Midnight Cheese

In 4 short months, Follow Friday on Twitter has morphed from a great way to showcase interesting people, to a gluttonous spamfest now resulting in people jamming as many screennames as possible into 140 characters over and over again all day long.

Follow Friday needs to get back to its roots. Choose ONE interesting person, post their name, and explain WHY they are worth following. That’s it.

Remember: ONE interesting person per Friday and explain WHY.

P.S. Also, as an aside, rambling about your personal health problems is the quickest way to garner an unfollow. No one wants to read that. No one.

We’ve had a very active weather event today in the Middle Tennessee area. Using the traffic widget we happened to watch the Murfreesboro tornado pass over I-24 in real time. We hope everyone is safe this afternoon.

Update: Just wanted to add this clip from WKRN as the tornado passed over I-24. It’s a devastating situation down there. Pay attention to the local news if you have to be down there or are looking for ways to help.

This story starts with a terrible experience using Amazon.com, and ends with a wonderful outcome at the local record store.

I was making an Amazon purchase and decided to throw in the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album. Well, after everything was all said and done I was going to end up paying $10.50 in shipping for a $9.99 CD. This was after I had to call into customer service on the phone to have my password reset. (Another rant for another day.)

So I knew anyone local could beat $20.49 for a CD. I went down to Grimeys, paid $14 with tax and ended up with an EP that came with it.