Well, it's difficult to describe what the business model was going to be. I never did launch SpamHisAss.com but I did build the software. Should I renew or go set them to expire? Is anyone interested. I'll give em to you cheap.

Fish taco porn, originally uploaded by astoriahermit.

Oh southern California. Oh fish taco.

Arizona Roadtrip, originally uploaded by astoriahermit.

On the road to my ancestral home in San Diego. Jonesing for some mexican food.

The New York Times has a piece on the Freakanomics blog about Rice and Prostitutes - What do rice and prostitutes have in common? by Steven D. Levitt. I'll admit the subject matter was the hook that lured me in, but the discovery of a Giffen Good is what kept me. Here is the first couple sentences... I definitely recommend a quick read:

Rice Girl. Italian movies, posters and publicity. A film that played on the success of Bitter Rice. La risaia/RIce Girl, Raffaello Matarazzo, 1956.

Thanks ItalianGerry. It's pretty great.

Christmas time in NYC, originally uploaded by astoriahermit.

Rockefeller center. The tree is up. The masses are ice skating and some fellow just proposed to his girl on the ice. Its almost 11 and the center is packed.

And now that I look at this on the web, it looks like an impressionist painting and not much of a photo.

For the last few weeks I've been running an AdWords campaign to advertise my wife's online store selling her knit goods, www.bernicesutherland.com. It's been really interesting and has lead to sales. I am running three campaigns, one targeting just the US, one targeting just Canada and one targeting both US and Canada but is a display campaign. If you want to see the creative for the display ad head over to my home page.

At any rate, I'm killing it with impressions in Canada but am getting better performance in the US (based on Click Through Rate, CTR). I am debating what to do next, I am getting most of my clicks from Canada and while the US ad is performing better, fewer clicks mean fewer opportunities for conversion. Have a look for yourself

Yes, this is what I've gotten myself into.

There once was a girl from St. Paul

Who went to a birth-control ball,

With high expectations

To give demonstrations,

But nobody asked her at all.