There's been some big news lately, as my Jamaican half-brother, Asafa Powell, broke the world record in the 100 meters. Asafa, I am very proud of you. I don't know why you dogged it in Athens after I touted you to all the visitors of this site, but I'll let it slide because of this. If, however, you think being a world record holder allows you to be Team Captain at our family reunion horse shoes game, you better think again. Some things are a little more tricky than just running really, really fast, and I've proved my mettle as captain year after year. So just back off, okay?
But this post isn't about Asafa Powell, it's about the people of the Internet who searched for Asafa Powell. For whatever reason, if you do a Google Images search for Asafa, an image from my site is one of the first results. In the past day or two, people have linked this pic of mine all over the place as the news broke about the 100M record. The picture in question:
Well, if an assload of people are going to post pictures hosted on my site onto their messageboards and blogs, it's completely understandable that I'd do something idiotic. With this in mind, I have replaced the former, very popular, much trafficed pic of Asafa with the following picture of Cheech Marin.
The end result = pure delight. You want to see some hijinks in action? Why, just click the following links!
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There are more. Ohhh, are there more. And while I have no idea what most of these say, the lesson is the same: if you rely on this site for your multimedia needs, you'll must abide my increasingly moronic whims.
Posted by Cody at June 16, 2005 6:38 PMby the end of the night, i predict your death by the hands of some crazed jamaican track enthusiast
Posted by: xyz at June 16, 2005 8:33 PMMasterful. It will be interesting to see how long before Google Images either bumps off the original picture or replaces it with the misnamed Cheech picture. This is not only mischievous fun at the expense of jerks with no understanding of proper netiquette, it is an investigation into the inner workings of Google Images. Kudos to you.
Posted by: shawn at June 16, 2005 9:01 PMFirst of all, I did not know the OC was so lesbian centric. I never watched until tonight, and both hours were like an Indigo Girls concert. That is to say, I am intrigued.
Second, I like Shawn's point. I will be monitoring the google images' results to see when they change over to Cheech.
Posted by: Cody at June 16, 2005 9:07 PMI think nowadays you have to have lesbians to make a network tv show work.
Posted by: Frito at June 16, 2005 10:17 PMWell, it clearly got me hook, line, and sinker. I'm strong, but strong enough to resist network tv level lesbianism? Come on, man.
Posted by: Cody at June 16, 2005 10:27 PMI knew it. You ARE the Spoonbender.
Posted by: Brendan at June 16, 2005 10:58 PMI'm no linguistic elitist, but judjing by those hijinks it appears that only the French, German, and Meposian ripped you off.
Will an American (or any english speaking person for that matter) please step up to the plate and prove to everyone, that we too can steal bandwidth from an innocent unicorn-loving, Austinian . Can I get a Woop Woop?
Posted by: Ryan at June 17, 2005 10:14 AMFirst, Brendan is clearly projecting his terrifying manchild love for the Spoonbender onto me.
Second, Ryan has a point. I have absolutely no idea what language is being spoken on most of those sites. Here's one in English that I didn't link:
http://johnwburris.dyndns.org:8000/johnwburris_blog/?postid=96
Posted by: Cody at June 18, 2005 10:56 AM