I've felt like being silent lately. Churning thoughts and letting seeds find purchase and make their way from my head to my heart and from my heart to my head. I have felt the way this song sounds, if...
I have recently begun working on an organization called Me Importa Guatemala, an organization who seeks to pull together all the isolated efforts in Guatemala to move our nation from its current environment of impunity, injustice and fear to an...
What a wonderful day I had today. I worked on finishing Shayne's Lapis Inlay Ring at John's and presented Shayne with my first man ring. He has always said he would wear a ring when my skills got up to...
Here is an opinion piece that I submitted to the Chattanoogan, but it never got published. It was in response to sheriff Tim Gobble opinion piece entitled Sheriff Gobble Looking Forward Maybe it was a bit harsh, and...
So, look who’s trying to impress the ladies!
If you have time, you’ll find a lot more creatures on the modulator’s ark over the weekend. Now that we’re past the holiday and the weather is starting to get a little milder,...
Well, RW sure picked a fine sore spot with me for a topic of conversation. Fact is, I’ve been so upset about this one topic since yesterday that it is the main reason I didn’t come up with anything...
Through a kaleidoscopic lens of time past, I can see their aura of expectancy and certainty: they had big dreams, those two, and they were going to strike gold on the corner of Milledge and Woodlawn. Reason never wins an argument with...
It looks like Mother Nature will be on our side, so get off your couch and out of the house this weekend. Here’s a smattering of what’s going on in Chattanooga:
Topping the list is the 4 Bridges Arts Festival on...
A little late in getting this one on the books… Short and sweet.
Warm Up = 3 rounds of:
10 Over Head Squats (OHS)
10 Sit Ups
10 Back Extensions
10 Ring Dips
10 Pull Ups
then “Elizabeth” :
21-15-9 reps of
135 lb clean
Ring Dips
I should have...
However, I would consider attending the annual "Coon Supper" held by longtime former state House speaker Jimmy Naifeh (even though I'm not his biggest fan, by any means), just to witness the goings-on. Fortunately, several friends in the 'sphere were there....
What horror must have mocked our Parents
With the Death so recent wrought,
When blood and bowels and stench wreaked
From the lamb for clothing bought.
These easy days we sing in rapture
Of the blood of Savior Blest;
But if we had stood beneath the...
With 4 Bridges Art Festival opening tomorrow, spring has made a timely arrival in Chattanooga. These Frazier Avenue shoppers are the season's first to wear sundresses for The Chattanoogan....
Back in 2006 I created (but never released) PXR, a pixel-based alternative to IFR. I built a tool that could convert specially prepared gifs into a format that could then be used by the PXR JavaScript to generate and layout...
Sometimes I think the "Namers" of states and cities were just plain lazy; or maybe they just knew a few letters of the alphabet so they used them over and over. For example:
Mississippi--Two pair of S's, a pair of P's...
Chattarati created a page this week for readers to interact with the site via Facebook. If you use the social network, please visit, and add us as a friend. You can also recommend the Chattarati Page to your friends on...
Baseball, with its seemingly endless stream of numbers and lengthy season, presents ample opportunities to share many types of data. In an effort to keep presenting that data in new and interesting ways, I will strive to post one new...
I've donated by space in the blogosphere to the re post of an interesting post by the General Overseer(head honcho/big cheese) of the Church of God, Cleveland, TN, today. Here is a link to his stuff.What's interesting about this post...
(Domino; 2009)
The title of Animal Collective’s new album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, is an homage to a concert venue just off I-95 in Columbia, Maryland, a short drive from the band’s childhood home of Baltimore. This spacious outdoor amphitheater, which holds...
prem rawat / Maharaji, originally uploaded by theypi.net.A good friend gave me a free video of this amazing speaker about peace. This is an area that I have been working on personally for the last year in a major way....
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