Category: General

I’m a little bit late to the [TextMate][] party. There are many other people who evangelize this piece of software. I’m not going to follow in their footsteps. Instead, I’m going to try to learn from them, and pick up as many tips and techniques as possible to make my TextMate experience enjoyable.This also marks my foray into [Markdown][]. There may be a bit of a learning curve as I try to pick this up. Both TextMate and Markdown should serve this blog well from here on out.

[TextMate]: http://macromates.com “TextMate by MacroMates”
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ “Markdown by John Gruber”

After 75 years, Vandyland is closing it’s doors in June. My mom and I used to spend many an afternoon at Vandyland (then called Candyland) eating a banana split or drinking a milkshake before we headed home. We’d always sit up at the counter so I could talk to Mac and watch him work. I never wanted to leave because we were having such a good time. Plus, leaving meant we had to get on the interstate to head back out to Bellevue. I hated the interstate.

It’s sad to see a Nashville tradition shutting down after all of these years. I’ve been going to Vandyland all my life. I don’t know anything different. I feel like I’m losing a piece of my childhood today. I’ll have to make sure to make a few trips down there before June. If this keeps up, the Nashville of my childhood will be a distant memory.

Tags: Candyland, Nashville, tradition, Diner, Vandyland

Metroblogging Nashville went live this morning. Being a Nashville native, I applied to blog for the site back in September or October of last year. Here’s a direct link to all of my posts to date. I’m feeling more inspired in my blogging now, and hopefully this will translate into better content for both of my blogs.

As you can see, we’ve just made it through the initial ramp up period. We’re sitting on seven bloggers at this moment. Fill out an application if you’re interested in blogging about the “Athens of the South.” We’d love to have you.

Tags: Athens of the South, Blog, Metroblogging, Nashville

In case you haven’t heard (what, do you live on Saturn?), Apple released their new Intel based iMacs and MacBook Pros. Now I won’t burden you with a rant on how shitty the name MacBook is. You can probably read that elsewhere. I will tell you that two listings for G5 iMacs popped up on the Nashville Craigslist site within an hour of the Stevenote. I don’t doubt for a second that these won’t be last to pop up there either. I think now is a good time to buy a G5 iMac. You should be able to get something for a very good value that will last at least 3 years.

Tags: Apple, Craigslist, G5, Intel, Mac, MacBook

My wife and I have been planning on driving down to Atlanta to buy some more of our bedroom furniture from IKEA. Luckily we picked a good time to go. We both received nice sums of cash for Christmas from our respective families, and my wife lucked out in our first ever trip to the Bingo Hall in Blue Ridge, GA. She wasn’t the big winner for the night ($500), but she was the only Bingo for the game she won. Now we have a little extra fundage for our upstairs. That makes this an even better holiday season.

Tags: Bingo, Christmas, IKEA, Luck

My wife and are were talking about driving down to Atlanta to visit with some of our friends down there for the long weekend. We also have a friend from college who’s in a rehab hospital down there after a car accident. Now this is all in doubt because of the insane way gas prices have skyrocketed.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t really want to spend all of my money on gas for a 4-hour trip. I’d like to be able to have some fun while I’m down there. I also don’t want to get in a situation where I’m stuck somewhere without gas. I don’t think there’ll be a shortage, but you never know with the way the local news media across the country is sensationalizing these stories.

With that said, I’d like to think that I’m not going to let something like this affect my plans. This is America, and we do what we God damn please no matter what. I guess I can always rely on the old standby, the credit card.

The past two weeks have been pretty crazy for me. Last week I was down in St. Petersburg, FL at the beach. It wasn’t too crazy down there, but I was away from all things tech. I will post some pictures when I get a chance. I will also try to post a review of my trip to Busch Gradens Florida.

This week has been insane here at work. Too much to do and not enough time to do it. Things should settle down and I’ll return to my normal activity.