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.

The world’s ten most unfortunately coded airports:

Perm, Russia (PEE)
Pocos de Caldas, Brazil (POO)
Butler, Missouri (BUM)
Sioux City, Iowa (SUX)
Samcheok, Korea (SUK)
Fukuoka, Japan (FUK)
Dickinson, North Dakota (DIK)
Sembach, Germany (SEX)
La Esperanza, Honduras (LEZ)
Princeville, Hawaii (HPV)

And that’s not even getting into the politically incorrect ones: Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Florida; Nikunau, Kiribati; Fagurholsmyri, Iceland; Punta Renes, Costa Rica; Kalakaket, Alaska; Woodgreen, Australia; and Aboisso, Cote D’Ivoire.

Won’t someone please think of the children? Write your congressman today.

(Edited to add some suggestions from reader porpoise spit.  Thanks!)