This is, in fact, my ten thousandth post on the phorum. A feat made slightly less impressive because Murlough did it like
a year and a half ago, but hey, we can't all suffer from his extreme case of logorrhea (just kidding, dude, much love).
From mundane comments about the weather to immense soliloquies on video games to intense religious debates, I have personally contributed a bit over 10% of the total posts on the Phorum, and over 25% of the posts on this board! If we were counting
quality posts...but we won't talk about that.
Hopefully at least a few of my average 3.6 posts per day over the past seven and a half years have made someone smile, laugh, reminisce, nod in agreement, snarl in disagreement, or at least engage a couple of brain cells. And perhaps one day I will get through to enough people that I won't have to hear anyone say "daylight savings time" or see someone find yet another creative abuse of the poor apostrophe...though as I type this, I realize what wishful thinking this is.
I wish more people would join fora instead of creating weblogs. Why broadcast to a billion people who don't care when you can have a conversation with a handful who do? There is certainly a place for weblogs, but I think in many cases Twitter or livejournal or Facebook cause us to be a society of people who talk
at each-other rather than with each-other. If I had made 10000 posts to a weblog somewhere, would I have had so many people provide feedback--positive and negative--to my opinions? Would I have spent so much time refining my position if there weren't people looking for ways to assail it?
I'm very grateful that those of you who actually still stop by this board have been gracious enough to put up with ten thousand of my posts. Thanks for being my e-quaintances, and here's to another ten thousand clicks of the Post button!
