I just received an e-mail (excerpt below) that looks to me that I will be receiving a $200 refund on my iPhone 3Gs pre-order from Apple. I originally paid $399 plus taxes and fees since I am one year...
I’ve been bit by a desire to bake and or create treats lately. Last time I got the bug, I ended up with interesting looking cakepops and an overheated kitchen due to using the oven. It is kind of rough...
I'm currently working on a special project that I'm REALLY excited about. Right now it's TOP SECRET, but everyone will hear about it very soon! As many of you would suspect by now, part of the project requires...
I love how summer sometimes feels like one extended weekend. It's official their heads have lifted from the dirt. I watched the seeds form sprouts and then buds and now blooms and it's one of my favorite times of the...
Tennessee’s bestest most mexican-hating, Byron De La Beckwith-loving, anti-gay, anti-Darwin conservative activist is running for governor yet again! Yee-haw!!!
If you haven’t met her yet (didja see her on The Daily Show?), here’s one version:...
The Meaning Makers Consumption-driven wealth and status are being replaced by identity, belonging, and a strong desire to contribute to -- or to experience -- something "meaningful" rather than to acquire more things. Trust and reputation are no longer enablers for...
When your blog’s readership is as small and focused as mine, you start to wonder if anything of “general interest” is really worth posting amidst the glut of specific-interest content. It’s a good thing I like writing anyway, because I’m...
It’s 2 days before I’m supposed to receive my new iPhone 3Gs and things have already started going haywire at AT&T and Apple. I noticed around 9:45 this morning that I had no 3G (or Edge) data connectivity here...
Brian McCann is great, but Chipper Jones is still the Braves’ best hitter when he’s in the lineup. Last week was about as rough as it gets for Chipper, and he was still better than Jeff Francoeur was in Jeff’s...
It's not often that Chattanoogans get to see a film three months before its nationwide theatrical release, but this weekend you'll have that opportunity PLUS the chance to meet the filmmaker! The Arts & Education Council's Back Row Film Series continues...
I used it myself, just yesterday. Keith Parsons employs it in reference to the doctrine of hell. Money quote is this:
Hell is the penalty for disagreeing with Christians!
Broad brush, this. In fact, Christianity has a variety of ideas about hell,...
Photo credit: Larry Miller (licensed via Creative Commons)
As the dust settles from Riverbend 2009, we interviewed Executive Director Chip Baker about the past, present and future of the festival.
Chattarati: Tell us about your role at Friends of the Festival and...
The Chattanooga City Council voted 8-0 to reaffirm an existing ordinance banning guns from city parks during its session, yesterday. The Council vote comes one week after Governor Phil Bredesen signed HB 716 into law—lifting a statewide ban on firearms...
As was previously reported, Jesse Jackson will be at Olivet Baptist Church today to discuss “the effect the new Volkswagen plant will have on the city’s minority community.” He will also discuss “the current economic climate of the Scenic City...
Things have been downright crazy. May was annual evaluation time at work. Evals weren't actually due until the beginning of June, but I was out of town for my MFA residency from May 21 through May 31. (Another thing to...
Mint has a new baby sister! Earlier this morning I released Fever, a cure for the common feed reader. Born of (almost) a decade of accumulating and failing to keep up with hundreds of feeds, Fever is a self-hosted recommendation...
When I was in college, Stevie Ray Vaughan famously didn’t play a concert on my campus. I remember being horribly disappointed — not because I knew who SRV was at the time, but because I attended pretty much all of...
Just to put this out there, I am posting the collection of iPhone apps that I use on a fairly regular (or sometimes not-so-regular) basis. There are 4 pages of apps. I’ll tackle one page at a time....
This morning I read on Facebook this fascinating post from Austin Heap in Ohio. What is happening is history in the making. Twitter and the tech geeks, like Austin Heap, are helping the Iranian students and people subvert the...
Well, I have to admit to some surprise. My stats say a lot of people saw this post, but I only got four contenders for the book. I can only assume that maybe people don’t really read books anymore —...
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