Pink Feldspar: pinky's chicky cam and stuff

See this person? 👆 She has ridiculously managed to inflict a third injury on her poor thumb. It hurts. Can't get in for xray until Thursday. Whole thing is swollen and can't use it at all, but still doing dishes and chopping cabbage like a left handed pissy boss. BECAUSE I CAN. And no one can stop me.

While I take thumb breaks, let's see what else I've got in my phone. We got the chicks installed in the Quackerdome over the weekend and then Scott installed a chicky cam. I'm able to download recordings. Side note- I feel like I'm fulfilling my pinkyguerrero dotcom destiny with a live chick cam, since I swiped that to keep it away from a real porn star. 😂

Have I done these yet?

This next is mine, from oblivious blaze of glory.

Back when I had a LinkedIn account and Gary Graham was my first connection. I still have the email with the request.

Back when my life revolved around statcounter.

I used to get all kinds of direct and near direct hits. So... was this 👇 one of those actually two blocks away kind of hits, or a bored car dealer, or a bored companion of a car shopper? Don't worry, I've already deleted all the direct to house address hits all over southern Cali, and no, I didn't save them to anywhere else. Statcounter was deleted long ago, got tired of paying for it. I'm autist, I like maps. I've been fascinated with maps and globes of all kinds since the 4th grade. I could care less about your actual house and yard. But since I brought this up again, some of you remember that I got after my readers regularly early on for not using proxies, and I was very happy when readers actually took it to heart and I could no longer see their houses, yards, work and school buildings, hotels, and even a library parking lot. I've actually coached people on not using their work stations to browse because that shows up like neon on a good tracker.

And since I brought all that up, here is a partial rerun from 12-20-16 for clarity.

My second transparency thing has been playing around with tracking and thinking about making stats public, which involved tests on IP masking and code reinstalls and turned into a bigger headache than it looked starting out. I kept tweaking stuff, like turning off reports on crawlers and bots, wiping out all the IP blocking (I had that so screwed up anyway, all I could mostly see was myself instead of the other way around), generally just making visitor data more accessible. I installed a second statcounter tracker with different settings to see how they compare, and I was fine with the whole visible thing until I zoomed down on the map and actually got a real location, thanks to GPS on mobile, so there is no way I'm making all the stats visible. You guys can see a graph now, that's basically it. No maps.

Even when humans know how to mask their IPs, if they switch to mobile that has GPS locator turned on and ping my tracker without using data masking, I can sometimes see actual locations on a map. (It's rare, but it still happens.) I feel like I would be sloppy to allow all of that to be publicly available. I mean, some people I know check in all over the place on apps, you can see exactly where they are through the day and anyone following on social media can see that (but you can't see all their operating system data like you can on a tracker map), but other people might not want the world to know the actual building they're sitting in. The problem with making stats completely public is that, even with IP masking, a few people can still be zoomed into actual street and building on the map, and I know that because I could see someone in a named daycare parking lot (thank you, Google super zoom) with a timestamp on it. THAT is what I mean by protecting my lurkers by not publishing my stats. There are several of you I can see coming in from named work places, or I can tell how far you drive to work and back home, and it's not because you're careless or because I'm a stalker, it's just stats and I'm so used to seeing mine. (In the old Lexx days, I knew exactly where my 3 biggest 'enemies' logged in from, and one of them pinged from both a work computer and home computer so regularly that I could tell what her work hours were and when she went shopping or out on a weekend.) Most of you are getting really good at the IP masking, which is awesome, but unless you've got GPS locator turned off (I keep mine turned off out of habit), I can still see where you actually are if you are using certain mobile devices and browsers. Not trying to scare anyone, just saying that's why I'm NOT going full transparency and opening access to the awesome map. I wish I could, but I'm not a jerk. Otherwise it would be cute and fun to see all the pings coming in from cities and countries and stuff.

When you visit other sites, if you see a tracker, always check it out. If you can click on it and go to a data site, see if you can see yourself in the stats. If you can see everything about your operating system, IP, and location, so can the entire world, and once someone who for real deep stalks you figures out your patterns on public trackers, they can see with a few clicks what you're reading and when, and sometimes even where from. (Seriously, when you hang out with a group of writers who code their own sites, it can get that intense.) I honestly would never have thought of this stuff if I hadn't had people fighting over something in the past, and it really did boil down to watching public stats. This is why I love lurkers, and I will always protect lurkers. Some day everything everyone does on internet will be completely transparent just because one day it will legally all boil down to that, but for now, we can still be anons, free to glide through the ether.

No idea why I'm the only kid in my family who doesn't have red hair.

I still haven't tried this because it got so buried under moar screenshots. If I try it any time soon, I'll take a picture and share it.

So another 500ish+ screenshots off my phone!!! Slowly but surely. Would help if I'd stop adding more at the top, right? Like this one.

Since Flash is on tonight and it's all new shows lately, you get another Flash related vid. I don't always agree with Pagey, but it's always fun to speculate.