Skip to main content

Curiosity Will Probably Kill The Cat

When I look at the statistics for who visits my blog (note, I am not using the word "read"), I am being told that I get about 40 visitors per week. Half of this will be me check that everything looks ok after a post. I am aware of a handful of persons who regularly come to this blog mostly, I suspect, out of politeness because I asked them to. The rest is a mystery to me.
When I lie awake at night a maelstrom of questions whirls dizzyingly in my heated mind: Why do people read this blog? How did they find out about it? What makes them come back to it? What is their the interest in this mish-mash of random cerebral dribble? Are they really that bored at work? Can they blame their star sign for coming here? Who should be Dennis's best man? Is the Earth really round? I mean: really. And finally, quel est l'age du capitaine?

I am expecting answers from you lot, and that includes the people I know about. Please reply not on a postcard but by hitting comments. If you only fancy saying hello, it is fine with me too...

Thanks in advance in case their is no-one to thank, after.



Labels:

Comments

  1. TM7/30/2005 12:39 pm

    I fancy saying hello

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous8/03/2005 9:42 am

    Because your Literate and have a refreshing view of the world BJ

    ReplyDelete
  3. Anonymous10/27/2005 4:53 am

    Hi.

    To answer your question (well in the case of myself at least), I received an email some someone I'd never known/met. That in itself won't answer any of your questions but if you're able to hang in there, you'll find out soon.

    Anyhow, somehow the email she sent to a friend of hers (who happens to share the same name that I do) happened to end up in by inbox and not theirs. I sent an email back telling her as much, not knowing why it'd happened but I had my theories. She was curious about the theories so asked me what they were.

    Now, the addage from which you derrived the title of the blog that I'm commenting came to mind. It made me wonder if there was any statistical data regarding the number of cats that have died, by whatever means, due to their curiosity.

    A search on google for "statistics", "cat", "killed" and "curiosity" lead me pretty quickly to your blog.

    If that is not a clear enough answer for you then I offer the following:

    * I read your blog because of the circumstances mentioned previously.

    * I have no particular interest in your so-called "mish-mash of random cerebral dribble" (you really shouldn't be so hard on yourself).

    * I'm not bored at work. I love what I do. I'm just spending my lunch doing non-work-related things and this happens to be one of them (the other being the unfinished email to the person that sent me the email, as mentioned previously).

    * I doubt my star sign had anything to do with it (it certainly didn't directly), but I'll leave that for you to determine. BTW: don't bother loosing any sleep over it. I don't think it'd be worth it.

    * I have no idea who the best man should be but I'm sure Dennis (assuming you're not talking in the third person) will be able to work it out.

    * Depends on your definition of round and how much margin of error you allow. It's certainly not spherical, if that's what you mean by round.

    * It depends on how you interpret the question but I would say "il n'y a aucun âge du capitaine" (thank you babelfish).

    I hope that's a comprehensive enough answer for you.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Please leave your comment here. Note that comments are moderated and only those in French or in English will be published. Thank you for taking the time to read this blog and to leave a thought.

Popular posts from this blog

A Short History of the Elephant and Castle and Its Name

Last night I attended a lecture by local historian Stephen Humphrey who discussed the general history of the Elephant & Castle, focussing more particularly on what he called its heyday (between 1850 and 1940). This is part of a week-long art project ( The Elephant Project ) hosted in an empty unit on the first floor of the infamous shopping centre, aiming to chart some of the changes currently happening to the area. When an historian starts talking about the Elephant and Castle, there is one subject he can not possibly avoid, even if he wanted to. Indeed my unsuspecting announcement on Facebook that I was attending such talk prompted a few people to ask the dreaded question: Where does the name of the area come from, for realz? Panoramic view of the Elephant and Castle around 1960/61. Those of us less badly informed than the rest have long discarded the theory that the name comes from the linguistic deformation of "Infanta de Castille", a name which would have become at
19 comments
Read more

Rev. Peter Mullen's Blog

Rev. Peter Mullen is the chaplain to the London Stock Exchange and the rector of St Michael's Cornhill and St Sepulchre without Newgate in the City. Rev. Peter Mullen was also until recently a blogger. Sadly the result of his cyber labour seem to have been deleted but Google has thankfully cached some of it and I have saved a copy for posterity, just in case. The deletion of Rev. Mullen's writings might just have something to do with the fact that last week, the Evening Standard and then the Daily Mail published an article (the same article actually) about some of those very writings (even though the elements of said writings being quoted had been published in June this year, at the time of the blessing ceremony which took place between two members of the Church of England in St Bartholomew the Great - picture ). In the article, we learned what the Rev. thinks about gay people and what should be done to them: We ["Religious believers"] disapprove of homosexuality
8 comments
Read more

Liam Messam and Tamati Ellison Swap Jerseys

I am having a bit of a vacuous evening looking at images of pretty rugby players. Addidas, with its latest viral campaign, Jersey Swap , seems to be squarely aiming at the gay market with a selection of five antipodean rugby players, visitor to the website can select and see take their tops off and... well... swap jersey (those interested can create posters too). My favorites of the bunch are Liam Messam and Tamati Ellison . The pictures of their pretty faces and bulging naked torsos (excuse me while I sit down for a second!) included to this post should tell you why. A job well done for Addidas. This will go round the Internet for a while, I think.
2 comments
Read more