Blue Collar Scientist

Last week, the Blue Collar Scientist servers were screaming for mercy, sagging under the weight of an enormous amount of traffic sent my way by StumbleUpon. The post of interest - the one that shot to the top of the “most popular” sidebar and will likely stay there for quite some time - is about the blasphemous remarks that Casey Luskin didn’t write on his website.

Here’s last week’s traffic spike:

You can see two spikes in my usual ebb and flow of traffic there. The small one, on the left, was about two hours of intense traffic to a post in which I considered the question of whether intelligent design creationism was pro-infanticide. It just so happens that it was ClickMonkey that added that post to StumbleUpon.

And now he’s struck again. The great big spike on the right is his doing as well. Apparently not being satisfied with the previous display of his influence, he added the Casey Luskin post, and all of a sudden the server got whaled on for about forty-five minutes - and then less intensely for about a day thereafter. A bunch of other people thumbs-up’ed the post - thanks, everyone! - and that appears to have driven the total traffic to quite high levels.

So, Clickmonkey: Thank you for reading my blog. Thanks for being directly responsible for about 30% of the total traffic the blog has ever received in its entire history. If I ever get to meet you in person, I’ll gladly buy you a beer (or other refreshing beverage of your choice). Thanks also to the others who gave the posting a thumbs up. I sincerely appreciate your interest, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to test my hosting plan’s robustness - which apparently isn’t too terrible.

Now - its off to the laboratory with me, to write more ClickMonkey bait….

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