They've got us on the beer factor and higher education. Not sports, but eff college sports anyway. Looking forward to going down for Lexington SC some though.
I don't think Wick's has ever been in the top spot in Louisville pizza. The last Impellizerri's just forever closed (in N'Albany), sadly, but Bearno's was always better than Wick's. (People are welcome to fight me on that. Wick's gets higher rated in people's heads sometimes simply because of its proximity to bars and usefulness as drunk food. Take off the drunk goggles and its not as good as you think.) Then there's all the recent up-and-comers like The Post.
You're right...Wick's has always been overrated(and overpriced).
Bearno's is probably my favorite pizza ever. I've since moved all over the US, and haven't found a damn thing that comes close in taste or style. It's definitely a love/hate relationship...you either love a billion tiny meatballs, or don't.
I've had a weird time explaining "Louisville Style" pizza to outsiders or that Louisville is a bit of a "pizza nexus" where all the styles of pizza meet and mingle. No matter the style of pizza that I want, I can find someone to sell it to me. But the "home" style that Bearno's/Wick's/Boomboz/Impellizerri's (RIP) build I don't know where else to find that and describing it is tough. ("It seems thin like New York style, but it is thicker than that because it has to hold all the toppings not just cheese and maybe pepperoni, something truly supreme like half a deli and a full salad. Yet it also isn't crispy like a cracker like Cincinnati style or [shiver] St. Louis style.") I found a pizza place one time in DC that was really close. I don't know if I could find it again. I've also lived in pizza deserts on the West Coast where the choices were nothing but Papa Johns and Pizza Hut for miles (both headquartered in Louisville, which is its own weird thing; truly a "pizza nexus"). So many cities think they know what pizza is and what the best kind is. Not everyone believes me that I think Louisville figured it out: the best kind of pizza is always whatever kind of pizza that you want today (feel like Chicago style or Detroit style or New York style today? go for it!), but the second best kind is a hybrid inspired by all of those and has to go toe to toe with all of those that I don't think exists anywhere but Louisville. I don't expect many people to believe me that have never lived in Louisville, and despite the big power chains being from Louisville, there's nobody who has felt like exporting "our" pizza and no one even knows there is a "Louisville style". It's fascinating.
In fact, pizza aside, Louisville punches wayyyy above its weight in food. I guess I took it for granted, and assumed every city was like that. Nope, not even close.
Re: pizza, apparently people in Ohio call it Dayton style pizza. Marion's looks a lot like Bearnos, but I've never tried it!
Bearnos as a company is pretty scummy(see footnote), else I'd try to franchise one where I live. I'd love to know their suppliers and processes to start a competitor, one day.
Footnote:
I left Louisville for good exactly 2 days after their Hepatitis admission. They went on the news promising to make it right and pay.
I got a shot, out of pocket. Talked to 'management' at the location and they had no idea what I was talking about, then told me to quit worrying about it. I pressed on and submitted receipts, kept following up. Never saw a dime. But worse, they knew they were lying. Claimed to not receive anything, but I had copies so emailed it. Every person directed you to someone else, impossible to reach because 'theyre busy.' After 3 weeks or so of their game, I just gave up as it was costing me more of my time than money I'd ever see.
Might make sense for like, Google, not a tiny little pizza company with a few locations.
I'm not even mad about the money... I'm mad they had the nerve to make an announcement they had no intention of following up on.
Louisville punching above its weight in cuisine is another one of those topics I find I have to try to explain to outsiders. It comes up a lot in cost of living discussions around the possibility of a relocation plan to potential jobs in interviews. I know and appreciate that I have been incredibly spoiled. I've had fantastic meals made by Beard Award Winning Chefs and that wasn't a gala I RSVPed months in advance, that was just an ordinary Friday night where I walked in to their restaurant without a reservation and snagged a table or a bar stool. I rarely think to even get reservations more than a day or two in advance, even for some of the fanciest places in town.
I've seen statistics from various food magazines that rank Louisville as high as third behind NYC and LA for number of high rated restaurants per capita and I believe those statistics. I've been in other cities and have heard people ask with awe and reverence if I've ever tried various Louisville fixtures because their reputation proceeds them or because the head chef of some other restaurant "studied" there for a time. I do think I'm incredibly spoiled.
Please keep in mind that real people live in Kentucky and joke stereotyping it as you have is both unhelpful to progress and downright hurtful to those of us trying to make it a better place to live.
"The globe" won't remember the difference between Kentucky and Nebraska two days from now. They'll just remember that flyover states DGAF about people from other nations. My state got painted with that brush just as yours did. Instead of sitting in Louisville and taking this enormous silly offense you've taken (which seriously is like somebody in suburban St Louis caping up to steal the valor of the Winter's Bone family), why not direct your ire where it might do some good? The email I actually got from the state employee shortly after posting the above (which I'll happily forward to you) said "Thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, the security settings are based on standards for Kentucky state government web pages and modification of those standards is beyond my control." Frankly that doesn't seem all that different from what I wrote? Take it from an actual hillbilly: when your state is less embarrassing you won't have to get as embarrassed about it.
I live near my birthplace in the Ozarks of southern Missouri. I've spent a lot of time in Kentucky, as well. I'm not "punching down" ITT. One way to "make it a better place" would be to leave a comment on the form like I did. Kentucky residents probably have other options as well...
I’m from the hills of KY and I left for a reason, so I find this not-insulting especially if the teller of the joke is also from some backwoods.
But I have a soft spot for the people whom I left obviously, and won’t tolerate highbrow coast-dwellers being jerks for no good reason. These hill folks tend be victims of their own boredoms caused by an independent nature that was once a highly desirable trait when we talk about survival… but victims of inevitable progress and deserve help/pity instead of scorn. Except those who deserve scorn, ya know??
I did this earlier today. The background stuff (I forget the name of what crashed at present) crashes on a vanilla conversion. It did block some ads, but wasn't full-featured.
It'll create an xcode project and you can run the mac app from there. Safari will need the "Allow Unsigned Extensions" from the Develop menu set before it'll show up in the prefs page. No idea how it all works if you want it on iOS.
It doesn't appear to be doing much more than replication though. https://litestream.io does that for sqlite already. (Edit for clarity) GitDB seem to have more "distributed" ideas in their roadmap for v3 maybe.
Litestream author here. You're correct. Also, there's no plans for multi-master replication right now. I do think it'd be an interesting project to make a eventually consistent distributed database using the SQLite session extension[1] but I haven't put much thought into that.
GitDB also doesn't handle merge conflicts, so I'm not convinced it would handle multiple clients well. The It's again marked as something they might do in the future someday. I suspect this is pretty fragile. (Note: I was _not_ claiming litestream would do such a thing. Just replication.)
Yes because I want to do offline sync (i.e. latency between syncs anything between 1 second and 1 week), yet index and query the current local state (which includes previously synced items).
If this sounds like an append-only log that's precisely correct; I just want it to work efficiently with fixed memory and ideally as an embedded library. Thus sqlite.
I've been using feedbin since Reader closed, so I guess 9 years. Still grandfathered in a $20/yr plan, even. The best thing about it for me is that I mostly don't think about it other than a visit to see my feeds. It does what I want and isn't awful to look at. Most of the RSS apps I've ever used have integration too. It's a lovely service.
I noticed earlier today that most of the Fleet documentation was last updated on May 2 and references "1.0", but it's pretty sparse for a release-ready documentation site.
First, I use and love TaskPaper so I'm interested in what you've got going on. But on its surface, I don't see the differentiation between the two products right now other than Bike having slicker rendering and TaskPaper having more utility. It seems like TaskPaper is a competent outliner that supports focus and other features just fine. Can you comment to what the goals are that separate them?
Interesting, thanks. It does sound like there's a lot to build on there so I'll be interested in seeing where it goes. Some of my best "productivity" memories are with the "free" copy of OmniOutliner that came on my first Macs, and I think you have the bones to bring that to the 2020s.
