Three Comments on One Day for the Same Posting

Even after two and half years of posting I still I check my site statistics every day. Even when I am away at ‘the mines’ for work during the week I still check my site statistics either in the morning before taking off from the motel for work, or in the evening when I return to the motel.

Getting comments is always a buzz. Probably because I get so few of them.

It is also interesting to note certain heuristics about the posting of comments. Things like: there often may not be any comments for days, even weeks, possibly months (sadly), and then, for no apparent reason, there will be comments posted in a burst of two or three days.

Or sometimes I post something which I am sure will cause a comment or two to be posted—but there are none. I was reasonably sure that my posting about Pinterest (here) or the posting about country girls wearing the shortest shorts (here) might have been good for a comment or two. But no. No comments turned up for either of these.

Postings that I thought really deserved to get a comment or two sit there forever and never collect a single comment.

Then there are postings like the last one before this called “New Sidebar Section of Interesting (to some) Site Links”. SquareSpace, where my site is hosted, provides all these neat things you can do on your Web site and I hardly use any of them, so I decided to add in a tiled links section to my sidebar.

I did not expect this to excite anyone to the point of them posting a comment. It was really just a posting pointing out small change to my site in that I had added some site link tiles to my sidebar. It pulled in three comments; and—even more amazing—all three comments were posted on the same day.

Sometimes it is almost as though when one person posts a comment then others are more likely to add comments as well—not that this is always the case; but it often seems to work out like this.

For those that missed them, following are the three comments made in relation to my sidebar update article.

As liking_Goodshit says the Goodshit site always has some interesting stuff linked. I go to Goodshit daily during the week (Fred typically does not update it over the weekends) and almost every time I go there I find two or three articles Fred has found that are worth linking over to and having a look at. I also like many of the music videos he links to and some of the galleries he finds, such as the extensive gallery of Marilyn Monroe images (here) containing something like 500 pictures of Marilyn, and a gallery of images from the ‘Old American West’ (here)—two of which follow.

How do just four horses pull all that stuff? People dressed better then than we do now. Notice that they all seem to have handle-bar moustaches. There is no text with these pictures but I am thinking that this wagon is carrying either a cash payroll or gold, and those dudes are guards.

There are so many sites on the Web one could never get time to flick through them all. I recall reading somewhere about five or six years ago that even if one was to just spend just 30 seconds on each page of every Web site it would take something like 900,000 years (obviously rounded up—but you get the idea) if you spent 14 hours per day at it for 365 days of the year. As that was some time ago the number of Web pages has probably just about doubled since then.

So we need people like Fred Lapides at Goodshit tirelessly trawling through the Web for us picking out quality Web sites worth a quick look that are not your normal crappy fluffy meaningless sites about parties, cats, fast cars, and other jackass rubbish. I have this vision of Fred as being about my age (about 60) working away tirelessly day after day finding and  vetting sites.

Thanks also to Krystal_E. I have had a look at Poptech (here) and there does seems to be lots of things there worth a look, listen, or viewing. I have bookmarked the site.

And docoman, who has been commenting on my posts for some time now, I had previously watched the Deep Ocean Mysteries TED talk but as it is only eight minutes I had another watch of it after seeing your comment. It is quite amazing that the oceans cover 70 percent of the globe and yet we have only explored six percent of them. You mentioned that the largest waterfall on the planet is under the water. The other interesting point is that the longest and highest mountain range on the planet is under the ocean.