So this is odd. This blog normally gets somewhere around 10 visitors per day -- mostly friends and family plus a few other folks (hi yall). But then last month I got a sudden upsurge of visitors -- 185 on September 8 -- before it tapered back down to the normal level.

What's more, all of these new visitors were looking at one page (
this post from 2006 on the seasonal distribution of birthdays) and had been directed from a website called
ravelry.com--which is apparently an online 'knit and crochet community' (and how awesome is that!). Perhaps this is the knitting equivalent of getting
farked? I have no idea why knitters are suddenly interested in birthdays, but welcome!
[Actually that birthdays post has popped up a few places on teh internets - for example,
here. Also: not to completely geek out, but I spent far too much time in grad school staring at plots like the one above (or
this one) not to instinctively calculate the signal-to-noise ratio (it's 20.6).
HETE-2 would totally get a decent localization on this one.]
1 comment:
Learn something every day. Fark on wikipedia...very interesting, well seasoned and something I learned about today. Loved the Tom Waits music.
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