Rusty Shackleford

I appreciate not being banned for my previous post. :clap: Here is a debunking. I was p0wned! http://www.mediaite.com/tv/those-fck-her-right-in-her-pssy-tv-news-gaffes-are-a-hoax-stop-sharing-them/

Not Safe for Work!!!! Cincinnati disaster expert weighs in on disasters (crude oil leak in Colerain, train derailment in Norwood): http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0f9_1400505154 And - Youtube video The second one is like a commando operation - very cinema verite' and theatrical.

The references to Waynedale are really throwing me because the neighborhood at the southernmost end of Fort Wayne is also called Waynedale. But it was pleasant and blue collar middle class. I have no idea now (last time I was there was in 1987) but most neighborhoods like that are all meth-ey now. Weatherphotographer... OHKID... I've seen you guys hanging around at another place in close proximity.... hmmmm... what a mystery.... :wtf: (not really.) All we'd need is an overbearing"peasant" and we'd be all set. "not."

It's a reeeaallly gorgeous area. Cass is close to the National Radio Observatory grounds, so it's quite remote and literally off-the-grid (the NRAO was built there because of the mountain valley that shields the antenna array from EMI interference.)

One of our favorite *summer* vacations. Dang you to heck!!! ;) Seriously, agreed with Ink - incredible photos in this set.

These small Indiana towns always look so well kept. Ohio small towns always look cruddy like the zombie apocalypse, at best. But the shots of Indiana towns like these are so depopulated. You could call any of these towns "Mehv-ille."

If you keep refreshing it or click the About link it will go to a new image+message. I just got: Brooklyn Poop Company purveryors of authentic, vintage Poops Brooklyn Banana Company builder of urban, recovered Bananas Brooklyn Sweater Vest Company creators of socially responsible, gluten-free Sweater Vests

:whip: http://cassch.in/brooklyn/

When we drove 42 yesterday we kept running into people turning left to make a U-turn across the median, forcing us to almost stop in the left lane while they make their turns. It's a highway posted at 60 where the locals see fit to brake to about 20 MPH and pick their asses.

That stretch is probably safe enough at 60. The cops put speed traps out there all the time, and I know guys who brag about taking that section of 42 at 100+ MPH. When you drive it any legal speed feels kind of slow. I just wondered if there was some universal upgrade of secondary highway speeds being rolled out, like the increase of freeways to 65 back in the late 80s-early 90s.

We were out today and I noted that the four lane portion of US 42 between the Waynesville city limits and the Greene county line (at least) has been upgraded to 60 MPH - probably in the last week. It's not controlled access - it has private driveways that come out to the road shoulder. What is the reason for the speed increase? I thought non freeways in Ohio were always posted up to 55.

+1 I have some experience with this. I run an entirely different kind of community and one of the moderators deleted a thread response that he did not feel was "on topic" enough. The member left soon afterward and in part (I asked the guy why he was leaving) it was in response to that. I confronted the mod afterward and he sort-of apologized but felt he was more right. So, something like this is a good way to lose forum members. I second and third the notion of a moderator not policing a thread in which he is participating. The dynamics appear like bullying.

I think Dayton city planners found out about Brasilia (from-scratch city built in the jungle in Brazil, ultra modernist architecture) in the 1960s and decided that Dayton should be an ethno-briar manufacturing belt version of Brasilia. Most of the public architecture in Dayton looks like sets from dystopian SF movies from the late 70s.

I use an SMF plugin on my own board called "Stop Forum Spam." The plugin communicates with a distributed database of spammers, indexed by email address, board handle and IP address. I won't say that it catches 100% of the spammers out there but it's almost completely effective in terms of shutting down bad registrations in my community. I'll look at the registration log and it has many entries that look like "asoaslk is a spam". I really recommend trying it if you aren't using it.

Sometimes you need a news source that isn't funded 100% by corporations and isn't a subsidiary of the entertainment industry. I found RT news on Roku and watched a bit of it around the time Zimmerman was acquitted a couple of months ago. Let's say that RT is about as balanced in its own direction as Faux News. (The piece about Zimmerman made it sound like the US was one huge KKK enclave.)

El Rancho Grande - meh. The food at all of these regional chain Mexican places - Acapulco, Rancho Grande, El Toro - all taste exactly the same as each other. Hot Chicks has a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Chick-Inc/488171974570237 They've finally posted menus. It looks like another generic McNugget and frozen-fried food chicken place. They serve what comes out of the Sysco truck. No mention of REAL fried chicken (whole pieces) which the immediate area lacks.

The prevailing opinion on this is that South Park (wedged between the UD area and Oakwood) is probably your best bet. Next best might be Walnut Hills neighborhood. That's where I would go. I have read much anecdotal ranting on boards about how psychotic and unfair most Oregon district landlords are. I'd avoid renting there.

Fascinating, compassionate, and depressing.

A few years ago my wife and I took a trip to the Poconos, and one day we checked out Scranton. I think it was 2006. "The Office" hadn't hammered Scranton with publicity yet, and the only other reference I knew to Scranton was that Edith Bunker's character (All in the Family) talked about Scranton a lot and probably came from there. In terms of deadness and decay, Scranton is the anti-Dayton, the mirror universe Dayton. Scranton is what Dayton would be if Dayton didn't blow.

Another informative, fascinating Jeffery thread. It's such a shame. What a pretty neighborhood, turning into a depopulated waste. I used to ride this part of the bikeway back in college in the 70s when it was new. These pictures remind me of the construction details of the trail. Look how freaking FAR you would go down if you rode off the trail. On one hand you would probably hit the edge of the river and go in the drink over your handlebars... on the other hand you would ride right out into a lane of Riverside Drive and probably get crushed by traffic. I am used to modern safety features like fencing. No other trail in the region has such steep unprotected dropoffs.

Yes. The thing to do is put in a request for a backup copy of the board.

https://www.facebook.com/BicyclesForAll Don't these guys know that they would make a lot more money by specializing in carbon fiber frame bikes? :whip: (This is a repost of a forum message that was lost in the great forum disaster of '13.)

SSDs fail too. Flash memory devices (on which SSDs are based) have a lifetime of so many cycles of writing and reading. SSDs are built with huge internal surpluses of flash memory, and the internal memory controller will detect internal failures and will move data around to fresher memory. In other words they're designed to fail internally in a soft way over their life span and to present a reliable interface to the outside world. But at some point in normal frequent use, the internal redundancy of memory is used up and the entire unit fails. I have anecdotally heard of workstation users (single person computers) SSDs only lasting a year or two in daily use.

I'm very sorry to read of our loss. Rich, you said it would never happen again. What will be different in terms of making regular backups? I have a Linux script (command line stuff) that I use to back up various PHP/MySQL based things, including one SMF board that I run. I'd be happy to provide it to you with customization instructions. You'd need to get a Linux shell (SSH) on the same server that SMF is running on. The script saves *everything* - the entire MySQL database, plus all of the files in the SMF installation. I have used the backup files to move installations to new systems. What the script does is compress everything into one big backup file than you can then download to a desktop computer using FTP. If the board ever crashed again it could be rebuilt from the backup file (a "tarball") in a few minutes. It would be a 5 minute task for some admin to log into the command shell, run the script, and then use a program like FileZilla to download the backup file. My SMF board has about 70K posts. It takes about 15 seconds to run and the resultant backup file is about 40 meg. It usually takes less than a minute to FTP to my PC for safekeeping.

I assume this was also taken with a consumer camera? If so, it's pretty good. People who pursue this kind of stuff use CCD cameras made just for the task, with telescope mounts. Example: http://www.optcorp.com/ProductList.aspx?uid=319-320-1914 "Only" $1499, heh heh. :oops: And lots of cameras in the five digit price range.