What you People Come Here for (August Edition)

Here’s the stuff you searched for to bring you to my blog this month.  Simply cut & pasted, no corrections.  This of course is not the complete list, but it is the stuff I found interesting or funny.

• web junk blog
• prop up peach trees
• how to peach tree branches prop
• “world gone crazy” -screaming -lyrics -a
• jeremy begone (Should I be offended by this one)
• prop up prach tree
• how to grow a peach tree
• christian fantasy football team names
• peach tree roots
• peach tree looks like it is going to break
• fantasy team name funny
• christian duty in voting
• saying yes to jesus
• growing peach tree from branch
• so far as of today
• the best commercials to memorize
• over loaded peach tree
• morality and marijuana
• graduated from college +freaking out
• jeremy tufnel
• “episode iv is the best”
• what does a peach tree look like
• clean but clever fantasy football team n
• how big do peach trees grow
• what does a young peach tree look like
• verycool jeremy
• jeremy matheis
• olympics youth ministry lessons
• “don mathis” ohio
• vikings fan fantasy football team name
• how long will it take to die drinking
• the world is crazy church
• “what’s the baby using?” - At least 20 variations on this one
• sonya richards engagement ring – This was easily the #2 search of the month

Also this month, at least one person found my church website by searching “I love jeremy matthis”  That’s not my name, but I found that very interesting

This is very neat

Best Web Junk (August 29)

Everybody I know has sent me a link to this story this week.  So I need to share it with you

This link is here to keep [regular commenter] Caroline out of jail.

Looks like the flood is coming, what do we save.  You gotta have priorities – via digg

totally amazing – I can’t remember where I saw these

This is horrible news for me, since I’m an SEC fan living in NC, The Raycom games are all available streaming on yahoo.com, now that ESPN has bought all those games the regional ones will be unavailable to me, meaning that I will miss about 6 UK basketball games a year

This video is both good and impressive.  It appears that they just did this on the spur of the moment.  it’s really good.  I heard it on the Delta Park Project.

This paragraph is from Dave Barry’s article today and is pretty much the best summation I have heard of the DNC anywhere:

That message, in a nutshell, is that Barack Obama represents hope and change and an attractive but nonthreatening wife and experience in the form of Joe Biden; whereas John McCain — although he is a great patriot for whom the Democrats have the deepest personal respect — is the warmongering environment-wrecking house-forgetting evil demon spawn of Satan.

This, from The Onion, is really hilarious, but if you visit the site, the headline is dirty

A Milestone

This is my 100th blogpost.  In reality it is a bit more than that, because I have deleted a couple, and There are the tabs across the top.  But if you go searching through my blog you will only find 100 posts.

Here’s some numbers that you may find interesting

• I began March 3 this is Aug 26
• that is 176 days
• 25 weeks (rounded down)
• .56 posts per day
• 4 posts per week
• 234 comments

My top five commenters (actually top 6) representing 59% of all comments on this blog

1. Ryan & Caroline are tied – 39 comments
2. Webhick (Who seems to have disappeared) – 23
3. Adam (I’m counting trackbacks in this) – 14
4. Ashley – 13
5. Roland – 9

These are the top 5 most popular posts since I began

1. What’s the Baby Using? (This post has 4.25 times more views than #2)
2. Killing
3. Commercials
4. Christians & Drinking
5. Will this harm my peach tree?

These are the most commented posts since I began – Nevermind i can’t figure out how to sort my stats that way.  Probably “Killing” is most commented though, maybe most important post ever

Reviewing a Movie I’ve Never Seen

This movie, Religulous comes out soon.

I used to be a huge fan of Bill Maher.  In fact once upon a time his show, Politically Incorrect, was my favorite on late night TV.  Although I don’t get HBO, so I don’t think I’ve ever seen his new show.  I will almost surely watch this documentary.  However, I know that his purpose is to make religion look dumb, and if Michael Moore has taught the world anything it’s that you can make a documentary say anything.

My guess is that Bill Maher will ask the following question; why if there is a God is he telling everybody different stuff?  Here’s what I know.  he will not talk to any brilliant Christian apologists.  There will be no William Lane Craig, no J.P. Moreland, only some hicks and rednecks.  This will only be an attack on religion.

So before anyone I know sees it, including me, here’s a brief refutation of one point.  I got the following quote from this article (I couldn’t find any official information on the movie other than the trailer from the movie’s website):

Maher’s point-  that the world would be a better place without any religions, that wars would be eliminated and there would be universal understanding,

Let’s examine this quote realistically and look at 3 atheists.  None of these guys liked religion all declared that religion was a major problem for the world. In fact they each killed thousands of religious leaders.

• Stalin – according to the bastion of accuracy, Wikipedia, Stalin is responsible for 3 million deaths directly + about 10 million from the effects of his other policies
• Lenin – We will say conservatively that he is responsible for the deaths of 250,000
• Mao -The lowest estimate I have seen is 38 million

To be fair, the crusades probably killed 1.5 million, several hundred thousand were killed in the inquisition and witch trials, and millions in the post-reformation “religious wars” that were really political wars.  But from the first list, does this seem like a peace-loving group of people?  It’s fine if you want to hate religion but don’t assume we are all stupid.  There are wars and bad junk in the world because people are bad, not because religion teaches us to think that we are right.

It seems to be over

This will be my last post on What does the baby use. I just wanted to share my stat graph now that it seems to be mostly over.

I really can’t understand its popularity.  But this was a fairly amazing trend for me.

To all the babies reading – Enjoy your 25

Thank You Tom Merritt

Thanks to @acedtect (Tom Merritt from my favorite podcast) Finally some answers to what the baby is using?

The truth about 25

Want a shirt?

Best Web Junk (August 22)

Snoopy’s Novel – via woot

First Molly Wood twitters this then the next morning I read this from Bart Barber – wow they are right, the Olympics involve a lot of skin.

This is such a good idea.  Quit high school to focus on Guitar Hero – via popwatch

I’m not fully ashamed to admit that really enjoy lolcats, I find them very entertaining.  if you don’t know what lolcats are then may I introduce FractLOL (You may have to install silverlight)

I totally deny this

Very interesting video

Stats

Lately, for like the last month, my stats have gone down.  I have been only getting about 80% of the viewers I used to get.  So imagine my surprise when yesterday was my best day since June.  Well I looked at my searches and could see what was bringing all the people here so I made a post to address it.  it turned out to be my all time best day on this blog statistically speaking, beating my previous high day by 50%.  And it’s only 9am EDT (-5 zulu) and already I’m on track to blow yesterday away.  This is 3 times more readers than I get on an average “good” day.

I am truly astonished by this phenomenon, look at my stat graph.

My statistical jump

Also, thanks to wordpress.com for hosting me.  I’d be freaking out if I was having to pay for this bandwidth.  Even though it’s probably not that much, relatively speaking, I’d be freaking out.

What’s the Baby Using?

This is my best day in a very long time statistically speaking.  All because of my twitter feed. Since nobody has answered yet, I’ll tell you the answer.

What’s the baby using?

the answer, of course, is 25.

I first saw this here, but the original is found here.

<update>Be sure to visit thetruthabout25.com

I decided to make a shirt</update>

And here is the video for those of you who are totally lost.

Here’s my stats so far