Neatorama Post No. 12345!

Hi guys, I’m a biochemist by training (I was a lab rat a loooong time ago), a small business owner by day and blogger by night.

Neatorama is my blog baby, but I do have a wonderful young daughter Maddy and a newly born son Zachary (we call him Ziggy). I’ve been married to my lovely wife Tiffany (who tenderly tolerated this blog but insisted on referring it as “Crack-O-Rama”) for over 7 years, but we’ve been together a long time before that.

I’d tell you my favorite movie or TV show, but the truth is, since the birth of our daughter, my wife and I rarely go to the movies anymore. I don’t even have time to watch TV - but at least I still read (albeit slowly now). My favorite author, right now at least, is Fredrick Forsyth - I’m trying to read all of his books.

We live in sunny Southern California and will probably be here only for a few more years. My wife and I have been wanting to move somewhere greener (and cheaper!), maybe Washington or Oregon.

If you catch a typo or grammatical error in a Neatorama post that I wrote, that’s because 1) English is my second language and 2) I’m a naturally sloppy writer. Please accept this as part of Neatorama’s charm (and send me an email or write a comment so I can correct the post).

Lastly, if you ever want to say hi, please email me - I’d love to hear from you! Thank you for reading Neatorama!

hi alex.
i am Leo and im a neatorama addict.

ahhh i feel much better now.

Really appreciate your work. I am an anonymous reader in Melbourne, Australia who never leaves messages on any site but given that I look at your site more often than most I should make the effort!. I usually have a browse on my laptop at the end of the day while I wait for my two little boys to go to sleep. Helps if I don’t make eye contact with them as their batteries can have an extended life. Keep up the good work and also the diverse topics. Cheers.

llorch, lurker

Hi, I’m a French Neatorama daily reader. I’m 37, married, 3 children, living in south of France close to the mediterranean sea.

I’m an IT manager and read Neatorama news is my first thing done on internet in the morning to give me a fresh breath to begin my work day.

My favorite movies are Dark City and Blade Runner.

The other blog I read are Make magazine, betterexplained, gizmodo and boing boing gadgets.

My gamertag on Xbox live is Prospero34 and you can find me sometimes on Catan game !

I’m a 29 year old artist and manager at America’s oldest men’s clothing store. I live on a sailboat in Charleston, South Carolina where my family has lived for about 300 years.

I read neatorama for the articles…. yeah, the articles.

I meant to say “or with whom I was not related”

My name’s….up above.
I have no idea how I found this blog, but I have been seriously addicted since. It sits on my favorites bar on Firefox, where I click it when I’m bored…
I am 18 and am a freshman at the University of Minnesota. I hope to either be a chemist or a physicist….its tough to decide.

Oh, and when you posted my wiki “article” on yawning, it made my day.

Hi Alex! I’m Deyey from the Philippines. I’m also a blog writer but my works are in the vernacular (Tagalog). I am a daily reader (lurker) of your site and I just want to say congratulations on your 12,345th post. I’ll be praying and waiting for your 678,910th post!!! Keep it up!

Hello, I’m Nick. I’ve been Neatorama-ing since I saw a post that had a Delorean on monster truck tires, been hokoed ever since. I’m a student, currently studying animation and I hope to have a Pixar-type job someday.

Hey, I’m 21 and I just graduated in December with my BS in apparel design. I have been reading neatorama for about a year or so now..love the broad range of posts..lots of stuff to keep me side tracked haha.

Also I live in Portland, OR & it’s really pretty great up here And our public transportation is amazing!

Hi Alex and all my fellow Neatoramans,

My naem is Sid and I’m a 30 yr-old from the South East of the UK. Im a Graphic Designer and Illustrator by day and a Musician, Artist, Skeptic and (pretty bad) Poker Player by night. I’m also looking forward to moving in with my Girlfriend on Saturday.

I have been reading Neatorama for just over a year and been occasionally commenting for six months I guess. It’s usually the first thing I do when I get into work in the morning and it always sets me up for the day. Thanks for all your efforts in keeping me entertained (and sane at work)!

With a name like grok, I’d definitely guess you’re a big geek!

Well, welcome to Neatorama, MCJonesy - now that you’ve commented (and found out how easy it was), maybe I’ll see you ’round the comment part more.

Glad that Neatorama can help you impress your boyfriend with useless trivia, Sise.

Hi Alex

Cool site. Lurker for 2 years, off and on.

I live in Napier, New Zealand, by the sea, when I look out my door the nearest land is Chile,South America, about 7000 miles away. She’s a big sea mate. Love the view.

I like small children (mostly my own) and the vagrancies of life.

I often wonder if there’s a reason.

Neatorama doesn’t answer that question for me, but its an extremely fun way to pass the time whilst in between wonderings.

Thanks very much.

Hi ,
I work for Hong Kong Disneyland and we are just about to open a brand new it’s a small world. It’s going to be the best version on the planet. Come and visit

And I try to keep my “keep as new” in bloglines under 300, but with Neatorama it´s very difficult.

I love the facts about history \o/!

My name is Kevin and I live in Kentucky. I’ve been visiting this site for nearly two years now, I guess, ever since one of my fellow Farkers mentioned it in the forums. I checked it out and have kept checking it out every day since then. I even won the prize (a sweet Neatorama t-shirt) in the second “What is it?” game you hosted here back in November of 2006. Hooray!

I love this site, Alex.

I’m Julia. I’m 19, studying politics and philosophy at Oxford University… but really I want to be a naturalist and study animals. So I go to lots of zoology lectures and this summer I have a work experience placement at a zoo!

I keep up with this site via its feed (and this is the first time I’ve ventured over to comment). *Beams*

Hi Alex.
I simply adore what you do with Neatorama. It occupies a huge part of my mindspace every single day. I’ve gone on month long treks to get away from it all, only to return and diligently check on a month’s backlog of neatorama posts.
I’m from a different corner of the world - India. (This part of asia comes with facial hair )And I’m spreading your good word around.
Thank you very very much for all the joys.

Alex!
Regular Neatorama reader, first time poster. Starting reading a few years back when i noticed alot of stuff on boingboing was from here. 21 year old Electrical Engineering student, working at BMW MINI Oxford (my ip will prolly be German). Thanks for the site

Hi Alex, Congrats on the 12345th post! It feels good typing those numbers out. I’m from Singapore, and am currently in university, but the only thing you see me doing during lectures is checking Neatorama for updates or looking through the archives. Too interesting! HELP!

Thank you so much for all the quirky posts:) They always make my day

Hi Alex

Greetings from Sydney Australia. 47 year old opera librettist. Lurking lurking lurking for 2 years, now your great achievement has prompted me to comment and say what a great & daily pleasure Neatorama is - essential for my webby connectedness. Best wishes for the next 12345.

Lurker. Librarain. Love it.

Hi Alex!

The first thing I do in the morning after feeding pets and having coffee here in Providence, RI is to wake up the Mac cube and refresh your site. I don’t watch TV or read the paper, so this, boingboing and NPR are how I find out about the larger world and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Oh yeah…I’m a white male, age 39, married with 3 cats, 1 puppy. I fix wooden boats of all sizes and types for a living.

Congrats on the big 12345!

Oregon is cooler than Washington. Sorry Washington! We have a bigger, less active volcano. We have one of the largest rivers that flows north. No sales tax. And we don’t have to pump our own gas. Washington does have a really active volcano, more Sasquatch (probably), and one of the first (if not first) malls in America.

So yeah, I live in Oregon and I enjoy the rain. Started reading Neatorama when the Laugh-Out Loud Cat comic did the shout out. I need to comment more. But just because I don’t say it often enough, I do love the blog.

hola, my name is Ari, 20yrs old, and im in Australia, YAY! I’m studying postgrad theatre and philosophy, i come from circus background and i adore neatorama. its my ‘first thing in the morning’ because it reminds me that there is such diversity in the world!
peace, love and namaste,
this blog rocks!

Wow, it’s rather neat to read a little about the other folks who read neatorama, what a good idea to ask about that. As for me, I’m currently a graduate student in linguistics and a TA for a public speaking course in Columbia, South Carolina, though in the past I’ve also worked as a Public Relations assistant, a corporate training designer, a technical writer, and a few years back even got to write for a couple of episodes of a cartoon show (which was ridiculously awesome, I love cartoons =) I also love dogs (my great big neurotic mutt Bandit is absolutely my baby), insects (first thing I did upon moving to SC was to take a slew of photos of the insects living (mostly) outside my apartment; perhaps if I hadn’t sent them off to all my friends who asked what SC was like I would be getting more visitors these days), office supplies, dictionaries, and run-on sentences, and am absolutely convinced that flip-flops and blueberry muffins are the work of a cruel and unjust god.

Congratulations on post #12345, here’s looking forward to #54321!

Hi, my name is Ray, and I am a pastor of a church in Massachusetts. I first discovered Neatorama because so many other blogs link back to what they have found here. I enjoy Neatorama for its information, variety and entertainment value. Keep up the good work - maybe you can do this again when you reach post #23,456!

Hello all,
I’m Su,a 40 year old lurker from Liverpool, England. Love my daily lurk and spread titbits amongst family and friends. I’m a vocational trainer, happily separated with three beautiful daughters aged 16, 13 and 5. (spot the surprize). Doctor who nut to my daughters eternal shame. Love The Matrix, Serenity (any sci-fi)and Doris Day. Read Anne Macaffery, Piers Anthony and Jane Austin. Follow football (soccer !!) and cricket ( said very quietly with all these Australians about)
Congratulations and keep on blogging
xx

Hello all….I’m from Virginia in the US.

I’ve been reading Neatorama for about 18 months or so (pretty close to the start). Generally, I’m a lurker, but I’ve been known to leave a comment here and there.

My job: Supporting a staff of doctors and genetic counselors in the Genetics division of our local hospital.

My favorite part of Neatorama just changed to the conversation between Miss Cellania and Alex posted above. LOL!

Most of the meat of my background is on my link. I think I first visited neatorama from boingboing.net. I “grew up” with boingboing when it was on paper (I was 24) and I slowly tranferred the Do It Yourself revolution in my soul to the interwebs when the Vs. System cardgame was released and I had the urge to create a worldwide persona in that community.

I’d like to end with a major Yaus! for Alex, the best neatorama mod on Earth.

I comment from time to time, but I’m over here reading Neatorama every day at work. I’m one of the 6 bloggers behind Triple Tri blog. We enjoy many of the posts we find here, and often share them with each other even when we don’t mention them on our blog and point the masses here. I live in Ohio and am a DB programmer for a major auto parts manufacturer. Keep the good stuff coming - we enjoy your hard work and effort.

I’m primarily a working musician, and I have been for the last 15 years. As far as studies go, I have a diverse background which includes psychology, mathematics, and physics.

My day job title is Operations Coordinator. I guess I basically live a double life. At work, I have to act like a responsible administrator… while at night, I spend my time making sure I feel terrible in the morning.

Hi. M here. I look at this site several times a day. This is the first time I’ve ever commented. I’m a photography student. I graduate this year. I can’t wait.

LOVE.IT.

Hi Alex,
I’m just a lurker from North Carolina. But, I have to come to Neatorama daily. And now my wife is addicted to it also.

Hi Alex, I love your site. I go to it every day.

Alex:

I’m a 46-year-old Registered Nurse (Hemodialysis), married to a College Instructor (Nursing), with 4 daughters (one named Madison…nicknamed “Maddie”). A lifelong bibliophile, I read around 2 to 3 books a week (various genres) and have kept an elaborate Book Journal for almost two decades. During the non-snowing months (here in Canada) I like to bicycle using my ‘Mountain’, ‘Recumbent’ (bikeE), or ‘Unicycle’.

Two or three times a week I like to run through my list of favorite sites and see what’s up: Neatorama, Boing Boing, LifeHacker, A Welsh View, Bits & Pieces,
The Book Design Review, New Yorker, New York Times (Book Section), are among the sites on that list.

I’m not sure if I was previously aware of the term…but I suppose I was (previously) a Lurker…although not anymore as of right now.

Hi. I’m 44 and live in Pennsylvania. I can only say that I work for the government. I’ve been an occasional poster since I discovered the site about 8 months ago. I too used to go to Drudgereport first thing every morning. Now it’s Neatorama. I love the posts on this blog and am constantly telling friends (or sending them links) about what I see here. Keep up the good work!!!

I’m 19, British, living in Belgium, studying Germanic Languages (mostly German and Dutch, but also Afrikaans, Old English, Swedish)…

Hi, I’m Martin, I live in Argentina and I’m a Computer Science Student and freelance programmer. I read Neatorama since a couple months ago, but now I check it every day. Also, I draw in my spare time, and I love reading (random fact: I read “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows” in one day). I used to be a gamer too, but eventually i gave up: consoles and games here cost twice as much, and the dollar-pesos exchange raises that cost up to nearly 6 times
I work at a local university, and I’m also a freelance programmer. Last, but not least, I consider myself a geek, but since “geek with a girlfriend” is an oximoron I’m reconsidering it.
And that’s all about me. Good luck, and congratulations for the 12345th post!

35 year old bartender living in Atlanta GA.

Love Neatorama, one of my favorites sites ever. I check it about 3 times a day.

Keep up the good work!

Hi, my brother introduced me to this site a year or two ago and i’ve visited almost everyday since. i work at a daycare, work/attend a local community college and i run sound for various events (and do a little recording on the side)….yeah that’s me….

I’m a 22 year old mapmaker in Baltimore. I’m a big-time lurker (this is my first comment) but Neatorama and a little coffee help me start the day.

Hi Alex.

I’m a 66 yo retired Silicon Valley engineer living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I’ve been lurking on Neatorama for about 18 months now. I know I should be commenting because I live for comments on my blog, http://www.mexicowoods.com. (I have no pride–I’ll plug my blog anywhere.)

Neatorama is at the top of my feed list. Thank you so much for all the interesting posts. Congratulations on post number 12345. I hope you have the stamina to keep it up for at least the next 20 years.

I’ve been a lurker for a few years, you are a random fact machine, I love it. I don’t know why I didn’t register sooner, but I got my username yesterday, just in time for our introductions.

Alex, I love this blog, I have to tell you that I check it five times a day for updates. I have no complaints other than the fact that I seem to check it more often than you update, but I understand.

Hi! (First time commenting!) My name’s Lorna, and I am a Neatorama addict.

I’m a 28-year-old hack writer in northeastern Kansas. I can type 40 words per minute with a cigarette in my left hand. I have a birthmark on my right thigh that sometimes bears an uncanny resemblance to the Virgin Mary. I live on salt-and-vinegar potato chips. I collect antique typewriters, one of which I suspect is haunted by the ghost of a disgruntled elementary school secretary. My blood stream is 48% pure coffee. I think Neatorama is the most awesomest.

Hey Alex,
Congrats on your awesome achievement. I’ve been lurking for about 2 years, I found Neatorama through YBNBY, but now I bypass it and come straight here. All my friends think I’m a surfing genius when I send them links, little do they know its all you and neatorama.
I am from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. 24 yr old History/Indian Art student. And a big big fan.

i’m a professional photographer living in nyc. i turn to neatorama even before i turn to the news.

there are a lot of blogs out there but none that have that fine balance of wit, wonder and positive slant as yours.

i’ve contributed once with images from my book (thank you). yet never commented on anything till now.

maybe this is the start of a more active relationship!

Hi Alex,

Long-time lurker, first-time poster here!

I’m 43 years old and live in rural western Pennsylvania. I work for a human services company as a regional person in our therapeutic foster care program. Before that, I was a therapist/evaluator for children and families, for more than 15 years. I’m involved in various child/parent/teen programs at my local church, which is part of Sovereign Grace Ministries.

Neatorama is one of the sites I visit at least twice a day, and recommend to my friends, who always ask “Where do you get such weird/interesting links?”

Thank you, and your understanding wife, for so many great years and 12345 posts!

23 year old network admin, who would way rather be out camping somewhere than sitting in front of the monitor. Been reading neatorama for about a year now, and love all the stuff you post. Congrats on the special post, and thanks for such an entertaining site!

I don’t see anything particularly salacious here. Where are the juicy tidbits?

Hi! I’m Tala, aka Corvus. I’m a lab rat/research scientist in training, in the field of microbiology (I start playing with either tularemia or tuberculosis Monday- wish me luck). I also like to make stuff, and blog about stuff I make (and other creative topics) at http://corvustristis.livejournal.com.

I’m a chronic lurker- even when I join a forum with the explicit intent of getting involved, I inevitably turn into a lurker within a few posts. I’m not sure what it is, nor how to fix it.

I’m Jenna, a 39-year-old Web developer and lurker, originally from Southern California. I met a guy in a science fiction chat room several years ago and moved to Virginia to marry him. So our son is a direct result of the Internet, which makes a nice icebreaker at parties.

Congratulations on Neatorama’s continued success!

Mostly lurker but occasional commenter…keep it up!

Hmm…I forgot…I love Monty Python and english humor … better yet! Men with english accents! Woo hoo!

Trying to think of a juicy story about me…that’s fit for internet readers that is! I once won a contest between my neighbors when I was 5 - I could fit the most dried macaroni up my nose. I had to go to the ER to get them out. Does that count??? No? Sure?

Hmm…I have lots of art school stories, but that will have to wait!

names broken, ive been visiting this site everyday since i first stumbled upon it. In fact, i cant get to work in the morning till i check the site out to see whats new. I have my own site and also a blog (www.sotsyndicate.com and http://www.broken5hift.blogspot.com - shameless plug i know :/ ) that i update daily with your amazing content. i always post links to your site in hopes more people will begin reading it as well.
I’ve been all over this vast internet for years scouring for the most unique, tasteless, interesting, and volatile content i could find, and this is one of my daily main stops. keep up the amazing work. you got a life long reader here.

btw you should check out japanprobe.com for some good daily crazy japanese stuff (those guys have neatorama written all over them)

Hello and Congrats! I’m a 44 year old, married with 4 kids and 4 grandchildren, woman living in the armpit of the NSA and have for my entire life. I’m definitely a huge fan of Neatorama and like others, check it daily with my cup of coffee.
I work with musicians, so I need a sense of humor. Neatorama helps me go about my work herding cats, oh I mean, musicians, daily.

Artists are great, but wow! They are just so… artsy!

Hi I’m Vako and I’ve got one of those Spacebook or Myface accounts or whatever you call it. Plenty of details about me there, none of which I am ashamed of. Hello world.

http://www.myspace.com/188271295

Neatorama addict and lurker. I’m 33, married, 2 (almost 3) kids. I live in the coast of Southern California and work as a nurse in an Emergency Room that saw 45,000 patients last year.

There are days when I have been up to my neck in blood, poop, sputum, pus, screaming patient family members, etc., I have to read Neatorama to unwind and finally go to sleep.

Congratulations on 12,345!

Me lurk u long time!

I’m a commercial artist with my own graphic design/illustration business in colder-than-you-could-ever-imagine northern New England, and I figure that if I keep reading Neat-o-rama every day it will help keep my brain stimulated and counter-act the effects of turning f…fff…fuh…*choke* fifty.

Guess it doesn’t help with those run-on sentences, though.

I’ve been only reading this for a couple of months now, but I am very addicted! Thank you for all the work of finding “neat” things to share with us!

I’m 22 and from Toronto, Canada. I’m taking Computer Science in university and currently working as a Software Developer. Check out my band (you can get to our website from my homepage).

I am a lurker who LOVES Neatorama, I check once a day for 2 years, you guys give me the best of the strange topics.

I work for Microsoft in Redmond WA, (where I use the bandwidth to look at Neatorama), and am married

im a deep sea oil field diver in the gulf of mexico. i came across your blog trying to subscribe to mental floss magizine. which i never did get done. i check you site at least once aday. thanks for all the different topics. my wife is always saying, “where do you find this stuff?” thanks again!

Greetings,

a dedicated lurker from central Jersey, i was trained in biochemistry. my thesis involved enzymic catlysis in organic media. I work for in Big Pharma and come here everyday to remind myself of the absurdities of life. I am also a gigging musician, avid amateur astronomer and like to study biochemical evolution in my spare time. Cheers!!

Neatorama is a good distraction from my mundane studying effort You saved me from boredom everyday! Than