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^ I thought it was #2 behind Minneapolis.

In just raw numbers, the Columbus MSA gained (an estimated) 81,000 from 2000-2004, compared to 48,500 for Cincinnati and 96,500 for Indianapolis.

There was a Moe's here in Madison that, despite being in a prime location for the foot traffic of zillions of students, apparently went out of business or something (all I saw were the remains of it). So either it sucked or the burrito market was oversaturated.

Wow that is really, really cool! Not only are they beautiful themselves, the whole idea of an opaque (or sort of translucent) stained-glass window on the bathroom is really interesting. On the night pictures... maybe try changing the white balace? Assuming your camera has that option, that is. Does this bit of Photoshopping help at all? (Apart from increasing the noise.)

70% of my phone calls are for "Joanna," who apparently has some message at her (doubly) old phone number that this is her new phone number. Dammit, that message really needs to be changed! I hope by now I've at least made a dent in the list of Joanna's friends by telling callers that this is not Joanna's number. I would ignore the phone, but I do get the occasional call from my parents.

Yeah, I can't imagine it would ever be faster to fly, unless maybe you live at the airport. In the time it takes just to get to the Dayton airport from Beavercreek, we could already be halfway to Cincinnati! Interesting article, though.

Excellent! I really like that shot of the people coming up the stairs with the skyline in the background.

Nice photos. Gotta say, giraffes sure look strange when relaxing!

But Rob, tell us how it was back in your day! Surely people had better manners back then, right?

For what it's worth, Butler County was measured separately for those numbers, so Cincinnati should have an additional $9.53 billion.

Nice! Fun colors in Little 5 Points.

Wonderful thread as always! As a pig I must express appreciation for the Flying Pig Marathon. Reminds me of a one time when I was at a Reds game around that time of that marathon and saw a giant pig (some kind of float I guess) drive by out on Mehring Way... an odd sight. Must have been that last year at Riverfront Stadium, when the outfield section was torn down.

Yeah, I know... you don't care! Hey, it's okay. :-) But in case there's anyone who still wants to follow along with all these damn Madison pictures, here's another part of town. It's high time to get over to the west side. Most of this is generally what (I think) is called the south campus area. University Avenue, a one-way thoroughfare (it has a partner in Johnson Street) divides the more campus-y part of UW from an area where university buildings are mostly located along the regular street grid. University Avenue is also something of a business district. ***Once again pbase decides to be a rotten bastard right when I'm ready to post the thread. :x Well, if they are red X's I apologize, but they'll show eventually.*** As has become typical, a map with the Yellow Cloud of Death showing the approximate area covered in this thread: Actually, two quick shots closer to home in the Mansion Hill neighborhood (as I'm walking toward the subject area). This first guy is on the national register of historic places... a historic modern building, I guess. And I can never just walk past nice colors! Identify today's Word of the Day from the following three pics! Mural! (Sort of) This was a hole in the ground when I first visited Madison over a year ago. It's getting there, though! Kneel before your king! (That little guy should be C-Dawg's avatar!) Madison actually has two newspapers, this being one of them. ("Fighting for the little guy and a special little something called the truth.") The Capital Times was started by somebody at the Wisconsin State Journal (the other paper) during WWI due to a disagreement with the WSJ's editor (or whoever) regarding Progressive Senator Robert La Follette's position on the war. I forget which one agreed with La Follette and which one disagreed, as well as what the position actually was, but anyway that's the story. Moving on... Shame! Some university buildings Some day I'll get a picture of this very weird and reviled building from a better viewpoint. A feature article I read about it last fall gave someone's opinion that is my favorite: that it looks like it was built upside-down. I think a lot of buildings from the 50s-70s era are slated to be torn down at some point in the future at UW-Madison, and this is probably one of them. Looking toward the good part of campus (which I will get to some other time)- Music Hall and Science Hall. Kneel before Science Hall! Back on University Avenue. To quote my favorite pope-ism, churchtastic! Again Was too close to get much of the building in frame, so here's the top of a door, and a window. Beautiful, isn't it? Chamberlin Hall, whatever that is. By the way, these last several pics have been looking toward the main part of campus (what I described earlier as the "campus-y" part). On the Ave again The tall one (which is not the same building as the one several pics up) is what's always in the background of various views in Madison. Chamberlin again I always enjoy the view of this church when driving down University Avenue. Medical Sciences Center I dunno... I just thought the texture was interesting. The ubiquitous Subway. Kneel before Subway! Stuff™ More purple! I think this block is actually going to be taken out by some fancy New Thing in the future. Materials Science and Engineering We arrive at the church Around here the main traffic on University Avenue is sent on a short limited-access bypass, and University Avenue enters a different neighborhood. Here I turn left, off University Ave. Up there is a somewhat interesting neighborhood, an early suburb. But that's for a future tour. Still on the same street. Say, what's that directly across the street from the houses? Why, it's Camp Randall Stadium, Home of the Wisconsin Badgers! Exterior wall art. The other side of the stadium. Despite appearances, it is not supposed to be a pile of animal droppings, but rather a pile of footballs. Kneel before the pile of footballs! Below Camp Randall is Regent Street, which is another thing that will have to be saved for later. There is an idea or two floating around to make Regent Street less of an ugly auto-oriented street and more of a nice urban street. The Urban (something) Co. Whatever it is, it welcomes us! This is on Monroe Street, yet another street that deserves a separate tour. The site of the stadium, Camp Randall, was an army training camp during the Civil War. Most of Wisconsin's soldiers came through here. There's a little park dedicated as a memorial. This thing didn't seem to be labeled, but I assume it is a Civil War-era thing, or a replica. The Camp Randall Memorial Arch was dedicated in the 20s. Now we're getting more into what is appropriately called South Campus. Looking on down some railroad tracks. More RR. University buildings in the background, I'd think. Blah blah blah. Dayton Street, which does not lead to Dayton! Kneel before the pile of coal! Grainger Hall (Business, maybe?) Chemistry Building and a bit more Kohl Center, the indoor arena. Looking back at University Avenue (from one block away) and State Street behind (where the big brown building is) The Nitty Gritty: burger place Residential One last shot on Johnson Street And just to show you how Madisonians turn out in force to enjoy a spring Saturday on State Street: Have a wonderful evening!

^ ColDayMan doesn't even know what he drives. I seem to recall having to point out your own car to you a couple of times in Columbus.

What other kinds of qualities are you looking for in a place to live? You mentioned schools and the recreational amenities... anything else in particular? I don't have useful insights, but some of these other folks could probably help point you further in the right direction with regard to any other things you're looking for. By the way, welcome to the forum, and (if you are coming) to Ohio! Or I guess I should say goodbye from Wisconsin first. We'll call it a trade- I've come to Wisconsin, you go to Ohio. :-)

Wonderful photos. Who are the (I presume) forumers you were with? I saw some of those "I see black people" signs in Chicago... they're advertising some TV channel? (We don't have black people in Madison so I'm not familiar with it. :wink:)

At last, the long-awaited ColDay east coast pics begin! Great shots... looks like Cincy in a few of them.

^ CNN.com has video on that story (from WKRC) in their "Top Stories" list right now, with the title "Gunfire on city hall sidewalk adds to bloody streets," although their actual video title is "Cincinnati shooting hits home." I guess the former makes more people click on it or something.

No red X here. I'll explain the picture: A smiling Cold Stone Creamery employee reaches across the counter to hand a dish of ice cream to a disembodied arm reaching up from the bottom left corner of the frame. A plastic spoon stands triumphantly erect in the ice cream, drawing our attention the the "Ice Cream Made Fresh Daily" heading just to its right, on the menu board in the background.

I remember reading a description of the tires once. They put some kind of weights in them to make them do that (so it's not exactly "natural"). The window... the thing that rolls toward it looks like it goes over some wire, so I'd guess that probably triggered something electroincally. Anyway, cool video. I too saw it several years ago.

Yay! Good stuff, both of you! There's no way I can be patient here... I've already been impatient since RiverViewer informed me of this upcoming event last month! So ColDay, please drop everything you are doing and prepare these photos for us. And RiverViewer, if at some point there's a way to show us the film shots, please do!

We should "accomodate" Spanish-speaking people by not being jerks about it and not trying to force them to abandon their language, but in general if language concessions are going to be made it should be mostly by the immigrants. Official or not, English is the language of this country and pretty much always has been. Nobody should be forced to "blend in," but expecting that people make at least some attempt to learn the language is reasonable. English-only laws as a response to immigrants, such as the one being considered in Ohio a little while ago, are pointless and just mean-spirited, though.

Ha ha Cleveland is stoopid.

My dream graphic for the left side would be a drawing of Carew, LeVeque, and Terminal Tower as the skyline above a few smaller buildings, with some kind of transit line emerging from that "city" and swinging around to the foreground. But I suck at drawing things like that, so it remains a dream.

As for the other half of the question (posting pictures), something like photobucket gives you some space to upload your images, and then there is a URL for each one which you can paste in your posts here between the [img] and [/img] tags. You can also attach some pictures to your post by looking in the "Additional Options" when composing a post, but that's meant for just one or two things and grasscat will beat you up and take your lunch money if you post a lot of pictures that way. So the lesson today is: watch your step or both MayDay AND grasscat will kick the crap out of you. :wink: