The Memphis application for Google Fiber will be submitted today at noon. If you’re on Twitter, please tweet at noon to wish Memphis luck, and include the #memphisgoogle hashtag.<\/p>\n
Pat Summitt, coach of the UT Lady Vols and the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, will be the honorary Duckmaster today at 5 PM at the Peabody. The team is in town for the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship playoffs, which will take place at the FedExForum March 26-29.<\/p>\n
It may surprise people to hear me say this, but… go Lady Vols! I’m not normally a fan of the University of Tennessee. Their fans suck, their football team is a bunch of underachievers, and their men’s basketball coach is the second biggest douchebag in college sports. Pat Summitt, however, is undeniably a legend. It’s impossible to not have respect for someone with so many accomplishments in her field. So women’s basketball is the one sport for which I root for UT.<\/p>\n
Wondering what the health bill will mean for you? The Washington Post has a calculator<\/a> where you can input your income, marital status, age, and number of dependents, and it will tell you what health care reform will mean for you. I put my info in, and it told me there would be no change in my insurance or tax status. Just for kicks, I decided to see what would happen if my company gave me a 100% raise. Still no change in my taxes.<\/p>\n Everyone knows I’m a fan of the hard rockin’ teenage band the Young Guns. They’ll play the Hard Rock this Saturday, March 27, along with Brittany Russell & The Trunk Monkeys, and The Summers.<\/p>\n MIFA<\/a> is having its 11th annual Day of Reflection and Service this Saturday. Join them in their parking lot at 910 Vance at 9:30 for a complimentary breakfast, and at 10 Mayor Wharton will speak. Sponsored by ServiceMaster. Event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n Beale Street tweeted that starting next week, you’ll have two options for breakfast on Beale: Miss Polly’s Chicken and Waffles, and Lil’ Anthony’s Cafe Breakfast and Soul Food. Follow the street at @BealeStreetMphs for the latest updates.<\/p>\n Plans for tonight: Going to talk websites and iPhone apps over a beer at the Saucer tonight after work, then will head south for South Main Trolley Night.<\/p>\n More to come this weekend: Info on the Madison rooftop parties for April, and a Grizzlies deal for Downtowners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Memphis application for Google Fiber will be submitted today at noon. If you’re on Twitter, please tweet at noon to wish Memphis luck, and include the #memphisgoogle hashtag. Pat Summitt, coach of the UT Lady Vols and the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, will be the honorary Duckmaster today at 5 PM at … Continue reading “Fri update: Memphis Google, Summitt as duckmaster, Youn Guns, MIFA Day of Service, breakfast on Beale, and more”<\/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\/6192"}],"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=6192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6192\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}