Myrtle Beach
We Are Fine
Just to let people from around the country and the world know, we are fine. Our area had some places that were hit hard but our immediate neighborhood and our house were never in any danger. Within a half a mile or so there were some road closures as creeks overflowed onto roadways but it was not...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 27, 2014 - DDOP 28: Myrtle Beach
In this episode, I talk about why I enjoy living in the Grand Strand; I talk up Myrtle Beach and Conway, South Carolina because they are good places. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 27, 2014 You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor...
read articleMyrtle Beach Geekout
Here in the Myrtle Beach area (aka the Grand Strand), we've been trying to crystallize a geek community for years. This started with the Grand Strand bloggers get-togethers. The first one had four attendees - myself, Andre Pope, Chris Yale and Roger Yale. We had several more meetings like that over...
read articlePossibly the Last Sushi Beach Lunch of the Year
Today might well be the last day that weather permits my standard "sit on the beach and eat mediocre grocery store sushi" type lunch. So I did it. I love fall in Myrtle Beach so much, it's really the absolute best time of the year here. Instead of being 93 degrees on the beach, it is 78....
read articleXCon the Myrtle Beach Comic Convention is Oct 2-4, 2009
In a few weekends, this coming October 2, 3 and 4 will be XCon in Myrtle Beach. This is the second year for this con. I was only able to attend for a few hours on the Friday last year but was surprised how much fun it was. I expect better things from this year. It will be held at the Springmaid...
read articleMyrtle Beach VMWare User Group Meeting August 6
On Thursday August 6th, there will be the inaugural meeting of the Myrtle Beach VMWare User Group. It will be from noon to 2 PM and will be held at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach. I'm considering taking a long lunch and going to it. It is (arguably) relevant to my day job and I am a VMWare...
read articleBigger (Revenue) Than Jesus
This weekend is when the sales tax in the city of Myrtle Beach is hiked to 11.5%. Those tax and spend Republicans are at it again. I thought I've been places with crazy high sales tax before but I've never seen it this high anywhere I can recall. I note that God himself is only asking for 10%. This...
read articleMy Lunch Hour - 6/18/2009
My Lunch Hour - 6/18/2009 Originally uploaded by evilgenius There is something truly truly wonderful about living and working in a place where going to the beach is such a simple operation that I can do it for 20 minutes at lunch time and that's reasonable. This is a view of today's lunch. I grew...
read articleCREATE South, April 25th in Myrtle Beach
View CREATE South 2009 in a larger map One of the things consuming a lot of my evenings lately is planning for CREATE South 2009. It will be held Saturday April 25th, and will be in Myrtle Beach at the Grand Strand campus of Horry-Georgetown Technical College. This is a few blocks from Market...
read articleCREATE South Donation Day
One of the things keeping me busy lately is helping to organize the CREATE South conference. It will be held April 25 2009 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The mission statement of the conference is to educate and excite people about the intersection of new media and creativity. If there are aspects...
read articleGoodbye Hanna
In a weird twist for hurricane season, the path of Hanna became ever more direct to our town but at the same time it weakened. It hit us pretty close to square on but had less impact than some of the ordinary storms this summer. When I walked the dog this morning I didn't even see that much debris...
read articleHanna Tracking
I'm not liking this so much. That line of prediction for Tropical Storm/Hurricane Hanna is getting ever close to being right over our house. Let's see if that can move offshore a little. This will be quite an exciting end to the week, at least in the Chinese curse sense of the word. Update: It's...
read articleJohn Kelly's Voxford on Hard Rock Park
I work about 3/4 of a mile from Hard Rock Park but I've never been there. However, this dude who lives in England has been and posted a review of it that I found via Largehearted Boy. He seemed to generally like it. It's one of those things I feel like I should go to, but mostly the price structure...
read articleLunches at the Beach
Some days I really just feel the need to get the hell out of the office at lunchtime. I really prefer if possible to work in a quick walk on the beach, so I tend to head towards the water. This means that often I'm lunching on Kings Highway or Ocean Boulevard. Often I grab a cup of coffee at the...
read articleMyrtle Beach's War on Tourism
Myrtle Beach is not only looking at driving away the May bike weeks, but when a recent flap arose over an ad encouraging gay travelers people were quick to back away. I'm no tourism expert but it seems to me that in a down economy with crazily rising energy and travel costs, when airlines are...
read articleSamantha Brown in Myrtle Beach
I got a pair of emails from a publicist type who is working with the Travel Channel. Tomorrow night on the Samantha Brown program, they will be featuring Myrtle Beach. I got an email to my regular address here, and then the identical one for the contact address of Grand Strand Bloggers. I could be...
read articleMyrtle Beach's War on Tourism
I'm reposting verbatim some text from commentor Dennis. I personally think the city government of Myrtle Beach has recently gone insane in their efforts to get rid of the bike weeks in May. Let's see, during Black Bike Week one local resident shot another local resident, neither one of which were...
read articleBike Weeks
A year ago I posted about Myrtle Beach's bike week, which quickly devolved in the comments to an interesting but orthogonal discussion of class and gated communities. This year was fairly uneventful. The Harley week seemed to be the mellowest one since I've lived in the area. For big portions of the...
read articleMyrtle Beach's Comic Shop is Back!
There used to be one comic shop in my area, which was in Surfside Beach at Highway 544 and Kings Highway. We'd drive by it if we were going to Myrtle Beach State Park or the dog park. That shop closed a while ago, which left me with no local comic options. I have periodically been buying comics at...
read articleMyrtle Beach Zombie Walk
I just randomly happened across this poster while I was looking at something else. Apparently there will be a Zombie Walk this weekend in Myrtle Beach. I'm not 100% certain at this point if I'm going to be in town or not on this Saturday. If I am, I'm definitely going to this and shooting some...
read articleCreateSouth, New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach April 19th
OK kids, registration for the CreateSouth conference is open for business! The conference is April 19th from 9 to 5 PM in downtown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All attendees are invited, whether you live and breath new media or are interested but slightly frightened by it. If you are a professional...
read articleLed Zeppelin Roller Coaster
Alright, I for once clicked a YouTube link for some video of a test of the Led Zeppelin roller coaster at the Hard Rock theme park. That does look pretty bad asssed. This park is close enough to my office that it would be feasible to get a season pass and go there at lunch time. In fact, from the...
read articleMyrtle Beach Blogging Conference is Go
We decided that we want to hold the conference next spring, and that even if 20 people show up we'll consider that a success for the first year that we can build on. Our first order of business is to name the conference so we can start to do all the other things like set up a website. If you have...
read articleRon Paul in Myrtle Beach
Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be in Myrtle Beach today. A number of my coworkers are deep in the Ron Paul Madness. I'm not really sure what drives it myself. The best I can guess is that he is the guy who allows you to disapprove of the ridiculous waste of the war without having to cash in...
read articleA Blog/Podcasting/New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach?
Several years ago, I came home from the BloggerCon in Palo Alto and mused on this blog about holding a blog conference in the Myrtle Beach area. I got a lot of interest, enough so that it wigged me out a little because it meant that I'd have to really do it right. At the time, I was new to the area...
read articleMytle Beach Craigslist
Hey, Myrtle Beach is in Craiglist! When the hell did that happen? I don't see anything older than the 15th, and only one thing older than last Sunday so maybe it just went live this week. Right...
read articleEGC Clambake For June 18, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 18, 2006. I talk about a very important change in my life; I play a song by the Sharp Things; I discuss net neutrality and market forces; I play a net neutrality protest song by The Broad Band; I play a song by the...
read articleOphelia
It has weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm, thank goodness, but Ophelia is now coming right through here. It is more likely to hit Wilmington NC, but landing at Myrtle Beach is quite possible. I don't expect much drama in our neck of the woods, but stay safe out there. I take every one of...
read articleWhat Happened to the Myrtle Beach Blogging Conference?
Last November, when I came home from Bloggercon in Palo Alto imbued with the holy fire of citizen media I floated the idea of doing a blog conference here in the Grand Strand. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and I got a lot of feedback from people who said they would attend. In fact, I got...
read articleMYR
For the first time in one of my outbound flights, I get to use the free wifi. I actually had a conversation with someone yesterday about the value of free wifi. It doesn't really change anything per se - I'm going to fly out of this airport regardless because it is the one here - but it sure does...
read articleAnother Beach Trip
For the second time in three days, we took a spontaneous trip to the beach. I'm downright liking this! The dog seems to be taking well to the beach and ocean, which she'd never seen to before this weekend. After 4 PM you can take your dog to the beach at Myrtle Beach State Park, which is where we've...
read articleBeach Jaunt
As you saw from the previous post, we jaunted to the beach on the spur of the moment. We were a little worried about the traffic from the second bike week and/or Memorial Day revelers but it wasn't too bad. From where we live, we can make it to Myrtle Beach State Park without ever getting on the...
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