Adsense, the new Popular Kids!
First off, this is a very cool photograph of smoke from Sensative Light.
Now, the reason for todays blog. Since the recreation of my blog from my tremendously stupid mistake of deleting my config file, I have been spending considerable time on the details. Specifically my sidebar. I think I finally have it the way I like it. Well, at least for today. But as I have been working and reworking my sidebar, pretty much as an excuse to procrastinate homework (much like doing laundry, cleaning the bathroom, cleaning the kitchen and doing the bills), I have noticed that I am getting some cool ads! The effect that I noticed this had on me was a feeling of acceptance. Sure it is acceptance from “the man” who in this case is Google, but acceptance and approval none-the-less. I felt like my blog had just stepped up a level. People are reading me. People are liking me. I have worthy content! WORTHY OF GOOD ADS!! Ahhhh! It feels like I just got accepted to my first party by the cool kids.
I think I am blowing this out of proportion. A part of me knows that this is not what this means. I did have a friend express ad envy. I won’t lie, that was rather cool! Of course that has everything to do with the settings and nothing to do with some freakish Google popularity contest. But if it did…I am so on the outer fringe of the popular kids! So there! heh! Right now I am the one they invite because I know someone who knows so and so who is the cousin of that person whose house the party is at, oh yeah, and I can buy beer. I am Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles!
It is interesting though that I feel this sense of accomplishments simply because my ads have improved. Of course, Murphy’s law, while you are reading this post the ads will suck. I know, it is inevitable. It is Google’s way of telling me I am full of sh*t. Seriously though, what a strange way to find acceptance. A larger component of what is intrinsic to our economy and plagues our general existence in all forms of media is now boosting my techno self esteem.
Hell, I am just glad that I don’t have “Find you Asian Bride” ads running on top of my posts.
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Maybe there are not ads for “Find your Asian Bride” here, but on your About Me page there is a Google Ad for galleries of beautiful Fillipina women. Maybe Google should change the name from Google Adsense to Google Nonsense.
Because talking about equality between men and women surely adds up to an ad for pictures of beautiful foreign girls.
Stupid Google.
I actually just took the banner ad off the home page because it was asian brides again. Yeah feminism, politics and Gloria Steinem scream mail order brides! I just checked this morning and now it is Manorhouses. Apparantly I need to get the popularity of the main site up so I dont have to scream the values of feminism while facing “Place You Subjugation of Women Ad Here”
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