Nothing Much
by ChrisFebruary 9th, 2005 12:30 pm
Some time ago I used
to run a parody
site named
ProjectGastro which, despite
the name, generally didn’t
deal
in flatulence humor. Anyway, it was while I was running that site that I decided
that it would
be a great idea
to put a hidden
hyperlink on every letter “D”
which would
open different
pictures of dogs
or, preferably, a variety of pictures of women walking dogs
in the park. I never did
get around
to it on my own, now defunct,
site and
I’ve never managed
to convince anybody
else that they should
take up the mantle. I wonder
why? Is there a man, woman, or child alive who doesn’t, on occasion, enjoy a picture of a dog?
If you are curious about the name “ProjectGastro”, my friend
Brian came up with it as a tribute to Mark Leyner’s delightful
book My Cousin My Gastroenterologist. The site itself was actually
pretty successful and
even got featured
on the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not television show as well as a few of those
cheesy, British Men’s Magazines like FHM or Maxim. The producer
of the Ripley’s show told
me she would
call me before it aired
but didn’t,
so I never actually saw the episode.
Perhaps if I’d
done
the dog
link thing they would
have been more responsive to my desires.
Who knows? You can still see the episode
summary here
but they seem to have taken down
the actual picture of the featured
item, which was a home parasite removal kit. If you could
see the kit picture it was, in reality, a Civil War field
amputation kit with all of the requisite nasty looking wood
saws and
clamps. Now I no longer even own the name as it was purchased
by one of those domain
squatting companies that provide
a crappy search engine and
download
all sorts of spyware on to your computer. I’ll buy it back one day
I suppose.
So why am I writing about this? This is just another one of those “sorry I
can’t think of anything meaningful to write” posts I’ve been doing
so many of lately. Well that and
I wanted
to try out that dog
thing.
