10.14.2003
invasion of spiders
At the end of September I posted a brief something that mentioned african cave-dwelling spiders. In that post, part of what I said was:
...weird "African Cave-Dwelling Spiders" on teevee. notice the quotes -- google bait. if anyone's come here looking for info about them, and finds info elsewhere after not (obviously) finding it here, come back and give me a comment. i'd appreciate it.
I've just checked my referrer logs. Don't take my word for it, go here. That's just an excerpt, only the part from google.com. See how many of those were for "African Cave-Dwelling Spider"? Know how many comments I got from google searchers? NADA. It's just disquieting to me that that many people were, as I'd expected, trying to find some information about those freakish things and not ONE of those searchers had the creative oompahpah to leave a damn comment. I realize I indicated that I hoped anyone who found anything about them would come back and leave me a comment, but it seems to me...
UPDATE: See my newer post, where I've solved the mystery of what these things are.
I'm not complaining about not getting comments in general, mind you. Some of my usual flumbernumpfers left some things, for which I'm grateful, as always. And then Heather from ephemeron left me a comment, and she's not a regular, so that was appreciated. But what I don't get is how it is that people stumble here and don't take a second to post a comment saying, "hey, weird, I'm looking for stuff about those things too." WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
Maybe I'm just bitter because I still don't know anything else about those creepy things. Now of course I'm no entemologist (though there was a period of time in my kidhood when I thought that's what I should metamorphose into,) so I don't know what I could really hope to learn. I'd like to know if they spin webs, if they're actual spiders or some other arachnid... things like that. (lies; I just want to be sure they are of this world, and not minions sent from a dark body orbiting Nemesis to take over our bodies from the stomach out.) What I have discovered is that there's a woeful lack of good online compendiums of pictures of spiders divided by classification. Divided by ANYTHING. Ranked by ugliness, sorted by how many times someone's seen them... anything. This is a niche someone better take advantage of. Just think of all the hits you'd get! (I got nearly as many hits for the same search term from various other search engines, including yahoo and google.ca.)
Now here's a challenge: right now, if you've come here from a search engine, leave me a comment. It's not difficult, there's a link that says "comments" right down at the bottom. Are you even now being mined by these things for life-sustaining minerals? Are you looking for a signal from your leader that it's time to meet up and do your weird, ritualistic dance on the rooftop, but are unsure which rooftop?
If this doesn't work, next time I'm going to draw a freakin' picture. Is that what you want!?!? Because I'll do it, damnit.
It's like that mashed potato mountain in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Everyone's got this image of African Cave-Dwelling Spiders in their heads now, and we're all trying to figure out why. Damn you Joe Rogan. Damn you.
