So far no one has even ventured a guess as to the identity of the blogger whose post I read yesterday. I'll leave it a mystery for one more day to give everyone a chance to hear it.
In the meantime, here's an idea I've been toying with for some time, and only now am getting around to actually doing. I sifted through my old comments and found the first ten commenters who meet two criteria:
--They can't have already have been blogrolled by me. I've made it a point from the start to only blogroll people who stick around for awhile. There are so many people who show up and start leaving comments for a few days only to disappear when I don't immediately blogroll them.
--Their blog or website has to still be active. Remarkably, almost all of the people who didn't stick around long enough for me to blogroll no longer have active sites. Those who did stick around and got blogrolled are almost all still active. The only exceptions are mg, who hasn't updated since June, and Courtney, who appears to have deleted her blog but not her account. (Too bad, since she is the only person I've ever known who shares my prosopagnosia affliction.) I certainly hope no one else is planning on closing shop any time soon.
So who does that leave? The first ten commenters who meet both criteria are one-time visitors who somehow stumbled onto my site, left a brief comment, and never returned. And not all their sites are blogs. The last one on the list may look like the result of a spam comment, but I'm pretty sure it was genuine, given the context.
So without further ado (I do have a tendency to put way too much ado into my posts, don't I?), here they are:
- Michele -- 10.12.3
- sushiesque -- 10.16.3
- john cass -- 10.23.3
- bayona -- 10.28.3
- Coup de Vent -- 11.9.3
- Matt -- 11.12.3
- Phil -- 11.14.3
- Crawford Kilian -- 11.14.3
- Jim Moore -- 11.21.3
- lizz -- 11.22.3
