Hallowe'enish 2024

Clocks fall back an hour today! The EU have really dropped the ball on doing away with this nonsense.

• Surfing the Skookumchook Narrows, BC 
• Gazing at N Korea from PRC.
  
• Should absolutely ban school home-work [PDF chapter from (Caitlin) Moranthology]
• Don't whack trees . . . the NPWS will whack ye back
• Bruce "Mutagen" Ames [whom prev] dead: link to MeFi obit post
• Breadporn: more . . .
  
• Valencia:
• France:
• Pies in Murcia:
• Cleaning drains in Oz. "Where would you rather be? Fishing??"
  
• or less

Heyhey, a milestone of sorts. The Blob passed 2 million pageviews yesterday:

This ship has been sailing for nearly 12 years and has cluttered 2.5 million words into the internet servers. It's great therapy for me [whoa: oversharing TMI etc.] but I do check to see if it has utility for others. It took 3 years to pass 100,000 pageviews; and another 3 to pass the half million. So The Blob is doing the state some service?? But there is a strong suspicion that PVs are driven as much by B◎ts as human 👁👁. Case in point:

It is frankly incredible that as many, like, people checked in to The Blob last Thursday as in the whole month of September. I've seen these blips before, and then activity, as recorded by Blogspot, settles down to bumbling along at a few hundred PVs a day - much of that scrapers, spiders and bots but some real people [like you-hoo, dear reader] as well. Have a great day wherever you are.