Downtown Memphis Blog

I’m still trying to find a gmail workaround for postie on domains that don’t have SMTP php access, and I was going to post on the site and saw this. Hope it gets it worked out, that’s a cool program.

And yeah, domain change, down all weekend, etc. I’ll update in a few, but I’m making food, as I’ve been staring at code all day instead of eating

I was sitting here at my desk, my girlfriend was sitting in a chair watching TV. We both felt the building shake a bit, enough to make me grab the arms of my desk chair. I got online and found this.

Edit - 5am - WMC 5 reporting it on the morning newscast, nothing on the site yet.

Edit 2 - Associated Press running the story now.

More:

http://jacksonweather.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/earthquake-felt-in-west-tn/

Edit 5:44am - Basically everyone is talking about it now, someone else downtown felt their building sway and stuff too, kinda scary.

And he likes doritos.

A guy I know from a web forum successfully campaigned his school’s board (Pitzer College in California) for official recognition of a Masculinist Coalition to balance the Feminist Coalition, pretty funny stuff.

Here’s the official site of the group.

Here’s a link to the article on Digg.

Never go to the store hungry

I guess you’ll be seeing more cooking posts and less take-out posts.

And like, buy more than one meal worth of food.

I shall return!

If I’m incapable of any quality of life, as in incapable of expressing my thoughts beyond simple yes and no answers, please for the love of god kill me. Seriously. Kill me. Find whatever you can and end me. The ability to use language and tools to a high degree is what seperates us from other animals, (Yeah, animals. I know. It sucks to think that we’re not unique snowflakes, but we’re really no different than any other living, breathing, shitting, fucking, fighting carbon based life forms). If I lose that ability, I implore you to kill me. You’re pissing me off if you don’t. I don’t need anyone to say magic words or anything, just end it. Please.

I’m immortalizing this on my server, backed up on my computer, saved forever in google’s cache, so there’s no doubt. Not only do I not want to be kept alive, I want to be killed. Preferably painlessly and quickly, but anything is better than lying there coherent, but incapable. If I’m fucked, have mercy and kill me and play a Beatles song or something. Oh bla di, oh bla da sounds good, it reminds me of listening to the white album on vinyl in my old house in midtown.
If this is too personal, go fuck yourself. I’m feeling introspective.

-Sig

I saw a story on the news last night about returning vehicle traffic to Main Street, but didn’t really hear it all, did a google search on it today to find out more. According to an article in the Memphis Business Journal, the center city commission is considering once again allowing vehicle traffic on main, primarily to boost exposure to businesses on Main.

I don’t like the idea. I hate to sound like a pessimist, but I doubt that they will be capable of working out a system that doesn’t screw up both the trolleys and vehicle traffic.

The article mentions that the number of pedestrian malls in the US has dropped from 200+ to 20-30. Isn’t that another compelling reason to keep it? I’ve actually read a lot of blogs/reviews/articles that cite the trolleys as a downtown Memphis favorite. Why throw that away?

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2008/apr/15/herenton-to-ask-for-property-tax-hike/

It’s like he’s going out of his way to piss everyone off before leaving office.

from ROFLshirts.com, which I’ve added to my links, because their shirts are indeed rofl.

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