doesn't anyone in africa or antarctica love me?

All right. Time to issue a blog challenge. According to my sitemeter, I've had visitors from every continent other than Africa and Antarctica. So, let's all make use of our seven degrees of separation and find someone on these fine continents to visit me.

Africa shouldn't be that tough. I just KNOW that one of you knows someone who knows someone who knows someone over there. Antarctica, on the other hand, will be a bit more difficult. I don't even know if they have internet access there. I just jumped right in and posted this without googling that point.

Why should any of you care? Simple: fame (very limited) and fortune (also very limited). Whoever manages to arrange a visit from Africa will receive mention on this very blog (exciting shit, eh?) and an authentic trinket from Africa, of which I have several and will give you your choice.

Now, the grand arranger of an Antarctic visit will receive a mighty fine beakman (THIS one, not that science guy) T-shirt, the design of which is in process. The winner will be pleased to know that actually wearing the damn thing is NOT REQUIRED.

So email this post around and please mention it on your own, far-finer blog.

And now... a totally unrelated quote:

"No one who ever bought a drill wanted a drill. They wanted a hole."