While nobody was looking, the blog on Ken-Jennings.com turned one year old today. Happy birthday! Does this mean the site will be teething and crawling soon? Or are blog years like dog years, some sped-up multiple of normal human chronology? Maybe the site is dissolving into dust as I type this, like Kevin McCarthy in the last scene of “Long Live Walter Jameson.”

In answer to a question on the message boards: this site had a whopping 238 visitors the day it went live. (Mostly because I sent out an email to friends and family, I assume.) The numbers have gone up and down wildly since then. Some highlights:

• I sell a giant styrofoam head on eBay: 8,000 visitors that day.
• Fox News believes that I demand cannibalism and killer bees on Jeopardy! They report; 138,000 visitors (!) decide. My hosting company takes down my site, asks me to warn them the next time I plan on “doing this.”
• Brainiac is released: 4,400 visitors
• A poker champ believes that no theist can beat his SAT score: 3,160 visitors.
• Dirty airport codes: 30,000 visitors! America is doomed.
• This just in: Mormons tired of polygamy jokes. 2,900 hits.

Google Analytics says the blog now averages a thousand or two readers a day–12,000 different visitors in the last month or so. That’s not amazing, but it’s pretty respectable for a blog. But I’m not satisfied with that–frankly, I think I can get those numbers to trend upward once the second book is done and I can put more thought into new and outrageous airport abbrevations. That’s what the young people seem to want.