Appearing at random intervals in my archives and increasing the degree of difficulty in restoring said archives is a lengthy text file of pings. It’s got a sort of Dada Poetry feel to it so I thought I should save it somewhere. Only a few people will truly appreciate it, but that’s ok. It makes me laugh to look at it. I’ve removed the IP addresses but haven’t edited the ping excerpts themselves. There were large expanses of gibberish in between many of the pings that I did delete, so this isn’t a complete record of pings or anything grand like that. The stuff I deleted had ended up as hundreds of lines of scrambled text, it wasn’t worth saving here.

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PING:TITLE: My, it is early, isn’t it?
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000476.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 07/13/2002 08:30:05 AM
Did you know 70 million Americans suffer from insomnia? And a good chunk of those are due to physical ailments, thought the internet, caffeine, and other things are to blame as well. (Can’t find the CNN link to that – damn, their website is sloooow – i…

PING:TITLE: blogathon blog
URL: http://kdblog.com/archives/001360.php
BLOG NAME: kd: a blog
DATE: 07/17/2002 03:19:31 PM
10 days to go!

PING:TITLE: rumsfeld gets all zen with it
URL: http://kdblog.com/archives/001363.php
BLOG NAME: kd: a blog
DATE: 07/18/2002 01:40:23 AM
discovering the unknown unknowns with the secretary of defense

PING: TITLE: Random links, and why I just love science
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000496.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 07/24/2002 04:11:44 PM
This just in – Ezrael uncovers Cryptozoological Scandal!!! Jon Sullivan exposed! Er, literally! More weird links, and science hooha. But first – Tara has a nice new blog design – I envy minimalism, wish I could do that. And strangely I’m having new-fur…

PING:TITLE: Hangover time
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000503.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 07/28/2002 03:55:56 PM
I have *such* a hangover. Last thing I remember…something about Peru….and penguins. Really freaky penguins. I’m so proud of everyone for making it through the long haul! And all the money raised for good causes! Congratuations to everyone! Oh there…

PING:TITLE: Well Done!
URL: http://www.tripewriting.org/archives/2002/07/000400.html
BLOG NAME: Tripe Writing
DATE: 07/29/2002 03:52:23 AM
Well done to all who took part and managed to blog for an incredible 24 hours!! My particular thanks to

PING:TITLE: simply brilliant
URL: http://kdblog.com/archives/001412.php
BLOG NAME: kd: a blog
DATE: 07/31/2002 03:37:33 AM
and very weird

PING:TITLE: BatChat, Davezilla, and Elvis Hooha
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000533.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 08/15/2002 06:27:37 PM
Batchat is on for tonight at 9pm central. Click here and come on in! I’ve been scampering around trying to get things done – I’m off to Houston for the weekend to meet up with the parental units. I will return Sunday and be quite quite insane, I’m sure…

PING:TITLE: And so we go into the wilds of New Jersey…
URL: http://loungebunny.net/pdl/archive/000162.htm
BLOG NAME: psychic departure bunny lounge
DATE: 08/16/2002 12:13:01 PM
It’s the other wedding this weekend. I’ve still got to water the plants, feed the cat, and find some decent shoes to wear, stop at the post office to mail two “special delivery” packages to my sister (sis – pass along the little package to dad, please …—–

PING:TITLE: On the road again…
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000534.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 08/16/2002 02:18:53 PM
In a few hours I will hop in my car and zoom off into the sunset. Actually I’ll zoom into the humidity and smog that is Houston, after a few hours of eyeballing the glorious Louisiana highways. It has been raining down here almost constantly – oh sure,…

PING:TITLE: How Elvis Really Died
URL: http://blog.brassjarproject.com/archives/000032.html
BLOG NAME: Brass Jar Project
DATE: 08/16/2002 06:33:43 PM
On this, the anniversary of the death of the King of Rock and Roll, I thought it would be appropriate

PING:TITLE: WWJD
URL: http://blog.brassjarproject.com/archives/000043.html
BLOG NAME: Brass Jar Project
DATE: 08/27/2002 11:23:54 AM
Advertising Pitch PepsiCo Re: The “What Would Jesus Dew” Advertising Campaign Ladies and Gentlemen: I believe that I have before

PING:TITLE: Another Batty moment
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000549.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 08/27/2002 04:12:07 PM
Every now and then I do something vaguely goofy that’s a very me-ish thing. Only this time it really wasn’t my fault (I always say that), it’s the weather. The Platypus and I were coming back from lunch and the sky opened up and began dumping rain. Not…

PING:TITLE: Weird phone call day
BLOG NAME: A N A R C H T I C A
DATE: 09/03/2002 05:43:06 PM
Well, it’s official… Skarlet is my first official ping for her “Weird Phone calls”. Only three people in the entire

PING:TITLE: …
URL: http://www.cairine.org/archives/000888.html
BLOG NAME: cairine.org
DATE: 09/09/2002 11:29:58 PM
More reason for me to shoot root beer out of my nose and onto my monitor

PING:TITLE: Vicodan is Goooood
URL: http://www.undisturbed.org/blog/archives/000534.htm
BLOG NAME: undisturbed.org
DATE: 09/10/2002 04:33:08 PM
Visited my doctor this morning. No concussion, just pretty banged up. He gave me a nice prescription for vidocan and

PING:TITLE: Yawn, what time is it? Is it still Thursday?
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000568.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 09/19/2002 04:36:55 PM
I slept til 2pm today. Which was quite nice – I still have this cough and feel whacked from that hell virus. But now I’m all confused as to day and time. Oh and the reason you didn’t hear from me in here yesterday? Wednesday is the beast of the week

PING:TITLE: Squirrely
URL:http://adventuresintothewellknown.com/archives/000095.sh
tml
BLOG NAME: Adventures Into the Well-Known
DATE: 09/23/2002 10:25:53 AM
Skarlet has been on a bender lately about squirrels. I thought perhaps I could contribute. Gives me an excuse to

PING:TITLE: Yes, I can talk and blog at the same time
URL: http://houseogroove.com/cuppa/archives/000589.html
BLOG NAME: Cuppa Tea
DATE: 10/03/2002 05:56:58 PM
So I have my laptop set up in the living room of my uncle’s lakehouse. Because it’s the only place with the phone line. It’s quite a nice place – not even remotely close to camping out. Two bathrooms. Lovely view. Wood floors. But I am in the middle of

PING:
TITLE: Darwin Rules!
URL: http://today.icantfocus.com/blog/archives/entries/000036.xsp
BLOG NAME: I Can’t Focus
DATE: 10/15/2002 06:03:59 PM
I found this little nugget over at the Punk Princess by way of the Recently Updated list… “…I could