Remeber when I used to have Weekly Wraps? Yeah, me neither. I’m sorry, I just got busy.
Here’s the deal, I am still going to do weekly wraps but they may not be a confined within a true week. It might be a week, half-month or even a month but my point is that I still want to do them.
This month was hectic. I tried switching from justhost.com to dreamhost.com. I couldn’t figure out how to do it. I ended up losing most of my images for my posts. But one plus is that the site now runs much faster and I have doubled my index in Google and Bing while still staying at justhost.com.
As always, if you don’t read this post please at least check out the Dummy IQ links below. Have a great weekend!
Castlevania II Simon’s Quest on Mar 2, 2009
Do you remember Castlevania 2: Simon’s Quest? I didn’t conquere this game with the Game Genie. I had a players guide without pictures. All that work for a craptacular ending.
How to Get Rid of Gas on Nov 6, 2011
Do you have suffer from too much gas? Do you wish you could get rid of it? Here is one easy way to get rid of your stink-stink! Actually it is just a picture that brought in 24 comments so far! 
Smallville Moon Contradictions on Nov 17, 2011
*Que Theme Music* Sombody save meeeeee…. something, something, lady doddy….
Smallville was a great series that was really only 10 minutes long each episode because they used the same scenes over and over in order to save tons of money!
This Week’s Boost Your Dummy IQ Links:
- Powered by Mental Pills: Tony McGurk has been just like the Red/Blue Blur from the series Smallville. I can’t keep up with his current location. But you know what? That is okay. It took me over two years to find my Scholar Mel gimmick. Tony has landed upon, what I think, a genius brand for his site! He has a nice size following which is his cake. His icing is the new title for his site: “Powered by Mental Pills. Google Mental Pills on Google.com and you will see that Tony is 2nd only to Time.com! I love it Tony. Smart thinking!
- The Shame Report: If you don’t like the NFL then move along because this will bore you. The Shame Report is by Dave Dameshek. It is a little bit of humor for your week where Dameshek highlights the top 5 most shameful events within the National Football League.
- Trekkies Bash New Star Trek as ‘Fun Watchable’: This is a parody found at the Onion. It is an oldy but since I just found it then it is a newdy… wait, that didn’t come out right. Here is a quote from one Star Trek fan, “Yes it was exciting but where was the heavy handed message about tolerance, where was the stiff acting, I mean it just didn’t seem like a Star Trek movie to me.”
Shame on them, burning off valuable fuel like that. They should have pumped it into a tank where it could be donated to people hit by these hard economic times.
BTW Did you know only some humans produce methane? I’m a walking encyclopedia on all things intestinal. For an additional laugh on this subject (does it ever get old?) please see
http://hotdorkage.hubpages.com/hub/Floaters-and-Sinkers-and-Meth–Oh-My
Thanks for your stinky comment. I meant that in a good way
I’m heading over to the link you provided.
Hey Mel, why do I have to fill out the “leave a Comment” fields every time? It’s giving me gas Mel….gas, I say
I have no friggin clue. That is odd but I have been having the same problem at other people’s blogs.
I use safari browser and wonder if that has something to do with it.
If I can figure out how to fix this I will. But your gas peoblem is your problem. I can’t fix that
I will NEVER switch hosts. I don’t trust anyone to keep my posts
Who do you use?
Obviously someone he doesn’t trust, since he doesn’t trust anyone.
Bearman did say that he doesn’t trust anyone. Hmm…
Why don’t you just go back to wordpress.com if you keep having problems?
I’m having the same problems as you and Friggin. (Safari here too)
WordPress.com is limiting. I want to have ads on my site. I can’t do this with wordpress.com.
I want to have tons of cool plugins. Can’t do this wordpress.com.
I want to have better control over my SEO with things like the All-in-One-SEO plugin. You get the picture.
I apoligize for you guys having to enter your info over and over.
I’ll try and research this and write a post on it if need be.
There wasn’t any smart thinking involved. I was struggling for a new name as I thought it would cause confusion using the same T.M.Comics name for a new site. Anyway I have used “Powered By Mental Pills” s the taglne for nearly every blog I’ve had. I was digging in the veggie garden pondering potential site names when I thought to just use my old tag line that I’ve been using forever. Plus it fits well as I do take Lexapro for anxiety disorder…
I disagree. I still think it is smart thinking
Are you able to keep track of your traffic? I kind of wonder how many hits you get for people looking for information on mental pills.
Yeah, Tony, maybe you should run some ads. . .
He is running on blogger so ads are a possiblity for him. Just remember that 3 is the limit on a site and one has to inform others somewhere on their site that they make a profit through Google ads… which I still need to do.
Mental pills is always my highest search result. I had one search result with someone looking for “Golf mental pills”??? Guess golf is a more stressful game than I realised.
On TM Comics I made one reference once to Pinky & the Brain being Barry & Cedric’s favourite TV show & after that “Pinky & the Brain” became my highest search result every day. Nothing else ever knocked it off the top of the Keyword” search list.
I tried Google Ads once & in 6 months I made a grand total of 5 cents. They said they paid out when your account got to 50 bucks I think it was. I figured because it was a pay per click thing they were getting free advertising even if no one clicked them. If I’m gunna give a company the size of Googe advertising space then I want payment for the ads just being visible on my site & not dependant on clicks..
Who knows though? Maybe you are setting on Fort Knox with the Keyword Mental Pills?
If your traffic gets real good you could go a different route and make money through ads the way you were talking about.
You want a worse way to get rid of gas? My wife used to live by Carswell AFB in Texas. Every month, they had to burn off unused fuel or they’d get their allocation cut. They did have some piston-engined aircraft,though, so if you were friends with someone on base (as my wife was), they could borrow your car once a month and tank it up for you. Yes, even a 1978 Pinto will go like a bat out of Hell with 104-octane SUPER Premium gasoline on board!
That sounds really cool.
I do find it odd that they had to burn off unused fuel. But hey it’s the American way
Well, in the byzantine logic of the military, if you don’t use your monthly allotment of something, you have to send back the unused portion. Then they reduce your next allotment by that much. So, to ensure you never run short, you over-estimate, and destroy the excess!
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(I do believe they have cured a lot of these old-time insanities. Most, but not all!
Just as long as nobody does this with ice cream then everything will be okay.
Does that Ferrari cologne come in a car version?
Well, it comes in New Car Smell if that is what you mean.
No, I was looking for a real Ferrari cologne car (not to be confused with a fake Ferrari clone car).
They don’t let me in on the secrets. I’m just their model which equals I’m just their stupid
Sounds very frustrating, Mel!
The sites I scratch built (old webcomic and former store sites) were both served up by dreamhost (and fortunately I never had any problems). Lately I’ve just stuck with free WordPress stuff, though (less stress, and honestly, the templates are full of useful stuff I wouldn’t have the first clue how to write…)
Dreamhost would have been great if I started there but instead of fixing a problem for me they want me to go read a tutorial.
The tutorials are very thorough but I don’t have that kind of time. I have had my problems with justhost but when I have a malfunction they just fix it instead of me trying to figure everything out.
I have become spoiled.