Gadzooks! Zounds, even…
Just in time for my anniversary celebration, my site has been hit with a campaign of cyber-terrorism. The site is now back up and functioning, but the terrorists are all around us.
No, not Islamists. Capitalists.
Throughout the archives, comments have been added by those who’d destroy our way of life by giving us larger penises, access to young women, and quality life insurance. It strikes me that all three would fare better on the blogs of certain conservatives, who seem to genuinely need help with at least the first two. [Yes, a cheap shot. I’m distraught.]
But let me be clear: This will not stand.
Well, honestly, it may stand for a little while. And then it’ll probably sit down, make itself comfortable, and order a drink. But then I’ll take care of it.
See, I’m not much of a webmaster. I know exactly enough to get things running, and even then I usually greet my successes with a hearty, “Wow, how’d I do that?” Technically speaking, this site is a living embodiment of the Peter Principle, which is why we’re pestered by unprincipled peter-peddlars and pederasts. And we will be until your dear Principal Peter parries the parasites and the problem peters out.
So stand firm, dear readers, and try to do so without the aid of bargain-priced little blue pills. Until I figure out how to solve the real problem, I’ll try to keep things interesting enough to distract you all from the terror that surrounds us.
Maybe I’ll invade Iraq.





14 comments
Ken, Just Ken...
December 29, 2003 at 4:59 pm
1Hmmmm, you start writing about the Cattle industry and suddenly your site comes under attack.
coincidence?
I think not.
EdgeWise
December 29, 2003 at 5:03 pm
2Try Movable Type Blacklist for one: http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/
EdgeWise
December 29, 2003 at 5:07 pm
3Another anti-blogspam (blam? spog?) solution is here:
http://www.johnwehr.com/spamwait/
I don’t see much else that’s available. Anyone else?
adam
December 29, 2003 at 5:57 pm
4Thanks, Edgewise. I intend to install Blacklist, but I first have to upgrade Movable Type, which is a bit of a challenge. For me. I have no memory of how I did it the first time, what program I used to FTP the various files as ASCII and whatnot, etc.
I’ll work it out, I hope. And then, one day, I’ll go out and find myself an reall, competent, benevolent, affordable webmaster.
*sigh* Okay, now where’s my MT manual?…
Dee
December 29, 2003 at 8:18 pm
5Gosh when Oprah took on the Beef Industry, she got Dr. Phil on her side. All you get is us. I’m sure we can weigh in with some folksy, irrelevant platitudes if we try.
Katie
December 29, 2003 at 10:43 pm
6btw, nice alliteration!
Katie
December 29, 2003 at 11:08 pm
7OK, so I went back into the archives, randomly searching for the terrorism entries. Didn’t find any terror-postings, but I did stumble upon the 2nd longest comment section (93 entries and still going strong), and by far the longest (time-wise) comment section in FA history. Go back to July 2003 (for those of you who haven’t been following it) and check out “Save My Marriage”.
ROFLMAO.
This raises a very important question… Could FA have been the impetus for the return of Opus to our humor-partched comics section?!!
Adam, you have the power.
:)
Daniel
December 29, 2003 at 11:36 pm
8The other day
upon the stair
I saw a man
who wasn’t there.
I saw him there again today.
I wish that man would go away.
Linkmeister
December 30, 2003 at 1:59 am
9Find a blogger in NYC who’ll act as webmaster/mistress for free tix to the various shows, Adam. Barter may be all we have left, after this Administration gets done with the dollar and the budget.
TheSpaminator
December 30, 2003 at 9:47 am
10You just watch. It’s all the cows. They’re out to get ya, man… *shudder* Trippin’.
On an unrelated note, exactly how much free time DO you have on your hands? That alliteration must have taken a good two minutes.
Keith Sader
December 30, 2003 at 10:47 am
11Could you fix me a drink while you’re up Adam?
Murray
December 30, 2003 at 5:48 pm
12Katie
Wow. I though that we had put that column to bed months ago. It’s great to see there is still life in it.
On these long comment columns it is interesting to watch the progression from regulars, to infrequents, to people with agendas who don’t bother to read the post before they start to comment. It’s amazing how many seem unable to completely embrace the concept of satire, parody, and sarcasm.
But that’s what makes the long columns interesting.
adam
December 31, 2003 at 2:16 am
13About the Penguins -
Sometimes comments threads come back to life because someone new links to ‘em. That’s been happening off and on with “Save My Marriage” for months now, and it never fails to amaze me how new generations of readers continue to misread it.
About the Alliteration -
Also a lot of embedded puns and pseudo-anagrams, all pretty childish but a lot of fun. It didn’t take long for one simple reason: I’ve been re-reading a lot of my favorite
Nabokov novels lately (those who haven’t - read “Pale Fire”), and so I have that kind of incessant word-shuffling fairly leaking out of my ears. [In fact, fellow Nabokovians might want to check out the name of the diner I set the Dem’s debate at in yesterday’s post….]
melior
January 1, 2004 at 11:35 am
14Happy New Year!
(ow, my head hurts)