2119 days ago, in a land far away…comments

I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.  ~David Gerrold

2119 days ago, in a land far away, lived a very, very sad dragon.

Scratch that.

2119 days ago, in a land not so far away, a person with a name very similar to mine started a blog.  Ever since then, he’s been able to express his inner nerd to the non-caring internet audience.

That was me, and that was xanga.  Tonight I backed up my old xanga.  My first post was on Saturday, January 08, 2005 at 9:11 PM.  My last post was on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 10:46 PM.  Over this amount of time, I posted 91 blog posts and received 935 comments.  935 comments!  That’s crazy!  In the beginning, I probably averaged about 15 comments per post, but towards the end, people commented less and brought the average down to about 10.5 per post.

My new blog has 120 posts and 54 comments.  ;)  That’s about two really good (maybe borderline spammy) commented blog posts from the olden days.

So, what is one to conclude from these series of statistics?

• My cult following has decreased significantly.
• I’m becoming less and less cool as the years go by.
• I’m losing friends at a fast, rapid rate.
• People don’t read blogs anymore.
• People don’t comment on blogs anymore. (do we all just skim a lot more nowadays and pretend that we’re busy?)
• I used to be popular, maybe.
• I’m getting worse in my writing skills as I get older. (I’d like to beg to differ reading some of my old posts, but who am I to do so? the stats speak for themselves. ;))
• Or… something else?

Maybe there’s a lesson to be learned here.  Popularity is something that I never want to pursue.  If I follow the path that God leads me, then it doesn’t matter if I’m a big name guy or an obscure no-name.  God’s ways are so much better.  Every time.

Thanks everyone for reading!  Even if you never comment.  ;-)

~ Jon

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today.  I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great.  If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one heck of a time.  ~Art Buchwald

Happy 100th Postday, self

Taking a break from the normal routine of posting pictures of what’s been happening lately, this time I write about the fact that this is my 100th post on jonyoder.com.  In honor of this being the 100th post, I’ll be doing my best to bore you to death with statistics and more statistics.  ;-)  I happen to find this kind of thing interesting, and if you happen to as well, then…I don’t even know.

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