Hotlinking the Vegetable

I love this picture, it really turned out well. These crocuses were the very last flowers to appear this year in the yard. I've always thought of them as harbingers of Spring, but they have done double duty. The syrphid fly hung around for a day, and I haven't seen it since.

An access for this picture showed up yesterday from a thread in Misanthropist's Journal. It's a place where anyone can reply, I didn't need to register.

They're playing a game with these rules:

1. What’s the first word that comes to mind when you think of me?
2. Go to http://images.google.com and search for that word.
3. Reply to this post with one of the pictures on the first page of results (don’t tell me the word).


princessa125 searched for fork and here's the current results page. Two of my pictures are on the first page, neither one of them a picture of a fork. The spiders are picking up the name of the blog Middle-Fork. I like the serendipity, but it suggests that there is a lot of room for improving the situational semantics of the search strings. Blog titles are like band names, you can maybe assume that Lawnmower Puppies will be more radical than Winter Elk, but even that much is iffy.

Anyway, I replied to _itsjustme_ and princessa125:

My photoblog is named Middle-Fork (http://www.middle-fork.org/). I get a lot of hits from the image search engines for fork, usually with some other word, like "robot fork". Who searches for pictures of robot forks? Anyway, glad you like the picture, there are a couple more of this insect (a syrphid fly) at this insects on flowers archive (http://www.middle-fork.org/archives/insects_on_flowers/index.html).

the Robot Vegetable


I had placed the urls and associated text in hyperlink tags, and the LiVEJOURNAL interface disassembled them and displayed the constituent parts. LiVEJOURNAL enforces enlightenment! Is that cool or what? Probably or what, I'm not sure what I think yet. If you simply type in the url, the interface makes it a link and displayed the url as the link text.

princessa125 said:

ok... that was weird. how did that dude track us to LJ????? anyhoo, i just picked fork randomly. i wanted to send you a picture of a bracelet made of forks that was really pretty, but the page wasn't working. so i sent you the next weirdest thing.

to which I just responded:

Hi,
I didn't track you - you walked into my house and looked at a picture on my living room wall. That's how the web works, when you follow a link, like clicking on an url here, you ask some far away place to show you something, and the server gives it to you and jots down a note saying "so-and-so just looked at whatzit." I like it when people see my pictures, and try to say thank you. so, Thanks again!

veg

That's why I think maybe 'or what' people don't know they're being enlightened.

The original post.
Insects on Flowers archive