This is my one-thousand-and-first post. I’ve been watching the post counter for several weeks now as it crept toward one thousand, and wouldn’t you know it? I totally missed it. So here’s a celebration of 1001.
Lloyd and Lauren are the ones who urged me to start this website. Lloyd got me all set up and showed me some basic stuff during Christmas break 2005. I posted once, then not again until February 2006. I had a great picture of Ned to post, but still didn’t have the hang of sizing the pictures correctly. The next post in April 2006 was about me getting a new truck. This time the pictures were too small. My regular entries didn’t begin until July 21, 2006. I started the process of renovating my kitchen and I was documenting each step.
Since then, I’ve written an entry nearly every day. I’m kind of an all-or-nothing guy, so I’ve been afraid to miss a day for fear that I would stop altogether. This really does serve as a memory archive, and I think I would keep doing it even if no one read it but me, but I have really loved all the comments. I do wonder about the wisdom of putting so many of my experiences on the internet. When the machines rise up to become our masters, they’ll know everything about me. But it will have been worth it. I have no regrets.
Woo-hoo!!! Happy Thousand and First!!!! I just want to say that I love your website – it is the first thing I check every morning – and I’ve loved getting to know your Baltimore friends through it. It’s great checking in with you everyday!
BTW, Welcome to our Robot Overlords! (I don’t want to be on their bad side.)
I too would like to (a) welcome our robot overlords and (b) congratulate you on your incredible perseverance. I especially like the way you
threw off the yoke of your human oppressorssaid funny things.Y’know, in binary it’s only nine posts.
You speak binary?
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world.
Thank you for properly writing 1001 and not including an “and”. Because that would actually be 1000.1, and it makes me a little crazy. Because I’m OCD like that. Heck, I’m OCD in lots of ways, but that one particularly bothers me.
And, congratulations.
We must be related. It bothers me too. In the first sentence, I wasn’t sure if I should write “one-thousand-and-first” or “one-thousand-first”. Now that I look at them again, I think I wrote it wrong.
You did write it wrong. Beth is correct. “And” means a decimal point. Obviously, this bothers me too. I correct my kindergartners on this. They just look at me blankly.
No, you wrote it correctly. Those who would say otherwise might do well to review the difference between Ordinal and Cardinal numbers.
The internet agrees with Lloyd. “one thousand and first” occurs ten times more frequently than “one thousand first”.
But can the internet be trusted? Is it not the mind of the machine that will some day rule us all?
Go Cardinals!
Go Cubs!
Congrats, Brad. We are all the better for reading your memory archives.
You know TV shows celebrate BIG when they hit 200 episodes…so I think 1,001 posts is worth at least 5 celebrations, and of course you could stretch that into at least 2 weeks. How about a parade?? A trip? A Chinese banquet?
Congratulations! Thanks for all the laughs!!
I think when tv shows celebrate milestones, cake is involved.
And thanks to Bradaptationland, we all know a bit too much about each other.
Congratulations on this important milestone.
What do you mean when machines take over? Case in point: Clearly we are held professionally captive by our network here at school – can’t accomplish much before 8 a.m. Monday through Friday and forget weekend or holiday work. Plus, have you tried to lodge a complain about service with, say, Direct TV or Verizon of late? See if you talk to anything other than a machine!!
[I'm sure right now something artifically intelligent somewhere is planning to make something like Soylent Green out of me for all that disgruntled verbiage....]
AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR POST-A-VERSARY!!