AN algorithm IN OBSCURITY

Haven't been feeling too bloggepreneurial lately. And it's already September.

Imagine if your job was to be bad at your job ... really bad. Feeling under the weather this weekend, I watched a little TV that would normally be missed. Dirty Jobs. With Mike Rowe. Everyone is always yelling at him. Every job he goes to ... he's never experienced. Yet most of these loosely educated proletarians scream at him for coming up short, damaging raw materials, or misusing the tools.

As quickly as I started wondering about how frustrated he could really be with the money he makes for hosting a silly TV show, I began feeling empathy for his job. He sucks at everything and is justified in the frustration expressed towards the people profiled on the show.

On a single show he got multiple bee stings, environmental sludge in his face, and patronized by a surf board manufacturer. At least I get a few wins here and there up at Hotels.com!

So I was testing a new algorithm that is a piece of SEO optimization research and ran it against my blog. Almost every paragraph came back with suggestions. I would say it works! Some of the funnier ones that I can't believe I ever wrote:

• "obscure as a Malaysian beauty contest winner"
• "I'm always in the hunt for some self-indulgent, mundane, inane nonsense which I could publish only to never be heard."
• "I thought I'd NOT come up with some insane analogy or attempt at being interesting."
• "As usual, I have no point."
• "How's that for twisted originality, Mr. Self?"
• "IWantSomeoneToBringFoodToGravesABFThisSunday.com"
• "I'm absolutely positive I may be only 1 of 3 people that reads this blog."
• "In conclusion, I have nothing to conclude."
• "Billy has been sitting home in the dark reading Joel Olsteen's latest book."
• "The rest of us need to focus on working for the man and writing stupid blogs"
• "Just an endless stream of irrational thoughts that I could be expressing."

Ironically, it only picked up one sentence that used the word "obscure" and none of my usual grammatical errors. Oh well.

Should have warned you this would not be a riveting or meaningful post even given a wide berth. So I'll leave you with something that is both enthralling and consequential:

Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD.

Psalm 25:7

Unrelated Transom Links

• Awaken
• The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
• Fantastic Contraption
• LPU - Knowing and Experiencing God as Trinity
  

Coming this September ...

• Why I hate Facebook
• The Science of Being Scammed or possible Scamola-ed: a book review.

FYI - "bloggepreneur" was coined last week by Mark Cuban when some blogger challenged the fact that he was not technically proficient, just Internet lucky. He simply agreed sarcastically that he was a minion compared to the mighty bloggepreneur that figured out his secret. Nicely played Cubby ...