Wednesday, January 23,2002
Talk about fun stuff.

Apparently this site is now indexed by Google. Anyway, the end result is that people are coming here as the result of their searches for various things that I’ve talked about in the past. Several people have come here looking for Toshiba 1800 4K1, which if you’ll recall is the laptop model number. For those of you looking for my review - basically I love it. Having used it for a couple of months now, we’re extremely happy with it.

Other searches? Touchable bubbles actually made an appearance on the search terms list. That reminds me that I should get some of those to play with.

By far the most interesting (to me anyway) is the searches for Dori Doreau though. After seeing where I place on google under some of those searches, I was struck with how deep people are willing to search to find a link - sometimes my page didn’t show up until the 9th or 10th page of results… Anyway, the Doreau searches got me thinking about Sledge Hammer stuff on the web, so I did a little searching on my own. Apparently some episodes were released on VHS, which surprised me. Also, there were only 41 episodes made, so I’ve got over half of them on tape already - 5 tapes with 5 episodes each, plus another 5 episodes waiting to be archived… Kinda scary.

The most interesting thing that I found though, came courtesy IMDB, where I learned that Al Jean, and Mike Reiss both wrote for Sledge Hammer, before joining the Simpson’s as writers and Executive Producers. Not only that, but the theme songs for both shows were done by Danny Elfman. It’s interesting to see the things that some people wind up working on during their career in Hollywood. Danny Elfman’s list of credits is pretty impressive - including such classic themes as “Weird Science” and such crappy movies as “Hot to Trot

Ah, IMDB, where would I be without you?

Never mind that though, if you do a search on Ebay for sledge hammer, you’ll find actual sledge hammers mixed in with Sledge Hammer comic books, and a Sledge Hammer that was actually used in the actual filming of an actual movie - The Mummy Returns - there I go with the IMDB links again.

Ok, enough about all the movie linkage and stuff. Here’s hoping more people will be searching for my next Simpson’s quote (quotes seem to be searched for quite often too)

“HI. I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such self help tapes as ‘Smoke yourself thin’ and ‘Get some confidence, Stupid!’”