Category: sweepstakes
While perhaps not the best picture of her, it is the first one we found – Congratulations to Kay Neudecker, 20,000th visitor to the Oddblog! Make sure to let us know soon which bit of Oddwalk merchandise you’d like!
Stay tuned for the big 30,000 giveaway!
Below, you can see what we know about our 20,000th visitor. Probably in Fulton MO, about 8:25 this morning… It wasn’t Shannon or Erin, even though that’s their home town. Someone running Windows XP in Internet Explorer (boo!) and someone who came to us after visiting another blog…
Will the winner come forward to identify him-or-herself? You have 24 hours! By 10:15am Dec. 10, or we’ll try to figure out who visitor 20,001 is!
Our 20,000th visit should come in the next day or two! Will it be you? What item of Oddwalk merchandise will you claim? Leave a note in the comments so we can better try to identify you! May the best Oddblog reader win!
The Oddblog is nearing its 20,000th unique visitor – as of this posting, we are just 100 away!
To celebrate, we’ll again have a prize for that lucky visitor – who isn’t us or our families, and whom we can confidently identify!
If you think it’s you – and the 20,000th visit should happen by the end of next week at the latest – just make sure to leave a comment on one of the posts – the timing of and signing off on the email should help us identify the lucky winner.
But what does one win in this sweepstakes? Any one item of your choice from Oddwalk’s online store! (Personally, I’d take the keytar button, but it’s winners choice…)
Have fun Oddblogging!
PS – It took a little over two years to hit the first 10,000, but only half that for the next 10,000! Thanks for faithful viewership!
So, late last night, Orin and Shannon continued to analyze the data available to us – fully aware that information contained within it was of the utmost importance, for what else might reveal to us and indeed the world the Oddbog Sweepstakes grand prize winner?
It soon became apparent to us that Erin H was visitor 10,000 (and has since chosen for herself the honorific title “Queen of the Universe” – like she always does), so we turned our attention to visitor 10,001. This was more of a mystery, but it became clear after a time that visitor 10,001 was…
[wait for it]
Shannon Cerneka after all – yep, the evidence led us to no other conclusion. So, we had to turn to visitor 10,002 to find our winner, and that person is…
Syd, just drop us an email via the links in the sidebar to let us know how you wish to use your $30 Oddwalk merchandise prize. We won’t even make you pay for shipping!
Thanks to all who played, especially those who tried so hard to win – Marianne, Monica, and others… We’ll try to have another sweepstakes soon – after all, it only took us a little over 2 years to get to this milestone, how far off could the next one be?
So, Shannon and Orin have sorted out who the mysterious 10,001st visitor is.
And, of course, who the big winner is too.
We’ll tell you in the morning.
Heh.
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Well, Erin H was right – she was the 10,000th visitor according to SiteMeter, and can now claim in victory some honorific title of her choosing.
BUT!
She cannot claim the sweepstakes prize, which is not available to immediate family. So, what can we tell, from the Oddblog comments and from SiteMeter, about visitor 10,001?
The comments on the post sure make it seem like it was Oddwalk friend Monica S, but the SiteMeter reports that visit 10,001 was in Fulton, MO – where the Cernekas live, but what SiteMeter reports about the machine that checked the blog seems to rule out their laptop as the visiting machine.
Visitor 10,001 appears to be from Fulton, MO, using a PC running Windows XP with Internet Explorer 6.0 and a screen resolution of 800×600. Also, this person (or the machine they were on) connected to the internet via ktis.net. The time of the visit was 10:01:49, and they left the page by clicking on, well, the SiteMeter link, not surprisingly.
Who could this be? Is it you? Let us know by 11pm central time Tuesday, 24 hours from now. You can post in the comments or drop an email, using the links in the sidebar. If visitor 10,001 remains a mystery (or turns out to be a Cerneka after all), the prize, after 11pm Tuesday night, will then go to visitor 10,002 – and we’ve got a pretty good idea who that is already.
Visitor 10,001 – step forward and claim your Oddblog Sweepstakes Grand Prize!
We’re within 50 visits of having a winner! If you think you might be our 10,000th, leave a comment by clicking below – We’ll know what time it was made and can link it up to our SiteMeter report, so leave an identifiable name so that if it’s you, we can pronounce you the big winner!
Remember, our 10,000th visitor – or the next one after 10,000 which is both identifiable and not us or our families – that person will win $30 of Oddwalk merchandise credit to use however he or she wishes.
Good luck all, and happy Oddblogging!
As Orin’s car continues to approach 200,000 miles (199,710 this morning), the Oddblog is rapdly approaching a major milestone of its own – its 10,000 visitor, according to SiteMeter.
So, here’s the deal – from SiteMeter we also get limited information about our visitors: perhaps where geographically they checked from, for how long, how they got to the Oddblog, which OS and what screen resolution was being used, etc.
We don’t use this info for any reason other than to satisfy our curiosity, to try to see what people are looking for on the blog, and so forth. But perhaps we can find another use:
Our 10,000th visitor – or the next one after 10,000 which is both identifiable and not us or our families – that person will win $30 of Oddwalk merchandise credit to use however he or she wishes.
When we have that many visits, sometime in the next week or two, we’ll post as much info as seems appropriate about that 10,000th visit back here on the blog. If you recognize yourself and can convince us that that was you (shouldn’t be too hard), the prize is yours.
We may even, when we get quite close, throw up a post for you all to comment in with the time and place of your comment so if you’re the magic 10,000th, you can be easily awarded the prize.
You can check our visits status by looking at the SiteMeter widget at the bottom of the sidebar.
Stay tuned, and keep visiting the Oddblog for your chance to win!
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