Holy cow, today is the last day of October. It seems like only last week I was freaking out that another month had gone by in two weeks. But that was actually the last day of September. Today it feels like the entire month of October has whizzed by in just seven days. Is time accelerating?.
An ongoing question that I've never really come to a firm conclusion about is "Who am I actually writing blog posts for, myself or a possibly imaginary audience?".
Something that threw me a bit this year was finding that if I didn't do any posts for a month, my daily hits appeared to increase, and if I did more posts than my usual one each day, my hits appeared to decrease. That is really quite perplexing, and I have ruminated about it from time to time...
Looking at which posts consistently get the most hits, the clear leader is the one about the book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" by Weston A. Price
I'm really pleased to be publicizing and sharing this amazing book from 1939, which I rate as both the best nutrition and the best anthropological book of all time.
But beyond that, my most popular posts are usually just collections of random memes that I tend to slap together when I feel like a lol and can't be arsed writing anything long winded.
Maybe 10 years ago about half of all internet traffic was still actual real people, living humans surfing the internet, including the people reading blog posts. But here in 2025 I'm convinced that is no longer the case, and now I suspect something like 90% of all internet traffic is AI.
So I seem to be claiming here that time is accelerating and nearly everybody online is a bot. That all sounds totally fruit-loops doesn't it? I can't prove either of those claims are true, but I know I'm not the only person thinking along those lines, because I've seen other people voicing similar thoughts. At least I think they were people, but they actually could have been bots too.
To stir things up a bit I like to make some changes each month, especially to my blog. For November I'm going to try making the following three changes to this blog:
1. To post whatever I feel like, long or short, anything from full length posts with references, down to single memes with no words at all.
2. To post whenever I feel like posting something, so if I feel like doing a heap of posts on one day I will, but if I can't be arsed posting anything at all for a few days, so be it.
3. To post for the primary audience of myself, not giving a toss what anyone else might think, or caring whether or not any of my posts are likely to draw in "hits" or not.
At the moment this blog is literally jumping up and down each day from around 250 daily hits lows, up to occasional 1400 hits on one day highs. That makes no sense to me, but if it's all meaningless, why do I give a toss anyway?.
