{"id":23579,"date":"2020-04-26T07:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T12:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=23579"},"modified":"2020-04-26T07:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T12:34:24","slug":"house-arrest-day-38-should-have-been-wine-race-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/house-arrest-day-38-should-have-been-wine-race-day\/","title":{"rendered":"House arrest day 38 (should have been Wine Race day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was scheduled to be one of the most debaucherous days of the spring, for the Beale Street Wine Race. Featuring a beauty pageant, a grape stomp, a parade, and of course the signature wine relay as well as plenty of Big Ass Beers and Wet Willie&#8217;s Call-a-Cab daiquiris, Wine Race is always eagerly anticipated&#8230; but not this year.<\/p>\n<p>First person who says, &#8220;We can still be debaucherous while staying home and observing proper social distancing&#8221; gets a punch in the throat and a Lysol martini.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Beginning on May 1, the NBA is allowing teams to open their practice facilities to players in cities and states where local governments have eased stay-at-home orders, sources tell ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wojespn\/status\/1254168619761704962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Yo, Handsome Jimbo from Mempho (Strickland, not Valiant, that is), you think you might be able to make an exception for FedExForum in your order requiring gyms to be closed?<\/p>\n<p>As your number-one source of news and information about The Edge District, it is my duty to link you to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/article\/13321\/covid19-field-hospital-memphis-commercial-appeal\">this article<\/a> from the Daily Memphian about the former Commercial Appeal building on Union. It is being converted to a COVID-19 hospital and should be ready to go by May 16. At this point we&#8217;re likely to not need it, but isn&#8217;t it good to have there in case of an emergency?<\/p>\n<p>From MakeUseOf: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/tag\/play-board-games-online\/\">4 ways to play board games online with friends during the quarantine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a good one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tonight&#8217;s Best Team Name winner:<\/p>\n<p>Itzy bitzy teeny weeny let me out of quarantine-ee<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cerritotrivia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cerritotrivia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kevin Cerrito (@cerrito) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cerrito\/status\/1254242463109320707?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>People posting to Nextdoor indicate that dumping on the north end of Mud Island continues to be a problem. Items ranging from furniture to satellite dishes have been found there. If you need to dispose of large items, please take them to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wastebits.com\/locator\/location\/north-shelby-landfill\">landfill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to check the Memphis Flyer music blog for a list of live music events <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memphisflyer.com\/MusicBlog\/archives\/2020\/04\/23\/the-flow-live-streamed-music-events-this-week-april-24-29\">streaming<\/a> online. A new list is published every Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>I found a useful site last week that I thought I&#8217;d share: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlineocr.net\/\">Online OCR<\/a>. You upload images of text, and it converts them into Word format. Other output formats are possible as well.<\/p>\n<p>I found this site after re-reading several hardcover and paperback books I bought between 15 and 20 years ago. It was a pleasure to get back to them, but I realized they lacked two features I rely on in modern books (every book I&#8217;ve purchased the last 11 years has been done as a Kindle book): the ability to search the text of the book, and the ability to read them on my phone. So I&#8217;ve been using Online OCR to scan a few of my books page by page and re-create them as Word documents. I already paid for the books, and it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m sharing them on a torrent site or anything; I&#8217;m just making them more useful to me as the owner.<\/p>\n<p>The Rusty Pieces are back with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/910789889378788\/\">live stream<\/a> this Thursday. I will be listening.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Red Machine!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Mayors of Knoxville &amp; Knox County are working on a plan to open some businesses May 1st, which would be in-line with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovBillLee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovBillLee<\/a>\u2019s reopening plan. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InThisTogether?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InThisTogether<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EOdqzmIYeL\">https:\/\/t.co\/EOdqzmIYeL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joyce Peterson (@MemphoNewsLady) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MemphoNewsLady\/status\/1254217880020881415?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tea Pain wins the Internet with this comment on Disinfectant Donnie:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If we want Trump to lower flags to half-mast, we\u2019ll have to wait till Kim Jong Un dies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeaPainUSA\/status\/1254213506947264518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 26, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now being reported that Captain Clorox is considering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-coronavirus-briefings-1500256\">canceling<\/a> the daily White House coronavirus briefings. &#8220;What is the purpose?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this post. Back later today, or tomorrow, with more news.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was scheduled to be one of the most debaucherous days of the spring, for the Beale Street Wine Race. Featuring a beauty pageant, a grape stomp, a parade, and of course the signature wine relay as well as plenty of Big Ass Beers and Wet Willie&#8217;s Call-a-Cab daiquiris, Wine Race is always eagerly anticipated&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/house-arrest-day-38-should-have-been-wine-race-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;House arrest day 38 (should have been Wine Race day)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23581,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23579\/revisions\/23581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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