October is Disaster Appreciation Month

Nature produces some incredible events, like lightning, volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, avalanches, hurricanes, etc.  These things are impressive, being both visually stunning and amazingly destructive.  But most of the time these events get a lot of bad press, and so they aren’t properly appreciated for how awesome they are.  We shouldn’t take nature for granted, so we here at Buffet o’ Blog have declared October to be Disaster Appreciation Month.  Take a few moments to be amazed by the grandeur of nature’s fury.

tornado with lightning

There’s just one picture here, but you can surf the Net and find lots of great weather pictures.

increasing the continued success

I’m still excited about the increase in traffic last month.  It has been going up each month for five consecutive months.  I predict it will continue to increase, too, because we’re about to add some new features.  And of what we currently do, there are plans to make it even better.  If you like our humor, we’re going to get funnier.  If you like the stupidity, well, we’ve only scratched the surface of what we’re capable of!  If you enjoy the randomness, know there’s more where that came from.  Yep, things are going to get bigger and better here, you’ll see.

Some of you may be wondering how we can provide all this for free, when some of the other free blogs copy and paste their humor or they write only 3 to 5 posts per month.  It’s because I enjoy trying to be funny and I think people should laugh more.  However, that doesn’t pay the bills, so I’m forced to work other jobs.  If only I could write on this blog (and my other one) full-time, that would be awesome.  Then there would be more high-quality content here than you could shake a stick at.  If you’d like to see this happen, send me some money.  Use the “contact us” link in the sidebar to request the address where you can send me a big pile of U.S. currency.  Then it’s like I’d be working for you.  I’m okay with that, if you pay enough.  🙂  There’s also some benefits we’d have to work out, which has already been discussed on the blog here (like free sweet tea and nachos, plenty of breaks, etc.).  And not only would you get to enjoy more original content, you’d be contributing to my mission of making the world a better place.  It’s a win-win situation!

a toast to continued success here

We have now finished the calendar month of September, and in terms of site traffic it was the most successful month ever here at Buffet o’ Blog.  There were 2,539 pageloads in the month, which doesn’t include any while the administrators are logged in.

So I would like to say thanks to all of you who are here reading this blog.  It’s really a lot of fun to put this together, and I’m glad some people are enjoying it.  Let’s have a toast to our continued success.  (What?!?  We’re all out of toast?  Who let this happen?!?)  Well, I just heard from an ex-employee that we are out of toast.  So here’s what we’ll do.  The next time you eat toast, think of this blog.  To make this celebration more special, go ahead and load your toast up with all the butter and jelly you want to, and consider the calories on us.  Or if you want cheese toast, feel free to melt some cheese over your toast.  And you can add bacon, too.  Go all out.  Don’t worry about your diet, because it’s a special event.

the king of Donkey Kong

I’m going to take a moment to mention a new movie that many will consider “nerdy”.  (I have to be me.)  🙂  There’s a movie/documentary called The King of Kong that came out last month.  It chronicles a true story dealing with classic arcade games and being the best.

Here’s a little bit of the story.  Billy Mitchell is a legend in old-school gaming.  At 17 years old in 1982, he held the all-time high scores in Donkey Kong and Centipede.  He also set a few more records on other video games, like Donkey Kong Jr.  Then at 34 years old, he had the first-ever perfect game at Pac-Man.  The movie chronicles the efforts by Steve Wiebe to break the record on Donkey Kong.  The movie has several twists and turns along the way, which you can read about at these links :

Dethroning the King of “Donkey Kong”
Who’s the real king of “Kong”?