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Symphony Season Begins!

August 12, 2010 By Robert Owen

The Symphony of the Mountains is kicking off their 2010 - 2011 Season on August 28th, 2010 @ 8:00pm.  The concert will be held in the Toy F. Reid Employee Center - Eastman - Kingsport, TN. Dress up as your favorite movie character and win a great prize!  Here is the current press release for the opening concert... Symphony of the Mountains “A Night at the Movies” August 28, 2010, 8pm Toy F. Reid Employee Center, Eastman, Kingsport Hollywood is coming to Kingsport on Saturday … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: 2001 a space odyssey, blockbuster films, concert, Eastman, movie, Season, symphony of the mountains, Toy, tri cities airport, universal studios in orlando

Interesting Pay Scale

June 19, 2010 By Robert Owen

Interesting Math adventure. Today, while having lunch with my parents at Litton's,  Barry Litton (the owner) posed a scenario that I had a hard time wrapping my head around.  It was this: Barry:  If a man came to your home and said, "I'd like to work in your yard everyday for the next 31 days.  All I ask for is you pay me 1 cent the first day then double it every day after for the next 31 days." How much do you think you would end up paying? Me:  No idea... I can't do that much math … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Random - TidBit Tagged With: adventure today, cent, home, litton, Math, math adventure, Pay, pay scale, pennies, yard

Create a Shortcut to open in your Alternate Browser

June 19, 2010 By Robert Owen

Here's a quick and simple "How To" for you.  I had this question posed by a client the other day and it made me think.    This Client is a fan of FireFox.  It is his default browser and tries his best to NEVER use Internet Explorer.  But, as is the case with most things, the more you try to keep from using something that's right when you find out you have to. This was the case here.  He had a vendor's website that would only work in IE AND he needed to use this website alot so, he had a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Internet, MicroSoft, Windows 7 Tagged With: alternate browser, default browser, internet explorer, internet shortcut, url shortcut

Friday Funnies: The Fun will Restart!

May 15, 2010 By Robert Owen

Hey everybody, sorry for the lack of post over the past month or so... Things have been quite busy around here.  This is a Friday Funny... Although this is Saturday, I had good intentions...   I saw this video posted on Facebook the other day and couldn't resist a re-post over here.   So, all you Band people should get a big kick out of this! Pushing Band Candy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Friday Funnies Tagged With: Band, band candy, Candy, everybody, good intentions, Hey, lack, post

My Latest Upgrade

May 5, 2010 By Robert Owen

Windows 7 .... Bacon Edition! Coming to a Frying Pan near You!  You know you want it! :-) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MicroSoft, Windows 7 Tagged With: Bacon, Edition, Frying, frying pan, Pan, Windows

Friday Funny: Cell Phone Games

March 5, 2010 By Robert Owen

Happy Friday!  I got a link to this little ditty on Monday.  Not a bad funny to start off a new month, eh? I think, If you're bored and feel comfortable with all your escape routes, this might be a fun gag to try...  Might. :-P Tom Mabe: Eavesdropping … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Friday Funnies Tagged With: Ditty, escape routes, Friday, gag, Happy, Happy Friday, Link, Little Ditty, Monday, P Tom Mabe, Tom Mabe

Knoxville Wind Symphony Concert

March 1, 2010 By Robert Owen

Just a note to all you music lovers in the Knoxville area.  The Knoxville Wind Symphony will be holding a concert this Sunday, March 7, at 4:00  at the Historic Tennessee Theatre. Here's the News announcement from the KWS website: Wind Symphony and Youth Wind Ensemble will Blow You Away! Batten Down the Hatches: March will begin with quite a bit of WIND in the Tennessee Theatre. At 4 pm on Sunday, March 7 the Knoxville Wind Symphony and East Tennessee Youth Wind Ensemble will perform … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: batten down the hatches, concert, East Tennessee, Knoxville, lord lieutenant, Lord Lieutenant. Concluding, March, Mark Camphouse, Rosa, Rosa Parks, Sunday, Symphony, Tennessee, tennessee theatre, Theatre, W. Mark Harrell, Wind, wind symphony

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