{"id":191,"date":"2004-03-01T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-01T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=191"},"modified":"2005-12-30T08:05:27","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T13:05:27","slug":"a-lonely-outpost-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-lonely-outpost-on-the-internet","title":{"rendered":"A Lonely Outpost on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It finally happened. Someone has hit upon a Google search for which Virtual Memories is the ONLY page to come up. The search terms, you ask?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;lr=&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;c2coff=1&#038;q=methylenedioxymethamphetamine%20farted\" target=\"_blank\">methylenedioxymethamphetamine farted<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Should I be worried that someone was looking this up at 2:30am on Sunday night\/Monday morning?<\/p>\n<p>Did the user have an embarrassing moment at a rave this weekend? Inquiring minds . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It finally happened. Someone has hit upon a Google search for which Virtual Memories is the ONLY page to come up. The search terms, you ask? methylenedioxymethamphetamine farted Should I be worried that someone was looking this up at 2:30am on Sunday night\/Monday morning? Did the user have an embarrassing moment at a rave this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/a-lonely-outpost-on-the-internet\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Lonely Outpost on the Internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-35","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1049,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/search-terms","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":0},"title":"Search terms","author":"Gil","date":"July 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We all know people who have Googled past girlfriends or boyfriends (\"just to find out what they're up to,\" of course). Okay: we've all Googled past girlfriends or boyfriends. Fine. Sometimes, the former partner's name is common enough that the search is fruitless. Other times, the person has a really\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Apes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Apes","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/apes"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6278,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/who-am-i-21","url_meta":{"origin":191,"position":1},"title":"Who Am I?","author":"Gil","date":"February 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently, I'm an asshole. (To quote Denis Leary.) Here's a screencap from my Sitemeter dashboard: According to the IP address, this search was done by someone in my office. Yay, me! 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