Stephen Yeargin

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 [...]

Samantha and I are fast approaching our year mark in Goodlettsville after living only six months in Bellevue (both communities in and around Nashville, Tenn.). Around this this time last year, we were spending most of our free time on apartment hunter Web sites, reading reviews and figuring out the logistics of moving our humble [...]

My regular routine in the morning, if I have not had breakfast or stockpiled some kind of snack and Cokes at work, is to stop at one of three convenience stores along the way. Today I picked up my usual, signed the debit card receipt and walked out the door into the parking lot. [...]

Writers, actors and directors often talk of their audience, the people who read or watch their art-form. Most of the time it is to offer some sense of humility before this omnipotent force that ultimately determines the fate of their careers. But what can really be said of the audience?
Televisions cannot look both ways. Books [...]

With the ongoing writer’s strike, I have started looking a little more critically at the television lineup. For example, I thought a reborn American Gladiators franchise on NBC sounded like a great idea. It didn’t take much to kill off that optimism and change the channel. The gladiators have the personalities of a dull pencil, [...]

See how many of these you believe in:

A woman cannot be president.A woman cannot take the tough challenges of the office.
A divorced man cannot be president.He has no respect for the institution of marriage.
A black man cannot be president.He will only pay attention to his own race.
A Mormon cannot be president.Members of his faith believe [...]

Samantha pointed out that I seem to have a tradition of blogging on Christmas Eve. So, in the spirit of the evening I will try to mix in a bit of whimsy to go with the usual commentary.
I believe in the mysticism of Christmas. The snow, the candy canes, Santa Claus, the songs, boisterous merriment [...]