Coming through
10 September 2003, 14:14
Here is how various people on the web are getting to my site. Folk who arrive via search engines are as trick-or-treaters on All Hallows’ Eve, their visits brief (and occasionally scary) but all conferring some unknown meaning…

Sep 12:
Sep 10:
10 most recent referers (as of September 13):
- webcam ijsselmeer > Travels
- home porno > Hamster reloads
- gay porno sites > Hamster reloads
- 44dd > Hamster reloads
- america porno gay > Hamster reloads
- 44dd > Hamster reloads
- hilversum+mango > Travels / Squat
- beetnik [sic] and music > Interview
- origin of beetroot > Pedant
- nude dancing mukilteo washington > Travels (Sep 10)
The hits
The most recent 5 hits are given for each page, as well as the best search terms of all time:
togs < jean skirt bondage collar, white cotton hippie blouses, coast guard jacket, dye beetroot, suede shoes and black tights (best: harem jeans)
diggings < utrecht ww2, moving house and vancouver, ubc residence pictures totem, used kids quad in abbotsford, ubc area roommates (best: crescendo and italian textbook)
do < hair and braid pics, how to braid hair, hair disaster pics, braid hair care, hair pics (best: men hair barette)
links < toothpaste for dinner, 44dd, dan savage, vacation cartoons, legend of the red dragon (best: housewife comix)
books < elfquest, arn saba, william manchester, a world lit only by fire (and possibly: bloom county comic strips)
Greatest, in order of -ness
- pinko fries recipe > Rootin’ (June 23)
- coast guard reefer jacket > Duds (~July 12)
- jacques shakespeare bathrooms > Goof (Sep 6)
- hawkers wares poem > To market (July 25)
- kung fu hamster song > Older referers (Aug 25)
- coeur d’alene single girls > Travels (Aug 30)
The misses
You know them. They’re the people doubtless surfing from work, looking for pictures of women (and now men) in sexy clothing or provocative poses, but not wanting to see actual skin. These, the 10 most recent prude smurfs, got here with:
- tight leotard pics
- form fitting skirt pics
- tight jeans contest
- tight fitting jean pics
- strappy sandals pics
- tight jeans kung fu
- romance novels vibrator
- men with lipstick prints all over
- short skirt pics
- tight skirt jeans
Kicking around
Statistics! As of September 1, this site has been graced by:
- 15 pr0n lamers (latest: “porno girls”)
- 5 savage love fans
- 6 tourists hoping for a glimpse of the Netherlands’ Ijsselmeer on the web
- 4 bookworms scouring the web for William Manchester’s popular history, A World Lit Only by Fire
- 4 people looking for (it has to be) my webcam game
- 3 isabelle barbat followers
- 2 toothpaste for dinner fans
- 2 very intent Bloom County fans
- 2 fellow misspellers of Galiano Island
- beetroot count: 14
BONUS: Less recent (Aug 29 – Sep 10):
- startrek > Cold turkey
- isabelle barbat > Fringe
- palafrugell+sex > Travels (No, that wasn’t us)
- bloom county banana junior > Apocrypha
- citré shine > PRD interview
- beetnik.org
- person to person webcam > Webcam game
- chablis irc > Travels (wine fanciers needing to chat, or lonely people in a tiny town?)
- a world lit only by fire book notes > Books
- coeur d’alene single girls > Travels
There are also some older referers.
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