Dim Blog: Conversion from type ‘HBDim’ to type ‘Funny’ is not valid

No, not Dim Sum. Dim Blog.

This was one of the hidden slams by Diesel at my blog and other blogs at Humor-Blogs.com when we try to click on one of those smilies and get instead a page that begins Server Error in ‘/’ Application. For more on the phenom and where I completely stole my idea for this blog post (since I can’t come up with anything original on my own [1]), see Lobo’s analysis of the global blogging crisis (well, at least to those of us on Humor-Blogs.com).

Those two words were hidden in line 20 and funny thing (or not so funny because it really ruined my entire day since my existence revolves around seeing how many clicks I get on Humor-Blogs.com [2] and in turn clicking on Lobo and other funny bloggers like him, of course) is when I tried to click on a post, I got a message on line 19, that said: “Dim Post.” It doesn’t matter which post, any of them, I get the same message. Hey, if you don’t like my posts, that’s one thing, but then to call me “dim” on top of that? I call that unfair.

Or maybe I can put it in words you understand, Diesel.

 InvalidCastException: Conversion from type 'HBDim' to type 'Funny' is not valid.]
  Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.Conversions.ToInteger(Object Value) +1174
  Dim.Blog..ctor(Int32 BlogID, HttpRequest Request, HttpResponse response) +696
   BlogProfile.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in D:\INETPUB\291\BlogProfile.aspx.vb:20
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99
   System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint Read: DIM BLOG) +143

[1] No, it’s true. See Exhibit A, Exhibit B and worse, Exhibit C (where I steal from my own wife and Shirley & Co.).

[2] No, sadly, that’s true too. That and napping with my cat. Ask my wife and my sister. Plus just figure in the time it actually took me to put together this post with all the links (and parenthetical remarks like this: dim post + dim blog = dim bulb).

Addendum: 10/31: 8:20 AM: EDT The Great Pumpkin has arrived a little bit early and graced us with Humor-Blogs.com votes now working. Oh, thank you, Great Pumpkin and oh, you too, Diesel. :-)

What am I blogging for if not for you?

A post by DrowseyMonkey this morning got me thinking about why am I blogging? My answer– for all one of you, my loyal lone faithful blog reader– is this:

What am I blogging for if not for you,
What am I blogging for if not for you,
What am I blogging for if not for you,
oh nobody else, nobody else will do

What am I longing for each lonely night,
To see you click on my blog before I turn off the light
You’ll be the only blog reader my whole life through,
Oh nobody else, nobody else will do

I want you reading my blog that’s all I know,
I want you all the time (checking out my blog)
because loyal lone faithful blog reader
I love you so

What am I blogging for if not for you,
What am I blogging for if not for you,
What am I blogging for if not for you,
Loyal lone faithful blog reader, nobody else, nobody else will do

What am I blogging for if not for you,
Loyal lone faithful blog reader, nobody else will do
nobody else, nobody else will do

– adapted from Chuck Willis’s “What Am I Living For,”
words and music by Fred Jay and Art Harris

and when I say Chuck Willis, I don’t mean this Chuck Willis (excuse the language or not; didn’t even deserve to be embedded), I mean the original Chuck Willis who sang the original song (not the Van Morrison version, which admittedly I haven’t heard but I don’t wanna, so there– blech):

[Ignore the video, which is OK, and just listen to the song, which is the real deal.]
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And even though I’m not all about the clicks I receive on Humor-Blogs.com, loyal lone faithful blog reader, because I blog only for you, every click you put at Humor-Blogs.com helps this guy not wonder what he is blogging for.

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for the original and not another cover or parody like this, the Original “Chi” Gangsta is back in da house laying down some new posts.