{"id":16033,"date":"2015-03-12T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=16033"},"modified":"2015-03-12T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:54:09","slug":"the-number-7000-and-thursday-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/the-number-7000-and-thursday-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The number 7000 and Thursday news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will lead off this post with a couple of trivia facts involving the number 7000.<\/p>\n<p>The first one will get you in the mood for BBQ Fest. FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s Significant Digits newsletter reports that the average American will eat 7000 animals in his or her lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, if you&#8217;re sick of email spam and wonder why spammers do it, here&#8217;s why: The average email spambot earns $7000 a day. Saw that on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Peabody has announced the first half of its 2015 Thursday rooftop party schedule. Cover is $10 unless noted below.<\/p>\n<p>April 16: Hollywood with special performance by Shaggy ($15 cover)<br \/>\nApril 23: Walrus<br \/>\nApril 30: The Brad Birkedahl Band with special performance by Cash Cash ($15 cover)<br \/>\nMay 7: Twin Soul with special performance by Andy Grammar ($15 cover)<br \/>\nMay 14: Ghost Town Blues Band<br \/>\nMay 21: The Molly Ringwalds<br \/>\nMay 28: Swingin\u2019 Leroy<br \/>\nJune 4: Frankie Hollie &amp; The Noise<br \/>\nJune 11: Seeing Red<\/p>\n<p>Felicia Suzanne&#8217;s has a few tickets left for its annual Duck Wake on Monday. &lt;href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.feliciasuzanne.com\/ecommerce.php\/mode\/view\/cat\/4\/product\/15&#8243;&gt;Info and ticket sales here.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis in May now has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphisinmay.org\/symphony-tickets\">tickets and VIP tables for sale<\/a> for the Sunset Symphony finale.<\/p>\n<p>Prime job opportunity: Copeland Coaching reports that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copelandcoaching.com\/2015\/03\/12\/featured-job-sr-media-relations-st-jude\/\">Senior Media Relations<\/a> position open at St. Jude.<\/p>\n<p>The Silky O&#8217;Sullivan&#8217;s St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Caravan happens today. The caravan travels from Silky&#8217;s to the airport to pick up Irish dignitaries coming to town for Saturday&#8217;s parade. Meet at 5 at Silky&#8217;s, caravan leaves at 6:30. Please have a designated driver if you plan to participate.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a planning meeting for April&#8217;s MEMFix Pinch event tomorrow at 3:30 at Westy&#8217;s. Topics discussed will include volunteer acquisition, vendor selections, and event scape planning.<\/p>\n<p>The Blind Bear kicks off their three-day St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Speakeasy Style celebration Sunday at 11 AM. There will be drink specials and green beer. I will definitely have to stop by for D-RANKS with B-RAD (or whoever fills in for B-RAD if he isn&#8217;t back from Florida by then) around 1 that afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Is your website mobile-friendly? If not, better get it mobile-friendly by April 21 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/memphis\/blog\/morning_call\/2015\/03\/google-prepares-algorithm-change-website-owners.html\">Google will penalize you in search rankings<\/a>. If you&#8217;re on WordPress, the wp-mobile plugin will do the trick for you. It&#8217;s what I use on this blog. There are also many mobile-friendly themes you can choose from.<\/p>\n<p>I had a good time at Bardog poker last night. Just a good group of people with a lot of mutual respect for each other playing some cards. No players who bring a lot of needless emotional drama and who are so rude and insulting and horrible that others ask to be moved to a different table. That kind of player is bad for business. Come play Bardog&#8217;s friendly, laid-back style of poker every Wednesday at 7:30 in the Underdog Room. Free to play and you can win some nice prizes including Grizzlies tickets.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;ll do it for now. I&#8217;ll be out at the usual spots after work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will lead off this post with a couple of trivia facts involving the number 7000. The first one will get you in the mood for BBQ Fest. FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s Significant Digits newsletter reports that the average American will eat 7000 animals in his or her lifetime. Secondly, if you&#8217;re sick of email spam and wonder &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/the-number-7000-and-thursday-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The number 7000 and Thursday news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16034,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16033\/revisions\/16034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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