Sunday, October 08, 2006
What's with the backpack ads?
The same thing happened on my message board!
The Googlebot picked up my last name, Kelty, and decided to post ads for backpacks on my site!
In case you didn't know, the name Kelty is famous for backpacks. This is what I nabbed from the Kelty Backpack site:
In 1952, Dick Kelty, a carpenter, builder, and avid outdoorsman, started making backpacks for his friends in the Sierra Club for 24 bucks a pop. His friends were grateful. These 24-dollar packs revolutionized backpacking, implementing for the first time Kelty's ideas of a hipbelt and lighter aluminum frames. Soon, Kelty and his friends were exploring the Sierra Nevadas with heavy loads, no shoulder pain, going farther, longer, and happier into the wilderness than ever before.
Five years later, Dick Kelty quit his carpentry business to start an outdoor gear company. Staked out in an old garage, he welded aluminum tubes into frames while his wife, Nena, cut, sewed, and fitted the pack bags. Today, Kelty gear promises the same dedication to innovation and getting outdoors that Dick Kelty had forty-eight years ago.
Kelty started as a company making it easier for friends to enjoy the wilderness, and that's what we still do. We just have a few more friends.
About ten years ago, my dad and Dick Kelty were staying at the same hotel in Palm Springs. Neither one of them knew this until Dick was checking out, and the clerk told him that there was another Kelty staying in the hotel. It's not a name you hear all the time, so Dick left his business card with the clerk and asked him to give it to my dad.
Eventually, Dick wound up sending us a great deal of geneological research that his daughter had done. We found no direct relation, but according to a book I read at a Scottish store in Solvang, Kelty was a family name rather than a clan name, so technically, all Keltys are related if you go back far enough. Like, if you go back far enough, we are ALL related to Mitochondrial Eve. It was still interesting reading all of the Kelty research. By the way, Dick Kelty died in Glendale a few years ago.
All I really know about the direct Kelty side of my family is that Grandpa Kelty would talk about his grandpa who came into the United States through Massachusets with his brother. That, and Ginger Rogers is his cousin. That would explain the tap dancing.
So, there you go, the Googlebot picked up my last name and is now trying to sell you backpacks. Next, maybe it will be Candie's shoes?
The Googlebot picked up my last name, Kelty, and decided to post ads for backpacks on my site!
In case you didn't know, the name Kelty is famous for backpacks. This is what I nabbed from the Kelty Backpack site:
In 1952, Dick Kelty, a carpenter, builder, and avid outdoorsman, started making backpacks for his friends in the Sierra Club for 24 bucks a pop. His friends were grateful. These 24-dollar packs revolutionized backpacking, implementing for the first time Kelty's ideas of a hipbelt and lighter aluminum frames. Soon, Kelty and his friends were exploring the Sierra Nevadas with heavy loads, no shoulder pain, going farther, longer, and happier into the wilderness than ever before.
Five years later, Dick Kelty quit his carpentry business to start an outdoor gear company. Staked out in an old garage, he welded aluminum tubes into frames while his wife, Nena, cut, sewed, and fitted the pack bags. Today, Kelty gear promises the same dedication to innovation and getting outdoors that Dick Kelty had forty-eight years ago.
Kelty started as a company making it easier for friends to enjoy the wilderness, and that's what we still do. We just have a few more friends.
About ten years ago, my dad and Dick Kelty were staying at the same hotel in Palm Springs. Neither one of them knew this until Dick was checking out, and the clerk told him that there was another Kelty staying in the hotel. It's not a name you hear all the time, so Dick left his business card with the clerk and asked him to give it to my dad.
Eventually, Dick wound up sending us a great deal of geneological research that his daughter had done. We found no direct relation, but according to a book I read at a Scottish store in Solvang, Kelty was a family name rather than a clan name, so technically, all Keltys are related if you go back far enough. Like, if you go back far enough, we are ALL related to Mitochondrial Eve. It was still interesting reading all of the Kelty research. By the way, Dick Kelty died in Glendale a few years ago.
All I really know about the direct Kelty side of my family is that Grandpa Kelty would talk about his grandpa who came into the United States through Massachusets with his brother. That, and Ginger Rogers is his cousin. That would explain the tap dancing.
So, there you go, the Googlebot picked up my last name and is now trying to sell you backpacks. Next, maybe it will be Candie's shoes?
