I like stats and numbers and I was culling some data on my Vacation posts the other day and thought it would make for an interesting post itself, so here you go. The numbers below represent the first 26 episodes of my Vacation in the Golden Age, covering the July 1939 through August 1941 issues…
Now that I have completed the 30-day NaNoWriMo challenge, here is a look at what I did “by the numbers”. If you ask me, it’s pretty impressive: 61,131 words in 30 days. That’s an average of 2,037 words/day Wrote on 25 out of 30 days. If you count just those 25 days, I wrote an…
Since I spent some time collecting some blog stats this morning, I spent a little more time culling some interesting reading stats, what I call reading “100s”. These are the 100th books that I have read (only 3 so far) and the duration between them.
Today marks the 600th consecutive day of at least 1 post on my blog. Since the beginning of this run, I’ve made 2,080 posts (if you include this one), which comes to an average of nearly 3.5 posts per day. I’ve received 2,619 comments, which comes to an average of 1.26 comments per post, or…
I sometimes wonder about things in idle moments. These things have absolutely no value other than curiosity. On and off again, I have wondered, for instance, how many episodes there are to a long-running soap opera. I always forget about it after a moment and never think to look it up. Today, I remembered. I…
This evening, I was doing some archiving of my journal in order to make sure that I had copies of everything locally. I also decided to write a script that would index my archive for better searching capabilities. In doing so, I exported all of my journals, by month to XML files, and then ran…