Anniversary!
Ahoy, butt-bombs!
Nate and I have been married for SEVEN YEARS now!
That’s pretty wild. Seven years is a long time.
(Says the blogger who’s been blogging for 17+ years)
Seventeen
Today marks SEVENTEEN YEARS of blogging, yo.
It’s been 17 years since senior year of high school. Isn’t that wild? Does it seem like it’s been that long or does it seem like it’s been longer?
Anyway, I’m still holding off doing any sort of big celebration because I’m waiting for the 18th anniversary (when Eigenblogger is finally an adult, haha), but this yearly anniversary always has to be acknowledged.
Here’s to another year and more!
Rex!
HEYOOOOOOO so today is our 6th wedding anniversary!
That’s pretty wild. Sometimes it seems like we’ve been married for much longer than that; sometimes it seems like it’s been much shorter. It’s a bummer that we can’t go do our “regular” anniversary thing (getting Denny’s and staying at Best Western overnight), but I guess this is the third year we haven’t been able to do that, so I guess it’s 50/50 and no longer our “usual” thing.
But whatevs, we can do other things! Like play Jeopardy! and Pictionary. Observe:
(Nate’s Pictionary phrase was “drinking fountain” but of course I had to make it dramatic after I’d guessed it.)
In fact, Pictionary led me to a great idea for a terrible movie. It’d be called “Tutankhamun Rex” and it would be about an anthropologist who discovers a mummified T-Rex skeleton that is then found to be a pharaoh. Who also has guns for arms.
Something would happen to the mummy (it’d get struck by lightning?) and the Rex Pharaoh would come back to life. His catchphrase would be “Tuten’s commin’!” which he would yell before firing off his arm guns.
(It’d be directed by Michael Bay.)
I suspect it would win all the Oscars.
16 Years of Blogging
Today marks my SIXTEENTH anniversary of blogging! Counting today, that’s a total of 5,845 consecutive days of blogging.
I’d say that’s pretty cool.
Sixteen isn’t a super exciting anniversary year (unless it’s your age, I guess), so I’m not going to do anything special for it. But when we hit twenty…watch out!
20 Years
Can you believe it’s been 20 years since September 11, 2001? I can’t decide if it seems like it’s been longer than that or shorter than that, but COVID has warped all sense of time to me, so who even knows.
I was in 8th grade when that happened. We spent that whole day (whole week, actually) not doing anything in school except watching the news. It was wild.
Anyway. Just putting the passage of time into perspective.
15 Years of Blogging
Fifteen years ago today, I got peer-pressured into getting a MySpace. I wrote a blog post that first day and in it, I jokingly said that I’d blog daily for 50 days. I was pretty sure that wouldn’t happen.
Now, fifteen years later, I have a daily record of the last 5,480 days of my life in my blog.
I started when I was 18. I’m 33 now.
That’s pretty impressive.
I’m busy as hell and thus unfortunately don’t have time to do a special thing for today, but I’ll make up for it on my 20th blogging anniversary, I promise!
(As if anyone cares.)
Number Four
Today is our fourth wedding anniversary! YAY!
Sometimes it seems like we haven’t been married nearly that long, but sometimes it feels like we’ve known each other and been together much, much longer.
We’re approaching the peak of the divorce curve, but I think we’re doing pretty amazing. We’ll make it over the top and well into that right skew, I suspect. I love you, Nate!
Third ‘Verse, Same as the First
Yo.
My wonderful husband and I are going to go do our anniversary thing where we spend the night in a fancy room in the Best Western (where we got married), have breakfast dinner at Denny’s, and then watch a bunch of Food Network.
I feel like ass, of course, because it’s August and the semester is just dragging on and on and on and I just want to crawl into a hole and not be seen for like half a year, but hopefully I won’t ruin our good night.
(I don’t think I did?)
ALOHA FROM YEAR 12
Yes, you read that correctly: this is my 12-year anniversary of blogging.
That’s a lot of blogging, yo. 4,384 blogs, to be exact.
And I’m still not halfway through this blogging project.
Anyway. There’s not too much to say about anything this anniversary. Same old nonsense. I haven’t actually posted since like July, anyway, so I’m sure that by the time you read this we’ll be closer to the 13-year anniversary than to this one.
Yay?
Anniversary!
HEY GUESS WHAT
Nate and I are celebrating our one-year anniversary today! We went back to the Best Western we got married at and spent the night in one of their nicest rooms.
I love him so much. I love him just as much as I did when we got married (or even more, if that’s even possible). I hope this is the first out of many, many anniversaries for us.
MY BLOG TITLES SUCK
Do you want to know what my wonderful husband did for our anniversary? He wrote a bunch of things he loves about me or things he loves doing with me on these little strips of paper, then hid them all over the house for me to find. It was supposed to be a thing where I discover them slowly over time, but we both wanted me to find all of them as quickly as possible, haha, so that’s what I’ve been doing.
I love this man so much, you have no idea.
11 Years of Eigenblogger?!
So I’ve been blogging for 11 years now! At the rate I’ve been posting blogs lately, you might get to see this by year 12, but hey.
11 years ain’t bad.
But it’s not special enough to have anything more than just one post acknowledging it, so that’s that.
Bye.
Six month anniversary!
Holy crap, Nate and I have been married for six months today!
I know that’s nowhere near a “long time,” but for someone who never thought they’d get married because they never thought they could meet someone who they could completely accept and could feel completely comfortable around, six months is a long time.
I hope it’s the start of a very, very long marriage.
I love you, Nate.
Nate is the BEST
So today marks two years since Nate and I met in person, and do you want to know what he did?
These ran all the way up the stairs to our condo (we’re the only ones that use that set of stairs) to a note on the door saying how happy he was that we were together and how he wanted to be with me for the rest of my life.
Do I have an amazing husband or what?
I have no idea what I did to deserve him, but I’m so glad to have him.
Another Anniversary
Today is August 26, 2016.
My first day at the University of Idaho was August 26, 2006.
Today marks 10 years since I started my post-secondary education. If you’d asked me in 2006 what I thought I’d be doing in 10 years, I certainly wouldn’t have answered, “just finishing up school!” Hell, when I first started college, my goal was to get out as fast as possible. Grad school? Sounded like a waste of time. Why would I want to spend more time in school?
That was the plan: get out as fast as possible. And while I usually hate it when things don’t go according to plan, I am actually quite happy with how my educational path has carved its way through the past 10 years. I mean, I’ve gotten five degrees in a decade. That’s not too shabby.
- 2008: B.S., psychology
- 2009: B.S., philosophy
- 2011: M.A., psychology
- 2014: B.S., mathematics
- 2016: M.S., statistics
I also like how each one of these degrees has had some part in making me realize what I really, really enjoy and want to do with my life (teaching stats). No part of the past decade of education was wasted (except for maybe that business calculus class. Screw that class, man). That’s a good feeling.
ALSO, I have zero debt. Zero. This is because of my parents. My dad paid for everything for my first round of undergrad (3 years), then let me stay at his place rent-free during my second round of undergrad (2 years). My mom has paid for all my moving-around-the-continent costs and let me live rent-free with her in Arizona while I worked to save up money to eventually go back to school. That’s pretty amazing. Thanks, mom and dad.
So yeah. I figured a post acknowledging 10 years of college/grad school was needed, because 10 years is a long damn time to be doing anything.
Yay!
BROOOOOOOOOOM
HELLO, BITCHES!
Today marks one year since Nate and I have “officially” been together (that is, it’s been one year since our second date and since we decided we were actually factually dating).
That’s pretty damn exciting. The longest relationship I’ve had prior to this has been about 8 months, and I’ve never had a relationship that felt so stable and happy and full of trust and love.
Here’s hoping this is the first of many, many, many years together! I love you, Nate.
Eigenblogger Turns Nine!
Ahoy, faithful readers! (All two of you)
Today is May 1st, meaning it’s time to celebrate yet another blogging anniversary.
Eigenblogger is now nine years old, which means that I’m entering my tenth year of blogging.
How sad is that?
ANYWAY. I have two main goals for this upcoming tenth year–one completely non-blog-related and the other very blog-related:
- Goal 1: Defend my thesis before May 1st. I’d like to be able to say that I got 5 degrees (6 if you count the high school diploma) in the span of 10 years.
- Goal 2: Actually post these damn blogs more frequently…say, once a week at least. For some reason, there are a few people who read this nonsense. I’d like to stop annoying the hell out of them with my erratic posting habits.
Though really…of those two goals, which do you think is more likely? For me, at least.
I’ll have a super awesome stats-filled party post for my 10 year anniversary, but for now…WOO NINE YEARS!
Eh, good enough
I feel bad for not doing anything for my 8 year anniversary. So here’s some crap:
- Total number of words over the past year (May to May): 99,463
- Average number of words per sentence: 12.09 (in general, I write like 27-word sentences, but I think they average out with all my one-word survey responses and my filler text such as “YO!” and “Anyway.” and “Weird.”
- Gunning Fog Index: 8.25 (so you need about 8.25 years of formal education to understand my blathering, apparently)
- Wordle!
I don’t know why in the hell I started this blog in May. I guess I wasn’t thinking that this would always be the busiest month of the year.
Anyway. Thanks again for reading, all you loyal followers! And thanks for all your comments, Matt!
Eigenblogger Turns Eight!
That’s right, I’ve been blogging for eight years now.
That’s 2,923 days (counting today).
I was hoping to do something cool for today, but I’m obscenely busy and didn’t manage to plan anything.
But there will be later anniversaries, I’m sure. Number 10 will be big, I promise!
Thanks for reading, y’all, I appreciate it. :D
I don’t have a title!
CRAP I just realized that my 8-year blogging anniversary is happening in like 45 days. What should I do, anything special?
I was actually thinking of doing a week of vlogs, but I’m an ugly buttface and no one wants to see that AND the basement’s always filthy and no one wants to see that AND that’s like the week before finals or something and I’ll be in too much of a panic to be entertaining.
Heck, I’m not even entertaining now and it’s spring break!
BAH.
Psst. Hey.
Seven years.
When I started blogging seven years ago, I would never have guessed I would still be doing it in 2013. Never, ever, EVER would have guessed.
Hell, I started it on a whim.
And yet here we are.
Anyway.
I haven’t planned anything ‘cause I’ve been crazy busy and I only remembered that this was my anniversary about an hour ago.
So instead I’d like to thank all my loyal followers, both long-time (MATT!) and newer. I don’t understand why you follow, but I certainly appreciate that you do. Feel free to leave comments. I love comments. I promise I’ll be better about replying to them once this psycho semester is over.
I’d also like to thank Aneel and E’raina who were the two who peer-pressured me into blogging in the first place. Doing so has been very cathartic at times and at other times has just let me get out all the sludge that builds up in my brain to make room for semi-normal thought.
20 more years to go!
Blog #2,193: Six Years
My blog from May 1, 2006:
“Alrightythen! I finally got a MySpace*. People will now find it easier to stalk me. Anyways, since I’m obsessive-compulsive, I had to start this on the 1st of a Month–I wanted to start this a week or so ago, but NO–that would be in the middle of April. I’m tired now and I want to go to bed, but NO–that would mean I would have to wait another month to start.
Anyway, it’s all good. I’ll be here posting my thoughts every day. At least, that’s what I want to do.
The odds of it happening?
50:1.
Meh.”
Oh, silly little high-schooler. If only you knew.
Yes, the internet has been putting up with my daily drivel for six years now. Scary stuff, huh? Haha, I should actually blame Aneel and E’raina for this…they’re the ones that peer-pressured me into getting a MySpace and starting a blog. DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU’VE DONE?!
Anyway, yay! I’ve spent the past two weeks or so going through each and every one of my posts to create a nice large data set. Because I spent so long doing it, I thought it only fitting that I not confine my statistical exploration of my blogs to one night (tonight). Therefore, I will give you six days (one for each year I’ve been blogging) of stats/blogging insanity guaranteed to either interest you or make you wonder why the hell you even read this. Or both. Or neither. Maybe it’ll give you cheese. The possibilities? Endless.
This is what’s going down in the Big Week o’ Blog Stats Celebration:
- Wednesday: Comparisons by blog category
- Thursday: Mean word comparisons by weekday, month, and year
- Friday: The use and frequency of images and surveys
- Saturday: Common words and topics
- Sunday: Overall trends: Gunning Fog Index and word count
- Monday: The best blogs
Excited? I am! Any excuse to do some recreational stats.
Here’s to six more years (at least)!
*YES, I started out on MySpace. Give me a break, it was the thing back in 2006, you know it was.
It’s that time again…
HI FOOLS!
So in a little less than a month I’ll be hitting yet another blogging milestone: SIX YEARS!
While years four and five were full of fun stats, pics, analyses, Wordles and the like, I think year six will have even more.
I’m going to go through each and every blog so that I can have data from every single day (not just every month, like I had done for last year). There are a few things I’d like to examine:
1. Do I have a statistically higher wordcount on any particular day(s)?
2. Using the Gunning Fog Index as a gauge, how does my blog readability change over the course of the last six years?
3. Have I been adding more images to my blog posts overall as time has progressed?
4. Do my blogs change in terms of length/complexity/readability based on the time of the year?
5. And a bunch of stuff I can’t remember now.
WOO DATA!
I’ll Get You, My Pretty, and Your Little Blog, Too!
Hello ladies and gents. There is something special about today’s blog.
Today is my 2,000th blog!
YAY!
This means it’s been 2,000 days since May 1st, 2006. That simultaneously sounds so long and yet so short.
ANYWAY!
In modest celebration (“modest” meaning “not extravagant;” all my crap’s packed up and I’m sitting in a hotel waiting to go home tomorrow and thus haven’t really had time to make a huge celebration blog), I’m going to list my top 20 blog titles and top 20 blogs. Because that’s kind of what I do.
Titles first!
Top 20 Titles (yes, most of these are stupid puns. Deal.)
- Are the bulbs of mercury at the bottom of thermometers collectively known as H.G. Wells?
- I just realized I’m illiterate and now I cacng apbtrtht kd thactgs
- Do physical comedians suffer from post-dramatic jest disorder?
- Circular reasoning works because circular reasoning works because circular reasoning works…
- Do philosophy departments have Causal Fridays?
- My new position at the PepsiCo factory isn’t the greatest job in the world, but I’m making Dew
- Waiter! There’s a tachyon in my—oh wait, there it goes, never mind.
- Is a theorem about pickles called a dill lemma?
- I am 95% confident that the population parameter ‘love’ falls between you and me
- If you want to eat an apple pie, you must first consume the universe
- Yo blog title, I’mma let you finish, but this entry holds one of the best blogs of all time
- I used to teach a failing fly-tying class until I realized my efforts were all for knot.
- I used to work at a bridal shop specializing in headdresses. My work there was to know a veil.
- Hammer Time is the fifth dimension
- How much fit would an index fit if the index indexed fit?
- Is Superman’s costume considered his strong suit?
- Silly Rabbit…Trix are for Magicians
- This just in: geophagists across the globe are biting the dust!
- Some Days I Miss My Sanity. Other Days I’m Just a Toaster.
- Waiter! There’s an infinite loop in my Waiter! There’s an infinite loop in my Waiter!…
Top 20 Blogs
- The Second Continental Chatroom – This is probably the only halfway funny thing I’ve ever written. Fueled by Chips Ahoy, baby. Fueled by Chips Ahoy.
- Claudia the Angry Blogger Presents: Yet Another Rant against Pretty Much Everything – This blog started as like three paragraphs and ballooned to a full-on “I hate change, especially on the internet” rant. It makes me happy.
- U Can’t Prove This – I’m really not sure how I managed to rewrite U Can’t Touch This while under the incredible stress of a 25-credit finals week, but here it is.
- HOT DAMN, Tukey Sandwiches! – I think the “pun to normal content” ratio is at its most ridiculous in this blog.
- Multicollinearity: The Silent Killer – If you don’t talk to your kid about near linear dependence, who will?
- A STATELY CHALLENGE – Because my first draft of the US without reference to a map is hilarious.
- My new position at the PepsiCo factory isn’t the greatest job in the world, but I’m making Dew – Philosophy of science stuff.
- Damn this infernal 95 character limit! I have witty things to say in my titles! This is crap! – Bashing Microsoft ’07: a happy pastime of mine.
- Pi vs. e – Alternate title: “R has two subsequent heart attacks.”
- Blameworthiness and the Anonymous Judge: An Analysis of FML Categories – My hypothesis was supported! WOO! I’d also like to expand this study at some point.
- If a blog falls in the forest… – Because of the Pokemon card.
- Gordon Freeman: A Case Study – Because of Gordon Freeman.
- Apple stores are goddamn scary – In terms of frightening corporate power, Apple is still < Google, but both should be watched carefully.
- An analysis of statewise uniform population density (according to Craigslist) – More stats fun.
- I’ve been waiting years for this – I remember being SO HAPPY when I opened the M&Ms package.
- Piece of Pi – More song parody! More math!
- Are the bulbs of mercury at the bottom of thermometers collectively known as H.G. Wells? – I really don’t know why I like this blog, I just do. Hippos.
- In This Blog: My Data Look like a Napkin Swan – Because of the uncanny and hilarious resemblance.
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is like a bad drug trip – It is! Seriously!
- Waiter! There’s a hippo in my Taco Grande! – Ye olde rant against pants. One of my early blogs.
Yay for 2,000 blogs. Here’s to 2,000 more, eh?
30-Day Meme – Day 21: A recipe.
YAY, a recipe! Cooking = win. Here’s one from the internet and one of my own.
1. Internet recipe
This makes a phenomenal breakfast/anytime bread. Super easy to make and crumbly as hell, this bread has a really good texture to it that adds to the sweet (but not overly so) taste. The only problem is that it goes moldy quite quickly if you try to stretch its life for more than five or six days.
2. Claudia recipe
You know I have to plug my Tukey sandwiches again (even though I just did), made and named in honor of the brilliant John Tukey. Because nothing says “you’re an awesome statistician” like a punny sandwich.
10 Years
It happened before Facebook. It happened before YouTube. It happened before the iPhone. It happened before Wi-Fi became widespread.
But the news of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center spread across the country probably faster than any of us could have imagined.
I remember waking up that morning to go to school. My mom already had the news on. It was shortly after the first tower had been hit, and as such there was still a great amount of confusion amongst the news reporters about what exactly had happened. Yes, the tower had been hit by a plane, but there was still speculation regarding whether it was an accident.
I personally remember thinking that’s all it was as I packed up my stuff to walk to school (8th grade). I think my most distinct memory of the day was when I first got on campus a little bit later. Students were rushing into the building, parents exiting the parking lot quickly. I saw my friend Amy, also in a hurry, pass me on her bike.
“What’s going on?” I asked.
“The second tower just got hit,” she said. “Big news. Everyone’s talking about it.”
I really don’t remember much else from that day. School didn’t happen, that’s for sure; every TV in every classroom was on, every pair of eyes in every grade watching silently as the events unfolded.
School didn’t happen for the rest of the week, either.
I think if I had been a few years older I would have remembered more. I actually remember September 11, 2002 more vividly because of how afraid everyone was about a similar even occurring on the one-year anniversary.
I guess there’s really not much I can say that hasn’t been said by anyone else today. I hope all those killed (yes, ALL those killed), both on that day and from events resulting from that day, rest in peace.
That is all.
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