Random thing I heard at the bar this week: In Yuma, Arizona they have huge jackrabbits that run around all over the place the way squirrels do here.<\/p>\n
I finally got to try the Morphy, the new muffuletta pizza at Memphis Chess Club.<\/p>\n
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White sauce, mortadella, ham, pepperoni, green olive + pepper bruschetta, gruyere. The Carlsen is still my fav pizza at MCC, but the Morphy comes in a very close second. Will purchase again.<\/p>\n
FORMER MATH TEACHER PRO TIP: Never get an 8″ pizza at MCC. Come hungry, or bring a friend, and get the 12″ instead. Let’s use the new pizza to illustrate why.<\/p>\n
8″ MORPHY ($14)
\nArea = pi * radius squared
\n= 3.14 * 4 * 4
\n= 50.24
\nPrice per square inch = 14 \/ 50.24
\n= about 28 cents<\/p>\n
12″ MORPHY ($18)
\nArea = pi * radius squared
\n= 3.14 * 6 * 6
\n= 113.04
\nPrice per square inch = 18 \/ 113.04
\n= about 16 cents<\/p>\n
So the 12″ Morphy is nearly twice the value the 8″ is. The math is similar for the other MCC pizzas.<\/p>\n
The Morphy, BTW, is named for 19th-century New Orleans chess player Paul Morphy<\/a>.<\/p>\n NBA commissioner Adam Silver says the Grizzlies are unlikely to move to Nashville<\/a>, although he would like to see them play some games there. LeBron James turned heel on Memphis earlier this month, suggesting a Grizz move to the country music capital.<\/p>\n A bomb threat<\/a> cleared out Bass Pro at the Pyramid yesterday morning.<\/p>\n UK Parliament is considering legislation<\/a> that would ban those born in 2009 or later from purchasing tobacco products FOR LIFE. King Charles is said to support the proposed act. I would be ALL IN for a law like that in the U.S.<\/p>\n Arkansas point guard Darius Acuff Jr. has declared for the NBA draft, where he is considered the number-6 prospect. Go get him, Grizzlies! Spend some future draft picks to trade up if necessary.<\/p>\n The 2026 NFL draft starts tonight with coverage on NFL Network, ESPN, and ABC.<\/p>\n Max’s Sports Bar has its final crawfish & shrimp boil of the season Saturday. Doors at 11 with the first batch out of the cooker at noon.<\/p>\n Front Street Deli now has scratch-made cheddar bread.<\/p>\n Follow Downtown’s new vintage store on Instagram at takos_secondhand<\/a>.<\/p>\n Muddy’s Bake Shop is being sold<\/a> to Belltower Coffee & Studio, which has a booth at Memphis Farmers Market on Saturdays.<\/p>\n Bardog rolled out a new happy hour menu last week. What’s on it?<\/p>\n 5-7 PM weekdays with $1 off draft & domestic beers, wells, and house wine.<\/p>\n Yesterday I spent the night at the Union Mission, where I replaced the jorts with cargo shorts with lots of pockets. Tonight I’m gonna stay out and go see London and Tony at E&H.<\/p>\n Back tomorrow with a Frupdate.<\/p>\n I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Willie Moore’s cafeteria on N. Main near Adams is now offering Willie’s Big Breakfast for $9.99 from 8 AM to noon. That includes 2 meats – choose from bacon, sausage, bologna, smoked sausage, turkey sausage 2 sides – choose from grits, hash browns, toast, pancakes, rice 2 eggs your way Random thing I heard at … 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\/29852"}],"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=29852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29855,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29852\/revisions\/29855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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