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^ From an older Enquirer article: Another potential hurdle: Springer's voting residence hasn't been in Ohio for more than a decade, according to the Hamilton County Board of Elections. He last voted in Ohio in 2004, and switched his voting registration to Florida two years later. According to records, Springer's last known Ohio residence was an apartment on Seventh Street in Downtown, in Steve Chabot's Congressional district. Springer told an Enquirer reporter last summer he stays in a hotel when he comes to Cincinnati to record his weekly podcast. So to run for any office, he'd have to move to Ohio first, which would be a political vulnerability. A democrat with national name recognition moving into a swing state for the first time in 15 years? That seems like something a lot of Ohioans would not be fond of. I also think the whole paying-a-hooker-with-a-check ordeal was just the tip of an iceberg. That doesn't seem like something someone does as a one-off and I wouldn't be surprised if Springer has skeletons in his closet. It would explain why he frequently floats the idea of returning to politics but never goes through with it.

The Cincinnati Enquirer's take on Cordray: If this is Ohio Democrats' great hope for governor, 2018 will be tough http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics-extra/2017/09/04/px-richard-cordray-mum-running-governor/630915001/ Richard Cordray is going to run for Ohio governor, he sure didn't sound like it on Monday. The nation's top consumer watchdog showed no excitement in delivering a wonky, keynote speech to union workers at the Cincinnati AFL-CIO's annual Labor Day picnic. Cordray didn't mention anything about running for governor, but he missed an opportunity to lay the groundwork for his campaign if he does plan to run. "My message today is not a barn-burner," Cordray told a sparse crowd at Coney Island. Yeah, no kidding. For 14 minutes, Cordray spoke in the same humdrum tone about financial inequality. Not once did he raise his voice. Cordray's dry personality might have helped the Democrat get elected statewide back in the day. But does dry fly in the age of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders?

You can still get WNKU on 105.9, at least for a few more weeks. I had completely forgotten about WAIF, mostly because I listen to the radio in the morning and they're always gospel then.

Consumer spending is and has been trending up. It jumped another 3.3% last quarter, after revised estimates were issued today. I don't buy for a second the argument that people are too broke to spend. Granted, a lot of the spending increase recently has been on housing, but most spending has just shifted from traditional retail to other consumer products. Fewer athletic shoes, more cell phones, for example. The wireless industry alone accounts for billions of dollars of spending every year, and that's a cost most people didn't have at all a decade or so ago.

There's a PBS Nova documentary on Stuxnet, and another documentary I watched on (I think it was Showtime produced). It really was an amazing zero day exploit. If I remember correctly, the facility that was targeted was air-gapped - nothing in it was connected to the internet, hence the flash drive strategy. Israeli agents just "lost" them in places frequented by the Iranian facility workers, knowing a few would grab them and plug them in just to see what was on them, and eventually one of them plugged one of the drives into a computer on the intranet and that's all it took. That type of zero-day exploit can go for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the black market, and it's usually governments paying to buy them. The more complex a software, the more of those there might be. There's not a whole lot of room for exploits or hostile code on an 8" floppy, though.

The trailer for The Killing of a Sacred Deer came out this week. It looks great, IMO. I mentioned up thread that this director's movie "Dogtooth" is one of my favorites - this trailer seems to give this movie the same bizarre, creepy, awkward and uncomfortable with a bit of dark humor vibe:

^^ Cranley should throw his weight around and get a flagship Gold Star built out at The Banks. Like you said, there are already two Skylines downtown (the one on Fourth being pretty close to whatever a 'flagship' chili parlor might be considered). There hasn't been a Gold Star since the Tower Place Mall food court closed. Gold Star is the official chili of the Bengals, so you think they could work that into a Banks location somehow.

that doesnt bother me a bit, but it drives my spouse berzerk! it's absolutely disgusting! It's as bad, worse actually, than someone eating an orange and throwing the peels on the floor. One time I was on a bus and the man next to me was eating fried chicken out of a grease-soaked paper bag--no container, no napkins, nothing--and throwing the bones on the floor :-P I lived, for a couple years, catty cornered from a fried chicken place in Cincinnati (Tina's on Walnut and Liberty). There was a 500 foot radius around the place, in all directions, that was constantly littered with chicken bones. It was always strange to see birds picking at them. Once, I found a $20 bill lodged under one of the chicken bones, which had become wedged up against a bump in the sidewalk. I was on my way to jury duty, at the time, so I found more money laying in the street than the amount of pay I earned - which was $19/day in Hamilton County if I'm remembering correctly.

Oakley is one of those middle grounds, where most people want a community that's "walkable" but Olive Garden and Bar Louie are the types of places they want to walk to.

^^ Toes or fingers?

I didn't realize they just sold general admission tickets - so the seats aren't assigned? It makes sense that they take the total seat count and reduce it by ~12% then. The assigned bleacher seats at Nippert are very narrow - not many people are going to voluntarily pack in that tight. Unless you've got seat numbers forcing 20 people to sit on a bleacher meant for 20 people, you're probably only going to get 16-17 people on it. You'd have a couple thousand people standing around, unable to find seats, because every group of 4 in the place took up 5 seats. College football stadiums in general pack people in like sardines, it's part of the atmosphere. Every one I've ever been to is like that.

Did they sell tickets for the upper deck? Is the sellout a full 40,000?

^^ A pretty big swath of Cincinnati has ~25 foot parcels, with ~16-18 foot homes. That describes my house in CUF. While there are arguments for and against that, what's nice about it is that there's no sort of condo association or HOA needed due to shared walls, roofs, etc. (though from the post above it sounds like there still will be at least one shared wall between every two buildings). While it seems small, that 7-9 foot gap is big enough for a compact car driveway, or in my case a nice shade garden. It also gives you a nice, accessible spot to put mechanical equipment and allows you to have side windows - a lack of side windows on long, skinny buildings can be a limiting factor for interior space layout.

^ It's in this bizarre public space off of 5th Street: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.1006336,-84.5167219,3a,75y,161.5h,89.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sE6LpvR19bRppYFszj7697Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 There is an entrance to what's left of the Skywalk out of the back of the parking garage at 4th and Home Alley, that enters into what's left of the mezzanine level of Convention Place. I discovered this last year trying to get from Fountain Square to 3rd and Plum in a downpour - I was able to get all the way to 4th and Home without getting wet.

Using the ISO certification without actually having it is a no-no. That vendor could be in some legal trouble. I did a bit of research about the glasses I bought a few months ago. Here's a list of reputable vendors and manufacturers: https://eclipse.aas.org/resources/solar-filters I have 5 pairs of shades from Rainbow Symphony, and they do appear to have the proper ISO certification. Are you watching the eclipse in town? I'm thinking about taking part of the day off and grilling out on my deck. I've thought about making the ~3 hour drive to spend a few hours somewhere watching, and then driving back, but that seems like a long day.

^ Yeah I'm looking forward to watching that movie, and this one, via DVD from the library in about 4 years.

I wonder if Simpson is being pushed into absurd positions like this by whoever is running her campaign. She was always one of the most reasonable voices on council but ever since her mayoral candidacy started up she's been involved in some pretty big gaffes: The Bockfest body-shaming, the "stale pale male" debacle, and now this. It makes me think she's doubling down on certain issues she otherwise wouldn't have because she thinks that's what she needs to get elected, when really she should have just kept doing what she'd always been doing.

^ The one I took was a couple blocks over: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7155726,-73.9941661,3a,35.3y,54.86h,89.2t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGIAnABnMfalsWJyuJaxZPQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 You have a ticket that says where you're going, and they are adamant about making sure everyone has a ticket, and that you get off when you're supposed to, so it would probably be tough to actually get on a wrong bus, but certainly easy to wait in line for awhile for the wrong bus.

^ Those examples they dug up are pretty tame. "World's tallest dwarf" is a common phrase, like "smartest kid in summer school." I don't think any of those Tweets were personal attacks.

^^ That is probably a Jake question, but from what I recall from the repairs a few years ago (when the holes were cut into the top of the subway in a few locations north of Music Hall) - the road did just sit right on top of the roof of the tunnels. I think there may have been some compacted fill between the asphalt and concrete top of the arches, but probably not enough to safely run conduit through. That condition might not be the case everywhere, though. In this photo (14th and Liberty) you can see that the subway really isn't very deep: Although now that I think about it, there are trees in the median. Maybe it's deeper here than I think, unless it's offset from the center of the street.

The subway would make boring under Central Parkway somewhat difficult. Otherwise, it really wouldn't be all that expensive, not enough to be a significant factor in whether or not the bridge should be built, at least. I think they'd have to basically bore into the subway, and then cross the subway tunnels with conduit. Hopefully they could do it shallow enough that it wouldn't impede the overhead clearance should the tunnels ever be used for transit.

^ Fung Wah Bus may be no more, but every city now seems to have a few families that own all sorts of different LLCs that operate these crappy buses. I once took one from Cincinnati to NYC for $30, round trip. The actual name of the bus line, and the LLC changes from time to time but the owners are all the same people.

Pete admits to having sexual relations with the woman, but only when she was above legal age. Now, 40 years later, she is claiming the relationship began a year or two before her 16th birthday. I can't imagine there's any sort of physical evidence (photos, call logs, hotel bills, etc.) after such a long time, and in its absence we are left with a he-said, she said, which isn't close to enough to convince me of wrongdoing. And keep in mind that this is all blown out or proportion by John Dowd, a man who has an insatiable personal vendetta against Pete Rose, for some unknown reason.

^^^ Aside from the bargains all over town for houses that are in "uncool" neighborhoods, there are bargains in Cincinnati for mansions, too. Some of these houses I see listed would cost millions in other markets, and in the majority of the country they're simply aren't houses like them. Despite my architecture license, I was recently unable to convince my wife this house, for example, was much easier to salvage than it initially appears to be: https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/oh/cincinnati/3950-winding-way/pid_18654989/ Someone is going to drop a little bit of cash on repairs and end up with a world class home, for the price of a cookie cutter suburban house. That one isn't even in a rough or unpopular place, either, it's probably one of the nicest streets in North Avondale.

I came across this gem of a line graph in a Cincinnati Enquirer article. I've been a big fan of stupid graphs - be them misleading, pointless, etc. - since I first picked up an Edward Tufte book as a freshmen in college. That said, I think it has to be one of the most useless graphs I've ever happened upon by accident: