Looking for a sponsor

I notice that many of the better bloggers have sponsored ads on their sites. That seems like a good idea. I need some visual punch, and a nice ad would be a good design element.

But I want to choose my sponsor carefully.  I want something reasonably connected to the blog. Not something random, like penis enlargement pills. Which don’t work, by the way. I know you think they would, because people are selling them everywhere. I must get two or three emails a week offering me a deal. The companies that sell them seem well intentioned, but they should invest more time in training their staff. The emails are always full of really bad typos. Like ‘p3n1s’ for ‘penis’. You’d think that people who work for a penis enlargement company could at least spell ‘penis’. Weird.

Anyway, they don’t work.

I was thinking about a good sponsor when I remembered a ‘story’ I heard about something that ‘happened’ when someone was reading this blog. Apparently, this has ‘happened’ to a number of people who read the blog. A number. Not a natural number, but not a fraction either. At least not a proper fraction. If you know what I’m saying, and I think that you do.

It turns out that a number of people have been reading this blog while eating their breakfast or drinking some coffee or something when, and this can happen, they laugh so hard that liquid comes out their nose, splashes on their tablet and shorts it out.

So, I want to get the waterproof case people to advertise on my blog. It seems like a really good fit, right? There you are, reading along when SPLAMMO. A giant gush of coffee and whatnot (I don’t ask) comes flying out your nose and shorts out your tablet. You go, “Damn, I should have had a waterproof tablet cover.” And then, “Hey, look, on Chuck’s blog they’re advertising.” That would really be helpful. Not for this tablet, but for the next one.

I wrote that first part of the blog, then I came back to it, and I now realize there is a problem. It’s a pretty big problem, and I should probably just delete this post and pretend it never happened. But I don’t roll that way. And besides, then you wouldn’t know about the penis enlargement pills that don’t work.

Here’s the problem. Maybe you’ve figured it out because this (just) happened to you. If you short out your tablet with coffee and whatnot, the screen probably goes black. And then you can’t see my ads. And that’s a problem.

Maybe I should have told you to put down your coffee before reading this, or maybe not.