Wednesday, April 20, 2016

ITEMS WITH THE MOST PAGE VIEWS AND MY FAVORITES - V

An eclectic blog (November, 2009, through December, 2015) with sections on Biography, Commentary (General, Economics and Investing), Fiction, Health Care, Oil and Gas, Politics, Photographs, and Poetry (Children's Poems, General, Health, and Space Poems) and (new) Poems By Others: http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2011/07/reunite-gondwanaland-2009-june-2011.html  As of the end of 2015, the blog contains 540 items with 120 published in 2015, a few greater than last year's 111.

The Reunite Gondwanaland and Table Of Contents has the most page views with 430.  Close behind in the new Poems By Others Section, Ogden Nash's poem Fossils with 428  [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2013/01/fossils-by-ogden-nash-poem.html] as the blog bears down on 37,000 page views.

Of my own posts, there is the first 300 page viewer from 2014, The Break Even Price of Fracking Oil [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2014/10/break-even-price-of-fracking-oil.html] with 300 page views.

Four other items have at least 200 page views: You Are So Lucky (Biographical) [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2009/11/you-are-so-lucky.html] with 230 (Which deals with my first three days in Japan in 1965); The Tea Cup Seimograph [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-tea-cup-seismograph-biographical.html] with 215 (It was no doubt popular because of the Great Japanese Earthquake of 2011.);  Muammar Qaddafi And Me (Biographical) [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2010/12/muammar-qaddafi-and-me-biographical.html] with 212 (No doubt popular because of the overthrow of the Libyan dictator Qaddafi); and My Maternal Grandmother (Biographical) [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2013/10/my-maternal-grandmother-biographical.html]  with 209 page views;

More than 10 posts have at least 100 page views.  The highest of these is Trump Or Cruz? [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2015/12/trump-or-cruz.html] with 177 page views; closely followed by Working Underground: My Rational Self and My Emotional Self with  170 page views [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2013/01/working-underground-my-rational-self.html].  Two other posts from 2015  that topped 100 page views are:Who Buys Isis Oil with 140 [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2015/11/who-buys-isis-oil.html]; and 13 Things That Doen't Make Sense (Book Review) - Part I  [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2015/06/13-things-that-dont-make-sense-book.html] with 101.

Each piece I have written is like a child and I love them all, but it is common that some children are loved more than others. My personal favorites are Effectiveness Of Taxes [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2010/05/effectiveness-of-taxes.html] with fewer than 100 page views and Basics of Bureaucracy [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2011/07/basics-of-bureaucracy.html] with 114. In the former, I point out why decreasing taxes on individuals is an inefficient way to stimulate the economy. I liked this so much that I refer to it in three other pieces. Alas the reading public did not agree as to its great value. In the latter that was written many years ago, I give some real rules of dealing with bureaucrats in a humorous fashion.

Let me give two Honorable Mentions. I wouldn't say this is a favorite of mine, but it can be important to some, i.e. Preferred Stock Investing with 131 hits [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2011/11/preferred-stock-investing.html]. I have invested for about 60 years, but never got involved in preferred stocks until the last decade. I would also like to mention one poem Upon the Second Anniversary Of Apollo 11, the first landing on the Moon [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2010/01/upon-second-anniversary-of-apollo-11.html]. Normally a couplet or more just pops into my mind and I construct a poem around it. The second anniversary of Apollo Eleven, however, was little noticed which I thought was terrible so this was the first time I sat down to compose a poem from scratch. 

Also on poems, my favorite couplet that I have ever written is in  So How About An Asteroid (Poem) [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2011/07/so-how-about-asteroid-poem.html], with 80 page views: Who could possibly be annoyed/ About the study of an asteroid.  My favorite stanza is from  On Age 82 (Poem) [http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2013/09/on-age-82-poem.html] with 133: 

I do not text
And do not tweet
I'm 82 years old
Feeling kind of beat.

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