More info on the Shrine Building resident looking for a roommate:\u00a0 It’s Unit 302, and he’s asking for $800 + utilities.\u00a0 Electricity averages about $100, cable about $30.\u00a0 The building has a rooftop, indoor pool, and sauna.\u00a0 He’s looking for someone mature and responsible who can live there about 9-12 months, preferably a male.\u00a0 He doesn’t allow pets because this is a condo and pets can hurt resale value.\u00a0 As I said in an earlier post, the Shrine is right in the heart of the Downtown core and is super convenient to everything.\u00a0 If interested shoot me an e-mail (paul@paulryburn.com) and I’ll pass it along.<\/p>\n
I got an answer as to what the “lose the shoes, find the pickle” slogan for the Mpact holiday party means.\u00a0 It’s an Austrian and German tradition in which a pickle ornament is hidden somewhere on the Christmas tree.\u00a0 Whoever finds the pickle gets a special present.\u00a0 The pickle is hard to find because it’s about the same color as the tree.\u00a0 Those wacky Austrians and Germans.\u00a0 Other Austrian and German traditions include eating schnitzel and losing world wars.<\/p>\n
Want to see a cool place to work?\u00a0 Blogger and tech evanglist Guy Kawasaki recently visited the headquarters of Zappos, a little Internet retail startup that sells shoes and does about a billion a year in revenue.\u00a0 Check out the pictures of their company HQ.<\/a> This is a place I would love to work.\u00a0 Some of it is perhaps a little over the top, such as the dance machine in the lobby, but there is no doubt that you would have to have a big personality to work there.\u00a0 Note that they provide business books to their employees, that they have fun even with trash, and especially note how the employees are dressed.\u00a0 Oh, and note that collaboration spaces are generally not boring conference rooms (although they do have one, for people who expect to see that kind of thing).\u00a0 Why can’t Memphis companies be this interesting?<\/p>\n Still prepping for my 1:15 meeting at the Second Street branch office… I hope the Fire Sale’s good today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More info on the Shrine Building resident looking for a roommate:\u00a0 It’s Unit 302, and he’s asking for $800 + utilities.\u00a0 Electricity averages about $100, cable about $30.\u00a0 The building has a rooftop, indoor pool, and sauna.\u00a0 He’s looking for someone mature and responsible who can live there about 9-12 months, preferably a male.\u00a0 He … Continue reading “Second Wed update: More on Shrine resident seeking roomate, Christmas traditions, and a very cool place to work”<\/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\/2885"}],"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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}