Could the subject of this thread be any more true? Intrigued by the idea of a statistical analysis of Lowpass Comic creation, I spent the last fifteen minutes gathering some data.
Right off the bat I realized that all my time spent huddled over my PC like some sort of PC-huddling fool was spent in vain. If you look at the comic list pages, you'll note they're displayed in sets of 100 (oddly enough my screen resolution and browser set up fits _exactly_ 25 listings from the top of the browser to the bottom, so it's easy to count).
Anyhoo, on the first page alone I noticed numbers 3-6 and 45 are missing for some odd reason. Thus are others smattered here and there. So my comic, though #10000, is actually the 9981st comic. The real 10,000th comic is this...
[Click to view comic: 'My friends criticize me...']
And for either futher geekishness, the aforementioned stats:
Data range: 01/06/2001 - 03/18/2001
Daily comic totals-
Mean: 140.9
Median: 90
Mode: 74
High: 622 (02/27/2001)
Low: 46 (01/21/2001) *not counting the 3 of the first day
At the current daily average, we should reach #100K in 636 days, or mid-December of 2002.
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100 pounds of shit in a 25 pound sack.