January 29, 201015 yr I saw "notify" as getting notifications on the thread. Kind of like the notifications on facebook. Honestly, I totally forgot about that feature until Scrabble mentioned it. Since there is a link for reporting to a mod right above the bar, I don't think the "notify" is too confusing.
February 1, 201015 yr ^Well all reet, well all root, well all right! "Is you is, or is you ain't my baby...."
February 1, 201015 yr Not exactly off-topic. More like talking about other topics outside of their thread. Wow is the 3-C Project thread is red hot. I am afraid to post anything on the topic, seeing that I know exactly nothing about rail, except I enjoying taking the Maryland Commuter rail from Baltimor into DC when I am there on business.
February 1, 201015 yr I for one would welcome back the concept of the bar/lounge car.... Now THAT is a sure way to attract more riders to RTA. :)
February 1, 201015 yr I seem to remember one from a Chicago-Cleveland run in 2000-2001. Did they eliminate it more recently than that?
February 1, 201015 yr I for one would welcome back the concept of the bar/lounge car.... Ditto! OMG, the snack car is my absolute favorite place to hang out when I'm on the train down to Normal, IL.
February 1, 201015 yr I was walking on Elm st in Cincinnati by the market and i swear i met this guy today. He asked me for a smoke.
February 1, 201015 yr CBC, I know you didn't mean to start anything, but given the atmosphere in that thread, any mention of it anywhere is bound to set some people off. The 3C thread is overheated enough. If any more of the vitriol shows up here in Urbanbar, I'll start wielding MayDay's bloody axe. Don't bring it in here, folks! Edit: Upon rereading your post, 327, I saw it as a personal slap directed at one of the moderators. I axed it.
February 2, 201015 yr Sorry Rob... Umm, How about that weather??? crazy I think NC, VA and MD have gotten more snow than I have this winter at my house on the westside of Cleveland. I have had to shovel exactly once....
February 2, 201015 yr ^In PA, we had a month long marathon of about an inch or two every weekend, plus a few storms that dumped about 4-5 inches of snow. I really hope we don't get any more snow.
February 2, 201015 yr Light snow falling here this morning with no wind. It's kind of pretty to look at from the coziness of my home. I don't expect much accumulation, and the temp is about 30F right now, with a high forecast of 34. Probably won't last.
February 2, 201015 yr I heard that the groundhog saw his shadow today. :-( I want to shoot that little sh!t. I'm so sick of winter! *Although I do think the tradition is completely BS, it still feels great to take out my frustrations on some mythical, ancient groundhog.
February 2, 201015 yr would it make you feel better if they replaced Phil with a robot as those wackos at PETA have suggested?
February 2, 201015 yr yup, not too get on a tangent on PETA, but they are publicity whores. Anytime they can find a way to inject themselves into a situation, no matter how ridiculous, they do it. In my opinion, they turn off people like me by doing these ridiculous things. I am all for animal rights, but I will never support an organization that calls for a robotic groundhog (or any of the other asinine demands they make).
February 2, 201015 yr yup, not too get on a tangent on PETA, but they are publicity whores. Anytime they can find a way to inject themselves into a situation, no matter how ridiculous, they do it. In my opinion, they turn off people like me by doing these ridiculous things. I am all for animal rights, but I will never support an organization that calls for a robotic groundhog (or any of the other asinine demands they make). I'd be willing to meet them halfway and outfit the grounhog with a bunch of cyborg implants, so that we could control it remotely, thus ensuring a timely appearance, and predictable outcome.
February 3, 201015 yr Groundhog Day makes no sense to me. Why do people care at all? Cultures need rituals/ceremonies to give people a way of relating to each other I guess. I think most people love the fact that it's such a ridiculous, superstitious holiday.
February 3, 201015 yr "Max Weber sought to evoke the qualities of grid power in his famous image of modern life lived in an "iron cage;" the image makes sense only if it implies that the trainer is shut in the same cage as his beasts. For instance, such consequences of neutrality appear in a short story by Henry James called "The beast in the Jungle". His tale concerns a man, John Marcher, who is able to live peaceably a life of continuities. But behind this social facade, he apprehends a terrible disaster within himself, poised to destroy him: "Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching Beast in the Jungle." By chance, Marcher meets a woman in England, May Bartram, to whom he confided this fear many years before, during a visit to Italy. Miss Bartram has remembered his secret, and taken it seriously. The two now become friends; his inner dread becomes a bond between them, the promise of a deeper connection between them than that of proper spinster and bachelor. But the Beast in the Jungle also keeps them apart; since Marcher is haunted, he thinks he must grapple with the beast before he can live. They grow old together thus, intimate at a distance. Miss Bartram falls ill of a blood disease; just before she dies she struggles to tell him what the beast is but her strength fails. James intended the Beast in the Jungle to be a parable; it was to be of "the man of his time, the man, to whom nothing on earth was to have happened." This representative man has failed to live, in living a life of inner anguish: "It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonored, pilloried, hanged; it was failure to not be anything." In mourning he discovers why the seeming inner drama of his life has been no life at all. In the cemetery where he makes regular visits to Miss Bartram's grave, he one day notices a man wrecked with grief over another woman's tomb. At first he is puzzled, and then horror-struck. In observing this woebegone man, Marcher realizes he had "seen outside of his life", not learned it within, the way a woman was mourned when she had been loved for herself." He had failed to love Miss Bartram apart from her connection to his secret--and now in the graveyard the beast has sprung. There was a terrible shallowness in his obssession with his inner demons, the beast has bitten his consciousness, his knowledge that he can never regain time delayed. The beast was Marcher's waiting to live. In one way, this is a parable simply of a modern fear. One has to wait so long to be in a position to be ready, to know what one is doing, to be strong enough to "really live"... The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. By Richard Sennett New York: ALfred A. Knopf, 1990. (pp. 63-64). I love this book :)
February 4, 201015 yr ^ Ben Folds mentions Normal, IL in his song "Effington." :-) Bloomington/Normal is a really cool little metro area. Downtown Normal was recently renamed "Uptown" to contrast downtown Bloomington. But with the rebranding came a number of new developments that reorients the entire area toward the Amtrak depot. Check out the maps and construction photos: http://www.normal.org/uptown/index.asp
February 4, 201015 yr Moved from the pet peeve thread Quote from: rockandroller on Today at 09:58:24 AM LOVE Young Frankenstein. A masterpiece. Am obsessed with LOTR. Loved Star Trek TOS and TNG, never saw any of the movies. Loved cheesy clash of the titans, am looking forward to see what they do with the remake. If you do choose to watch the movies, there is a pretty simple forumula to follow. For the most part, the even number movies are good and the odd number movies are awful1 (The Motion Picture) - terrible 2 (The Wrath of Kahn) - above average IMO 3 (The Search for Spock) - meh 4 (The Voyage Home) - great.... "can you tell me vhere to find the nucwear whessels?" 5 (The Final Frontier) - the worst 6 (The Undiscovered Country) - the best IMO... great parallels with the Cold War 7 (Generations) - might be the worst (definitely Shatner at his worst and that is saying something) 8 (First Contact) - pretty good 9 (Insurrection) - not very good 10 (Nemesis) and 11 (Star Trek) - the two exceptions to the rule IMO.... maybe they are going to flip-flop for 10 through 20 and make the odd numbers actually watchable.
February 4, 201015 yr Did I recently see a picture of some Ukrainian lady who won an election in the Ukraine (president?) with that Sound of Musicesk fancy braid wraped around the head hair do? She must be in her 50's at least but wow, what a babe!
February 4, 201015 yr Yulia Tymoshenko will be in a run-off election this month. And yes, she is a babe.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 4, 201015 yr I noticed on the other thread, KJP, that you referred to "the Ukraine". Just a word of advice...if you meet a Ukranian woman, don't say "the Ukraine" to her. Many Ukranians do not like that. (My wife learned that at a parent/teacher conference with a parent of a Ukranian student.) http://www.infoukes.com/faq/the_ukraine/
February 4, 201015 yr Thanks for tip, the jam40jeff. :) As long as we're (OK, I'm) posting pictures of hot babe national leaders, few top Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan: "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
February 4, 201015 yr I hope they don't give Yulia that stuff they gave Yushenko. Anyone remember that?
February 4, 201015 yr 2 (The Wrath of Kahn) - above average IMO Wrath of Khan was my favorite of the Star Trek movies.
February 4, 201015 yr 2 (The Wrath of Kahn) - above average IMO Wrath of Khan was my favorite of the Star Trek movies. Apparently it was 327's as well. Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 4, 201015 yr 2 (The Wrath of Kahn) - above average IMO Wrath of Khan was my favorite of the Star Trek movies. I agree. Best of the ones with the original cast.
February 4, 201015 yr It definitely had the best scene of any ST movie at the end there when Spock dies. And maybe the best line - "the good of the many outweighs the good of the one" Overall though, I thought the movie is not nearly as entertaining as the Voyage Home or as thought provoking as the Undiscovered Country. My history with Star Trek is due to my sister being a "Treker/Trekie" (she could tell you the difference... whichever one does NOT dress up for the conventions is her) and us only having one TV. Actually, I hated the original series when I was a kid and still do not turn it on when I see it is on. But I certainly appreciate the social barriers the show broke through and its loyalty to ensuring that the scientific aspects of its vision of the future are even plausible. As a fun fact, I believe the show had the first black-white kiss.
February 4, 201015 yr http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/star-trek-the-last-voyage/280280/
February 5, 201015 yr Just looked up something at my bank and noticed I got my tax return. Always a good day when that happens.
February 5, 201015 yr Ohai. I'm new here. I'm a ninja from the Nati. Hence the name. :wink2: herro. r u 1 of the nait's superheros?
February 5, 201015 yr Ohai. I'm new here. I'm a ninja from the Nati. Hence the name. :wink2: herro. r u 1 of the nait's superheros? yah, but pweez keep my identity secwet. there r supervillians hoo'd lurv 2 have mai hedd. shhhhh. I don't think so. Is he a regular poster on here? He's kind of a big deal in the Cincinnati threads. You must not go in them enough.
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