I Found the Strangest Things on My Way Here

Have you ever wondered what your IP address would be if it were a poker hand? If your IP were turned into a bit map, what would it look like? What color would your IP address be? These and other questions are answered at this curious web site. My current ISP score is 18 which is roughly 9410th out of 69616. How these things are determined is outside my realm of understanding. But that's why we post IP Spotting here among the strangest things on my way here.

That's Dilbert, Catbirt, Dogbirt, Ratbirt and probably a few I left out. Scott Adams' character, Dilbert, has his own official website. If you missed his daily appearance in your local paper or perhaps live in the far reaches of Outer Slobovia and can't read the daily wisdom of Dilbert, just visit Dilbert's web site and you can see the latest strip. Unlike many comics, Adams allows readers to send copies of the daily strip to anyone they want. There's even an archive of the last month of Dilbert Cartoons.

For the first 20 years of my life I avoided anything that even approached spicy. Occasionally I tossed a little pepper on a hard-boiled egg. But that is the extent of it. Then something happened. I tasted something spicy one day and wanted more and more.

If you find yourself to be the same type of person, you just have to visit Chile-Head. The webmaster declares himself to be: "a Mystic Fire Priest of the Transcendental Capsaicinophilic Society." The site is filled with all sorts of information about chiles and why and how they make us respond the way we do. It explains the Scoville Heat Units (SHU) method of grading spice level of various peppers. It also includes a database of chili recipes, snacks, and sauces.

No! This site has nothing to do with that. It's about TV dinners. The Single Man's Guide to TV Dinners actually reviews TV dinners. A short (paragraph or two) review on various frozen dinners. His rating system consists of various smiley faces that range from "Oh yeah!!" to "Ugh!! I think I'm Gonna Puke!!" I especially liked the author's pet peeve about frozen pizza. "Why is it that they never include packets of crushed red pepper with these pizzas?" While I didn't read every review completely, I didn't see any reason why this site wouldn't be helpful to those married couples with conflicting schedules that only allow them to eat together on alternating Sundays in months with 31 days in them.