So I'm multitasking earlier today -- writing a column for tomorrow's deadline, taking out trash, pressing some shirts, listening to Bellini's Norma on NPR's World of Opera ...and I take notice of a particular visitor in my stats.
No, I don't know who he is, but what I did notice was that he got to my blog from a treas.gov domain. Now, a domain is a domain is a domain, and I do want the traffic, but...but....
A government worker in on a Saturday? He's obviously up to no good, I thought. Mark Twain told us, "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session," and we can I think safely extrapolate this warning to the bureaucracy our legislators create.
Ah, but I offer reassurance! You see, my (or should we say, "our?") bureaucrat found The Anger of Compassion via search.msn.com, and what were his search words?
"kerri walsh pictures"
Relax, friends. We're safe.
Sleep well.
UPDATE (1 September): He's got a brother at the Federal Reserve, who checked in on Monday -- looking for the same pictures. Now, I always imagined that people at Treasury and at the Fed would justify all of their computers by the complexity of the mathematical and econometric models they were building. And input for those models comes, I guess, in the form of pictures of Kerri Walsh and Misty May.
You could choose worse models. And maybe we should just thank our lucky stars that they're pursuing pictures of Kerri and Misty rather than going Weimar with the money supply.
Posted by Craig Ceely at August 28, 2004 10:15 PM