I’ll start this lunchtime blog post with a gift suggestion for the Grizzlies fan in your life: A Tony Allen “All Heart, Grit, Grind” hoodie. The Chris Vernon Show started selling this logo as a T-shirt last spring, and it was a massive success. Now he has the logo on a limited amount of hoodies. Go here to see the hoodie and to order.
Seth who writes the Best Memphis Burger blog stopped by Kooky Canuck recently and gave their Four Cheese Burger a try. He really liked it and gave it 4.5 stars out of 5, although he said it’s “more like a 4.8999.” Read the review here. I agree about the Four Cheese Burger. Usually I’ll add either mushrooms or bacon as a topping, depending on my mood.
Envision Health Club and Spa, the health club on the top floor of the Cadre Building at Second and Monroe, has their second annual holiday open house tomorrow from 5 to 8. Food and drink, music by the Allied Standard. Given that they’re a health club, they usually have some healthy (and tasty) treats. Free food? Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.
The Memphis Newspaper Guild, the union to which many Commercial Appeal employees belong, has learned that nine CA employees will be laid off. Actually, the number may be more than nine, because they were not notified about non-guild employees. More info about the layoffs on Mediaverse. The layoffs will occur 5 days before Christmas. Way to stay classy, CA. If I were a CA employee (even one who survived the layoffs) I’d get my resume current and put feelers out about other job opportunities in my field. Not a real stable place to work IMO. The new paywall may destabilize things further.
Forecast for tonight is upper 20s with patchy freezing fog late. That means everyone needs to be extremely careful driving to work in the morning. Freezing fog is as dangerous as freezing rain – actually more so because people don’t see any precip falling and don’t think to slow down. I remember when I worked in Arkansas, and I took the Riverside-I-40 on-ramp at 50 as normal (sign suggests to slow to 25) and my car fish-tailed all over the place and I missed the concrete wall by less than two feet. I later found out it was freezing fog. Freezing fog also recently caused a 50-car pileup near Nashville.
Flipboard for the iPhone was released this morning. I’d heard great things about it from iPad owners, who told me it was a way to keep track of news and social media updates in a visually appealing format. I downloaded the app, but couldn’t create a custom Flipboard – nor could thousands of others. The increased traffic crashed their servers. Scalability fail! I hope they get it working soon, because I am eager to play with the app.
All right, lunchtime. Will be out somewhere tonight, not sure where.