{"id":28411,"date":"2025-02-20T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28411"},"modified":"2025-02-20T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T15:49:20","slug":"thursday-update-330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/20\/thursday-update-330\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 11 degrees F outside as I type this. Feels like -4. I wonder how many people’s cars won’t start this morning?<\/p>\n

The roads I walked Downtown this morning are in good shape. Ice patches here and there.<\/p>\n

The official total for Memphis for this week’s winter storm is 1.6 inches<\/a> combined sleet and snow.<\/p>\n

The NBA all-star break is over and the Grizzlies are back in action at Indiana tonight at 6. TV: FanDuel Sports<\/p>\n

It’s National Cherry Pie Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/xai-memphis\/elon-musk-finally-reveals-why-memphis-for-xai-supercomputer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk finally explained<\/a> why his company xAI chose Memphis to locate its new supercomputer. Time was of the essence and the Electrolux building was empty and available.<\/p>\nGroove on Demand rideshare will be closed again today.<\/p>\nThe Grizzlies will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/grizzlies\/news\/tony-allen-jersey-retirement-ceremony-on-march-15-presented-by-robinhood-culminates-celebration-of-grizzlies-legend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retire<\/a> Tony Allen’s number 9 jersey on March 15. A documentary film about Allen, “Tony Allen: The Grindfather,” will be released on YouTube March 6.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannoncenter.com\/events\/cannon-center\/yo-yo-ma-memphis-symphony-orchestra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yo-Yo Ma<\/a>, backed by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, comes to the Cannon Center Tuesday.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmandginshow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mid-South Farm and Gin Show<\/a> will be back at the Renasant Convention Center at the end of this month.<\/p>\nMake-a-Wish Mid-South presents <a href=\"https:\/\/downtownmemphis.com\/do\/wine-for-wishes-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wine for Wishes<\/a> at the Cadre Building Friday night.<\/p>\nThat’s it, back tomorrow.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em> \nVenmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits) \nCash App: $PaulRyburn1 \nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com \nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s 11 degrees F outside as I type this. Feels like -4. I wonder how many people’s cars won’t start this morning? The roads I walked Downtown this morning are in good shape. Ice patches here and there. The official total for Memphis for this week’s winter storm is 1.6 inches combined sleet and snow. … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/20\/thursday-update-330\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading “Thursday update”<\/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\/28411"}],"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=28411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28412,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28411\/revisions\/28412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}