The headline is a figure of speech. We haven’t really gone to Mars.
We did manage to crack the 100,000-view mark, though–122,005 views during 2019, an increase of 23,000 and change over last year. That excited me, but I have to admit that that’s a pretty boring sentence. If I read a bunch of numbers, my eyes start to glaze over.
Last year we averaged 269 views a day; this year, 334.
(“Stop that!” Byron the Quokka shouts from offstage. “Nobody comes here to read a bunch of numbers!”)
Well, I just wanted you all to know that, thanks to you, this blog is doing well. WordPress used to do these year-in-review pieces for us, but they don’t anymore. They also used to have this nice little falling-snow-effect around Christmastime. They got rid of it two years ago. I always liked it, although one of my readers, the first time she saw it, thought there was something expensively wrong with her computer. I asked a WordPress engineer if he could reinstate the effect. He said, “You can get it back, but you’ll have to do it yourself. All you have to do is write some simple code…”
Belay that! The last time I was even suspected of writing code–and it would have had to be by accident–I wound up with light-blue print on a light-grey background. Some of you might remember that–wasn’t it awful? I mean, it was just about impossible to read! You could go blind, trying. Somehow my tech support expert at Chalcedon, Jill, restored it to normalcy. So, no code! And sorry, no falling snow on the home page.
Well, so much for my year-in-review report. See you later with a cat or dog video.
But Joe Biden said even coal miners can learn to code, by god. Congrats on the increased traffic along with the increase in influence. Keep it up, brother.
Y’know, what if they don’t freakin’ want to sit around coding all day? What if they’d rather get nice no-show jobs with foreign energy corporations? Can you fix that up for us, Joe?
It’s amazing how cavalierly the Left is William g to decide your fate. Some coding jobs are good, but many are in the electronic equivalent of a sweat shop.
You don’t see Biden or Obama coding.
BTW, meddling with other people’s lives is the whole reason for being a leftid.
Or those coal miners could learn to do brain surgery, right?
Besides, most of the new coders are being brought in from other countries on H-1B visas as cheap labor anyway.
Oh, well! If you don’t have any money, you can’t screw up The Planet–right?
A SIMPLE CODE!! Why didn’t we think of that? That’s all we need to put pictures into comments. Well, well, ah, I have another question, but let me hear yours first – lol.
Glad to see more hits on the blog!
It’s dried up, these last two days. Viewership way, way down. I don’t know why.
Oh no I’m sorry to hear that!
You should see my book sales figures. Much worse!
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