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I was just reading the comments on the dot-bomb and I would agree. Gross.

I was pleasantly surprised when I read the article and was happy for the most part with what she wrote. I saw that headline when I picked up the paper from my front porch yesterday morning and was already PO'd expecting the worst.

Good luck! That is great.

oh boy indeed.

This an interesting direction that this discussion has taken. When I start thinking about why I have stayed in Ohio and never left, the two things that come up are family and I never have an out of state career opportunity come up that would out weigh the cost of living/family as child care. I have moved a lot around Ohio but have never left the state, unless you count my first year of college in Flint, MI (Don't ask). My circumstance were such though that I really never had that post college soul searching that leads many people to leave the state so I just took what I had and ran with it. Now that I am pretty established it is hard to fathom a move in the higher price areas on the coast. You mean I will make 5% more and my house would be twice as much there? No thanks.

That's cool. I am assuming that it is stove-top iron? How old do you think it is?

Shhh. Don't tell the outsiders about the cookie table...

Doesn't the city own the convention center still? The sale to the county is a pretty big input for strong arming if MMPI has said that it is the current site or nothing at all. Edit: Taking off tin-foil hat now....

Wow this mind boggling. 20 year buildings? yikes...

He is only saying she is 18 she is really 15. :-o Hello dateline NBC!

Apparently Nikko's/Bar Two is now closed in Lakewood.

I listened to Pinkerton again last night and I think that C-dawg already said it, but what really seperates that album from all of the Emo crap (and the good Emo stuff) that it supposedly spawn is how F'd up and dark the song actually are. A song about a 15 YO Japanese fan? Now that is pretty twisted. A heartfelt serious song about he girl he is in love with is a lesbian? Pretty depressing.... And to keep this from becoming the Official UO Weezer thread, I forgot to include Wilco. Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown and My Morning Jacket on my 2008 Soundtrack. I listen to them all of the time so I guess I just took them for granted. Lots of the Dave Matthews - Some Devil album mostly because my kids love Gravedigger.

I'll second the haunting comment. Great pics thanks for posting them. These pictures are heartbreaking, to think that they abandoned all of those books and supplies, in Detroit of all places.

Tear. Soooo Emo.

I forgot the Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night.. One of the best albums of 2008. I used to try and keep up with music but really it has been so hard lately with all that i have going on. I have been going on kicks where I will get on mini-obsession with a band and listen to their whole catalogue, like Old U2, Steely Dan, REM

Jpop, excellent taste. Jdging from the rest of your list I will be definately checking out the songs that I didn't know. Too bad about Weezer I remember buying the Pinkerton CD my first year of college and playing it non-stop and how excited I was when the green album came out after the hiatus. now it's just eh another weezer album, great. move on. Tired Of Sex is agood song but I think my favorite would be "Across the Sea" or "The Good Life" My soundtrack of 2008 was lots of The Hold Steady - Stay Positive, Vampire Weekend, In Rainbows,

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Almost all of the places have switched to the auto machines. Yes I miss the ritual of it all. The stamping of the grounds, the pulling of the shot using the lever. Now its just push a button, then some rumblings a little hiss and presto here is your coffee. EDIT: After rereading what I wrote I just realize I am probably a coffee addict because I have seen shows on addiction where Junkies talk about shooting up the same way....

I think that can be said about the whole process since the beginning and the decision to increase the sales tax, why stop now. The thing that bothers me is how that I have absolutely no faith in any of the cost estimates being thrown around. The mall site has the water table issues and the TC sites requires it to basically be built onto stilts into an unstable hillside. Neither of these issues are show stoppers but both of them will require some tricky engineering. If this gets built at either site for a final cost closer to $500 million than to $1 Billion I will be amazed. The flats site is cheaper and I would believe that but as has been pointed out numerous times already that is another big box creating a dead spot in the middle of what I believed to be a new Cleveland mixed/use residential district. EDIT: I know that MMPI is responsible for overruns but if this blows up (engineering nightmare ala Beantowns Big Dig) there will be public money used to finish it...

Speaking of the hipster coffee house bit, that McDonalds commercial with the two guys who get excited about the new McDonalds coffee drinks cracks me up. My favorite two lines are 'I can shave this thing off" and "We can call movies, movies again and not have to call them films"

I drink a lot of coffee and I am not going to defend Starbucks quality as being anything better than average. And they expanded way too much and marketed the crap out of the brand. However, their prices for drip coffee are not expensive at all. I would say that they are about average for a decent cup of joe or espresso. I know they are lower than caribou and a lot of the independents. They kill you with $3-$5 sugary sweet drinks. If you want the anti-hipster coffee house experience stop by the Caribou in Lakewood. There are always one or two table of Eastern European guys ( I think the majority are Albanian) playing domino's or cards. They are there pretty much from 9 AM on. I swear it is like the cabstand/pizza place from Goodfellas.

Sasha had a decent game. Young Mr. Gibson needs to pick up his game though, I believe he didn't have a point until the fourth quarter. I was at the Q last night and Mo just couldn't miss last night. Does Wally always limp around like that? I know he has knee problems but he looked like he was actually was in a lot of pain.

Boreal, Do you mean route as in where they locate them in this plan? or route on how they are laid down? I believe that the installation of underwater Cables involves a trench and cover methodology for each phase for AC power and a single trench for DC power.

Link to presentation from the December 10th, 2008 Building an Advanced Energy Future for Offshore Wind Conference hosted by Case Western's Great Lakes Institute for Energy Innovation It is some pretty interesting stuff. Cleveland does have the potential to have a sizable wind energy industry. http://www.case.edu/energy/events.htm#offshore_wind

Hey MTS you also forget to add the fact that you split your time between NYC and Cleveland, too. I am not sure which accent I have. I grew up outside of Youngstown in a small town heavily populated by West Virginia transplants that worked at the GM plant. I was raised by 2nd and 3rd gen immigrant Italian parents from Youngstown. Youngstown may not have a nasal accent but it sure has a dialect lots of saying that raise eyebrows elsewhere. Then I went to school in Athens at OU and now have lived on the westside of Cleveland for 7 years. Also in that time I have worked 3 years for a company where 50% of the people were UK ex-pats and then moved on to work in Akron for the last 3 years. I am a mess linguistically. Definitely something more than the Standard English Accent but nothing that can be pinned down.