"Soccer Player Dies During Game" Site Hits

Just an interesting observation:

I have a tracker on my blog telling me the general locations (e.g., city and country) of people who visit this site. If a visitor to my site has located my site via a search engine (e.g., Google) then this tracker will typically show the search words the visitor entered into the search engine that brought them to my site.

Interestingly, in the past few years, I have had literally hundreds of hits on my site by people from all over the world who are entering the search words "Soccer Player Dies During Game."

This search term brings them to this blog post of mine from 2006 which features the YouTube video of then 24 year old Hungarian soccer player, Miklos Feher, who collapsed on the field and died of a heart attack during a soccer game back in 2004.

It is obviously a very profound video. Very sad. Quite disturbing, actually. It makes me want to ask each individual who visits my site with this seach term the question, "What drew you to conduct this search?" I can imagine there would be an array of answers.

Interesting, indeed.

The Long Road (To Dry Hair)

Difficult times in life are, in a sense, like blowdrying one's hair. You've spent a great deal of your morning in the shower, preparing for another day. You get out of the shower and then subconsciously think to yourself, "I've still gotta blowdry my hair. Damn it, I absolutely hate blowdrying my hair!" But, deep down, you know you must do the deed (no, not THAT deed) if you are to do anything with your day.

Therefore, you pull out the dryer, flick it on, and sit there waving the thing back and forth over your head as if you're practicing to lead an orchestra. In the first few minutes, you feel as if you are never going to get through it. You've been blowdrying your hair, using all the motions you can think of - including bending over and flipping your hair (not quite the bend and snap) in a desperate blowdrying attempt - and yet your hair continues to be wet.

For a moment you begin to feel hopeless. You think - why? Why me? Why this freaking stupid thick hair? Then, suddenly, as if out of nowhere, you notice a little dry strand! A few more minutes pass and you notice it is even more dry. Finally, voila! You are done! Not only that, you know you think you look sexy and proceed to wink at yourself in the mirror!

In the end, all the shit you went through was worth it and you can finally see the end result. Do most people think this in-depth about the experience of blowdrying their hair? Probably not. In fact, one might argue that, on a much larger scale, people often forget to think that there is light (or dry hair) at the end of that long, long tunnell.

By. Holly H.

I Stand

I stand outside your door and watch as others try to assist you. Your agitated behavior makes it very difficult for the staff to leave you alone. They must watch over you constantly so that you do not hurt yourself. A lady asks you what time it is - it's 4:00. She asks you if you know where 4:00 is on the clock. You raise your once strong but now rather weak arm and make an effort to point to the clock. Those who are watching you are desperately hoping you know where 4:00 is, but to be honest it's really hard to tell if you know for sure. They go on and tell you, "very good." Very good.

I stand inside your door and gaze upon the pictures of you which your loved ones have strung up around the room. There you were, before this happened to you. The smile on your face tells one you never could have predicted that you would be here, in this serious place, right now. Your young skin, your young wife, your young child - all forever changed. From your picture I can see you once wore an earring. The clothes you wore were rather stylish, too. Your personality must have been quite vibrant. One can only imagine you were once very happy. For now we can only hope that, perhaps one day, you and everyone else will be very happy again.

I stand outside your door again and listen to your mumbled cries, "Help me! Help me!"

I will do my very best.

Secret Images on Google Earth

Go to this link and check out this video (the poster doesn't give a link to where I could simply embed the video on this blog):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dto3mB__0Io

I thought it sounded a little fishy at first until I pulled up Google Earth (and regular Google Maps satellite imagery) myself and located the images. I also located some of them through TerraServer , another satellite imaging service.

Here are the coordiates for some of the images (you can look them up by typing in the coordinates on TerraServer):


37"37'41.16" N ; 116"50'54.22" W - Some suggest this symbol was placed by the Illuminati.

37"24'04.94" N ; 116"52'04.38" W - Interesting star.

19"56'56.40" S ; 69"38'01.40" W - Gigante de Atacama.

Here is what Wikipedia states about that last coordinate:

"The Atacama Giant (Spanish: Gigante de Atacama) is a large anthropomorphic geoglyph in the Atacama Desert, Chile.Located at "Cerro Unitas", this is the largest prehistoric anthropomorphic figure in the world with a height of 86 meters and represents a deity for the local inhabitants from 1000 to 1400 AD."

Interesting.