's not a concomitant increase in hits for individual articles.  The game is why and (sob) there is no prize.

A few weeks ago it was the Russians and you know how it goes with those pesky Russkies, they're always hacking something.  That was running up maybe an extra thousand hits per day coming from Russia (no idea which city) but there's no why since hacking Ithaka is pointless.

So they left and lately it's been America with France and Germany running hard roughly tied for second.  Russia hasn't been much in the mix at all.

We lost France a few days ago and, well, anyplace Marine Le Pen lives can't really be all that cool anyway, can it.

Hits have been booming this morning only this time they seem to come from America in short bursts which run the numbers up quickly but without boosting individual articles.

Ed:  is this a pointless mystery for stoners?

Definitely.  Give it to CNN and it will be like MH-17 to them.  It just needs some bodies to make it perfect.


Readership took quite the drop but it's not clear who got bent or why.  The content doesn't change all that much in overall editorial tone and the whole gig is just to keep it interesting.  The only response is if you like it then keep on doing it so I have continued.  The game aspect has some intrigue, tho, because why bother??

- Ithaka is a joke somewhere else and they look to hoot once in a while but then get bored

That one sort of works but without a specific article it would be too erratic to get such a larf, I guess.

- Someone likes running up the numbers to lurk about and giggle while the Silas tries to figure out why

We get a maybe on that as well but why not just beat the bishop a little bit and call it a day.

- Google has more bugs than a New York City hotel room

Dunno but I haven't been to the City in years so I really can't say about the Great New York City Bedbug Invasion.

There's quite a bit about that time in Rhode Island I leave out of here since it looked successful but it was an unmitigated disaster except for the last few years which were followed by another disaster.  The worst kind of memories are when you should have been with someone else and they're no damn good for anything.  Some parts were incredibly cool but all in all it was a disaster.


Lack of ganja and I ... just not a compatible situation.  I've lived extended periods of zero ganja and extended periods stoned to the rooftops but it was the zero ganja times which were disastrous.  It was the opposite of a cocaine gangster movie since my life got all flashy with the zero ganja times only to explode which was really clever since the previous explosion was when it started.  That whole time has become a gigantic black hole and there's much cooler nostalgia than that.

There were lots of charges the explosion was my mistake but shoulder was already one third necrotized.  If I hadn't done what I did, it would have broken down and I would have lost the use of the arm.  The post-game analysis is easy but living it needs a wee bit more edge than that.

It's only been a couple of days since the last time Frank the Buster threw that one.  Once that personal crap starts, the best move is to bail.  I did.


Since none of this makes any sense anyway, how about Stoner Robo.


That robo isn't holding a roach clip with a joint in it then just what is he doing?  His head looks like Gort from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" but he has slimmed his body down quite a bit.

Here's a closer look to help figure it out.



What do we have here then?

A - An amphibian on a stick the way they often enjoy eating them in Louisiana

B - A roasted marshmallow

C - Just a cigarette as Gort is going trans to become Tallulah Bankhead

D - It's a fookin' joint


There's art in this robo.  We really have no idea where but someone went to a lot of trouble and there's a Deep Thought in it somewhere.

Ed:  everything seems like a Deep Thought when you're a stoned robo

Wow, that's so heavy, man.  That gets me thinking how cool it would look when he lights the joint with his laser beam eyes.  How is your buzz feedin' now, Cheech and Chong.

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