Automatically flowed Google ads are smarter than I thought
We’re still in Albuquerque having the car oil changed since we’ve traveled 4400 miles so far and the recommended oil change for this Toyota Sequoia is every 5,000 miles. While surfing the net in the Toyota waiting room, I noticed that my editorial from the current issue, titled The parasitic nature of bureaucracy, is now the lead article on the BHM website. Google ads are flowed automatically beside most of our articles as a way for us to help pay the expenses of the website, and if you go to the editorial you’ll notice that the Google ads don’t distinguish between the political metaphor I used and real human parasites. But the ads Google automatically flowed are hilarious, and they have the effect, I think, of elevating my metaphor to the hilarious absurdities of America’s bureaucratic problem. We’re real close now to launching both Jackie Clay’s and David Lee’s weblogs. Technical considerations had to be ironed out. Annie is now in the process of teaching Jackie to be a technical wizard on the World Wide Web. David Lee will have no problems with the technical aspects as he writes about his unusual building techniques. You’ll be able to ask both Jackie and David questions and they’ll answer them in their blogs. I’m glad to be out of Albuquerque. The city that was about 30,000 when I visited it in 1964 is now 1.3 million. A traveller at the motel where we stayed had something stolen out of their vehicle, so it sounds like the Albuturds Silveira and I encountered back in 1964 are still on the loose. It’s also 94 degrees as we leave town. The surrounding countryside is a big desert. What a stark contrast to all those beautiful lush open spaces we passed through in North Dakota and Montana.
