Paul Ryburn’s Journal

A great South Main Association meeting at Local Gastropub last night. Here are my notes:
Reginald Milton, a Democrat running for County Commission District 2, Position 3 spoke for a minute. He’s the founder and executive director of a different SMA, the South Main Alliance, which has been helping women and children for the [...]

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I have pages and pages of notes from the SMA meeting last night, but there’s no way I can get them typed in a 45 minute lunch break, especially since I want to go pick up lunch from the Italian Rebel. Meeting summary will be up tonight after work. Meanwhile, here are a couple of [...]

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Mayor AC Wharton has posted a blog on how you can help Memphis’ application for Google Fiber. If selected, we could end up with reasonably-priced fiber-optic Internet access that is 300 times faster than typical cable/DSL connections. If selected, Google will take the connection to every home and every business partner of the [...]

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One of my favorite iPhone apps is FourSquare, which allows me to “check in” and tell my friends where I am. When you check in, you can leave a “tip” to improve others’ experience at those places. For example, I might leave a tip saying “try the West Coast Burger” when I check in at [...]

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Yummy, yummy, for the tummy:  The South Main Association meeting will be tonight at Local Gastropub, on Main Street in the old Sauces location.  Social at 6, meeting at 6:30.  Local will provide complimentary hors d’oeuvres for SMA members.  Free food?  Wonder if the Nuh-Uh Girl will show up.  There will also be a cash [...]

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I went to Pint Nite at the Saucer tonight.  They now have New Belgium Sunshine Wheat, a new beer, on tap as well as Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat, which they’ve had for years.
Oh poor Brick.  She’ll never be able to keep these beers straight.

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Not much to report today, since I had a lot of news in yesterday evening’s post.
Here’s an article from WikiHow that shows you how to make a fun appetizer for your next party – candied bacon.
If you hung out at Club Six-1-Six in the 1990s, you may be interested to know that DJ David the [...]

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48 Hour Launch happened this weekend.  This is a weekend workshop in which participants launch a new business, including all aspects such as putting together funding, writing a business plan, putting together marketing, and putting up a website.  Although I didn’t get to attend 48 Hour Launch, I followed the project on Twitter and Facebook, [...]

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The latest bracketology update on ESPN.com (as of 11 PM last night) now shows the Memphis Tigers going to the big dance via automatic bid.   We’re third from last in, with San Diego State and Arizona State behind us.  UAB is out.  Of course, we can make our own luck by winning the C-USA [...]

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It’s Saturday night, and I made it past the stroke of midnight.  Which means, it’s actually Sunday morning, and time for a new “Brick” Quote of the Week.
Brick was working this evening.  She came over and told me that she was tired and ready to leave.  I’m glad she did that, because I needed clarification [...]

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