PZ Myers: NOTICE ME!

July 16, 2008 by Baizley

I have tried for months – MONTHS – to get my publicly pronounced idol, PZ Myers, to, if nothing else, notice that I exist!

I’ve mentioned him in countless blog entries, spammed his blog with my links (OK, so one per post isn’t quite spamming, but it should be enough), defended him in my own awesome ways (not that he needs it, he can certainly handle himself), and show him a tremendous amount of respect regularly.

He’s like in the Ivy League of bloggers, along with fellow scientist Phil Plait, and you’ve got to do something uber cool kick ass as hell to get him to notice you exist. For instance, an associate of mine, one Splendid Elles got his attention with an article on her local museum that creationists had invaded. I, on the other hand, am trying to get a date with the creation museum!

But I’m not about to write up something gigantic with custom pictures for a measly little twenty hits a day. I’m also not going to pay to get in that hack job of a “museum” for nothing. I’m happy with being able to slam the creationists, but that’s not enough for you, Myers, is it?

I’m at the end of my ideas. If I don’t get some attention soon from the number one blogger I know, I’m going to assplode! Or worse! I may even end up visiting the creation museum and doing some gigantic write up on every factual error while at the same time remaining family friendly enough to be able to market to everyone and not just the extreme atheist crowd who don’t mind cursing to hell and back.

Actually, I do plan on making it family friendly to show my family, but yeah.

To sum this up: read the title. Thanks.

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Update: My begging paid off. Thanks for the notice, PZ! I feel special now. kthx.

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Update 2: I changed the time zone so the comments got a bit screwed up. Sorry. If you comment, look for it near the top instead of at the bottom. Time zone is EDT, so yeah.

Posted in Atheism, Skepticism | Tagged notice me, pz myers, thanks | 91 Comments

91 Responses

on July 16, 2008 at 8:47 pm Hemant

One thing that helps get attention is writing something unique and different. Personal stories are always good as are news story that no one else is writing about. Trust me, if you write it, the bloggers will find it 🙂
on July 16, 2008 at 9:56 pm FredJ

Love the Nederlandse windmolen in the background of your banner!
on July 17, 2008 at 1:01 am k3vin

You should get some crackers. Maybe he’ll notice you then. 😀
on July 17, 2008 at 2:37 pm mkoormtbaalt

I guess it worked.
on July 17, 2008 at 2:40 pm Pat

LOL, pretty pathetic.
on July 17, 2008 at 2:41 pm Hooya

ROFL he put you on his blog…
on July 17, 2008 at 2:48 pm Ric

Congrats, you’ve been Pharyngulized!
on July 17, 2008 at 2:59 pm Tom

Yeah, I got PZ to sorta notice me a while back. I have a comic blog and I made one with him in it. He posted it on his blog.

I SOOO have atheist cred now! 😉

http://offendedyet.com is the site. Here is the specific comic:

http://www.offendedyet.com/2008/03/open-inquiry.html
on July 17, 2008 at 3:00 pm ddr

Ok. Looks like he noticed you. Now you can sleep at nights.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:06 pm ZorkFox

I came here from Pharyngula, so I daresay you’ll see some hits. 🙂
on July 17, 2008 at 3:09 pm DAN MCPEEK

I’M NO PZ BUT BECAUSE OF HIM, I’VE ‘NOTICED’ YOU. I’LL BE BACK.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:10 pm Chris Bell

I misread your post at first. I thought you were trying to take a date TO the creation museum.

That would be a great first date. Especially a blind one. You should pretend that you agree with the museum and take pictures of her reactions.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:14 pm The Chemist

Congratulations, he noticed you.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:15 pm Hillary Rettig / The Lifelong Activist

now we’re *all* noticing you, copache. 🙂
on July 17, 2008 at 3:17 pm Paul

He noticed.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:17 pm RS

Well, congratulations.
I have a blogger account, but thought I should stop by to say that…

Have a good day.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:19 pm Ponzo

You seem to have gotten noticed now. Congratulations.

I have had the same problem getting noticed. The only hits I get are to my least important posts; the ones I’m actually proud of get nothing. So I feel your pain.

I’m pretty much done with it, though. I’ve already written the post announcing the death of my own blog.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:19 pm Evolving Squid

You should have a squid picture up to attract his attention 🙂
on July 17, 2008 at 3:23 pm Elyse

I feel the same way!!! All I want is for him to notice me…. 😦 I’m always commenting on his blog, sending him links, and I even wrote a letter to the UMM president when he asked it to….and sent it via snail mail….and I even PRINTED the addresses on the envelope. But I know that PZ is like Jesus, even though you can’t see him and even though he doesn’t respond to your prayers…he still loves you and forgives you as long as you reject Jesus Christ as your savior and all that is holy, and one day, we’ll all be together in virtual Pharyngula heaven.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:24 pm The skepTick

I bet your numbers will spike today!
on July 17, 2008 at 3:27 pm Gib

Congratulations. It worked.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/this_better_not_start_a_trend.php
on July 17, 2008 at 3:27 pm EricJuve

Let me congratulate you, you have your own PZ blog post now.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:29 pm Airor

He noticed. Welcome to the flood.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/this_better_not_start_a_trend.php
on July 17, 2008 at 3:31 pm ajani57

Woot for you, you noticed thing, you!
on July 17, 2008 at 3:40 pm StyxMaker

Pathetic, just freakin pathetic.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:42 pm startlingmoniker

Last!

(well, for now… but us little bloggers take what we can get, right?)
on July 17, 2008 at 3:43 pm decrepitoldfool

Noted: noticable cat is noticable.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:45 pm Donicim

Strange…I feel the same! PZ Myers and Hemant Mehta, notice ME! Or I will make this a trend!
on July 17, 2008 at 3:48 pm Zel

I got a little confused by PZ’s post, but, hey, I came by, read your postage, left the required commentem, now I am evolving to a higher plane.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:48 pm manigen

Quick! Everyone stare at Copache!
on July 17, 2008 at 3:53 pm Darwin's Dagger

Send the man a cracker infused with the essence of God and he’ll notice. Of course so would Bill Donohue.

Never mind, looks like he noticed you anyway.
on July 17, 2008 at 3:56 pm Copache

31/DD: https://copache.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/it-gets-me/

*cough* *cough*
on July 17, 2008 at 4:08 pm John

Will my posting here get me meta-noticed?
on July 17, 2008 at 4:09 pm Reed Braden

PZ’ed!
on July 17, 2008 at 4:10 pm Zeno

So needy! How embarrassing!
on July 17, 2008 at 4:11 pm Felicia

Haha, you got a post all to yourself on his blog, now! Congrats, I suppose. 🙂
on July 17, 2008 at 4:23 pm Ed

Congrats!
on July 17, 2008 at 4:28 pm Muse142

DAMN IT. You went and ruined it for the rest of us! =P
on July 17, 2008 at 4:35 pm sQueeks

Congrats from a Canuck.
on July 17, 2008 at 4:36 pm Luis Dias

Lol how whiny this little brat is, huh?

Well, I guess you got what you wished for. Now I’m gonna see if your blog is worthy of any attention whatsoever…
on July 17, 2008 at 4:39 pm Copache

40/Luis Dias: start with my best post: https://copache.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/a-fundamental-problem/

Then go to the List of Creationist Failures. There’s plenty of hilarity to be had in the list… plenty.

But A Fundamental Problem is my magnum opus because it takes a more serious tone in regards to the subjects I usually make fun of.
on July 17, 2008 at 4:54 pm Helioprogenus

Believe me, I understand. One thing I have in common with what seems to be 3 billion people on the planet is a blog, yet, few read it. I try to post entries on Digg, and links to comment threads from PZ and Phil Plait, but in the end, I go unnotticed. Check it out at agnostictruth.blogspot.com (I’m an atheist, but the truth can be agnostic).

It’s one thing to want to be noticed, but another to be noticed for writing polemic, sometimes witty, usually pedantic articles.
on July 17, 2008 at 5:00 pm Samurai Gunslinger

Well Done Copache, Well done indeed.
on July 17, 2008 at 5:12 pm slattern23

And your 15 minutes are over in 5…4…3…2…
on July 17, 2008 at 5:14 pm Find A Soul 4 Sale

~~Congrats~~
on July 17, 2008 at 5:29 pm Mickey

somebody rightly said, you dont know what is right untill you prove it.

so my friend, keep trying, dont stick to one thing for too long. if it does not work change it.
on July 17, 2008 at 5:37 pm Copache

I would be happy to have a minute and a half of fame… but 6000+ hits works too.
on July 17, 2008 at 5:38 pm Copache

Actually, it’s over 7000 now. It’s been like 3 and half hours… damn. I wasn’t aware that PZ had this much traffic…
on July 17, 2008 at 5:49 pm Khalos

Grats!

I wonder if this will mean more traffic in the future for you!
on July 17, 2008 at 5:49 pm Northern Virginia

It appears most of your time-stamped replies are in the future, suggesting you have your time-zone set incorrectly. Could that have anything to do with PZ taking so long to recognize you 🙂
on July 17, 2008 at 1:54 pm Copache

49/Khalos: I’m sure it will. Even with momentary spikes from PZ’s blog that I’ve had from commenting, they’ve been relatively well at being sustained for at least one vanity day and then declining thereafter.

With my top one, A Fundamental Problem, it received over 300 on one day, over 200 the next, and then 100, 60, etc.

Usually it will permanently leave marks on my traffic. Someone will add my blog to a feed of some sort and when I do a new post my visitors go up to about 20-40 without advertising anywhere, then another 10-30 from searches, and stuff like that.

I don’t know of a permanent impact, but I know the next few days will have a lot of traffic since this time I have a whole post advertising instead of a comment or two.

I’m very thankful to PZ. He’s helped a lot. Now I’m just planning my Creation Museum trip to make sure he links here again!

Haha.
on July 17, 2008 at 1:59 pm Cheezits

I bet you’re already sorry you did this. 😀
on July 17, 2008 at 2:03 pm Copache

See now? Setting the time forward screwed up the system! Ah well, no matter!

5/Cheezits: if sorry = absolutely thrilled, then yes, yes indeed.
on July 17, 2008 at 2:13 pm demolition65

Shorter Copache:

“I think I think.

Therefore, I am not religious, as I have not really thought enough.”
on July 17, 2008 at 2:26 pm Copache

7/demolition65: I don’t think your rhetoric applies when I have been religious prior, for most of my so-far-young life and only became an atheist (and furthermore, educated) after deciding to think for myself.

Of course, creationists love to make fun of people who are a threat to them. So I understand and forgive you for it.
on July 17, 2008 at 2:26 pm JerryFLA

Damn.
I read his blog EVERY day and he never notices me.
I wonder what I’m doing wrong…
on July 17, 2008 at 2:28 pm cyberthrush

Why stop here… now try for a nudge from Richard Dawkins! 😉
on July 17, 2008 at 2:31 pm John McKay

A good PZ link will get me more traffic in a day that I get in an average month. And more comments.
on July 17, 2008 at 2:35 pm Copache

This blog has been open for four months. Today alone it has gotten twice as much as in those entire four months. I’m thunderstruck, if you’d pardon the reference.
on July 17, 2008 at 2:36 pm Naked Bunny with a Whip

He noticed you.

Now ask him for money. 😉
on July 17, 2008 at 3:11 pm Stacy S.

Great idea you had there! Good job!
on July 17, 2008 at 4:20 pm J-Dog

Way to go! You’ll tell you kidz and grand-kidz about this someday.
on July 17, 2008 at 4:25 pm Ponzo

I’m no longer feeling quite as sympathetic as I was earlier.

This incident has revealed to me the futility of trying to add something to the conversation in the atheist and freethought section of the blogosphere. I’ve been trying for well over a year, writing well researched posts, participating in forums, always crediting sites when I get stories from them, and following all the advice I can. In return, I have received no more notice than what I got from my very first post.

Meanwhile, and I apologize for my sarcasm, you increased your site traffic by begging for PZ to notice you.

Perhaps that is what it takes, in which case the blogosphere is no different from a nepotistic office environment. If so, then it is hardly worth the bother, which is a pity; I would have expected more from other freethinkers.

I do congratulate you on your success. I just hope that you realize that it does not mean the same to others than it must mean to you. I posted my farewell post today. That is what it meant to me. And I suppose I should thank you for finally motivating me to give up this futile pursuit.
on July 17, 2008 at 4:29 pm Copache

48/J-Dog: Not having kids. I hate fucking kids.

50/Ponzo: I worked hard for what little traffic I got before today. 3500 from March to yesterday. I advertised best I could, put tags, trackbacks, etc.

This won’t really give me that much of an overall boost, so stop your misanthropic pity me bullshit. This is the internet, when things are going wrong, we reach out to those who can make it right.

Even if after this I hit rock bottom I would just be motivated to try harder. There’s nothing to be pessimistic about. The future is unwritten, it could rock or suck for either of us.
on July 17, 2008 at 5:44 pm Noodlicious

Hi Copache
I’ll pray to His Noodlyness to use His Noodly Appendage to direct traffic to your blog.
RAmen
on July 17, 2008 at 5:47 pm Scott Hatfield, OM

Recognition is nice!

With that in mind, won’t you consider visiting my PZ-friendly web site and add me to your blogroll?

🙂
on July 17, 2008 at 7:00 pm Abyssal

Dr. Myers is over rated. <_<

That’s right. I so went there.
on July 17, 2008 at 7:01 pm Wowbagger

I see a plan at work here:

1. create blog
2. hope famous blogger notices me
3. ????
4. Profit!

I really should do the same.
on July 17, 2008 at 7:18 pm Paul Thoreau

Copache: NOTICE ME!
on July 17, 2008 at 7:29 pm cyberthrush

Don’t stop here… now try to get noticed by Richard Dawkins! 😉
on July 17, 2008 at 7:40 pm Rodibidably

Wowbagger, I LOVE step 3!
on July 17, 2008 at 7:59 pm Top Posts « WordPress.com

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on July 17, 2008 at 8:03 pm truth machine

Wowbagger, I LOVE step 3!

It’s not *cough* South Park *cough* original.
on July 17, 2008 at 8:47 pm Rodibidably

It’s actually older than South Park…

It’s the underwear stealing gnomes (or trolls or something like that), which has been around longer than Matt and Trey…

I just liked the reference; it made me smile.
on July 17, 2008 at 8:58 pm thesedirtyboots

congrats on getting noticed!
on July 17, 2008 at 10:54 pm peacefully evyl

Wow, I had no idea people actually sought PZ’s attention to raise blog hits. Sometimes I feel like I’m living in a cave. I’d be happy if somebody, anybody, noticed my blogs, nevermind PZ himself. (Though I must admit that as much as I enjoy his posts, I’ve hardly raised him to deity level.) *off to peruse your blog*
on July 17, 2008 at 11:23 pm Alex

Congratulations, but remember if you want to keep your visitors, you’ll have to keep writing interesting updates. Good luck! 😉
on July 17, 2008 at 11:23 pm Iis Kusaeri

Well, try to write something uniqe and totally different. Make a strange tittle that can attract people’s attention.
on July 18, 2008 at 12:56 am themadlolscientist, FCD

@ #52 Copache sez: “Not having kids. I hate fucking kids.”

Just one more piece of evidence that your kids are safer around atheists than around priests.

[cue music] Meow, meow, meow, meow…… =^.^=

p.s. Duly noticed.
on July 18, 2008 at 2:20 am raincoaster

If he DOES notice you, he’ll come back to your blog, read it, take all your good ideas, and post them on his blog with no credit to you.

Not that I would have any experience with that.
on July 18, 2008 at 2:31 am cecilsandus

Wow that was totally whiney and didn’t tell us squat to be honest and glad PZ cared cause to the rest of us reading the blog you just look like a pissed off tool
on July 18, 2008 at 4:27 am onenessreality

Why not choose to feel awesome if no-one notices you?

Regardless of your life situation, why not feel awesome right now?
on July 18, 2008 at 6:07 am totaltransformation

“I have tried for months – MONTHS – to get my publicly pronounced idol, PZ Myers, to, if nothing else, notice that I exist!”

Um, who is PZ Meyers?
on July 18, 2008 at 6:19 am shonny

Noodlicious = delicious without clothes on??
on July 18, 2008 at 6:48 am Ponzo

You have already made yourself something of a laughingstock. You claim to have “worked hard”, but your 15 minutes (second?) of fame are based purely on begging PZ Myers to notice you. It worked! But if I had to engage in the same nepotism and cronyism to get noticed, then I think I will stay unnoticed.

How much of this traffic do you think you will retain after the majority of your visitors tire of your narcissistic little stunt?

And as for “misanthropic pity me bullshit”? Dude, did you even read the post you wrote yourself that got all this started?!
on July 18, 2008 at 9:57 am Jordan

That wasn’t very nice. I’ll give you a chance and be back in a few days to see if you’ve capitolized on your new traffic.
on July 18, 2008 at 11:30 am Copache

Hey Ponzo, you quit blogging because my blog made the front page on PZ’s blog. I think if anyone is laughing, they may have a bit of a lol at me but then turn their attention on you.

Nothing is funnier than jealousy and pleas for attention at the same time. You’ve one upped me there, bud.
on July 18, 2008 at 12:22 pm Pretending the atheist movement doesnt exist… « Reasonbomb’s Weblog

[…] https://copache.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/pz-myers-notice-me/ […]
on July 18, 2008 at 2:35 pm Phillip Allen

Seems to me that if you’re going to produce an individual blog, you should do it first and foremost because you enjoy it, irrespective of how many people read what you write. A lot of worthwhile writing gets very little readership for many reasons — not least because of the vast hordes who are doing it.
on July 18, 2008 at 3:11 pm dg

Nice job there. 🙂
on July 19, 2008 at 12:45 am DB

Wow, Ponzo killing the buzz on this site too? Ha! Congrats Copache. Funny stuff.

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