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If only the Indians had given the Pilgrims a Donkey instead of a Turkey…
Then we’d all be getting a piece of Ass for Thanksgiving…
I believe in aliens. No, not aliens as in the little Mexicans from south of the border who come up to work in our Taco Bells. Nor do I mean those pesky Canadians from north of the border who come down to complain about the Mexicans working in Taco Bell, eh. I mean real, live, aliens as in “little green men”. You know, the ones who hang out at Area 51.
When I was younger I used to have dreams of aliens visiting me in my room. They would clamor on the rooftop. I would be frozen in my bed. Literally unable to move or make a sound. The clamoring would eventually lead to one of them opening a door, and then I would wake up screaming. It was hard for me to explain the dream to my parents, since I didn’t know what they were… that is until I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That really opened my eyes up.
Of course through the years I’ve seen all sorts of alien documentaries, read alien books (like Communion… that Whitley Strieber… what a freak), and of course seen a whole lot of alien movies. Now if you think this is leading up to me talking about the aliens probing me in VERY uncomfortable places… like the back of a Volkswagen… then you’re in for some serious disappointment. See… all this alien infatuation has led me to seriously considering getting this little gem…
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I am a self hosted blog. This means that I pay a monthly fee for both the storage space and the bandwidth to power this blog. One of the things I find a severe annoyance is when people do not upload their own photos… but instead hotlink to one of mine. What is hotlinking you ask? Here is the Definition of Hotlinking from The Urban Dictionary:
hotlink
1 (n): A hyperlink to a media file (video, audio, Flash, image, etc.) on another site that bypasses any html pages that would identify the site or earn it advertising revenue. Prohibited on many message boards and blogs, as it saps bandwidth from the site serving the media and earns the ire of the site’s owners.
2 (v): To post a hotlink.
Hotlinking is not only bad netiquette, it’s theft.
by arteitle Toledo, Ohio, USA May 29, 2005
Now here is a blog called The Prominence that did a little bio on Miss Julia Roberts:
Wanna know what the problem is? They hotlinked that photo from this post I did last year. Now understand something… I fully admit I saved that photo from some other site off the internet. Yes, I am guilty of posting a picture I may not have the right to post. However… I did NOT hotlink the photo from the site that had it. The truth is, they probably posted it without the right to post it too. So why am I going to leech off of their bandwidth?
I didn’t. I saved it and then uploaded it to my site so my readers could see it on my bandwidth bill. The site above couldn’t take the time to do that. In fact, not only did they hotlink the photo… but they are a Blogger blog so they don’t pay a dime for their blog anyway. Did Blogger suddenly limit photo uploads? It pisses me off when people do that for no good reason other than shear laziness.
Normally… I just say, “Whatever!” and walk away, or leave a nasty comment. This time though… no. I did something about it. I did something to hopefully show them the evils of their ways (which btw is NSFW)…
