MooPig Incoherent Numbers Division :: "We Have a Million Page-views"

IDK, Maybe We Should Re-take Our Vows
by Pat Darnell  |  June 29, 2014  |  Bryan TX

From an obscure point in time, in an essentially unknown city, on a day like any other day MooPig became a blog. It appeared first in a beta version of blogger provided by Google. That was in 2006. There were no measuring tools provided for blogger in those days. Then sometime in July 2007, stats began being kept by Google for MooPig. In July '07 we had 22,456 "Page-views."

Too much excitement for us!

So we subscribed to Googles measuring tools. Today we passed one million views. What it intrinsically means, I don't know, IDK.

So to put this in perspective, we rely on comparisons. And, like all blogs, we will exaggerate our importance by comparing our page-views to a totally unrelated famous person. For grins and shits, let's say Miley Cyrus posts this note in her "whatever" electronic device and sends it out over the net ...

Cyrus has a heart condition called tachycardia, which is a resting heart rate exceeding normal. In early 2014, Cyrus suffered an allergic reaction to the antibiotic, Cephalexin, prescribed to her to treat a sinus infection. Due to the allergy, Cyrus was hospitalized at a Kansas City hospital (straight out of Y ikki peed ya)..."

Miley Cyrus will get a million page-views as fast as it takes a million fingers to punch in a million "LIKES."

MooPig is a blog about nothing in particular, that is, it does not follow one subject, but rather zigzags, winds, twists, turns, curves, curls, bends, and snakes its merry way around issues and malarkey that catch its attention. About nothing, for nothing, sells nothing, slowest growing rag in the natural world, is our MooPig blogger dot com.

[What MooPig really is:  3000 letters to my six children, who have never read more than 0.01% of it. PD]

BUT WE HAVE A MILLION PAGE-VIEWS! Gosh darn it, that's amazing.



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http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2009/02/faccia-di-porco-vacca.html
http://fourleggedlove.wordpress.com/about/

MooPig Hyper-vigilance Department :: "Caffeine"

We Tried to give up Coffee
Mixed  martial Articles by Pat Darnell  |  May 31, 2014  |  Bryan TX

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 "I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein," says John Daly infamous golfer.


Caffeine and ADD: "Another way that caffeine can cause problems is by inducing a chronic hypervigilante state, also called “anxiety”.   Some people are genetically prone to hypervigilance, and caffeine puts their system into overdrive.   Anxiety causes severe problems with concentration and memory, and sufferers often described going “blank” in the middle of a conversation.  They are restless and may fidget.  This is easy to confuse with ADD. As the severity increases, the anxious person may experience a dry mouth, cold hands and feets, problems falling asleep, restless sleep, chronic fatigue, and even panic attacks.  In certain people, caffeine can induce all of these symptoms. Sometimes anxiety comes on gradually over the years, and no one notices that it is connected to caffeine consumption.   In highly sensitive people, even one cup of tea is too much.  Anxious people must eliminate ALL caffeine and other stimulants."

'via Blog this'

CONCLUSION
Quitting caffeine, well it just isn't possible.





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http://borntoexplore.org/caffeine.htm
http://borntoexplore.org/sitemap.htm
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/03/acqua-di-puzzo-lodore-di-acqua-cattiva.html
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/w/wcfields122537.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/12/golfman-gentlemans-hero.html

MooPig Site Review :: "Facebook -- Privacy Enemy Number One?" Part Two

HIGHEST FORMS OF PARODY:
"It's clear why folks would associate this kind of deceptive practice with Zuckerberg. Although Zuckerberg told users back in 2007 that privacy controls are "the vector around which Facebook operates," by January 2010 he had changed his tune, saying that he wouldn't include privacy controls if he were to restart Facebook from scratch. And just a few days ago, a New York Times reporter quoted a Facebook employee as saying Zuckerberg "doesn't believe in privacy". (Jones, Tim. 29.04.2010, HERE)"

Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"
APRIL 29TH, 2010 | Commentary by Tim Jones | Retrieved EXCERPT by Pat Darnell HERE

Social networking companies don't have it easy. Advertisers covet their users' data, and in a niche that often seems to lack a clear business model, selling (or otherwise leveraging) that data is a tremendously tempting opportunity. But most users simply don't want to share as much information with marketers or other "partners" as corporations would like them to. So it's no surprise that some companies try to have it both ways. (Jones, Tim. 29.04.2010, HERE)

Monday evening, after an exasperating few days trying to make sense of Facebook's bizzare new "opt-out" procedures, we asked folks on Twitter and Facebook a question:

The world needs a simple word or term that means "the act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users into sharing more info about themselves than they really want to." Suggestions?

And the suggestions rolled in! Our favorites include "bait-and-click", "bait-and-phish", "dot-comfidence games", and "confuser-interface-design".

Although we didn't specifically mention Facebook in our question, by far the most popular suggestions were variations on this one from @heisenthought on Twitter:

How about "zuck"? As in: "That user-interface totally zuckered me into sharing 50 wedding photos. That kinda zucks"

Other suggestions included "Zuckermining", "Infozuckering", "Zuckerpunch" and plenty of other variations on the name of Facebook's Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Others suggested words like "Facebooking", "Facebaiting", and "Facebunk". [read entire article HERE...]
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"As Conti describes it, a good interface is meant to help users achieve their goals as easily as possible. But an "evil" interface is meant to trick users into doing things they don't want to. Conti's examples include aggressive pop-up ads, malware that masquerades as anti-virus software, and pre-checked checkboxes for unwanted "special offers"." (ibid)

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