I was going to use Cache Me If You Can which makes more sense because the cache is hard to pinpoint, but this is more topical.

The site is currently waiting for a release for the Avada theme that allows for the Youtube Embed code to display. Major inconvenience as it affects the entire site and pretty much ruins the meal, and possibly the evening. I’m hoping that the tech nerds figure it out shortly and release the patch.

What I’ve also noticed is that the answer to every fix is “delete your cache”. I’ve learned more about cache in the past few months than I wanted to know. Sam’s blog was brought to its knees because of some must use plugins that the server made mandatory to install. They caused problems and that’s why the site didn’t update when he’d release new posts. Since I’m on a different theme, my problems are independent of his.

That’s an update on the website and you’ll notice the traffic is through the roof. 2 days ago had 600+ people which is getting back to Storage War days.  This may not be great “sticky” traffic and bounce quickly but people coming to the site is better than the inverse.

Sam – just so we are up to date on references.
5. 23. Skidoo.

I was reading some article today about how people love to say “how busy” they are. Being busy construes working hard which translates into self worth. People love to feel important, thus everyone saying how busy they are.

There are a lot of different ways to feel busy. Take Brian’s opinion of Lois being busy.

It’s fun to pretend.

I’m a big fan of Family Guy early episodes. Up to about the 100th episode is where the show jumped the shark. There are now nearly 300.

Didn’t mean to get off on a tangent but while I’m on one, might as well rant. I was surprised to see that print book sales in the UK were up and e-book sales were down. Unpredictable. It’s hard to understand how people of certain age groups and culture adapt to what. I’m shocked how much the older generation uses emoji’s. My mom and uncle fill the entire text field with emoji’s. I guarantee it takes them longer to find the emoji than typing the word. Maybe an emoji delivers the point in more dramatic fashion which is the allure.

How does this relate to being busy? It doesn’t. I have noticed one telling sign from today’s snow day, if customers don’t call in, I hardly get aggravated. This pretty much correlates to people on this planet making me nuts. It’s only a small % of the people but it’s amazing how small disturbances can make large impacts. I’d keep writing about this point but I’m too busy.

A Neil Young quote from My, My, Hey Hey that means it’s better to go out in a blaze of glory than to, well, fade away.

In Kurt Cobain’s suicide note he quoted Neil Young’s song “My My, Hey Hey” and the lyric “it’s Better to burn out, than to fade away.” I would suggest reading the actual text as it is quite a detailed description of a man who lost his passion in life (the website hosting this note would probably piss him off too). If you’re too lazy, here is the gist about his performances:

The worst crime I can think of would be to rip people off by faking it and pretending as if I’m having 100% fun.

I bring your attention to the Hozier album work which I’ve never viewed closely before. I see the typewriter and some beers which seem to be his workplace. His head is filled with thoughts of city life and tranquility, while his arm comes from an industrial nature. That’s what I see at first glance and I only point it out because I haven’t ever looked closely at it before and it’s a decent segue (after Jon corrected my for all intensive purposes, I’ll use segue instead of segway) into my next thought.

For the love of god don’t Google people having sex at church.

I was listening to Howard Stern and he mentioned how Hozier’s song Take Me to Church signified going to church as having sex. News to me. I suppose the lyric:

My church offers no absolutes
She tells me “worship in the bedroom

pretty much gives that away, but I never paid attention.

That noted, Howard was wondering what happened to Hozier and I had the same thought months earlier. The self titled album “Hozier” came out in 2014 and he’s only released one song since then in 2016 called Better Love. His twitter account is still popping about history and typical Hozier fashion that I’d expect:

For the sake of productivity & general well being, gonna take a break from the 140 character doom-window. Portal to pure spiders. Much love

— Hozier (@Hozier) February 1, 2017

I didn’t start this post with the intent to write about Hozier, but then I started playing the album on Spotify and figured I’d answer the question for myself. I can’t come up with any new news through basic searching.

Eminem at 18

My spark for this post was wondering how Eminem keeps writing lyrics to rap songs. This thought came to me a long time ago when I heard this lyric:

Sometimes I feel like all I ever do is
Find different ways to word the same, old song
Ever since I came a long
From the day the song called “Hi, my Name Is” dropped

The Slim Shady LP was released in February of 1999. That’s 18 years of Eminem recording music. How is he able to do the same principle over and over again without getting sick and tired of it like I imagine Hozier has. Or I’m sure you could say that he does get sick and tired of it, but he’s made to do it, so why not?

I try to relate this to normal everyday life a little bit because most people do run out of steam with whatever it is they do. I can only speak for myself, which I’m learning is most important, and I wouldn’t be able to perform an activity for 18 years no matter what it was. But what about your job? Shit. I’m 11 years into my work and I’ve learned much about the position. There is no end in sight though. I suppose it’s possible we could explode the business in the next few years but it’s more of a brick by boring brick instead of a Snapchat IPO.

I was reading an article today about over-confident CEO’s and the man they were interviewing was named Bill Treasurer. Without much thought, I came to the conclusion that wasn’t his real name. Which made me start thinking how important is it to have a catchy name? Would this guy be the target of an article if his name was John Smith? Probably not.

In recent time, I became aware that Muhammad Ali is not a random Islam name. I knew that Muhammed was god’s messenger and most famous prophet of Islam, but I was not aware that Ali was his son in law and cousin of Muhammed, or also known as the second most prominent figure of Islam. So Cassius Clay, Muhammed Ali, just took the two most famous figures of Islam and joined them into one name. Amazingly he became one of the greatest boxers of all time and living up the standard of the name.

Another tidbit is that William Shakespeare’s wife was named Anne Hathaway. Would present day Anne Hathaway have made it if not for this coincidence?

Am I the only one who doesn’t trust people like this? You are immediately getting off on the wrong foot on the trust scale by creating your own user name. Let me bring us back to the good ol’ days of Chris Moneymaker the accountant who won the World Series of Poker back in 2003. Would you want your accountant named Moneymaker? Sounds great in theory but for someone to go above and beyond the normal means and change their name to an enticing means feels off.

Sure we have Homer Simpson and Max Power. The video game Max Payne. Usain Bolt is like a lightning bolt. Tiger Woods teeing off with woods (not to mention his first name is Eldrick).

These can’t be real.

Is this fake news?

I thought this was an entertaining round up of the Donald’s life. The golf in Mar-a-Lago for 25 hours being more than “Signing executive orders/ bill, Intelligence Briefing, and News Conferences” is pretty telling. What exactly would you say you do here?

The post I wrote about the Frostbite 5 miler received 48 likes on the Ambler Area Running Club page. I consider this a minor success. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t make an effort to get as many eyeballs as possible. Let’s begin with some obvious, and more subtle, thoughts on how to write a good blog post.

• Timing – The race started at 9am and I had the post up by 11:30am. This is obviously intentional. I have no numbers to back this up, but if I had to guess when the traffic for the race on both its website and Facebook page is highest, it’d be in the few hours following the race when people are looking for results.
• Pictures – I had my mom take a picture of me at the race and of the starting line. Now I could have gone the extra mile and had my mom stand at specific spots which I thought were the best pictures, but this is a bit unrealistic. People like pictures.
• Advertising – After I had written the post, I shared the links on my page, the race page, and then club page. As much as I like to think that people will find you organically, they won’t.
• Thank you and proper praise – I suppose this could be manipulative but it’s not if it’s sincere. I praised the race in itself and thanked the volunteers. I genuinely meant it. A members of the club with some clout wrote a comment that said “nice writeup”. Obviously this helped the credibility of the post.  

83 people came to my page as a result of these actions. Not a ton, but people are people. It’s going the extra mile with the intent of people reading it.

I am sick of hearing about Donald Trump. I don’t know how many of you have had a job you were doing for the very first time, but I’m guessing here that you don’t do it as well as you will 4 years later. Yet, it’s people who have a stick up their ass seem to think that it’s their job to critique every move the President makes. Literally, people are getting paid to do this. That’s fine. We should understand there are going to be problems in the beginning. I suppose you could make the argument that this isn’t like a normal job, and the person appointed should immediately be suited for it and for that I’d answer, “welcome to the real world”. That being said, here are a critiques that seem to make the news.

Problems

Because Ivanka sat in the White House Chair
People are complaining about Nepotism (I had to look it up but it’s giving jobs to your family) and I don’t see why this is a problem. I understand she’s not a politician, but she’s in the public eye non-stop and is she doing anything wrong here?

A great discussion with two world leaders about the importance of women having a seat at the table! ???? pic.twitter.com/AtiSiOoho0

— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) February 13, 2017

Because he says “very” a lot
Here was a topic on Reddit titled:
“SNL’s reaction right after the Trump Press Conference”

This was the top comment, “He used the word ‘very’ in excess of 250 times; I spotted him 48. I got 298 uses of the word ‘very’ when I did a word count on the transcript.
Would be very easy to write this script, given the very little you would have to do to vary the vocabulary. Very, very sad.”

Because Trump pulls people to him in his handshakes

Mike Pence wasn’t informed about the Russian dealing

“I’m looking at 1-state and 2 state options, and I like the one that both parties like.”
Does this not seem like a first class answer? Am I wrong on this?

Conclusion

You can make counter points like the Russian leaks, immigration bans, failed military missions, ranting about the media, Tweeting too much, and god knows what else. You’re absolutely right. He probably has fucked up in more ways than people can count. He’s not perfect but are things really that bad? Is the economy crumbing? No. Have any nuclear wars started? No. Has the world ended? No. People need to relax.

As Rod Stewart said, “Some Guys Have All the Luck“. The Prime Minister of Canada is currently holding a panty dropping tour that started with Ivanka Trump giving him the bedroom eyes in the board room. Girls just can’t help themselves.

Here is a picture of how the girls react to me.

Trudeau Beating the Donald at His Own Game

Trump Owning Romney

Trump Owning Some Dude

Trump Owning Shinzo Abe of Japan

Trump Meets his Match of Justin Trudeau

I know this problem exists but I’m not sure how widespread it is. When you visit this website, there is a good chance that you don’t see the latest post. I’ve googled “why are my latest posts not showing up using WordPress” and every result says the problem lies within the website’s cache. When I hear cache, I think of destroying the illegal arms cache in Goldeneye. I know cache has to do with storage. This would lead you to think that the storage of this website in people’s browsers is causing the issue. I’ve cleared the cache numerous times with numerous plugins and still run into the same problem. So I ask, do you have this problem every time you visit the website?

This is mostly a humorous post but I’ll share it anyhow.

An old man in Pittsburgh hosts an NFL playoff tournament where you pick 3 QBs, 5 RBs, 5 WRs, 3 TEs, 3 Kickers, and 3 Defenses. These positions each accrue points and whoever has the most points at the end of the playoffs wins. Each entry costs $20 and there are a shade over 100 entries. Here is where the troubles begin. He keeps track of the points using an Excel spreadsheet. He manually enters the score and for this, he feels he and his croney deserve 2 free entries each. As luck would have it, he won. Hetrick thought the whole concept was suspect to begin with so I let him know that the league host won the tournament.

I’m joking around when I write that Evan would cheat. There is about a .1% chance that I think he would cheat so that’s not really what this post is about. It’s more like, should the host be allowed to win? I remember one year when the Turkey Tourney was running and Sam, Jeff, and I got 1st, 2nd, and 4th. We pretty much invited people over and took their money. It wasn’t unfair, it’s just how it happened. However, if this happened with any frequency, I’d start asking the questions, are the Stortz boys colluding? There is some odd thought that goes into winning your own tournaments or pools.