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As for the iBook problems, that smells of operator error if there ever was one. Amen, my friend...it's all in the connection between the keyboard and the seat!

The problem is that you just eat dinner too late. If you'd eat at, say, 4pm, finish by 5:30, then you would still have time to hit the Mt. Auburn Graeters before they closed...of course, on Saturday you'd have to eat dinner around 2:00, finish by 3:30, because they close at 4...

And that all has to be dumped in at once? Like, they don't do a layer and then the next day another layer or something...

^Thanks for the insight. So how will I know when they're pouring the foundation? Will there be a line of cement trucks lined up around the block?

^Indeed...I always wonder if it's bias, ignorance or sloth. Probably a mix of the three, but in this case, I'm guessing it's mostly sloth. Or, who knows, maybe the prospect of having marquee restaurants in the single most premier location in the city just isn't tripping the trigger of the assorted restauranteers and corporations...

I know that in the case of at least one of the non-signed restaurants, they can't sign a lease until the paperwork between 5/3rd and 3CDC is finalized. 3CDC can't lease space until they hold the rights to do so. From what I understand, that still hasn't happened, but the restaurant is extremely eager to get the project moving forward, to announce it publicly, etc., etc... Maybe I'm wrong, maybe 3CDC is all ready to move forward and everyone's balking, but that sure as hell ain't what I've heard...

Coming back from the morning walk, we saw a cement truck pulling up to the site! Just one truck, so I don't know if that's pouring the foundation or prepping the foundation or just pouring a pad for other gear or something else entirely - but still, we have cement inbound!

It's "Pleasant Ridge Near" to the realtors...

Yeah, arguing PC vs Mac is like arguing French vs Italian...both will get the job done, it's just a question of how! Really, for me the laptop is a web browsing appliance, so I've done enough to get it to work. I've got a 2G compact flash card for my Canon camera, so I really never need to worry about downloading pictures in mid-trip. It works great for what I use it for - all I was saying is that "they just work" is probably true for me maybe 90% of the time - just like it's true for me on PC's probably 90% of the time.

I plugged my camera into my Dell via USB and I could access the pictures like it was another drive - when I plug it into the iBook, the iBook doesn't even notice. I could dig into it, figure out another solution, buy another piece of gear - or I could just use my Dell, which is what I do. Her account is the admin account...I could probably boot to her account, create a new admin account, then use that one to delete her account, then recreate her account, but I just boot into mine and I can surf the net fine. I said the wrong thing about Arabic - I haven't tried to install the font, it's that when I go to an Arabic webpage, it comes up as blocks. Try going to http://arabic.cnn.com/ and see if it's Arabic text or mostly blocks for you...I just searched help, figured out how to add Arabic to the list, and then on reopening the Arabic CNN page in a new browser window it displayed the text correctly - so that one's solved! Still have to figure out how to get it to support right-to-left text in an Arabic font in the keyboard I'm used to, but I'll probably not bother and just type on my Dell... My point was just that, while all these issues are undoubtedly solvable, so are most of the issues I run into on PC's. And no doubt, Mac's are more intuitive, and I'm better able to handle PC issues only due to years of familiarity with them - but as a consumer, the appeal of a Mac for me isn't that they're problem-free machines. They just give me different problems.

I can't make a good "suburb of" joke here because it's a county...I guess I could say it's in Mt. Orab's MSA, but that's just not very funny...

The point is that crime is a whole lot more than just homicides. Homicides edging up while other serious crimes decline is a net benefit to the community. Obviously, every homicide is a tragedy, and hopefully that will go down as well. But there's nothing wrong with highlighting the drop in the whole serious crime category.

I've had just as much trouble with Macs as I have with PC's myself...I've had a few horror story evenings-wasted-with-nonsense episodes with my wife's iBook, I can't download pictures from my camera onto it, we can't use her profile because if the mouse goes over the date and time in the upper right-hand corner the whole thing freezes, occasionally the computer will randomly reboot when it thinks too hard, I can't get an Arabic font installed on it, etc., etc... I'm sure they're all fixable issues, and I'm definitely no guru with tech issues, but in my experience both PC's and Macs can give you fits trying to get them to work...

I agree, except I'd say that superior design is an integral part of the product. Like with iPods - the elegance and simplicity of the design makes it a superior product to other players...like, I'm trying to say that electronics are not like wine, where a superior label has nothing to do with the quality of the product. But when the interaction with the product is through its interface, that interface has got to be considered part of its quality...and when a computer is also a piece of furniture, like a lamp or a desk - well, design is also an interal part of the product. I'm rambling, sorry...

^Sounds like that means they're designed for just about everyone then! Because honest, who doesn't like shiney things? Ooo...shiney...

Ooo...seems like a pretty unwise time to start throwing talk of Eminent Domain around in that neck of the woods...of course, it sounds like they didn't bring it up, just confirmed that they've discussed it internally as a last resort...still, seems like the wisest time to start talking about it would be some time other than when they're rewriting Eminent Domain law...

We have reached a turning point - for the first time, yesterday morning, instead of seeing them only moving stuff out of the hole, I finally saw what appeared to be stuff they'd starting putting into the hole! Then on the way back from our walk, you could tell there was stuff a-plenty in there - form-making stuff, I'm guessing, and rebar, and whatnot-all-else. I need to get a picture after hours at some point here! But hey, happy yay! Actual constructing of stuff seems to have begun!

Very cool...thanks for catching this - the frickin' Clermont Sun! Grasscat, you absolutely rock!

Check out the St Bernard DQ on a warm summer night. I live in Walnut Hills, and my wife had a craving for a soft serve ice cream cone...Putz's was almost closed (it was like 7:55pm or something), and the only place we could think of was DQ...the closest seemed to be in St. Bernard, so off I went. And indeed, it was packed...I didn't mind the wait, because once you get the melty-goods, you're done waiting, but yeah, they had two windows going full bore, and it was still probably ten minutes of standing in line, and smack up against the street too...

On television, Kentucky definitely kicked the snot out of Ohio in the cheering contest. But I think that was mostly due to very poor microphone placement. You could hear maybe two people yelling, then a soft background cheer. On the KY side, you heard the whole crowd. Just poor placement and thus no sound balance.

Ach, joyously lovely! Thank you for touring and posting! That first shot of Scripps is just fantastic... And Mejana is always tasty...glad you enjoyed it!

^Amen on the gender thing...that's a continual pain in the tuckas in Arabic. And talk about arbitrary...maybe I'm just too new to it, but I can detect neither rhyme nor reason to it. Yes, quirks are fantastic, and ambiguity is the soil of poetry, no doubt. But some rules are simply distracting, and those are the ones I don't mind seeing pass on... Besides which, a changing language is in itself a beautiful quirk - some of the charm of Shakespeare lies in learning the language, and picking up on the subtleties. If the rules hadn't changed over time, that newness would be imperceptible...

This stuff is fantastic. Though I will say, seeing a parking lot right next to the barn just destroys the look, at least for me...I'd prefer to judge the barns in context...but hey, I ain't the one dedicating my time and energy to the project, so who am I to bitch?

^I'm with you...which is why I've given up on split infinitives...I'm more a descriptivist than a prescriptivist... And even though I try to use subjunctive mood, if I be aware that it sounds very wrong (like it does in that construction), I skip it... So yeah, while I mourn the death of quirks and oddities that make the language rich, these rules are just distracting...

Man, you always seem to put some kind of disclaimer at the beginning of your photo threads. And then you proceed to post dozens of photos that consistently kick some serious ass. What he said... And man, this is a true keeper: