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Do Not Mess With The Youngna

So picture this – I’m trying to gently slide into the NYC blog scene, at least the portions of it I find non-intimidating. I go to a Slice Club meetup and am bewildered by the number of people I don’t know. But there, sitting right near me, is a nice young girl who it turns out has *also* gone to Cornell. And she brought cookies.

This is how I became friends with Youngna Park – one of my [absolute](http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngna/27948681/) [favorite](http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngna/22524458/) [photographers](http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngna/7942700/) [EVER](http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngna/3868339/) [!](http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngna/3783812/)[!](http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngna/5294855/)[!](http://www.flickr.com/photos/youngna/9438858/)

Anyhow – Youngna was in Barcelona last week, and in the most cosmically unfair thing ever, had her bag (and thus, camera) stolen. Why do bad things have to happen to good people?

Dens (of dodgeball fame) has set up a Paypal fund-raiser, and I invite you all to contribute if you have a couple bucks rattling around your Paypal accounts.

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Best Of Happened Puzzled Over

“Like A Gay Porn Site With A Mac Bent”

Oh dear. This one is going to haunt me for years.

Google recently introduced some neat free stats for webmasters, and being the eager webmaster I am, I decided to sign up and enable myself.

What I found is that while many of my top search terms are reasonable (“quicksilver os x”, “play asia”, “ny1”), my #5 Top Search Query and my #1 and #2 Top Search Query Clicks are, in the words of Rob Huebel, “un-savory”. And the problem is, I know why – at least partially.

This one is potentially not safe for work. You’re going to have to click through for the rest of the story.

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Cheat To Win

Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:29 PM]
Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:29 PM] D=
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:29 PM] I did the same thing in 1998 against a girl I was playing Scrabble against online, using a program called X-Words Deluxe.
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:29 PM] I had bet the girl over the game; whoever lost would have to write the other an 8 page letter.
Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:30 PM] I did not know this existed
Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:30 PM] ahahaha
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] I won, obviously.
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] She wrote me the letter.
Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:30 PM] That is so amazing
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] A year later, I would admit to cheating.
Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:30 PM] I am gonna hustle people at scrabble now
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] She would hit me repeatedly.
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] Three years later, we got married.
Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:30 PM] =O
Matt Fernandez (AIM) [7:30 PM] That’s so romantic
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] Shortly after that, I started working full time for the company that made X-Words Deluxe.
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] I would tell my bosses this story.
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:30 PM] They would laugh.
Dan Dickinson (AIM) [7:31 PM] And that concludes Dan Anecdote Hour.