...And my 15,000 eProp (no brag, just fact--count them in the profile pic on the left ) was bestowed today by none other than...

*drumroll please*

ahanna

ahanna--my very own sister!

Now her content is worth 15,000 times more than anything found here lately!  Mwuahahahaa 

Announcing a Major New Initiative…

After this past week’s foreboding tumult in accessing our community, it is clear, I believe, to all  of us that something drastic needs to be done to save The Xanga !!

Pursuant to that, I am here announcing the vital creation of an continuing proposal adjunct to the XangaTeam’s intent to fix things this week with more bandwidth and possibly a new network provider.  Yes, the XangaTeam’s effort is critical—for without it all is lost.  But even if access returns to normal, if the community is to continue to thrive and grow, more must be done to bolster interactive enthusiasms and the prospects for revenue.

Hence, The Save The Xanga Foundation is hereby created in a spirit of ardent lust to save The Xanga in all of its forms and expressions (only a few of the myriad of which-Xanga, the lost kingdom; Xanga, the Bushman hunter have even yet been discovered ) throughout the world—and beyond. 

Though serving primarily as a locus of chauvinistic cheerleading, this Foundation, nevertheless, is hell-bent on achieving pragmatic results.  Thus, reviving my self-taught swordsmanship skills with the foil and epee, I swash my buckle and reveal:

The Thrust

Using Xanga’s Visit A Random Site link, I determined (last week—prior to the most recent chronic outages) from a "random" sample of 31 sites that the “average site” is virtually unread (mode of 0 eProps, median of 1 eProp, mean of 1.6 eProps—see statistical tables below).  The practical conclusion from this is that many of our fellow bloggers are “out there” is an essentially ePropless vacuum suffocating for want of an atmosphere of interaction.  These fellow Xangeroos, indeed, constitute the Mass of the Unpropped—a countless horde of hungry bloggers who tend to fade quickly and forever from Xangaland without a sign of at least one or two manna-props falling from the heavens.  To bring the UnPropped (and UnderPropped) into the mainstream of interaction, my Thrust will be called: “Propping the UnderPropped while Pimping My Proppers.”   For every conferral of Props upon one of my blogs, I will, besides making a better effort to just return the favor, visit a random unPropped  or UnderPropped site, prop them, and there leave a link to my specific Propper (you) for them to visit (your site) in a spirit of engendering community.

The Lunge

Bianca.  The prospect of that fair maiden has haunted me ever since her first soliciting hint at a xangan tryst!  Now, more than ever, we need her.  Yet she was martyred brutally to satiate litigative threats and as an obeisance to lawyers’ bulging midriffs.  Oh my…  Oh my…

So like a warrior upon the battlefield I hereby pick up her banner

and declare myself the New Bianca!   Yes!   I intend to co-opt the list of addressees from spammed smut letters I receive and redirect to these at-large future Xangeroos an irresistable appeal to join our community.  While I haven’t yet determined the exact content of this appeal, it will definitely make reference to the Naughty Girls of Xanga (yes, naughty—all of you!)

The Parry

This notion is in a very formative stage, but what I suggest is that given:

1) toreibjo’s eventual ongoing direness in persisting online, and
2) toreibjo’s stunning success in securing his immediate continuance online through a community auction,

that the XangaTeam furnish toreibjo with perpetual access (DSL if possible) in turn for which he will conduct future monthly auctions with the preponderance of proceeds going to purchase year-long Premium Memberships, “Pro” Personal URLs, or other promotional items to be awarded possibly by contest.

Now, I haven’t discussed this at all with toreibjo, or the XangaTeam or anyone except Anonymiss yet, so though you could sit back and poke clever holes in the concept, I’d invite you instead to brainstorm and transform this notion into a most practical parry to lack-of-revenue threats!

Okay…now for those of you fascinated by statistics ( why did all my students just stop reading this??), here’s the results of my random sample mentioned above:

 EPROPS—the number of eProps accorded to the most recent blog

 Valid cases:        31.0 

 Mean        1.5806  Std Err      .4194  Min          .0000  Skewness    2.0744
 Median      1.0000  Variance    5.4516  Max        10.0000  S E Skew     .4205
 5% Trim     1.2796  Std Dev     2.3349  Range      10.0000  Kurtosis    4.8338
 95% CI for Mean (.7242, 2.4371)         IQR         2.0000  S E Kurt     .8208

DAYSAGO—the number of days before “today” (i.e., when I sampled) that the "most recent" blog was written

 Valid cases:        31.0  

 Mean       10.2903  Std Err     2.1418  Min          .0000  Skewness    1.5878
 Median      5.0000  Variance  142.2129  Max        41.0000  S E Skew     .4205
 5% Trim     9.1756  Std Dev    11.9253  Range      41.0000  Kurtosis    1.4386
 95% CI for Mean (5.9161, 14.6646)       IQR        10.0000  S E Kurt     .8208

P.S.  As evidence of my thrusting, here are paybacks of my "prop-pimping"...

At Ditto-Jessie's site:

At pistolpete's site: