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Where’s the bacon?

This week I received an e-mail from Mango-Man saying the blog needs more bacon.  As proof, he attached a snapshot of our tag cloud from the sidebar.  As you can see, bacon is indeed discussed here, but it’s not one of the biggest words.  The tag cloud makes the font bigger according to how often the tag is used, and bacon is not the largest.  It may not ever be the largest, because we talk about various randomness, and if every conversation was about bacon, it wouldn’t be very random, would it?

Copied on the e-mail was H.I. Express, who added that the lack of bacon is “dis-optimal”.  I certainly don’t want to be dis-optimal…

So I have taken notice of his request, and the situation will be rectified post-haste.  I’ll make the next post about randomness and bacon.

You can help also — if you come across websites or have awesome ideas involving bacon that are blogworthy, send them along.  You can use the “Contact Us” form to let us know.

Thank you, drive thru…

our 5 year anniversary

It has been five years since we started Buffet o’ Blog, and we’ve went from obscure to world-renown.  If you think about it, 5 years in Internet years is a long time.  To celebrate, we wish we could offer everyone a free bacon-themed meal, but that’s simply not possible.  See, for the Buffet o’ Blog restaurant (tentative name), we’re waiting on just one more investor… specifically, someone with about a million dollars to invest in our dream, and then it would become a reality and be perhaps [dramatic pause] the greatest restaurant of all-time! [Imagine a loud clasp of thunder right there.]   So if you’re that investor with money burning in your pockets, have your people contact my people.

So since there’s no big worldwide party possible at this time, the staff met at a local BBQ place for lunch, then there were some “fireworks” afterward.  It was a good time.   For those who couldn’t make it, you should go eat a pizza in our honor.  Or better yet, invite us along, too!

Perhaps there will be some new features added in the next week or two in honor of our anniversary.  So stay tuned!  In the meantime, here’s some stats summing up what we’ve done so far (for the nerdy types — you know who you are).

Posts: 966
Comments: 5,052
Spam Comments Automatically Deleted: 88,125
Daily traffic: 565 pageviews (average for 2011 so far)
Total pageviews: 605,958 hits

Those last two boggle my mind, that over 500 people are reading my ramblings every day and that this blog has been viewed over half a million times in just 5 years!  Out of that many people, surely at least one or two think I’m actually funny!  🙂

And last but not least, I wanna send a big shout-out to all the regular readers and subscribers here.  I’m amazed that people actually come back!  🙂  It’s only gonna get more awesome — and I don’t even need a crystal ball to see that.  I’ll keep on writing because I am too legit… too legit to quit!  (Yeah, that’s kinda lame — please don’t unsubscribe!)  There’s some cool stuff already in the pipeline… some exclusive content you won’t find anywhere else.

Peace out… adios… buenos nachos…

missing post

Someone asked where this week’s caption contest was.  It’s nice that someone noticed there wasn’t one.  🙂  I was on vacation that day, and many of the regular readers were off work that day, too, so that’s what happened.  If you happen to miss it this week, feel free to peruse the archives.  You probably haven’t seen every caption contest here, and even if you have, you may be inspired to write something new for a previous one.

In other words, you’re not getting a caption contest this week.  So sorry, tough luck, deal with it.  🙂  But tune in next Monday, at the regularly scheduled time, and there should be a new one.

Do you have any questions?

I’m fairly sure some of you have forgotten about the “Contact Us” page of this blog.  (That, or either you already know everything, and I have trouble accepting that.)   The contact form is for more than just kind words about how awesome our blog is — you can ask any question.  While we may not know absolutely everything, we do figure to know about 98% of all knowable stuff (+/- 3 percent).

If you’re embarrassed to use your real name, that’s okay — use a nickname.   It matters not to us — we’ll dispense our ignorance and wisdumb to anyone.  🙂  If no one here knows the answer, we’ll make one up, and it might even be funny!  Who else offers that kind of guarantee?  Test us in this and see if we will not throw open the floodgates of randomness and pour out so much ignorance that you will not have room enough for it.

So bookmark the page, and when something is confusing, feel free to ask.  You may not get a personalized e-mail reply, but if we can make a funny post out of it, it may get published on the blog.  It’ll be fun — and it’ll be easier than googling the Internet and reading through lots of links.  And who knows, you may even learn something!  🙂