Recently, my roommate and webmaster started keeping
track of
referring sites. The practical upshot of this is that I now know what people
were looking at before they started visiting this site. Sometimes it's just
a link from somewhere, but usually it's a web search on Google, Yahoo, or
somewhere else. The results were interesting enough for me to post here.
The Searches
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dirty storiesThis is an unfortunate, but understandable side effect of having a section named Quick and Dirty Stories.
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dice rearview mirrorWell, I do have pictures of my fuzzy dice, but I imagine this person wanted to buy them.
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achilles paintingsOne of my editorial articles makes shameless use of a snippet from Douglas Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach involving the characters Achilles and the Tortoise "pushing" and "popping" in and out of works of art and literature.
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dirty nasty storiesSigh.
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dirty sister storiesMy sister suggested one of the titles for my quick and dirty stories. I'm not sure she'd appreciate this one.
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how to survive in a horror movieI wrote an article on how to survive movies other than horror films, since horror movie survival (especially for zombie movies) is pretty well covered.
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old elevator numbersProbably my story "Again With the Numbers." There's an elevator in that one.
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phrases describing desperationI had no idea about this one, so I typed that search string into Yahoo! (Google is my search engine of choice, but my page isn't ranked high enough to turn up on all but the most explicit searches. At the time of my writing this, hit #11 is to my unfinished novel Where Your Eyes Don't Go. The words are very spread out, but they're in there. Update: Michael informs me that the first 10 hits on a Yahoo search are paid for. Which makes a number #11 hit even more impressive. Too bad I'm down to #13.
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stories dirtyNotice a theme?
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where do eyes connect in brainPresumably, this person ended up at Where Your Eyes Don't Go. They were probably disappointed.
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what does a person look like with yellow feverDuring my freshman year at ASU, I wrote a paper titled What is Yellow?. It's about language, definitions, science, and philosophy. It is not about yellow fever.
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what is yellowAha! Somebody finally found what they were looking for. Sorta.
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100-sided diceI have pictures of those! But you probably wanted to buy them, didn't you?
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buy 100 sided dieOh. Sorry.
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very dirty storiesDammit.
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buy weighted diceI'm not a store. I wonder why my site keeps popping up with the keyword "buy"? I don't actually own any weighted dice. They'd make a nice addition to my collection, though.
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chicken soundIf a chicken falls in the forest, does it make a sound? What is the sound of ond chicken clapping? Which came first: the chicken or the sound? None of these questions are on my FAQ, but some more familiar variations are.
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flower sticksI got those!
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triangular dihedromAnd those.
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letter to santaCome on people; it's much funnier if I don't have what you're looking for.
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purple rose of cairo analysisThat's more like it. I do mention the movie, but I never analyze it. It is a fun film, though.
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dirty little storiesTwo out of three ain't bad.
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dirty men storiesIs this person looking for dirty stories about men or stories about dirty men?
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my dirty storiesNo! Bad internet user. My dirty stories.
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what is yellow 5It's a type of yellow dye. It's also a band name. Unfortunately, neither of those answers are anywhere else on my website. They're certainly not here.
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what's your number doing on my girlfriends phone prankWow. That's just...wow. Indeed all these words are in my unfinished novel, but this is not significant. They're not exactly uncommon words, and I imagine there are hundreds of websites more popular (and hopefully more relevant) than this one that contain those words. A casual search of both Google and Yahoo backs up my hypothesis.