Grumpy

There really isn't that much to see. Maybe I was expecting too much, but it looked like a few dozen really small plants at a couple of spots throughout the mall.

You mean like this? http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,4446.0.html

I'll second that.

http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,22385.msg466860.html#msg466860

Didn't we used to have a thread like this that got killed last year?

I have a suggestion. How about running during daylight hours? Seriously, the Capital limited is about 16 hours end to end, so if you leave DC around 6am you could get to Chicago around 9pm.

This reminds me of ordering a beer at McDonalds in Vienna just because I could.

I found much of the video pointlessly uninformed, but on this point I agree. I'd rather see us spending stimulus money on commuter rail than intercity rail. By building commuter rail we'd have the stations in the cities, the ROW to get to them, so they could be seen as a down payment on inter-city rail. On top of that, the average person can see the advantages to commuter rail, while inter-city requires far more convincing.

If it is planned correctly, the transition from freeway to roadway won't be as jarring. I'm not saying it has been planned that well, but it could be. As an example I -480 ends and turns into St Rt 14 in Streetsboro and within a mile drops from 65 (though most traffic is doing 75) down to 35. I used to drive through there everyday and never had a problem transitioning. I don't see why it would be so much harder here. Though I do have to say, if they're not going to bother with intersections, 45 would seem more reasonable even for a tree lined boulevard.

Might want to reconsider that wording Ludwig Mies van der Rohe? I guess you could call him important. Dull, but important.

I'm not arguing in favor of "rural quietude", I'm saying I enjoy having a conversation in a fairly normal tone of voice in my backyard or on the sidewalk with my neighbors. I'm sure there are exceptions but I would imagine most people living in the city would like that too. Asking people to take an extra couple minutes on a prettier calmer road so that the people living along this route can do that doesn't seem like such a big inconvenience to me.

Now you're arguing in favor of sprawl?

Where is MTS anyway? It's been months since I've seen him post. My money is on Vancouver.

Stand a hundred feet from a 55mph freeway, then go stand a hundred feet from a road with a 35 or 40mph speed limit. The difference is in the sound, and vibration. For example, my house is about half a mile from a 5 lane 35mph road, and I can't hear a thing from that direction except the occasional siren. In the opposite direction about a mile away is a 6 lane 60 mph freeway that I can constantly hear a rumble from. If I walk to within a few blocks of that freeway, I can feel the ground vibrate when a large truck goes by.

True, but the rest of that movie wasn't nearly as good. Plus the snakes creaped me out. I, like Indy, hate snakes.

Do you mean 490?

Yup, right after the guy chose the wrong cup.

My current favorites in no particular order... Monty Python and the Holy Grail (The ending is bad and anticlimatic, but otherwise this is the best comedy ever made IMO) Fiddler on the Roof (Best Musical ever) Princess Bride (Silly, but fun adventure story, I can't watch it without smiling) Slumdog Millionare (Sad, funny, romantic, intense, what's not to love?) Office Space (Have you seen my stapler?) Godfather (The first one is great, the second is just good, the third is just ok) The Matrix (Though provoking, plus lots of action, me likey) Good Will Hunting (Best date movie I ever saw on a date) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Fun, adventure, a little action, a little face melting, good stuff)

DWB?

Thanks for posting this, I'm going to have to go check it out at lunch today.

More like the next generation of goth IMO.

Or if you really like the zoo, membership isn't that much and the crowds are much smaller the other days of the week.

Conservatives have finally figured out that the library is socialist, and started buying books instead of getting them for free from a government operated facility? :-D

I'd be willing to bet he does know better, but he also knows that the average voter doesn't know anything about it. He's just playing the populist role knowing that right now there's a lot of anger about perceived waste within the government. Yes, but does the average voter think about it? I doubt the average voter will hear tax cut and wonder "what services are they going to cut to keep that budget balanced?" Right or wrong, a large part of the public considers the 3C a waste of money. These are the same people that think public transit is a waste of money. We've got lots of them in Ohio and they make up a significant portion of voters. By pointing out the problems with the 3C he can point out something that appears to be a waste of money and argue that Strickland is a poor choice to oversee a tight budget. To the uneducated (on this issue) this will make sense.

In my opinion, as far as sports teams go, I'd rather have a bad team than no team. Even a bad team gives us something to come together and gripe about. Without the Browns and the embarrassment they've been over the decades I don't know what I'd have done with my Sunday afternoons in the fall for most of my life. Sat and watched some other city's team win or lose and be jealous? How is that better than watching OUR team lose? And if I lived in some city without a baseball team, what would I do with those couple nights a year when I like to go watch a game? Watching on TV is no match to being at the game in person. Even a loss isn't that bad when you have cheap tickets but move down to the good seats after a couple innings when you see that the ballpark is half empty. Besides even in a losing season, the Indians win plenty of games. The excitement running through the Jake last year when the indians scored off a ball hitting a seagull was something you just can't match when you're watching the game on a screen. Misery wise, I'll take a bad team over no team.