No updates in several months — the only thing I can conclude is that the blog, Adam Smith Lives!, is dead.
Gone from the blogroll.
I’m interested in finding good blogs on economics, world history, and government — Dear Reader, which ones have I overlooked?
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Kate at the Radula gifted Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub with a Golden Primate Award. It’s a blog award for blogs that “appeal to the rationalists among us, and those of us who aren’t ashamed to be related to monkeys.”
Who was it said “the more I know of men, the more I love my dog?” (Some sources say Pascal; I doubt that attribution.)
Substitute “monkey” for dog — who wouldn’t be proud to be related to such noble creatures?
The symbol for the award will be displayed on the blog’s front page.
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The milestone of 850,000 clicks sneaked by last week. Thanks to you, Dear Reader.
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Literally. Lots of brinks — the brink of the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, the brink of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, the brink of Bryce Canyon, the brinks of canyons in Zion National Park . . .
Just got back from the tour of southern Utah and northern Arizona. WiFi is available out there, but it’s not always easy to use. We’ll be doing some catch up here.
Thanks to all the kind folk who dropped by and left comments. Thanks to the unkind folk, too.
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Graduation Part II comes Thursday night. James leaves Duncanville High School with good memories of the 12 or 13 hours he wasn’t doing homework this past year. The graduation is in Reunion Arena in downtown Dallas — same place all the Dallas ISD high schools hold their ceremonies. Sometimes it seems the old basketball crowds stayed after the Mavericks decamped. Remember somber and sober graduation ceremonies?
Winding up the first year in Dallas ISD, with silly tests all over the place and procedures that would make Byzantium appear the model of efficiency. I’ve never caught up from the mid-year landing here, and the next two days will be grueling, to get out on time.
Quietly, the Bathtub will roll over 800,000 visitor clicks in three or four hours from now — certainly before midnight. The Berlin Wall continues to be the major topic day in and day out, followed by Sabat’s compelling cartoon of the African tsunami of drought, and that ancient jumping goat.
So much to say. So tired.
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It’s been a slow month. Sometime Tuesday or early Wednesday the Bathtub gets its 800,000th view. Won’t make a million by the 2nd anniversary at that rate, but considering how few posts I’ve made lately, on bland topics, it’s not bad.
As always, thanks to all visitors, and double thanks to anyone who comments.
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Is anyone else having trouble with Technorati? What has been flawless performance up to now, especially for a free indexing service, has failed to update anything about the Bathtub for more than three days. The statistics listed suggest problems dating back two weeks.
Anybody know what’s going on?
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Passed it an hour ago. This is what P. Z. Myers gets every day, but it’s new for the Bathtub.
Now, I wonder what has to happen to get some of these visitors to turn the page to some of the more substantive posts?
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One lucky post — at today’s traffic rates, Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub will rocket through its 550,000th view this afternoon.
If it’s not repeatable, it’s a miracle, right?
[Update: 550,000th hit at about 2:20 p.m. CDT.]
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About midnight tonight, Central Standard Time, Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub will get its half-millionth page view. Views are rising as my schedule allows for less posting. What do I conclude from that?
And especially, thank you readers who comment.
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At current rates, Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub goes over 450,000 visits sometime Tuesday, February 12.
New visitors vastly outnumber returning visitors, the machines claim. Either I’m offending a lot of people, or more people than one might imagine turn their cookies off.
Thank you for dropping by.
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Earlier than I expected, in the wee hours of this morning this blog slipped over 400,000 clicks, 400,000 page views.
To the core fans of the site: Thank you. To random visitors: Thank you, and come back.
The spam-to-comment ratio is horrendous, but WordPress’s Akismet makes that very manageable. The comment to visit rate is too low, too, but I suppose that means I’m avoiding some of the needless controveries that build comment traffic.
Gee, I wish I had a nickle for every visit . . .
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When do you ever see anyone say, “Finished that, now I have much more time to devote to writing on this blog?”
You won’t see it here, today, either.
A new project beckons — exciting, important, low-pay and time consuming — and I’m off. I’ll try to keep the water in Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub warm and comfortable, at least.
Readers can help out, with comments. For example, right now the post on the hoax quiz on Hillary Clinton quotes is hotter’n a three-dollar pistol — but no one’s commenting. I can’t tell where the hits are coming from. It would be nice if some of the viewers would at least comment on why they dropped by.
A few readers are engaged in conversations on a few different threads — good stuff, mostly, even with internetbloggy bluster thrown in.
The rate of posts is likely to drop from last month. I’m off for much of the rest of the afternoon, and I’ll be in the library this evening with the younger son (though, now that I think about it, the library has wi-fi; hmmmm).
Talk amongst yourselves. Register for the Stanton Sharp history seminar February 9 at SMU. I’ll post details about another Dallas history seminar set for January 26, perhaps this evening, and about another, really wonderful symposium coming up in April.
Thank you for reading; thank you for commenting. You history, economics and civics teachers, thank you for everything. You students, thank you for working not to repeat the errors in history.
Thank you.
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The bathtub should pass 350,000 bubbles hits sometime today. Thank you, Dear Readers.
My apologies for posting so little over these past few weeks.
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I have crises going on all ends of all candles at the moment. This is essentially a leisure time activity. There are lots of good things to talk about, and so little time.
Check out the sites on the blogroll, and check out the carnival buttons (there are lots more carnivals, undoubtedly some good ones I’ve never heard of).
Thank you for reading. A thousand thank yous for providing comments, especially the really useful ones (you know whose comments those are).
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Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
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