Stephen Yeargin

Despite a rather rough head cold, I managed to make it down to Cadillac Ranch for PodCamp Nashville 2010 around 11 a.m. today. A lot like BarCamp last October, the faces were familiar, topics were timely and the place was packed. I sat through a handful of sessions (even skipping out to go to others) [...]

Back in the spring of 2002, I traveled with a group of student government officials to march on the state capitol building to voice our opposition to impending budget cuts to higher education. We sold brownies and cookies on War Memorial Plaza as part of the protest. At the end of the day, the proceeds [...]

I have learned an important (and somewhat expensive) lesson about buying appliances. Nothing to do with the brands or features, but rather the simple engineering problem of an item of a fixed size needing to fit into a fixed size space. If the space is smaller than the item, even by a little, one of [...]

I’m writing this on my phone. Not because I particularly enjoy the idea of pecking away on a mblile device, rather I am fairly sure my Mac mini may have burned through its second harddrive in as many years. Oddly, I am not too concerned. I had just pulled my Home folder to the spare [...]

It was still there on Thursday morning as I wearily walked to my car, but the warmer weather of the last few days finally put away the remains of the tiny snowman the kids downstairs had built next to the bush. We had all survived the Great Flurry of 2010, one that only kept me [...]

Samantha called me Friday after we had met up for lunch to let me know a rock had chipped her windshield while driving back to work. No big deal, I thought. We will just get it repaired and move on. So around noon on Saturday, a mobile repairman visited us at the apartment complex to [...]

I am sitting in Big Bang Nashville as we all wrap up BarCamp Nashville 2009. It was a great experience to work on the marketing and production side of an event as cool as this one. It makes it that much more fulfilling when the event goes as well as it did.
I had two objectives [...]

A few hours ago I arrived home from a successful Nashville Startup Weekend, a marathon-esque experience where teams come together around ideas vetted by their peers to create brand new companies. I had heard about the event last year and had given some thought to going, but ultimately decided against it. This year I wanted [...]

I parked the car around 3 p.m. to start my afternoon excursion. I knew a bit about what I wanted to do: catch the pre-game festivities in front of the Sommet Center, possibly catch a bit of the UT/Florida game, pick up my hockey tickets and watch the Nashville Predators take on the Columbus Blue [...]

Street festivals are always an interesting mix of people, food and whatever the weather has in store. The Tomato Art Festival is no different. The local East Nashville artisans had dozens of booths set up along Woodland Street and South 11th Street in the Five Points area. As for food, we stopped by Nuvo Burrito’s [...]