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People tend to focus on their own retail experiences with Sears and Kmart locations more than Sears as a company overall. Many larger retailers these days are financial firms more than they are stores. Sears makes a ton of money off of the Sears card and extended warranties. People still buy a lot of tools, home/garden equipment, appliances and electronics from them and they are making rental income off of those dentist's offices, eye doctors and whatnot. They also have those auto centers that seem quite profitable and all those home improvement/maintenance services. Sears is also very popular with Latinos. And, I bet they still own a lot of real estate. So, even if you prefer buying clothing or cologne somewhere else and your suburban friends can find stuff cheaper at Wal-Mart, don't write off Sears just yet. Ever notice how they are one of the last ones to close in a dead mall? Wal-Mart might shut down before they do since Wal-Mart's success is largely based on low fuel costs paired with fancy computer systems rather than services and financial products. Even GameStop has moved in a financial direction. Pre-orders? Financial instruments. Disc scratch insurance? Financial instrument. Extended warranties? Financial instruments. Notice how they're always trying to get you to subscribe to Game Informer when you're in there? They're making sure that their publishing arm continues to make money.

I just can't get into these "good beers". These days, people will really hassle you if you only drink cheap stuff, but I just can't handle the strong flavors. I feel like I'm being bowled over usually. But, I never eat things like hot sauce, spicy foods, mayonnaise, ranch and tartar sauce either and don't drink coffee. Hell, I barely ever drink pop. On the other hand, I despise light beer because it makes me really hungry. Budweiser and Busch are what I drink the most. Man, in the '80s Budweiser sponsored everything. You watch any motorsports from back then and it's like a really long Bud commercial. Even stuff that's aimed at children today, such as monster trucks, was a Budweiser festival. They also had dip trucks like the Skoal Crusher and Renegades instead of the puppy trucks you see these days.

Depnding on who's counting, I'm either an Xer or a Millennial. I don't know anybody my age who had that kind of upbringing and I also don't know anyone who is say, 26 now who had it either. Perhaps we're too tough here in Ohio for that; must be people in wuss states doing that.

Well, that map took up a large portion of my time today. I've also heard Victory Parkway referred to as "Bloody Pike". Was it ever tolled? Sounds unlikely.

^He's saying that the Baby Boomers spent decades telling younger people that McJobs suck, portrayed those with ones as losers and told their own children to never settle for one, but now all of a sudden they're saying that people should take anything they can get and not complain. I read that article a couple weeks ago. John Cheese nailed it. I remember that OU was still using TELNET for e-mail when I went back to OU-Lancaster for a summer class in 2001. You couldn't mistype your arcane assigned e-mail address or password on login because backspace was considered a character. If you screwed it up you'd just have to start over again. I amazed my friends by using a TELNET client that I found online to access school e-mail from home; none of them thought it was possible.

The Las Vegas monorail probably has the lowest sober ridership of all transit systems.

Maybe Urban Ohio will become Urban's favorite Ohio site.

Spoken like Mike Brown.

Looks like an opportunity to build a run of lighter "R" or "S" versions of cars without the insulation and sound deadening material!

This is the first time that I can think of that OSU has gotten a head coach that's already been hugely successful on the national stage. Before, they would promote from within or bring 'em up from smaller schools.

That's like staring at TV turned on to a channel without a broadcast on it for 85 minutes. You don't get to see, learn or experience anything about America. And besides, there's something about a train that's magic..... What a coincidence, that movie was just on the other night.

A few years of crappy Michigan teams have taught us in Columbus that it's no fun when Michigan's no good. It is the year 2009... Guy 1: "RAGE!!! SLAUGHTER THE TEAM UP NORTH!!!" Guy 2: "That shouldn't be much of a problem this year..." Guy 1: "OF COURSE NOT! BUCKEYESSSSSSSS!!!!" Guy 2: "I mean, they're coming in 5-6. Won't be much of a game." Guy 1: "WELL SCROOOOO USC THEN!!! NUKE THE ENTIRE STATE OF FLORIDA! KILL ALL THE SEC!!! AND I STILL HATE NOTRE DAME!!!!" Guy 2: (thinking to self) 'Hmm, I hope Michigan is better next year.'

Man, it was strange almost never seeing the 50-yard line on TV this week. Nobody could get past their own 40.

They just call you (immediately after you click 'call me') and an automated system speaks a numerical code for you to type into a box on the site. I've had to do it with several websites for my business.

Which means that not only do renters pay property taxes by having them passed through to them by their landlords, but they actually pay a higher rate than owner-occupied homeowners in Hamilton County. Yet tons of idiots still think renters pay no property taxes.

We got the internet when I was 16. It took maybe a year for me to learn how to use it properly i.e. avoid viruses, cite things properly, not be an ass on USENET, figure out which websites are dodgy. That was with little help from the outside since the it wasn't mainstream yet. Of course, my folks still can't figure it out because they hadn't grown up around other electronic things besides radios and TVs.

What Columbus has done is gotten very good at snatching modern warehouse and retail space out of township hands before suburbs could. With those being the big drivers of employment these days, they help Columbus proper's numbers.

Oh boy, a train horn. They'll get out of your way for sure. Looks like a fun truck.

If you ask me, they shouldn't even teach kids about the internet at school since they're almost all going to learn how to use it on their own. Sure, teach 'em work skills such as Word, Excel, web design, CADD and Photoshop as electives and cover netiquette somewhere, but imagine if schools wasted actual class time (not recess) on bike riding, hoop rolling, roller skating or watching cartoons in the old days. That's what surfing the net, online gaming and such are today. Kids get home from school and hang out on the internet until bed. Then they go to school the next day and the schools saying "we gotta get kids really good at the internet" and have them spend 3 hours of the school day reteaching them stuff they've known how to do for five years. The computer teachers know this, but the curriculum people don't.

What color is your '92 Bronco?

^Heh, sure enough it is. Seems like a lot of times it gets left out but I checked the Census website and there it was.

$25 of it was for "other", which was lawn care and trash. But, after I got a washer it got pushed up to $100+ some months. I really didn't use that much, either.

Hmm, I don't think I've ever been through there.

People played, but they were all too busy building Chevrolets and working the fields. So you had a ton of people who could do G,C and D and sing old country songs. But, since more advanced techniques were much harder to find information about and sheet music of the time was mostly the 1-4-5 stuff too, you usually had to go on your Crossroads journey to Mississippi, Western Virginia, NYC, Chicago's South Side or Birmingham, England to learn your chosen sound's techniques. No going on down to the music shop in 1971 to buy a Zeppelin tab book, for sure. Even if somebody could pick out riffs, when they'd show 'em to ya they'd be all barre chords instead of power chords, or they'd bust out a capo for a song that didn't use it because a lot of people hated barre chords back then.

What's Morrow County doing in Columbus' MSA in the article?