Tuesday: November 20, 2007 - Happy 4th Blogiversary! Happy Birthday Chompblog. It's hard to believe it's been four years since I envied Brian's popularity to the point where I decided to make my own blog and hosted you on the FSU server as part of the Mas N' Steel site. It seems like just yesterday I was pointing and clicking to make you "work" and hiding links as periods at the bottom of the page to see if I could get you indexed. I remember teaching "web design" at FSU and only knowing how to make a link. I remember Brian advising "just type <peon /> and that will win over all the people who know more than you do". Who knew that almost 1500 days later I would have written downloadable PHP classes and XML parsers that chop through millions of records a day and could make a fully database-driven website in about an hour using only notepad. I also can't say when exactly I raised my expectations from "hooray, someone visited my site other than me today" (2004) to "I wonder why traffic dipped to under 200 people today?" (now) but it happened.

In honor of the four year blogiversary, here are some uninteresting statistics you might find uninteresting.
· I first put up a stat counter on January 13, 2004 and since then the blog has been viewed 58,612 times.
·: The blog ranks in the top ten in Google (and gets a lot of traffic from): U2 sucks, manpower sucks, ecolab sucks, teksystems sucks, clemson sucks, sibelius sucks, why u2 sucks, bono sucks, delta sucks, and (ta-da) ford sucks.
· Each month, over 700 terms are used to get here.
· After Google Images, the largest referrer of traffic is the Urizone.
· The most inappropriate comment was left by a KKK-affiliate and was promptly deleted.
· The most views in one day was 662, on September 19th of this year, the day I wrote about my brother getting hit by a baseball.

Share your favorite Chompblog moments below! Please.

Comments:

• KBS
  Happy Birthday, Chompblog! I want to see more pictures of Chompy. That is all.
• Mike
  Speaking of blogs, aren't you due for an update?
• T-Chris
  Happy 4th b-day, Chompblog. I agree with KBS: more Chompy pics.
• SC
  I like to think I had everything to do with that high in hits the Chompblog got.

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Good Things Take Time... 11 days until Chris E. · 15 days until LOST · 68 days until FF09A

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Dungeons and Dragons players will be forced off the boat.

Time Machine: 01-07-2008 · 01-07-2007 · 01-07-2006 · 01-07-2005 01-07-2008: Ok, if you want to skip this football entry and jump straight to my 2007 Christmas pictures go right ahead. Onto the meat. Now that LSU is the BCS Champion, I am ready to share my thoughts on the season. Since I am the back-to-back Pick 'Em Champion, you must listen to me. First of all, anyone who says the PAC10 is better than or even close to as good as the SEC is retarded. Although I don't root for any SEC teams, I do believe they are hands-down the best conference and FSU would probably go 4-8 there. The ACC is not the worst conference but only because the Big Ten is so bad. FSU could have easily lost last night's game by the same score. For the second year in a row, the Big Ten showed they are an anemic conference with no elite teams. Yes, Ohio State is a good team...but FSU is a good team too. Neither are great, let alone elite but when you play in the Big Ten you've got no one to beat up on you. I laughed out loud last night when Kirk Herbstreit said college fans thought the Big Ten was worse than Conference USA and the MAC. He said he didn't agree with them but it seems plausible to me.

On to FSU. The only thing FSU has to look forward to is another 7-5 season and another visit to the Tidy Bowl to play Directional State University. If there's any bright side, it's that there's not a lot of guys graduating leaving for the NFL. FSU is going to be very average/good for a while. At least FSU fans, while unhappy, admit their (our) team sucks when they do--there is nothing worse than blind fannage. Anyway, I know Bobby said they were "one player" away from a great team but I don't know who that one player could possible be (unless he is the size of an entire o-line). I guess another bright spot is that Drew Weatherford is now the only quarterback and while he's not great at least he's consistently good when he gets protection. Yeah, that's some slim pickings for bright spots.01-07-2007: Can ANYONE beat me at poker? I'm just kidding--lots of people can (although I can't think of any off-hand). Last night we formally shifted our poker nights from Thursdays to Sundays at 5pm. This will make my week a little sadder but it also opens some time up for all of us to work on dissertations and whatnot.

I won't go into the gory details of the game last night but, just as it did on Thursday, it ended up coming down to me, Chris and Ian with me narrowly knocking them out for the win. In the hopes of many similar entries over the next eight months, here are the stats from last night's game:

1) Mike (Slayed: Ian, Chris, Jamie, Christen)
2) Ian
3) Chris (Slayed: Renee)
4) Jamie
5) Christen
6) Renee
01-07-2006: Oh yeah, on Friday I went out to lunch with Kelly, who recently quit working for Jack after ten long years. She has some good job prospects and I'm really happy for her...even though she only came to poker once. Good luck Kelly! 01-07-2005: There I am, just reading the news, and *bam* I get hit by this picture. There are just so many horrible things, I don't even know where to begin. Apparently he was a greeter at Wal-Mart and then he started distributing this picture when people would walk in. If his plan was to be famous, it totally worked. Not that I always trust the "news" I read from the Drudge Report but it gets millions of hits a day. And when you're picture is on there you know you've hit the big time. My biggest question is: Where are his bits? Tucked? Gross.

My morning went by quickly but my God, Chompy, the afternoon poked. Jamie came over for dinner after work and after we ate I fell asleep. For Christmas I received the card-version of SET. Before I fell asleep Jamie kicked my ass. Big time. Ok, I was a little tired but not tired enough to explain my dismantling at her hands. Seriously, it was pretty humiliating. Oh well. Maybe I can talk her into a rematch today.