Year: 2006

Scott Adams once in a while asks his readers to enlighten him on this or that topic. This time around he explores women’s fascination with horses.

So what is up with women and horses?

Women generally don’t enjoy activities that involve dirt, mud, hay, flies, bad odors, and huge piles of feces. I realize I’m stereotyping here, and some of you women will write in to say how much you enjoy rolling in dung. But on average, men and women enjoy different activities.

For example, if you said to both men and women, “Why don’t you stick your head up a cow’s ass and see if you can yell MOO loudly enough so it comes out of the cow’s mouth?” most women would say no thanks while most men would wonder if it would work. To be fair, most men would eventually say no too, but a few would try it before going off to watch Jackass II on Imax.

You should read the comments to that post. They vary from funny

why do i feel so horny?

through very funny

Can people please stop posting links to porn or beastiality sites?!?!
I’m scared to click on links now – kinda ruins the whole internet experience if I can’t click on links, I can only read the homepage of my browser and then close it again!

to hilarious

that cow moo thing dosen’t work…..

As much as I on the “as long as everyone is happy” side, I have to admit that I felt very weird after reading “Grandmother gives birth to her grandson” at Blogging Baby. The science is cool and all, but this is playing on the border of what should and shouldn’t be done.

What do you think? Would you let your mother be a mother of your child? How about your spouse’s mother? Would you volunteer to be a mother of your grandchild? I’m not even sure about the linguistics of these questions…

I love sushi.

I’ve been eating some once in a while for a long time now, but I really grew into it only about this year. Now I am always in a mood for sushi. And it drives me crazy… All the time. When it gets totally unbearable, I visit or order from one of the Japanese spots.

I think I’ll eat some today. Because I just can’t stand without sushi anymore. Especially after this digg post, which links to the Sushi Etiquette. There’s a funny sushi etiquette video in the comments too. Which, of course, reminded me of another funny video (about Japanese restaraunts). Which, in turn, reminded me of the Budweiser Wasabi commercial.

And then I found myself at Sushi page on Wikipedia. And then I got reminded of Russian style sushi (it’s in Russian, but there are pictures).

I’m definetely eating some sushi tonight!

While scrolling through Matt’s conference notes, I’ve stopped for a second at his name and contact information slide. Two slides actually. The first one has the name “Matt Mullenweg” and a picture of him a few years back (either that, or a totally strange other boy). The second one has the URL to his website – photomatt.net and a quick tip on how to find it – Google “matt“.

Now it’s that last bit that caught my attention. I saw it before, but never thought about how nice it is. Google for “matt” is much easier to remember than “photomatt.net” or “Matt Mullenweg”. Isn’t it?

Well, it would be nice if it was so simple and effective for everyone. But it’s not.

My blog used to come up within the first ten or so results when Googling for “Leonid”. But nto anymore, and righteously so – there are more important Leonids. Like “Leonid Brezhnev” and “Leonid meteor shower“.

My surname though is pretty unique. If you Google for “mamchenkov”, you get exactly what you should. But the problem is that noone can remember “mamchenkov”. And half of those who can, can’t type it in correctly.

So, I tried to find a shorter way of looking myself up. The experiment with chopping some letters off my surname didn’t work out:

• mamchenkov – ideal, but nobody can remember this.
• mamchenko – nobody can remember this, and it doesn’t work anyway.
• mamchenk – only 3 results, but all of them are related to me. Nothing direct though.
• mamchen – nothing for me, but a bunch of results overall. One of them is this funny doll.
• mamche – chance. Mamche.com is a popular classifieds portal in Bulgaria.
• mamch – nothing for me, loads of international stuff, and a suggestion to search for “match” instead.
• mamc – these four letters have less to do with my surname than I thought.
• mam – to say the least, this is a very popular abbreviation.
• ma – 1,560,000,000 results. My life is too short to page forward to see if I am 1,560,000,000 or 1,559,999,999…
• m – this is the title of the movie, that has been building up its Google rating since 1931. Obviously, I’m not in it.

Mkay… so much for the surname.

I’ve played some more with Google results, and the shortest string that people can actually remember, seems to be “Leonid Cyprus” (“Leonid in Cyprus” works the same way). This one is OK for now, but I’ll have to work on something better.

What’s the easiest way to find your website?