Author: Andre

Looking back, the summer of 1995 may have inadvertently been the most influential summer of my life. It started with graduating high school and heading to Memphis for UCA work week with 9 of us, Doug, myself, and 7 girls, packed into 2 cars. Midway through work week one of the girls concluded staff wasn’t…

Christmas week involved a 70s sorority party, a trip to Florida, and lots of food, including trying Poutine for the first time.

Merry Christmas to all my family, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances. May your day be filled with fun and food surrounded by those you care about. Also, Merry Christmas to all those that serve and protect, with or without a uniform.

Eating, Drinking, and Being Merry, all things I excel at. When I think about the past couple months, maybe a year, maybe a couple years, so many of the best memories are eating and drinking with family and friends. I think about Chris and I cooking at home. I think about Joe, Scott, Tony, and…

Since I’ll be traveling home for Christmas today directing everyone toward USA Today’s The Most Annoying Types of Airline Passengers are … article seems appropriate.

Cindy Gallop presented Make Love, Not Porn as a TED Talk. This talk contains adult content.

This week started off with tuna tacos, progressed to smoked maple pork chops, and ended with brown sugar glazed salmon. Somehow there wasn’t a competition in the middle.

Happy Hanukkah everyone.

The past few months have been something. I tried to think of a better word than “something” and Adventure, Strange, Unique and a couple others ran through my mind, but none, including “something” really hit the mark. This stretch of life has included international trips to Australia (Part 2 and Part 3), Chile (Part 2),…

I’m venting. I’ve documented testing pre-release versions of WordPress since prior to 3.1 being released in February 2011, coming in at either the Beta or Release Candidate (RC) phase depending the version of WordPress. This release cycle, for the upcoming version 4.1 of WordPress, has annoyed me to the point of reconsidering testing pre-release versions…

This week started with grilled salmon and wine, ended with a salad, and has an Usher concert in between. Monday night concerts are a terrible idea and Beale Street after is a worse idea, but I’m sure I’ll repeat this mistake next year.

Rolling Stone published then retracted A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA. The article was an account of Jackie being gang raped at a fraternity house and the response by those around her. Putting it mildly, it’s an ugly story, compounded by the retraction due to “discrepancies in Jackie’s…

Last week started with smoking a pork tenderloin and Thanksgiving at the Peabody. It finished with a great trip to Costa Rica and Tony popping the question to Chelsea. Congrats guys!

Clint Smith presented The Danger of Silence as a TED Talk.

I recently received 2 emails I’d classify as unprofessional, but for different reasons. The first was from a choreographer soliciting business. My first problem with the email is that it was a forwarded email. I could tell because it was indented with a blue line next to it, see the picture if you don’t know…