GCrites

If they had worked that kind of stuff themselves, they'd know how much worse work can suck than at a 9-5 desk job and how grateful people who have done that work would be to work at a job where you don't have to constantly worry about getting badly injured, have to work every night and weekend or be considered work peers of men who are taking a short break from prison.

They like bands that wound up on movie soundtracks a lot in order to draw the attention of movie and TV people that don't pay that much mind to the music world.

She's from that really high energy 5% of people that doesn't go batshit insane from a schedule like that. That's how they want us all to be, but we just can't.

I just don't get this phone stuff, so I guess it's just one of those things that I might not feel is necessary but others really enjoy. Que sera sera.

"And now you know. And knowing is half the battle!" I can always count on GCrites to make an obscure 80's reference that takes me on the way back machine. Oh, I can get way more obscure that broadcast television shows from the U.S.

Are you talking about the used video game store? I think that guy moved his shop to Northgate.

Smirnoff Ice seemed quite a bit heavier than Zima to me. I'd buy a six-pack or two of Zima if they made it again. It could become the next PBR if '90s nostalgia ever kicks in. '80s nostalgia was already a thing by 1995, but the '90s just doesn't seem to be happening (maybe a little of the early '90s because they were so incredibly nutty). I think it's because the '90s never totally went away except for the full-color look to everything. Anyway, I was too young for a Dry beer, Red Dog or anything like that at the time. I would also give those a shot. All those beers that they advertised on MTV before they stopped accepting alcohol ads because too few adults were watching MTV.

Biking does seem to have an especially big stigma in the black community at least from the outside. Like the minute someone makes enough money to drive a car the bike gets tossed aside for being embarrassing. Correct me if I'm wrong, white guy here.

The stop I used in Oakley was still just an orange stripe on a light pole through early 2009. Interestingly, once the smartphone-addicted generations (or people with some crazy implant) are the vast majority of the population, orange stripes might suffice once again.

I don't understand why this is really necessary at a sporting event that you paid a ton of money and took up valuable weekend time to attend. Internet should be for when you are bored.

I drank a ton of Zima as a teen becuase climbing the "all beer not tasting like crap" mountain took a long time for me.

When did they fix the orange paint on the poles thing? I've only visited since moving away in 2009.

Cleveland's market is ranked 18th, while Cincinnati is 35th Does Akron have TV stations or is it served by Cleveland's? (As in, does CLE not get the benefit of the Akron metro for MSA purposes but does for TV market purposes.) The Cleveland-Akron DMA (Designated Market Area, media equivalent of MSA) includes stations in Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Alliance. So, while Akron might have its own stations, it it still a part of the same DMA as Cleveland. I actually don't know if that fully answers your question, though.

You put slicks on your road car?

There are so many nerds now that it's practically unbelievable. It's like the default male archetype now. So I don't get surprised when I see that stuff any more. And I'm not just saying that because of the industry that I am in -- it's been like that for longer than I've been around the game biz. Since 2005 at least.

Or too much old RAM around!

I wonder if there's too many non-native Cincinnatians attending UC to keep the Gold Stars open these days.

I didn't know this until now. I looked it up -- they wouldn't let them call the park Budweiser Field back then, so they just named it after the Busch family. Then the next year the brought out the beer. Very interesting.

Is it even legal for government to force someone to get on the internet? My mother is 70 and cannot figure out Windows, the internet, mice and all that. She tried for years and spend hundreds of dollars on tutors and just can't -- even though she used a DOS computer terminal for years at various jobs.

Cop cars can already read thousands of license plates per hour with a special camera placed on the fender.

^yea, to get companies to move downtown, you sometimes gotta convince sprawl-worshiping CEO's, boards and other management members to move back, whereas individual residents get to make their own decision to move more often.

I've drank hundreds of "good beers" and didn't like a single one.

Maybe you arch folks have some insight into this -- when a building is three stories tall that's the max for not having to put an elevator in, right? And at six stories is when you have to put in a much more elaborate fire safety system in, correct (at least in Columbus that's how it is)? So that's why you don't see as many four story buildings built because you might as well do five if you're going to be spending $500,000+ on a couple elevators.

You know, I kinda had a sense that something may have been wrong with him while I was making breakfast some time last week without knowing anything. Strange how that sort of thing works.

Lemme guess, you ride a BMW or KTM ;) One time, I saw a couple guys on BMWs purposefully head in the direction of a storm.