two years of blogging

This month marks the two-year anniversary of Buffet o’ Blog.  And what a time it has been!  Randomness reigns, and traffic is skyrocketing.

Now, after two years, our stats are :

  • 412 posts
  • 1,564 comments
  • 29,901 spam comments
  • 40,740 page hits

I’m really thankful for Akismet, which catches most of our spam comments!  (FYI, the spam comments don’t count toward page hits.)

blog trafficAs you can see by this chart, traffic is growing at a significant rate.  (Click the image for a larger picture.)

Thank you to all the readers here, who partake of my ramblings.  And thanks for all the comments, because it helps make this into more of a community, with all of the recurring “characters”.  🙂  It’s exciting to have this kind of traffic, and I enjoy producing this site.  And we’ve got some new features in the works, which you shall see and experience shortly.  It’s just an exciting time!

To celebrate, I’d like to take all my regular readers to Larry’s Pizza, where we will conquer the seemingly endless buffet of pizza.  However, there is a flaw in the slaw — our budget.  So while I’d like to buy pizza for everyone, the funds are at $0.00, which doesn’t buy much pizza.  So you’ll just have to pay for your own (because I still plan to go).

What should this man have done?

The other night I was at a local restaurant, and there was a couple sitting next to us.  The guy was a big man — not all muscular, just big — and he was wearing a floral shirt.  (No, it wasn’t the infamous Mango-Man, though it sounds like him and he lives in these here parts.)  Anyway, the waitress said she really liked his flowered shirt.  I felt somewhat embarrassed for him, but then I wondered how he should respond.  He simply said, “Thank you.”  But I wonder what he really wanted to say…

What should he have said and/or done?

if Obama gets elected…

Here at Buffet o’ Blog, we usually don’t get too involved in discussions about politics, unless it’s for humor reasons.  And that brings us to today’s post.

At the moment, it looks like Hillary Clinton is not going to get the nomination (which has some people really excited).  But that means that Barack Obama would get the Democratic nomination for President.  He promises lots of “change”, though he hasn’t really said what that change would be, so I’m skeptical and somewhat concerned.  Nonetheless, let’s get to the humor instead of dwelling on the sad state of political affairs in the U.S. right now.  Here goes…

If Obama were elected, America would be called an Obama-nation.

a new Tower Defense game

There’s a new Tower Defense game, by same people who made the infamous Desktop Tower Defense that we linked to.  It’s different from the original in several ways.  There is only one path, and you build various towers along the edges of that path.  And there are 10 different kinds of towers.  Also, there are tokens, which can unlock more towers, and you can also do dares and double dares.  A dare gives all creeps of that round 2X hit points, and the double dare gives them 4X hit points plus faster speed.  You can get a lot of extra points if you pull that off.  Also, there are “elements” on the screen, at the end of the path.  If the creeps get to the end of the path, they will steal your elements, but they have to go back through your maze to escape.  If they make it through, you lose that element (and the ability to build that kind of tower, until you buy it back).  It sounds somewhat more complicated than before, and perhaps it is, but it’s still easy once you play a game.

The creeps make audible statements, but you can disable that under options.  (I recommend it, because one group of them occasionally use words that aren’t good.)  Also, the game can last a while (if you’re as good as me, anyway), so note that there is a fast-forward button which lasts through that round (although you can disable it before then).

In my first game, I got to Level 42 before losing an element, which I then bought back.  But Level 50 will make you wonder, once it gets going…  I beat the easy one (Wiggles) on my first try, getting 28,864.  I realize that will be broken by some of you, but it was my first game, and I had to figure out what was going on.  (And maybe I should’ve read the directions first.)  My second game I got 38,340 (which will also be broken, I’m sure).  On the 2nd map (which is harder difficulty), I got 24,153, to the 50th level.

Use group BuffetoBlog to put your high scores on the same board.  (After you create a login ID, be sure to login before playing so your scores will post under the same user ID.)

Here’s the link : Flash Element TD 2.  Be forewarned that this is an addictive game…  🙂