Rusty Shackleford

Honestly, parts of this pie tasted and felt like that 59 cent frozen pizza. No exaggeration. I'll try it sometime, not very soon... Dayton square cut pizza is a completely unique style of pizza I'm very nostalgic for. It seems like very few places want to do it right anymore. Joe's is very good but it's not that particular style. Just one place I know of, Ron's in Miamisburg, does that type very consistently.

Not real news but my take on an iconic local pizza restaurant that decided to destroy their product. Marion's Piazza has become miserable. https://www.yelp.com/biz/marions-piazza-centerville-3?hrid=zMIeEJ71yS95k7fi-UWNMQ&utm_campaign=www_review_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct) (If this is the wrong place for a review please PM me if you need to delete - thx)

Thanks again.

Thanks for taking the time to answer, Rich. So are you using an open source/free version of the board? Did you have to pay for anything to make this move happen? I saw a comment in another thread that BB codes don't work here (yet) and that is a bit odd. Low number of 3rd party mods? Can't be much worse than SMF. When I adopted SMF years ago, it was VERY painful to migrate the board I owned from a hosted provider (Yuku, now Tapatalk) to MySQL and SMF. It seemed like there was a LOT of stuff around to support SMF but it was all crude, semi-outdated in instances, and very DIY in nature. I notice that the theme you're using is almost mobile compatible. In SMF with the default theme, on a cell phone my forum looks like a postage stamp. When I switch to a WAP view it's super primitive texty. This seems a lot nicer.

Hi, I see with great interest that you moved away from SMF (Simple Machines Forum) to something called Invision Forums. Congratulations on what looks like a fairly smooth site transition! Such a big move is normally a PITA and I sympathize. My questions, as a current SMF site owner who was motivated by UO's experience to move my own community to SMF years ago: What in particular drove this move? IMO, SMF is extremely dated and very, very hard to extend. It's got the DNA of old internet farts refusing to come to terms with the web past 2005 or so. I recently added a message box to my SMF encouraging not-logged-in visitors to register. This is a very basic community site function today but there was NO add-on in SMF to do this. It took forever to find the correct places in template files to add the change. Do you host this forum on your own server? It looks like it's self hosted with a "community" open source edition. How's the server load after this move compared to SMF? How was the migration away from SMF? Was it DIY or did you pay for help? As much as I criticize SMF it has been rock solid. Thanks for any thoughts.

Here's my soapbox topic: I'm very disappointed that many vintage threads on this site - and this is not just a problem on UO, it pervades the entire old style forum landscape - are littered with either the "friendly" PhotoBucket "Your image hosting has expired" message boxes, or, the blanks left when someone's web hosting they had their images on goes belly up. There are tons of posts from the 2006-2012 era, for instance, where there are simply no images. The most conspicuous (to me) example of this is the output of our departed friend Robert Pence. I loved his photography... his stuff has just vaporized because he self-hosted. It was all gone after about a year of his passing. I didn't intend to get into preaching or suggestions, but I had one thought: A terrific inexpensive host that is suitable for images and is reliable is nearlyfreespeech.net. I use one site I host on it like my own private uncensorable Imgur. You fund your account from Paypal, and if you set up a site on your account without a MySQL database or CGI - in other words, just a plain static web space - the expense of running the site per month is literally a few pennies. You can upload images from FTP that should be around for years - assuming you put in enough money to keep it going. And, you don't even need to keep a domain registered and paid - you can create a secondary domain under theirs. On NFS, money is deducted from your account to cover storage and bandwidth. If you funded your account with $50 it would probably serve a couple hundred meg of your images for the next 5 years. I just think all commercial image sites suck by not respecting legacy content. I know they gotta make a living but they are generally not consumer-friendly. In the case of photobucket, they could easily display a low-res equivalent of the expired image, or even allow a visitor to pay from their own account to view expired images privately. I have a few images here from about five years ago that are hosted on Flickr which are still viewable. Generally I don't trust most large internet companies over the long term. The provider I cited appears to be a bunch of hardheaded libertarian web techies and I trust them a bit more to keep the lights on than a dot com. Anyway, my idealistic $0.02. Carry on. :P

I was going to ask what will happen with the basket building but that answered my question. That thing will be a challenge for a realtor to rent out unless outside renovation is part of a rental contract.

^ Maybe... Hills and Dales?

Cool. Happy to help.

Congratulations on rebuilding the forum. I pinged someone here (I think it may have been richncincy) about helping but my MySql-fu was probably not up to the task. I can relate. Early in October I lost the hard drive on my main desktop PC where I do all billable work, plus it has thousands of personal pictures and documents. Backup vendors lie!!! >:( Hey, one thing that may help... I also got my password reset message sent to my SPAM folder (I use a Gmail address for this forum.) I have a recommendation. This is a "when the dust finally settles" matter... not urgent but something that can be fixed eventually. Since others apparently aren't seeing their password reset emails, I think you guys should probably look into a third party email provider. Example: MailGun, which allows your site to send 10,000 emails per month for free. There are others. MailGun may not be perfect but it should be better than trying to DIY, and the price is right. I develop websites and getting site emails such as password resets and other stuff out to visitors reliably is a royal pain in the ass and it's almost impossible to get right on a dedicated server where you supply your own resources. I set up Mailgun for my WordPress sites and the problem mostly went away. The reason you're seeing the SPAMming is that almost all of the webmail services such as Google and Yahoo now demand that your server's email setup provides layers of extensive identity verification - their solution to spam. If you don't implement the stuff they like, they spam your emails. One technique is to set up a mail delivery protocol called DKIM on your server, and I gave up on doing this after several hours. A third party email agent has the email delivery problem solved.

... and this address (18 Franklin Street) is the former home of the Bellbrook Pizza Cottage, which had been there for at least 40 years (we ate there when I was in college. biking through town.) The Business Journal doesn't impress me - the writer doesn't bother to Google a street address.

D'OH! You're right. That's a change that seriously detracts from engagement. I thought commenting was disabled.

It looks like ALL commenting on all Cincinnati.com articles has been closed, emptied and disabled. Every article I find has a grey empty quote bubble. Not a big loss - they netcopped entries to death, it was hardly a forum for free expression, and 3/4 of the posts were from idiots or lunatics. But there isn't even a pretense now that discussion is permitted. Maybe I'm mistaken but I literally can't find a comment in any news story on the site. And I just checked USA Today's website. Same thing. Looks like Gannett newspapers have suspended comments. Interesting.

Incredible shots. Almost too perfect. I always wondered: is "Wooster" a phonetic replacement for "Worcester"?

New Irish pub to open in Centerville The owners of Murphy’s Irish Pub and Grille in Bellbrook are opening a second bar and restaurant called Paddy’s Irish Pub in Centerville. Scott and Candy Anderson are opening the new pub on March 1 in the former Tavern on Main, 953 S. Main St., Centerville, which closed on Sunday. The space previously housed a Beef O’Brady’s pub. http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/business/new-irish-pub-to-open-in-centerville/nj9HW/ Funny, that shopping center doesn't look anything like the original Paddy's.