The talented and wonderful people at my web hosting site, www.monkeybrains.net, have a Webalyzer service running that lets me look at the numbers of hits and visits that arrive at the various pages that I maintain on the web\u2014mostly blog posts, but with a few book-title-specific pages as well.<\/p>\n
And today I thought I\u2019d run a list of my top twelve most popular links, in descending order of popularity. During the month of March, 2014, so far, these twelve top links have garnered traffic ranging from 140 thousand visits for the top link down to a thousand visits for the twelfth link, with the middle-ranking links in the 10 thousand visits range.<\/p>\n
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For some unknown reason, the image shown above is my most popular. It\u2019s my painting \u201cFractal Skate Posse,\u201d\u009d from 2010, and it\u2019s in the collection of my awesome ski\/skate\/surf-photographer nephew Embry Rucker III<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now we\u2019ll move into the list. It would be logical if I illustrated each link with an image from the linked-to page. But fun trumps logic. And I have a backlog of new and old photos here. So, as I so often do, I\u2019m going to illustrate this post with completely random unrelated photos having no obvious connection with the links.<\/p>\n (1) \u201cAnselm Hollo 1934-2013<\/a>\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n This is the link that gets over 140 thousand visits a month. No idea why. It\u2019s a fond reminiscence of my dear departed Finnish-born poet friend, Anselm Hollo, with excerpts of a couple of his wonderful poems.<\/p>\n (2) \u201cIn Her Room. My BETTER WORLDS Art Book.\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n This one features my online art book about my paintings.<\/p>\n (3) \u201cThe Free PDF Version of Rucker\u2019s SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER GAMES\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m guessing that people in Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Third World are using this page, which features a complete PDF of a computer science textbook that I wrote about programming videogames. I doubt if anyone is using the particular game framework that I designed, but the book has some good info about other software engineering and programming topics as well.<\/p>\n (4) \u201cThe Free CC Version of Rucker\u2019s WARE TETRALOGY\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m really glad that I released the WARE TETRALOGY as a free CC book. It sells fine as a commercial ebook anyway. But having it be free means that it\u2019s in some sense immortal. People will always be able to find it. And it\u2019s fitting to have my core cyberpunk series be out there on the web on its own.<\/p>\n (5) \u201cCOMPLETE STORIES by Rudy Rucker, as a Free Webpage\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n Easy to see why this link is popular, as it\u2019s a giant web page with all of short stories on it. As with the Ware novels, I do releases like this to keep my work alive.<\/p>\n (6) \u201cVisit to Manhattan\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n I love shooting photos in NYC. So much to see.<\/p>\n (7) \u201cBeauty in Chaos\u201d\u009d Learning to see chaos in the natural world is a valuable skill. It makes life more interesting.<\/p>\n (8) \u201cGolden Gate Bridge, Futurism, & the SF Biz\u201d\u009d Spending a night near the GG bridge, on the Marin side of the bay. I was a paid speaker at a futurism con. Great gig.<\/p>\n (9) \u201cThe Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n The Lick is an amazing, other-worldly spot near San Jose, definitely worth a visit. But no way would I ever ride my bicycle up there, as people nowadays like to do.<\/p>\n (10) \u201cDave Eggers, THE CIRCLE. Gengen SF.\u201d\u009d<\/a><\/p>\n The Eggers novel strikes me as an important event relative to our understanding of what the web is doing to our heads. I use the word “gengen” to refer to the ever-increasing wave of SF-genre books which are successfully marketed as general audience books.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rainbowourporch.jpg\")
\n[Amazing rainbow spotted off our porch this week.]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/phonebadges.jpg\")
\n[I like the cryptic signs on phone poles.]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/oxford_danglepod.jpg\")
\n[An Alice In Wonderland style talking flower seen in Oxford where Lewis Carrol taught.]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/jellywarning.jpg\")
\n[ Jellyfish warning glyphs. Dig the pain zigzags coming off the distressed stickperson\u2019s legs. And the jellies are like brains with dangling spines.]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/wildersnake.jpg\")
\n[Always good to see a snake. Sinuous.]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/xicrumbcar.jpg\")
\n[A 1930s junker car in a guy\u2019s yard in Pinedale, Wyoming. Crumb\u2019s Mr. Natural had a car like this.]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/puddlepatch.jpg\")
\n[ Puddles on our porch. Hail, nature, perfect in every part!]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/libewindow.jpg\")
\n[Really dig the new lamps in our library. And the high window of sky. ]<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/skywiregrid.jpg\")
\n[Another spot I\u2019ve photographed many times. Always trying to see it new. Carrying a camera helps. It\u2019s like I get into a conversation with the camera. \u201cYou see that?\u201d\u009d ]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/paradejump.jpg\")
\n[Love the annual Jiffy Mart freestyle bicycle-flippers at the Los Gatos Xmas parade. So anachronsitically unsafe.]<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/zerogravity.jpg\")
\n[Get a wideangle lens, turn it at an angle, and a home becomes a weightless space station!]<\/em><\/p>\n
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