Working For The Weekend [refrain]
Tim does his weekly browser peek; me, I'm more interested in where my readers are coming from. I'm fascinated by what I see in my blog logs.
I seem to be popular in Texas. Why? Who can say? So I'd like to say howdy to my readers in Dallas, Humble, Plano, Roma, Mansfield, Lubbock, Austin, Stafford, and Houston. I've never heard from any of y'all. I'd love it if you'd email me.
Howdy, too, to all the geeks (and I say that with love) at all these Big Ass American Software (and Hardware) Companies who drop by regularly: Sun, Microsoft, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Agilent, Vignette (hey, aren't they in Texas, too?), HP, IBM; also Amazon.com, HP, CNet, and NBC.
Then there are visitors from some Little Ass Canadian Companies: MKS, Waterloo Maple, RIM, and of course Tucows (that's Accordion Guy).
Oh, and the übergeeks at NASA and NCAR and LANL.
Someone in the U.S. Navy, in San Diego, reads my blog. Like all girls, I love a man in uniform.
Every day I have several visitors from Australia and Germany — maybe because I write about Gänseblumen.
Prudence in Paris tells me I have a small but growing fan base in France. It's the home of Sartre, Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault, after all. They understand what my local academic colleagues refer to as "that postmodern existentialist crap." I really ought to move there.
Speaking of academics, in the last few weeks I've noticed a new crop of eggheads from MIT, Harvard, University of Oregon, Renssalaer, Duke, University of Waterloo, University of Chicago, University of Alberta, Ivey, Northwestern (Professor Kotler, is that you?), and the University of Hawaii — I wanted to go there, for marine biology, but my parents said, you must be kidding.
Knowing I have readers in all these places is like vicariously travelling the globe...
And now, to this month's thank yous:
Thank you to Colby Cosh, who so poetically titled his post "Swept away by a demographic tsunami in the blue sea of May" when he linked to this story.
A special hello and thank you to Tony in England, for telling me about his mother.
Thank you Norm, for the good karma for Andrew's baby.
Thank you to these bloggers who recently linked to me, added me to their blogroll, or just started reading: Zemblan Grammar, Comments From The Peanut Gallery, and Shawna in Minneapolis.
Goodbye, Christie!
And finally, the guffaw of the week award goes to Jack, who emailed me after he read this story to say, "Come to think of it, one of the first columns I wrote for [insert name of Internet company here] was about the Donny & Marie talk show that had its debut in the fall of '97. It was supposed to be a moral, upright, mayonnaise-on-Wonder-bread sort of talk show. I remember writing, "Donny and Marie Osmond. Interviewing people. She's a little bit country; I'm a little bit, could this idea possibly suck more?"
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I seem to be popular in Texas. Why? Who can say? So I'd like to say howdy to my readers in Dallas, Humble, Plano, Roma, Mansfield, Lubbock, Austin, Stafford, and Houston. I've never heard from any of y'all. I'd love it if you'd email me.
Howdy, too, to all the geeks (and I say that with love) at all these Big Ass American Software (and Hardware) Companies who drop by regularly: Sun, Microsoft, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Agilent, Vignette (hey, aren't they in Texas, too?), HP, IBM; also Amazon.com, HP, CNet, and NBC.
Then there are visitors from some Little Ass Canadian Companies: MKS, Waterloo Maple, RIM, and of course Tucows (that's Accordion Guy).
Oh, and the übergeeks at NASA and NCAR and LANL.
Someone in the U.S. Navy, in San Diego, reads my blog. Like all girls, I love a man in uniform.
Every day I have several visitors from Australia and Germany — maybe because I write about Gänseblumen.
Prudence in Paris tells me I have a small but growing fan base in France. It's the home of Sartre, Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault, after all. They understand what my local academic colleagues refer to as "that postmodern existentialist crap." I really ought to move there.
Speaking of academics, in the last few weeks I've noticed a new crop of eggheads from MIT, Harvard, University of Oregon, Renssalaer, Duke, University of Waterloo, University of Chicago, University of Alberta, Ivey, Northwestern (Professor Kotler, is that you?), and the University of Hawaii — I wanted to go there, for marine biology, but my parents said, you must be kidding.
Knowing I have readers in all these places is like vicariously travelling the globe...
And now, to this month's thank yous:
Thank you to Colby Cosh, who so poetically titled his post "Swept away by a demographic tsunami in the blue sea of May" when he linked to this story.
A special hello and thank you to Tony in England, for telling me about his mother.
Thank you Norm, for the good karma for Andrew's baby.
Thank you to these bloggers who recently linked to me, added me to their blogroll, or just started reading: Zemblan Grammar, Comments From The Peanut Gallery, and Shawna in Minneapolis.
Goodbye, Christie!
And finally, the guffaw of the week award goes to Jack, who emailed me after he read this story to say, "Come to think of it, one of the first columns I wrote for [insert name of Internet company here] was about the Donny & Marie talk show that had its debut in the fall of '97. It was supposed to be a moral, upright, mayonnaise-on-Wonder-bread sort of talk show. I remember writing, "Donny and Marie Osmond. Interviewing people. She's a little bit country; I'm a little bit, could this idea possibly suck more?"
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