Ezzie's Blog Roundup, 5/24: Milestone Week

Elianna is 2 months old today!! Woohoo!! We're still working on getting a camera with which to take pictures, ever since I lost our last one... it looks like it may wait until the next paycheck comes in. In the meantime, you'll just have to picture for yourselves how cute and adorable she is, and how scarily smart she seems to be already. She knows how to kick the blanket off her feet and out of her snap n' go; how to hold in her motzetz or take it out; and has just found her thumb, too.

About a month ago, I glanced at the SiteMeter and StatCounter at the bottom of this blog. At the time, I was getting around 350 hits and 700 pageviews a day. I did a few quick calculations, and thought: "Cool! Wouldn't it be funky if I hit 50,000 hits and 100,000 page views right as the blog turns a year old?!" Alas, it wasn't meant to be. R' Gil mentioned me at the RCA Convention, a few posts got very popular, and suddenly I was up to 450-550 hits and 1,000-1,200 pageviews a day (Shabbos brings down the average). Now, it looks as if I will be hitting 50,000 hits sometime around noon today, with 100,000 pageviews coming in a couple of days. My blogiversary is not until June 1st, next Wednesday.

Anyways, thank you to all my loyal readers. I have really enjoyed this blog and the others I take part in and read, and that's primarily because of the people I've "met" and the ideas I've been introduced to across the blogosphere.

What is enjoyment if you can't share it with others? Not much - so here's tonight's roundup:

Orthonomics has a roundup as well, and Judeopundit has his Linkim. I was going to link to the Oprah posts as well, and this post also really stuck out at me.

*Post of the Day*

Um, look here.

Oversights from yesterday:

I'm amazed this isn't a bigger story. This could be the key to energy in the 21st century... and it's so obvious!

A brilliant post and shmuess from an inside-outsider regarding abuse... Da'as Hedyot.

A video clip at Life-of-Rubin I meant to show a couple days ago, and have now seen a number of times.

Chainik Hocker has a fascinating post about immigration.

Quote of the Day:

Dave's got it from Jack himself.

Though this one from Ayelet's son is up there... check out her other posts, too. It's nice to have some happy blogs out there.

Waxing Reminiscent:

Kasamba's Artichoke is uprooting from their home.

JewishAtheist misses his rose-colored glasses.

Falling on my face, sooo...

RafiG discusses why Jews try to be more Jewish out of Israel,

Joe explains why the ruling about conversions is wise,

and Jameel gives a sample from the settler e-mail group. Hilarious.

Enjoy!