Category: Thoughts

Last week American Air started merging the US Air frequent flyer accounts into the American program as the next step of integrating the airlines following their fairly recent combination. My understanding is they are locking the US Air accounts late Thursday or early Friday and moving the data starting Friday morning and continuing through the…

This was another uneventful week. I’m starting to get used to having open weekends during competition season and am starting to enjoy it. This week I’m going to be complimentary toward a couple people and companies. I went to my bank to make a change to an account and open a new one and spoke…

Zeynep Tufekci presented How the Internet has Made Social Change Easy to Organize, Hard to Win as a TED Talk.

The first week of March Madness has come to an end and it’s been a wild one. Of the 11.5 million brackets completed on ESPN, only 1 remained perfect at the start of Saturday. This tournament is all about surviving and winning by 1 on a controversial call or blowing a team out counts the…

Ivan left Memphis this morning. Here are his pictures from the week. My guess is he’d say the bread bowl for soup at McAllister’s was the most intriguing thing he took a picture of.

Last night as I was sitting at Silky’s I looked around and really noticed life is good right now. Ivan was in from Chile and enjoying himself. He had his first Maker’s and Coke, Fireball, green beer, and late night Taco Bell. Tony and Chelsea, who got engaged around Thanksgiving, were there and Chelsea was…

This week Ivan from Chile will be in town. I don’t know what all we’ll do yet, but know we have to get him some Memphis BBQ. With Tuesday being St. Patty’s Day we’ll probably go to Beale Street and get a Diver from Silky’s. He wants to do some cheer stuff, but since that’s…

Erin McKean presented Go Ahead, Make Up New Words! as a TED Talk.

The Kentucky Cheerleading advisor, T. Lynn Williamson, was recently awarded the Sue Feamster Trailblazer Award. Other than that I was snowed in for a couple days, went out to eat with the Deep South crew while they were in Memphis for an event, and learned silk ties and washers don’t get along.

If you haven’t heard anything about what recently happen at the University of Oklahoma you watch the news less than I do and I’m proud of you for it. The rest of us saw a video of some fraternity members chanting a racist chant on a bus followed by quick action by their fraternity and…

The Kentucky basketball team is pursuing perfection. I’m sure every team was, but Kentucky has made it through their regular season without a loss. There were a couple scares, overtimes, and below par performances, but they’ve made it through the first 31 games. For the most part the regular season doesn’t matter. It’s just preparation…