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^Nice, a desktop shortcut to the UrbanOhio forum. :-) I got bored with the desktop I posted earlier, so I have switched to LeVeque.

^ Beavercreek gets the same treatment.

I'm assuming they'd be moving from the existing Delaware Wal-Mart. I can't imagine they'd actually have two within two miles of one another. That seems crazy even for Wal-Mart!

But if they're indestructable, why are you on your fourth one already? :wink: I've got a Honda, too (Civic). Definitely a boring design as monte says, but that's okay with me. And it was made in Ohio, too!

Yeah, I guess the sky is already not that dark. Of course, Ohio was never a good place for astronomical observation in the first place, which is why the original big telescope was moved to Arizona. I don't think the observatory serves much of a practical purpose these days, especially now that OSU has nothing to do with it. Looking through the telescope is interesting (I looked once at a nebulous somethingorother when there for an OWU astronomy class), but the place seems to have become more about the building and the displays. I suppose they could put the telescope somewhere else if they wanted, but I'm sure there's no way OWU could afford to do anything crazy like moving the whole building. So, I think Perkins will just have to suffer the light pollution. BTW, Tom Burns, the director of the observatory is a great storyteller. He's actually an English professor with an astronomy hobby. Did you hear a good story when you went on the tour, noozer? Back to that article again, do we know why Wal-Mart wants to move? Are they talking supercenter?

Hehe, great poster! Don't forget, he's also been going by the alias CinDayMan. And Clevelumbus, look again. That's not a thousand dollars you're getting; it's a million!

I'm a bit surprised that the city of Delaware extends that far south. I knew they have annexed a lot of land, but I didn't realize some of it was that far away. This has me thinking. Perkins Observatory is doomed. Dark skies there will some day soon be but a memory.

Oh, gotcha. :wink:

Hey, I wasn't yawning at you, it was with regard to the people in the article. There's no need for any backing off! Unless you're being defensive of a possible new Cheesecake Factory. (NOW would be the time to say "back off".)

Wait, I made a point? I'm not quite sure what you're referring to. I was just questioning the relevancy of the line I quoted within the article because it seemed pretty intuitive given the nature of uncontrolled intersections.

Great photos! Those look like interesting places.

Yeah, get with it! It was torn down and there's a Wendy's on the site now. I forgot to follow up my previous sarcastic remark with a compliment of the photos. Very nice shots, monte... although I hope you won't mind if I say that they don't excite me quite as much as they do grasscat.

Yawn.

^ You didn't know about that? I don't know why you're so hyped as a tour guide...

Wow, that's a lot of work they're doing. I might have just suggested getting drivers to pay better attention. :wink: By the way, this line, on which the thread title is based... I'm not sure why they bothered to say that. It's not at all a fair comparison, as no unsigned intersection is going to be anything but a very small one, carrying nothing close to the traffic volume of the big intersections where all the accidents occur. By the way, in Ohio I've never seen an intersection with no signal or sign at all, though I understand they are fairly common in some places. Do such intersections exist in Ohio?

Well, you do make it sound like I won first prize at the county fair...

Great post! Looks like you've kept good records. For another random picture, here's Dayton from last January.

I believe this is part of the "Crossroads" series, so here's another article on regional cooperation. More links, etc. at the web site. http://www.daytondailynews.com/project/content/localnews/daily/1218xroads.html Regional cooperation could be key to the future By Ken McCall Dayton Daily News DAYTON | More than two decades after the old GH&R Foundry closed and threw 700 employees out of work, a cold wind whips across the vacant 12-acre lot just north of the Mad River. When the owner of the foundry site began clearing it in 1994, he touted its views of the downtown Dayton skyline and ready access to Interstate 75 and Ohio 4. The GH&R site, which was later acquired by the city of Dayton, has water, sewer and utility lines, waiting for use. Like many other abandoned industrial sites in the city, it sits empty. Across the river to the west, at Fifth and Broadway streets, a similar scene is repeated, this time in a former residential neighborhood that was once a thriving community of working-class homes and families. Up Salem Avenue, North Main Street, and Keowee Street and scattered around downtown, the skeletons of retail stores litter what used to be bustling commercial corridors. Such scenarios have become familiar not only in Dayton, but in central cities across the Midwest and the nation. For almost 50 years, Americans have been moving out of cities to the suburbs in increasing numbers — and taking their money with them. http://www.daytondailynews.com

I, for one, welcome our new Canadian overlords.

Not Indiana- W.H. Harrison was born in Virginia. B. Harrison was born in Ohio, but if I'm not mistaken, he was "from" Indiana. Anyway, that gives Vrigina 8 by birth, and Ohio 7.

Virginia is the other state that has a lot; I think Texas only has a few (a couple of Bushes and LBJ). Who has the most depends on what you count, birthplace or "home".

Here's what's on my laptop. Happy now? By the way, where's your screenshot? Good thing Windows doesn't display the computer name like that, or my laptop would be showing "Pork Factory". Don't ask...

I'm not sure why, but of the list of Midwest words that I don't use, "pop" definitely is the one that's prone to make my ears bleed. I'm used to hearing it, obviously, but I would never be caught uttering it. As long as we're on this hijack: here's a map. What's really interesting is the large area around St. Louis and the smaller area around Milwaukee that say "soda" when they're surrounded by "pop" country. http://www.popvssoda.com/countystats/total-county.html The weird people in Milwaukee apparently also say "bubbler" for water fountain, and I have no idea how that usage found its way out of New England. (Bubbluh!)

Like others, I guess I'd say "why not?" But whether it's something that would ever actually happen... well, that's probably a different story.

Perhaps at some point when I'm on my laptop I'll post a screenshot of that, too.