Kara & Michael’s Blog

I’ve been so amused and confused by gourmeton.com that I’ve continued to try to figure out what makes it tick, adding to my original post a couple of times. First I couldn’t figure out what translation system could possibly yield such terrible (yet strangely comprehensible) English, then I found a whole bunch of sister sites [...]

When I first happened across this site (via a Google search) I assumed it was some strange fluke that would be gone in a week or two. Yet months later it’s still around, and I still have no idea what this site does.
Let me try to explain. It appears to be a storefront where you [...]

I do Google searches on just about everything. What I’m eating, what I’m looking at, what I’m thinking about, and so on. Not just to waste time, either — it never hurts to learn something unexpected about the topic at hand. Recently Google’s been frequently directing me to Associated Content, which is pretty much the [...]

NOTE: The content of this entry may not be suitable for individuals under age sixteen or so, or people who get uncomfortable with sex and female reproduction.
There’s no arguing that the internet is primarily a man’s world. I say there’s no arguing with it because if you visit any online forum, you’re bound to be [...]

Howdy, loyal readers. Michael and I have been working on the Gallery we have, and there are a few things up. Feel free to peruse it here. In order to see permission-protected galleries for family and friend pictures, you’ll need to set up a login and have us grant you permission.
Without registering [...]

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People of the Internet, hear me:
Stop using symbols from languages that you do not speak for purely aesthetic purposes! Just because those glyphs don’t mean anything to you doesn’t mean they’re meaningless to everybody!
I’m talking to you, Wikipedia/bulletin board posters who always put “ツ” after their names. It may look like a smiley face to [...]

I’m a stalker from way back, baby. As soon as I got your phone number, your bus-stop, I was all over you like tasty gluten is all over rice. I would find out your boy-scout troop, your class schedule, your after-school activities. I had friends in all places, lurking, watching and passing the information [...]

I’m proud to announce that 4d2.org is now available via my favorite Internet protocol: Gopher.
Feel free to jump down the gopher hole to gopher://gopher.4d2.org if you are using Firefox, Lynx, or another browser that supports Gopher. Our Gopher site is also available via HTTP if you’re using a browser like Internet Explorer that doesn’t support [...]

I’ve been trawling around on Yahoo! Answers for the last week or so, collecting what I like to call the “worst” of the questions and answers that appear on the site. For what it’s worth, I’ve also been answering questions — in an attempt to offset the negative karma I am doubtless accruing by poking [...]

Ahh, Yahoo! Answers. A place where anyone can ask a question and have it answered by…well, anyone. When pressing personal problems confront you, why wait for the sage advice of Abby, Margo, Carolyn, Amy or myriad others, when you can have your question answered right now by the unwashed masses?
Yahoo! Answers is simultaneously one of [...]