Paul Ryburn’s Journal

Tonight I went to the Mpact Memphis/Volunteer Memphis Non-Profit Expo, where over 75 non-profits handed out information and recruited volunteers. As I turned onto Cherry Road and made the last leg of my drive to the Botanic Center, I thought, “It’s 5:35, only 5 minutes after the event started. I bet there’s no one [...]

I’m finding myself a bit annoyed with my fellow members of the human race this morning.

First of all, I arrived at work, nearly done with my current project, just needed to figure out why a few items aren’t being saved to the database. As you know, I work in Cubicle World, in a big room [...]

I’m in the process of setting up a second blog – not a replacement for this one, but a blog I will write in addition to this one. I’ve done it before… as many of you remember, from April to December of last year I had a second blog, then gave it up. This [...]

Gotta clarify something… I promote a lot of events in my blog, but unless I say I WILL BE THERE it doesn’t necessarily mean I will be there. Last night I had people asking me, “why weren’t you at the State of the Union Party at Sleep Out Louie’s? You talked about it [...]

The Commercial Appeal reports that two crack houses were shut down in the 300 block of Abel yesterday. The inhabitants of these houses were breaking into cars around downtown, particularly during events that brought heavy traffic to the area. They were then selling what they stole in order to buy drugs.

Abel is the street [...]

Today and tomorrow I’m in class at Quilogy out near Mt. Moriah and Kirby Parkway. The city schools sent me out there to take a 2-day course on the new features in ASP.NET 2.0, so we can quickly get up to speed on cutting-edge programming. It’s a great class and I’m enjoying it. [...]

He’s demanding that this be posted. “It’s a once in a blue moon occurrence, and a blue moon occurred twice today.” Referring to NTN Trivia at Sleep Out Louie’s.

Now we’re all at the Saucer and Blue Moon is the Fire Sale. Also, Mikey says hello.

Obviously we’re [...]

I just added the Shopping links section. To see it, scroll down and look at the left menu pane. I’m going to start the Shopping section small and build it over time, so there are only 5 links so far. I’ve tried to add links that downtowners can appreciate.

AbsintheSupply.com is the place to [...]

The local chapter of Drinking Liberally is hosting a watch party for George W. Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. The party will be held at Sleep Out Louie’s, on Union Avenue between Front and Main downtown, and will start at 7 PM. Convenient parking is available across the street at Parking [...]

Here’s a link to a video on the history of Dyer’s (205 Beale) and how their hamburgers are prepared. Dyer’s deep-fried burgers, fried in 90+ year-old grease, are some of the best burgers [...]