Author: SA Otey

Software Engineer

What is Friendship Day?

~ SA Otey

Friendship Day is another greeting card invented event where you are supposed to enjoy your relationships with others. I say it’s a good time to clean house on your Facebook lists.

  1. Look at your friend’s list
  2. See who has the most friends
  3. Unfriend that “friend”
  4. See how long it takes for them to send you a friend request
  5. Repeat every week until you have no friends

Chances are if someone has 3000+ friends they won’t notice you’ve unfriended them until they see you pop up on the “Find New Friends” or “People you may know” feature. Hopefully, Facebook has it in their algorithms that you don’t surface again.

Have fun, enjoy, and tell a “friend”!

Get drunk at Magic Kingdom!

~ SA Otey

Disney’s newest pirate-themed lounge is ready to welcome EPCOT Drink Around the World guests starting August 29, 2025. The Beak and Barrel brings swashbuckling fun to Magic Kingdom with an immersive Pirates of the Caribbean experience featuring tropical drinks, tasty bites, and nautical entertainment.

What to Expect

This family-friendly pirate pub offers something for every buccaneer:

  • Themed beverages for all ages, including creative non-alcoholic options like the mysterious Treasure Trove and cookies-and-cream inspired Cursed Treasure
  • Adventurous food ranging from octopus tentacle salad (Kraken’s Catch) to cheesy corn griddle cakes
  • Specialty cocktails with Caribbean flair, featuring unique ingredients like ube, hibiscus, and mezcal
  • Exclusive draft beers and wines from around the world
  • Interactive entertainment including sing-alongs and storytelling

Don’t Miss These Highlights

  • Siren’s Whisper: A captivating blue cocktail inspired by the Fountain of Youth
  • Plunderer’s Punch: Comes in a limited souvenir pirate skull mug (one per guest)
  • Island Provisions: Shareable Caribbean-inspired appetizers perfect for crews

Plan Your Visit

Reservations open August 14, so mark your calendars! Whether you’re a seasoned swashbuckler or budding buccaneer, The Beak and Barrel promises an unforgettable adventure across the Seven Seas.

Arrr you ready to set sail?

Toilet seat up or down?

~ SA Otey
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Ever since the toilet was invented and the opposite sexes, genders, or humans with different or no body parts shared it, the argument of whether the seat should go up or down has raged.

The discourse is easily settled. Both the seat and lid should go down. That lid is there for a reason. The reason? A plume of human excrement mist erupts when you flush. You don’t want to breathe that in. If you do you might want to chase it with a few squirts of  Poo-Pourri.

Maximize Savings: Shopping on Tax-Free Weekend

~ SA Otey
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How much do you love people? How much do you love people and massive amounts of them confined in one area? Do you like long lines at the dressing room and checkouts? Do you enjoy fighting over parking spaces and pedestrians who forget how to walk in parking lots?

If you said yes to any or all of these questions then you will love shopping on tax-free weekends in your state. It’s only rivaled by Black Friday sales. However, you can pay slightly a bit more and shop from your computer at home. You have to deal with the age-old question, “How much is my time worth?”.

Teaching your kids how to curse

~ SA Otey
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Now that Pixar movies, like “Incredibles 2” are employing curse words in their movie scripts, it’s time to get your kids up to speed. Let’s face it, your children are going to start using profanity one day. Why not teach them the right way. That is, acknowledge that these are real words and can be used in a sentence. Now, that you’ve deflated the value of curse words teach them to have a vast vocabulary of literary devices so they don’t have to resort to using language shortcuts.

The Karate Kid ruined martial arts

~ SA Otey
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Sweep the leg

I mean that in the nicest way. It inspired many kids to stand up to bullies by learning martial arts from a janitor while executing illegal moves in a tournament. The ref seemed to turn a blind eye to Daniel-San.

I’m not talking about that, I’m talking about whenever someone finds out you are taking martial arts. It doesn’t matter if it’s Kung-fu, Tai Chi, Karate, Taekwondo, Jujitsu, or Ninjago; someone will form a crane stance and make a Bruce Lee woo to make fun of you. Depending on how much you learned and if you are any good, then now is a good time to sweep the leg.

Four way stop traffic directors

~ SA Otey
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One person at the four-way stop always thinks they are a traffic director. They get there before you and wave you on like it’s their job. Don’t be this person, just follow the rules. A fun twist would be to wave someone on, then go. You might get hit, but the law will be on your side because you were there first and they didn’t go in the nanosecond you waved them on. Just hope they don’t have a camera.

How to increase gas production in the USA!

~ SA Otey


There have been a few go-to items I reach for if I need to produce a ton of gas. Why do I need to produce so much gas? Because it’s funny and my friends enjoy the noise. Boiled eggs paired with a brimming bowl of Kashi Go Lean Crunch will generate stomach-churning flatus power for hours. Depending on the bowl size and how many eggs you ate, you will get tired of farting. You might even gag when you wake yourself up from the loudness of your new tooting alarm.

Enough with the end credit scenes!

~ SA Otey

The mid and end-credit scenes are just a way to get you to read all the names of the people who made the movie. That, and see job titles that didn’t know existed. You will then wonder how much an assistant food dolly gripper makes and if it’s the right career move at this point in your life.

The end credit scenes have never been so good that it makes it worth the wait, and yet I still watch them all. Just leave the theater! Then go read a fanboy website that will explain and or theorize what it all means. Then hear them rant about people being bandwagon fans, and they didn’t read the comics when they were growing up. Well, you are right. I was too busy pitching no-hitters and hitting home runs in Little League when I was a kid. Now I can just watch the movie.

The new Superman movie’s end credit scenes are not worth the wait. Just go back and watch Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, and the Snyder cut of Justice League.

How to Park Like a Pro: Unwritten Parking Rules

~ SA Otey
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If you are in a parking lot with many open spaces, find someone getting in or out of their car and attempt to park in the space next to them.  Try to look as inconvenienced as possible.

If you see them trying to pull through the lane in front of them, back into that spot. Find someone unloading their groceries into the side of their car as they take up two lanes.

If you are unloading your groceries, leave your buggy in the space so that someone else doesn’t have to move it to the park. Time-saving tip: Just park and walk instead of waiting in that space that is only two spots closer.

Find a spot close to the front of a hotel. Have your children wait in the spot as you drop the bags off at the entrance. Come back to the spot where your children are putting their lives on the line for your convenience.