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The Problems with Living in Pittsburgh

Posted on: 1 June 2014 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

Here’s the short version: the roads, the weather, and the blue-collar mentality. That doesn’t sound so bad, right? Everywhere’s got at least three problems… Long version: As ever, I know that once I move, I’m going to eventually start thinking about how much easier life would be if I were only back in Pittsburgh. Preemptively

BKDunn.com Stats for 2012

Posted on: 1 January 2013 /

Categories: Self, Self Promotion

I don’t get enough traffic to get very interesting metrics. Instead, I get these. Most-Used Search TermsThese are the search terms that were most used to find my site (according to WordPress). Rank Term Last Note 1. diy tv stand 1 Still a bad project. 2. redwood tree NR 3. ford trimotor 3 3. la

Things That Are No Longer Interesting

Posted on: 9 June 2012 /

Categories: Humanity, Self Promotion

This is a sub-set. Zombies. Their day in the sun should have ended with Shaun of the Dead, which came out in 2004. The zombies’ 15 minutes are up. Adding the word “apocalypse” does not grant the zombie idea any new freshness. “Bacon” as a topic of discussion. Eating bacon is still fine. It’s also

How People Found My Blog Last Year

Posted on: 18 January 2012 /

Categories: Self, Self Promotion

The number one source of traffic for my blog is search engines. Crazy, I know. And I like self-evaluation. So, here’s this. The top 20 search terms used to find my blog in 2011: diy tv stand (and what a stand it is…!) forbes field (I have one photograph) ford trimotor (ibid, but at least

Cell Phone Photo Dump, 2011

Posted on: 18 December 2011 /

Categories: Photography, Self Promotion

Another year, another full flash memory card. Except it wasn’t full. Not by a long shot. Because I didn’t do very much this year but go to class. What a year! What a year. I should probably just start posting these on Facebook instead. Just that I kind of want Facebook to fail, so —

Spam Trap Wisdom

Posted on: 21 February 2011 /

Categories: Self, Self Promotion

I get a bunch of spam comments on my blogs. They either get filtered out by the spam filter (!) or stuck in my dark and somewhat dank “pending approval” queue from which they never return. It’s bots that leave them. They’re trying to mess with search algorithms by littering the blogosphere with their URLs.

Skiing Western Pennsylvania

Posted on: 12 February 2011 /

Categories: Self, Travel

It was nowhere near as absurd as I thought it would be. Granted, I went to the biggest and best resort Pennsylvania has to offer (Seven Springs, about 55 miles east-southeast of my house), but still: not absurd. One of the cool things about it was that, while pretty nice, it was unapologetically western Pennsylvania.

Bkdunn.com Top Posts of 2010

Posted on: 18 January 2011 /

Categories: Self, Self Promotion

Here were the ten most popular posts on bkdunn.com in the year 2010, which thereby richly deserve recognition. I’m omitting the counting numbers because it makes the whole blog seem pathetic. Do-It-Yourself TV Stand and/or Entertainment Center Part 1: Plans and Stuff to By – It’s a crappy entertainment center, but that title is such

Bye, Dave

Posted on: 10 November 2010 /

Categories: Self, Sports

I always feared this day would come. Edgar’s Double, 1995 That’s not just 50 seconds of baseball radio announcing, that’s vindication for everyone who lived in the Northwest from 1977 to 1994 and followed the local baseball team despite its historic ineptitude. Dave Niehaus was the man who made people think that following a bunch

My Life, 1998-2010, As Seen through My Amazon Purchases

Posted on: 29 October 2010 /

Categories: Personal History, Self

More show, less tell: 1998 The Mac Is Not a Typewriter, Robin Williams Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis Ball Four, Jim Bouton 1999 Stats Minor League Handbook 2000, Bill James Stats Major League Handbook 2000, Bill James Best American Short Stories 1999, Amy Tan (ed.) A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. LeGuin Scream, Dracula, Scream, Rocket

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