I sat there in shock, a line of drool running from my mouth, and onto the keyboard. My eyes rolled into the back of my head, and I could hear the masses of the internet calling out my name in tribute. “Mike Scott, Mike Scott”, they chanted.

After weeks of hard work, it had finally paid off.

Well, maybe a week of hard work, but I did have that vacation right after I started the blog.

OK, so the posts so far haven’t been long and thoughtful, nor full of inflection and insight.

Enough of that, I did do some work on the blog. I mean, come on! Do you think these posts write themselves. Do you think I have a million monkeys typing in a room for eternity? Hell no!

I had a dozen monkeys with typewriters in a room for 4 hours (that’s all I could afford). Anyway that didn’t work out because the OCR software was horrible.

I must be doing something right, after all, I’m number-mother-grabbin-1! John Chow and Engadget can eat my shorts! Boing Boing, Gizmodo and TechCrunch will be forced to envy me as I sit high on my throne.

Anyway, I ran out to the mailbox to see if it was full of AdSense checks, and after I stopped crying when I saw that it wasn’t, I was hit with a realization. I don’t even have a banner up on the site yet.

I started to get suspicious.

Then I looked a little closer, and I realized that my Authority was 3. Hmm…

For some reason there was something wrong with Technorati’s site at about 2PM MST Saturday, and they were showing every blog, or at least all of the ones I found, as being #1, with the “top 100″ logo next to the rank.

I didn’t fake these pictures, they really are screen shots. I thought some of my favorite blogs might appreciate hanging onto them. I put mine in a Solid Gold picture frame, and placed it on my “I love me” wall.

Here is Incoherent Mumbling (Art’s Blog). For some reason it never generated the preview of your site.

Ghosts in the Machine’s Screen shot

Necessary Skills‘ Screen Shot

and even my old, abandoned, lonely, “red headed step child” of a blog, The Bit Bucket.

I apologize for the strange picture formatting. I tried to fix it, I even messed around with the HTML and the images, but WordPress just doesn’t seem to like it. I gave up after I finally had it this way.

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Credit for this one, or at least the blame, goes to my wife, Trish.

I came home, and she was laughing at something, and I am always interested to hear her laugh, especially when it isn’t at me.

Anyway, MSNBC is running a story, “Armless, one-legged driver sentenced to prison“.

Evidently, the man habitually broke the law, and a drug offender probation conviction finally earned him a 15 Year sentence.

Now you have to admire the guy, who taught himself to drive after he lost both arms and one leg in a accident. To quote the story:

He starts the car with his toes, shifts with his knee and steers with the stump of his left arm. He turns on the lights with his teeth.

Unfortunately the guy hasn’t had a valid license since 1985.

The fact that this man is handicapped, and going to prison isn’t funny. What made her laugh was the list of offenses. Tell me what is wrong with this sentence:

He has already spent more than three years in prison for habitually driving without a license, kicking a state trooper and other charges.

How exactly did he kick a state trooper? I think he was framed on that one.

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