Orac is the nom de blog of a (not so) humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist with an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his miscellaneous verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few will. (Continued 
Last week, I marked the occasion of my fifth anniversary in the blogosphere. Yesterday, my blog bud Abel Pharmboy marked his fourth anniversary in the blogosphere. Anyone who makes it past a year, as far as I'm concerned, has passed the test of time and shown himself (or herself) to be in this crazy thing for the long haul; people who have managed to pump out quality material for four years are exceedingly rare.
Like me, Abel has asked his readers to delurk. However, he has been disappointed by the results. Come on, people! Abel deserves more. If you're one of his readers and see this, do me a solid and head on over to Terra Sigillata to congratulate him!
Comments
Please don't tell me you've given me another high quality blog site to add to my daily list.
I'm going to have to quit my job to have enough time to read them all.
Posted by: Karl Withakay | December 16, 2009 1:27 PM
Well, I might as well delurk here as well.
Posted by: RubberNecker | December 16, 2009 1:44 PM
Don't be surprised... lurkers don't like to de-lurk.
Posted by: drue | December 16, 2009 2:01 PM
I refuse to delurk. Ever.
Posted by: TwoYaks | December 16, 2009 2:01 PM
I've delurked, now I'll shut up and sit down.
Posted by: Anneliese | December 16, 2009 2:25 PM
I absolutely refuse to delurk.
Posted by: No way, man | December 16, 2009 2:37 PM
delurking to say congratulations. back to lurking now.
Posted by: Morningstar | December 16, 2009 3:06 PM
kinda sorta delurking in 3..2..1..NOW!!!
Posted by: igor | December 16, 2009 3:10 PM
You do realize, don't you, that you're supposed to delurk over at Abel's blog? I've already had my self-congratulatory delurk-fest. It's Abel's turn. :-)
Posted by: Orac | December 16, 2009 3:13 PM
For sometime now the comment preview function on Pharmboy's blog hasn't worked. I emailed him about this. I wonder if some commenters give up when they can't preview their comments.
Posted by: Jeff | December 16, 2009 3:31 PM
/delurk
*looks shiftily from side to side*
/relurk
Posted by: Synna | December 16, 2009 3:34 PM
belated congratulations, Orac.
/back to lurking
Posted by: aussielurker | December 16, 2009 4:45 PM
Sigh. Fine.
And now back to our regularly scheduled lurking.
Posted by: The Domestic Goddess | December 16, 2009 7:08 PM
Lurking reactivated.
Posted by: Chris | December 16, 2009 8:31 PM
Hi :)
Posted by: Autistic Lurker | December 16, 2009 9:14 PM
Needs more caustic soda...
Posted by: DD | December 16, 2009 11:39 PM
you really need to keep comment moderation on your blasphemy...
http://atheiskeptihumanist.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=90
GOATS ON FIRE!
Posted by: oracisafool | December 17, 2009 2:20 AM
Hey brother, thanks very much for sending delurkers over to my joint. An even greater magnitude of thanks to you for all of your support over the last four years; it's an honor to call you a friend and colleague.
And thank you, fellow Oracians, for putting us on your reading list. My posts aren't quite as long as Orac's, though. I need to eat and bathe from time to time.
Posted by: Abel Pharmboy | December 17, 2009 5:54 AM
i'm a huge, huge, lurker
Posted by: chamade | December 17, 2009 9:54 AM
I'm sort of delurking, I've only commented on here once before.
Posted by: Elihphile | December 17, 2009 12:07 PM
Delurk? Are you crazy?! That would cost me my reputation as a lurker... because then I would have a reputation as being a lurker.
Posted by: Dusty | December 17, 2009 4:49 PM
i guess I should delurk here as well, having just done so at Abel Pharmboy's place! And the delurking thread on your post from last week is too full... and so last week! :-)
Congratulations on your 5 years. I am a long-time reader of your insolence from since before ScienceBlogs existed, although I don't seem to have commented much going by your google search here (and trackbacks have never worked with Sb!). I count you as one of the influences that led to my own jump into blogging almost 3 years ago (yep, thanks for reminding me that my own anniversary is coming up at Reconciliation Ecology!). So thanks for that too!
And many more...
Posted by: madhu | December 17, 2009 9:31 PM