GCrites

Yea I bet that went over great. About as good as the proposed NASCAR track there.

“Pitting the Top 10 of 1974 against what’s being listened to at the moment gives 2011 little, except blatant language, to be ashamed of. “The Way We Were” is a scientific experiment to test whether saccharin causes cancer. Worse, it causes a Barbra Streisand/Robert Redford movie. “Seasons in the Sun” by Terry Jacks is the world’s worst popular song. Although 1974’s No. 1 hit, Paul Anka’s “(You’re) Having My Baby” could mitigate that rating. “Dancing Machine” does more to tarnish the memory of the Jackson 5 than Michael did. “Bennie and the Jets” is the most annoying song ever written by Elton John, though not for lack of trying. Exempli gratia baby boomers Grand Funk Railroad, in their cover of “The Loco-Motion,” subtracted what modest charm there was from Little Eva’s 1962 original. I confess to a sentimental fondness for “Love’s Theme” by Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra, but that’s because it was playing on the stereo 37 years ago while I was doing something I shouldn’t have been. And then there’s “The Streak” by Ray Stevens, a rare example of a popular tune that provokes the opposite of nostalgia—notstalgia. Goodbye 1974, and don’t let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.” -P. J. O'Rourke Classic Rock stations of the '80s, '90s and early-mid 2000s (we might still have a lot of rock stations here in Ohio/Pittsburgh/Detroit/Indy but most other places don't anymore) paint a horribly inaccurate picture of what was really big in the '70s on the radio and the charts. If you believe Classic Rock radio, the '70s were a majestic Zeppelin-led odyssey through meadows populated by other mystical, cloaked acts such as Rush, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Clapton's bands, Black Sabbath and The Who, with a final stop for some sibling-like horseplay with Aerosmith and The Stones. BZZZZZZZZZZZZTTTTT. Go back and look at the charts, radio playlists and the bulk of the vinyl you see in the racks of record stores that don't reject 75% of the vinyl people bring in. The real '70s party was full of Bread, Anne Murray, Gordon Lightfoot, The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Cher, Olivia Newton-John, Barbara Streisand the Bee Gees etc. Instead, Classic Rock radio focused on what suburban teens smoked pot to, not what was actually part of the national consciousness. Even I'm old enough to remember when you'd seldom hear any kind of harder Rock on TV shows or in movies and never, ever in commercials. Normal People Stuff was over here and Rock was Over There. Normal People gave up on Rock when the Beatles split.

I'll avoid this during lunch.

He's gotta win a statewide election, not just an out-of-the-way fiefdom like some House members do.

That rendering came out very historical looking "In this daguerreotype from the mid 1870s, the EIFS details of the old Hampton Inn are quite apparent. A fire in the 1890s forced the city to raze the structure."

I wouldn't doubt that. The print demo is much different than the web demo and upper management doesn't want to alienate the print people out in Georgetown.

Oh man, love Then & Nows.

Ink looks grossed out in Portsmouth pic #4. Was it one of those days where Portsmouth smells like jizz? I don't remember that particular arcade in Huntington. Wait, doesn't Huntington have two historic arcades?

sounds like it could be one of those family fun centers that open up in abandoned Krogers and inevitably close down within four months after losing $750,000.

I don't like a lot of these schools anymore located within tiny towns that don't have any jobs around. Students need to be able to work part-time, to network and to be able to find a job without moving. I think the big-city schools are becoming more important since networking is so much more critical today than in the past in many fields. Finding a part time job was really tough in Portsmouth, for example, since there were tons of 40-year-olds that needed minimum wage work there and didn't have the time constraints that the students did. And if your folks made more than $50K a year you weren't allowed to work at the university.

If American schools switched to Asian teaching styles, American parents would immediately go bonkers and would demand the old system back... yesterday. even if it lasted 10-20 years, they'd never get used to it and wouldn't let up until the old system was back.

And what EVD thinks is rote memorization going on in China and Korea is actually the more effective "flunky method" because the kids spend tons of time on each piece of material to make sure they really know it in and out. But they don't study 7-13 different subjects in one day like our kids do and have all those ups and downs with subjects they like and ones they don't throughout the day.

Anybody who really wants rail transit up here just leaves. Or never moves here in the first place. There's enough other cities in this nation that already have it that they don't mind bolting for it. People aren't as willing to leave Cincinnati at the drop of a hat like they are up here. And that's also why Columbus has so much apathy toward the city government. No need to care if you can just bolt or if you just got here and know you will be leaving again in a few years. Be glad you have people in your city who actually care.

The problem with rote memorization is that kids only remember the little factoids until the test is over. They never learn how things actually work or care. That's why so many kids who test well are duds in real life and how flunkies can tear past them by their mid 20s. The flunky took the time to learn how it worked, but it took him longer than was allotted before the test since he had to learn everything about it and how it fit in the bigger picture. That's why they ask so many "dumb questions" instead of just burning it into short-term memory like the "smart kids" do.

You can't start suing people for voting. That breaks democracy.

Rote memorization left the education world many moons ago.

Also, in many Asian countries there's a lot of things that Americans all know that get left out of the curriculum. Things like animal knowledge, how the human body works and how to play musical instruments. Only if the students specialize in those things will they learn them. Very little in the way of school sports as well.

No, but you like to take pix.

I will lead the both of you on a Groveport photo tour and you will walk off devastated.

Groveport gets a bad rep for things that are not actually Groveport. Places like the unremarkable Noe-Bixby area that is 5 miles away from actual Groveport and the Madison Mills area near Williams Rd. that is also Not Groveport. All that warehouse stuff near Rickenbacker and Lockbourne is also Not Groveport, really. Actual Groveport has a fascinating history going back to the mid-1800s and is definite UO material.

Metrobot rules!

Oh man, there has been talk of this for many years. I lived in Groveport until I was 12. That reporter lived there too, down the street from me. Picture it, the year is 1984 and GCrites80s is 5. The reporter's older brother (or cousin, can't remember) and him show up to my house and the older one is doing that smoking fingers gag that you used to buy at the joke store. I'd never seen it before and start freaking out. Mom wasn't helping either by playing along. Brian was like 4 and also was in on it. It was a traumatic day.

How about in the evenings and on weekends? Saturday is a big big day in retail.

Where can I complain about the comma splice?

That's a popular hobby stock, but be aware that most institutional investors have divested themselves of the company because they feel it is overvalued. They've already made their money. You should go to the shareholder's meeting and push them to work on a standardized form factor and swapability for the batteries so that the company is actually able to reach the potential you see in the stock.