http://www.city-data.com/city/Gloversville-New-York.html
http://leaderherald.com/Index.asp
http://www.albany.edu/history/glovers/
http://www.fultoncountyny.org/history.html#top
http://www.cityofgloversville.com/index.cfm
On my train ride from NYC to Bumblefuck, I sat next to a guy who asked me what kind of industry we had left. I didn't have an answer for him. I got home around
It started with all of the leather mills. The process of turning animal skin into leather is, to put it lightly, toxic. The process hasn't changed in 100 years. Some time ago, the EPA decided to charge the leather companies to clean up the waste. Well, it cost more to clean than it did to make the leather in the first place. The business owners, who had made their millions moved all production (and poison) to
The owner of one of the small shops that Wal*Mart put out of business sold drugs to make ends meet. He and many others were arrested recently. Drug rehab centers are popping up all over the place. When a town has no industry, no culture, and no hope, everyone turns to drugs. Theft, rape, and murder rates have increased. Welfare is up. New businesses fail within five years. Businesses that move to the area for the tax breaks leave as soon as they expire. There are some who manage to stay afloat as an "independent contractor" but their luck will run out sooner than later. Doctors and lawyers have it made, to a degree. Once the town is deserted, they'll have to move to bigger cities and have more competition.
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Well, that explains the black clothes. You're not a depressed loner, you're just poor.
eee, that was kind of a shitty thing to say, joking or not...
that said, in reference to one of your posts about how you hate HTML, how about this? http://textpattern.com/
here's a description from the site:
Built into Textpattern is Textile, a simple syntax for nudging plain text into structurally sound and stylistically rich web content. Ordinarily fussy text amendments such as headers, hyperlinks, image tags and tables are created with one or two simple markers. Compared to navigating the tag soup of markup, writing and revising with Textile is much more intuitive, being closer to working with ordinary text. Once you’re ready to publish, copy marked up with Textile is automatically converted to valid XHTML, and because Textpattern stores both versions of each article, revising and updating is a snap.
:)
Cool, Trish, thanks!
BTW, absolutely any crude or insensitive remark is my friend Alex, who is completely taking the piss. It's the whole point.
oh okay. whew! that's what i figured, but i also considered the possibility that some horrible random person said it just to be hurtful.
i am kicking ass and taking names!!!!! ;)
(sorry alex!)
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