Happy Birthday to Us
Well, just think – Butterflies and Wheels is a year old. Yes, it’s our birthday. Depending on when you start counting – if it’s from the first day there was anything at all on the site, then the birthday was a few days ago. But I’ve decided to count from the first articles we posted in News, and that was September 10. Three hours from now in London where one leg (or wing) of BandW is, and eleven hours from now in Seattle, where the other leg is. Close enough.
It’s funny – we expected a good deal of hostility and criticism. In fact one of us was looking forward to it, and has been disappointed that we’ve had so little. But then again it’s very good to know that there in fact are more than three or four people out there who are not charmed by Nonsense. So apart from the non-appearance of entertaining insults and abuse, it’s been a good first year.
And much of that is down to the stars who sent us articles or interviews right at the beginning, when we were a completely unknown quantity. Mary Lefkowitz, Richard Evans, Norman Levitt, Steven Pinker, Allen Esterson, Simon Blackburn, Daniel Dennett, Robert Nola. They got us off to a very strong start, and we love them all.
Congratulations!
Keep going
No posts today — hung over from the anniversary party?
Ah, yes – that and of course all the cleaning up, replacing the broken window, apologizing to the fire department, persuading the neighbors not to sue, combing the molasses out of the cat’s fur, getting a tetanus shot, and replacing all the dishes. All rather time-consuming.
But we will keep going!
Congratulations!
I discovered BandW only a few weeks ago, but it has become one of my daily must-visit sites.
It even caused me to run out and buy “The Philosopher’s Toolkit.” :)
Did you! Well perhaps we’ll get a little respect from Julian now.
But seriously, I’m glad you like BandW.
(See what I mean? No abuse. I guess the people who don’t like it are too choked with rage and despair to say anything.)
this site is so cool :)
(i too just found it a week or two ago!)
i’m guessing the lack of abuse is probably due to that confirmation-bias thing you were talking about the other day… the people who disagree with you will simply tend avoid this site.
And any who do otherwise would undoubtedly – as you say – be “choked” into silence ;)
I never laid a hand on any of them!
Good point about confirmation bias. But then people also get such fun out of railing. I know I do, anyway…