You know what's crazy? I saw the news this morning at work on the little flat screen. They did this little bit on the Secret Service Scandal; apparently like 13 Secret Service members brought whores to their hotel rooms and some of them refused to pay full price, (like, since women were servicing two members, the agents thought they should be able to split the $50 price, not pay $50 each or some nonesense.)

 

The story lasted maybe ten seconds, like it's not even a big deal and ya' know what? It's not. I'm so desensitized to government scandals that I've become comfortably numb to it.  I'm not even surprised. Iran-Contra? Oliver North-Bin-Laden? CIA Jet crashes in Mexico with 4 tons of pure Cocaine and now CIA stands for Cocaine Importing Agency? YAWN!

 

The next story lasted like 20 seconds. Someone has apparently gotten away with stealing a Penguin from the Columbus Zoo and somehow they have no idea who did it? I think it was an inside job, personally. I was appaulled! All of a sudden I blurted out, "Who f-ing does that!?!?!?" I mean really, where are you going to keep a penguin anyway? You better have a walk-in freezer so you can recreate his habitat or that's just animal cruelty. Bastards..

 

As a kid in school during the McCarthy era, as a whippersnapper in AFROTC in college, and later as an enlisted man in the USAF, I heard teachers and other speakers rail about why homosexuals couldn't be trusted in positions of national security because they couldn't control their sexual urges and were easily lured into compromising situations. This latest incident is just one more in the litany of recent possible security breaches involving sexual impropriety, and in every case I can think of in recent years the incidents have involved heterosexual misconduct. I think we have proof enough that heterosexuals cannot be trusted with national security. Perhaps they should be banned entirely from military service and law enforcement. Maybe from teaching, too, because they can indoctrinate children with their misleading bias.

 

 

"A certain business owner who I designed a logo for, agreed to pay me in royalties vs. a flat fee for T-shirts that I'm designing for his patrons. The problem is that I have no idea what the going-rate is for somehting like that. All I know is that it better be worth my time!!

 

Do you have the agreement in writing, preferably notarized and hopefully reviewed by an attorney?

 

Not yet. The only written agreement is through e-mails but I intend to do that.

You know what's crazy? I saw the news this morning at work on the little flat screen. They did this little bit on the Secret Service Scandal; apparently like 13 Secret Service members brought whores to their hotel rooms and some of them refused to pay full price, (like, since women were servicing two members, the agents thought they should be able to split the $50 price, not pay $50 each or some nonesense.)

 

The story lasted maybe ten seconds, like it's not even a big deal and ya' know what? It's not. I'm so desensitized to government scandals that I've become comfortably numb to it.  I'm not even surprised. Iran-Contra? Oliver North-Bin-Laden? CIA Jet crashes in Mexico with 4 tons of pure Cocaine and now CIA stands for Cocaine Importing Agency? YAWN!

 

The next story lasted like 20 seconds. Someone has apparently gotten away with stealing a Penguin from the Columbus Zoo and somehow they have no idea who did it? I think it was an inside job, personally. I was appaulled! All of a sudden I blurted out, "Who f-ing does that!?!?!?" I mean really, where are you going to keep a penguin anyway? You better have a walk-in freezer so you can recreate his habitat or that's just animal cruelty. Bastards..

 

As a kid in school during the McCarthy era, as a whippersnapper in AFROTC in college, and later as an enlisted man in the USAF, I heard teachers and other speakers rail about why homosexuals couldn't be trusted in positions of national security because they couldn't control their sexual urges and were easily lured into compromising situations. This latest incident is just one more in the litany of recent possible security breaches involving sexual impropriety, and in every case I can think of in recent years the incidents have involved heterosexual misconduct. I think we have proof enough that heterosexuals cannot be trusted with national security. Perhaps they should be banned entirely from military service and law enforcement. Maybe from teaching, too, because they can indoctrinate children with their misleading bias.

 

 

 

Lol. D#mn heteros can't be trusted!

 

I'm guessing most of those Secret Service Agents are former Marines. You know how they love hitting up the nearby whore houses wherever they're stationed (while they have an under-age girlfriend in high-schoo,l back home.) Hah.

No one delivers pizza to my street :( I feel discriminated against.

^ I have the same problem. My house is the perfect location where it's just outside of every single place's delivery radius. Except for the one place that's awful.

 

BTW, I succumbed to Domino's marketing and ordered one of their pizza's about a month ago. I don't know what passes for 'better' pizza in corporate pizza land, but I can tell you that up until last month I had never thrown out pizza. That's no longer true.

I wouldn't deliver to you two either.

^ I have the same problem. My house is the perfect location where it's just outside of every single place's delivery radius. Except for the one place that's awful.

 

BTW, I succumbed to Domino's marketing and ordered one of their pizza's about a month ago. I don't know what passes for 'better' pizza in corporate pizza land, but I can tell you that up until last month I had never thrown out pizza. That's no longer true.

 

Pizza snob. I've been eating Domino's fairly regularly, it edible in my opinion. I'd prefer to get Danny Boys or Angelos but when I can get two larges for 12 bucks ( got to love those athletic booster cards)that my 3 kids inhale in about 7 minutes, as opposed to spending $30 at a good joint. Dominos wins out. My wife and I order the good stuff for ourselves after they go to bed.

 

BTW, has anybody else up in NEO tried guys pizza? The pizza is OK, but the fried mozzarella is the bomb..

It's sooo irritating when you can't get anything delivered to you.

 

I consider myself a Pizza aficionado.

 

Yeah, Domino's is barely edible. I love Donatos. They use frozen dough but I still think they have the best crust and basically just the best ingredients, perioid. I met Jane Grote Abell recently (Jim Grote's daughter/ Owner and Chairman.) She's a REALLY nice lady, down to earth and d@mn she is hot for a woman so much older than me. She seriously asked me, "If there was one thing you would change about Donatos, what would it be?" "Deliver to my house!" She laughed. I'm not even joking, true story.

It's funny, I have a guys pizza half a block from my office, and it's never occurred to me to actually walk down the street to try it. I have a different pizza place a block in the other direction that makes all kinds of specialty pizzas, and they do it on wheat crust if you want. One of my favorite places in Mentor.

 

I am totally not a pizza snob....ok, maybe a little. But I'm also a compulsive eater and I'm typically incapable of just leaving a slice without eating it. I mean, it would be offended if I didn't eat it, right?

 

I couldn't do it with the domino's pizza. Maybe I got a bad one. It was so inedible. So...so inedible.

^^ I'm just outside of Donato's delivery zone.

 

My kids won't eat pizza...or anything else for that matter. They turn their nose up at everything. It's like living with the French.

^^^David did you grow up on Donatos btw? I can see it being better than Dominos but the best? Not really. Can we all agree that Hungry Howies is putrid. It reminds me of Chuck E Cheese pizza.

 

Hey, Chuck-E-Cheese pizza is clearly the least disgusting of all the Chuck-E-Cheese fare!

Consulting an attorney is by a wide margin the best route to go.  However, the expected revenue needs to make sense to cover those costs.  If you choose to not get a professional involved make sure that you protect yourself in writing from this guy using the image in other capacities without your consent. 

Consulting an attorney is by a wide margin the best route to go.  However, the expected revenue needs to make sense to cover those costs.  If you choose to not get a professional involved make sure that you protect yourself in writing from this guy using the image in other capacities without your consent. 

 

Yeah, that's the problem. Attorneys are expensive and I don't know if I'm going to make much money off of this guy, anyway. I don't want to invest in an attorney if this guy's business doesn't do well and these shirts don't fly off the shelf. I'll lose money. I see your point though. Gotta protect yourself.

 

 

^^ I'm just outside of Donato's delivery zone.

 

My kids won't eat pizza...or anything else for that matter. They turn their nose up at everything. It's like living with the French.

 

My little brother is the same way. Just like the French. Picky eater, hardly eats anything (and has to be forced to take baths, brush his teeth and put on deodorant.)

 

 

^^^David did you grow up on Donatos btw? I can see it being better than Dominos but the best? Not really. Can we all agree that Hungry Howies is putrid. It reminds me of Chuck E Cheese pizza.

 

Absolutely I grew up on it. Maybe it's not the best but it's the best I've probably had. I've had Deep Dish Pizza at some places in other cities that were probably better but as far as what's available here in Columbus, I'll go with them. People complain about Donatos being expensive but I think it's worth the price.

 

I was born in Columbus, moved to Cincinnati when I was 12, then moved back to Columbus. While in Cincinnati, I hated the fact that LaRosas had the market cornered everywhere --literally. There are so many LaRosas in Cincinnati that when you order your pizza over the phone, you're actually calling their call center that routes the order to your neighborhood location. I think there was maybe 3 Donatos in the entire city. A few Papa Johns. LaRosas is pretty good but it just sucked not having any variety in Cincy.

^ Adriatico's!

^Gesundheit

^ Adriatico's!

 

He can get that in Columbus.

Speaking of food, why is that @sshole Anthony Bourdain so successful with his show? So what, he's articulate? He and his show are boring but he gets to travel around the world eating food for a living. I can't believe it!

^ I have the same problem. My house is the perfect location where it's just outside of every single place's delivery radius. Except for the one place that's awful.

 

BTW, I succumbed to Domino's marketing and ordered one of their pizza's about a month ago. I don't know what passes for 'better' pizza in corporate pizza land, but I can tell you that up until last month I had never thrown out pizza. That's no longer true.

 

Pizza snob. I've been eating Domino's fairly regularly, it edible in my opinion. I'd prefer to get Danny Boys or Angelos but when I can get two larges for 12 bucks ( got to love those athletic booster cards)that my 3 kids inhale in about 7 minutes, as opposed to spending $30 at a good joint. Dominos wins out. My wife and I order the good stuff for ourselves after they go to bed.

 

BTW, has anybody else up in NEO tried guys pizza? The pizza is OK, but the fried mozzarella is the bomb..

 

Guy's is OK, not great.  There's a funny taste to it, not unpleasant, just different.  Cheap slices, so I like it for a greasy lunch now and again.

 

Donato's is good, for a chain.  If you want a good pie, you've got to find the good mom and pop joints.

My favorite Ohio chain pizzas are Cincy's Adriatico's and Dayton's Cassano's. I like Donato's, but it's not nearly as good as those.

 

Don't know any of the chains from up north. Or I might but I don't remember.

 

I agree LaRosa's sucks. Their wings are decent, though. Or, actually, they used to be. Last time I had them, they had changed them. Hoping that was a one-off thing.

 

Having spent a number of years living in the NYC area, I still like Cassano's and Adriatico's. They are unique enough not to suffer from comparison. (Good pizza is ubiquitous in NYC, but there is no monopoly on good pizza there, as some people somehow get in their heads...what a weird idea. I'm sure if some Cincinnati chili parlors opened in NYC (which they totally should!) someone would figure out a formula which would compare favorably to the best in Cincy.)

 

Oh and I should give props to MTS or whoever it was that suggested Lou Malnati's in Chicago. I never enjoyed a Chicago-style pizza until I ate there and OMG it was amazing. And Nati is in the name which is pretty sweet too. After gorging myself with wayyy too much, I temporarily turned into the Malnatininja.

 

Oh and for anyone who is interested but uninformed... Graeter's ice cream can be had in much of the country now. Check out their store locator.

Totally another tangent from pizza places....

 

For whatever reason I decided to throw one of my old CD binders in my car and I have been listening to my old CDs. I realize that a lot of them, particularly the smaller local  and indie bands from the early 90s really sound tinny. I was just curious if anybody on here has a background in audio and tell me if it was just bad (cheap) production or if it was shoddy analog to digital mastering when the CDs were mastered. I know that audio mixing has gotten "louder" over the last 20 years and I do listen to a lot of compressed music on my ipod/computer so that maybe effecting my perception too. But it seems to be tinny sounding as opposed to sort of the "thin" sound from DIY punk and indie, almost as if the mids are under represented.

 

 

 

I know I read about a story a while back where people who were primarily used to listening to music on mp3 players rated higher compression audio as higher quality than less compressed audio. Maybe your ears have made that transition, to where the technically higher quality sound actually sounds worse to you.

 

(I have no idea, just throwing that out there. It's an interesting concept, either way.)

I try to rip all of my stuff at a min of 256 k (whatever that is worth). I can't stand to listen to music on XM/sirius I totally notice the loses from the compression.

 

After thinking about, I am probably going to chock it up to a shoddy analog to digital conversion because I was listening to the re-release of Sublime's 40 oz and a Clark's (from Pittsburgh) CD; both which are from around 1995. Both records were made on a shoe string budget by indie bands ( at the time they were made) but the major label release of 40 oz sounds fine while the Clarks CD sounds tinny. I think my sister has a copy of the original indie release of 40oz. It would be interesting to do a side by side comparison.

 

I wonder whatever happened to DaninDC 

 

I try to rip all of my stuff at a min of 256 k (whatever that is worth). I can't stand to listen to music on XM/sirius I totally notice the loses from the compression.

 

After thinking about, I am probably going to chock it up to a shoddy analog to digital conversion because I was listening to the re-release of Sublime's 40 oz and a Clark's (from Pittsburgh) CD; both which are from around 1995. Both records were made on a shoe string budget by indie bands ( at the time they were made) but the major label release of 40 oz sounds fine while the Clarks CD sounds tinny. I think my sister has a copy of the original indie release of 40oz. It would be interesting to do a side by side comparison.

 

Anything higher than 192 kb/s isn't going to be much noticably better in terms of quality.

What also might be going on is that your modern equipment is EQ'd for today's compressed, brickwalled/hard-limited music.

I used to be a John Mayer fan but I just heard snippets of songs off his new album coming out in a month and it f-ing blows! His recent retrogression, a desension into some weird Country Western Folk stuff from the 1800s, is an EPIC FAIL practically on par to that of Billy Joel when he started singing Doo Wop in the 80s! Boo! Take off that dumb looking Cowboy Hat, John Mayer. You're from f-king Connecticut for God's sake.

That reminds me. How can a CD even have a bonus track? That's the lamest, most useless marketing ploy imaginable. Most cds with bonus tracks only have like 12 songs total on them, anyway. So what if the bonus track is hidden on the tracklist on the album cover? Like most people are going to get that happy element of surprise? It's not hidden on the tracklist I see on Piratebay.org, now before I d/l it, now is it?! Ha!

I just drank a Four Loko; my apologies.

^ Damn I had the guts to try that stuff Twice before. I tend to drink canned beverages fast, regardless what they are.  That doesnt work with four loco...at least the original formulated version. Since then I've heard the energy ingredients have been eliminated

Oh, yeah, it's different now. I tend to not like fruity alcoholic drinks; they usually give me a headache and just taste bad but for some reason I like fruity malt-liquor? I don't get it.

I can't say that I have ever had a Four Loko, I do know that I get mighty productive after a few red bulls and vodka.

 

PS I have always thought John Mayer blows. He's never held an appeal to me.

Oh, yeah, it's different now. I tend to not like fruity alcoholic drinks; they usually give me a headache and just taste bad but for some reason I like fruity malt-liquor? I don't get it.

 

So, you're saying you like wine coolers.

^haha. That about sums it up.

No one drinks that sh!t anymore. Do they even make wine coolers anymore?

I almost spat out my coffee this morning when I saw this on facebook. I'll never look at Oscar the Grouch the same.

 

 

 

I wonder whatever happened to DaninDC 

 

 

I thank MayDay scared him.  I wonder what happened to JPop/JPoop or whatever his name is?

Totally another tangent from pizza places....

 

For whatever reason I decided to throw one of my old CD binders in my car and I have been listening to my old CDs. I realize that a lot of them, particularly the smaller local  and indie bands from the early 90s really sound tinny. I was just curious if anybody on here has a background in audio and tell me if it was just bad (cheap) production or if it was shoddy analog to digital mastering when the CDs were mastered. I know that audio mixing has gotten "louder" over the last 20 years and I do listen to a lot of compressed music on my ipod/computer so that maybe effecting my perception too. But it seems to be tinny sounding as opposed to sort of the "thin" sound from DIY punk and indie, almost as if the mids are under represented.

 

Generally indie bands or home-recorded stuff isn't "mastered" at all, the mix is just burned directly to CD. That probably has a lot to do with it. You are also correct that music is getting more and more compressed as time goes on so your ears are probably used to that.

I just ran into this and thought was interesting enough to share with the rest of the class....

 

THE 13 MOST HAUNTED HOTELS IN THE WORLD

 

http://thejetpacker.com/13-most-haunted-hotels-in-the-world/

I just witnessed the craziest thing in...well, probably ...a week. We were on McGuffey Rd. Off of Hudson. ave. and the whole rd. lit up, then started flickering. Heard all these explosions. Then saw a guys running really fast away from the light. I realized it was a car crashed into a street light pole and ran over to the car to see if anyone was in it but didn't see anyone in there. I look around me and there's traffic signal lights dangling right above my head, electrical wires laying all over the ground along with one of those circuit boxes or whatever....hanging almost to the ground. The whole scene was completely dark and desolate.

 

I guess someone stole the car and ran off after they crashed but I do not understand how the guy survived, let alone was able to run off that fast - something you couldn't do if you were severely injured--which he should have been.

 

What is strange is that a Tow Truck arrived within literally 1 minute before the police. I saw him coming and heard sirens so I said screw it, "Someone already called the police" and got the hell out of Dodge. That neighborhood is insane.

 

Someone probably set that sh_t up.  They came from a road you don't go more than 25 mph on simply because it is a really narrow, tertiary street...practically an alley,  approaching McGuffey. The street clearly terminates instead of continuing after that intersection because there's a friggin school at the termination, yet the car went straight and crashed into a light pole like 3 feet wide at what had to be an extremely high speed in order to cause all that damage. 

 

I wonder if it'll be on the news tomorrow morning.

You gotta watch that stuff with overhead electricals. We all know about getting electrocuted, but that crap can fall on you as well. I know a guy that was just driving past the scene of a crash when a transformer fell onto his car and nearly crushed him to death.

Not a good idea to run toward something that everyone else is running away from! You could have been fried by downed wires, and the danger would have been even greater if the ground/pavement had been wet, either from rain for from leaking fluids from a vehicle.

You don't think 100% clear in those situations. I didn't even see the transformer and wires hanging above me until I was right by the car. I couldn't stand the thought of passing without checking to see if there was anyone inside the car in critical condition. My dad just escaped death after a delayed deployment of an air bag punctured his lung and broke a bunch of his ribs while he was working on a semi-trailer.

Just saw the trailer for the film adaptation of Kerouac's "On The Road." I have a feeling it's going to suck in comparison to the book.

Did I see 2 or 3 guys out surfing in the water at Edgewater park this morning around 8? The wind had kicked up some nice whitecap rollers, so I am guessing that was why they were out there. Brassballs, indeed. It was 43 degrees according to my car.

Mmm. Thanks, Today Show.

 

 

Don't feel too bad, they didn't put journalism up there so they're just in denial.

I would think Journalism is under Fine Arts?

 

The irony is how this picture got up on their screen anyway. (see item 3)

As a photographer, I take offense to the above photograph.

My degree is in "general studies", I've found it's pretty useless for getting a job, but it's useful for something to hang on the wall of my cubicle and hide the stain from where I accidently splashed coffee when I did a combination cough/sneeze/hiccup a few months ago.