Lost Classics

Skippy has called for all of us to recommend posts that would make good sidebar additions. I have been late in answering. But, I just found something that isn't on the sidebar and that I think is a neglected classic that all of you should read.

The story of that really hot teacher who got busted for doing it with students. Skippy's comments reflect exactly the kind of things I was saying when that event was in the news, only he says it a lot better. It's best when you're initially impressed with a blog post or essay, to let it sit for a while, then read it again before you put your name next to a claim that it really deserves a place alongside the immortal words that have already stood the test of time like My Own Personal Jesus, People vs. Paris Hilton, or Long Dong of the Law. But this one belongs on the list of things to at least consider as candidates for that list.

Oh and it turns out that shit I said in Skippy's comments about Google indexing was all wrong. It looks like Google now doesn't include blogs in a regular Google search. If you search 'Skippystalin' in Google, Enjoy Every Sandwich doesn't come up. You get mentions of him on other blogs, ones that don't have blogspot in their URLs, and you also get one sandwich-shop post--not sure why--but not what I would expect. I think this is a recent change, because I'm pretty sure Google search results weren't like this the last time I searched on Skippy.

They haven't excluded blogs from the Google index. If you search "obama site:enjoyeverysandwich.blogspot.com" then you'll get Skippy posts with the word "obama" in them. That's a neat trick I learned a while back that really comes in handy if you're like me and you find yourself thinking back to blog posts you read a couple of years ago and wanting to read them again. You put your search term(s), then "site:" followed by the non-www parts of the url of the site you want to search. But you can do that, and get results from a specific blog. Or you can put "site:blogspot.com" to get results from blogspot blogs in general. I think they also have a blog search feature out there somewhere, but I couldn't find it right away and didn't bother to actually look.

If you just search "skippystalin" some of his comments will come up because the comments are hosted by haloscan which doesn't have the word "blog" in the URL.

This is interesting because blogger is Google. There's probably some blogger out there putting new dents in his crash helmet and spilling his drool cup over this screaming something about his dissent being stifled or something. But it makes sense. Most people think of bloggers as drooling crash-helmeted retards only because they haven't read enough blogs to know that most bloggers make retards look like Einstein. Google is just recognizing the fact that a whole lot of moronic bullshit will come up if they return results from every blog with the regular search. Their search engine is their flagship product. On the other hand, I get all of my news from Skippystalin.

The point of all this was that what I said about adding shit to the sidebar getting it indexed on Google was probably right, but that won't cause it to come up in a normal Google search anymore. In order for Skippy's posts to come up in a normal Google search, they will have to be someplace that doesn't have "blogspot" in the url. For that to happen, Skippy will have to register a domain name, or find somebody who has one and copy all the posts to that place with a link on the main page that leads to a page from which you can find links to copys of all the rest of them at that same URL. I know that Skippy probably doesn't want anybody to be able to whois search his actual info and I wouldn't either. But Hosting Matters has a deal where you can have their company name and address registered as the owner of the URL and that will show up when someone does a whois search on it and that is all the info anybody without a warrant will get out of them.

There could be some value in having all of Skippy's old posts indexed by Google in a place where they show up in regular Google searches. More people googling their way into Skippy readership will increase the chance of Conan O'Brien, John Stewart, or the Onion hiring him as a writer which should have happened years ago. Hopefully a trade war between us and Canada doesn't get in the way of that. I really hope both Obama and Hilary are both lying about their plans to start such a thing.