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 It seemed like there was a LOT of stuff around to support SMF but it was all crude, semi-outdated in instances, and very DIY in nature.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.

I haven't yet seen this fascinating web site mentioned. It's by a guy who blogs about the bars of SE Pennsylvania, around Lancaster and Berks county. I lived there for a year. His site and the photos have the local vibe there nailed. http://americantom.com/

Ditto. This is a must at any Marion's. Costs nothing extra. The default baking style is the conveyor. The "old oven" results in a far better crust.

Ok, guys. Fantastic ideas above. Kelly's Island, got it, ColDayMan. Thanks for the info and pictures of West Baden. We stayed at Geneva On the Lake a few years ago. That's interesting. OK! I have some selection to do now. Much appreciated.

Everyone, thanks for the ideas and brainstorming. >> Mammoth Cave National Park. Be mindful of construction traffic south of Louisville. Trying to avoid busy destinations. And we went a couple of years ago. > Speaking of Louisville, try Falls of the Ohio State Park across the river in Indiana. > Other Indiana state parks: Spring Mill, McCormick's Creek, etc. We've stayed at Spring Mill - nice, out of the way. I forgot about it. > Lake Erie/Put-in-Bay/Lakeside Trying to stay away from major destinations. Want more out of the way. I just want to avoid lines and crowds. > Mohican Lodge in the Loudonville area. The food is not great, but Malabar Farm restaurant nearby has very good food, and Malabar Farm Ah, great idea. I didn't think of that. > Hocking Hills - plenty of hiking, wide variety of cabin rentals. Main reason "not" on Hocking Hills is that we had a bad auto accident when we visited there once and it still has a negative connotation for Mrs. Shackleford. I may raise it again and she what she says. > Brown County We didn't like the lodge at all - too busy with screaming kids and families. The town was dippy and parking seemed like a pain for so few attractions. Many of the shops were repetitive - even for a tourist town. The dude trying to monetize snapshots of his totem poles and wood work (an artist there had a cash box out that you're supposed to drop money into if you take a picture of one of his pieces) was just plain annoying. We ate at one of the most mediocre Mexican places in memory there. It's just a matter of personal taste, I guess. We're leaning toward a lodge/park experience. What does anyone think about.... Carter Caves SP or Jenny Wiley SP in KY? What is the area around French Lick IN like these days? We have good memories of staying at the dude ranch there. But the last time we visited, the West Baden Hotel was not developed.

Hi forumers - Mrs Shackleford and I would like to plan a nice getaway weekend within 100-150 miles of Cincinnati (2 to 4 hours drive time at very most). To leave on a Friday and to return on Sunday. Hotel/lodge room, not camping. We like parks, light hiking, and unique shops. Due to the time frame (48-72 hrs) we prefer as little local driving as possible once we arrive. We'd like fine dining (or at least non-suck non chain local) as an option one night of the trip. We're not big on casinos. Low key bars w/food are good. For some personal reasons we are probably not interested in Hocking Hills, but that is the kind of area we prefer. We have done everything within 75 miles to death (like Yellow Springs, Hueston Woods, etc.) We've been to Clifty Falls Sp and Madison IN and we really liked that. If we can't find any other suggestions we might do that trip again. Or Natural Bridge Sp. We really like all of the KY state park resorts that we've visited, but the food inside most of those lodges is pretty lousy. We went to Brown County (IN) once and it was mind numbing with the kid/family thing and was a boring area to us. We'd prefer to get out of Ohio for this trip but it's not a mandate. Thanks... suggestions very much appreciated.

You had me at 'Licking County'.. Oh, hell, I tried. :) What I was told was that these activities are destructive, quite a bit beyond the offbeat hobby level... we're not talking a bunch of innocuous Wiccans or drum circles or anything like that. Things like mutilated animals, and even some mysterious deaths.

Ok, here's something rather specific and not smartassed. Although the comments are pretty funny. I was told by a family member that the hilly areas around Licking County have been host to many Satanic and occult activities and ritual activities over the years, and that the outlying areas around Newark have an occult culture. Ritual sacrifice of animals, etc. To the extent that you wouldn't want to hike into these areas after nightfall.

WOW! Medieval. Very nicely done.

Some valuable stuff in that ruin: http://www.ebay.ca/itm/GE-General-Electric-Operator-Interface-Terminal-IC600KD510B-Rev-M-IC6OOKD51OB-/140981537380

What about that gang banger nightclub ("Club Heat") that that lily white suburban lady from Dayton owned that had all the murders?