{"id":2283,"date":"2008-07-02T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2008-07-02T08:03:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T13:03:17","slug":"beer-recommendation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/beer-recommendation-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reminds me of when I used to watch WCW Saturday Night, and commentator Dusty Rhodes would refer to the show as “the mothership” even though it was their #3 show, behind Nitro and Thunder… it would have the worst wrestlers in the entire company competing against each other, and Dusty would comment that they’re “trying to get to the pay winda.”<\/p>\n

The Saucer carries two other New Belgium beers now, Fat Tire (which has been requested by many people) and 1554. Both come in 22 oz. bottles.<\/p>\n

Congrats to the Rapscallions last night, who won a tie-breaker question to claim first place in trivia, bringing our total to $260 (I think – need to do a count). The tie-breaking question: What percentage of the national budget was spent on national defense in 1945? The correct answer was a whopping 89%<\/strong>. This is the kind of thing Dick Cheney fantasizes about when he’s all alone.<\/p>\n

People have asked how my online stores have been doing… just checked the reports for June and figured I’d tell you. My stores are storefronts for Amazon.com<\/a> $\"\"$ , and generate referral fees when someone orders through them (Amazon takes care of the credit card processing and shipping). For June I had 62 items shipped and 71 items ordered from all my stores combined. I get a 6.5% commission on all items shipped during the month (Amazon’s commission rate is a sliding scale between 4% and 8.5% depending on the month’s volume). Of those, 4 were from Pro Wrestling Book and Video<\/a>, 2 were from American Flag Merchandise<\/a>, and the other 56 were from the Tube Top Boutique<\/a>. It’s not that tube tops are more popular than wrestling videos or flags; it’s that the tube top store has been around for a year and Google trusts it as not a fly-by-night, so it rewards the store in search results (it’s been averaging about 500 hits a day). The other stores are less than a month old, so Google is still building trust in them. They’ll be getting hundreds of hits within 6 months, I predict.<\/p>\n

There’s an article in the CA this morning about Muvico closing and on the planned renovations for Peabody Place<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More stuff to come, but I’ve got to get to work. There will be another post today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"