The Sackrider Blog

• Off to work… #
• http://twitpic.com/3t83u – Last thursday’s hike… #
• @Debalina Go for it! 3 day walk? When is that? How far? Where is it? Gimme the scoop… in reply to Debalina #
• IQuitAgain: The Fat Ugly Truth: Today is Wednesday – George and I work out on Monday’s, Wednesd.. http://tinyurl.com/crtrqa #
• @Debalina I live in AZ and my mother died from Breast Cancer in 2000. I’m glad I asked! Is there a website? in reply to Debalina #
• what is that song… its stuck in my head, but only the medley… you know, that one… #
• I found it! How “Clumsy” was that of me to forget… Why is this song stuck in my head??? ♫ http://blip.fm/~4v5fk #
• because I like the sound………… I’m the one that loves ya baby, can’t you see? ♫ http://blip.fm/~4v6on #
• I would understand… ♫ http://blip.fm/~4v738 #
• @Debalina I’ll get a pic over to you of my mom – she raised five kids and did a pretty good job of it before cancer took her from us… in reply to Debalina #
• hanging by a doughnut… er… I mean Moment… can you tell what’s on my mind? ♫ http://blip.fm/~4v7lx #
• My mom loved Patsy Cline – so I can’t help it… ♫ http://blip.fm/~4v82a #
• Another of mom’s favs… ♫ http://blip.fm/~4v84h #
• why do I like the sound of the songs that are not church approved??? ♫ http://blip.fm/~4v8eu #
• Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive!Another of Mom’s favorites… I miss her… ♫ http://blip.fm/~4vfr3 #
• How 2 add people 2 UR FB Mafia w/o asking: http://sackrider.org/category/mythoughts/add-facebook-friends-to-your-mafia-without-asking.html #
• @angiecltan who doesn’t like Fergie??? in reply to angiecltan #
• Just watched the latest ep. of The Office and LOVED IT…http://www.hulu.com/watch/69539/the-office-broke#s-p1-so-i0 #
• Can someone clue me into the whole #followfriday thing? #
• My son Zander just said “I wish your mommy could get away from Jesus to come spend time with us”… Me too, son. Me too… #
• @shuzlife he is 5 – he never got to met her and she never met him… in reply to shuzlife #
• gotta go – I’m late… again…. #
• but no one noticed… #
• wow – I hike here: http://www.azcentral.com/community/northvalley/articles/2009/04/23/20090423abrk-hikerfounddead.html #
• have you guys seen my wife’s home school blog? http://mymisterman.com/ #
• heading to “the Place” for brunch… #
• 19mth old daughter spent last 30 mins trying 2 put on mom’s shorts – only she seems 2 think its a shirt & can’t figure out Y its not working #
• on our way home from eating lunch 2day, my 5yr old son noticed we were heading home & say’s “I thought we were going out to eat?”… #
• I’m excited about the new Star Trek movie… #
• @SDentertainment wow – cool! Not sure what I would ask, but he was good in Chuck. I wonder why a prequel? in reply to SDentertainment #
• RT @SDentertainment Excited about new #StarTrek? Have ?? you’d like to ask Fed Capt (Faran Tahir)? I’ll be intvwing him Tues. @ or DM ur ??! #
• @zaibatsu why bother? UR silver face pic is cool enough… in reply to zaibatsu #

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UPDATE: This method is no longer working.  I believe it broke when Facebook moved to friendly names.  If I find a working method – I’ll write it up and link it here.

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I’ve been playing a game on Facebook called Mafia Wars by a company called zynga.  Its pretty fun and I’ve learned a trick or two that I don’t mind sharing.  The first way to increase your mafia is to invite your friends to start playing the game using the Mafia invites.  But you will quickly learn that they limit the number of invites you can send and your friends might take weeks to finally get to your request – and they might still not join your Mafia.

So what’s the trick?  If you are already Facebook friends, you can join someones mafia instantly – you don’t have to ask for their permission or wait for their response.  Here is how:

Go to their profile.  It should look something like this

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1114591836

Remove everything from the address bar of your browser EXCEPT the number you see after the “id=” – this is their Facebook id number.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1114591836

Now you just need to add this to the url:

http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=

In the end you should end up with something like this:

http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=1114591836

If your friend plays Mafia, you will be instantly added to their Mafia (and they will be added to yours) without having to wait for them to respond!

Now if you don’t have a lot of Facebook Friends or if your current friends aren’t playing Mafia – go to the fan page of Mafia and start adding friends that have commented on the Mafia fan page – add them to a friend list called Mafia with a comment saying Mafia – trust me, they will add you.  Once they accept your friend request, you can add them to your mafia using the method above.

And if you don’t mind – start with me! To Add me:

http://www.facebook.com/addfriend.php?id=1114591836

http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=1114591836

I first heard of her in the break room at my job – Glenn Beck on Fox News was talking about her appearance on “Britain’s got Talent”.  The next time I saw her name was when it appeared on Twitter in more than one “OMG! You have to watch this youtube video with Susan Boyle!”.  Then, first thing this morning when I check my email – I have in my inbox an email from Marc Cenedella, the founder and CEO of TheLadders, raving about never letting the cynics tell you ‘no’ using Susan Boyle’s story as the example.

So what’s the deal with Susan Boyle?  Her claim to fame is that she is a great singer that has never been discovered.  I’m sure there are thousands of people with that story – American Idol, America’s got Talent, Britain’s got Talent all prove it.  The big difference with Susan is that she is older (47 years old) than most that get a shot on these shows and that she is homely.  Back home we called that “hard to look at”.

If she were 27 and attractive, this would be just another story of someone getting a break on a reality TV show.  Don’t get me wrong – she sang very well in the youtube clip I saw (google it yourself, I don’t have the link handy!).  She was good enough to have Simon look like a school girl in love while he listened to her – which is impressive.  But what’s got everyone buzzing is that we are so shallow that we never expected an older (not old, just older), homely (not ugly, just not attractive) woman to be able to sing well.  Everyone is excited about Susan Boyle because everyone was too shallow to see past her face.

Much Ado About Nothing – if you asked me… but you didn’t.