According to today’s Times Free Press article, the city will be marketing itself with the new slogan, “A great city by nature.”
Bob Doak, director of the Chattanooga Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, said his agency has a new message...
"If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all...
It’s so hard to believe that they are already seven weeks old. The time has flown, but has somehow dragged at times too. It’s been a very busy day for us, but it has been good. The...
What is Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell planning next? Will he attempt to follow Phil Bredesen's path to the Governor's mansion, as some have speculated? Well, this afternoon, someone on a Metro Nashville computer searched the web for 'purcell senate tn'....
I just ran across this flickr group for HDR (high dynamic range) imaging (a photograpy technique made possible by computers and digital photography). Some of the images are absolutely breathtaking. more from this photographermore HDR photography I gotta get a better camera... ...
so i got this blog to be involved in discussions online in the chattanooga community, and not necessarily because i have some valuable wisdom i wish to impart upon readers. however, i figured i need to at least have a...
(Rudy Giuliani) By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, New York Times Published: February 25, 2007 WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — "A group of influential Christian conservatives and their allies emerged from a private meeting at a Florida resort this month dissatisfied with the Republican presidential...
and it was sunny for awhile, and then today the cold rain came. The weather was perfect for everything : for walking, painting the house, playing in the grass and bathing in the beer cooling tub. Behind us...
"It all sort of reminds me that things have become a mega-miniature James Joyce-like stream of fragments and fractals, mash-ups of memories and moments blended to make some easily-digested smoothie of experience." -- Joe Powell Say, that reminds me: I'll be...
On his new blog for The Guardian, James Murphy (of LCD Soundsystem) shares his nascent passion for Ultimate Fighting. He's not just watching; he's training....
“If Christianity is about anything, it is about forgiveness. Christianity is not about getting better. It is not about tips and techniques to help you yell at your children less, become financially secure, or become more fulfilled in life. And...
I started a second job 2 weeks ago; so I'm working 60 hours a week. Between this job and my primary job my off days are Friday evening, Saturday morning/afternoon and all day Sunday. I work from 7-11 M-Th and...
As you know, Ashley has her own room at my house; however, she never sleeps in it. She'll play in it by herself with the door closed, but won't sleep in there by herself. Well, she said if I got...
I want to set the record straight. I don’t pay for music. In the last 2 years I’ve purchased less than 10 CD’s. But I download about 1 new record a week. I get them from friends, mp3 blogs, torrents,...
I have a new fear... fear that Fuller's afternoon naps may be transitioning into quiet time. Recently Fuller has been acting less and less tired at the 2 pm mark, the time that I try to put him down for...
I have used Python for quite a while, and one of the best reasons for using it when I started was its incredible standard library. Everything I could think of to write was fairly easy because the necessary functions were...
Yet, O my soul supreme! Know’st thou the joys of pensive thought? Joys of the free and lonesome heart—the tender, gloomy heart? Joy of the solitary walk—the spirit bowed yet proud—the suffering and the...
Now various music execs are accusing Apple's DRM of hurting the biz. This just a few weeks after Jobs said he'd drop DRM if these same execs would let him. Yeah, this is a lot more fun than anything the...
Over on my Parenting Sites 411 blog, I wrote about cooking with kids and linked to a really fun site, Spatulatta. Fuller is really enjoying "helping" in the kitchen. He really wants to stir things and yesterday I let him...
My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning, and, when I confront him, he denies everything. What's worse, everyone knows that he cheats on me. It is so humiliating. Also, since he lost...
I had another strange dream. As with the last, I'm able to figure how it relates to my waking life--at least partially. For the past couple of weeks, I'd been mentioning to my housemates how much I'd like to...
I had another strange dream. As with the last, I'm able to figure how it relates to my waking life--at least partially.
For the past couple of weeks, I'd been mentioning to my housemates how much I'd like to...
Both GSC East teams got past their West division opponents in yesterday’s first-round games at the GSC Tournament in Southaven. Alabama-Huntsville edged Delta State 74-69 in the early evening game, advancing to face Henderson State on Friday. West Georgia took...
In Cleveland, there are stories of a mythological beast - so heinous, so devoid of joy and life that he has come to be known only as The Deflater. Imagine being at a great party. You’re having the time of...
IM000731 Originally uploaded by SkipGienapp. It was time for a change from the long, curly hair, and THIS is the direction we went? Okay, everybody with a little boy at one time or another has...
It certainly got my attention when I scrolled through my news feeds and saw a headline from Knoxville TV station WBIR's website that read "TN Guardsman on border patrol receives letter from employer threatening job loss." What conclusions would that make...
Arthur Schlesinger had a heart attack while having dinner with his family last night, and died at the hospital a little later. Historian, speech writer, author, and a proud liberal, even while the media has tried to turn "liberal" into...
Telephone singin, ringin, it's too early Don't Pick it up We don't need to...We got everything we need right here And everything we need is enoughIt's just so easy When the whole world fits inside of your arms Do we...
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