If you want to know the ten top UrbanOhio threads EVARS!!!!?!?!  Below:

 

1. Cincinnati Streetcar News  18024

2. Off Topic  8232

3. Greater Cleveland RTA News & Discussion  7985

4. The Obama Presidency  7120

5. Cleveland: Convention Center / Medical Mart  6951

6. Cincinnati: Downtown: The Banks  6427

7. Restarting Passenger Rail In Ohio's 3C Corridor  5385

8. Cleveland: Restaurant News & Info  5138

9. 2008 Presidential Election Discussion  4686

10. Cleveland Cavs Discussion  4313

^^Just think, a few years after the streetcar gets built the posting in that thread will slow down, but on this board we'll never stop going off topic.

silly but kinda cool pic - staple city!

 

 

fffuuuuu...!

 

 

Times Square victim’s blood draws a crowd

By TARA PALMERI

Last Updated: 6:05 AM, August 13, 2012

 

 

It’s the Big Apple’s newest — and goriest — tourist attraction.

Visitors flocked to Seventh Avenue between 37th and 38th streets yesterday to take pictures of each other standing next to bloodstains on the sidewalk — left by the knife-wielding madman shot dead by cops a day earlier.

“It’s amazing. It’s like, ‘Oh, my God!’ That’s so different than what we’re used to. It’s so gross,” said Abby Smith, 25, of the Scottish city of Edinburgh, which averages fewer than a dozen murders a year.

Smith giddily snapped photo after photo of her traveling pal, Scott Ramsey, standing over the blood to show the folks back home.

 

 

http://m.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hot_spot_on_ny_gore_tour_7GnsJKjQlRzvF6ePTiplaL

 

 

 

The only thing worse than treating a bloodstain as a tourist site is writing an article about it. Distasteful.

My wh*re of an ex-girlfriend actually wrote something profound on her facebook wall. I like it :)

 

"For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat—hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone). I have always wanted to write novels in which my heroes would say: “What would I do without the office?” or again: “My wife has died, but fortunately I have all these orders to fill for tomorrow.” Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props (one doesn’t know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves. But also, soul-sick, we restore to every being and every object its miraculous value. A woman dancing without a thought in her head, a bottle on a table, glimpsed behind a curtain: each image becomes a symbol. The whole of life seems reflected in it, insofar as it summarizes our own life at the moment. When we are aware of every gift, the contradictory intoxications we can enjoy (including that of lucidity) are indescribable."

- Albert Camus

Some of my friend's profiles have gotten pretty boring to view on facebook.

 

Baby Photos, baby photos, baby photos, rant about work, baby photos, talk about tomorrow's shift, baby photos.

 

-Unfollow Friend-  Click!

 

^ www.unbaby.me

It works!  Thanks! 

I got a FB account about a month ago. I have a few of my wife's friends who have 'friended' me, and I guess I have to ask, what else would someone post on their page? Every post I've seen so far falls into that category (granted I'm older than you, and kids / work take up a significant amount of the time of our peers). I agree, it's pretty boring stuff, though.

I got a FB account about a month ago. I have a few of my wife's friends who have 'friended' me, and I guess I have to ask, what else would someone post on their page? Every post I've seen so far falls into that category (granted I'm older than you, and kids / work take up a significant amount of the time of our peers). I agree, it's pretty boring stuff, though.

 

I'm about to delete all of my 'friends' that just dump lame graphics into the news feed nonstop.

I think the biggest reason I still have Facebook is to keep up with relatives whose couches I'd like to someday sleep on. It seems like no one on my mom's side of the family has decided to live within a couple hundred miles of their parents, so combined with being a large family, there's a pretty good network of uncles, aunts and cousins throughout the world that I can stay with while traveling to avoid paying for hotels.

the oldens have taken over the facebook and this is why all the teens and college kids have abandoned it for the twitter.

 

Turns out the house was sold at auction in June to Freddie Mac, but the mortage was held by a reputable local bank. Why would they be buying the property? Decent house on a great street, they bought it at about 50k below market value.

 

At the risk of boring people with more detail than anyone cared to know, two weeks after the question was originally asked...  If Freddie bought the house at the foreclosure auction, it means that the mortgage wasn't really held by the local bank.  That bank likely originated the loan way back when and may have  been servicing it since, but soon after being issued, the loan was sold to Freddie who pooled it with hundreds or thousands of other loans, and then securitized the whole pool and guaranteed the credit risk of the individual loans. So when the homeowner defaulted (a very sad story in this case), Freddie bought the mortgage out of the securitization pool per its obligation as guarantor and essentially became the foreclosing lender.  And when the property went to auction, and no one bid more than the amount of the outstanding debt (which is typical these days for a few reasons), Freddie itself took title and will now market the property in a more normal way, using a broker, to recoup as much as it can. Fannie and Freddie together own a huge chunk of all foreclosed homes nationally as a result of the their guarantees, which is what they were created to do. As mrnyc explained, the whole system was designed to free up bank capital for more lending by getting mortgage debt into the hands of the broader capital markets.

I've heard a rumor that Dixmyth Avenue in Cincinnati was named after a man named Dick Smith and that there was a law (or general understanding of some sort) that didn't allow naming streets after people. I have found confirmation that Dick Smith is in fact a real guy and that the street was named after him, but I have no idea if the weird spelling was a result of legalities or not.

 

Anyone know?

A lot of streets in Cincinnati are named after people; perhaps there's a law regarding whether or not you can name a street after someone before they're dead?

^ I think if it was ever a law it has long since been abolished but calling it Dixmyth was a way around the old law (if the law ever did exist). Pete Rose Way is one example of a street named after a living person.

Am I the only one on here who has a thunderstorm warning (from a storm that occurred a few days ago) still flashing on the TV on every channel? I don't think there's any way to get that off of there :( I have WOW! TV and internet. There's no Cable box since it's basic and the TV is digital. It's starting to get annoying.

Are you sure that we haven't just been under a storm watch the entire time? This is Columbus.

New York Times Tweet Declares NBA Dead

 

Can't argue

Are you sure that we haven't just been under a storm watch the entire time? This is Columbus.

 

It finally went away today.

 

No man, it's been saying "Severe Thunderstorm Warning Until 6pm Aug. 19th" lol! You're right though. We have too many thunderstorms and b.s. warnings, in Columbus. My power was out for a week during that one fiasco. I got a couple days off of work out of the deal, though - since the power was out there, too :)

Woot!  No longer have to get stuck at red lights when making a left on a bicycle!  I used stiff metal wire attached to a bar magnet to the back of my fork.  It's now sufficient to trip the demand actuated signals to give me a green arrow on approach.  I still have to be close enough proximity to I-L patterns or look for hash markings, but otherwise I don't have to think much about it anymore.

 

Currently Illinois law permits bicyclists and motorcyclists to treat left turn red lights as flashing reds after yielding to all traffic and pedestrians.  Though you receive legal permission to run a red light, it's still very dangerous.

Woot!  No longer have to get stuck at red lights when making a left on a bicycle!  I used stiff metal wire attached to a bar magnet to the back of my fork.  It's now sufficient to trip the demand actuated signals to give me a green arrow on approach.  I still have to be close enough proximity to I-L patterns or look for hash markings, but otherwise I don't have to think much about it anymore.

Interesting idea.

 

Currently Illinois law permits bicyclists and motorcyclists to treat left turn red lights as flashing reds after yielding to all traffic and pedestrians.  Though you receive legal permission to run a red light, it's still very dangerous.

I wish Ohio had this. On the bicycle there's a few intersections where I know to just pull onto the sidewalk and cross on foot as a pedestrian, but there's times on the motorcycle where I'm just stuck for a while.

People say that on a motorcycle, shutting it off and then hitting the starter creates enough of an electromagnetic field to excite the sensor. But I haven't been able to try it since my bike is kickstart.

The new loops in Chicago are shorter, and I think most communities have been adopting shorter loops, or spirals even for better detection of bikes.  This problem started happening to me when I got new rims.  I don't know if that has something to do with it.  I was able to trip most signals previously except on older roadways were you could see much longer sawcuts. 

Are the rims made of a non-conductive material? Those loops don't even like aluminum all that well. They want iron and steel.

Wow, this is interesting. A guy takes every drug known to man and draws a self portrait after each use.

 

http://cultso.com/artist-takes-every-drug-known-to-man-draws-self-portraits-after-each-use/

I was expecting the two bottles of cough syrup to have blood coughed up all over the drawing.

One of my Kentucky relatives is now receiving wrong number calls for "Turtle Man."  They have the same phone number just one number off.

 

 

http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/call-of-the-wildman/videos/top-10-wildest-turtleman-videos.htm

I'm sitting in NOLA.  I've got all the resources for an extended blackout due to the hurricane.  Mostly that is beer, to be followed by red wine.

I'm sitting in NOLA.  I've got all the resources for an extended blackout due to the hurricane.  Mostly that is beer, to be followed by red wine.

 

sounds like how i'd ride out a storm

I'm sitting in NOLA.  I've got all the resources for an extended blackout due to the hurricane.  Mostly that is beer, to be followed by red wine.

No, no, no. Beer goes stale if the power goes out and the fridge gets warm. Liqour is how you ride out an extended blackout. Plus then if you have too much you can have your own blackout which is far more fun than picking up tree branches, shingles, and litter from your yard after the hurricane. 

 

My wife always made fun of me when we lived in GA because as soon as the Hurricane watches started I'd go buy a few bottles for me to drink, an extra tank of propane for the grill, and whatever the butcher had on sale. I figured if I can't have power I might as well get drunk and play with fire. The longer we lived there the more common this became to the point where she started hiding my keys when there was a 25% chance of showers.

 

In more recent years I've continued the tradition with snowstorms here in Ohio. If I'm going to be snowed in I'm going to have fun. For that matter if there's snow on the road, I'm declaring it unsafe to drive and staying home. I've cut down on the drinking, but my kids now associate grilling with terrible weather instead of sunny saturday afternoons.

Why yes, I was one of the 3,000 people evacuated from Key Tower yesterday, from the 40th floor no less, and yes, it did take about 25 minutes. My legs are so sore today, it's unreal. I was trying hard to get a signal in the stairwell so I could look at twitter and find out what was happening because nobody knew why we were being evacuated and it was really nervewracking. And of course we were evacuated out into the ONE day all summer long that we have monsoon-like rain, with it pelting us sideways and everyone getting drenched to the bone, even huddled under the few umbrellas people thought to grab on their way out.

 

Once we were thoroughly soaked, we got the ok to go home. I went to John Qs and had a double shot of Jameson first.

 

My legs are SO SORE today. Oh, and I have a broken toe, so that felt really good last night and this morning too.

Man, 44, killed while trying to create Bigfoot sighting

^ i saw that. if i was driving by i woulda ran him over too. damn bigfoots.

 

One of the drivers who struck him was 15.  WTF?

I just read this comment in huffpost in reguard to the above story.

 

"It is important to remember that this man has a family and before y9u throw out your insensitive comments please give his family time to grieve the loss of a son, father, and friend.. I knew this man and he was a good person who was just a big kid and unfortunately made a mistake that cost him is life...."

 

Seriously shut up

You choose your destiny and what you do in public, whether good, humorous, horrible, or fatal will result in public reaction.  This story could have easily been about a man playing a prank who caused two young girls to veer off the road and wind up dead crashed into the tree.  This father and friend has just set the perfect example for the rest of society how you can ruin a family and endanger the public over doing something so foolish.

One of the drivers who struck him was 15.  WTF?

 

She was a legal Montana driver.

One of the drivers who struck him was 15.  WTF?

 

She was a legal Montana driver.

In Ohio you can get a learners permit at 15 and a half.

I was expecting the two bottles of cough syrup to have blood coughed up all over the drawing.

 

LOL

 

Did you know Cough syrup is the number one cause for people to enter rehab in a lot of cities in the United States? Los Angeles is one of them I believe. Of course those statistics change over time. Seems like that guy does his best work on psychadelic drugs. I laughed at the one where he did (I think it was DMT or some other hallucenogen)-- where he drew math equations in the background lol.

 

Here's another fun fun one: www.guesswhosthejew.com/

That gallery will probably have the inadvertent effect of exposing people to new drugs that they didn't know existed.

Big embarrassment today for the Detroit Police Department:

 

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/19402202/2012/08/28/problem-solvers-help-detroit-carjacking-victim-facing-big-impound-fee

 

Ridiculous.  I had to pay an impound fee when I retrieved my stolen car as well.  It just adds insult to injury.

 

 

Michigan - Cereal Makers and Serial Killers .... hahaha!!!

 

 

Florida - The more north you go, the more south it gets...  so true.

I couldn't understand what he said about Mississippi.

^"We're going to need a bigger Bible Belt"

^"We're going to need a bigger Bible Belt"

 

Thanks for the translation. :)

E-bikes seem to be gaining momentum and honestly, I think they are the future of transportation--especially if gas prices don't drop in the long term.

 

I think it's interesting that auto-makers are getting into the bicycle business. Here's what Audi is coming out with. It's a really cool design. I just have one question: Where the hell is the seat?!

 

http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/bikes/beautiful-and-powerful-audis-e-bike-worthersee/

BMW already makes high performance bicycles (non electric)  Plus the frame weld and paint jobs are so much more professional looking than any bicycle manufacturer out there.  Only a matter of time before car companies pair "lifestyle accessories" with their vehicles.  You'll start seeing Toyota and Chevrolet bicycles.  Ideally motor vehicle technology in these bikes like regenerative braking, hydraulic brake lines, condition response interface, high intensity lamps and signaling, etc that are already luxuries on bicycles will become standard.  Bicycle technology has lagged so far behind that of automobiles so car companies getting involved with hopefully improve innovation.