Read & React, Stats-4-Fringes, & Other Trifling Dribble for Slow Day

          I’m guessing that the folks who don’t know me better were shocked out of their skulls by the Nightmare deal. Return visits from the regulars dropped dramatically after that post.  So FYI for everyone, the Sigo is alive and kicking, and the entry was just that, an entry.  Fringes can verify that there’ve been no breaking news stories in our area regarding a dead female hanging by her entrails from the bed post.  So let’s talk about site traffic patterns for a moment.  I have some surprising patterns with my traffic, and since most of my traffic comes through Barmaid Blog, I would guess, just percentage wise, that she’s seeing something similar. On a Monday, when you think everyone would be having a typical Monday and busting their rear ends to start the week right, I usually get the largest traffic.  It trends steadily downward thru Thursday, then jumps again on Friday.  One thing to note is that a great deal of the regulars and traffic from Barmaid still hits on Saturday and Sunday.  I wouldn’t have figured that one, because most of the readers I see visit during the workday.  So they must be taking it home to read, too.  I can understand the jump on Friday, as everyone is burning time for the weekend.  I don’t get Thursday.  And to top it off now, the slow Thursday just tipped over at the top of the Rollercoaster and took a vertical dive.  This has to be attributed to “Nightmare”. 

          As I’ve mentioned before, I get traffic from all over the world, even some unexpected places.  I guess we get in the mindset at times that a lot of countries elsewhere don’t have the internet, or something similar.  Take for example, I have an occasional visit from Nova Scotia.  Honestly, I’m not ignorant, unschooled, or geographically challenged.  But those words bring to mind fishing shanties, empty freezing coastlines, “The Perfect Storm”, and fur clad people cross country skiing, tied together by ropes, in a blizzard, just to get to the cafeteria.  Am I wrong?  Of course.  Do I know it’s not like that at all?  Of course.  Doesn’t stop the initial image though.  Same with visitors from Indonesia, only its jungles, mud, and rusting Japanese Zeroes from WWII, skeletons still intact.  I know, I know, too much “LOST” on TV.  Sue me. 

          So here’s something:  I know at least some of you have offtime activites away from the computer.  I watch some shows regularly.  Now, I don’t want to start a Nielsen TV Series Rating Site or anything, but there’s some shows I watch, and some I don’t.  This year there’s been two that totally replaced a couple of other shows that I used to watch.   I’m hooked on Heroes.  As unlikely as it seems, especially for an avid football fan, I heard some chatter before this first aired, and decided to DVR the thing on opening night.  I’ve seen every single one this season on Monday night, whether I saw it a little later or not.  Monday night football went straight to the dumpster, and that isn’t me.

          I also thought I’d take a look at Jericho.  Nuclear holocaust themes have always interested me.  Not because I’m morbid, but simply because as an early reader, growing up during the cold war, I read several books that made an impact on me.  Even through High School, where “A Canticle to Leibowitz”  was required reading in Literature class, and I had read “Alas, Babylon” about four times by the time I graduated High School.  I mean, hell, the movie “Wargames” was like the Hacker Handbook back then, and expressed all of the fears that everyone had about truly moving into a computer age.  I read one Nuke War book that I have, to this day, never been able to find again.  It was about the aftermath, as the hero (w/ the girl) left Chesapeake Bay on a catamaran after a nuke attack, and the troubles they went through.  Despite many searches, I’ve never been able to even locate the title of the book, much less a copy of it.  If you’ve read it, and it would have been late 70’s, let me know, so I can get the title.  So I really like the Jericho series.  I’m guessing, because I like it, that it probably won’t last through next season.  Haven’t heard any scuttlebutt about it, so it can’t be doing that great.

          So what are your favorite shows this season?  (LOST fanatic here, though I didn’t go into detail).  Let us know.

 

Michael