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March 5, 2005

February Log Roundup

I know you all find my long, detailed posts about what appears in my web logs absolutely riveting. So here I go again. This time, I talk back to the searchers.

I've found a real winner in cardboard boats. 125 people came to this site looking for pictures, plans, physics lessons. Interestingly, 16 people ended up here looking for information on cardboard chairs, of which there is none available. Note to the physics-impaired: cardboard chairs are not subjected to the same forces as cardboard boats. Just FYI.

But far and away, the most popular search is for wedding stuff. 362 visits from that alone, a large number of them interested in how to draw a map for a wedding invitation. My advice: print out a map from a web service like Yahoo and trace it onto tracing paper. Then you can photocopy the tracing paper and have a nice map. Don't try to learn Illustrator before your wedding. Just don't. That's ridiculous.

Falling to third place behind the cardboard boat spectacle is my beloved rendering of Schroeder House. I always imagine architecture students around the world printing it out and copying it. Note: I got the shadows wrong and left a couple things off because they weren't in the plans I had. So rely on my rendering at your own risk.

We get lots of hits from people looking for information or pictures of house renovations. A new theme is people looking to paint over that crappy fake wood panelling. Don't do it. Just take the stuff down and fix the wall. You will be glad you did.

Also, please do not do a foundation replacement or shoring for yourself if you are not a shoring contractor or experienced professional. This stuff can make your house fall down. On you. There are some renovations that it does not make sense to do yourself, no matter how much it costs to hire it out.

I don't know how to repair a porch if I don't know what's wrong with it, but if you need a number, we got estimates of $10,000 to repair the rot in our front porch, which was badly rotted when we bought the house.

On the minority searches, I'm not sure why so many people (nine) think I know anything about acid reflux, but my advice is to see your doctor for medical advice, rather than a random web site. No, seriously.

I was amused to see that five people found me by looking for ways to get their neighbor's dog to stop barking. My method is to call the police every time the dog barks for more than an hour, or after 11pm. Another neighbor is doing the same thing, because the last time I called, they said somebody else had already called it in.

Then there are the weird one-offs. A single visitor with that search term, and you can sort of see how they got sent here, but clearly there's not going to be anything to help them, certainly not on a web site, rather than in a psychiatric hospital. For example, we have the embittered male:

why does a woman have control in the bed room.com

The unanswerable questions:

is there is one truth
why would a dog eat drywall
why does noel's poop stink

The science-and-logic challeneged:

what pushes you forward when you walk no swim and row
what is a magnetic personality

The digestively obsessed:

stomach not going to bathroom
how many stomach does chicken have
otter digestive tract
she needed to poop
what to eat if you're carbohydrate intolerant
people allergic to glucose

The Bad Situations:

how to annul a marriage in ohio

I don't even know what this is:

tubbing out a firebird

The disappointed:

naughty yard gnomes
nekkid ladies

The Over-Analytical:

passive aggressive landscapes

Posted by ayse on 03/05/05 at 1:02 AM

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March 5, 2005

February Log Roundup