Doug Van Pelt

Robots Must Die!**

Had some fun times lately.

David Allen and his lovely wife and baby boy came to Austin last week and we met up for lunch. It was great seeing 'em. We had Tex Mex at one of our mutual favs, Taco Cabana. He's doing tattoo art now (real tats) and learning the craft. He shared with me some secrets of the trade, but I'm not gonna tell.
:?)

On Thursday my family and I went camping at Emma Long Park in Austin, which is a beautiful park on the Colorado River (I believe that's the Colorado that snakes its way through Austin). He had some delicious BBQ at The County Line. Very nice. Had good times. One of my daughters was baptized yesterday, as our church does something that's really cool (and I love to see churches do), which is having public baptisms.

** Those dadgum robots that search out places on the internet (like blogs or online articles) where they can leave "comments" and spam up a perfectly good website. The people that send these out are over-the-line and wrong. They should be spanked or have their computers taken away for a week (so they can think about what they did). The motivation they probably have is to try to boost their "google" status, and get more people to hit their website. But sending out their un-invited spam advertisements is beyond lame. If their product is so good, why do they have to use "trickery" to get people to pay attention? I wish I had a program to sniff out any robots that come to hmmag.com, track them down, and destroy them!
:?)

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at August 27, 2006 05:33 PM