Quimbob

Yes, my main experience is on the 17 and yes, when the drivers try to discipline kids, it frequently results in more drama. Kid in the back of the bus screaming obscenities at the driver..... I have never seen a driver successfully toss someone off the bus - they always have to call the cops. This makes people give up and quit riding the bus. Dealing with obnoxious kids who drag their butts on and off the bus screws up the timetable. When the driver gets behind schedule, when he is distracted by kids fighting on the bus, he might miss a waiting customer. I have been pushed, poked, cursed and insulted by black teenagers. I have had a couple problems with white adults, a handful of problems with black adults, no problems with white teenagers, Asians, Indians or Africans. Then, there are the mentally handicapped........ I figured I'd get some crap for calling out a particular group of people, but I was not blaming a whole race for starting global conflict - just a larger than small group for making bus riding a horrible experience.

This should probably be a separate thread, but what do you think would improve it ? Banning black teenagers would be the first thing that comes to my mind. To narrow it down a bit, ban black female teenagers. If you are having a hard time now, wait til September.

Stripper law may go to voters By Laura A. Bischoff Friday, August 24, 2007 COLUMBUS — Citizens for Community Standards continues to collect 8,000 to 9,000 petition signatures every day, with the goal of gathering 450,000 so that they easily clear the required 241,366 valid voter signatures needed to put a repeal of Ohio's new stripper law on the November ballot, said lobbyist Neil Clark. The law is scheduled to take effect Sept. 3 but will likely be blocked once signatures are turned in, said Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner. Then county boards of elections have 10 days to check signatures and report back to Brunner's office. If Citizens for Community Standards lacks enough valid signatures, it has 10 more days to collect enough. Read More...

Anyway, if we are ever out on a dark, foggy night, I'm taking a cab.

"the dot one is a bit more euro?-for lack of a better word...highlighted are the major urban areas of the state in addition to our 2 amazing bodies of H2O." I thought it looked more like a sampler - which would be kinda cool, too, as it would definitely show diversity along with the oldstyle charm kinda thing.

Unicorn polo could get pretty interesting.

oops ok, I made this before the homage condition was made. Working from some traditional American imagery towards building towards the future ? Although, I kinda like the cow thing.

^Infected ?

Popeye's - but I get sick of the stupidity, surliness, racism and mismanagement of the one in Cinti's West End and usually just go biscuit-free. KFC is usually just stupid. 15 minutes for a taco ? AFTER waiting to order !

How can you be so sure #37 is Findlay ?

Doesn't that actually prove her point ? I don't want to defend this lady but, from a federal/interstate POV, bicycles kinda aren't viable transportation.

Planning on taking a road trip soon and, since the days of fiddling with the radio to pick up local stations as you traveled are pretty much gone, I was going to compile a road disk. So I was wondering what people's favorite road tunes were. Route 66 & King of the Road have been staples of the past. Jaguar & Thunderbird is going to have to go in.

Well, she's probably in shock. Lookit the the expression on the guy's face and the way he is pointing at her !

Conventions ?

I am pretty sure Crowley is a big supporter of rape, armed robbery and break-ins too, Michael.

uh, so how was the roasted marrow ?

I found this interesting http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php/content/comments/the_other_side_ron_brown_lawn_mower_lover_and_vacuum_collector/ I never saw Brown's property and I do not know who he or this Dapper guy are.

Well, I think they are just ripping off the old Apple advertising campaign, "Think Different" (that had some pretty funny parodies). Northside has a lot of professionals, actually. The number of graphic artists (who probably use Macs) constantly amazes me. Still, I think they should be doing more to market the area as a place to buy a home and as a place to start a business.

I like the term - controversialist.

I got this flyer promoting Northside from a local realtor a week or so ago. Inside are a list of some of the businesses in the neighborhood (bars, restaurants, retail, hair salons) with index numbers and one panel has a map that shows the locations by the index numbers. It's interesting. I don't know how the neighborhood business association plans to distribute it. Frankly it kinda looks like preaching to the choir to me.

The first one looks like a "Welcome to Ohio" highway sign. Mr Curve - that is really impressive to come up with those designs so quickly !

Is the depiction of inter-species sexual activity ok ?

My avatar is a picture of a bobblehead of Cap'n Spaulding, a character from a pair of movies, House of 1,000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects. For an idea of what he's about: [youtube=425,350]bUWETHlMxZk or this one, which only scratches the surface and isn't exactly appropriate for UO

From the Desk of David Pogue: Apple Takes a Step Back With iMovie '08 ========================================================== Last week, Apple released a new version of its iLife suite- its $80 package containing iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and GarageBand. The suite also comes preinstalled on every new Mac. The enhancements in iPhone, iWeb and GarageBand are great. But iMovie '08 is an utter bafflement. Most people are used to a product cycle that goes like this: Release a new version every year or two, each more capable than the last. Ensure that it's backward-compatible with your existing documents. IMovie '08, on the other hand, has been totally misnamed. It's not iMovie at all. In fact, it's nothing like its predecessor and contains none of the same code or design. It's designed for an utterly different task, and a lot of people are screaming bloody murder. The new iMovie was, as Apple admits, designed primarily for throwing together movies quickly. It lets you scan through a clip to see what's in it, isolate the good parts, and rapidly drop them into a sequence. But iMovie 6 was just as good at those tasks; you could scrub through, chop and drag its clips just as easily. Meanwhile, iMovie '08 is incapable of the more sophisticated editing that the old iMovie made so enjoyable. The old iMovie offered the essential tools of professional programs like Final Cut Pro without the cost or complexity. The new iMovie, for example, is probably the only video- editing program on the market with no timeline-no horizontal, scrolling strip that displays your clips laid end to end, with their lengths representing their durations. You have no indication of how many minutes into your movie you are. The new iMovie gets a D for audio editing. You can choose one piece of music to put behind the video, but that's it. You can't manually adjust audio levels during a scene (for example, to make the music quieter when someone is speaking). You can't extract the audio from a clip. The program creates a fade-out at the end of an audio clip, but you can't control its length or curve. All the old audio effects are gone, too. No pitch changing, high-pass and low-pass filters, or reverb. The new iMovie doesn't accept plug-ins, either. For years, I've relied on GeeThree.com's iMovie plug-ins to achieve effects like picture-in-picture, bluescreen and subtitles. That's all over now. You can't add chapter markers for use in iDVD, which is supposed to be integrated with iMovie. Bookmarks are gone. "Themes" are gone. You can no longer export only part of a movie. All visual effects are gone-even basic options like slow motion, reverse motion, fast motion, and black-and-white. And you can't have more than one project open at a time. Incredibly, the new iMovie can't even convert older iMovie projects. All you can import is the clips themselves. None of your transitions, titles, credits, music, or special effects are preserved. On top of all that, this more limited iMovie has steep horsepower requirements that rule out most computers older than about two years old. To be sure, the new version has some cool features. You can send a completed video to YouTube with one menu command; the color-correction and frame-cropping tools are unprecedented in a consumer program; and you can really, truly delete unwanted pieces of your clips, thus reclaiming hard drive space. (iMovie and Final Cut, on the other hand, preserve an entire 20-minute clip on your hard drive even if you've used only 3 seconds of it.) It's also worth pointing out that iMovie '08 creates titles, crossfades and color adjustments instantly. There's no "rendering" time, as there is in Final Cut or the old iMovie. So you gain an exhilarating freedom to play, to fiddle with the timing and placement of things. But honestly. To rephrase (and sanitize) the wailing on the discussion boards: What the [bleep]! What was Apple thinking? Apple says that it was thinking: "It's 1.0. We'll bring it up to par with free software updates, like we always do." Internally, I'm guessing that it was also thinking, "iMovie had gotten pretty old, and it was haunted by some intractable bugs." And also, perhaps, "iMovie was getting so powerful, it was taking sales away from Final Cut." But it must also have been thinking, "Then again, it is a little embarrassing to take so many steps backward." That's why, with what I imagine is a certain degree of sheepishness, the company is offering a free download of the previous iMovie version to anyone who has iMovie '08. In that regard, all the wailing is a bit overblown; Apple is not actually taking away the older version. The only real raw part of the deal is that people who pay $80 for a new software rev expect an enhanced version-not another copy of the old one. I can't remember any software company pulling a stunt like this before: throwing away a fully developed, mature, popular program and substituting a bare-bones, differently focused program under the same name. I've used the real iMovie to edit my Times videos for three years now. The results are perfectly convincing as professional video blog work. But the new version is totally unusable for that purpose. It's unusable, in fact, for anyone doing professional work that requires any degree of precision. I can't help thinking that Apple would have done better to call a spade a spade, and give the new program a different name. Call it FlyMovie, or ByeMovie, or WhyMovie. But one thing's for sure: it sure isn't iMovie.

I guess this constitutes a new stage in the evolution of the creation museum. sorry, couldn't help it.