Soon to Be Boulderized
I woke up this morning and checked my site stats. Wow. Over 500 1500 hits from Boing Boing on my Flipside post, and counting. Should be a good server stress test. When I posted it, I wondered if it would prove to be as popular as Jungle Larry, or if I'd get hit with the sophmore jinx. I think my question's been answered. Thanks, Mark, M.Ace, Sebastian, and Ralf for all your recent referrals, and a big Bali Hai welcome to all my new visitors.
UPDATE: MeFi picked up the post last night and added another 1000 hits to the running total. Guess I'll find out if my ISP has an extra-bandwidth surcharge.
Unfortunately, as much as I enjoy breaking out of the seemingly endless cycle of regurgitated linkage and producing something totally new, I can't produce this kind of material on a regular basis. It's very time-consuming to scan all those pages and generate HTML to wrap it in...I also don't run across treasures like Jungle Larry and Flipside #1 every day. That being said, I still have a couple of surprises waiting in the wings.
But they'll have to wait there for a while. I'm leaving for Boulder, Colorado tomorrow on business, and I won't be back blogging at full strength until mid-February.
Hang cool, teddy bears.
Comments
Hangin'
Posted by: Sebastian | January 29, 2005 10:10 PM
You forgot to mention your travel and dining
posts, of which I find highly entertaining. Posting the links of the restaurants is a great feature of this blog. I Look forward to more of that hopefully.
Posted by: Fritz | January 30, 2005 10:21 AM
I'll definitely be posting more about my culinary adventures, Fritz.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | January 30, 2005 8:59 PM
we'll miss you!
Posted by: Puņo | January 31, 2005 4:50 AM
Man, as if you weren't already insanely cool - now this Flipside business. You've blown my mind and taken me back in time. Dug out all my old Flipside correspondence and mags. There are all these explicatives I want to express in a totally loving way. Let's just roll with "FUCK, BaliHai!" Pinning more gold stars on your jacket, pal.
Sure original content is tougher than link listing. Your recent traffic is proof that original content is appreciated, but only the unemployed can generate it on schedule. Hey, no demands, no deadlines, just lots of love when those features do pop up. Thank you for this one. [Thanks to Z for clueing me in, too.] Best of luck in Colorado.
Posted by: Katya | February 1, 2005 12:02 AM
Thanks Katya. That's the first time I've ever been described as "insanely cool". I'll try not to let it go to my head...;-)
The Flipside thing seems to have tapped into a very powerful vein of nostalgia for a lot of folks. For me, it was a reminder that punk used to actually mean something, it changed people's lives profoundly. I don't know anyone whose life has been changed by Green Day.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | February 1, 2005 1:28 AM
Mark is a swell guy. He's given several big boosts to ookworld over the years.
Catch you on the flipside... nyuk, nyuk, ouCH!
Posted by: M.Ace | February 1, 2005 5:39 PM