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© 2004-2008 Keith Ecklund

February 12, 2005

At first I thought it was kind of funny, the way the advertising at the Technorati site sort of followed along with everything that I said.  But I think it may be getting on my nerves.  I already have a boy who follows me all around the house, never more then two or three steps behind at any given moment.  I’m not sure where he thinks I might be heading, but there he is, right on my heels.  He’s so close most of the time that I’m afraid to swing my arms when I walk out of fear of giving him a black eye.  So not only am I being followed, but I’m being forced to walk with this awkward, slow gait.  I’ve given up any hope of escaping.

And now advertising is keeping an eye on me as well.  We all crowd our way down the hallway and into the bathroom.  The boy and the advertising watch me as I wet a sponge and start to scrub the sink.

“What are you doing?” the boy wants to know.

“I can recommend several good places to buy sinks online,” the advertising offers.

It’s hard to scrub with the two of them bunched up so close like that. 



Why are YOU scrubbing the sink?

Give the boy more chores!  That’ll help you to tell ‘em apart, because ads never do anything useful.

Jarrett on 02/13/05 at 09:32 AM

Sure I could have had the boy scrub the sink, but then that would mean that I would need to be ready to dry off the counter and possibly mop the floor.

I love delegating as much as the next guy, but some things are just easier done then said, said again, shown, and said yet again.

Keith on 02/13/05 at 09:41 AM

Sponge.  Snow White.  Sponge.  Snow White.

Ahhhh, what the hell, why not?

As IK rounded the corner near the cave, there she was.  Snow White.  Passed out and available as she had been for hundreds of years.  Available to seven generations of seven dwarves, passing bears and the fancies of young men with fairy-tail fetishes (groan).  IK, of course, wondered if this was the same Snow White or if someone had been cloning her and putting out new copies on an as-needed basis.

Then, he looked at…

on 02/14/05 at 09:19 AM

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