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28 November 06.
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People often tell me, `B, love the blog, but I wish it were easier to
read in the bathroom.' So, here it is: all the best entries, in
printable form. The
made-up reviewers rave:
- “It's both fluffy and informative!”
- “He spell-checked it!”
- “I replaced my copy of Esquire with this, and thanks to all
those charts and graphs, now my houseguests think I'm smart or something!”
- “Much more accessible than his book on statistical computing!”
- “It's a triumph of semantic markup!”
And if you're a publisher, take this as a prospectus. Quirky
books by economists are hot these days.
On to a few questions that have been gnawing
at me for a while. Let a `regular reader' be somebody who has visited
this here site eight or more times in 2006. Then I have over a thousand
regular readers. Data: 8,385 people visited once, 61 people
visited over 100 times:
| Visit Number |
Visits |
| 1 |
8385 |
| 2 |
429 |
| 3 |
169 |
| 4 |
101 |
| 5 |
80 |
| 6 |
65 |
| 7 |
56 |
| 8 |
49 |
| 9-14 |
195 |
| 15-25 |
227 |
| 26-50 |
245 |
| 51-100 |
242 |
| 101-200 |
61 |
Given that I only have about two friends, this is a bit
mystifying. So, ¿who are you people? and ¿what do you people
want from me? Please, take twenty seconds and answer those questions in
the ornery comment box below. Feel free to omit your email address, use
just your initials, or otherwise not tell me who you actually are. But
if I have a better idea of who's reading and why, I'll be able to write
better stuff in the future.
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Replies: 9 comments
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on Tuesday, November 28th, techne said
hello. I read your blog.
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on Wednesday, November 29th, Cocoa said
Like Techne, I have been known to read your blog.
Here are some things I'd like to know:
1) How to get a person on the phone (instead of voice-activated-commanding-computer-lady).
2) Where and/or how to 'build' my own computer.
3) Will there be peace in Israel?
4) How I can retain more of what I read and/or deciding what is important from all of the crap out there.
I understand that you may not be able to answer these questions (based on their somewhat rhetorical nature). But you asked, so I answered.
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on Wednesday, November 29th, Cocoa said
Also, I'd like to know how to turn the center-align default off my comment. Thanks
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on Thursday, November 30th, Derrick said
Hi. Guess what? I'm reading.
By the way -- Cocoa may be interested to know that you can often bail out of Voice User Interfaces (a.k.a. "voice-activated-commanding-computer-lady") by screaming your head off into the receiver. These things have models built in to detect user frustration, and route really pissed customers to humans. Pressing buttons randomly works pretty well too, but screaming is a lot more fun.
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on Thursday, November 30th, DH said
I still read!!! I loved the last one :)
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on Thursday, November 30th, Miss ALS of San Diego said
i found you during a drunk googling episode. somehow you ended up in my bookmarks.
alcohol is great for making pals.
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on Saturday, December 2nd, SueDoc said
I want more of your favorite non-legume recipes, because I am allergic to soy and peanuts but I would still like to cut down on my dead animal consumption.
But I like just about everything else you post, too. I am not picky.
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on Monday, December 4th, h for hi said
I merely want to protest the use of the bracketing question marks while using italics, as well. What a waste. It defeats the entire purpose of double q-marks. You know Spanish, but, you don't.
Best,
h
(human)
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on Friday, December 8th, Andy said
I think you should retitle this series "omphaloskeptical entry" part x, y, z...
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