Archive for November, 2007

And we could do “Shakespeare in the Park” in Spanish!

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Via PITW we learn of one man’s quest to make the fairgrounds green.
From some of the discussion I heard during the South Nashville planning process, I fear it’s a quixotic cause for the immediate future, but I applaud and encourage the effort. For some time I’ve envisioned a day when the fairgrounds could become something [...]

Holi-daze

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Well I was totally prepared to wake up yesterday with a raging hangover. I wasn’t prepared for it to be completely eclipsed by a brutal and relentless head cold. Well at least it gives me an excuse to take Nyquil :)
Gah. So yeah I spent most of yesterday wrapped up in a blanket, drinking tea, [...]

Car companies, my lesson for you

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

The following companies lost any chance at getting my recent business due to having websites that are completely dependent on Flash:
Action Nissan
Volvo of Nashville
Toyota (Yes, the whole damn company)
CarSmart
Don’t do that.

Online Furniture Stores, My Gift To You

Sunday, November 11th, 2007

Whichever one of you comes up with a way to search for furniture to fit specific dimensions will have an awesome, possibly patentable edge on your competition. And since most of you seem to have dimensions in your database already, it should be brain dead simple to implement.
No charge for the idea, my reward will [...]

Damnit!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

After a grueling day spent car shopping — I drove all over town, from Bell Meade to Mt Juliet to Franklin, with my car limping along all the while, not sure if it would even make it to the next dealer — no car felt quite right, and one of the damn things even ran [...]