Stephen Yeargin

Ice had formed on my windows this morning as I drowsily slumped into the front seat of my vehicle. The cold snap overnight had caught me by surprise and without a coat. I had also managed to forget to grab a frozen lunch on my way out the door, but those stairs are even more [...]

A popular cliché among those of us born in the 1980s is “Man, I feel old!” This statement comes out when confronted with familiar things that are either separated by a extended amount of time or unfamiliar concepts that only apply to an even younger generation. Today’s “I feel old” moment is brought to you [...]

I had read a bit about the appeal of East Nashville in the cover story in The Nashville Scene last summer and remembered a passing reference to an insanely popular mailing list for the neighborhood. As the Internet and a connected world ceased to be an awe-striking concept around age nine for me, I was [...]

I believe that one of my larger inner struggles for the next decade or so will be “burnout.” Creativity always seems to come in fits and bursts. The absence of creativity often causes confusion and the lacking of a sense of direction. While most look at burnout as to simply become tired, cynical or defensive, [...]

There seems to be an inverse relationship between the length of the day (longer) and how much I feel I can accomplish in it (very little). I went to dinner Monday night with some friends from college after being in a mad rush Saturday to get down to the Sommet Center, so much so that [...]

Slow, mellow music has filled my iTunes playlist this evening. No particular reason; it just seems to go better with the early spring evening. Any other night it might be something a bit more high energy, but that just does not fit the atmosphere. My time away from work has become a somewhat predictable routine [...]

Last September I wrote a bit about starting out with the MyCokeRewards program, a marketing scheme by Coca-Cola to encourage customers to enter in 12 or 15-digit alphanumeric codes into a Web site to accumulate points that could be redeemed from merchandise. Half a year later, the time has come to abandon the project.
Aside from [...]

We woke up this morning to a fair amount of snow and plenty of ice on the roads and sidewalks. It is quite a departure from the unseasonably warm weather that has turned up temperatures to near 70 degrees in the winter months. Ice always adds that extra little challenge to driving, or making sure [...]

We received our latest Netflix DVD in the mail the other day, and unlike most I actually found time to sit through most of Idiocracy
In the movie, Joe Bauers (played by Luke Wilson) arrives in 2505 to an America filled with (and run by) people with the mindset of young teenagers and the cognitive abilities [...]

There is a lunar eclipse going on right outside our door, but the apartment building is facing away from the moon. The United States Navy is shooting down a spy satellite too, although I think that will be impossible to see from any vantage point in Nashville. It is cold out, as I learned after [...]