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fine hundred thousand zero zero zero party over, oops out of time
by mg at 10:53 PM on August 18, 2002
Bad Samaritan is on the verge of a momentous occasion. Since this site first began on October 3rd, 2000 there have been 499,770 unique visits. If the law of averages remains in effect, we’ll break 500,000 sometime late Sunday/early Monday.
Of course, those stats are from Site Meter, which is anything but accurate. According to Webtrends Live, the other counter I use, we’ve had about 520,000 unique visits since the May before last. But, a milestone is a milestone, and I wont let anything, least of all basic math, tarnish my unabashed joy.
I always say I don’t do this for attention, but in lieu of actually winning awards, hits will do. It’d be nice to be Stanley Kubrick, but I’ll settle for being Steven Spielberg. Of course, it’d be nice to be both, though I’d hate to have my readers walking out on me like people were doing during the finale of A.I.
I could never have imagined, nearly two years ago, that I’d get even 100 people visiting this site, much less a half a million. Okay, sure, there probably haven’t been 500,000 different people with badsamaritan.com in their location bars; most of the visits have probably come from the same 10 people who regularly comment. There are some crazy stalkers who check the site in excess of 20 times a day, and for that, I love them.
However, there is no way to prove how many unique visitors there have bee, just unique visits. Besides, I’m much happier thinking there are 500,000 people from all over the world (more than 130 different countries) chuckling at our witty writing (not just Mariah Carey Nudie Pictures) on a daily basis, and 499,760 of them are just too shy to comment or send me an email.
In honor of this truly momentous occasion (on par with only the moon landing and the day Pamela Anderson hit puberty), I’ll do something for all of you. If the Site Meter counter () says you are the fabled 500,000 visit take a screenshot (to prove it was you) and let me know. Whoever it is gets a fantastic prize, which will most likely be a bag of hair (I'll explain later). However, I will take suggestions from everyone, and especially the eventual winner, about just what that prize should be.
I probably should begin putting a little more thought into these little contests. Anyway, the next milestone will be two years. See you then.
comments (9)
Whatever you are thinking, I'm completly innocent.
by mg at August 18, 2002 11:23 PM
Dammit! Dammit! It's a work day, so I will, of course, be checking this site in excess of 20 times and SO should have been 500,000! I only missed it by 121. I demand a recount, and discard the hanging chads, please.
by Linz at August 19, 2002 8:25 AM
Well, considering the time of night 500k happened, I'm pretty sure the "winner" was some random annonymous Googler. Which is terribly unfortunate. At least the person who was 250K was someone cool, plus, they didn't even want a prize!
by mg at August 19, 2002 10:30 AM
Well, how about this? Instead of a party, you celebrate by finishing these Un(re)solved Blogs:
"Horrorscopes: Astrology for the Criminally Insane"
I really looked forward to the 3rd installment, only to find myself severely disappointed by the lack thereof.
"Summer of Not Being Afraid to Make a Fool of Myself"
True, summer isn't quite over yet, but I would really like to know what you feel came out of it.
" 'That is a great question Charlie': What do you know about me? What do I hope you know about me?"
Also referred to (by me) as The Blog About Purple Prose, you never answered that question.
Can you tell I'm one of the Crazy Stalkers who check the site 20 times daily? ;-)
by Lucy at August 20, 2002 1:12 AM
Don't fret. 555,555 is a MUCH cooler number.
by Dan the Goose at August 20, 2002 5:14 AM
Holy crap! This Lucy character really is a crazy stalker. Do you also have a collection of all the self-portraits that mg has posted? You could start a mg fan site.
by Eviltom at August 20, 2002 8:26 AM
Okay Lucy, I promise to get to all those things, and relatively quickly. Would hate to dissapoint any stalker types.
by mg at August 20, 2002 10:22 AM
Ok, maybe stalker is not the word I was looking for. I'd much rather think of myself as a groupie, haha.
by Lucy at August 20, 2002 2:58 PM
this site is strange was doing a google search and came across this! this is how boring my job is that i felt the need to comment am i a crazy stalker and if not how do i become one? god i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by leanne at July 18, 2005 6:55 AM