In a blog post Wednesday, Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) said it’s exploring plans to lay down the special cables in nine metro areas: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh-Durham, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and San Jose. That includes 34 cities in those regions.
Nine metro areas and thirty-four cities in those regions–so, the numbers suggest that the entire “greater Nashville” area of middle Tennessee may be covered.
Peter Osnos writing at The Atlantic:
Ultimately, that distinction is still very much up for grabs, but the leader so far among the start-ups seems to be Oyster, a company that launched its app last September for use on iOS devices (iPhones and iPads, with Android in development) and almost immediately was touted as a significant new factor in this incipient market.
“Hi, I’d like to go to the hotel please.”
“Vende je suis de femme le soir.”
(this time, in a heavy french accent) “I would liiiike… to gooooo….. to zee hotelllll.”
–Steve Martin, “A Wild and Crazy Guy” (1978).
(Photo via @SteveMartinToGo on Twitter)
Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen reporting at ESPN.com:
Ken Whisenhunt has accepted an offer to become the next coach of the Tennessee Titans, the team announced Monday.
“This is a big day for this franchise,” Titans president/CEO Tommy Smith said in a statement. “Ken is a well-respected coach in this league and I am looking forward to seeing his vision become reality for this team.”
Paul Kuharsky:
So Mike Munchak’s choice boiled down to this: lose his job as head coach of the Tennessee Titans or fire a large contingent of assistant coaches in exchange for an extension and raise.
He chose Option A, and it’s understandable.
Indeed it is. Read on.
The biggest thing is, if president and CEO Tommy Smith and Webster were telling Munchak which coaches he had to fire, they would have certainly expected to approve those he went on to hire.
That would have effectively neutered Munchak going forward no matter his salary or length of his deal.
As Bill Parcells once aptly said, “They want you to cook the dinner; at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries, ok?”
There was no decision. Munchak had to decline.
Don’t get me wrong — I’m not saying that keeping Munchak would have been best for the Titans. But I am saying that the organization really gave him no choice — they only gave him the appearance of a choice.
Paul Kuharsky writing at ESPN.com:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Titans fired coach Mike Munchak, the Hall of Fame offensive lineman who’s been with the franchise for more than 30 years, on Saturday.
“This is a day I hoped would never come, but there is a reason for everything,” Munchak said in a statement. “Words cannot express the sadness for leaving this organization that I have been a part of for over 30 years.
“My goal as head coach was to do things the right way with the right people and I felt confident that the results would follow. Sometimes rebuilding a team and its culture takes time, but I truly believe we were on the verge of great things. Unfortunately my vision did not match that of the organization, so we will part ways.”
This film as been getting some very impressive notices on the festival circuit. Can’t wait to see it.
Directed by Teller (his feature debut) and produced and narrated by Penn Jillette, the documentary “Tim’s Vermeer” tells the true story of Tim Jenison, an inventor who created digital editing and computer animation tools that helped revolutionize the video industry. The film shows how Jenison turned his inquisitive mind and visual expertise to unravelling a mystery that has confounded art historians for nearly 350 years: How did Johannes Vermeer, the 17th century Dutch Master, create the most realistic paintings the world had ever seen.
Perhaps the best clip from Season 1 of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central: Ashley Magdalene.
With my husband so busy running a gay rehab center, it’s important to me to cheat with someone who shares my Christian values.
— “Amy”, Stay-at-home wifeI live in the woods with my wife and nine children and I just want to meet another guy in my same situation. Nothing sexual. I just want to hang out like dudes. Maybe measure each other’s pigs.
— Joe Bill, ?????
Guy Branum, “No More Mr. Nice Gay” on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, 11/12/2013:
It’s not about trying to hurt Orson Scott Card’s business, it’s about gay people remembering that we don’t have to accept disrespect. Think about it this way: do you know that place in your town that makes amazing sandwiches and you have to wait in line for like twenty minutes because Anthony Bourdain did a segment about it in 2008? Well imagine you go to that place with all your friends, they all get delicious sandwiches, but on your order the cook adds just a little tiny dollop of shit. You’d wonder why everyone else got the Bourdain but you have to have the dookie special. So you try to enjoy your sandwich just like everybody else, but each time you go back you still get a little bit of butt guacamole. You might start to think there was something about you that made that kind of blatant disrespect reasonable; you might think you deserved it. You would stop going – not because you’re trying to hurt their business, not because you’re trying to make a grand political point, but because you are tired of eating shit sandwiches. Orson Scott Card, you wrote about the future, but your ideas are stuck in the past, and at this point a world where it’s OK to hate gays isn’t science fiction – it’s history.
The story of Batkid is unbelievably heart-warming. Bravo, San Franciscans!
Coordinated by the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Miles’ escapade was complete with donated Lamborghinis that were turned into Batmobiles, a personal call from Police Chief Greg Suhr asking for help, and a live television broadcast kicking off the adventure.
