First lets establish what a QR code is: You’ve seen them on everything from storefront windows to magazine articles. They are two dimensional bar codes that you can scan with a smart phone to get more information about something. It doesn’t have to be but they are most often simply a website address. So in [...]
Last week I had a long extended visit to Charlotte over the Independence Day holiday weekend. This weekend I had to take a very short and unexpected trip back to Charlotte again. I had to do some testing at a workplace that shall not be mentioned. I tried to do it last weekend when I [...]
Two weeks after starting my new job in Washington, I took the Megabus this weekend for my first trip back home to Charlotte. I got in late Friday night and I had all Saturday with the family. In the morning we went to get new family photos taken. But then violent storms blew in in [...]
Brand new highway sign on I-277 in downtown Charlotte fails at spelling. Nice. h/t CLTblog
Today I went to the dentist for the first time in over a year. The reason for the long delay wasn’t because of any problems (as the title of my post may have suggested). It was because my previous dentist dumped me after 10 years and I just finally got around to finding a new [...]
Most mornings on my way to work I can look up into the sky and see airplanes on approach to landing at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport. At that hour I see usually see two planes side by side more often than not because that’s one of the airport rush-hours for weekday business travelers. But this morning [...]
Well yes I do, but “I Love Charlotte” is the name of a music video posted on YouTube by a local Charlotte native going by the name DJcomplete. The song is just a novelty which mostly glamorizes getting drunk around the Queen City, but I did enjoy being able to name exactly where they were [...]
I’ve now been living in Charlotte, North Carolina for ten years.
Google’s Street View launched in Charlotte a couple of weeks ago, one of 37 news cities added to Street View all at once. When the Street View feature first launched in select cities last year, every blogger in America was posting about the strangest and most interesting sights that could be found (and I was [...]
If you live in the Charlotte area – or anywhere in North Carolina – you’re already familiar with Meck Day. For my northern friends and family, Meck Dec Day celebrates perhaps one of the most influential event in American history that you’ve never ever heard of. Meck Dec Day celebrates the signing of the Mecklenburg [...]