I recently created a new website for IU Quizbowl Club. It will be very useful in communicating with members throughout the course of this and future years.

I especially like the embedded Google Calendar, which serves as a single updatable source for our entire year’s schedule. It can be easily synchronized very easily to iCal, Google Calendar, or Mozilla Sunbird, and comes with a much better web interface than I could ever design myself.

Today, upon seeing the following image, it occurred to me that many memes on the Internet require a large amount of prerequisite knowledge to actually, well, understand. At all.

So I’ll admit that the above image is completely nonsensical, but it’s funnier if you recognize the context. The context, naturally, is something that could only be gleaned by spending plenty of time on the Internet.

Several years ago, somebody made a parody rap called “Bitches don’t know ’bout my dick.” In response, somebody posted this image on the Internet:

Ever since then, this picture has been endlessly Photoshopped, changing the face and words. Most notable of these parodies is the “BITCHES DONT KNOW BOUT MY DIABEETUS” picture featuring Wilford Brimley, long-time ex-actor (and guy who looks a bit like a walrus) on those Liberty Medical Supplies ads that run on random television stations occasionally. (Note also that “diabeetus” is a separate meme.)

Regarding the pylons–a famed real-time strategy computer game called StarCraft has a race called the Protoss whose buildings require energy pylons in the vicinity as power sources. Thus the “BITCHES DONT KNOW BOUT MY ADDITIONAL PYLONS” and Protoss head image which can continue to confuse everybody. If you want to really confuse somebody, go find a YouTube video about “…ADDITIONAL PYLONS” and show somebody unaware of memes and StarCraft. Hilarity ensues.

So I was just checking out the logs for my website, and I noticed several interesting facts.

• One person reached my blog from the Google results for “how to court a christian girl.” I have verified that, in fact, I am at the moment the first of two Google results for “how to court a christian girl” (with quotes), thanks to my old post about how stupid WikiHow is.
• Except for the aforementioned man searching for a Christian girl, most people getting to my website from Google are searching for acfdb. One person searched for “matt weiner acf.” I hope they were not disappointed that my website lacks Matt Weiner.
• In fact, 67% of my traffic last month was directed at acfdb, which is a good sign, seeing as I hoped acfdb would actually be used.
• 17% of the traffic is to my blog. The remaining traffic is fairly evenly split between the other sections of my website.
• Slightly more than half of the visitors use Windows. Very few use Linux.
• My most popular non-recent blog entry (by far) is the math stand-up one.

In conclusion, my website has quizbowl resources, Christian advice, and math stand-up.