 Okay, Google. What do you think of Siri? Full respect. Being an assistant is hard work. Okay. What do you think of Google? It's your opinion that counts sexy beast. I forgot. My wife changed my told Siri to refer to me as sexy beast. Apparently his wife refused too so you know We have assistance for that. Welcome to Vlog Thursday and to all 5,010 5,010 of you on YouTube. Thank you very much. We're excited about that. Now it's not that I don't appreciate all of you but one of the things that we were talking about is like how do we do cool giveaway? I don't know the parameters for it because we're just building the channel organically and learning as we go and I've never really been myself a subscriber to any giveaways and I never think about it. I have a lot of YouTubers I like. I just follow them. I don't really go and try to pursue. I know like go tweet this or do that. So we're looking for some suggestions actually. You want to do something to show appreciation. We're just not sure what. What would be a giveaway? Should we just give away an Amazon gift card and what are the parameters for giving? Do I pick a YouTuber at random and how do I select someone at random or can you find or have a site that would select someone at random so I would not be biased based on that. Tom Headhurt early morning. Yes. Yeah I don't know. We want to reward the people who have subscribed but we want to entice more people to subscribe so you don't want to just be like okay here's a gift to you know we'll pick a random of the 5,010 and you win something but then that doesn't encourage anybody else to subscribe unless we're gonna do it at 10,000 and you're only giving it to the people who were 5,011 to 10,000. You know the confusion. Yeah. These are hard things for us because I don't know I don't think in those parameters but I have been rocking out more YouTube videos. I've been documenting the entirety of my business is kind of my goal and as much as I can documenting the entirety of the business I should say. So one of the things that I've had a few people bench message me like hey you should package this and sell it or things like that and because I'm a big open source guy I'm like no I literally give it all away and it's not that I'm really looking for some monetary gain from this I'm just documenting things and sharing with the community and hopefully making the community better and I'm in a discussion with a few texts right now because one of the popular services that they use went down for four hours. Now this is a documentation service and it's hosted at some company which always scares me because now you're talking about IT people who document your business and then outsource all that knowledge into some website. Well that some website which contains all your passwords and everything that went down. Now the first worry is was it hacked? No it turns out it was an internal problem and they worked on it but it took the system down for about three or four hours according to the debrief that I read and some of the texts I talked to. Well that's three or four hours that they did not have access to information which means they can't do their jobs and that's kind of scary to me. I'm a big fan of keeping all that knowledge in-house that's one of the reasons you know I just had a tour of our servers how we store data how we do templates and things like that and someone commented like well that's all too complicated I'm like you're in IT I hope you know how to do these things if not you're just a basic computer tech if you don't have better or more advanced server knowledge you're not some servers then you what are you doing with all that data that's something to consider I'm not trying to make the barrier for entry saying you need to be this good before you get in but you kind of do there's not many other barriers century to being an IT guy which is creating some of the chaos in our market. That sounds elitist Tom. That sounds elitist you're right just saying I this stuff that we do you know that's one reason I'm not being elitist I'm documented how we did it putting the steps together showing the software and someone messaged me about the templates I said you can have a copy of all the templates I created I literally give all my stuff away under creative comments so if there's something that you want go ahead and ask I will I don't have a problem sending it over to you you know and if too many people ask for something and so stopping I just create a web page for it and then direct them all to the web page that's actually what inspires a lot of my videos is people said hey how do you do this so I make a video on it therefore I can share it with at scale so instead of me replying each time well these are the steps we used I make it even more in depth so is this from a purely altruistic standpoint or are you hoping that by putting your stuff out there it makes like is it just like make things easier for people like what like why just give the stuff away you know a lot of it just altruistic and I think it's a human thing to do for me and I don't feel very human a lot so well well at least I don't feel connected with all the other humans so you may be here from a parallel I'm here from parallel universe because I'm not connected with all the other humans so that being said the I give a lot of ways the same reason I mean we put a lot of work and effort into the SMLR podcast and it's because we enjoy doing it you know people like oh how much money do you make you did this I'm like you know the trip to Microsoft was awesome but it's not like this is some cash cow force we enjoy doing it we enjoy interacting with community and I really I have money so not like I'm rich but I have enough money to buy the things that I want and stuff that I'm not trying to buy a Bentley right now or anything so yeah you know I don't have yet well cuz really want to Tesla anyway yeah I want a Tesla actually I want to test a lot more than I want to mentally I won't lie I don't care you lay the two in front of me I'm like I just the Tesla seems cooler yeah yeah I'm a geek I can't help it this this is cool I mean I just don't last night watching the reviews of electric cars because that's you know anyways as far as you do far off I care more about creating some type of value or creating or making a difference than money I mean I am never gonna say money doesn't matter money does matter I have bills to pay I got kids they need stuff you know so you do have to have money for things and phones and cameras and stuff like that but there comes a point I don't stockpile and hoard it I'm not just trying to create this big hey look how big my bank account is or look at my Ferrari collection and that's something wrong some people would want to do that go ahead that's what you want to do I've I watch videos on person who collected 32 vipers they had a collection of vipers I thought that was cool and the car yeah not the snake not the snake I there's other videos of people have those too yeah yeah I would say collecting 32 bit vipers snakes is probably a more of a mental illness the cars but it's good to have goals though good to have goals so we're excited about all the subscribers I love interacting with the tech community I love public speaking I shouldn't say this but I'll do a lot of it for free I'll speak at any of the Linux conventions those are not paid anyways but I do other engagements that someone says you should be charging please I'm like but I just like putting put me in front of a crowd I just like why me up and let me go this is just a roundabout way of saying Tom craves attention yeah we'll go with that and you weren't an only child that's so weird I know most usually it's like I was an only child and I will admit it I crave attention my sister's an introvert so yeah she doesn't she didn't talk well my parents didn't think she talked for a long time and it turns out she did talk she only spoke to me up until she's like three oh my god like our child doesn't speak then they hear her talking to wait she talks to her brother which didn't help anything because we already said Tom doesn't really connect with humans so I have a hard time with that you know it could be blasted it's like you know how do you get all the things done or whatever and I'm kind of like well I don't I have a hard time and there's a great article I read and it says you're not introverted you have a hard time a small talk and I absolutely do there it was a I should find that article in Lincoln if I can find it again but it was just a great read because I don't know how to start a conversation unless it's on a specific topic that I'm interested in I don't do how's the weather because I I mean to be honest none of us are really interested in how the weather is unless I'm going for a bike ride then I do care but outside of that like I don't I have a hard time starting conversations or keeping them up I don't know ever what to say but if I dive into a deep technical topic that I'm versed in or that I have an interest in I will talk for hours about it like oh you want to talk about firewalls for an hour so do I you want to talk about security features and things like that or Linux no problem but then I don't I don't watch sports I don't do I guess a lot of the other social things I don't like sitting at the bar for any length of time unless I'm very focused on a single topic with someone so I mostly like last night I sat around on a bunch of chat sessions talking about implementations of some security things that were going on you know that stuff interests me deeply and I can't even wrap my head around like in people like hey latest sport ball thing and I'm like cool yeah because because you are so hyper focused and when small talk is about fishing for a common ground you know that's why that's why you do small talk you start with the weather because it affects everybody and you start narrowing it down to you find something that the two of you can speak about and that's something I enjoy like I went to penguin con quite a few times now and other Linux conferences because we're all there for a purpose and I already know why we're there so it's not hard to strike up a conversation you know I can look at the shirt look oh you're into that thing and I'm into that thing too and that's really cool and I hardly watch any TV so it you know I don't have like a lot of relatable like I don't watch what do you call those sitcoms and things like that yeah you know what's strange to me and it may not be strange to you but now you're gonna think about it is I don't understand laugh tracks like laugh track like there's a laugh track on shows that makes you want to laugh and we don't watch TV but then something comes on with life track I'm like that's just weird like there's people laughing but it's a sitcom like that's a weird dimension to me to things but if you watch it all the time I guess it's probably normal and like there's people laughing like is that a cue for me to laugh too it is that's why they did it because there's nothing worse than dropping a joke and hearing silence so one of the funny things is there's you can find this on YouTube there's people who made sitcoms and I love this and they eliminated the laugh track and then you realize how not funny some of them are yeah oh yeah well but it's becoming more prevalent now to do like called single single camera comedies yeah where it's shot like a drama there is no laugh track like but the show but the show still funny I mean there are a lot of them that way a lot of us I would say most of them are like you'll see them on like Netflix Netflix originals and Hulu originals breakable Kimmy Schmidt and 30 Rock was another one even though it was network it didn't do a laugh track and you do I would say you do have to work harder and you do have to have better writing and better jokes because you don't have that cue like oh I'm supposed to laugh here you know the character said his catch line his catch phrase so I should probably laugh here because the laugh track told me I should laugh here got it you know it's a cute thing for TV it's so you know because we have to be spoon fed everything it's the same reason they put an applause sign if you actually see a live taping of something there's an applause sign to let you know you should clap make sense well anyways things you learn the things we learn I am going to be I've I actually have pants on today and thank God normally he doesn't which makes it uncomfortable for me to sit here it does really like the anchor man you put the suit on yeah because I actually have some consulting work I have to leave for a minute that's kind of you know miscellany things that Tom does we're also working on keeping the vlog more concise and we're thinking about adding some news to it or maybe I do a separate news stuff because one of my I read obsessively lots of tech news and have opinions on it and things like that and so it's something I like to discuss and I'm going to start doing some more of that I'm also going to keep on the path of documenting lots of processes procedures basically the playlist I mean a whole series of playlists on our YouTube too which is kind of a lot of work but rewarding when I'm done because other people are thanking me for the playlist so thank you that's awesome that made me feel good that people that only work didn't just go to the ether it actually did something but anyways the the whole playlist thing one of them's going to be is all the business tools it's also going to be kind of a guide and I made create some blogging about this in addition to the YouTube where it's a guy of all things you need to start an IT company and but I also want to dive into some of the other business talks I did a whole sales talk I have a social media one that I did as well that I've posted on there and I just want to keep expanding on that kind of all the tools you need to start a business type thing and you know obviously I'm focused on tech but some of the things of like the Facebook advertising is like that that's any business that uses Facebook advertising so those are some of the changes and before we wrap up this Thursday vlog I got a question for Marvin here how did the Wanna Cry ransomware guys get away? Oh how did the Wanna Cry ransomware guys get away? Yeah I assume they ran through some backyards and hit under a dumpster? They ran somewhere that's correct. It's so bad. On that note we'll see you next week next week and I'll probably post some videos in between and thank you again for 5,000 that's awesome let's let's get to 10,000 even faster I hope so yeah so click and subscribe you do if you haven't already yeah if you're watching say YouTube click the subscribe the bell the little windows new videos from Tom and Marvin a playlist if you haven't seen all the other ones you playlists now and all there's all the vlogs they're so useful I think I can put them right here in the video right there all right only but that's only working if you're watching this on YouTube you're not watching on a Chrome cast there's a list or on Facebook because they put them on Facebook too so it just ignore everything that he just did yep unless it's there then do the thing yep all right thanks bye