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Friday, March 29, 2019

Subscribe To The IC-PC Means Pay For Tpyos

It's a joke, right? I'm being asked to pay $ for typos like this?


I still have a spiral notebook with outrageously awful clippings of typos from the IC-PC from when I worked at ACT from 1993 - 1995. I will NEVER EVER pay for an IC-PC subscription!

In fairness, I may have typos on this blog, but I don't make anyone pay $ to read this blog either!

This Also Happened in Chicago

From: This Also Happened in Chicago



WAWN with ACTA with TOTD



Thursday, March 28, 2019

MD leaving the Team

Junior guard Maishe Dailey will transfer from Iowa basketball team

Such a Great Tune!

I came upon this post and was taken back to when I first heard the tune.


Coming to France!


A Reminder!



There Was a Time...


Brilliant!



Dumbo Looks Dum

It amazes me how one film is enough for an entire 'master plan' of movies to be 'threatened' when, to my knowledge, that one film hasn't been released. Yet, here I am, on a Thursday, noting how The Guardian website is spewing doom and despair about Disney's 'master plan' is now threatened because of some poor reviews by critics. I saw this article first - Grounded? How Disney's Dumbo flop could threaten its master plan The corporation’s buying spree has other studios trembling in its mouse-eared shadow. But are hard times ahead for the entertainment behemoth? - which then led me to this article - Dumbo review – Tim Burton remake lands with elephantine thud. I sincerely wish the audience - not movie critics! - would determine what movies are made.

Tapping into The Music of Our Lives

What music I will be listening to when I am 80?

As you're about to read, I believe that my 80 year-old father-in-law has a "limited arena of acceptable genres" when it comes to music. It made me wonder if my future son-in-law will describe me as having a "limited arena of acceptable genres" when I am 80. 

All of that speculation due to this email:

From: UIowa Neuropsychology
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:58 PM
Subject: [Research] Healthy 80+ Year-Old Men Invited for Music Research

Researchers in the Neurology Department at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics are recruiting healthy older men in a study of music's influence on emotions. We would like to know how healthy men respond to a music listening task, compared to men with Alzheimer's disease.

If you are interested and meet the following descriptions, please call us at 319-NPA-NXX or email us at Firstname-Lastname@uiowa.edu for more information:

-Free of neurological and major psychiatric conditions
-Men age 80 and older
-High school OR bachelor's education

The study will take place in the Neurology Department at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. We will provide compensation. Thanks for your interest!

So I wrote back:

I suspect that since father-in-law was diagnosed with Parkinson’s earlier this year, that means he is no longer considered “Free of neurological and major psychiatric conditions”?

Would have been interesting to see how he would do in the study. While he loves music, he has a limited arena of acceptable genres: polkas, waltzes, or Big Band. Because, you know, (his words, not mine) “Elvis was the start of the decline of our culture - all those girls screaming for no reason!"

His favorite musician is Lawrence Welk and yes, despite owning a DVR and being able to watch LW whenever he wants, he doesn’t. He would first have to learn how to use the DVR!

Have a great Thursday!

I can imagine myself only listening to Bayside, Metallica, and Count the Stars (just listened to them for the first time this year yesterday) because everything else is sh!t.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Some Classic Bayside










2020 is Going to Be Bananas!



Director of Digital and Multimedia

Department: UI Health Care Marketing and CommunicationsPay Grade: 6A https://hr.uiowa.edu/pay/plans
Percent of Time: 100%
Staff Type: Professional & Scientific
Type of Position: Regular
Drivers License required: No

Overview

The Director of Digital and Multimedia will have a leadership role in aligning people, technology, and creativity to achieve the business goals and teaching, research and clinical care provided by University of Iowa Health Care. Develop and execute an integrated strategy for web and multimedia initiatives including web, video, photography, and graphic design. Manage a broad range of technical and creative information; oversee project tracking system and metrics; assign and monitor creative projects; clarify priorities and provide direction to team. Serve as a senior member of the Marketing and Communications leadership team.

Position Responsibilities:

Operational Support and Management

  • Lead and provide strategic, data-driven direction for a comprehensive range of digital and multimedia projects across multiple channels intended for external and internal audiences.
  • Manage a team of web developers, content writers, designers, photographers, videographers, and digital communications experts in the creation and execution of high-impact, integrated communication campaigns aimed at a range of UI Health Care audiences.
  • Partner with all divisions to develop requirements and prepare plans including concepts, schedules, and cost estimates.

Strategic Planning

  • Partner cross-functionally with MarCom marketing, strategic communications, and outreach & engagement divisions, providing creative consultation and guidance while cost-effectively meeting department objectives.
  • Lead development of forward-thinking creative and interactive strategies, ensuring integration of evolving marketing technology and digital capabilities.
  • Define effective tracking mechanisms, using analytics to consistently report on and improve outcomes.

Human Resources

  • Provide coaching, support, guidance, and feedback to team of graphic designers, web developers, web content writers, videographers, photographers, and other internal and external technical professionals.
  • Hire, develop, and manage performance of staff, assessing effectiveness and promoting staff development and engagement.
  • Ensure a high quality of creative and production value; maintaining consistently high standards for self and for team members.
  • Collaborates with others throughout the organization to achieve goals and outcomes.

Communications Management

  • Provide leadership and collaborative support in shaping and enforcing the UI Health Care web governance practices. Oversee and support all UI Health Care internal and external web properties.
  • Track and manage timelines, deliverables, and implementation of digital campaigns, ensuring integration with strategies of other MarCom divisions.
  • Oversee the management of multimedia production elements for institutional events, including UI Health Care’s Excellence Every Time training.
  • Coordinate production, development, and maintenance of new and existing website projects.

Information Management

  • Uphold best practices for production and web development and management, seeking out and implementing best practice and leading-edge solutions.
  • Oversee marketing technology, including digital asset management, project tracking, customer relationship management and other systems used by the department. Make recommendations for new technologies.

Financial Responsibility

  • Provide budget development and oversight for division.
  • Manage multimedia vendors and negotiate contract fees for outsourced projects and services.
Please attach a resume and cover letter as part of the application process. Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.
Successful candidates will be subject to a criminal background check.
This position is not eligible for University sponsorship for employment authorization.

Education Required

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent amount of education and experience required. Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, or Communications preferred.

Experience Requirements

  • 7 years professional digital and multimedia experience.
  • Proven project management skills with ability to lead multiple creative initiatives across a wide range of platforms and projects through full strategic and creative development.
  • Experience guiding professional teams and effectively managing external resources.
  • Experience in the collection, analysis and reporting of user data to determine the effectiveness of digital campaign.
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Strong working knowledge of digital marketing and communication, including content marketing and social media.
  • Strong working knowledge of web design, including use of analytics, accessibility standards, testing techniques, performance improvements, and application security.
  • Exceptional customer service skills; client-oriented focus; proven ability to collaborate.

Desirable Qualifications

  • Experience in health care, university or other large, complex organization highly desired.
  • High degree of creativity, energy, self-motivation and initiative is highly desired.
  • Fluency working with content management systems, such as Drupal, and familiarity with current web development platforms and practices.
  • Expertise in user experience design.
  • Advanced knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign and other creative programs.

Howl by Jake Houlsby



Outrage & Reasonings



Trips Goes for the Retirement Stipulation



Farewell LF...

Friday, March 22, 2019

No more

New Blog that is 9 years old ...

This is a 'new to me' blog that has been existence for 9 years: https://mikemac356.blogspot.com

Why is this blog significant? Simple. Without the blog's author giving me his 8-track tape collection prior to leaving for the military, I would have never discovered the music I love today. His 8-track tape collection included REALLY good music. This is a list of what he gave me, going by memory (the actual 8-track tape collection is long gone):
  1. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
  2. The Eagles - The Long Run
  3. Van Halen - I 
  4. Van Halen - II
  5. J. Giels Band - Love Stinks
I'll have to come back to this list in the future.

Victor!!

https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/2019/03/22/ncaa-tournament-iowa-hawkeyes-adjustments-beat-cincinnati-bearcats-columbus-ohio/3237432002/

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Lars in the Beginning



The Miz and Other Stuff

WWE SmackDown Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights from March 19


Ioanna Gika






Go See It!

Last night, Karen, Megan, Alex, and I saw Five Feet Apart. It was a really good movie with a really good message about cherishing the ones that are around you.

I cried like a baby.

Everyone Should See These Videos



TS 4



NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket

It feels like every year, I fill out a NCAA bracket and pick Duke to win. How many times has Duke won the national title?


Not as often as I'd like, per Duke Blue Devils men's basketball - National_championships

Final Four history

1963–Third Place 1964–Finalist 1966–Third Place 1978–Finalist
1986–Finalist 1988–Semifinalist 1989–Semifinalist 1990–Finalist
1991–Champion 1992–Champion 1994–Finalist 1999–Finalist
2001–Champion 2004–Semifinalist 2010–Champion 2015–Champion

Quite a List of Ideals

From A Few Traits of Christian Fathers:

  • Strength is a man who says he’ll pray for you and really does
  • Strength is a man who keeps his eyes, ears, and heart pure
  • Strength is a man who listens more than he talks
  • Strength is a man who teaches his children to love Christ above all else
  • Strength is a man who loves his wife completely
  • Strength is a man who doesn’t lust after people other than his spouse
  • Strength is a man who speaks well of his wife and never talks badly about her in the company of other men
  • Strength is a man who doesn’t look at porn
  • Strength is a man who doesn’t engage in gossip or idle talk about others
  • Strength is a man who keeps a close eye on his finances
  • Strength is a man who gives money to his church and the poor without getting anything in return
  • Strength is a man who doesn’t look for happiness in material things
  • Strength is a man who quickly admits when he’s wrong
  • Strength is a man who gives other people credit
  • Strength is a man who leads by example instead of barking orders
  • Strength is a man who weeps when he sees the suffering of others
  • Strength is a man who does what is right, even when there’s a high cost
  • Strength is a man who defends the weak when they can’t
  • Strength is a man who knows when to come home from work and when not to
  • Strength is a man who doesn’t judge others as being less than himself, but judges himself to be the greatest sinner of all
  • Strength is a man who doesn’t treat people differently due to race, religion, background, or socioeconomic status
  • Strength is a man who knows he doesn’t have all the answers
  • Strength is a man who is always trying to learn and grow
  • Strength is a man who is unafraid to show his silly side
  • Strength is a man who is willing to dance in public with his children
  • Strength is a man who will leave an “important meeting” because his family needs him
  • Strength is a man who stops to help people on the side of the road
  • Strength is a man who loves, above all else, God, and secondly, others as himself, as our Savior commanded

Of course, just because I am who I am, I would have wrote the above this way:

  • Strength is a man who:
    • says he’ll pray for you and really does
    • keeps his eyes, ears, and heart pure
    • listens more than he talks
    • teaches his children to love Christ above all else
    • loves his wife completely
    • doesn’t lust after people other than his spouse
    • speaks well of his wife and never talks badly about her in the company of other men
    • doesn’t look at porn
    • doesn’t engage in gossip or idle talk about others
    • keeps a close eye on his finances
    • gives money to his church and the poor without getting anything in return
    • doesn’t look for happiness in material things
    • quickly admits when he’s wrong
    • gives other people credit
    • leads by example instead of barking orders
    • weeps when he sees the suffering of others
    • does what is right, even when there’s a high cost
    • defends the weak when they can’t
    • knows when to come home from work and when not to
    • doesn’t judge others as being less than himself, but judges himself to be the greatest sinner of all
    • doesn’t treat people differently due to race, religion, background, or socioeconomic status
    • knows he doesn’t have all the answers
    • is always trying to learn and grow
    • is unafraid to show his silly side
    • is willing to dance in public with his children
    • will leave an “important meeting” because his family needs him
    • stops to help people on the side of the road
    • loves, above all else, God, and secondly, others as himself, as our Savior commanded

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

3000 Days

I made a choice 3000 days ago and, thankfully, I've never not chosen to make that choice every day. The choice? I decided to not drink booze. Over the years, I've returned to this post many times as a way to remind myself why. On this anniversary, I just did skim it again. It truly captures what I feel is still the best decision for me and who I want to be on this planet. I remain grateful that I have held firm.

Enjoy Every Moment!

Enjoy Every Moment!

Monday, March 18, 2019

20 Days to Set the Lineup for WM XXV

WWE WrestleMania 35 Rumors: Latest Reports on Potential Card, Top Superstars

Collection of Links

  1. Office Words Search and Replace: hit many MS Office files at once.
  2. Metallica Bassist Says There Has Been No Discussion About More 'Big Four' Concerts Before Slayer Calls It Quits - Blabbermouth.net
  3. Softer side of rockers emerges in 'Metallica'
  4. Jason Becker Scheduled to Undergo Surgery for Lung Abscess | MetalSucks
  5. James Gunn Reinstated For ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ 3 By Disney | Deadline
  6. My MCU race to every Marvel film before Avengers: Endgame – CNET
  7. Star Wars: Oscar Isaac gives hint to Fisher's Episode IX footage 'Star Wars: Oscar Isaac gives hint to Fisher's Episode IX footage' via @DorkSideOForce
  8. From the wrestling mat to the yoga mat: The story of DDP Yoga
  9. Leistikow: Bohannon, Hawkeyes learn important lesson
  10. Big Ten Tournament 2019: MSU basketball Kyle Ahrens leaves game on stretcher

Collection of Videos


Johnny Rabb Drum Solo #1 on Hendrix Drums Archetype Stave Walnut Acoustic Drum Kit Set

Round 1 Arcade Walk Thru

Shinedown (Live - Full Set 2003)

Slavior - Slavior {Full Album}

Every joke in Avengers: Age Of Ultron

Walking Dead-Bar Scene Nebraska ending

Raw - WWE Superstars vote no confidence in WWE COO Triple H - Part 1

FULL MATCH - The Rock vs. John Cena - Once in a Lifetime Match: WrestleMania XXVIII (WWE Network)

Top 10 Mission Impossible Scenes

FUNNIEST MOMENT IN EVERY MARVEL MOVIE [WITH INFINITY WAR]

Best of ECW PPV - Part 1

Stone Cold Steve Austin's greatest moments: WWE Playlist

Metallica - Live in Oklahoma City '92

Drummer

Friday, March 15, 2019

Tomorrow is AA - PR - S!

From https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/asking-alexandria/2019/fargodome-fargo-nd-4b921312.html
  1. In the Fire
  2. Where Did It Go?
  3. Run Free
  4. The Death of Me
  5. Vultures
  6. Moving On
     
  7. Eve
  8. When the Lights Come On
  9. Alone in a Room

Motdonna

Motley Crue Cover Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’


Commute from DM-IA to F-VA seems Extreme


Missed This on Sunday



Hello Darkness Say Goodbye!



I've always liked this tune. After reading the way it has helped Pumpkin King stay sober, I like it even more.

Riding the L!

It always makes me smile that I saw Metallica play this tune in Moline, IL, in 2004.  https://www.metallica.com/events/event-10534.html


Cross Off!



1978 Was a Great Year for ROCK!!



Some PW Analysis

Is Fan Reaction Ruining Ronda Rousey, Dean Ambrose's Status, and More


Why Some People Appear Bright Explained


An Old Friend from MMC has done Well

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-klamut-91587a16b

Embrace the Chaos

Life is sweet for my friend Matthew. Not only is he writing articles and communicating information that, frankly, whooshes over my head - for example, Migrating to the Cloud is Chaotic. Embrace it, it feels like every time I read his writing, I pick up subtle techniques I feel like I should adapt into my writing. For example, there's this blurb that he wrote on LinkedIn:
His first 3 sentences are 3 words each. It's a great hook. Simple sentences. Then he bumps the word count to 7 in the 4th sentence. It goes to 18 words in the 5th. I believe that's the secret sauce to Matthew's writing style. The first 3 sentences suck me in because they are short and setting the stage. Then, comes the 7 words, then the 18. It's like a staircase taking me to his point.

Editor's Note: Matthew also has this article https://www.gremlin.com/blog/avoiding-problems-when-the-clocks-change on the website.

Thursday, March 14, 2019

6 Years Ago



WM XXXV is 24 Days Away!

Kofi Kingston's WrestleMania Push Begins and More from March 12 WWE SmackDown

Automation Awry

In our society, it's very easy to pick fly shit out of pepper.

I was reminded of that as I began looking at my Inbox today. To be clear, I love reading my howtogeek.com newsletter. The content is generally well-written and I think the articles either inform me of something new or remind me of something I had tucked away into the archives of my brain. I also do not normally see errors on their website or within the emails I receive from them on a subscription basis. Thus, when I saw the following in my Inbox, I chuckled as it's an example of how automation can sometimes go awry when their software - either the software they wrote or the software they purchased - created the email for Monday at 11:05 AM and included the link to the How to Make Your Smarthome Easier for Other People to Use story twice. What that tells me is that when the software assembles the email, there is no check for duplicate entries. The URL to the story should be the same for the two entries so, at a very high level, I presume there isn't a step, prior to sending the email, that looks for duplicate URLs. If there was, I wouldn't have seen this:


Wednesday, March 13, 2019

DX 2019

Who Would Be the Best Fit in a Modern-Day Version of D-Generation X?








If I Were Addicted to Concerts

While I would love to see these 4 concerts over the next 4 days, the reality is I am seeing Shinedown on Saturday, March 16, 2019.

Rain, R & D




Spoiler Alert - Captain Marvel



It's Still Not My Favorite Genre

Report: Death Metal Makes Fans Joyful, Not Violent

Never Knew Sinbad Is Really Funny as a Comedian




Dude! Nice AJFA T-Shirt There

On the left, Alex & I at Volbeat / Avenged Sevenfold Metallica in Newton, IA on 6/7/2017; on the right, Alex & I at Chicago Open Air


From 2557 Days Ago



About a FH FT & Disproved

  1. I never knew there was any sort of fan theory about the "Full House" attic.
  2. I would have wrote That Fan Theory About The 'Full House' Attic Is Finally Disproved, not disproven
That Fan Theory About The 'Full House' Attic Is Finally Disproven

Scandal in HollyWeird!

Paying 6 million dollars to guarantee your child gets into a prestigious college is nuts, but that's what the most likeable "desperate housewife" on the ABC series "Desperate Housewives" did. Also, Jessie's wife on "Full House" is involved as well.


I realize the graphic below is hard to read so here's the online version of Fox News First

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Kill 'em All

 















I Was Supposed to Be in Indy Last Night

Once upon a time, I thought spring break for the kids was this week - starting on Friday, March 8, 2019. When I thought that, I thought that we would go to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, OH. I thought if we were on the road to Cleveland, OH, we certainly would need to stop in Indy to see Metallica.

Well, here's the 'modern' thought. Spring break for the kids is not THIS week. It starts on Friday, March 15, 2019. Thus, I was not in Indy last night.

In either case, this is what Metallica played:
  1. Hardwired
  2. Atlas, Rise!
  3. Seek & Destroy
  4. Ride the Lightning
  5. The Unforgiven
  6. Now That We’re Dead
  7. Creeping Death
  8. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  9. Here Comes Revenge
  10. Indiana medley of the Zero Boys’ “Vicious Circle” and “Amphetamine Addiction” and John Mellencamp’s “I Need a Lover” performed by Rob Trujillo and Kirk Hammett
  11. Hit the Lights
  12. Fuel
  13. Moth Into Flame
  14. Sad But True
  15. One
  16. Master of Puppets
  17. Encore
  18. Fight Fire with Fire
  19. Nothing Else Matters
  20. Enter Sandman
Compared to the setlist I heard when I saw them in Newton, IA, ignoring where tunes were placed in the setlist, I see these differences between Newton, IA, and Indy, IN:
  1. "Hit the Lights" not "Whiplash"
  2. "Ride the Lightning" not "Fade to Black"
  3. "Creeping Death" not "Wherever I May Roam"
  4. "Fight Fire with Fire" replaced "Blackened"
  5. "Here Comes Revenge" not "Halo on Fire"
I would gladly take "Whiplash," "Ride" would trump "Fade", "Death" would trump "Roam", "Blackened" would trump "Fire", and "Halo" or "Revenge" is a wash - both are great choices.


Druids


Druids:

Des Moines, Iowa-based psychedelic/stoner metal trio DRUIDS have been making their rounds in the underground for the better part of a decade, but are poised to break out in 2019 with what will prove to be their most confident and explorative effort to date. The trio's brand new five-track record, Monument, is scheduled for release on April 19, 2019 via The Company KC. DRUIDS first laid their destructive groundwork over two releases - Pray for Water and The Sound of Meditation (released in 2009 and 2013, respectively) - continually looking to push their own personal boundaries, physically and sonically. With the release of 2016's Cycles of Mobeum, the boys embarked on a full year of heavy touring all over the United States, giving audiences in unsuspecting cities a heavy, cathartic live show, awash with wailing guitar solos, rhythmic drumming and chunky, grooving bass-lines. They took to the studio in early 2017 to record their follow up, Spirit Compass, with producer Brandon Darner (David Keuning, Radio Moscow) to shape what would be a smoldering follow-up.