Rusty Shackleford

I usually don't post material like this but this link was on another board I use and it's a really interesting idea. http://www.good.is/post/goodbye-sidewalks-london-planners-break-down-boundaries-between-cars-and-peds/

My brother and I went to Ha Ha Pizza in June and both the service and the food were absolutely awful. I can't even remember worse service. "Ha Ha" is right - to the customers.

2.0 RC5. I should upgrade to 2.0 full, I have not done so yet.

Ok, so I'm kissing a--... lol. How did you implement your Paypal subscription button? What mod(s) are you using for this? Can you walk through the creation of the Paypal button that gets the user to the Paypal checkout screen? It does not look like the Paypal generated button. I own an SMF forum and I want to ask for donations. I have attempted to place the Paypal generated button code into a pair of "HTML" BBC tags. What happens is that the button displays correctly but it does not respond to a mouse click. I think what is happening is that the form element that comprises the Paypal button is being bracketed by a "form" that includes the entire output page's text. So you can't have a form within a form, so the inner form does not work. Thanks in advance.

The neighborhoods look somewhat Dayton-esque - white frame houses, some doubles, somewhat cruddy littered streets. The giveaway is the fancy architectural touches you don't see much in 937.

A nice touch of road geeking melded with beautiful photography.

I guess when I lived in NJ I should have gotten off the turnpike more and looked around. Whenever I saw exit signs for "The Oranges" I was figuring it was a Newark like blob of urban grit. This looks really, really pleasant.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/41666597/ ...where Ohio is 50th out of 50. Self-explanatory. As far as the "training programs", the experience of two people in my immediate family indicates that in Ohio you're absolutely on your own if you don't have a job - this state does not consider your lack of a job its problem. One Stop is a complete joke, just to keep a few "counselors" on the payroll.

It's possible that this person heard about a major retail development around Dayton and Costco was mentioned (as a groundless rumor) as a possibility. Maybe this was the root of the story: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/-9-million-menards-store-in-works-for-dayton-area-1215667.html?cxtype=rss_news

The countryside around there is amazing. Very uncluttered, clean and scenic, especially considering how close it is to Cleveland.

Aesthetically the town made us go "blecch". And there didn't seem to be one thing to do in town unless you like mediocre fried food and jello or Jaeger shots. I've never seen any resort town quite this one-dimensional. Bulldoze the town and open up the lakefront. :whip:

Uh, we were tourists with money to spend? That's the wrong reason? I could see that some people perceive it as funky. We didn't find enough things of interest to give it that honor. Wayyy beyond Pigeon Forge in that category, IMO. If you discount the many bars, the town feels like you took all of the fried food places in a county fair and put them into storefronts.

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This was the one decent seeming place we ran across in town. The problem we had with it was that the weather was quite warm, there weren't even fans in the restaurant, and there was no outdoor seating. Also there was nobody eating in. It seemed dubious so we skipped it. It sounds like (except for the heat) it would have been OK. There's nothing else in town that even remotely looked sit down worthy.

They are supposed to disappear and not inconvenience anyone.

The very first picture reminds me of infrared photography: all of the vegetation looks almost white. Which would be pretty cool.

No, it doesn't. The closest Costco to Dayton is the Waterstone Costco in Mason.

That is the rumor that was conveyed to my wife from a friend's daughter who works in retail in Centerville. Supposedly a new Costco is planned or is being constructed in/around Dayton. Can anyone validate or debunk this? I can't find anything online. If so, that begs the question, where? I'm thinking the logical site would be the Austin Landing area.

We browsed the town while staying at the Lodge nearby. The vibe of the town is bikers, bars, tats, jello shots, and Jaeger bombs. And fried food. We couldn't find an inviting sit down place to eat in the entire strip. It's all fast food crap and bars with blasting scratchy radios. The Firehouse Winery is a joke, after waiting about 15 minutes for a couple of iced teas we decided that it was not worth the commitment of ordering dinner and we bolted. The town makes Gatlinburg seem classy and upscale. I didn't get a bit of nostalgia. Just seedy. Now, *Geneva* five miles south is adorable. I guess you have to be from the local area to appreciate this town. I don't get the appeal. </unfortunate flamebait>

Sadly, very prescient. Everything bad cited about Dayton in '05 has just gotten worse. I was able to download and save that PDF graphic mentioned at the top of this thread just now. It would appear to be still regarded as such, 100+ years later. I didn't realize that Dayton was still regarded as such a hellhole of organized labor. That would keep manufacturing businesses out and it accounts for a lot.

...And the gutting of Dayton's core is irrevocably complete. Now we're seeing the gutting of the original southern Dayton mall development. A bunch of businesses visible in your graphics and photos above (Cena, Click Camera, others) no longer exist. "The consensus is that this is a good thing as it keeps the riff raff out. " - acid social commentary, love it. I thought this was a great essay when you published it. The banana metaphor works. Well done.

Yeah... they discount constantly, which local bike shops can't/won't do. When I shop at Performance I have a queasy feeling like I am supporting rampant faceless corporatism and I am stepping on hard working local independent bike shops. Then I look at my account balance and I look at the price I can pay at Performance and that attitude goes away. :-(

I wanted to ask if anyone here knows about the following, proposed or under construction: 1) The Xenia-Jamestown Bikeway is currently a disconnected orphan between Jasper Rd on the west and the Fayette County Line on the eastern end (the eastern terminus is in the middle of a corn field.) I know that the segment from Xenia is perpetually under construction and "sometime real soon" they will cut a tunnel under Bypass 35 to join the Jasper Road part to Xenia. But is there any "real" (funded) plan to connect this segment to Washington Court House? (Btw, I highly recommend this bikeway. It's about 14 miles in length and while not terribly scenic, is peaceful, tree lined, and is far away from the madding crowd.) 2) A while back I read an extremely intriguing hint on a local cycling advocacy's web site about a proposed bikeway that would run along the right of way of this abandoned railroad, from Morrow to Wilmington. This route is particularly scenic - in Warren County it is centered in the Todds Fork valley. I remember seeing signs back in the 80s at the road crossings for sale of the railroad right of way by Penn Central. Does anyone know anything about this, like the name of the proposed bikeway?

It's a chain, and they have a web site. Besides the location in Kettering next to K-Mart there is a location on Montgomery Road in Kenwood. I have read that really serious and spendy cyclists consider them declasse', but Performance has a great depth of inventory (for accessories) that I haven't seen locally at independent stores. I've found bargain bin jerseys at Performance for $15, which is almost impossible at most other cycle shops. It's the house brand so those looking for a name will reject it but don't feel like paying $100+ for what is basically a shirt. In Lebanon there is a decent local cycle shop called Wheelie Fun Multi Sport on Deerfield Rd. (about a mile north of Home Depot) which can come in handy in a pinch.

http://www.lvrj.com/news/federal-judge-rules-las-vegas-firm-can-t-sue-over-copyright-infringement-123882024.html This is of keen interest to virtually anyone who posts content to a web site or who runs a web site...