Grumpy

And letter to the plain dealer sent...

My degree is in "general studies", I've found it's pretty useless for getting a job, but it's useful for something to hang on the wall of my cubicle and hide the stain from where I accidently splashed coffee when I did a combination cough/sneeze/hiccup a few months ago.

Does anyone know who we should contact at the PD to see if they're interesting in looking into what went wrong, why it hasn't gotten fixed yet, and what RTA intends to do about it? Maybe Karen Farkas, she seems to be the reporter that covers most trasportation issues.

And the top looks much better than what was proposed for public square.

Was that the tortoise they thought was a female and kept wondering why it wasn't laying eggs till someone looked a little closer?

I'm afraid of loud noses.

^I'll take 515 over either of those. The example from Santa Monica is a complete mess whether it's leed certified or not. The Zaha Hadid example in Miami Beach looks beautiful but doesn't interact with the street or have any retail component like 515.

It's a 200 million dollar renovation to both make it more energy efficient, and bomb resistant.

Most Soldiers do get a couple weeks of leave halfway through a deployment.

WV

If you want to start a thread on the advantages of turning East Cleveland into South Africa, go ahead. He seems to have the drive to get some things done, and the willingness to try something unconventional, which are important parts of the recipe.

I was thinking more of modern South Africa with its rampant crime and violence.

Enclosed Neighborhoods and gated communities? Really?

Besides there's still plenty of parking off campus if you want it. (But again, it does require walking.)

Isn't there already a tunnel?

Close. Try: can't read, can't write, Kent State. Close enough.

Kent read, Kent write, Kent State!

Better than Slymans? About equal IMO.

No, he steals purses on the Rapid.

Thanks for the photos. I'm really happy with how fast that's going up.

I would guess that that awning was removed to make it easier for deliveries to be made on E 6th. The loading docks for public hall are on that side.

The Tea Party didn't spring up till after the bank bailouts and Obama's stimulus package (a follow up to Bush's stimulus) were already passed. So you're mostly correct, but I have a feeling they'd have sprung up no matter what the president did, they're more upset about the president being elected then they are about anything he did. In reality, the Tea Party will die down significantly if Obama loses the election, it's hard to get people riled up when your guy is in office (Hence the reason Occupy took so long to get off the ground and to rile up liberals.) On the other hand if Obama is reelected, that might hurt the tea party a little bit too, because the loss will make some of the less dedicated feel hopeless. As far as mass transit, I'm still reminded of the tea party rally in DC a couple years ago where the tea partiers were complaining about the overcrowding on the metro on the way to the rally. Delicious Irony.

In 2005 the missus and I visited Cleveland for a long weekend (I was home on leave from Iraq). It's been a few years so I don't remember everything we did, but we hiked around CVNP, briefly looked at the Art Museum (it was under construction so we couldn't see much), enjoyed the animals at the zoo, drank too much somewhere in the warehouse district, sat on the beach in edgewater, walked the whole length of Rockefeller park to see the cultural gardens, then drove around a handful of neighborhoods and dreamed of the day we could buy a home in one of them. (Apparently I like walking)

You can do stones/pebbles without a ton of chemicals if you put down a good barrier beneath them first, but you'll still have occasional weeds to pull. So it won't really help reduce the amount of work you do (which is the reason most of us get rid of grass.) I've let some English Ivy take over most of my backyard (it's well shaded), but haven't figured out something that works well in my front (full sun) that won't break the bank, be hard for the kids to play on, or require more work than the lawn. I've got some flower beds that are getting a little bigger each year, and I assume they'll eventually take over the whole front.

I never noticed they're color-coded -- I had to go down to the street to see for myself! Yep, you're right! But I don't see what color on the buses they correspond with. By looking at the bus, what is its color coding? Yeah that is the issue there is no color coding on the bus. I think Baltimore has a similar system of buses that run around, and those buses do match the coloring. Seems like there could be a few options for making the colors line up with the buses. If I recall correctly (which is doubtful) when RTA started the trolleys, they looked into color coding them, but decided against it because it prevented them from having a bus switch back and forth between routes to cover breaks, lunches, breakdowns, etc. Having trolleys dedicated to a single route would be more expensive and reduce their flexibility. Besides, if they had Red trolleys for the B line, and Blue for the E line, would they need to get all new ones to run some sort of hybrid line on the weekends like they've proposed? Now with that being said, they could probably do a better job communicating which line they are. For example, the B line sign could flip back and forth between "B Line" and "Public Square to E 12" instead of whatever if flips to currently. As far as QR codes, they're not as helpful as a map for those elderly folks like KJP, ( :-P ) but because they wouldn't have to be updated as often if a schedule changes, they could be really useful for RTA, and I'm thinking RTA could use them at a lot more than just trolley stops. Would it be terribly expensive to put them at every RTA shelter system wide? There have been lots of times I was sitting at a shelter somewhere waiting for a bus but didn't have a schedule on me for it (or had a schedule but didn't know it was out of date till I'd been sitting there for 15 minutes) and it would be great to be able to quickly look up when the next bus is coming. Sure I could go to RTA's website, but it's not exactly the most mobile friendly site around.