Huge milestone earlier this week. And by huge, I mean HUUUUUUGE. We're talking the size of Louie Anderson after an omelette bar, folks. Yesterday, when I got back to work after vacation, it was my distinct pleasure to realize that...
*drumroll*
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*that's hardly a drumroll, I'm just asking for a few quarter notes*
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*and no, it's not good enough if you just bang your hands on a desk, I want some actual snare drums involved here*
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*You know what may sound nice now? Some kettledrums.*
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*What? You lost the gloves for your kettledrum mallet? Some operation you're running here. I'll announce now just to spite you.*
My site is now blocked by the web filter at work!
That may not sound like a true accomplishment, but to me, it's a sign that I've made it. Right after I started my job, the powers that be installed a web proxy that kept us from visiting certain sites. In the two years since, I've watched with egg on my face as more and more of the sites I visit are classified as Not for Work Purposes. It burned me up on the inside not to be included. Who the hell is Websense to tell me this site is relevant to my employment? I thought about doing a week of nothing but hardcore porn posts, just to show them. After several months of fuming, I just gave up. Much like being the first black astronaut, this represented a goal I simply could not achieve.
And then, sometime recently, Fortuna smiled in my direction. She didn't just smile as much as she dry-humped me like a lonely German Shepherd. When I got back from vacation and went to check something on the site, I was greeted with a glorious image that read "Access to this web page is restricted at this time." When did it change? When did I make the stunning leap from "vaguely suitable" to "ehhh... we don't like the looks of this"? I have no idea; I believe that my week of nothing but hardcore porn posts had something to do this with it, but I can't be sure.
To commemorate the newly certified status of this site as unacceptable, I would like to offer up the following: weiner weiner weiner, poop poop poop. Now that the blocking has occurred, I have nothing to hold back.
Posted by Cody at July 6, 2005 6:12 PMCongrats. And, just out of curiosity, do you happen to know if my site is blocked as well? I've always wondered what netfilters would think of my site. But since the food court at the mall doesn't have public internet terminals. I suppose I could use the computers at the libary, but then I'd have to make an appointment and use Windows and other things that aren't worth the trouble.
Posted by: shawn at July 6, 2005 11:44 PMTo be honest, I've always been a little scared to hit your site while at work. Not that I think your oeuvre is scandalous, I just imagine there's some automatic firing procedure that starts immediately after I go to a site with spank in the title.
Posted by: Cody at July 7, 2005 8:51 AM