Tuesday, November 14, 2017
MyFaceGoogleLinkedBookPlusInSpace is stalking me
I was a bit surprised to see an ad for the ceramic Department 56 National Lampoon Christmas Vacation The Griswold Family Tree on FaceGoogleLinkedMySpaceBookPlusIn. It was surprising because yesterday, Bunny came across a picture of an inflatable National Lampoon Christmas Vacation The Griswold Family Tree and was threatening her brother with it. She did a search and found the one on Amazon and sent her brother the link.
Now, why would I be getting the ad on LinkedMyFaceGoogleInSpaceBookPlus? Is FaceGoogleLinkedMyBookPlusInSpace listening in to us via our phones? Does the NSA have a sideline of selling information to advertisers to help their bottom line? Is LinkedMyFaceGooglePlusInSpaceBook psychic (or psychotic—could go either way)?
No. It's just simple tracking via the web [“Simple,” he says. Ha! —Editor].
Bunny did a search for the Griswold Family Tree (or something along those lines) and some of the resulting pages she visited included bits of of HTML or Javascript or images that said “person from such-n-such IP address did a search for this.” And some of that tracking is either done directly by GoogleLinkedMyFacePlusInSpaceBook or is sold to them. Bunny does not have a LinkedMyFaceGoogleSpaceBookPlusIn account (she did at one point, several years ago, for all of five hours) but that doesn't mean FaceGoogleLinkedMyPlusInSpaceBook doesn't keep track of her. They do.
But what does that have to do with me?
Well, I do have a MyFaceGoogleLinkedInSpaceBookPlus account. And GoogleLinkedMyFacePlusInSpaceBook knows I log in from the same IP address that did a search for “The Griswold Family Tree” and while I may not have been the one that did the search (since the search wasn't tied to an account—and just because I'm not logged in doesn't mean LinkedMyFaceGoogleInSpaceBookPlus can't track my viewing habits on the web), I did come from an IP address that did! And thus, I too, might be interested in the ceramic Department 56 National Lampoon Christmas Vacation The Griswold Family Tree.
No, not really.
New York? Chicago? They have nothing on Detroit pizza
My favorite pizza place is a bit of a drive. A twenty-hour drive of nearly 1,350 miles to Buddy's.
Yeah, I don't go there that often. It's a shame, because the pizza is that good. It's Detroit-style pizza, made in square, blue steel pans (from the automotive industry) with the sauce on top, and yes, Buddy's defined Detroit-style pizza.
And guess what? There's a video on Youtube about Detroit-style pizza:
![[If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Detroit-style pizza.]](/2017/11/14/Detroit-style-pizza.jpg "If properly dried and trimmed, New York-style pizza could be used to make a box for Detroit-style pizza.")
My dad, who probably hasn't had Buddy's Pizza in thirty years, still pines for it, and kicks himself to this day for not getting the receipe from his sister (who worked at Buddy's for a number of years).
Darn. Now I want Detroit-style pizza.
Update on Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Now I really want Buddy's pizza.
