I started this blog on 12/18/2000 without much idea how long I would do it…and also without blogging software. What was available at the time wasn't very good and I decided to hand-code the messages here for the first few years. I had no idea I'd still being doing it 6030 days later.
Over the years, I've deleted some posts and rerun some posts. I suspect the two numbers about coincide so let's just ignore that. As of when I post this message, there will be 24,459 posts on this site, which works out to a smidgen over four per day. At this rate, I will hit the 25,000 mark on November 3 of this year. I have decided that Post #25,000 will be my response to one of our "ASK me" questions where you send in a question and I write something that I hope will answer it.
Please keep sending those in. I will continue to answer them but I'm going to save the best one I receive between now and October 15th to be #25,000. There will be an actual, tangible prize for the submitter of that question — a copy of some Groo book (my choice) signed by Sergio Aragonés and me, and if I can get them, Stan Sakai and Tom Luth. And no, second prize is not two Groo books. There is no second prize. And there's no prize if I answer your question but not as #25,000.
I'm looking for something that will prompt me to write something kinda long and of interest to most of the folks who come to this blog…and I'm probably not going to pick a political question.
Don't rush. You have plenty of time to come up with one and send it to this address. May the best Blog Reader win!