Whatever happened to cat macros?

[andrewducker]

Come to think of it, were they the last of the memes?

Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, whatever happened? They're alive and flourishing on icanhascheezburger!

[andrewducker]

Oh, they still exist - but they used to be on my flist all the damned time. They now pop up about once every three months.

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

I've had that dude as my 'annoyed' icon for months after seeing this demotivational poster :)

Random question

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Have you linked to me, or mentioned me, in the past couple of days? I've been hit with a veritable flood of people I don't know popping over to look at my journal in the last few days, and the one thing they all seem to have in common is that they're friends with you too.

It's odd. I can't figure out where it's coming from. My page counter is ticking like a Geiger counter at Three Mile Island.

Re: Random question

[andrewducker]

Nope, not that I've noticed. Did you make a particularly cool comment that might have sent people over?

Re: Random question

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Nope, I've barely been online enough to even update. And even if I had, it would have had to be one that people were still noticing four or five days later.

I'll chalk it up to coincidence. Statistical clustering, yay!

Re: Random question

[andrewducker]

Someone else I know could have linked to you? I know a few different clusters. Who seem to be the ringleaders?

Re: Random question

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Understand that I'm merely mildly curious about this.

I've been visited recently by (at least) skington, aliiis, onceupon, marrog, fjm, kayre, jarkman, zornhau, guybles, heron61, cybik, ekatarina, missedith01, pigeonhed, and natural20, wychwood, and jarkman, to name only the ones easiest to track, in the last two days. I think all but two of them are friends of yours, and there at least ten more visitors in the last two days that I can't identify, many of them with IPs originating from the University of Edinburgh or other northern UK-related addresses. I didn't bother to go back more than two days, but it's been going on for, maybe, three days? Three and a half?

This does represent a major jump over my usual level of non-friend traffic, and I think I've only had a conversation with one of them, ever.

It's not a problem by any means, but I was vaguely wondering where it came from.

Re: Random question

[andrewducker]

Aha!
http://interactiveleaf.livejournal.com/491654.html was in yesterday's link post.

Re: Random question

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Ah ha! So when the non-friend started spiking slightly the day before that, *that* was the statistical clustering, and I put it all down to you . . .

Thanks. :-)

Re: Random question

[andrewducker]

I snagged it on delicious (http://delicious.com/AndrewDucker) at on the 13th at 17:19 UK time(I think). It was then picked up on my links feed(http://syndicated.livejournal.com/andyduckerlinks/) and Twitter (AndrewDucker) automatically. It would then be reposted in the daily link post at midday (UK time) the next day (the 14th).

So you can start blaming me at any point you like :->