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Taken at the Piscataway/HP zoo

Yesterday, complained about how social media has stopped people from blogging.  Blogging became secondary, and I want to say no, it should be primary.  I decided to see how I could crowd source a blog post using social media.  I took a “lolcat” picture at the local zoo, and asked everyone to caption it.  I got amazing results.  Turns out after a retweet, I got a lot more results than I ever expected.

Here are the results:

From Twitter: (In no particular order)
@jhaka: “Edna’s husband flies her south for winter; Larry here says its more economical if we stay north.”
@chrispoteet: “You think I look stupid?”
@superiorshoes: If you say Aflac one more time I’m gunna bust through this fence and kick your ass!
@playboyoncampus: – Got locked up for looking at chick porn
@Kungfucarlo: This is my good side, bitch
@Suaveinc: “Yeah, I’m lookin at you James Toney!

From Facebook:
Avrom: DUCK!
Mike: ‎”I’d really appreciate it if you wore pants more often.”
Nick: “You got the goods?”

While you may say, “That is all,” referring to the number of comments, that is a lot for me.  I don’t have that many followers, but 9 responses in less than 24 hours is not bad, for something completely random from my usual musings.

Over the weekend,  a radio personality that I follow religitously, put a blog  post on how he trusted buzz (pops). Buzz then had some phenomenal error that didn’t allow his followers to see his content.  No one recognized this for 16 days, including himself.  Even JoyOfTech (pops) made a comic about what happened.  So what, who really cares about the plight of some famous internet celebrity.

I believe everything he says there is true, and want to start adopting it.  I am working on a way to not cross post to egregiously.  I am tired of having people find me on facebook or twitter.  I want to be found online, here, at this blog.

That means I have to blog more.  Throw out the ideas that all entries must be meaningful and well researched.  Look past the meaningful, and realize that meaningless is sometimes the best.  Rant on the stupid, just because it gives an outlet.  140 characters shouldn’t be enough.  I am not saying spew nonsense, and clog up the internet, but if there is something that needs to be said, spend time saying it.

Remember a blog is your page.  You own it, you can take the data away with you, somewhere else.  Look at your social media site, and see if the same things is true.  Can you take your content, and those who follow it.  The answer is no.  Having a blog is yours.  You control the content, the readership, and the all important “What happens next.”

Finally, after three weeks of finishing insanity, I’m ready to review the workout. For those who don’t know what insanity it, here is a direct link: Insanity.

It is the toughest workout, I have ever done. It is the toughest workout, you will ever do, sans the army bootcamp experience. So what is it all about?  NOTE:  ASK YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE STARTING.  (Warning: Article is long)

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My iphone contract is up, and I have to decide on what to do.  Do I stick with apple and the iphone 4 or do I jump ship to android.  This was a no brainer until I heard about android 3.0 Gingerbread. Now I have an issue

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I am going to blog about how the Insanity workout is going to date. This post is just a placeholder for a week 1 intro and review

This was forwarded to me, and it was so powerful, I needed to share it.

To The Honorable Chris Christie,

I am the enemy. I never realized this until your election to governor. In a few short weeks, you have made this fact explicitly clear to me. A large portion of your budget address was about my profession, and how we have caused the problems this state now faces. I want to thank you for opening my eyes to this fact. However, I am not sure I understand how I am the problem or how I have caused the state to be in such debt.
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Facebook is a social NETWORK, emphasis on Network.  Social is what you define as it.  Some people decide that it is the closest x number of friends, and goes all the way to, I will friend everyone in an attempt to show that I have more friends than you.  Where is the middle?  What is the policy that makes Facebook the most useful?

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Chris Cristie the other day announced that he found a way to cut the budget by 450 million dollars.  A collected round of applause whizzed through the Garden State.  All those applause came from people who did not read the article.

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This issue is addressed at least once a month, when someone gets mad at their cable company.  While the arguments are presented other places, this is my opinion.  Chaimtime has argued this before (sorry no link), but here are the facts.

You can get cable service for $30/month.  I know after the first year…. ($40 after that).  So you need to cut that bill to something more managable.  So let’s say you want the big networks (CBS, FOX, NBC, ABC, WB11), and let’s choose 8 cable channels (ESPN, TBS, TNT, Food Network, Bravo, CNN, and 2 more).  How much should that cost?  Well let’s figure on $3 a channel.  Just on those 8, that is $24, then we have to add for the piping in of the networks.  There is your $30.  At that point you might as well just pay for all 700 channels.  How much extra will HD cost?

The wholesale deal that the cable companies get is because they can guarantee millions of subscribers.  Now they won’t be able to.  So the bad networks like mtv4 will fail, but the good ones will start costing more.  Remember HBO is self sufficient at $20 dollars a month.

All this is simple math and economies of scale.  (I’m good at the math but not the economics).  The best way is to pressure @johnament to explain how his HTPC and external antennae works for watching TV.  For someone who has no cable he will see who will win the oscars tonight where I won’t.

Found at the wife’s office.  I just would like to say, thank you for clarifying what the mystery stuff on the carpet was.  I’m sure it took only a quarter of the time to fully attach the note onto the carpet than to clean it up (or call someone to clean it up).