Hey, UTEP. Just for my own gratification, could someone let me know what class it is that is using which material from Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub?
Thanks.
UTEP class
October 12, 2008
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Thanks a million
September 29, 2008Sometime Monday afternoon or evening at approximately 4:40 p.m. Central Daylight Time, Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub will pass passed the million total views milestone.
It’s nowhere near the readership of Pharyngula, Eduwonks, Daily Kos or others. For some reason, many readers feel no need to scrawl on the bathroom wall here (comments are always welcomed, edited only for profanity), so the comments don’t reflect total readership, I think.
Thank you to each and every reader, and especially to the faithful readers who keep coming back day after day. Thank you to the large handful who send story ideas.
In periods like the current one, when there is so little time to post on key issues, it’s especially gratifying that readership continues to rise.
Thank you, Dear Readers.
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What a road trip!
September 20, 2008We may have crossed paths with P. Z. Myers — but he didn’t recognize the rented Saturn I was driving in Wisconsin, I’m sure.
He only drove across two states. I flew to Chicago, drove to Appleton, Wisconsin, and then drove back to Dallas, Texas. We didn’t take nearly the number of photos we should have, but there are some observations on technology and the open road to come.
In the meantime, readers were generally polite — but as always, not enough of you left comments.
Comments are open. Always. Take advantage.
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900,000
August 14, 2008Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub passed the 900,000 clicks mark about 8 a.m. Central Time.
Thanks to readers.
Dear Readers, leave more comments! Anonymous visitors, you know who you are. Exercise your right to free speech, here, at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub.
"As people like Emma Goldman were prevented from speaking, societies formed to protect the right to free speech. A pamphlet created by Alden Freeman alerted people to the fight for free speech. It contains a tongue-in-cheek New York Times account of his attempt to hold a meeting where Emma Goldman could speak freely and without police restriction."
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Less than a month to a million
July 29, 2008About midnight Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub got its 875,000th click. We should make a million by September.
Maybe viewership would be higher if I retitled the blog, “I CAN HAS CHEESE HISTORY,” or if I changed the format to “Strange History.”
Eh, we’ll stick to the knitting we know. Thanks to the many readers.
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Snap Shots gone; got a problem with that?
July 26, 2008Over the past year three or four people have complained about Snap Shots. No one said they like them.
They finally got to me. I turned ’em off.
If you have an opinion about that, put it in comments.
Don’t know what Snap Shots are? Ignore this post.
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Golden Primate award
July 20, 2008Kate 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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850,000
July 15, 2008The milestone of 850,000 clicks sneaked by last week. Thanks to you, Dear Reader.
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Back from the brink
July 12, 2008Literally. 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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Pressure of trivialities
June 3, 2008Graduation 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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Technorati Monster: Dead?
May 25, 2008Is 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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500,000
March 3, 2008
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?
Thank you, readers.
And especially, thank you readers who comment.
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400,000
January 17, 2008Earlier 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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New project, less time for blogging
January 9, 2008When 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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350,000 hits
December 10, 2007The 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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Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 