{"id":2974,"date":"2012-04-01T08:59:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T16:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T16:18:44","slug":"hopefully-not-an-april-fools-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=2974","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully Not An April Fool’s Joke."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I mean, you gotta wonder when Margaret Atwood’s final specs settle in at 666.\u00a0 Even if she has<\/em> scarcely varied from that beastly number for the past two weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were a couple of weird hiccoughs along the way \u2014 a sudden 2.5% jump for The Pattern Scars<\/em> back on the 21st<\/sup>, in addition to those oddities that inspired some of you to start grabbing time-series (thanks in particular to David Held, whose\u00a0 Google-fu has proven invaluable).\u00a0 Also the voting option remained active for over an hour after the poll had supposedly closed. But in the end, the results were so astonishingly clear-cut that none of that mattered:\u00a0 Pattern Scars<\/em> won with more votes than all the other candidates combined<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Given that kind of a margin, I feel justified in squeeing on the BUG’s behalf even if she hasn’t yet posted it on her own blog [late-breaking edit: yes, she has<\/a>], even if the results won’t<\/em> be officially posted until Thursday. And the poll itself, while a joke in terms of rigorous statistics, does present an interesting measure of something beyond the usual simple popularity-contest metric. It wasn’t \u00a0just a measure of the number of people who were willing to click a button for the home team, but also of the number who came back and did it again and again, day in day out.\u00a0 It was not just a measure of breadth but of depth, not of number so much as some function of number and dedication<\/em>. The Pattern Scars<\/em> may not be any kind of bestseller, but by Ceiling Cat its fans are dedicated<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I’m sure Caitlin will forgive you all if you’re a bit careless with your pronunciation of the word “Bookie” when spreading the word.\u00a0 Maybe put a bit of a “r” sound on that last syllable.<\/p>\n

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In related news, I myself seem to have done okay over in Katedra’s plebiscite<\/a>, which also finished up at midnight local time: Rozgwiazda<\/em> eked out a modest win over GRRM’s Taniec ze smokami <\/em>in the Best Foreign Book category, and “Wyspa” (aka “The Island”) slaughtered the competition for Best Foreign Short.\u00a0 I got my ass handed to me under Best Resume, though, which I really can’t complain about; I haven’t updated that thing in years.<\/em><\/p>\n

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