Fridays are half days, which is terrible because I can't get anything done at work, but awesome because usually its a day I don't work for the majority. After work I headed over to Terry's office to set up his tax program. His office can now all use the same data files for their local payroll program by using a local directory linked to a network share - no syncing needed.
The Roxy's building is looking worse than it did before - all that's been done in it so far is a party thrown by some douches I went to high school with. I wonder if Paul Rubino, the developer is actually going to be able to finish it.
When I got home, Paul and I decided to head to the Historical Society to look at some pictures in their library. It was pretty neat. We looked at our block of Linwood and saw all the houses that filled in the current parking lot gaps. The best part about them were all the wrap around porches that used to be here, and the amazing elm canopy. My favorite building, the Lin-Nor looked awesome even in the 20's. It had a Liberty Bank branch downstairs, everyone was walking, the street looked very complete. It's still my favorite building because it's the perfect scale, density, mixed use and even includes amazing greenspace in their garden.
The most ridiculous part of the visit was looking at the pictures themselves. All pictures must be requested through a librarian, who pulls them out of a file cabinet and gives them to you with gloves. You aren't allowed to make copies and nothing is digital. This seems insane given that the library is a public resource, most of these images are from the city, and the ones that aren't are out of copyright. Why are these not digital accessible? Paul an
Paul says the librarian, Cynthia Van Ness, likes keeping them this way because it draws people in for research. I say their goal is realized a thousand times over by making it accessible online for everyone. Plus, what if the library burns down? There's no way there's duplicates of anything in there right now. I think their funding should be contingent on scanning the maps and photos in - tagging and transcribing them could be crowdsourced for nothing I'm sure.
The historical society had a 21 inch all in one running on Android. And they said Linux on the desktop was never going to happen.
Paul Visco and Joe Herzig are now members of the historical society.
about a Domino's Pizza opening on Delaware Avenue. 
Yeah, this is nothing new. They've long been a marketing firm for all of the big developers in the area for years now. This isn't even the first chain; remember the whole Panera articles?
C’mon, give Newell some credit. He was pretty much giving Rocco a very public handjob of a press release for “Dog é Style” during their “logo contest” and continued to do so even during the entirely-justified backlash that followed. Would you expect anything less?
Yes, everyone knows who paid mike to write about the poltergeist chronicles.
it would totally happen on estrip if someone was willing to pay me to write about them haha