Of Reading A ?Random Post

Time Travel To A Random Post On My Blog

I have been posting on this blog for what feels like forever, there’s close to 1000 articles spanning 9 years…. This is where I live out My Immortality and sometimes I worry my older content will go unread….  Of course, I occasionally travel back in time to check out how my earlier posts have aged and like a gardener admires their garden I admire my handiwork….

I ran into a feature Goldie referred to as  ?Random Raiders! as learnt from Pendantry. Basically, what it does is pick a random post to go on a website, like a lucky dip of sorts, you never know where it will take you…

How to navigate to a random post on a blog

All you have to do is to type ‘?random’ after the blog’s address and it takes you to randomly selected article.

For Example: https://becomingthemuse.net/?random (and yes you can replace my blog URL with any other you want I just happen to be the landlord of this tangle of words 🤣 you are welcome)

Why Random Raiders?

Pendantry uses this feature as a collaborative maintenance tool one can use to check if all the elements on a randomly selected article from a site work. Imagine going to an article and finding it has missing images or broken links and videos that no longer work or maybe the information is outdated and no longer accurate.

While its great as a crowdsourcing housekeeping tool for a website, I have found it creates  a very interesting way of randomly picking posts like a wheel of fortune; round and round it goes, where it will stop nobody knows…..

Random time travel

So yeah take this random travel and do let me know where you wind up. Click the button below👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

~B

PS if you discover any issues from my old posts that I should address I would greatly appreciate a heads up, please and thanks ^_^

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Responses to “Of Reading A ?Random Post”

  1. Brenda Nakandi avatar

    I end up in the cinema, watching the movie I last watched with a friend in a BCN cinema

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    1. Beaton avatar

      What movie was this one? Good memories I hope? To more adventures 🥂

      Compliments of the New Year
      ~B

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      1. Brenda Nakandi avatar

        Oh yes great memories. James Bond: No time to die. I remember I was watching the movie while learning some spanish (the movie had subtitles and they were in Spanish)

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      2. Beaton avatar

        tu hablas español🤩

        OK I have depleted my bundles🤣🤣
        ~B

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      3. Brenda Nakandi avatar

        Hahaha muy poco. Mi español no es muy bien.

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  2. GG avatar

    I was taken back to the year 2017, a tale about rats in the ceiling and one named Speedy Gonzalez🤣🤣

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Oh my word 🤣🤣🤣 that was an epic adventure, who even names rats 🤪🤪

      Thank you for trip back in time.. Happy New Year
      ~B

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  3. Sam "Goldie" Kirk avatar

    Yes, ‘Wheel of Fortune’ is the right name for it! I agree! Glad to hear you found it useful.

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Just about right🤣🤣🤣
      Thank you found it super useful
      Next stop is adding it to menu…

      ~B

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      1. peNdantry avatar

        So… any interest in joining the ?Random Raiders! community, Beaton?

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      2. Beaton avatar

        Sure thing had practically been an honorary member 🤣
        ~B

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      3. peNdantry avatar

        Excellent! Would you mind completing the form on this page, please?

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      4. bournemouthgirl avatar

        I didn’t know you could do this! This is so cool. Thank you for sharing!

        Lauren

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      5. Beaton avatar

        We stay learning 🥂 now go forth and prosper 🤣 and breathe new life into old posts

        Cheers hey
        ~B

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  4. Diana avatar

    I went back to “My Watering Roots” 2017. It was a great post and this is interesting. Since I’m a bit technology challenged I kind of get how it works, sort of… Lol 😆

    I personally haven’t written 300 posts yet, but then I’m still a baby blogging. I started my blog in 2014 with only one blog post. One more post in 2015. Then in Aug 2017 I started writing more trying to figure out blogging! 🤣 Not sure if I’ve figured it out but am having fun.
    Maybe someday it will be fun to re-read my old posts and maybe I’m leaving something for my family and grand children!
    Happy New Year!! Can’t believe it’s 2022!! 🎉🤠🐴

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  5. Gwad Rètrö Rumerz avatar

    Nice

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Compliments of the New Year
      ~B

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  6. mattsnyder1970 avatar

    Took me to December of 2020, a lovely post about Kangeroos. So not too far in the past.

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    1. Beaton avatar

      I’ve always thought of Kangaroos as Grasshoppers of Down South and answering to the name Skippy 😅 thanks to all the Australian Network TV shows we watched growing up.

      Anyhoo you never know where it will take you…. 🤣

      Thanks for the journey back
      ~B

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  7. conniedia avatar

    Hahahaha will try it out and let you know where I was transported. Thank you for sharing and yoh 1000posts your truly an Uncle.

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    1. Beaton avatar

      It’s a lucky dip 🤣🤣
      But yep it’s a totally awesome way to get some eyes on a random post
      Thank you and have an amazing 2022
      ~B

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  8. Shuvai Mlilo avatar

    I found a post on how you are lacktoes intolerant and thus hate snakes in Coffee with Snakes and Miscommunication

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Ooooh snakes just give me goosebumps 🤣

      ~B

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  9. Mr. Ohh's Sideways View avatar

    I love this idea so cool I went to 2016 and found a poem about bubbles and then to 2020 and discovered the wound that time doesn’t heal Great stuff
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    Laugh On

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Thank you for trying out the random ride. Like really you never know where it will take you, and a surprising visit to some poster which would otherwise have lain unread 😎

      Laugh On

      ~B

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    2. peNdantry avatar

      Mr. Ohh! Good to see you, fellow ?RandomRaider! 🙂

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      1. Mr. Ohh's Sideways View avatar

        I think it’s kinda fun 😊

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  10. Greedy lying bastards | Wibble avatar

    […] to Beaton for ‘?RandomRaiding!‘ this post, which prompted me to check its […]

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  11. Toonsarah avatar

    I’m happy to see you highlighting random and the pleasure it brings of landing who knows where on a post 🙂 I love that it helps keep our older posts alive in some way 🙂

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Its been fun seeing people randomly end up on definitely posts I had almost forgot about
      Its definitely
      ~B

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  12. Corinne avatar

    I was only taken back a year! I ‘ve been blogging on my blog for 9 years too. Gosh, that’s such a long time isn’t it!

    Corinne x

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