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New Concepts or: Piggybackin’

23 Friday Jun 2017

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I’m piggybacking on The Man Who Ate the Town today but not for the podcast. I recently visited the brand new Lowes Foods store in Kernersville (it opened on Wednesday) and I thought it was a fantastic place to be. How fantastic? Well, read to find out, won’t you? You can do that HERE.

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Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Our commitment to local includes offering produce sourced through our partnership with more than 200 local farmers and featuring a wide assortment of unique local products found throughout the store.” – Tim Lowe, President of Lowes Foods

Piggyback or: Kelly Bone

20 Tuesday Jun 2017

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The “Gang” at Willows (picture ©Travis Myers)

 

On The Man Who Ate the Town today, I had a wonderful special guest in the studio to talk about food, drink and life. Only part of that made the podcast but Kelly Bone, of Willows Bistro, is a fantastic guest and she’s a sharp one, too. She is quite knowledgeable about her craft, even though she’s not been doing it too awfully long. She did, however, jump feet first into the fray of craft cocktails, wine selections and beer selections and is the main-most-lady in that regards at Willows. They have a brand new drink list that is rolling out right now. Listen to her interview as it’s really great.

Also, I talk about other restaurants and even a grocery store. Hear all of that on the podcast by listening HERE. Thanks for reading and thanks for listening!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“It’s like a fine dance that you do. We all love/hate each other, but the end of the day we all love each other.” – Kelly Bone

Piggybacking Again or: Food New and Views

13 Tuesday Jun 2017

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Here I am again, piggybacking The Man Who Ate the Town podcast. I talk about a good bit of stuff from Finnigan’s Wake to Sweet Potatoes to rumors of possible things coming to the former Community Arts Cafe (which none have been true, so far). To hear the episode, click HERE.

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Thanks for listening (and reading)!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Sweet Potatoes will close on Sunday, May 21st after brunch and will re-open at our new location very soon! Our new address will be 607 Trade Street, W-S.” – Sweet Potatoes website

Dot Dot Dot or: Alexa, Good Morning

09 Friday Jun 2017

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I got one of the new Amazon Echo Dot things this week and I think The BCPF is worried about me. I think they made a movie about this kind of thing (Her (2013))? Anyway, from Alexa I get my “good morning” briefing, listen to whatever albums or songs that I want, I can play games, ask questions, access Wikipedia and have Alexa pull up podcasts.

That’s what I’m going to talk about right now, I suppose. Being as that’s what I do for a living, I check to see if my podcasts are available to people on any platform I can find. Alexa has internal apps that are called “skills” that dictate what she knows, how she interacts and so on. So, there’s a skill she has called AnyPod (there’s also TryPod and PodBuddy) that I emailed the developer to check the shows from The Less Desirables Network‘s availability. The Beer Dads and Sipping NC: The Art of Drinking both showed up but she was having trouble with The Less Desirables, The Man Who Ate the Town and Fan Interference podcasts.

Apparently, Alexa (and her “skills”) wanted to look for Les Diserables (as in Les Miserables) and Fan Interference went to a dozen other places when I asked for it. After getting AnyPod to check into it for me, the skill then picked up the right podcasts. Now, I have to play with it a bit and just say “less desirables” and “ate the town” to get it to work right, but they’re at least recognized.

So, if you have an Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, you can now find all your favorite The Less Desirables Network podcasts to listen there. So, if you enable the AnyPod skill, use some of the following phrases: “Alexa, ask AnyPod to play The Less Desirables,” “Alexa, ask AnyPod to play Fan Interference,” “Alexa, ask AnyPod to play The Beer Dads,” “Alexa, ask AnyPod to play The Man Who Ate the Town,” “Alexa, ask AnyPod to play Sipping NC: The Art of  Drinking.”

You may have to modify some of those phrases. Instead, ask “Alexa, ask AnyPod to play Less Desirables,” “Alexa, ask AnyPod to play Ate the Town,” and so on. You can play around with different ways to ask for it. Also, the AnyPod skill is great for playing other podcasts, as well. If you don’t have an Echo or Echo Dot, well, you need to have one. Enjoy!

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“The device is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks, and providing weather, traffic [sic] and other real time [sic] information. It can also control several smart devices using itself as a home automation hub.” – Wikipedia page Amazon Echo Dot

Piggybackin’ or: Dogwood You?

06 Tuesday Jun 2017

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The Man Who Ate the Town Podcast is up for this week. There’s a cool new bottle shop/whiskey bar that’s opening up downtown and I have the manager and two bartenders in the studio to talk about it. You’ll have to listen to learn more. Listen to that episode HERE.

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©Dogwood Hops & Crops

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Your downtown craft beer & wine bottle shop. Opening Soon!!! CHEERS!”  – Dogwood Hops and Crops

Sidecar Pale Ale or: The Less Desirables Beer of the Week

31 Wednesday May 2017

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City Beverage, the Official Beer Sponsor of The Less Desirables, presents Sidecar Orange Pale Ale from Sierra Nevada, The Less Desirables Beer of the Week.

I’ve been digging the orange-flavored stuff that I’ve had lately and other than their regular Pale Ale, which I think lacks any real substance, I like Sierra Nevada’s stuff. So, I’m hoping the orange in this is noticeable. Spencer said it was good stuff, so I’m going to go on that. It’s 5.3%, so it’s just above sessionable.

BeerAdvocate has it at 84 (Good) with no Bros. Score. Untappd has it at 3.5 caps out of 5. RateBeer has it at 74, both Overall and in Style. Have you had it? What did you think? If you’ve not had it, or you just have a hankering for more, head to City Beverage and pick up your sixer. Tell them we sent you and that this is the beer of the week, and you’ll get 5% off your order. Tune in later tonight or early tomorrow and see what Caitlin, Danielle, Bethany and I think of it.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Pale Ale has always been our passion, and its legendary citrus-heavy hop flavors inspired us to go down a different path.” – Sidecar Orange Pale Ale carton.

Piggybackin’ or: TMWATT

02 Tuesday May 2017

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It was podcast day for The Man Who Ate the Town. It was Hope du Jour today and I had to announce another sad passing. Listen to the episode HERE.

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Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“It is an opportunity to bring attention to the problem of hunger in our community.” – Hope du Jour

Pardon The Interruption or: Back and Again

17 Monday Apr 2017

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Many apologies to any of The Less Desirables listeners who couldn’t access the latest show, be it via iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or any of the other aggregators that you may use to subscribe to the podcast. Additionally, if you tried to visit the website, it has been down since Friday afternoon.

Most of it was my “fault.” A few years back we had updated WordPress (the platform we do the site from) and the way the site had been built, the updates created chaos and the site went down. A new site designer was able to get it back into working order but said we couldn’t update WordPress. We decided to build a new site to overtake this one. Well, for whatever reasons, that didn’t work out and the site was used, but unupdated for about three years. There were several WP updates in that time. Well, that left the site vulnerable to malicious instances.

The hosting company that I use for everything except two of my websites flagged it and quarantined the site. I had to download every file from the server (13,000 of them!!) and run an Anti-Virus (AV) program on them. The AV showed nothing but one thing that had nothing to do with my site files. So, I had to delete the content of the server and reupload the files. Well, that wasn’t good enough. Even though my AV showed nothing, the software that the hosting company uses said some things were still malicious. I deleted those files and it turns out it wasn’t malicious, just old. The files were elements of the site that were outdated and not necessarily recognized by the software as “viable.” They restored those and, now, the site is back up and running. That means the quarantine has expired and all is back up and running. And, I did update all the WP software and things are working okay, still. Whew. That was a rough Easter weekend, at least in that aspect.

Okay, well, again, we’re back. Get back to the listening and enjoy! Thanks to our newest web designer, Jennifer Filipowski for her help in getting things back to order. She’s awesome. Thank you to Siteground (the hosting service) for their help, understanding and expertise.

Until tomorrow, same blog channel…
Scorp out!

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“Founded in 2004 by a few university friends, SiteGround gradually but steadily turned into a leading web hosting service provider.” – SiteGround