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I won a luxury suite to see the undefeated (and unarguably best basketball team in Ohio) UC Bearcats. That should end around 10:30, then I'll head to a bar in Cincy, probably Neon's?

I do understand what you mean about draftiness on concrete. Our foyer is terrazzo but that floor is cold as hell. It's great for rollerblading, but not walking barefoot in winter. You guys need to find a balance between the hard and soft flooring. Here's an example of the ideal condition, to help you out:

Yeah edale, I've been able to find a Bengals bar everywhere I've ever needed to. Even in the crappiest of the crappy years, Phebe's in NYC was serving Skyline and packed every Sunday.

I dont mind looking at places that are badly "decorated", its just insulting to look at apartments that are nice in description then I see a monstrosity when I get there. Usually I over look the persons decor, as I would rip it all out and redo it MTS style. I just find it so funny that these people with bad taste, live in apartments in prime locations/buildings and are asking above market price for apartments when they've done no work in, in years, to warrant the asking price. That reminds me of an absolutely massive 3 bedroom apartment in Morningside I sublet once. It was a beautiful pre-war doorman building on Claremont Ave, the unit was probably 1600-1800 square feet, but had to be the ugliest decor I've ever seen. Our neighbor would have parties pretty often and leave their door open to the common space, and it was beautiful inside. It was a shame, really.

^ That was an idea I heard tossed around quite a bit during the charrette a few months ago. That site acts as a terminus of sorts for Central Parkway, and has some great potential.

I didn't think he'd keep his promise. $400 million is a lot to throw out the door just based off principal, even if he thought 3-C wasn't the best idea. I was never really pleased with what was proposed, but I wouldn't have let our tax dollars go somewhere else; Ohio's fiscal principals aren't going to change federal fiscal policy.

^Winner. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hamburg&sll=53.600655,9.968719&sspn=0.362638,1.229095&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hamburg,+Germany&ll=53.545516,10.002623&spn=0,0.009602&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.546029,10.002082&panoid=5e85YuWdB8pPQFvrSdptwQ&cbp=12,244.49,,0,7.82 Anyone else see those two chicks posing for the streetview car? Nice.

Ugh. Surprising everyone with a few wins and you think you're gonna win the division next year. I read these stories like the novel that was the Believeland piece from ESPN and feel bad for Cleveland and quietly hope one of their teams can win, but the arrogance of Clevelanders makes it so damn hard. All fans are the same man. Not all fans. Some people are Pittsburgh fans, and are clearly one of a kind d-bags.

im not sure either but isnt this the other way around? i thought cols held on to their water rights, even to this day, and aggressively forced farmtowns to annex if they wanted water and that cleveland rather foolishly gave away their water rights for some reason? we have discussed this before i am sure someone will straighten it out. I'm not sure about Cleveland or Cbus, but I thought Cincinnati had to do away with their practice because of a state law, but now that I think about it, it may have been a court case. It may have been something that was reversed 50 years later, allowing Columbus to start doing that again. Aren't there some planners in here who are versed in the ways of urban planning law?

Probably D-line, but I've been watching every game and Palmer makes some mistakes, but (for instance this Sunday) more often than not it's miscommunication or star receivers not going all out. Those things are most often coaching problems, which ultimately stem from ownership problems and Mike Brown's inability to let people who actually know what they're doing have control of the team.

UC has fans? Didn't see many at the game Sat. What? Did you mean to respond to me? That didn't make any sense.

It won't make much a difference, since they can't draft an owner. That's the legacy of the Brown family for ya. They should hopefully trade and try to get a two mid-first round picks instead of a top 5 pick.

I can't find the source off the top of my head, but I once read that Ohio made annexation rather difficult in the late 1800's. Annexation is difficult in most states now, but back then it was pretty easy. The book was about Cincinnati, and mentioned Cincinnati's practice of forcing other cities to annex if they wanted access to water and sewer hookups. I'm not sure how Cleveland usually went about annexation, but Columbus put a stop to Cincinnati's method, and public works get extended to suburbs without annexation. Sorry I can't think of what source that was from, it may have even been a lecture I attended.

That depends on what kind of professional world you're talking about. Most "creative" professions use them exclusively, like graphic designers, photographers, web designers, even an increasing percentage of developers, since OSX is a Unix system and plays well in the LAMP development world. I work at an advertising agency and everyone there, including "non-creatives" like account execs and project managers have macs. A lot of creative professionals do, but I wouldn't say most. Graphic and video realms are really the only ones that use Mac's exclusively. What I was getting at was the business world, namely banks and corporates, though. It's much more enticing to steal social security and bank account numbers than creative content, hence the allotment of viruses out there.

The mascot (the number one fan favorite mascot in the country I might add) was just doing what mascots do: acting goofy. Campus police were doing what campus police do: harassing college students.

Mac's have way too small a portion of the market share, not to mention basically none of the market share in the professional world. There's no incentive for anyone to make a virus for them, yet. If they keep getting more and more popular, tough, there will be plenty of spyware and viruses out there for them. It's not that they are inherently safer at all, it's just that not enough people have them.

Nope, and if there isn't a Pete Rose, I'm completely flip flopping my position on the entire issue ;)

ping urbanohio.com returned "Ping request could not find host urbanohio.com. Please check the name and try again." ping 174.36.48.69 timed out every attempt. Going directly to http://174.36.48.69/~urbanohi/ worked, but none of the links worked of course. I could get to the forum by adding /forum2/, but the css didn't load and it was basically unnavigable.

Yeah right, keep pretending like you didn't go on another Kohl's shopping spree. I guess Macy's and JC Penny were running out of crap for you to buy?

The one day a year I root for anything from Michigan! I can't wait! I really hope the second best college football team in Ohio gets trounced.

The "Pete Rose" wouldn't stop at traffic lights, it'd just plow right through whoever was in its way. The "Jerry Springer" would always have an interesting crowd. The "Mike Brown" line would cost twice as much to operate and ride as any of the others, for no reason at all. etc.

Yeah, that IRS in Covington is really, really dumb. It makes me want to disband the IRS even more than I already do, which is saying something.

This will probably get a lot of suburban people to come downtown. Every other radio station in this city is country music, so there has to be a giant clientele. After all, Cincinnati is just the northernmost southern city.

MTS, that would be like saying the richest people in the country should have the most say about how taxes are charged because they are the ones paying most of them. That's silly. Just because I fly a handful of times per year as opposed to 100 doesn't mean my objection to unconstitutional searches is less valid. As for airports and airlines, quite a few airports have already started to study the process of opting out of TSA and going with private security.

Again - hasn't happened to me, nor have I seen it. Still...are you suggesting these TSA agents are masking as sexual offenders who really just want the jump at the chance to touch someone's privates legally? I mean, front, back whatever...you're getting searched. It's not inappropriate touching. Have you ever been to a Doctor? Had a physical? Do you know any women? Now you think it causes cancer...again, I'll suggest you just don't fly. It's inappropriate because it's an illegal search, or at least should be if anyone cared for the Constitution anymore. If you go to the doctor, you have the expectation of having a trained medical expert examine you with purpose. If you have a woman around, there's an even greater purpose to have her down there. If you're trying to get on an airplane, it's inappropriate. The whole thing is absurd. You could carry a suitcase full of explosives onto any train, pack your car full of explosives and park it anywhere, hell just walk into a crowded place with a backpack and kill just as many people as you could on a plane. There are other measures in place to make sure commercial flights aren't used as weapons as they were on 9/11, and measures in place already are preventative enough. Overall this is just a giant clusterf*** of misplaced resources. If there is ever another large scale terrorist attack it'd be on a subway in New York, or via a car like the attempt at Times Square. The onslaught of security measures since 9/11 along with heightened alertness by common passengers do a good enough job, pat downs and naked image scanners are unnecessary, aside from being unconstitutional and an invasion of privacy and personal space.