YEAR IN REVIEW!

[theweaselking]

Like always, I'm doing "the post of each month with the most comments", not the first or last or some such.

January:
The Winner: On sequels that aren't sequels.
The reason it got so many comments: A discussion of favourite movies that are sequels but that don't require you to watch the first one or even necessarily reference the first one. Eg, Desperado to El Mariachi, or Death To Smoochy to Fight Club.

February:
The Winner: I'm certainly going to see the movie, now.
The reason it got so many comments: There's a raccoon with a machine gun riding an Ent.

March:
The Winner: Best movie to walk into blind, knowing nothing about the premises or the plot.
The reason it got so many comments: People around here like movies.

April:
The Winner: "Study of Pot Smokers' Brains Shows That MRIs Cause Bad Science Reporting"
The reason it got so many comments: Baen work-for-hire author Matthew Joseph Harrington went into an extremely racist mostly-incoherent meltdown in the comments. He's got a reputation for doing that, but on this day he did it here.

May:
The Winner: An important note for Hugo voting.
The reason it got so many comments: Addressing a misconception on the proper use of "no vote" on the Hugo ballets. Also has a ninja astronaut airsurfing a draculabot.

June:
The Winner: Old questions are often fun.
The reason it got so many comments: Four questions with nonintuitive answers.

July:
The Winner: See? It's SCIENCE. Always get the bigger pizza.
The reason it got so many comments: Apparently "more pizza = more better" is a topic of discussion? I dunno.

August:
The Winner: Instant-runoff voting question
The reason it got so many comments: An interesting degenerative-case thought experiment on voting. Also Hugo comments.

September:
The Winner: Wherein I point out the obvious about phones.
The reason it got so many comments: Apple fans get really excited when, years late, they finally start being able to do the things everyone else has been doing, and they don't like it when you point out that the "new exciting feature" on the iDevice is something that's come standard on every other device for a very long time. But I like pointing that kind of thing out.

October:
The Winner: Uh, October was a REALLY slow month. So this cat picture technically wins, but not by much.
The reason it got so many comments: It kinda didn't. It just got one more than like 5 other unremarkable posts.


November:
The Winner: A three-way tie! ""MOZILLA. STAHP.", "Audi engineers their cars to survive sabotage by weasels", and "MRI-ing a banana plant."
The reason it got so many comments: Mozilla pretends that Yahoo are a real company with a real product, martens devouring car bits on video with German narration and it's NOT porn, and a really cool image.


December:
The Winner: DON'T FUCKING REHEAT RICE
The reason it got so many comments: I and a startling number of other commenters had never actually heard this advice with reference to rice - to wit, never eat rice that's reached room temperature after cooking. Eat it hot, fridge it while hot, reheat it to hot, never leave it at room temperature.


The Odometer:
18,139 Journal Entries (560 this year)
117,295 comments received, 34,915 comments posted

Comments

[harald387.livejournal.com]

I propose an attempt to retroactively make this the December post with the most comments. Just for contrariness' sake. Who's in? Just needs 34 more!

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

#1: That's happened before. I ignored it then, will ignore it now.
#2: I actually posted this this morning. But if it becomes JANUARY'S top post, I will laugh.

[harald387.livejournal.com]

Hey, the timestamp says '2014-12-31 23:59:00' on MY screen, bub. It's a December post.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Amazingly, timestamps can lie.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Comment comment comment!

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Now we can't post a comment here without unwittingly furthering your plan!

[frith]

Um... *comment*

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

I like this rehash, and look back at a couple of the posts I missed or have since forgotten about.

But I don't think it's controversial enough to get the requisite number of comments.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Unless... we MAKE controversy!

So, how about that climate change? Global warming my ass, if we've got global warming, why is it so cold?

(*ducks and runs*)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always decreases in a closed system! This disproves evolution because for evolution to be true we would need a massive energy source adding energy to the earth and if one of those existed SCIENCE WOULD KNOW ABOUT IT.

[stormfeather.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, that one always hurts my brain.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

And I'm having a good breakfast, so there's no starvation anywhere.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

On the Titanic, someone was screaming "We're not sinking! We can't be sinking! This bit of the boat right under my feet is going waaaayyyyyy up in the air!"