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I will be. We can watch Frank and a future opponent all in one game. I even watched OSU and FAU on the Deuce last night, until my heavy week caught up to me and I fell saleep in the 4th quarter. The B12 doesn't look so tough this year, folks, if that's the best OSU can do against Montana State and F...

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Another online payment/billing method would be great, especially from an already trusted name. PayPal is great, but HOLY |expletive| are their fees high.

Long live the free market.

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February 14th, 2003... Baltimore... 32+ inches of snow over a 36 hour period. I had never seen anything like it in my life, and that includes 21 years in Omaha/Lincoln and almost 6 in Minneapolis. While the Midwest may get a constant dusting and an occassional ice storm/blizzard, those nor'easters (...

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My first suggestion would be to take all the money you spent on snowblowers and mowers and edgers and trimmers and lawn ornaments and yadda yadda... take that money and put it into a down payment on a condo downtown. ;) Outside of that, I would say wait before buying a snowblower. See if you want to...

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Again, we're missing my point. The building may not be worth saving, but at one point it was apparently worth building. What we need to be doing as a city (and a country, for that matter) is: 1) stop allowing things to become not worth saving, and 2) stop building things that won't be worth saving i...

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OK, fair enough. The building "was" "never" (you kind of remind me of Joey on Friends there;)) built as a high end hotel. But just because a building's intent was never to be a grand structure, doesn't mean it should just be eradicated when someone needs some extra parking. I've ...

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Yes, that is lovely density. Too bad we can't knock all but one down and put a jail and a bus station next to it.

These are the types of areas that need economic incentives, both to preserve and expand.

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Old Market Lofts' fire alarm has gone off twice in the last ten days. No fires yet, though. Just drunk Creighton students.

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Thanks Streets. My commute home last night was interrupted by a 3 hour detour at the Green Onion. It must be that congestion at 114th. ;) Anyway, I think people are missing my point about this building. It seems every time a building falls into disrepair, or the neighborhood around it falls apart, w...

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I'll grab some snaps on the way home tonight, but someone is going to have to give me some assistance with hosting/posting.

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http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=46&u_sid=2004605 Think we can petition him to implode the campus, fill in the lake, and build 1.5 million square feet of late-19th/early-20th century warehouses protected on the National Register of Historic Places? Oh yeah, while you're at it, give Omaha back...

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Great function. Terrible form. How come development around here seems to always sacrifice one for the other?

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Let me poise this question to fellow forumers: Is anyone interested in trying to do something about this? While this building is obviously dilapidated (I'll try to post a pic in the next couple of days) and not likely to garner serious interest for a condo conversion next to a jail, it is/was a grea...

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I'm anticipating the monument to the erection
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$2.75 on 13th and Martha.

Was that $3.63 for the low or high grade, J?

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Convention Center is to Archway as Hotel Rooms are to Exit Ramps.

Morons. ;)

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When we lived in Baltimore (distribution in Bethesda), my other half could drop the envelope in her work mailbox at 8 AM on a Monday, and we'd have our new movie at home when the mail came at 5ish on Tuesday. We probably used up our $19.99 (at the time) per month in postage. Living a block from the ...

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Did any of these nucular ;) scientists stop to think that the convention center might have been able to land more and bigger conventions if it actually had more hotel rooms right across the street? "Hi, this is MECA. We'd love to have you bring your convention and it's 15,000 attendees to Omaha...

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I'll be hiding over here under the desk if anyone needs me...

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UNOstudent: I was thinking/hoping the same thing. What a bunch of wieners trying to charge Cox for their HD signal. I watch shows on HD channels simply because they're in HD, sometimes even when they are cruddy shows. DiscoveryHD has pretty much taken over as TV Channel King at my house.

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LOL... the Register referred ti U2 as "that Irish band".

Too funny.

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Yeah, you have to lump Justice in with the likes of Coulter, Limbaugh, and Maher. There's a huge difference between "commentator" and "reporter".

He's still a moron, though.

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Chef- The previous renderings didn't look like the one on the sign, at least in my opinion. I would assume that is the best and most accurate rendering they have, since it is the one they put on the sign at the site. If that's indicitive of how the thing will look, then I have to give it a huge thum...

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Oh yeah, God forbid you can't wash down that caffeine with nicotine. ;)

Have fun while it lasts, I guess.

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<<<<If you look at right now how long it takes to get to the interstate to go downtwon from Elkhorn, you see the need.>>>> I thought they didn't want anything to do with Omaha? ;) But seriously... That will be a $billion+ project by the time it rolls around. Why do we keep pumping money into a "...

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Does Omaha/the QC/MECA see any more money when tickets for something like this are $350 vs something that is $15? I don't know how these contracts work.

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It only took me 4 days. ;)

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Nevermind the fact that there were several thousand people at the RibFest in Lincoln last freaking weekend. I don't quite get why they have the same event twice inside of 8 days inside of 50 miles. Also nevermind the fact that the one in Lincoln is in the middle of a blocked off intersection instead...

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Unless there is a dramatic difference between that rendering and the completed building, that is one of the most out of place, inappropriate designs I have ever seen for new construction. It is completely out of place for the Old Market. Even the color scheme looks bad. I have no problem with the pl...

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Slug Bug green.

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That thing is |expletive| ugly. Period. It has come so far from the original look it's barely the same thing. Granted, I'm glad there will be some street level function, and more downtown residential is almost always good, but that looks like every other Soviet-inspired building Omaha built from the...

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<<<< P.S. The folks in Iowa might not be paying the property taxes but they are paying sales tax, seat tax and parking fees when they attend an event at the Qwest. Hey, they might also even eat at a restaurant in Nebraska before going back to that den of inequity, that gambling pit, that evil sinful...

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Jobber's Canyon pictures that we haven't seen before, as well as photos of the other buildings we've lost.

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Holy smokes... do you have any idea how infuriating it will be for Minneapolitans to see the WSJ lumping them in with Omaha?

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I know what I like about the show:

http://www.fhmus.com/girls/trouble/

Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad...

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Make sure they get this thing built before we annex them. ;) My Favorite Quote: <<<< "It's not always easy to get downtown to the Qwest Center or Civic Auditorium -- nice to have a venue out here," a western Douglas County resident said. >>>> Apparently there's far too much parking and the...

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Surface parking lots are, in my opinion, a perfect potential application of our new imminent domain laws.

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:exploding head smiley:

'Nuff said.

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For me, I think I would rather have the original (horizontal?) condo plan in the Haymarket, vs the vertical arrangement of the SoMa condos. I say this based strictly on the amount - and specifically type - of pedestrian traffic. At SoMa, 99% of anyone walking around in there will be owners and their...

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