Jen pointed out that currently, this picture of Peanut shows up in the first page of results when you search for "parrotlet" in Google Image Search. Which is pretty cool. The last time I checked Peanut showed up under "parrotlet," but not in the first page of results. As caretaker of Peanut, the Master of the Universe, it's important for me to keep track of these things. So periodically I look at my web logs and recent visitors to see what's up.

Part of the reason this photo is ranking well in Google is because for awhile "rocin" was using it as an avatar on the "No Holds Barred" forum. This seems to be a fairly typical forum about fairly typical and boring things, but apparently it gets more traffic than my site does. So, thanks, "rocin," for hotlinking the photo for awhile and boosting Peanut in Google land!

The photo of Peanut on a bookshelf also shows up on "tikru's" Murr... Blogspot blog. This is in a language I don't recognize, but the blog entry called "kotona" appears to be a collection of photographs of creatures on bookshelves. While Peanut is awfully cute, that baby is pretty funny, too.

This photo of Peanut eating a sunflower seed on Bruce's iBook is popular. It's currently the 106th result on Google Images when you search for "ibook." Not bad, eh, Steve Jobs? Recently it showed up on a French-language forum that serves as an unofficial communty for the group Chick' N Swell. Keeping in mind that I'm using Babel Fish to translate, here's the story: "NaT" started a new game where somebody asks for an image, and whoever finds it gets to ask for another one. "NaT" asked for a rubber duckie, which was found by "Yuuga," who asked for a gray pussy (um, cat), and it went on like that for three pages. "Katrie" found a seal balancing a balloon on its nose, and then asked for a peanut on a computer. "HappyFanie" found Peanut. She (?) says (poorly translated, you'll notice, except for the first sentence which Jen helped out with): "Ok, maybe it's a bird, maybe it's fluorescent green, but it's named peanut! Died of laughing It is cute! (but it is really not the best places to leave small gifts, on the keys of beautiful a ordi! )" In fact, this photo is (currently) the only result if you search for "peanut+ibook" on Google Image Search.

MoNkEy_BoOP used this photo for awhile as a background image on her Xanga Site. I could never figure out why. But since it's such a nice photo of Peanut eating corn, you can click here for a bigger version.


The most interesting use of a Finster photo was on a "Smut Hut::18+" topic from the RaveHalifax forum. The thread has since been purged, but it started out when a forum member posted at least half a dozen very naughty photographs of a young and progressively naked young woman. There were at least half a dozen pages of conversation discussing the quality of the photographs (most people guessed quite a bit of airbrushing had gone on), and the woman's various assets (most people decided they probably wouldn't throw her out of bed). Finally, a fellow who's name I forget posted this lovely picture of Earl Grey and the late Decaffeinated. Along with the photo, he wrote:

so hot.

so hot right now.

So, I joined the forum (how could I resist?) and asked "What's up with the birds?" The answer was:

They have white eyebrows.

Aparently some ppl think white eyebrows are hotter than the girl featured in this thread.

Which, you know, explained everything.