Happy Birthday, Mirrorboy!

Well, I may be a couple of hours late...but I'll blame timezones :-) Anyways, we all love our patriarch the wonderful, love-able Mirrorboy. Its pretty amazing to think a just a year ago, this whole community didn't exist! I have met some wonderful people, and learned so much about other people and cultures. It has been awesome.

So I was trying to think of something I could do to celebrate the first year anniversary of Mirrorboy and his blog. First, I thought to send one of my favorite male strippers to his house in bumble-fuck, Australia

... but then I thought, no. His mom probably wouldn't like that (actually this is a rare circumstance where moms and gay sons can agree!).

So I ditched that idea, and decided to do something geeky. I whipped together a simple powershell script to gather some interesting info about Mirrorboy's blog. Blogger has a few APIs that you can use to get info. So what have we learned about Mirrorboy's blog (as of 09/18 at 1:12AM GMT-5):

• Mirrorboy has written 271 blog posts!
• There have been 3,930 comments total!
• All of the blog posts together have 125,247 words!
• All of the blog posts together have 733,991 characters!
• The average number of words per post is 499.06!
• The longest comment was 10,494 characters by Mr McCabbage on Eh. (It's epic, go check it out. I didn't read it, because I don't have three packed lunches and 36 hours to spare)

What I was the most interested in was to see who had the most comments >:-) (All anonymous comments are being counted as if they were from one username). Here are the top fifty commentors on all of Mirrorboys posts. This table includes their rank, name, total # of comments, average # of characters per comment, and the first date they ever submitted a comment. Note that this is NOT the blog's published date, but the time when the comment was submitted.

Rank	Username	# of Comments	Avg Characters / Comment	First Comment Submitted
1	naturgesetz	220	72.0	10/06/08
2	Anonymous	206	93.8	10/02/08
3	Mirrorboy	181	38.2	9/27/08
4	Seth	167	95.5	9/30/08
5	Planetx_123	166	87.8	10/29/08
6	Aek	159	48.2	12/17/08
7	cvn70	152	67.0	12/28/08
8	AJCon89	126	71.7	10/21/08
9	James	113	30.8	10/30/08
10	Mr. HCI	106	96.0	10/27/08
11	Jeremy	97	28.6	1/22/09
12	Peter	96	40.9	12/07/08
13	Kevin Wilson	82	61.1	11/25/08
14	Jake Annonymous	73	27.2	9/27/08
15	Col	72	57.4	10/27/08
16	xthecouragex	71	103.4	11/25/08
17	Steevo	70	106.9	10/02/08
18	Landyn	59	75.8	10/02/08
19	Tombi04	57	46.8	1/03/09
20	Deadwing	48	43.6	3/03/09
21	Poisoned Happiness	45	51.3	11/19/08
21	victor	45	83.0	10/04/08
22	Doomed But Cheerful!	40	91.3	10/22/08
23	J	38	66.1	11/19/08
24	torchy!	37	84.0	1/04/09
25	Mr McCabbage	36	185.3	3/22/09
26	Aahsazyl	35	20.0	12/31/08
27	Benji	34	24.7	5/22/09
28	goleftatthefork	32	25.9	4/01/09
29	Micky	31	50.8	3/30/09
29	Rhythym Changes	31	64.5	4/20/09
30	PoisonedHappiness	29	31.1	3/06/09
30	JC	29	52.6	10/01/08
31	Doug	28	65.3	10/27/08
32	WkBoy714	27	42.4	7/07/09
33	Tyler	26	24.8	4/09/09
34	Spastic Fantastic	24	39.7	4/24/09
34	Lach	24	32.0	9/29/08
35	~kiwi	22	33.5	2/27/09
35	Daily Dan	22	17.3	3/06/09
35	Tom	22	47.6	10/29/08
36	Ethan	20	54.9	7/24/09
37	Highwayman	19	30.6	4/08/09
37	Randy	19	104.3	3/02/09
37	Zee	19	99.1	11/09/08
38	pinstripe	18	23.3	12/19/08
38	Baz	18	91.3	4/01/09
38	Ryan	18	64.2	12/25/08
39	Tim	17	38.7	11/06/08
39	Jason Carwin	17	60.8	7/10/09

Congrats Naturgesetz! And grrr.... I lost to Seth by ONE! *shakes fist* I also collected a histogram of all the words in the each of the blog posts, because I thought maybe that would be interesting. The unfortunate part is that this also includes any html that one puts in there. My 'word' splitting is very simple, so html is all included. Sure, there are ways around this, but this was a 'simple' script :-) So here are the top 25 most used words with their use counts:

Rank	Word	Count
1	blogspot	874
2	style	834
3	blogger	562
4	color	556
5	about	541
6	height	523
7	width	522
8	_q08i_4aq	428
9	people	378
10	there	360
11	really	332
12	mirrorboysblog	312
13	class	303
14	would	292
15	tracker	272
16	googleusercontent	271
16	https	271
16	footer	271
17	387878206502427000	270
18	think	259
19	because	252
20	school	248
20	strong	248
21	border	236
21	cursor	236
22	things	227
23	400px	211
24	s1600	193
25	other	191

See...not as interesting as maybe expected.

Anyways- I hope you enjoyed our little journey into the blog-world mecca blog of Mirrorboy. Until your next birthday-- may your year be filled *cuddles*, *snuggle hugs*, and *pounce hugs*! I love ya buddy, and I'm so glad you are here and have had such a positive impact on everyone!

Much Love,
Steve

P.S. if anyone wants the script hit me up on MSN or my email.

P.P.S I notice that Jake Anon's first comment is 2008-09-27 00:29:00 GMT+10:00 (or at least that's what Blogger reports). Lach's first comment shows is 2008-09-29 14:31:00 GMT+10:00... a mystery?