As a fairly-frequent commenter on other people’s blogs, I know how frustrating it can be when I’ve spent a few minutes working on the perfect riposte, only to have it disappear somewhere in the void. So I thought I’d explain a little bit about how comments on johnaugust.com work, and why they sometimes don’t show […]
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Formatting the one-sided phone conversation
You don’t need as many parentheticals as you think.
They still haven’t found what they’re looking for
Approximately five percent of visitors to johnaugust.com arrive from Google or one of the other search engines. Thanks to server statistics, I can see exactly what search phrase brought them here. Some people were clearly ego-surfing: searching for their names as they might appear in comments sections, for instance. But other people, well, I have […]
Answer: You are an American male in his twenties
Thanks to the 470 of you who were gracious enough to fill out the not-especially-scientific survey, I can now state with confidence that the typical reader of johnaugust.com is a North American college graduate in his 20’s who has a Y chromosome, but no WGA card. Now, before anyone protests, I should point out that […]