And by “hiring” I mean we are still actively seeking volunteers to spend their valuable time contributing to Carpe Durham and help keep this community alive.  We are grateful to our existing community contributors, but would like to add several more to increase the posting volume.  In particular, we hope people that are interested in exploring the cheaper dining options will get involved.  Please contact us if you are interested.  There is no time commitment or high level of expertise needed (really, if we could do it, anyone can!).
In other …

We temporarily disabled the George’s Diner post until we can come up with a system to deal with the comment abuse on that post.  Stay tuned.

Adam heads to Backyard BBQ Pit, Wimpy’s, and participates in the Doughman Relay.
Wednesday, Sep. 2 at 10pm on the Travel Channel.

We have long felt that the user comments are the most valuable part of Carpe Durham.  Because we did not want to discourage participation, when we redesigned the site to include user registration, we left anonymous commenting enabled.  That being said, we recognize that comments on the Internet have the potential to greatly impact (for better or worse) the reputation of local businesses.  To balance accountability and anonymity, within the next few days we plan to implement a new feature displaying the IP address of those users commenting without a …

I just came home from Whiskey.

That sentence just feels good to type.

Our numero uno taco truck will be at Duke Law tomorrow (Tuesday) starting around 12:15pm (in the parking lot on Towerview, near the corner of Science Dr), serving up tacos to Duke Law employees.  You’re welcome to stop by for some lunch if you’re on campus!

Welcome to the new Carpe Durham! As many of you know, we have graduated law school and will, unfortunately, be relocating out of the area. While we plan to visit frequently and continue to review when we do, we decided to make some changes to try and make the site more community driven. To implement some new features, we migrated off of wordpress.com and onto our own dedicated server.

So, what’s new? …

Change is coming, and that’s not just an empty slogan.  We have outgrown wordpress.com’s free hosting and will be migrating to a new provider.  We are using the migration as an opportunity to roll out many new oft-requested features, and a couple that we’ve “cooked up” on our own.  Har har.  Expect to see some action within a week.
In the meantime, please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds to point to carpedurham.com instead of carpedurham.wordpress.com.

We are back from our internships in various parts of the country, and very much looking forward to eating at our favorites and finding some new ones. A special thanks to our summer guest bloggers, who may or may not have some stuff left to post about.
We missed you!

Our friends at the local screen-printing company Loyal T-Shirts designed and printed some very hot Carpe Durham T-shirts for us–and for you, if you want one. They’re $13 each, plus a couple dollars extra if you want one mailed to you. (No, we are not making any money off of them.) If you’d like one, email Nick, nickw918 at gmail.com, and include what size(s) you’d like (we have men’s and women’s sizes, and the shirts are American Apparel). You can work out with him picking up/getting mailed the shirts.  Email soon, we only …