UNH Blog: Now 100% More Bearproof

You asked. We listened. Thanks to Hunter S Thompson and Conan, UNH Blog is proud to announce we are now 100% more bearproof. You're welcome.

("Make it more bearproof" was an actual suggestion from the survey.)

Today's Outrage: Daylight Savings

I am in the middle of writing four papers in three days so I'm going to keep this short.

I officially hate the end of Daylight Savings Time. Getting out of class at 5:30 and it being dark out is just depressing. But the fact that Conan O'Brien makes his glorious return tonight is worth it. I have been looking forward to this day since Neil Young played him out with "Long May You Run" on his final show. (Okay so technically Will Ferrell led a jam of "Free Bird" after Neil Young, but you don't forget a Neil Young performance.) Oh, and the best part about the premier of Conan tonight? Jack White is the musical guest. Yes please and thank you.

Anyways, that was quite the interesting weekend. The hockey team picked up four huge points, including a win at BC. This team is looking like they are going to be a tough match for anyone (Won at Miami-Ohio, tied Michigan, won at Cornell, won at BC). Those are all high quality wins/tie that are only going to help their Pairwise Ranking at the end of the season.

While the hockey team was on the road for both games, things back in Durham were pretty fun. It was a typical weekend here at Headquarters, meaning I played loud music and drank a lot of beer and Jack Daniel's... ah, already looking forward to having Thursday off. Here's a little themed #musicmonday for any of you twitterers.

Stay classy, not UMassy.

Who is Responsible?

On Friday April 10th, our school paper, The New Hampshire, gave this blog a “thumbs up” in the “Thumbs Up Thumbs Down” forum. Prior to that article the blog had 492 visits and 25 people had voted “yes” (meaning they attend UNH) in the pole. At the point the blog had been out for 11 days. As of the moment I am typing this the page hits have increased to 700. The page also gained an additional 20 “yes” votes. That is 208 visits in 3 days, or about 68 hits a day (increase of 23 hits/day). I actually have 1,692 page views. A view is counted every time someone opens the page; a visit is a series of page views by one person with no more than 30 minutes in between page views. According to sitemeter.com I have averaged 187 hits per day with the average person visiting 3.7 times a day. The average reader spends just under 9 minutes per page view.  During this time I have also received a shout out on robotbitesman.com (click the picture to enter the site) and I created an entry on thecollegeblognetwork.com. What does all of this mean? 

The  bump does exist, but I am afraid it is nowhere near that of Stephan Colbert, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and the Mike Huckabee situation. It is known that Jon Stewart made Conan, Conan made Colbert and Colbert made Huckabee. Therefor Stewart made Huckabee, because without him there would be no Conan or Colbert. So who made me? Was it TNH, RBM or TCBN? I have a feeling not enough people care to make it an epic battle so I will award TNH with the bump because they found me. I have a connection to the people at RBM and I created the entry on TCBN, but TNH discovered me. Congratulations TNH, you are the champions, actually we are the champions...

  

Stay Classy, not UMassy.