{"id":1550,"date":"2013-11-14T14:41:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2013-11-14T14:41:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T14:41:36","slug":"buffalo-chicken-herding-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/14\/buffalo-chicken-herding-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"buffalo chicken, herding cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered, much to my surprise, that I really like buffalo chicken. I&#8217;ve never been one for much sauce, but I tried this recently and found I really liked it.<\/p>\n<p>I was eating out a restaurant that had this on the menu &#8211; and one of my dinner companions had asked for extra lemons for their tea.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; buffalo chicken is good. And lemon chicken is also good.<\/p>\n<p>Seizing the moment &#8211; and the lemon &#8211; I added to the sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>And it was AWESOME!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if I just invented something new, but you need to stop whatever you are doing and go get a buffalo chicken sandwich and add some lemon to it.<br \/>\nIn other news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the phrase came up: &#8220;like trying to herd cats&#8221;. Which, from experience of trying to herd one cat, is difficult.<\/p>\n<p>Unless you use a laser pointer. Thunder(cat) would follow a laser dot off the edge of a cliff or out an airlock into deep space. It is his purpose in life, his holy grail, his deep, universal, meaning.<\/p>\n<p>While it would still be chaotic due to the nature of cats, I think you could effectively &#8220;herd&#8221; them with a laser dot.<\/p>\n<p>And I think this translates to humans as well, though instead of lasers one needs to find something that encourages progress in direction towards a goal they want &#8211; that just so happens to be your goal as well.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a push, it&#8217;s a pull. The carrot, not the stick.<\/p>\n<p>This is not as earth shattering as the buffalo lemon chicken&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(why are you still here? Go try it now!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;since this is essentially the more evil parts of marketing &#8211; but it&#8217;s an interesting parallel. \u00a0And a solution to the Herding Cats problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered, much to my surprise, that I really like buffalo chicken. I&#8217;ve never been one for much sauce, but I tried this recently and found I really liked it. I was eating out a restaurant that had this on the menu &#8211; and one of my dinner companions had asked for extra lemons for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}