Slashdot

My current gig is working on a major newspaper's website. Now that I have access to logs and stuff of a MSM, it is very interesting to see where the traffic comes from—and slashdot doesn't really figure into the mix, even though we've been linked.

The three biggest sources of hits are Drudge, Digg and Fark, in that order, with Drudge being larger than #2 by an order of magnitude.

Least you think this is a small-time site, the whole enchilada gets 6 million hits a month by users, sans bots.

The only time we ever delete comments is if the comment contains malformed HTML that is somehow causing Slashdot to fail to display properly. Comments are not deleted on the basis of content. [snip]
--CmdrTaco

"The only time we ever delete, blah, blah, blah"?
I'm going to go with "Um, no."

It rained here, so we didn't get to any of the parades.

I'll probably pass on the fireworks tonight, as I have to get up at 5:00 am tomorrow.

Turns out that from our end, it was nothing.

We rode out the storm; mostly wind, a bit of light rain, and some green lightning (I was unable to get a picture of it--boo!), and that was it.

Saturday, the cable was out, so no TV or internets. We drove back to our place, hauling back the cans and water.

Observable damage:

• A handful of trees had lost limbs,
• One abandoned car dealership's canopy was torn from its mounts and was lying on the ground,
• A store's fabric sign was ripped,
• Two large flags (10-15 ft/3-4.5 m in width) were ripped and the ends were tattered, and
• There were a billion leaves on the ground.

No mass destruction here, and the end result was (besides the green lightning) no worse than a normal Spring storm... in summer.

It is still as hot as hell (~90 f/32 c), so we didn't even get a post-storm cooling. :(