the smedley log - suburban scrawl

Where you’re from

-because tracking software only tells me so much, there’s a poll in the sidebar.

I am saddenned by the lack of respect you’re showing our interplanetary friends. That’s atypically thoughtless of you. So, if someone offplanet decides to give this site a whirl, and they realize from your poll that they don’t count – my eyes are welling up at the thought. Must dab.

Seriously, are the polls going to be a regular feature? Cool idea if they are.

Do you mean where we’re looking at the site from?
Or where we’re daydreaming about being (as in “I wish I was home eating X exotic fruit and far away from this humidity”)

Ellen – I swear I’m not quite that xenophobic. To prove it to you, I’ll amend the poll with an option to add other answers – a functionality I’m sure nobody here would abuse

And yes, I thought it would be neat to make the polls at least semi-regular, though I fear, after just two polls, my creativity is already being strained to come up with new questions…

Luna – I won’t hunt you down for taking liberties with my poll, but the original thought was where are you viewing the site from?

But again, it’s not exactly scientific, so giving your fantasy answers wouldn’t present much of a integrity issue for me.

You might think about a “where would you rather be viewing this site from” question. But, me being the lone “foreigner” in the mix so far, you should probably take that with a grain of salt.

Good idea. That may be the next step, but I’d have to muster enough creativity to come up with those kinds of questions first. Can I use that?

Speaking of which, readers should feel free to send prospective poll questions – it would be a great relief to my over-extended creative abilities. Seriously, comment or email them…

Your mother has raised you well.

And now aren’t you glad it wasn’t a gender question. At work we have Male M, and Female F, and Default ~ [our generic default in formerly-nullable fields] AND Unknown U. I’m guess that’s if the parents (or the gutter) never had that talk with you??? We stymie consultants left and right with our 4 value gender dimension.

BTW - For the geographic poll, is the intention for us to answer for each occurrance we are on page or once period – because I only saw the tally the one time (and I swear I kept it to one) I answered.

If you change IP addresses and erase your cookies, you can probably vote more than once. Not that I’m advocating that…

Ahhh..no..it says I’m perpetrating electoral fraud!