January 2007



Currently at my home, we have five televisions. We’ve often had them all on at the same time, each one doing something different. Usually, though, we just use our variety of splitters to watch the same thing on several tvs at once. Four of them are named:

  • Fuzzy, named for its picture quality.
  • Cornery, for its location.
  • Malibu, because that’s what’s written on the piece of masking tape on the back of it.
  • Scanner, because we usually leave it on fox on mute in case simpsons comes on.

We also have a great many systems which are connected to these tvs:

  • One VCR, in addition to the VCR’s contained within Malibu and Scanner
  • Antenna
  • New XBox
  • PS2
  • 5-disc DVD Player we found in the hall being thrown away (?!?)
  • Nintendo
  • Super Nintendo
  • Security Camera (I’m not kidding, though we still need to get a lens for it)
  • Probably five other things that I’m forgetting

We also have an audio mixer with an increasingly complicated setup. We’re working on expanding this situation, on both fronts. That is, we’re looking to get more TV’s, and we’re also looking for additional things to play on those TV’s. Any thoughts?


In the past month, the top eight keyword searches which have yielded my website are as follows:

  • duffell
  • fishs
  • “saad hopkins”
  • www
  • paul duffell
  • moving fishs
  • aiyana knauer
  • skull of power

I would number them, but the only one that has more hits than the others is “duffell”, with two. This, I suppose, is a reasonable search to find my website, as is, to a lesser extent, “fishs”. “Saad Hopkins” is interesting; I know he’s the type of person with an unusual name, very low internet profile, and probably dozens of people looking for him, so I hope they’re not too disappointed when they find out my website merely lists him as one of my favorite jews. Interestingly enough, my “favorite jews” list apparently makes up a quarter of the search engine hits on my website. To me, it’s just the duffell.org equivalent of the myspace top 8.

“www” baffles me to no end. Who searches for “www”, and what ungodly search engine places my website high on the list of such a search? My guess is, this is just a bug in Google Analytics, but it’s an interesting concept nonetheless. Now to the really interesting ones: “moving fishs” and “skull of power”. I am sincerely proud that both of these searches yielded my site, and that someone from Brookville decided that my website was a good source to read about the skull of power. I just hope he wasn’t trying to do a book report. Actually, that would be really cool.

By the way, Aiyana, whoever was looking you up online is from the Bronx. Just thought you might like to know.

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