Nathan's State of the Blog Address

My fellow blogophiliacs, I appear before you this morning to fulfill my duty to give pertinent information on the State of the Blog. The State of the Blog is sound. (Well, actually, its all text at the moment, but Presidents always say that.) Four score and 16 days ago, a new blog was founded based on the proposition that I, Nathan, had a duty to spew forth inane content. To date, this blog has 116 individual posts. That's an average of 14.5 posts per week. I deem that some fine spewing indeed. (I base this solely on the NaNoWriMo concept that quantity trumps quality.)

In its short history, Polybloggimous has had over 2800 visitors (not of the unique variety which Nathan is completely incapable of determining.) The overwhelming majority of visitors hail from the U.S. and Canada with one visitor periodically dropping in from Pakistan and some (apparently) completely accidental visitors from various other European and Asian origins. (One recent Belgian visitor arrived based on a search for "youtube extra thick diaperies". Dude, we don't need to talk.)

These 8 weeks have seen steady growth and the blog now averages 63 visits and 128 page views per day.

For those of you who care about such things, 43% of you are using Win XP, 36% Mac OSX, 13% Win NT, 6% Sun OS Unix, and 2% Linux. 43% of you use Firefox 1.X, 24% IE 7.X, 13% IE 6.X, 13% Safari 1.X, 6% Mozilla 1.X, and 2% Opera 9.X.

Goals:

I have yet to attract a troll. I need me a troll so I can exercise my troll-bashing Gas Grill of Retribution Foominess muscles. In the event I'm not up to it, I need to get an anti-troll ghost writer on retainer.

I need to come up with Lunacy, Part Deux.

I need to send that snarky letter to Dominos.

Observations:

"nathansmusings.blogspot" is possibly the lamest URL in existence. Kids, be careful when first choosing your URL. You'll be stuck with it.

Having a list of ideas for blogging isn't very useful when you look at it and it consists of 7 ideas all vying for the position of "Most Boring Blog Entry Idea...Evar!"

In conclusion, I, Nathan do solemnly swear that I will continue to put words on the internet. I will artfully arrange them into paragraphs. I will use punctuation and italics and bolding. I will attempt, where possible to have the words and paragraphs convey messages of some sort. In short, I will do my utmost to uphold the high standards of blogadelphia.

Thank you. You are now free to move about the cabin.

Don't get too excited, but Its my ONE-WEEK Anniversary!

That's right folks. Polybloggimous has been rocking your world for one solid week. I started the blog by posting something I saw on CBS Sunday Morning because I thought it was kinda cool. Guess what? I saw something else on CBS Sunday Morning that I thought was pretty cool. I smell a theme.

Anyway, they did a piece this morning about Jim Denevan. Basically, picture a man and a beach and a rake. Fine art until the tide comes in. I was impressed. Take a look.

What else? Steve Buchheit told us yesterday that Todd Wheeler is having another contest. This one is pretty easy. Just enter your name and he'll pick a winner out of his virtual hat. Don't forget to give either me or Steve credit for sending you there. That increases our chances of winning stuff, and I think I can speak for both Steve and I when I say, "We like winning stuff!"

This coming week will be my first experiment with whether or not I can blog while I've got a shoot going on. Tomorrow, I've got to be on location by 6:00 a.m. and I don't expect to get home until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. We'll be shooting at four different locations in Brooklyn and Queens. This is a small shoot with only 2 trucks, 3-4 vans, one motor home and a crew of about 35 people. Still, its complicated moving all those people and vehicles three times in one day. I still don't know where we're breaking for lunch and that would be a good thing to get figured out. If any of you know of a space near the corner of Bedford Ave. and North 7th Street in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn that can accommodate us tomorrow, let me know.