RiverViewer

Well, considering it linked to these threads, which nearly brought me to tears, it probably wasn't terribly hard to guess who'd've paid to advertize them! http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,8555 http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,8556 Anyway, back on topic - sorry to hear the Elk Creek show was cancelled, though since I couldn't make it anyway, maybe there's a better chance for whenever you get your rain check...er...snow check!

My WayBack Machine must be on the fritz...just spitting out links and such: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,13532

I'mma buy you a drank!

That's some impressive machinery…wonder what its carbon footprint looks like!

The data is all there to do that - precinct level election results are here - just scroll down and under General Elections, choose November 2002 and download it into Excel: http://boe.hamilton-co.org/elections/election-results.aspx ...and you can see precinct-level maps here - go to the Map Layers folder and chose Voting Districts: http://cagisonline.hamilton-co.org/cagisonline/index.html I've never monkeyed with mapping stuff, though...

I lived in Euclid for a year in the mid-90's, just out of college. Unfortunately, I never really did much in the neighborhood - didn't have much money, and wasn't into outdoor activities at the time, so I kind of squandered the opportunity to get to know the place better. I did always like it, though - the lake is pretty spectacular, and I dig places with vast tracts of single-family homes like that - I mean, just LOOK at this: http://goo.gl/maps/fwx7g

I love the ones taken at corners, where the street just keeps going and going…

I haven't focused too much on photography the last few years, but I dug through my pictures and between all the shots of dinners, cats and Army stuff, I pulled out some Cincinnati-related shots. Maybe I'll do a separate Army-related thread at some point… THIS is America - walking through the riverfront parks during Gay Pride events, and seeing Cincinnatus wearing a floral lei, big ol' flag in the background - I love this picture: Representin' for The Walnut: Cleveland-based nieces playing in the new Smale Park fountain: Ah, summer: Pete for the Hall! Sunrise over the river, with a particularly nice layer of fog/cloud: Touring Metropole's rooftop deck - this was just a couple weeks before it opened: Another from the deck: In the Army, when someone is all jacked up and you want to express that without using actual profanity (not often I don't want to use profanity, but it happens), you can say they look like a soup sandwich. Which is why I LOVED this display board and its basically invisible comma: We got amazing seats to a Reds game, but the most amazing part was that I managed to get my wife down there in time for batting practice. Unfortunately, I think they lost... Finally got an Ohio state flag this year: We seem to be part of the Great Deer Expressway over here near Eden Park - this happens pretty frequently: The Zebra Bathroom at Boca: Some scotch at Nicholson's: The wine cellar at Sotto: I joined the American Legion post up in Reading - this is part of the Arlington Heights, Lockland and Reading Memorial Day Parade: Another Reds game, again with awesome seats from a friend - this is a plaza right next to the press box. Another loss... Diner En Blanc: Later that evening: Football season - this was at the Green Bay game, as you can probably tell from the crowd, and it featured TBDBITL for pre-game and halftime: Yeah, this was pretty awesome: This was when the Moving Wall (http://www.themovingwall.org) came through Cincinnati last fall - the local VFWs and Legion posts kept a 24-hour vigil while it was here at Union Terminal, so I got to spend some quality time with it on a very rainy night. It started to dry out by morning: Bengals/Colts - this time it was sooooooo cold…great seats, though! Another sunrise over the river: And finally, sunrise over the Victory Parkway Bridge:

Yeah, it's been a while...I went back to check, and I guess my last post was in 2009 before I went to Iraq - almost five years now! I've kept up some with Randy's blog and the UrbanCincy podcast, but I've missed out on a lot! I'll definitely need to spend more time here again...

Wow, it's been a while since I was around here…got busy with work, the Army, etc., etc. Anyway, when I saw the ice on the river this morning, the first thing I thought was that I needed to post some shots on UrbanOhio! Not as bad as upriver a ways - some barges are already getting blocked up between Marietta and Wheeling: http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/556691/Ice-challenges-Ohio-River-traffic.html?nav=5002 I'm assuming the rising temperatures will keep it from repeating 1976/1977, but it's something interesting to see while it lasts! I've read stories about that winter, and it was really awful - coal barges couldn't get through the Mississippi or Ohio, schools were closed for a month, only essential workers were able to work in 50 degree offices - as fun as it would be to walk to KY on the river, it was a terrible time... …finally, one extra shot from this morning - the moon and some planet, not sure which one!

Yeah, and Mark is such a good chef, it's great that when his big opportunity came, it was still in Cincinnati!

You get through? Give us a full report (ha!)!

Anyone try this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination_communication

To do what? Shut up and sit down, and get off my lawn! Can't you read books or something? And what is that noise you're listening to?

I'm really happy for Mark, but will miss him at NuVo - that was a consistently stunning dining experience. Only thing wrong with that place was that they didn't have a liquor license. But he was just a fabulous chef - open kitchen where you could watch everything happen, and he was out front chatting with you, happy to explain why he made this choice or that one, quick to let you sample sauces or salts, and even giving you seconds for no charge sometimes! This is a great move by the Wade's, no doubt. I just hope his quirky foodie local-sourced cuisine translates from the almost mom-and-pop feel of NuVo to this contemporary, chic address...