Category: whine
03/24/09 10:08 - 37ºF - ID#48185
My Kitchen Sink = Revolting
When I came home at around 5:30, the sink was filled to the brim with back-flow greasy gutter water!! It was pretty gross. After some frantic emergency bailing and plumbing, it is now filled with a sort of mini-bubble bath (made up of a generous dose of dishwashing fluid foam and water) for... creepy-crawlies. The plumber said that if he started fixing it now, the whole building might need to be up and bailing gutter water for the next 12 hours. So he going to fix it tomorrow. The soap is to cut the grease and stop any more back-flow.
Anyway, the after-picture is not good. I can't cook today. What a cruel little torture. I have already had 4 apples. :/
AND WHO THE HELL POURS GREASE DOWN HIS KITCHEN SINK??? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR RAVING MIND, 8th floor denizen??? AAAARRRrrrrgh. Yeah, I am TOTALLY not smiling and saying Hi to YOU any more.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: the odes
03/24/09 07:35 - 43ºF - ID#48182
Really Lazy
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: grocery
03/23/09 08:10 - 31ºF - ID#48169
We have a grocery store!!!!
PS: I am reviewing it this Saturday.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: e:strip
03/23/09 12:37 - 28ºF - ID#48161
Hello E:Strip!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: science
03/22/09 05:51 - 41ºF - ID#48155
The Pope says what??
The Pope on AIDS:
"You can't resolve it with the distribution of condoms," "On the contrary, it increases the problem."
Sure, Mr. Pope. Were you wearing your seat belt when you said this? You shouldn't have. You can't resolve air crashes by wearing seat belts. On the contrary, it increases air crashes. You are encouraged not to fly at all. That is the perfect solution for avoiding air crashes. Seriously, stay on that Vatican balcony, wave to people and make all the diseases go away.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tourism
03/15/09 11:54 - ID#48059
Lent can go to hell.
Oh, and I officially hate the much touted "Slumdog Millionaire". I have a good mind to push Danny Boyle into a pool of poo for ruining my mood and day yesterday. Keep your depressing tales of India to yourself, you oh-I-am-holier-and-more-artsy-than-anyone-and-all-Indians-rot-in-slums-or-are-evil angrez. If this is all you can see in India, then probably you should stay in cold britain and spin depressing tales until you freeze to death.
YES. People live in slums. YES. There are riots - some of which are senseless and religion-based. YES. There is police brutality. YES. There are gangs. But you cannot take *everything* that goes wrong in a country of a billion, filter out all the balancing good and slam it insensitively in everyone's face for two+ hours all over the planet. No wonder Indians don't like this film. UGH.
Do you know what I heard coming out of the theatre yesterday? Some buffalo denizen wondering about the Mumbai blasts and commenting that it probably put the orphans living in Mumbai slums out of their misery. Yeah sure. People in the twin towers were steeped in corporate evil. The planes put an end to their evilness by ramming into their offices. /end sarcasm
Oh and about the Indian head shake - how can you get it right, if you are a Fanny I-am-so-artsy Boil directing a brit born Indian teenager who has probably never been to India before this movie was shot? Nice bit of cultural mocking to add insult to injury. If you found it annoying (e:Paul), I found it morbidly contrived and irritating. :/
I think the Oscar judges are a bunch of masochistic little losers who can't appreciate happiness and hope and probably think negative is a synonym of powerful. To hell with your myopic little twisted world.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tourism
02/24/09 11:56 - 18ºF - ID#47882
Give it up!
Since its all about discipline, I am going to try and give up blogging on (e:strip) and non-academic non-essential internet surfing. I really thought about what I would miss the most and what I really indulge in and really... this is it.
(E:strip) is a colossal luxury for me each day, everyday! It's like my personal multiple thread soap opera and dark rich chocolate combined into one. I am obsessed with all of you and all of your lives. I read each and every journal to catch up on the soap story of your life. I may not comment on everything but believe me, I am interested. I am very interested when you tell me something more about yourselves!
So for this bit of cultural tourism, I am going to see what its like to give up my pet obsession for a whole of 40 days. Goodbye for now, and see you at Easter? (Is that right, (e:drew)?)
I will certainly miss you all! Cheers! :)
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Category: i-tech
02/22/09 05:56 - 24ºF - ID#47862
External Harddrive Advice/Poll
1. Do you currently own (ir have you ever owned) an external hard drive?
2. If yes, has it ever died?
3. What brand was it?
4. Was it a USB harddrive or a RAID array?
5. Would you recommend a RAID array or the USB harddrives?
6. What brand would you recommend? What set-up?
Ended up getting a Western Digital 1TB Elements Harddrive It has been functioning pretty well - but you can never be 100% sure about when hard drives will throw in their towel. I am hoping for the best since this one seems to have such uniformly good reviews at Amazon.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tragedy
02/20/09 11:00 - 19ºF - ID#47822
Day of loss
What a waste of an exemplary scientist! This is additionally painful because this is exactly how my grade school teacher was killed as well. That was the first funeral I ever attended. And how awful that I feel compelled to convey this message to all my friends, family and to you all. Trust no one - unless you really know them and their intentions well. It's not a very balanced world out there.
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Last Modified: 11/09/11 08:07
Category: eating out
02/19/09 10:40 - 19ºF - ID#47819
Question for e:kookcity2000
I remember you telling me that there is a Woodlands at Loehmann's Plaza now. I checked out Rocwiki and experiences seem pretty chequered. What do you think? How does it stack up against the palace of dosas?
I have got around 3/4th of a month to pick a decent "ethnic" place to eat. "Abyssinia" and/or "King and I" are always my backups but I would really like to hear your impression of this new place at the plaza.
Thanks!
TP
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PS: Does your colleague non-(e:James) live on the 8th floor??
PS: I SO love locking horns with you. (e:jason). :D
PPS: You know, with all that food taunting I have been delivering you since this morning, this was a nice little piece of "take that, snob" backlash. My kitchen karma is totally boomeranging.