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Category: halloween

10/30/08 12:23 - 40ºF - ID#46426

Costume Cutback

The last several halloweens (with the exception of my sparse elf-hat appearance at (e:ladycroft)'s halloween party two years ago) I've attempted to go make an usual costume making use of a well-known cultural reference that is not typically the subject costume design. Two years ago, it was a "have a nice day smiley face". Last year it was "D*ck in a box". I wanted this year to go as the freecreditreport.com pirate complete with guitar, but the time constraints of new fatherhood make that unworkable. I'll still do something that's unique and a cultural reference, but I guess I'll have to settle for a bit of cop-out this year. It won't be great, but it probably won't make failblog.org
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Category: haiku

10/25/08 12:26 - 51ºF - ID#46317

Sick Haiku

Family all sick
Daddy must be strong for all
Make matzo ball soup



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Category: funny

10/16/08 12:33 - 55ºF - ID#46143

Other Commonly Held Misconceptions

I found this during the last time I took my son to the Mosier clinic on Main St.

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I always wondered why I never was able to find any Chlamydia on the Garden Walk.
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Category: humor

10/08/08 09:05 - ID#45988

Trying To Find Humor For The New Year

Happy Year Of Our Lord 5769. As a new year's resolution, I'll try to find the humor in ugly things. After hearing more dismal financial news on NPR today, something occurred in my head and made me chuckle.

If there was a merger between the two largest mortgage companies, you'd get

Freddie Mac + Fannie Mae = Frannie Mace.

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Category: politics

09/03/08 12:41 - 71ºF - ID#45544

Rare political post

A conservative vice-presidential candidates who has fought for abstinence-only sex-education as only effective way of combatting teenage pregnancy finds out that her own teenage daughter is pregnant.

That's irony for you. Or karma, depending on your belief system.


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Category: politics

08/26/08 08:40 - 54ºF - ID#45456

Same as it ever was

Every so often during an election year when I get tired of spin, mudslinging, and negative campaign ads, I need to remind myself that these sorts of things have been a part of American politics since the inception of the country.




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Category: crime

08/25/08 08:46 - 61ºF - ID#45446

Crime story

Today's latest murder was 0.2 miles away from our apartment.



I don't have anything to say other than "that's fucked up". Especially since the people it happened to have the same basic living situation as my family.
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Category: life

07/31/08 10:26 - 73ºF - ID#45202

Monthly Post

Ari Met his first wikipediable person today at the Literacy Volunteers appreciation dinner.

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Two weeks ago grandma and grampa took us to the Buffalo zoo.

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He slept virtually the entire time.

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Except when he's hungry.

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They're finally cleaning up Beth Jacob Cemetery in the east side. The last several weeks I've been volunteering to help restore the cemetery (as best we can). It's good to get outside of the house and use my muscles a little. This sunday we're meeting their again, and we might just get to expose a few overturned monuments!

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Of all the monuments, this one gets to me the most, especially since I now have a child of my own. The last time I saw it this winter, it was barely visible under the substantial brush and thorns. The area's been cleared enough that the Jewish custom of placing a rock on it can be observed again.

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I never thought I'd see the day where there'd be real living people in the cemetery.

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A slightly better shot of overturned monuments.

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Category: iphone

07/24/08 09:08 - 66ºF - ID#45117

Finally

About damned time someone said it.


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Category: suburbs

06/02/08 11:27 - 61ºF - ID#44526

To move or not to move

I've been contemplating moving out of the City of Buffalo to the suburbs of Orchard Park, which is where I work.

Pros:

- If I buy the right house, I can basically walk to work. I can basically cut at least $150 off my gasoline bill. Gas is killing me right now.
- The above would also be good for the environment.
- If I bike/drive, my commute is 5/2 minutes respectively. So I get home earlier and I have an extra hour to spend with my family.
- Ari would probably get a nice backyard to play in.
- Good school system

Cons:

- I love Kenmore. One of my less grandiose dreams is to live in a cute house in Kenmore.
- I like the city of Buffalo. I don't want to be thought of as "one of those wusses who moves to the suburbs".
- If the Suburban Collapse happens because of increased gas prices, the suburbs will be a bad place to live. Especially if I end up working in the city someday. The city will (possibly) have much better public transportation in the face of this event.
- A house in OP would probably be more expensive than one in Kenmore, and definitely more expensive than one in the city.
- OP is boring. The city has lots of stuff to do.
- A place with greater population density would have more kids for Ari to play with. I don't like the idea of moving to a neighborhood where there may not be many kids for my son to play with. I want him to have the social life I never had as a child.



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