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. :-)

WTF (Mostly) Wordless Wednesday #3: SNOW!?!?

Okay, I know it’s just a little snow where you can even see grass and nothing like what my wife experienced in her trip yesterday around Pennsylvania AND New York states. But hey, at least, I had my own photo and didn’t just Google it. It was taken this morning right outside my window where is it any wonder our neighbor has his house for sale? I don’t blame him for wanting to get the f**** (that stands for “freak”, Mom and Dad, in case you’re wondering, notice the extra asterik, just like the “f” above in “WTF” stands for What The Fahrvenugen) out of Dodge with snow already and it’s not even Thanksgiving.

What can I say? I’m a weather wuss. I saw a group of cross country runners from the local college out running in shorts today and all I could think, it was too ball shrinking cold to be out there. Even if it is above freezing.

Oh, that definition at UrbanDictionary.com? Dallas has got nothing on northcentral Pennsylvania. Of course, if you live in Canada, you can go ahead and put your mocks of me in the comments. I just asked for it by putting up the picture above, with grass still visible, didn’t I?

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