This is stale code, and I'm rewriting it anyway.
Don't needlessly pass all kinds of variables.
Remove try and needless else
Future division needs not your puny floats!
Move blog checks to threads

Now limited to 5 seconds per blog check!
Replace `geordi` with something actually descriptive.
This does not presently work.
May as well rename this, too.
Not using this anymore.

On a related note, this commit makes hflossk python3 compatible.
Merge pull request #199 from decause/feature/blog-check-threads

Feature/blog check threads