A meaningless numerical coincidence, w00t! 9 May 2008 Sometime over tonight, this blog will pass the half a million visits mark. Say it out loud with me: half…a…million! Now I know this is because the six regular readers routinely and obsessively visit me every fifteen seconds, and there are drugs being developed to cure that, but… half… a… million! Visits! I’m a friggin’ philosopher, dudes. We’re supposed to be obscure and irrelevant. Unless we’re French, of course. Then it’s double the obscurity but a million times the relevance, at least in coffee shops and fashionable magazines. So, thank you all. I apologise for the recent dearth of posts, due to Actual Work Being Done (don’t worry, I won’t do it again for a while). Also, I apologise the the Australian spelling. Damn it, no I don’t! Suffer, Americans! [Now, if only I’d thought, when PZ outed me a couple of years back, to charge 5 cents per visit, I’d actually have money. Oh well, I’d only waste it on books…] Administrative Humor
Administrative Well, there goes my academic career 25 Sep 2007 Over the past three years or so I have been trying to get an academic career going, at the tender age of (then) 49 (now 51). I have applied for a number of positions while working as a postdoc at the University of Queensland, and tried now twice to get… Read More
Humor Why I like George Clooney 30 May 2008 Clooney deals with the attention in a self-deprecating fashion, usually making jokes about himself. “That’s the Australian way, it’s the right way to do it,” he says. From this article… Read More
Congratulations on the milestone, but… Now I know this is because the six regular readers routinely and obsessively visit me every fifteen seconds, and there are drugs being developed to cure that, but… No, no, no! You should just hire them out to other bloggers.
I don’t know about the other five regulars, but NetNewsWire checks every 30 minutes. Figured that’s enough for a philosopher. But, please, don’t feel slighted, I do exactly the same for that lawyer catshark Congrats on half mil mark
Woot, indeed! Whatever that means. It’s a great achievement. Of course, some churlish person will probably mention that Squidman gets half a million pharegulars visiting the Squidcave like every few days or so, dude. But, then, as one of the atheist of New Atheists and an evodevoist to boot he’s pandering to the tabloid end of the blogging masses whereas as you’re more like the educational supplement of a Sunday broadsheet. Or maybe it’s a bit more like comparing The God Delusion with The Casaubon Delusion
Woot, indeed! Whatever that means. It’s a great achievement. Of course, some churlish person will probably mention that Squidman gets half a million pharegulars visiting the Squidcave like every few days or so, dude. But, then, as one of the atheist of New Atheists and an evodevoist to boot he’s pandering to the tabloid end of the blogging masses whereas as you’re more like the educational supplement of a Sunday broadsheet. Or maybe it’s a bit more like comparing The God Delusion with The Casaubon Delusion
Hi John I’ll delurk long enough to say: Congrats on being relevant! Or something. I read you regularly. Met you once in Toronto, a couple (few?) years back.
Gday John. and congrats on the half million mate ! Pharyngulite before ET lurker,I often felt the need for a philosopher to come to the rescue and explain the world to the god-infested and ignorant,but where are you when I need you lol?? Keep up the good work,you inspire me to take out my [*insert name of philosopher here*] every now and then and have a read…
Don;t worry, John, you’ll always be my favourite obscure and irrelevant philosopher. I even promise to buy anybooks publish when I get a job. 🙂
Yes, they get to say “I was the half millionth visitor to Evolving Thoughts” with all the privileges and appurtenances thereto attaining.
I never read this blog or post here, so I won’t see the half millionth comment. Not having read this comment I can’t comment on it.
I’m a friggin’ philosopher, dudes. Also erudite and wise for an albino ape. When friggin’ do philosophers do it in the rigging like normal seamen?
I’m a friggin’ philosopher, dudes. Also erudite and wise for an albino ape. When friggin’ do philosophers do it in the rigging like normal seamen?
I’m a friggin’ philosopher, dudes. Also erudite and wise for an albino ape. When friggin’ do philosophers do it in the rigging like normal seamen?
Well, John, in your case your particular expertise (species concepts) and your essays related to it is of no small utility to those of us interested in promoting the public understanding of evolution. That’s why, philosopher or no, you’re on my short list of web sites that I check out on a regular basis. In other words, I think your milestone is well-deserved.
When friggin’ do philosophers do it in the rigging like normal seamen? That all depends on whether they are realists or idealists.