{"id":857,"date":"2007-03-10T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=857"},"modified":"2007-03-10T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T20:26:00","slug":"saturday-update-march-madness-on-demand-memphis-discount-dining-adds-new-restaurants-new-better-bigger-deal-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/saturday-update-march-madness-on-demand-memphis-discount-dining-adds-new-restaurants-new-better-bigger-deal-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday update: March Madness on Demand, Memphis Discount Dining adds new restaurants, new Better, Bigger Deal posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; The NCAA will be offering 56 March Madness tournament games on demand for free online starting next Thursday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaasports.com\/mmod\">Sign up for a VIP pass<\/a> now to get to the front of the line for viewing&#8230; once the VIP passes run out, you may be forced to wait in line for bandwidth to become available before you can view your game.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve done this for several years now&#8230; it&#8217;s a good deal for people who have interest in out-of-area teams who might not be covered regionally, and for people who want to watch basketball at work Thursday and Friday.  For those of you who have used the on-demand viewer in previous years, this year it has a larger screen, at 480 x 360.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; About a dozen new restaurants have been added to <a href=\"http:\/\/discount-dining.biz\/memphis\">Memphis Discount Dining<\/a>, where you can buy $25 gift certificates to those restaurants for $10.  Those new restaurants include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cafe Society<\/li>\n<li>The original <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Gus&#8217;s Fried Chicken<\/span> in Oakland, TN, as featured in GQ Magazine.  Unfortunately the certificates aren&#8217;t valid at the Downtown location<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Interim Restaurant and Bar<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jim&#8217;s Place Grille<\/span> in Collierville<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">King Biscuit Diner<\/span> in Cordova<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">McEwen&#8217;s on Monroe<\/span> &#8211; great date place!  Great wine selection!<\/li>\n<li>River Oaks<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Sawaddii<\/span> &#8211; excellent Thai food<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Smoky Mountain Cafe<\/span>, Millington<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Whittington&#8217;s Cafe<\/span>, Bartlett<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Yazoo&#8217;s<\/span>, Bartlett<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;ve made two new posts to my other blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.better-bigger-deal.com\/\">A Better, Bigger Deal<\/a>.  One is a DVD sale, with about 100 DVDs on sale for $6 each (I saw The Wedding Singer on the list, for example).  The other is a $30 instant-savings promotion at Office Depot.  <span style=\"color:rgb(255, 255, 51);\">(Edited to add:  There&#8217;s also a new post about a 50&#8243; plasma TV)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I&#8217;m back in Memphis&#8230; arrived back in town about 9:30 last night.  Didn&#8217;t go out though&#8230; my allergies kicked in, and I&#8217;m once again taking a Claritin-D clone (which I&#8217;ve named Krogeritin-D).  So Crackhead Paul is back for the spring.  My mother is home in Little Rock and recovering well from her illness.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sunny and 70 outside&#8230; got a little business to take care of, but I&#8217;m going to get it done as quickly as possible and go outside.  I bet Beale Street and the surrounding area will be fun this afternoon, since the Conference USA tournament crowd will be out by about 1:00.  <span style=\"color:rgb(255, 255, 51);\">(Edited to add: Pam &amp; Terry on the King&#8217;s Palace patio, 1-4 PM today)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; The NCAA will be offering 56 March Madness tournament games on demand for free online starting next Thursday. Sign up for a VIP pass now to get to the front of the line for viewing&#8230; once the VIP passes run out, you may be forced to wait in line for bandwidth to become available &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/saturday-update-march-madness-on-demand-memphis-discount-dining-adds-new-restaurants-new-better-bigger-deal-posts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday update: March Madness on Demand, Memphis Discount Dining adds new restaurants, new Better, Bigger Deal posts&#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\/857"}],"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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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