02/15/08 07:48 - 20ºF - ID#43350

Artvoice Best Of Buffalo 2008

Well, its that time of year when we normally lose Artvoice's Best of Buffalo contest but this year the category for Best Website is just gone so at least we cannot really lose, or do we pre-lose?

There is a category for best blogger and I selfishly voted for myself. You can feel free to vote for yourselves.

--paul

::Download Flash Video::

Like the sound of (e:Terry)'s new hack and kill game with the girl with the red hair in the background? Sounds like I am reporting at some battle ground.

metalpeter writes at 12:52:03 02/16/08 - Comment #31739: I voted before I came here, there are all kinds of things I didn't answer because they don't apply to me. I think that there should be a new section devoted just to sports or maybe even a sub catorgory. Say Favortie local sport (like roller derby or college basketball) amature then a sub catgory of favortie team in that sport and then of that team favorite player. Maybe the team part could be elimanted but I would like to see a stronger sports presance maybe there could be more internet stuff also but not sure how you would do that really. Maybe best local site other then artvoice. Maybe even best social networking site (that could include national ones also) or maybe make it networking is there some local job networking sites?

paul writes at 11:01:20 02/16/08 - Comment #31732: Wow, that was fast :::link:::

zobar writes at 10:57:17 02/15/08 - Comment #31723: They actually ditched a number of categories this year â€¦ 'Best Blog' as you've noticed has turned into 'Best Blogger,' with 'Best Website' gone [I guess they were fed up with getting trounced in our own people's choice award]. They also got rid of a lot of the snarkier 'Most Rotten Person'-type awards. (e:dragonlady7) was saddened to see the 'Favorite Local Amateur Sports Team' and 'Athlete' awards gone, but in retrospect it beats the alternative [ie, 80 women totally infuriated at each other over a popularity contest].

One idea is to blow the curve in a category nobody participates in. Let me put it this way: when we say 'Blogger,' everyone says 'Buffalo Pundit,' whether they read it or not. But only about six people in the city are going to have an opinion on Buffalo's Best Writer [and if AV's book reviews are any indication, they're probably all terrible writers of terrible poetry]. Or maybe (e:terry) is Buffalo's Best Genre-Defying Artist. How much of AV's aging white readership is really going to have an opinion on Best Soul Food? Can it really compare to (e:matthew)'s hypothetical chicken and gluten-free waffles? Just sayin'.

Another fun idea is to vote as a bloc in a category that does not generally invite consensus. Everyone has an opinion on Loudest Complainer, and they're all different. [Unfortunately I don't think the Loudest Complainer gets a plaque, too bad.] The 24 could certainly be my Favorite House or Building, but there's always the terrible possibility of losing that category to the Terminal.

You can totally win this, and create small amounts of public chaos at the same time - a win-win - if you use a little imagination.

- Z

drew writes at 09:15:45 02/15/08 - Comment #31722: I feel like we should vote as a bloc, so that we have more influence. Shall we have an estrip primary, and then all go and vote for the winner at the artvoice site?

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02/07/08 02:32 - 33ºF - ID#43225

8 more comments till 30,00

Can you believe it, in eight more comments we will have 30,000 since our first comment back in june of 05 (e:news,30106)

Who would have thought that we had so much too say?!

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02/03/08 11:51 - 32ºF - ID#43157

Cornering the Market on Search

So we are cornering the market on some search keywords via google that really surprise me.

buffalo blogs - estrip.org #1

I mean we come up in the top 5 for just about anything with buffalo or elmwood in the search term, but these are without.

Google Web Searches

warcraft sex - (e:shawnr,34230) #3

dong count - (e:jason,23538) #1

irresponsible dumb jerk - (e:theecarey,35835) #1

deinspiration - (e:imk2,37781) and (e:imk2,37795) #1 and #2

i don't like you that way - (e:theecarey,39212) #2 only after Idontlikeyouthatway.com

video liquidators - (e:paul,38302) #2 only to video-liquidators.com themselves

doctor fucking - (e:james,42894) #5

wegmans wifi - (e:paul,43004) #5

hypoallergenic dog breeds - (e:paul,32816) #7

nudist vacation adirondacks (e:paul,40394) #3

Google Images

There are a bizillion search combos we come up for. Some of the most popular are:

1900 house- Our living room comes up in row two

house buffalo, ny - our living room comes up along side the Darwin Martin and Coit house

linwood ave - our house is #1

nudist adirondacks - hm
naked adirondacks - hm
vermont ledges - hm
vermont ledges naked - hm
zoar valley naked - hm

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02/02/08 02:55 - 32ºF - ID#43139

100% of server fund has been raised

Thanks to everyone who donated to the new server fund. We have paid it off and it is up and running. It means so much to me that you guys all helped out.

Paul

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01/30/08 01:17 - 51ºF - ID#43089

NFTA Bus Schedules Made Easy - Buffalo

NFTA - Metro: Routes & Fares - buffalo bus schedule - schedules for the bus in Buffalo, NY

I decided to make a much simpler list for downloading the NFTA metro Bus and Rail schedules as I was so sick of navigating the stupid NFTA site to get the Bus schedule PDFs on my mobile. Its also at a simpler URL, estrip.org/nfta

If you mobile doesn't do PDFS then this isn't so great but its still an easier way to load the PDFs on your computer for printing. Because of this I added a jpeg version as well. If you click the jpeg link next to a route, it converts the pdf to jpeg on the file for you so that you can view it with any image viewer. Maybe I will do a plain text version soon, if I have some time.

It sucks that the schedules are in PDF format for most people but hopefully this at least makes them easier to get to. If I have time I might convert the data as well.

Download the NFTA metro rail and bus schedules for Buffalo, NY and save them somewhere

--Paul Visco

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01/27/08 06:45 - 29ºF - ID#43052

A slow sunday

Looks like no one has anything to say right now. I hope everyone else's weekend was better than mine.

--paul

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01/21/08 10:21 - 13ºF - ID#42971

Switching Servers

There is a good chance I am going to switch servers today. The new one is up and running at my house and thinks that it is estrip.org - now I just need to switch them out over at the Artvoice data center. Then we will be one step closer to estrip v6.

At first it will just run estrip v5 like the current site but having both versions on one server will make it much easier for me to transition the data between the versions.

So at some point today the site may be down for a tiny bit.
--paul

P.S. If anyone still wants to donate to the server fund we almost made it all the way to 100%. Thanks to everyone who helped - your support gives estrip a bright future with a new fancy server.

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01/11/08 01:29 - 39ºF - ID#42832

New Rosewood theme for estrip v6

I swear its all still coming along. Here is a new screen shot of one of the new themes in the new version of the site. i am not done with the theme yet, but I am almost there.

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01/05/08 01:02 - 29ºF - ID#42754

The new server

As of tonight it has working DNS, Red5 flash comm server, mail server, php 5.25, mysql 5.0.45 and everything else I wanted. I also have a copy of the current site running on it, an a copy of the new site. Seems like if I could just get well soon - it will be up and running in no time.

--paul

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Category: fuckoffs

12/23/07 11:03 - 50ºF - ID#42620

blah blah AOL millions Fuck Off

I decided to start a new category for fuck offs based the messages I get for the site. Here is the latest one.

@ 12/21/07 22:57@69.204.48.87 Guest wrote:

why does your chatter box show most recent at the top instead of the bottom? its like reading a paper in Asia. Why follow a conversation backwards? AOL made millions the other way.

The reason I don't copy the AOL chat style is because our chatter box is in a browser and the latest chat is most important, not the chat from the near past. So when people get to the site on a smaller screen or even on a big screen but a smaller window they can still see the latest, more important info from the chat without have to scroll below the fold. Same with a mobile browser, there is no reason to keep having to scroll down to check for new data in the box.

Just because AOL made a convention like that (in a completely separate context - dedicated chat program/versus piece of web site) I see no reason to have to follow it. Should I also have it say "You get mail!" when the user gets a message and fill their inbox with loads of spam?

Secondly, I have no interest in making millions from estrip if that is what you are suggesting and I definitely don't think the chat being the other way is what is separating me from being a millionaire. Have you not noticed there is no commercial aspect to this site?

Fuck off,
Paul Visco