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Ah, the WordPress blog snow is back
No, your vision isn’t deteriorating faster than you thought. If you pause on a post here for a few seconds, snowflakes may begin to fall. It’s a December, holidays sort of thing. A few complaints,...
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Dinner with friends: Bob Gates, George Bush, Ray Hunt, and Rex Tillerson
Posting yesterday was muffled by my dinner plans — interesting session with Ray Hunt and Rex Tillerson, and Bob Gates and George W. Bush. Just them and me, and 1,400 other close friends. It was the...
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Slow posting – apologies
Oh, there’s plenty to write about. But: Crunch at school. Lots of other spring activities for various organizations. I’ve got a rip-roaring sinus infection. Feel free to comment, with links, to...
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All libraried up
Posting may be a bit slight this week. With a group of history teachers from Dallas Independent School District, I’m off on a trip that will take us to three Presidential Libraries in the system...
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Follow Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub on Twitter
Look to the column at the right, and you may notice that I’ve added a widget so you can subscribe to my posts and other ramblings on Twitter. Missing the boat? Facebook accounts fell last month in the...
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How to tell that comment on your blog is really spam
No kidding, these are actual comments. Did the authors think no one would notice? Wow! This can be one particular of the most useful blogs We’ve ever arrive across on this subject. Actually...
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Why is the Texas Chainsaw Massacre so popular?
And, why do people so very, very much, want that story to be true and not fictional? Here’s the list of stories from this blog that were most popular over the past seven days; the top two stories hold...
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On the 7th floor of the 6th Floor Museum
Posting is slow this week, some of you have noted. I’m on the 7th floor of the old Texas School Book Depository building. Teacher training, you know. A great series of sessions put together by the...
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3 million Monday?
Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub may have its 3 millionth reader on Monday, October 10. At present rates, Tuesday for sure. Thank you, readers. Filed under: Administrivia, reading Tagged: Administrivia,...
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3 million and counting higher*
I estimated wrong. Millard Fillmore's head, from Futurama, tallying hits at Millard Fillmore's Bathtub.** Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub passed 3 million hits sometime this afternoon: 3,000,536 views...
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Thoughts on top ten search phrases
Of course there are many others, but these are the top ten search phrases that hit on this blog today: famous long poems about life build a prairie natural lakes in texas only the dead have seen the...
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What a crappy week
Would have, could have, should have been a great week, especially with those 11-, 12- and 13-year old Scouts showing so much moxie and understanding of Constitutional rights and history on Monday...
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Real life difficulties, please stand by
Or get a cup of coffee, or an ice cream cone, and relax. Porlock is a village in Somerset, England. I wonder, where does he get the "Porlock, Jr." moniker? This is a 1937 map of the village, Wikipedia...
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4,000 posts, 3.4 million readers
Either that last post, or the one before it, was the 4,000th post at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub. (Two different post counters give two different tallies.) Kathryn and me. checking out local history at...
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On the road, again . . .
Image by NASA Goddard Photo and Video via Flickr Haven’t caught up with stuff from last week’s tour of the Midwest. In Washington, D.C., today, and little chance to post. My apologies. Much to talk...
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3.5 million and counting
Which is considerably more than Rutledge Taylor can get to see his crappy movie, even with the assistance of his famous girlfriend. Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub turned over 3.5 million readers today, or...
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Milestones: 4,500 posts
4,500 posts here? Where else is “4500″ notable? Look at this beautiful, vintage computer from 1986, a National FS-4500: This MSX 2 computer was marketed as a wordprocessor system, and indeed it is! It...
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Spam templates
Organized efforts to fight spam, by major computer security firms, by major internet players, have paid off in interesting ways. I use WordPress‘s Akismet spam catching program, and it works very well....
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Coming attractions: 4 million
4 million & counting cake, from (almost) Bald Trainer Blog At this total and at this rate, sometime next week Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub will pass the 4 million view mark. If I had a nickel for...
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4 million
About noon today Central Time, Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub recorded its 4 millionth visit. Thank you, Dear Reader. How significant is four million? This group is happy about collecting enough money for...
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