If the official slogan for Kentucky archaeology is not "go deeper with KY" then I am disappointed.
Discover Kentucky Archaeology
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Which is better: Wick's or Danny Mac's?
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…
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.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a proud Kentuckian, and I thought it was amusing.
I agree that it's amusing as a joke made in context with friends over a beer. Not so much where the primary audience is the globe.
"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.
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#65I am from Eastern KY and have some additional things y'all may find interesting...
Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam
Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had a lot of conveniences. See two PDFs in my drive for articles on each of these subjects from a trade publication called The Black Diamond https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NDl85xvgmyiqVbq8dTe4...
Coal mining funded everything in Eastern KY and you can learn more about "coal camps" and the history at https://coalcampusa.com/eastky/eastky.htm
The Pikeville cut-through was the second largest earth moving project in the western hemisphere -- behind the Panama Canal -- until the big dig in Boston. Still in the top 3! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikeville_Cut-Through
We have the grand canyon of the south at breaks interstate park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaks_Interstate_Park
Home to one of the most famous feuds ever https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield%E2%80%93McCoy_feud
We have our fair share of superfund sites... couple are interesting:
We had a huge superfund site as famous as love canal... "Valley of the Drums" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_the_Drums
We have a nuclear waste dump that had / has plutonium disposed there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxey_Flats
Full list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites_in_Ken...
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#66I am from Eastern KY and have some additional things y'all may find interesting... Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had…
Louisa KY on Hacker News I cannot believe it. How is it going up there these days?
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#67If you're interested in the magic of Kentucky: http://kentuckyroutezero.com/
Relatedly, the original Colossal Cave Adventure, often known simply as "Adventure", which was a very early videogame and inspired so many others that followed (including the Zork franchise and Kentucky Route Zero) was loosely inspired by the creators' caving expeditions in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave (National Park) and some of the rooms and room descriptions in Colossal Cave Adventure even match up with real Mammoth Cav…
I once held a company retreat at Mammoth Cave. Although the company went bust, we did many really cool things along the way.
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#68As someone who grew up in Kentucky but now works in the Bay Area, what is the tech scene like back home these days?
I worked for one of the big corporations in Louisville. Huge companies use lots of technologies but .NET, Java, React, SPA frameworks, Docker + Kubernetes, and cloud migrations are the norm.
Re: Discover Kentucky Archaeology
#69I am from Eastern KY and have some additional things y'all may find interesting... Louisa KY was home of the first Needle Dam (and locks) in the United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_dam Torchlight KY produced "torchlight coal" which made its way from Eastern KY to major rivers all up and down the East coast. And a very small, "wide spot in the road" community, Aflex KY was once a model coal camp and had…
Louisa KY on Hacker News I cannot believe it. How is it going up there these days?
Well I am not there but they are quite proud of Noah Thompson winning american idol.
Where were you from / when did you leave? I have not lived in Louisa since 2003.