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Note to self: list of things to do on my vacation. - Finish rewriting my personal site, add photo / link stream to it, too. - Add some category/search enhancements to Buffalo Feed. - Finish r0 . . .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGMuIyBK5P4 Things that humans find useful are not found to be so because we evolved towards them, but because they were made with us in mind! Seriously, a nightmare.0 . . .
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Opening soon, on the Utica block of Elmwood. I hope it doesn't suck. 0909/photo_4aba991152c9a_0923.jpg0 . . .
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I have 8 days of vacation time that will expire if I don't use them, so I'm taking 8 Fridays in a row off, basically all of Oct and Nov. I wish I'd taken them during the summer instead 0 . . .
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At Albright Knox Art Gallery - Music Is Art event. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZr8Z6c2jZw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOk-dXCy5mY 0 . . .
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CDC may propose routine recommendation for circumsion: Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H0 . . .
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In 1972, the philosopher Peter Singer proposed a simple thought experiment: Imagine you're on your way to work and you come across a child drowning in a shallow pond. You're tall enough th0 . . .
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So this is my first attempt at assembling a song using the APC40 with Ableton Live. I sampled the sounds in the song, or used existing small loops and applied filters, so the actual instrumental/melod0 . . .
A t-shirt: http://www.snorgtees.com/knowingishalfthebattle-p-620.html 0809/KnowingIsFullpic10806.gif0 . . .
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So, I had something that I decided to print this weekend, to show to James. It didn't print at home, our printer is out of ink or just generally screwed up. It was something... shall we say, s0 . . .
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I could either scrape together just enough money for a down payment for my absolute dream car: 0709/Picture10731.png Or look for a used car and get some kinda loan to pay for it (not sure how th0 . . .
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Love is many-splendored, but loss is singular and bleak. Thus shall you think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering0 . . .
A series of mistakes led me to accidentally destroy the partitioning of my hard drive. *_* So I've spent the day reinstalling apps and restoring data from backups. Thankful for having 0 . . .
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These are for bash shells, and may be Mac-specific also, and would go in .bash_profile or .bash_login or as marked specifically below: 1. Always open new terminal windows in the location of the las0 . . .
This is crap that gets submitted as sources for Buffalo Feed every day. Presented as an image so not as to help them out. 0709/Spammers0722.png I know, spam is nothing new, but this is why we0 . . .
A chocolate cake frosted to look like a steak. 0709/G1246419766beautyshot0721.jpg (from Thread Cakes http://www.threadcakes.com/entries/view/55#0 ) 0 . . .
Went with James, Terry, Paul, Matthew, Chris & Chris, & Mike & Kara(Cara?). A short video: 0709/FingerLakes0720.flv The drive up was rainy: 0709/IMG016110720.jpg But the re0 . . .
Hope weather is better tomorrow. 0709/photo_4a610f171b1b0_0717.jpg0 . . .
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So my slow internet problems were due to a cable modem with a known-funky chipset (when it comes to interoperating with Macs on a network). For two years we've paid for the highest tier of TW0 . . .
I just spent about an hour messing around with auto-tune, and let me tell you, even that can't save my singing voice. I might try again later, but it was so bad I'm not going to post any 0 . . .
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0709/Apc40WebLarge0707.png Akai APC40 is back ordered! http://www.akaipro.com/apc40 That is the problem with physical contraptions, as opposed to code/mental things. Toys take weeks to arrive0 . . .
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Missed most of the fireworks and then lost Heidi and Tinypliny. But a pretty night. 0709/photo_4a50161f3047e_0704.jpg0 . . .
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It went from 85 degress and sunny to raining sideways in about 5 minutes. 0609/Storm0625.flv The flicker at the start of the video is lightening, and when the thunder comes I jump :)0 . . .
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Hey spoke at the Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner yesterday. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW7OPByRGDY Also on twitter: twitter.com/hodgman0 . . .
They fixed the water main, but the pressure from turning it on made some toilets explode. Ah, Friday. 0609/photo_4a3be9d30598a_0619.jpg0 . . .
A water main break at work flooded the lawn, and also, no bathrooms. They're working on it now right outside my window. --- edit to add video --- Testing mobile video posting -- no .mov. So0 . . .
New phone arrived:Finally, good close up photos and 3G, so fast. I love it! 0609/photo_4a3b9ebb04dba_0619.jpg0 . . .
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Well, big news today: two Democratic NYS Senators have agreed to caucus with the Republicans, flipping control of the chamber. NY Times: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/revolt-could-i0 . . .
I may have a chance to permanently transfer to Boston, MA, for my company... it wouldn't happen for a few or six months. Has anyone here lived in Boston? Should we stay or should we go? I know0 . . .
0609/Bankrupt0601.png The car industry almost single handedly killed universal healthcare in the mid 20th century. They saw that sooner or later everyone would demand it, so they came up with a sch0 . . .
Check this search: http://www.crimereports.com/map?search=14222&searchButton.x=0&searchButton.y=0&searchButton=SEARCH As per this article: http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/686639.h0 . . .
I just love these so much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGhsbRb_pqE0 . . .
I just got to do a favor for Kent Beck ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck ), which for any normal non-geeky person would be like getting to do a favor for like, Jesus, or something. 0509/Kent0 . . .
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"This is the most impressive business card I've ever seen, and it's MINE" "This card doesn't fit in a rolodex, because it doesn't BELONG in a rolodex" htt0 . . .
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Thanks to everyone who signed up, I just purchased 8 tickets. If you are listed below, and something happens to keep you from coming, please let me know as soon as possible so that I can arrange so0 . . .
Who would like to go see Star Trek, at the IMAX theater in Amherst, at 4:35pm on Saturday May 9th? I will be pre-ordering tickets tonight, so let me know if you're coming. You'll owe my 0 . . .
My ADD medication has mostly stopped working, after 4 months of awesomeness it's started to slowly ramp down. Tolerance, I think? Also it gives me really bad headaches lately. So the doctor to0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI Go Katie Couric! (from metafilter: http://www.metafilter.com/81075/The-AutoTuned-News-Shawty ) And Winston Churchill Singing from the future! htt0 . . .
Does anyone want to go see Star Trek at the Imax on May 8th (Fri) or May 9th (Sat)? Friday showtime would be around 7pm, Saturday in the early afternoon or evening. If you're up for it, let me0 . . .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tx5DBWhDLk VenomFangX's Official Website http://www.venomfangxsite.com You are either: A person who claims to have experienced God, who says atheism is f0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp76ly2_NoI Oh, give me a break... If you are for gay marriage, and you can't get married - you don't get a bunch of explicit, specific, access to tools 0 . . .
I like this t-shirt. I like Buffalo, too, but realize it's as much for the flaws as the good things. I'd buy it but the shirt needs a different typeface or at least a bit of kerning. 04090 . . .
I had a really, really good time at my birthday dinner. I appreciate you all so much, and hope you had a good time too. It meant a lot to me that you all come out and that everyone seemed to have fun.0 . . .
So, I more or less quit smoking about 12 days ago, except not really, I still had one in the morning and one at night. No longer. I'm going down to zero. To throw my hat over the wall, I'0 . . .
If you're coming to my birthday dinner tonight (details in previous post), just a warning that apparently they only take cash. Let me know if that's a problem and we can work something o0 . . .
Does anyone want to do anything tomorrow afternoon? I'm on my own while James is engaging in political machinations. Watchmen is showing at Noon, which I haven't seen, but pretty much eve0 . . .
My 30th birthday party is on Tuesday, April 7th at 7:30pm. We've reserved all of Europa Bistro ( map http://xrl.us/bemohn ) - you can come for dinner or just drinks, but all are welcome. Just gi0 . . .
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So, my Dad has let me know that there's a 401k account of my mother's that he hasn't cashed in since she passed away a few years ago, and he's decided he wants to use it to help me0 . . .
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The biggest news for me (aside from Copy&Paste) is that the SDK allows virtually unlimited access to hardware. Which means I can get one of these: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.0 . . .
Thanks Paul, Matthew, Terry and James, it was a fun day :) 0309/2009031418MileCreek50314.jpg I took lots of photos, but most of the ones that looked good were the more abstract ones of the ice. 0 . . .
Preview demo March 17, 2009 0309/Iphone30312.png Will be nice to get a look at the new OS. Hopefully they'll have a dev release at that time too. Background processing would be just what I 0 . . .
The Buffalo Zoo should get one of these: 0309/Picture10306.png (source: http://xrl.us/beimfb ) Actually, I should get one of those. 0 . . .
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Excellent visual summary of the credit crisis / current economic woes. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0zEXdDO5JU Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhDkZjKBEw Best watched0 . . .
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As explained by wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism We must do something This is something Therefore, we must do this. Which is ultimately why I am distrus0 . . .
Seems to be fixed now. stopbadware.org was down this morning (which Google partners with to warn of bad sites), and Google defaulted to marking everything as malware, even itself. UPDATE Unfortu0 . . .
It's taken less time for David Paterson to choose a successor to Hillary Clinton then for James to hear back about whether or not he's got a job he interviewed for 2 months ago. Your tax 0 . . .
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This one is for e:james 0109/510XXFxXXGLSL500AA2400127.jpg On Amazon: http://short.ie/mdqmw6 As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton-and t0 . . .
I was googling under construction animated gifs for nostalgia value, and came across this: 0109/Construction20June0125.gif Um, whoa. The 90's: so near and yet so far far away. 0 . . .
Source: http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=762888 A federal grand jury today indicted former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, accusing him of eight counts of public cor0 . . .
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For me, the best part of today is not that it's Obama's first day in office, but instead that it's the 43rd time that power has been transferred peacefully between presidential administ0 . . .
SATURDAY January. 17, 2009 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. E-Waste & Computer Recycling Electronic Items which can be brought to the site for free, proper disposal include: Computers, Monitors & 0 . . .
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I've created a site which aggregates and links to all the local Buffalo bloggers that I could find. It's been up a few days and I've shaken out most of the initial bugs. Buffalo Feed0 . . .
Bacon cups: http://www.notmartha.org/archives/2008/02/27/bacon-cups/ Hey, maybe there is a God after all! 0109/SpreadCupdetail0106.jpg0 . . .
I wish it was culturally acceptable to take naps in the mid-afternoon. Then staying up until Midnight wouldn't make me wretched the next day.0 . . .
First panic attack in a year. This is awesome. I frickin' hate myself sometimes. December was 2 weeks of being mostly sick and semi-functional, a week of vacation, and a few days of holidays. 0 . . .
The party last night was a lot of fun, thanks everyone & best wishes for the new year!0 . . .
My brother's job is to rehabilitate Michael Vick's dogs. 22 of his dogs were placed at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah where he works ( http://tinyurl.com/a3zsw5 ). It's a very0 . . .
I quit smoking this morning. It is going pretty well so far. I just need to get past to Friday and I'll be OK. My one smoking co-worker is off on vacation this week so this is my best chance t0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbq_pT09EE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3NzWiuC7pE Plus lots more: http://www.geekologie.com/2008/12/the_ultimate_in_christmas_ligh.php0 . . .
..ever. 1208/Picture31222.png From 826 Valencia (Children's Literacy Organization) http://www.826valencia.org/store/shop_posters.html 0 . . .
It took me almost 2 hours to get from my house to the end of the block. I should've worked from home.0 . . .
I am finally, gloriously, not sick. I was too afraid to say so yesterday -- but today, today I can confirm it! 3 weeks of misery is thankfully over. No more flus or colds or aches or pains. It f0 . . .
Reader's note: The 'you' in this writing is directed at the Catholic Church, not the reader. If you really like the Catholic Church you might not want to read on, for what I write below0 . . .
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Rick Warren is going to be the minister at Obama's inauguration. He started the whole 'Purpose Driven Life' movement. It's like the shortest possible summary of what turns me0 . . .
Hey Everyone - I've been out sick the last week and before that on vacation. I guess I totally screwed up my chance to plan an e:strip holiday dinner. Sorry!0 . . .
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I counted 13 multi-car accidents on the way to work, including 4 accidents just at the on-ramps to the 198 at Elmwood (one at each on-ramp!). Plus a few spin-outs. It usually takes me 15 or 20 minutes0 . . .
Still sick as a dog, but... enjoying exploring a new programming language. XML literals, unrestricted operator and syntax overloading, optional explicit immutability and finally a non-verbose type sys0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRpD4wjIkQ40 . . .
"Y2GAY" & "gaytabases" http://qntm.org/?gay0 . . .
I slammed my hand in a door yesterday. What's worse is that it must have bothered me so much in my sleep that I grabbed onto it with the other hand and then somehow rolled onto my stomach, and sl0 . . .
not a joke? 1208/Picture51205.png Buy it online: http://www.lulu.com/content/49562120 . . .
Ordering an SSL cert and getting DNS set up for the new servers is taking like 2 weeks for some reason. >.< 0 . . .
1208/UqfMyNcTeh23fehqzJrGxraVo15001204.jpg My hair is almost long enough to do that to ;) Halloween costume next year?0 . . .
Sort of. Home very very soon. 1108/Photo251129.jpg0 . . .
I'm sick. Of course, I'm on vacation. Why can't I be sick at a time I could use my sick leave? That's all.0 . . .
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I love open source, we had a problem in a vendor library and we fixed it ourselves. If we had to wait for someone else to do it, who knows how long it would've been broken. http://rspec.lighth0 . . .
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Servers have been ordered. Clustering and failover designed. Weeks and months of testing and automation. Probably a hundred hours of work total. Super excited, I've been prepping this stuff for 60 . . .
I'm reading a book, "The 48 Laws of Power". http://www.amazon.com/dp/0140280197 1108/41T9TGV2JBLSS5001108.jpg It is by turns interesting and disturbing. Each law has it's own0 . . .
I'm trying to remember in my glee that 53% isn't the same as 100%. :) Some maps from http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/ By county: 1108/Countymappurpler5121106.png 0 . . .
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According to unofficial results, Democrats captured 32 out of the 62 seats in the Senate. The shift marks the end of an era for New York Republicans, whose control of the Senate had come to depend on 0 . . .
1108/ObamaWins1105.jpg From Erie County Democratic Headquarters, Buffalo NY. 11pm as election was called for Barack Obama, our 44th president.0 . . .
DO NOT START WITH THIS SHIT, CABLE NEWS!! HOLOGRAMS ARE RIGHT OUT. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0lNaKYAwsE 0 . . .
Get your bacon news at Bacon Today. http://bacontoday.com/ Including, but not limited to, chocolate-covered bacon: http://bacontoday.com/chocolate-covered-bacon/ 1108/ChocolateCoveredBacon11104.0 . . .
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The line wasn't bad at all. Our old school mechanical voting booths are actually pretty awesome. The only bad part of the experience was that I almost missed the referendum above the political of0 . . .
Today is Saturday. The election is Tuesday. I can't wait for it to be over - I can't stop paying attention to it. Will miss it, too, it's very exciting this year. Don't forget t0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfd5g8Y_Jqo (from http://www.236.com/ keep an eye out for 'my friends' at the end of the clip) On a side note, I hardly know what to do with myself while0 . . .
My new position is actually a position, instead of some de-facto thing! I clarified that I have the authority to back up my responsibilities, and my Projects Manager title will be made public to every0 . . .
MTv just posted an archive of all music videos in their archives: Check it out here: http://www.mtvmusic.com/ Super-sweet. And embeddable. 1008/Mtv1028.png0 . . .
How high to you keep your thermostat? (I know you might not have yours on yet, but I'm talking in general during the winter.) James only allows me to ever put it at 58 degrees. :) 0 . . .
From McSweeney's: http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/10/21curry.html I do not think I am, as you so eloquently screamed, "addicted to World of Warcraft." I have, however, made a number of un0 . . .
Is it a joke? Who knows! http://www.baconnaise.com/ 1008/Picture21027.png http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9T5I2E2YLk 0 . . .
My grandfather is not doing well, I am looking forward to when I go out to see everyone at Thanksgiving. Hopefully things stay stable until then. Lots of deaths in my life the past few years. 1008/0 . . .
I idly was looking at airfares, thinking of going to see my family at Thanksgiving. They were all $800+, except I found a couple deals on Delta for $400. I had to snap that up since it's only goi0 . . .
2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM 0 . . .
An interesting essay by Will Wilkinson: http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/24/equal-chances-for-equal-talent/ which also keyed off some things that I've talked to James about recently0 . . .
I got a couple cute little house plants to take to work. They're all marked as tolerant of low light, so hopefully they'll do OK. I got a plant light just in case, but I'm not sure how 0 . . .
November is National Novel Writing Month - http://www.nanowrimo.org/ You try to write a novel over the course of 30 days. Which seems insane, but if you do 10 pages a day that's a 300 page boo0 . . .
I have been trying to follow the principle of 'inbox 0' (background: http://www.43folders.com/izero ). Basically, you get to zero messages in your inbox at least once per day. Ruthlessly, if0 . . .
Don't ever dress your daughter up as Gallagher :) 1008/6a00e0098eb61588330105359ae918970c800wi1021.png Read all about it: http://nested.typepad.com/blog/2008/10/the-saddest-andor-greatest-c0 . . .
More work stuff - I need to fill my daily journal quota! We've got our automated testing down pretty well at work, so on to the next step. We start pair programming every single day in the aft0 . . .
I donated $40 last night to the campaign to defeat Proposition 8 in California (Prop 8 will remove the constitutional gender-indiscriminant right to marry, and nullify existing same sex marriages in C0 . . .
I am now the head of Rails development at my work, so I'm coordinating 6 developers. Three new to Rails, and two who are new to the company, and myself. It's actually pretty awesome to be ru0 . . .
1008/51016.jpg (source / more in the series: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2008/10/16/space-adventures-of-mr-chipmunk/ )0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZOyxfiNoU What McCain said is not going to play well among independents. Virtually everyone thinks that there should always be exceptions for the mother's heal0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs0 . . .
Sources: http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/mr-blurrycam-reveals-the-updated-macbook-pro-899-laptop-model/ http://daringfireball.net/2008/10/contains_spoilers 1008/20081013mbpleak41014.jpg 0 . . .
I have personally been accosted on the street in at least 5 occasions by conservatives. In Buffalo, NY, Salt Lake City, UT, and Portland, OR. In addition, protestors have been at events that I've0 . . .
You can take a class field trip to an Apple store: http://www.apple.com/retail/fieldtrip/ 1008/Picture11011.png This sucks so much. They must have had actual requests from schools that caused th0 . . .
Tomorrow, October 12th, is the second anniversary of the October Storm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Storm_%22Aphid%22 Hard to believe, hard to forget! Here's my yearly look back in photo0 . . .
OF THE U S S ENTERPRISE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6oUz1v17Uo This video is made of awesome.0 . . .
I had a dream last night that I was a run away child of a Yakuza mobster. Drew and Janelle took me in as a foster child. Then, it started getting even weirder. They kept finding other kids hidden i0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt_TnQqkVyk0 . . .
I'll be planning an e:strip holiday dinner, for sometime in early December (between Thanksgiving and Christmas). This post is just a heads up, I'll make another post in a month to nail do0 . . .
An awesome term, for when you find yourself doing some task at 8 removes from what you meant to be doing, each step along the way seemingly utterly necessary... You start out deciding to tidy your 0 . . .
I like being the first one in at work. No interruptions, a nice start to the morning. That's all :)0 . . .
Actually, I am glad that the bailout failed. We'll now get a smaller, more incremental bailout. Rough ride for the next year though, no matter what. Japan in the 90's went through a crisi0 . . .
Well OK, I just posted that other thing but this is too good to not also make a journal. 0908/PutinWatch0929.jpg Original CBS interview w/ transcript: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/25/e0 . . .
(regarding Paul's journal: http://estrip.org/articles/paul/45829.html ) 0908/Rule340929.png From xkcd - CC licensed - http://xkcd.com/305/0 . . .
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So, I probably have ADD. Thus explaining my inability to sit through meetings and various other detrimental distractibility-related issues, and explaining why I barely graduated from high school and t0 . . .
Christmas Decorations on sale! 0908/photo_48d69c273b1bc_0921.jpg0 . . .
It occurs to me as I sit here and type, that the underwear I'm wearing is seven years old. It's probably the only pair of boxers that I still own from way back then, but still. Ancient, righ0 . . .
Let me respectfully remind you: Life and Death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken, take heed, do not squander yo0 . . .
Lehman goes under, Merrill sold for a song. The weekly Sunday slaughter on Wallstreet continues. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080915/financial_meltdown.html Lehman is being allowed to fail instead of ba0 . . .
Congrats, e:James, you spent three months kicking ass and being awesome. Sam Hoyt won! 0908/photo_48c739fdf0c7a_0909.jpg0 . . .
OK! I was able to program / animate the LED matrix. Basically, there are 8 pins on each axis, and you scan down one column at a time shifting bits out to off/on states for each LED in the row. 0 . . .
Finally, finally, took the time to go get my UB Card (need to be prepared for buying CS4 when it comes out in October). Bad hair day, for sure, with the wind. Hard to read, but I am technically in the0 . . .
Have the matrix hooked up to the LED driver chip and that to the microcontroller. Will figure out how to program it tomorrow. Mmm, bitshifting. 0908/Matrix0904.jpg0 . . .
This is a freaking 4 hour news cycle election. I usually try very hard to stay out of commenting on politics on e:strip, and confine my anti-religion rants to 2 or 3 per year, but I'm falling 0 . . .
So, after a couple days of revelations about Sarah Palin, the nail in the coffin comes: she was a member of an organization that sought Alaskan sovereign nation status. Yes, that's right: John0 . . .
I'm building a DIY version of this Tengu thing ( http://www.tengutengutengu.com/ ) for my first full project. I've got the LEDs for the eyes in and programmable, and have the face matrix 0 . . .
On a slight tangent from yesterday :) Don't break a window with a brick and your bare fist. I'm an idiot. Next time I'll wrap a shirt around my hand! I think taking a photo of my 0 . . .
So, my boss has been on sick leave for 6 weeks or so with cancer. It was actually treatable and I think his prognosis was at least somewhat hopeful. Last night was the first night he was home alone, a0 . . .
So, this is just the getting started lesson from this page: http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/lesson5.html although I did deviate in the programming a bit to use functions instead of nested if-bloc0 . . .
I finished soldering together my microcontroller board and the prototyping shield which fits on top. The microcontroller board you can't see in this photo, it's the first layer. 0808/JL060 . . .
No, it's a puppy and a bunny. Try #2: Random newf footage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odmEFD1aMYg Ah, Friday.0 . . .
Kinda cool: http://www.faceyourmanga.com/homepage.php?lang=eng Here's an idealized version of me :) 0808/JimManga0820.jpg0 . . .
Wordle This one is from the last few posts across all of estrip: 0808/Picture20819.png If you create a new one, you can base it off your own journal by typing in for the RSS/feed address user0 . . .
So, stuck here by myself this weekend, e:James is on vacation without me :) 0808/HomeAlone0815.gif Plans: 1. Read a bunch. 2. Code. 3. Eat a lot of junk food. What else?0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoU mildly NSFW0 . . .
I am one week into quitting smoking cold turkey. Going pretty well. Also, I have an unrelated cold. Is summer over already? Huddled in a hoodie, sniffling, dark at midday, looks like it to me. 0 . . .
re James' latest post, which is a missed connection with at least a bare minimum of details. Why do they usually sound like this? I saw you at starbucks], you were standing by the wall] an0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsm7yQLW3Fo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QKI4JTqJSk News Story 0 . . .
0808/IMG02080809.jpg On his birthday, practicing to be a grumpy old man.0 . . .
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Girl Talk's latest album Feed the Animals is super awesome. I'm having so much fun listening to it today. (Remix/mashup/dj stuff) 0808/52157Girltalkalbum0808.jpg It is available online0 . . .
I haven't smoked all week, except one on Monday morning. So far so good. Definitely have mood swings. Well more like a permanently shitty mood. Getting better today. Haven't killed anyone ye0 . . .
It's e:James birthday today! 0808/BirthdayBrains0806.jpg0 . . .
So, there is a now a tethering app (NetShare) in the Apple iPhone app store. Now I'm sorely tempted to upgrade to the new iPhone. Mmmm, internet everywhere. Might be worth the $200 upgrade fee0 . . .
Ah, a new word (to me): ignosticism. I am not sure how I've missed that so far in my life, considering how much I've thought and researched about this sort of stuff. I am more accurately ign0 . . .
By chance, should there be any lurking Rails developers on this site, please send me an email if you're looking for work (fulltime position with benefits, local to WNY only). jim/at/jimlindley0 . . .
Leaning a giant ladder up against power / cable lines, eh? 0708/photo_488217568e7af_0719.jpg0 . . .
Getting pretty enough to hang out with designers this weekend :) 0708/Photo20717.jpg0 . . .
Visit original site here! 0708/Graf0716.gif0 . . .
Sorry Paul, I just realized my typography convention is this weekend, and so I definitely can't go to WEMF :( But it does bring up an interesting question: how does one properly ask to get an 0 . . .
There's an app for the iphone that will listen to music and then identify it for you. It's super cool and so accurate. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=20 . . .
0708/photo_4878e5008b78c_0712.jpg0 . . .
So, a few days ago Iran got busted for distributing altered photos that made it look like they were launching more missiles then they actually had. (See below before and after and the original story h0 . . .
MobileMe fail cloud: 0708/Picture10711.png Twitter Fail Whale (original) 0708/Whale300x2250711.png0 . . .
Now witness the firepower of this fully ARMED and OPERATIONAL iPhone! 0708/IMG000210710.png 0708/IMG000110710.png0 . . .
Wish I could embed the video here, but you've got to see this: someone getting struck by lightening (they didn't get seriously hurt) Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/i_love_the_slow_l0 . . .
Seriously, it's really gross. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9X9fuVS-c Man my feedreader is full of weird stuff lately.0 . . .
0708/View10708.jpg Vet dummy: http://student.bmj.com/issues/04/06/life/246.php Lots more medical dummies: http://www.oobject.com/category/medical-manikins/ Lists of random cool things: http:/0 . . .
From Japan of course: http://www.kilian-nakamura.com/catalog/usb-owl-p-267.html 0708/USBowl10707.jpg 0708/Usbowl0707.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkbSLAmmjhY 0 . . .
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I was just on IM with someone, and they were asking me why I didn't believe in God or Christianity. This was my bare minimum list of things that I would have to take on faith to be a Christian. F0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d-tNXxTRBA0 . . .
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WALL-E is made of awesome. Go see it! 0 . . .
Hello, If you are interested in joining James and I tomorrow for Wall-E, we'll be there at 8pm Saturday 6/28 Regal Elmwood in North Buffalo. It's opening weekend so you might want to b0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K0OS4gCpos Teeth?0 . . .
Our very own e:james has been promoted to Deputy Campaign Manager for the political campaign he's working for. I won't go into too many details in case I say the wrong thing, but definitely 0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZYuRk1pFO00 . . .
0608/UnTShirt400px0624.png cf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images 0 . . .
Paul and Everyone, If I organized making t-shirts would anyone be interested? Either at-cost ($12) or with a markup ($24?) that would go to Paul for ongoing costs. They could look something l0 . . .
There are many things people do not know about BARACK OBAMA. It is every American's PATRIOTIC DUTY to read this message and pass it along to all of their friends and loved ones. Barack Obama i0 . . .
Starting to look good! http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ 0608/2590657343457fefb621O0618.png0 . . .
I'm afraid the main weakness of evolutionary theory will be "it leaves out Jesus." Actually, most modern scientists believe that Jesus evolved over time from more primitive relig0 . . .
Well, that was fun and biblical. I have 60 or so dents in the roof, trunk, and hood of my car. Look at the size of what was coming down: 0608/IMG01470616.jpg 0608/IMG01450616.jpg 0 . . .
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Buffalonian and Meet the Press host Tim Russert died today of a heart attack: http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/369480.html And so, just once I will say: Go Bills! http://youtube.com/watch?v=0 . . .
Lighthouse, or Phallus? You be the judge. 0608/GummiLighthouses0612.jpg Via http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/06/11/gummi-lighthouses-when-candy-design-goes-terribly-hilariously-wrong/0 . . .
I had fun at the party last night, sorry I got tired there at the end. I think I'll be skipping the festivities today, have some other stuff to attend to. Hope you all have fun!0 . . .
If you see one of these around this weekend, I made it for his campaign :) Kinda lame but it was short notice. Happy Pride! 0608/SamHoytPride20080603.png0 . . .
Story: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23802024-5001021,00.html Picture: 0608/06072651000602.jpg0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0TSyIn5KMo Yikes!0 . . .
0508/Sm3200525.jpg 0508/Sm3130525.jpg NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/main/ But, does Mars Attack? http://youtube.com/watch?v=gsXnK0ouTL80 . . .
0508/Stunning0521.jpg w/r/t: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7410431.stm0 . . .
Too Cute: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/photos-panda-bear-cub-baby-growing-up.php 0508/PandaBearG0020512.jpg 0508/PandaBearG0030512.jpg 0508/PandaBearG0070512.jpg 0508/PandaBearG0080510 . . .
http://208.65.153.251/watch?v=yVjzd320gew0 . . .
TypeRacer: http://play.typeracer.com/ 0408/TypeRacer0425.png TypeRacer: http://play.typeracer.com/ 0 . . .
I'm 29 in 30 minutes. :) Happy Birthday me. Wow first journal in 2 weeks I'm a slacker. Night! Sleep! Up in 6 hours ;) Have a good night ya'll. 0 . . .
3rd Most Least Drunk City http://www.menshealth.com/drunk/ 0308/3rdMostDrunk0317.png0 . . .
It took 90 minutes to drive to work, due to this terrible accident. A car fell off the 198 onto the 33. 0308/CarAccident0317.jpg My morning is all screwed up, but not as bad as that guy'0 . . .
Edited in record time! (Slideshow w/ bigger version here http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangecontext/sets/72157604132904202/show/ ) 0308/Zobar0316.jpg 0308/StPatricksDay2008P90316.jpg 0308/St0 . . .
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I'm headed to a conference in SLC in two weeks, and then at the end of May going out to the Ruby on Rails conference in Portland. Wish e:James could come, but the last time he came to one of thes0 . . .
Tacos are delicious AWESOME.0 . . .
Dear Registered iPhone Developer, Thank you for expressing interest in the iPhone Developer Program. We have received your enrollment request. As this time, the iPhone Developer Program is availa0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-HsBzpbfmY0 . . .
My ability to write SQL is severly atrophied, and I hate it. 0 . . .
OK, my one contracting job seems like it's done. Now I've just got my new full time job (going super well so far, 2nd week in) and some part time at-home contracting stuff to Roswell to work0 . . .
I love my new job so much. That's all. OK gotta sign off. Peace :)0 . . .
Now an HBO series The Humans are Dead http://youtube.com/watch?v=WGoi1MSGu64 Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros http://youtube.com/watch?v=FArZxLj6DLk Bowie in Space http://youtube.com/watch?0 . . .
This book is available on Amazon: Cube Chic 0308/CubeChic0301.png 0308/CubeChic30301.png 0308/CubeChic20301.png 0308/CubeChic10301.png 0 . . .
Apple has created a version of Ruby that runs on top of Objective-C. http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/ruby/wiki/InstallingMacRuby OK, holy crap. This will be like the only non-objective-c Mac0 . . .
I'm going to this regional Ruby Conference http://mtnwestrubyconf.org/ in Salt Lake city the last weekend in March. I'm staying after the conference to visit with my family (I'm origina0 . . .
Paul put this thought into my head last night... 0208/MiniCooper0225.png They are actually much cheaper then I'd assumed. I thought they'd be $30k plus, but this one is $21k. 0 . . .
This is the car that I'd like to get. I know, I know, everyone seems to hate Scions but I like them. 0208/Picture60224.png Not that I'll get one, I'll probably just buy an old use0 . . .
Just got the offer, accepted it. Looks like it's all a go. Thanks for the well-wishes everyone! Now I'm off to go home and curl up in bed sick. Yuck. _X_ They Called Me _X_ They Like 0 . . .
_X_ They Called Me _X_ They Like Me _X_ Resume Sent _X_ Glowing recommendation from Tony _X_ Iron Shirt _X_ Pick Out Tie ___ Achieve Sense of Calm and Readiness ___ Attend Interview ___ Negoti0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXIGwiVg8s00 . . .
Lauren, this one is for you: 0208/Picture10216.png A German horror movie, about twisted medical practitioners abducting people to turn them into plasticized anatomy displays. Subtitles... IMD0 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqXYwNDrU8k0 . . .
Instead of meeting at Casa di Pizza, please meet at 24 Linwood. We'll be ordering pizza and eating it there, I could not find anywhere to get reservations for 16 people on a Saturday. This Sat0 . . .
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What do you have to say about this, Pat Robertson? 0208/Picture20212.png0 . . .
Everyone seems to think that I have the same face all the time. What do you think? 0208/Faces0212.gif As bad as this? 0208/Lohan8zj0212.gif Or... this?! 0208/Parishiltonfrozenface0xp0 . . .
Every day for the last week or so I've used my lunches to work on a personal project, so I'm finally making more progress on it after a couple months of neglect. 0208/Picture10212.png 0 . . .
This is my hungry face. 0208/MeHungry0212.jpg 3rd and hopefully final in my series of boring self portraits this week.0 . . .
I'm putting on my party face: 0208/Photo1520208.jpg0 . . .
A bit overdue. 0208/Photo1470207.jpg Part of my whirlwind tour of errands and duties this morning. Now a bit of lunch and back to work...0 . . .
0208/EstripChristmas200740205.jpg 0208/EstripChristmas200730205.jpg 0208/EstripChristmas200750205.jpg 0208/EstripChristmas200720205.jpg 0208/EstripChristmas200760205.jpg 0208/EstripChristmas200780 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3w-WYI8FdQ Oldie but goodie...0 . . .
I love refactoring when using specs, I know when I'm DONE. 0208/Picture10204.png Green means I can go to lunch now...0 . . .
Primary day is tomorrow. Won't you feel better after you've voted? If you're a Democrat your voice is actually heard for once in the Presidential primary, since everything is still up i0 . . .
Saturday February 16th at 7pm is the proposed date for the next e:strip dinner, to be held at Casa-di-Pizza. This is the last call for changes/scheduling conflicts. 0208/Estrip2008FebDinner0202.png0 . . .
I'm going to set up another e:strip dinner for the middle of February. Possibly anti-Valentine's Day themed! Proposed dates and time are in the comments of this post. Please post any s0 . . .
Clocked out at 4pm today. Feels like Friday. Long week, still more to go :( 0108/Photo1390131.jpg Dont' forget to vote next Tuesday!0 . . .
Just as well I was at Roswell on Monday, it means I can hide inside today and work from home on my other project. Now, just hoping the power stays up!0 . . .
Well, I found out I have a full time contract position for almost twice as much money as I'm making now, not part time like I'd thought in my last post about buying a house. Good news: I 0 . . .
I want to buy a house so freaking bad. I just found out I am going from 20 hours a week to 30 hours a week for one of my contracts, which is an extra huge chunk of money every month, and so home o0 . . .
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The best screen cleaner ever: http://www.linein.org/media/screenclean.swf The best bug report, ever: http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/109190 . . .
OK, so I've had this new laptop for a week (upgraded from a MacBook to a MacBook Pro). At first I was really nervous that I just wanted to upgrade because I wanted the latest and greatest, but di0 . . .
It has jewels! 0108/02Nokia7900crystalprismLowressidebyside0123.jpg0 . . .
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Teach your kid to respect women or we'll send him to Guantanamo Bay! 0108/IMG00700121.jpg Setting up new computer this weekend: 0108/IMG00730121.jpg We went to e:Janelle and e:Drew � . . .
David Lanham: http://dlanham.com/art/samonkey/ Super cute, like these: 0108/Picture20120.png 0108/Picture10120.png0 . . .
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Help me pick out what to have written on the official e:strip M&M's that I plan to order in time for the next party. Here was my first thought: 0108/EstripMm0119.png But, unfortunat0 . . .
Somehow in the whole exciting adventure of getting a new computer I somehow lost sight of the fact I'd have to spend all weekend setting it up and tweaking it. So many things to install...0 . . .
So, UPS says I wasn't here to sign for the package this AM when I specifically took off work to be here. 0108/UpsWtf0118.png I bet there was a garbage truck on our street at the same time a0 . . .
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Shiny new icon for e:strip for iPhones :) 0108/JL055930116.jpg 0108/AppleTouchIcon1606390116.png0 . . .
Well just taking my afternoon tea here. There's a new icon for estrip that I made and Paul was gracious enough to upload - if you've got an iPhone and you bookmark estrip onto your home s0 . . .
OK, so today is the day. 90 minutes away from the start of all the announcements. Apple does events like this just a couple times a year and I'm always way too overexcited. New laptop? New DVR0 . . .
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OK this weekend we have to drive back down state to visit my in-laws for the third time in like 8 weeks. I am so not in the mood to be in a car for half the weekend. The holidays should be over, am0 . . .
I'm going to be working half the week at Roswell, and the other half the week on a project outsourced from India to the US. What a strange world.0 . . .
Still have the cold/nausea thing going on. Missed an important meeting today. Think I might try to get a bit more sleep. Feel like I'm going to puke. Shouldn't have eaten that banana maybe. 0 . . .
Sick. I know I know, there are people much worse off then me (hi Paul). But I've been feeling like crap all week and had to take off from work again today with the flu/cold that's been going0 . . .
I'm so excited. 0108/IcebergMacworld0109.jpg (via)0 . . .
...why don't you get me a taser/mp3 player? http://youtube.com/watch?v=fBRnv8utnCs 0 . . .
Thank you everyone for advice last week about my problem, but I hope you can understand why I've made the journal private now. The internet being what it is and all... Feeling much better this0 . . .
0108/AlwaysSunny0105.flv It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia0 . . .
Tonight at the Albright Knox we ran into e:Janelle and e:Drew, as well as (separately) e:Dcoffee. Good to see you all!!0 . . .
...the only way to be sure. 0108/Picture70103.png Too many years doing systems, networking, and server administration for Windows has left me scarred. I left that whole mess many years ago, but 0 . . .
On the Democratic side the results seem to be coming in in the order that I wished for: 0108/Picture20103.png On the Republican side the anti-reality wacko and slimy politicians are on top: 0 . . .
I just switched from Parallels for Mac to VMWare Fusion, so that I can run windows and solaris on my MacBook. I'm converting all my virtual machine images right now. It runs so much better, I can0 . . .
EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE WITHIN SINGLE ROTATION. Religious Singularity is evil, Academic Singularity is evil. Singularity is damnable lie, Educators altered your mind, 0 . . .
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Does anyone know someone who can do Windows and network troubleshooting for small businesses? I have a couple clients that I'd like to help by finding someone else for because I am a web develope0 . . .
James and I received a giant styrofoam cooler full of Omaha Steak products for Christmas. Included are about a dozen or so 5oz steaks, and a couple small cheesecakes, hot dog packs, and another dozen 0 . . .
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Well this took a lot longer then I thought but it's reusable at least. Click. Click. Click. 1207/Highlight1227.flv0 . . .
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Just found out I'm starting a long term part time contract after christmas, which will nicely complement the other contract I have at Roswell. This means a blessed end to the ragged edge of livin0 . . .
Albert L. Lord - http://seekingalpha.com/article/57992-sallie-mae-slm-corporation-shareholder-call-transcript How good is this? Steve, let's go. There's no -- no questions. Let's get0 . . .
IE8 passes Acid2: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/12/19/internet-explorer-8-and-acid2-a-milestone.aspx (Acid2 Guide http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/guide/) 1207/AcidTest21219.png 0 . . .
In your face, 250+!0 . . .
We went to Buffalo General Hospital today. Pretty good food. Including what was apparently an 18" steak egg roll. 1207/IMG00581218.jpg 1207/IMG00601218.jpg 1207/IMG00571218.jpg0 . . .
I thought my stomach was tied up in knots due to stress, turns out it's the stomach flu. If only all things were as easy to solve as just waiting a couple days.0 . . .
Good or Wack? http://movies.aol.com/movie/speed-racer-2008/28066/main0 . . .
So much snow. Stuck inside. Wish I had some cocoa.0 . . .
I'm forcing myself to take today off. I was so busy all week, I've got 100 unread messages in my inbox and a million things to do, but I'm refusing to do anything today. Trying to relax0 . . .
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Wahoo! I just bought jameslindley.com - someone let it expire! I've had jimlindley.com for a long time but jameslindley.com was tantalizingly out of reach. Actually it expired a few weeks a0 . . .
1207/EstripHoliday1211.png Don't forget that Thursday is the e:strip holiday dinner / pot luck, this Thursday at around 7pm! 24 Linwood right off North Street in Buffalo. Don't sign up0 . . .
I never have any paper money on me anymore. Just always use a debit card. If I have $20 in my pocket, it's a rare thing. But, last week someone paid me for some work in cash. If I got a check 0 . . .
Regarding the more religious Republic presidential candidates, Mitt Romney is saying whatever he needs to in order to get elected, but Mike Huckabee scares the crap out of me. He doesn't believe 0 . . .
Rails 2.0 just came out today. Long wait! Well I didn't really wait I've been using the dev versions all along, but still. ^_^ 0 . . .
I hated it today but I took a fall at work. Had to admit defeat and regroup, but I think in the end it will work out. Hurts my pride though. I was sick thinking about it all weekend. Thanks to Del and0 . . .
OK, I'm doing something for a certain University. They have a deadline for the project of Dec 3rd, which was today. But I didn't get what I needed at the start of November, oh no, I got it o0 . . .
Jingle Rock Bell (source) 1207/Jinglerockbell1202.mp30 . . .
Safron vs Athiests http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBkUWbFjdpg Safron vs Catholics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV20-iWF72M 0 . . .
Five Stages of Grief Christmas Stage 1: Holiday Cheer. Stage 2: Grumbling. Stage 3: Heavy Drinking. Stage 4: Blood EVERYWHERE. Stage 5: Acceptance. 0 . . .
The Golden Compass is coming out soon, and I can't wait to see it. Anyone up for going as an e:strip gang? Just watch out for those atheistic overtones, you might want to keep small children away0 . . .
Welcome to this week's reminder post for the E:Strip Holiday Dinner, to be held on December 13th ( a Thursday), at 24 Linwood. Graciously hosted by e:Matthew, e:Paul, and e:Terry. If you can c0 . . .
Let's see if anyone shows up to my Ruby Meetup! 1107/Photo1351126.jpg0 . . .
Well we got back last night from our long weekend away at e:James' family's house. Nice relaxing weekend, definitely feel better after talking some time off and away from the computer. It� . . .
Ok driving in a monsoon full of sleet. Happy Holidays!!! 1107/OnTheRoad21384015341121.jpg 0 . . .
Heading out of town for the holiday weekend, but I'll leave you with this list to ponder: Movie sequels we need. Excerpt: W for Wowiamangry I Also Robot, How You? Reservoir Puppies (pr0 . . .
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I was off this afternoon, just in a fog and less then productive, think I need some time off. Going to go out for a drink tonight and staying away from the computer. Had this great idea for someth0 . . .
Greg Knauss: "Starting now, I do. I declare myself the world's primary expert in questions so stupid that they lack any sort of meaning other than reasonably correct grammar." An 0 . . .
I'm having a lunch meeting with a new prospective client today. I'm actually starting to love doing presentations. Maybe with a bit more practice I'll even get to be good at it :) Just 0 . . .
The e:strip holiday dinner will be on Dec 13th, a Thursday. Save the day, and be prepared to sign up (it's a potluck) sometime after Thanksgiving (no more planning for now). See you on the oth0 . . .
12 SATA 1TB Drives ($300 ea) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145167 1 12-bay rack mountable SATA enclosure ($1200) http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsata12RMd.asp 0 . . .
Hello, All! There will be an e:strip holiday dinner potluck get-together at 24 Linwood, some as yet unspecified time in early December (1st or 2nd week). Possible dates for your consideration:0 . . .
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Unfortunately I'm too tired to think of just what that is.0 . . .
Hey last minute as always, but join e:James and I at Spot at Delaware and Chippewa for our monthly photo meetup if you like. http://www.flickr.com/groups/buffalo/discuss/72157602654289935/ 0 . . .
I'm going to be a busy boy. I have projects finally coming in from all the bids I was putting out over the last few months. Including UB and a couple other big names locally. Plus I met some cool0 . . .
So, Dell has new, cheaper 24" widescreen monitors. http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Monitors/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=320-6095 $400 is tempting, 0 . . .
I have the whole day to myself tomorrow, I wonder what I shall do?0 . . .
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This is not a cheer-ocracy, I am the cheer-tator, I will make the cheer-cisions around here, and I will deal with the cheer-onsequences. 0 . . .
Microsoft is creating a Ruby implementation for .NET -- I'm sure they will call it something ridiculous like Microsoft Ruby .NET Enterprise Extended Edition 2008. And charge a kajillion dollars f0 . . .
OK, I got to work at like 7am today, and no one is around but luckily nothing was locked up. Weird. Catching up on email and the like right now, thinking of going and grabbing a coffee... Spooky0 . . .
God damn do I have a lot to do this week. All my wonderful plans for trying out some of the new tools and techniques I learned over the weekend have suddenly been crushed by an onslaught of overdue wo0 . . .
We're on our way back home from my Programming Conference, and it was so awesome, I'm just blown away by all the smart people. The sessions were so good, and I'm sad I had to miss out o0 . . .
Matz 1107/JL053941103.jpg Getting rid of Matz (MRI at least) 1107/JL054021103.jpg Ryan Davis 1107/JL053901103.jpg Koichi 1107/JL054141103.jpg Chad Fowler 1107/JL053891103.jpg David0 . . .
Matz's Town Hall Meeting 1107/JL053871102.jpg Agenda 1107/JL053641102.jpg e:James 1107/JL053751102.jpg Downtown Charlotte 1107/JL053821102.jpg 450 Programmers: 446 Male, 4 Women0 . . .
Mitt Romney - Skeevy say anything salesman. No principles. John McCain - Past expiration date. Compromised. Rudy Guiliani - One trick pony. 911. 911. 911. Loony. Mike Huckabee - God fearin' co0 . . .
Heading out for my programming conference. I'll post some photos but will try to restrain my geekish enthusiasm. I also finished up the WNY Ruby web site and posted it last night. So yay! One 0 . . .
Mac OS X Leopard 10. Better Ruby on Rails support. 9. Finally compiled FreeImage just now. 8. Feels smoother / starts up faster. 7. Spotlight works now. (Too slow/wonky before) 6. Got t0 . . .
3 More days!!! I know I've posted about going before but I'm just really excited and am posting again. I leave Thursday afternoon to go to RubyConf, and I think it's going to be a lo0 . . .
So, this is what I'm discovering I should do: if my clients don't buy a support contract, then they don't get support. Right now I get called all the time and people expect me to dro0 . . .
So, I really am craving pumpkin seeds after last night. I need to find more pumpkins to carve gut out. I had a great time otherwise too! It was good to see all of you :) I forgot to bring my camera th0 . . .
This is the graph of the traffic for my Ruby blog. It's headed in a gratifying direction :) It makes writing for it a lot of fun knowing that I'm helping other people. 1007/Picture110270 . . .
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So, I've agreed to help plan the WNY Ruby meet-ups. This will be in addition to the monthly estrip night outs that I've been setting up, and the monthly photo meet-ups that I run. I just 0 . . .
Hey, if you're coming at 8pm (instead of being fashionably late) to the e:strip party and want to carve pumpkins with Matthew and I, bring one if you can, but if not let me know and I'll sna0 . . .
Do I get balloons?0 . . .
(You can totally skip reading this journal, I am writing this for me and my happiness.) This is the best thing ever. I am so glad that I took the time to look at this a few weeks ago after sort of 0 . . .
I love Halloween, mostly for the pumpkins, the pumkin carving, and the pumpkin-seed eating. e:James and I went and bought pumpkins today, yay!!! Also I think I will be dressing up for the Halloween0 . . .
Our odometer hit 8888. 1007/8888RollOver00231019.jpg I'm just saying.0 . . .
LOLcoder 1007/MartinFowlerMyRefactorings1019.png0 . . .
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So, I preordered Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard (™, ®, etc). This is what I'm looking forward to: - Spaces / multiple workspaces - Tabbed, internationalized terminal - Time Machine - Death of 0 . . .
I do not feel very good, I think it is a cold or the flu. This displeases me greatly. I think it's the fault of e:enknot who did not save me any flu vaccine. I was fine this morning, went to w0 . . .
When I started programming with Ruby in 2004, there was only one book about it, now it has its own shelf. 1007/OutAndAbout00061014.jpg Pink Kitchen-Aid appliances at Premier: 1007/OutAndAbout00020 . . .
Snow starts to fall: 1007/2680832982b634650bf1013.jpg And fall and fall and fall: 1007/2716580958e30975ea21013.jpg 1007/2716576048743ace2071013.jpg 1007/271655879Ed2427df641013.jpg 10 . . .
I really hate dislike certain aspects of religion. I am sort of a Buddhist, and on again off again go to the local Zen group for their services. The meditation is really useful, I tend to be sort of h0 . . .
I was born in 1979, which technically is the last year of Generation X. Or, sometimes, I'm under the 'MTV Generation' classification or even say I'm one of the earliest in Generati0 . . .
Thank you all for coming!! 17 People I believe. Sorry about the group shots, the red ceiling sort of screwed up my attempts with the flash :( I should have double checked the camera before I stoppe0 . . .
To celebrate my new title, I've picked out an appropriate song. http://youtube.com/watch?v=of2WzZx9AhA 0 . . .
Tonight is the night! There's room for last minute stragglers if you're suddenly available. Check out the details here. JJ's Casa-di-Pizza on Elmwood at 7pm. See you there!0 . . .
I took my first day off in forever on Monday. I think it might have been the first day in 6 months that I didn't do any work. It was really nice, so thank you James, Paul, Matt, and Terry!0 . . .
Welcome to my daily reminder to sign up for the e:strip dinner, to be held on Wednesday, October 10th, at 7pm. Click this link to find out more or to sign up if you're interested.0 . . .
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The contestants: 1007/MarcellaStripShow04681007.jpg 1007/MarcellaStripShow04731007.jpg Who I voted for: 1007/MarcellaStripShow04781007.jpg These two won, a tie, and they went and danced on 0 . . .
Well I normally hate talking about politics on estrip, but this one is too funny: 1007/GopWidestance1004.jpg An elephant with a 'wide stance' in Minneapolis. Nice. (This is the actual 0 . . .
OK, so this is getting ridiculous. I have one external backup drive for my laptop, one for e:james' desktop, and now two more on the way to attach to the network for photo storage (100+gb so f0 . . .
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/sunny/ Super funny, watch it Night Watch / Day Watch (Russian Sci Fi) Hard to track down but really good. (dubbed0 . . .
I was so frustrated at work today. I tried to use version control software again but it kept failing with weird errors. I tried Subversion and Git. I've tried both of them at RPCI before but had 0 . . .
Read about the plans here for expanding Children's hospital: http://www.buffalorising.com/story/childrens_big_plans#sca (I'm all over Buffalo Rising today apparently) Doesn't look0 . . .
Teaser from Elmwood Assoc: http://www.buffalorising.com/story/elmwood_video So... I wonder what it'll be?0 . . .
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Hey - late notice, I know. But if anyone wants to come and meet with my photography group at 2pm at Spot Coffee (Delaware and Chippewa) today, we'd be happy to see you! Probably around 10 p0 . . .
More practice with the 30mm and flash. 0907/JamesAndBen052850929.jpg 0907/JamesAndBen052920929.jpg 0907/JamesAndBen052900929.jpg 0907/JamesAndBen052740929.jpg0 . . .
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Save the day: October 10th, Wednesday at 7pm. Please let me know if you are going to come, so I can try to get a somewhat accurate count for planning purposes. This time it will be at JJ's0 . . .
I made my proposal but he hasn't said yes yet. I am so nervous. It's hard asking for so much from someone but I think it'll be worth it for them. Especially with all the work I've 0 . . .
Not a good night! Hope the weekend will go better then my Friday will. Wish me well.0 . . .
Conference venue and event photos: Purple lights everywhere: 0907/AdobeAirToronto052020926.jpg Presentations (and brown shirt) 0907/AdobeAirToronto051780926.jpg Guitar Hero: 0907/AdobeAirT0 . . .
I hear that e:enknot + megan may have their baby today. They are at the hospital now! Keep them in your thoughts!0 . . .
Lots of lots of jobs... Yikes! I am getting called like crazy today.0 . . .
So, Paul and I were talking earlier today about ways to advertise the site and let people know we're here. Showing up to Blogtoberfest en masse helped... but there's plenty more to do. I 0 . . .
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Post your list of your favorite five albums/cds/etc of all time. Either as a comment here or in your own journal. You don't need to add links to your list like I did. Massive Attack, Mezzanine0 . . .
It was a lot of fun, and so many dogs! You can't tell from the photos but there were about 100 or so of them. 0907/DogPark04590921.jpg 0907/DogPark04570921.jpg 0907/DogPark04580921.jpg An0 . . .
Google to take on Facebook: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/21/google-to-out-open-facebook-on-november-5/ by opening up their social graph? That is my dream come true! xfn and openid, distributed di0 . . .
Carrier short codes for SMS messages are $1000 a month. (That's the way you can text to or from a really short number, like 22345). I didn't think it would be that expensive. And that's0 . . .
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute Memorial Mace 0907/RoswellHistory051050920.jpg Yes, an honored stick with which to beat people, in a glass class by Human Resources. And even better, an illu0 . . .
I ordered an Apple Airport. I am sorely in need of a more reliable network connection, so hopefully this will ease my sorrows. Plus it's Wireless N. A step up. But, the best part, and why it w0 . . .
I am sort of a wreck today. http://estrip.org/elmwood/journals/index.php?u=jim&id=12 I can't believe it's been two years already. I miss you, Mom.0 . . .
So, author Robert Jordan died. http://www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan/?p=90 He was working on Book 12 of 'The Wheel of Time'. A series that I started reading about a decade ago. This was0 . . .
Estrip is pretty jumping lately! I had a lot of fun at last month's dinner, so I would like to set something up in the next couple weeks. It would be a week night I think, and I am open to sug0 . . .
Three posts in a row, sue me. I hate the City of Buffalo's website. There is a bunch of stuff there I want to repurpose and it's all in PDF form or actually it's not there at all. I 0 . . .
0907/Picture20916.png Councilmatic? That appears to be a real word from the research I just did, but seems so so wrong.0 . . .
0907/Maps0916.png Importing data from 3rd parties :) works. Now I'm working on the user interface for adding new geolocated pages.0 . . .
My take on the Apple Rebate for the $200 drop in price on iPhones, in response to a question about how I could be happy to be partially refunded after being 'overcharged'. Saying they ove0 . . .
It came to me all at once, a blinding light. I'd always mocked it, thought it was for losers and people who wouldn't aim for a better. I now love Flash. I just hated the one on the camera0 . . .
He's the only one I can get to model for me. 0907/TheBenOnTheStairs050640914.jpg0 . . .
11:12 AM - Go to Apple's Site 11:12 AM - Click, '$100 Apple Store Credit for iPhone' 11:12 AM - Enter Serial Number and Phone Number 11:13 AM - Get text message with claim number 110 . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiuRhy4CqzU (see also)0 . . .
0907/ItSLikeThat7049518730913.jpg Seen at Wegmans today.0 . . .
So, I was wondering today how everyone came to find this site: tell your story if you don't mind, doesn't have to be too long, but I'd love to hear it. And, you can read about everyone 0 . . .
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Ruby Conf 2007 here I come! I got permission from e:James and we are headed down to Charlotte NC at the beginning of November for 3 days of geekery! James will just lounge pool-side while I soa0 . . .
Registration just opened for Ruby Conference 2007. Hmm... a vacation about programming? In North Carolina in Buffalo's cold November? I think I might just have to go...0 . . .
I got a new lens today, it is a 30mm normal/wide prime lens that I adore already. Here is my first photo from it: 0907/TheBenSigma30mm10906.jpg (bigger size here) I sold some other stuff to p0 . . .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKKtATfASY I am never like that.0 . . .
Considering... 1. I love mansard roofs 2. I am jealous of not have a mansion like e:MPT 3. I think I could afford the mortgage, but probably not the heating bills This is my dream house: http:0 . . .
As you can see from this graph, Estrip activity is exponentially decreasing over time, a disaster in the making, and soon no one will be posting comments. 0907/Picture11913580903.png You all mus0 . . .
Here are my photos from last night, also the full set of 50 or so photos is available here on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/strangecontext/sets/72157601817768182/ 0907/TerryMikeBday80902.j0 . . .
0807/BusinessCards0831.jpg I'm pretty happy! I made the text a point or two too small, though.0 . . .
I really liked that movie. Every time e:Drew posts I am reminded of it. You better stop, Drew, before I put it on the NetFlix queue and force e:James to watch it. And I like a lot of other really d0 . . .
I ordered new business cards last week. They are just like my old ones, except with my new number, and a new blue back with a dandelion instead of the old orange back with a daisy. 0807/Businessca0 . . .
I just noticed my start date is 9/1/05 so in two days I'll be at the two year mark. Almost 200 journals and 5 games of hangman. Good times!0 . . .
Adorama has 11x14 inch prints for $1.99 each until Aug 31: http://share.adoramapix.com/pricelist.aspx e:James and I have ordered from them a few times and have always been happy. Of course the fram0 . . .
In Ruby 2.0, a new hash literal syntax (like javascript!) {a: "thing"} # ruby 2.0 {:a => "thing"} # ruby 1.8 array('a' => "th0 . . .
Oh Estrip, give me your advice: Should I give up my business which is finally starting to come together after 2 long years of struggle, and go back to school and try to get a nice permanent job som0 . . .
0807/27170150.gif Edited to add: for new people, if you start a journal and click on the 'draw' button in the edit controls above the title/tag/body entry panel, you can draw pictures too0 . . .
Auction on 2007-09-22 Check out the catalog here: http://www.auctionsinternational.com/liveauction07-BuffaloCity.htm Includes this building across the street from Roswell Park: 0807/Picture2080 . . .
I really dislike using Windows. Every little bit of it rubs me the wrong way. It was all I used for 6 or 7 years, and then after about a week with my Mac a few years back, I've never looked back.0 . . .
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I used to have 30 or 40 really great tapes from DJ sets. 1995-2000-ish. I can't even remember the names of most of them, where I got them, or what was on the tapes, but I miss them so much. I0 . . .
0807/OldServers10006840821.jpg 10 terabytes of storage... 12 processors... Now I have a sad 533mhz Mac :( 0807/NewMac10006890821.jpg My iPhone has a faster processor then my Mac! But a0 . . .
So, the project that I've been working on the past couple weeks is up. DailyClimber It's a site that sells one camping or climbing item per day at a really good price. Sort of like woo0 . . .
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Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal http://livejournal.com/ and memcached http://danga.com fame) is starting an intriguing attempt at freeing your social life from the clutches of MySpace and Facebook. W0 . . .
Oh man oh man I can't wait to go see these guys live some day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4gyJsY0mc Make sure to at least watch until the special effects start. Too bad their tour0 . . .
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoXgRtDysLY0 . . .
So, I've been working on and frustrated by this site that I've been working on, and I thought it was ready to launch last weekend, but it's been under a constant denial of service attac0 . . .
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0807/EstripIndiaGate03620808.jpg 0807/EstripIndiaGate03670808.jpg 0807/EstripIndiaGate03650808.jpg We had a great time, hope you all did too!0 . . .
I just made reservations for India Gate, I think 14 people are coming. Yikes, I am looking forward to seeing you all! And once again I beg of you to bring cash, to make life easier when splitting t0 . . .
Was up late last night dealing with: http://estrip.org/articles/jim/40415.html And then today I had a long conversation at work with e:Paul. I am so used to working alone for so long that I think t0 . . .
Some more details: 7pm India Gate - Corner of Elmwood and Forest Please bring cash. I think the buffet is $10 per person plus also there's tip, but if you want to drink then bring more. I d0 . . .
So, you probably won't be seeing much of e:James on here for a while: 0807/Xbox03510806.jpg 0807/Xbox03520806.jpg Update: I should remember to thank e:enknot for suggesting this as a gift,0 . . .
There's a new lunch place opening downtown in a couple months, called Chop Chop. It's going to be at 300 Main Street. Best of all - one of my favorite people ever, Laurie Sweet, is going to 0 . . .
Summer flowers for the mantle. 0807/Fireplace03480805.jpg0 . . .
0807/Sushi03370804.jpg e:James and I went out for his birthday-week weekend sushi lunch. Ha! He is being turned to the dark side. Forgive the blurry photo - but it's a mackerel roll (James . . .
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Who is up for buffet night at Indian Gate next wednesday, August 8th at 7pm? Directions: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=India+Gate+1116+Elmwood+Ave,+Buffalo,+NY+14222&0 . . .
New Planet Unicorn Episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE4Mk70ljl4 0 . . .
Sorry for the poor picture, it's heavily cropped. 0807/GoodyearBlimp03230801.jpg The Good Year blimp buzzed our house yesterday, apparently it was landing in the middle of the West Side? Or0 . . .
For the Items We Carry photo pool on Flickr. Minimal wallet, iphone, pilot g2 pen, headphones, bank security dongle thing, and keys. 0707/WhatsInYourPockets046260730.jpg0 . . .
Does anyone know of anywhere to camp within a few hours of Buffalo that: 1. Allows dogs at the camp site 2. Isn't too crazy packed We're thinking of going away for a day or two next w0 . . .
0707/EstripGardenWalk02570729.jpg Fruit Salad 0707/EstripGardenWalk02660729.jpg e:James, e:Matthew, e:Terry, and Megan 0707/EstripGardenWalk02670729.jpg 0707/EstripGardenWalk02680729.jpg e0 . . .
I will never go to Gabriel's Gate again. We got there at 12:15 today, and spent the next hour waiting for our food. We kept hearing the people around us complaining, and it seemed like everyone w0 . . .
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Got suckered into video taping a wedding ... There goes the evening! 0707/4533931820727.jpg 0 . . .
0707/BenSwimming02120721.jpg 0707/BenSwimming02000721.jpg 0707/BenSwimming02060721.jpg I don't care if anyone else cares or not :)0 . . .
In and out in 5 minutes. 0707/SuperFast8727522030721.jpg 0 . . .
e:James came up with this brilliant plan. We are going to sneakily buy my copy of Harry Potter at Wegman's at midnight, instead of waiting in line until 3am at a book store.0 . . .
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=KFAN3wdlrJg I hate this commercial so much. What does it even mean? What is it trying to say and why does it think this is the way to say it? Do the people that made it0 . . .
0707/Fandango0712.png I forgot this was opening tonight, but there were still tickets available.0 . . .
Paul and imk2 0707/Metaphotography8217115390712.jpg 0 . . .
0707/WalkForUpload01160711.jpg Some of the trees on the parkways look ridiculous and naked, but I am glad they seem to all be making a go of it. 0707/WalkForUpload01170711.jpg This old farmho0 . . .
0707/Veggies01150711.jpg I love having lunch at Roswell. Today I had stir fry veggies and chicken. It is hard to think about packing a lunch and bring it in, but I should start doing that to save m0 . . .
Today at lunch I was talking to e:Paul and e:enknot about the Cathedral at Utica and Delaware in Buffalo (some more links), construction of which started in 1912. Its two massive bell towers held the0 . . .
E:James does his zombie face when I try to take his photo. 0707/Mugging2145149560708.jpg 0 . . .
My dad's house may burn down tonight. Depends on the wind. No rain in 4 months and everything's turned to tinder. They are packing up the truck. If firefighters come back, it will be to tell0 . . .
Transformers was awesome. Sorry for doubting you e:enknot and e:mrdeadlier.0 . . .
I've been trying to email this photo up, but it disappears in to the aether. So I will post it like a normal person and then sign off for the night :) 0707/July400920706.jpg We walked down 0 . . .
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Today at work I was talking with e:Paul and e:Tony(?) about astroturfing, which is when companies or organizations try to create the image of broad or spontaneous support from the general public but r0 . . .
Our neighbors have a scary porch. It's sagging, but looking at it I don't know where it is going to. The post looks like it's shrinking, not sinking or bowing out (although the face boa0 . . .
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It's working pretty good but I wish when it made suggestions it would give a few options instead of one at a time. I'm typing this post from it and haven't had to hit backspace once 0 . . .
I got one. An iPhone. The number I was assigned is awesome. The number is sort of like a full house in poker, if you think about it. 435-5888 or HELL-888 or HELL-TUTU If only it wa0 . . .
e:James won't let me get an iPhone.0 . . .
I've always used a pretty basic cell phone. But now I am thinking it's time to get a real phone. Paul - are you lining up somewhere on Friday to get yours?0 . . .
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WEDJE A nice way to load offsite content without slowing initial page rendering. And the acronym is kinda cool 0 . . .
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A NY mag article about Edward Tufte, who I am completely obsessed with. His books on graphic presentation of information are amazing. His next book is supposed to be crazy - all real life physical stu0 . . .
At our new place we are sharing the internet connection of the guys downstairs, but the wireless reception is completely painful. It's totally out for about 5 minutes out of every hour, and the r0 . . .
So I've been officially offered a contract position for Roswell. Thanks Paul! 0607/Jim21490614.gif Happy Face 0 . . .
I've been working on a flash card site for learning foreign languages, and I'm really looking forward to making it work with the iPhone. It's the perfect size and seems like a good excu0 . . .
100+ Do I win anything? Oh and Happy Monday!0 . . .
Allentown was nice this year... not as brutally hot and crowded as usual but maybe it was just that we started earlier. An Allentown Tradition: 0607/20070609AllentownArt045050609.jpg Giant brok0 . . .
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What wikipedians really care about: Women's Suffrage vs Female Cyborgs Trail of Tears vs Tears for Fears Prime Number vs Optimus Prime via JWZ0 . . .
I've been pondering agnosticism lately, and it's something that I've never really understood. I can see how someone would believe in God by faith or whatever, or how someone can look ar0 . . .
e:James 0607/GayPride2007044930603.jpg hehe... e:Terry (top) and e:James (bottom): 0607/GayPride2007044950603.jpg e:Paul and e:mike 0607/GayPride2007045000603.jpg e:puppy 0607/GayPride200 . . .
0607/EstripLilho10004100602.jpg 0607/EstripLilho10004140602.jpg 0607/EstripLilho10004160602.jpg I didn't take many photos...0 . . .
Apparently Artvoice has published one of my friend's photos without credit or compensation. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tylerlove/474009424/ Does anyone know what she can do to get in touc0 . . .
Has anyone been to Urban Roots - 428 Rhode Island? it's like a co-op for plants. Also (not at Urban Roots), found this crazy cool watermelon 'Moon and Stars' - this is what it actua0 . . .
0507/Noponyek20530.jpg I'd love to be able to format my posts with either Markdown or Textile: http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/ You 0 . . .
I started a blog about a technical topic, and I tried googling the name of it to check my search rankings. That lead me to a site for finding gay prison pen pals (I swear accidentally!). But the si0 . . .
0507/20070526044590526.jpg The only part of the house that's done... the rest is still a mess. Moving all our stuff makes me realize how cheap e:james and I are. We got all our furniture at0 . . .
e:james and my new place on Ashland near Potomac. The 'after' pictures will be up sometime this weekend - these pictures are before we started painting or anything. 0507/Ashland0445200 . . .
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The photo group that I moderate on Flickr has 326 members, although of course only about two dozen regularly contribute photos and discussion. Why oh why is there always a couple people who so have0 . . .
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Does anyone know what sort of flowers these are? 0507/FlowersFlickr042800512.jpg0 . . .
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0507/NiagaraFallsGlimpsesTry220504.jpg 0507/NiagaraFallsGlimpsesTry210504.jpg 0507/NiagaraFallsGlimpsesTry230504.jpg These were shot through the view-scopes on the observation deck above the Ma0 . . .
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Inspired by our Easter trip to the Broadway Market, e:James and I made pierogies this weekend: Making the potato and cheese filling: 0407/PierogiesFilling0421.jpg Forming the pierogies: 040 . . .
So, I started a business, and I think so far I've spent as much money paying NYS for various things then I've actually brought in. Hopefully by the end of the year things will be rosier. 0 . . .
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I just noticed that Elmwood Panhandler was closing. I feel really bad for the owner - it was a cute little store and this was the best part of town to have it in. I've actually noticed a lot more0 . . .
I started a photo blog: photos.jimlindley.com Something a little bit purer then Flickr. I need to remember to post more often here, though, too.0 . . .
I'd never been there before, so went with e: james and we headed down. Very crowded, and very good pierogi. We did not manage to see a butter lamb, but I did get a few decent shots of the crowds.0 . . .
So, I run a little photography group and a woman from San Diego stumbled across us, and ended up moving to Buffalo and buying a bar on Niagara that she's fixing up. A reporter heard about it 0 . . .
Has anyone been to see this at the Albright Knox? It was fun to sit in the room and watch people come in and figure it out. 0307/JamesTurrell0323.jpg0 . . .
Anyone want to help us clean up the Japanese Gardens? This Saturday volunteers will be at the Japanese Garden from 9am to 2pm. If you'd like to stop by and lend a hand, we need it! You don't have to w0 . . .
I've heard we might lose up to 50% of the trees in Buffalo. The last couple days I was optimistic things would be better, but doing research it looks like many of the trees that look relatively unscat0 . . .
Does anyone know of a launcher similiar to Quicksilver (a Mac app) but for Windows? I'm going nuts. EDIT: Found something. http://colibri.leetspeak.org/ Colibri is the retarded cousin of Q0 . . .
Work is boring today. 0406/wet_ben_25606.jpg 0406/wet_ben_35732.jpg 0406/wet_ben_45732.jpg 0 . . .
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I gave up drinking soda almost two year ago. BUT, this is the one exception every year. What is it you ask? 0406/coke4628.jpg Passover Coke. There are some Jews who can not have any corn-rela0 . . .
0406/000712JML2746.jpg I love this man.0 . . .
Happy birthday to me!0 . . .
Over the weekend I went with a bunch of photographers to Bond Lake Park in Niagara County. 0406/bond-lake-park5913.jpg It was a lot of fun, but a gray day. Lots of geese everywhere.0 . . .
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I had to reinstall linux on a server four different times today because I was a freakin idiot about the partitioning. And it wouldn't recognize my RAID card. TGIF.0 . . .
0306/JL0_0164-14232.jpg Part of our tape library. 0306/JL0_0165-14232.jpg Some of our VCR's and DVD recorders. 0306/JL0_0167-14232.jpg Some of our Buffalo tapes. Work has been fun late0 . . .
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There's a photo meetup at Spot on Chippewa at 2pm today (Sunday). Around a dozen people, we just hang out and talk about photography, join us if you like! http://flickr.com/groups/buffalo/discus0 . . .
http://www.sudo.ws/sudo/history.html who knew?0 . . .
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To those helping me out, and to Paul. I have to start getting ready to present at my conference, so I can't finish anything more this week. I get back Monday though and my slate will be clear. For eve0 . . .
E:James and I went to go pick up the rings we had made (tomorrow is our Anniversary) but the jeweler had made them out of yellow gold instead of white. I almost didn't notice they were wrong ... th0 . . .
Who wants to volunteer to proof read documentation this weekend? I'll have a bunch of stuff to review by Friday. It's super fun! You know you want to sign up... leave a comment here if you're down 0 . . .
Ok, like 20 people said they were coming, but only 8 showed up. Probably typical for this kind of thing. We had lot fun. Pics: http://flickr.com/groups/buffalo/ I'll post again when the next whe0 . . .
If this is what we get, I think we should all go out and rip the mufflers off our cars. And burn down all the trees in our yards. 60 degrees on January 13th!0 . . .
Here are my 2006 New Years Resolutions 1. Do 30 minutes of cardio instead of 20 minutes at the gym. 2. Sit ups and crunches every other day. 3. Only one cup of caffeinated tea in the morning.0 . . .
Things are moving along. We've mostly got an outline of what to cover. If you'd like to help, please look at Elmwoodstrip.org Documentation Outline (password is 'estrip') And let me know if I0 . . .
Go to: EStrip Guide on Writeboard Feel free to log in and check it out. The password is 'estrip'. Without the quotes of course. I've set up an outline of what I think needs to be in it, but of 0 . . .
BREAKING NEWS 0106/karlrove5230.jpg Karl Rove in Buffalo!0 . . .
Please for the love of God, never say: What's the happs? When you should say: What's happening? PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD Currently if you search for "What's the happs?" on &0 . . .
Benny Benassi & the Biz. That is all.0 . . .
Photo meetup Spot (Delaware/Chippewa) January 14th, 2006 at 2pm. Organized by the Buffalo Group on Flickr. We're expecting a dozen or so people, maybe more, and previous meetups have been lo0 . . .
0106/toodles1527.jpg Read all about it. Go get her! Toodles was my mom's bunny. My dad gave him to the animal sanctuary where my dad works so that the bunny would have more company. Nice t0 . . .
0106/estripcookies0311.jpg One is happy, the other sad: Eat them both and you'll be glad! ... Seriously, these are my favorite cookies in all the world. 0 . . .
I'm in the middle of setting up my new work toy. A digital video recorder that can handle 6 to 8 channels of recorded video at a time, in one box. And I'm setting up a matching terabyte-plus raid stor0 . . .
Now that I have (psuedo)In-Laws, planning where to go for Christmas is so much fun.0 . . .
Ruby on Rails reaches 1.0 today! I can't wait to go to RailsConf 2006! I AM A HAPPY HAPPY CAMPER#bcb9b80 . . .
Does anyone else think that our new mayor will get anything more accomplished than Masiello did? Not me. I still don't know what Byron Brown is about, and that's after much scrutiny these last 6 mo0 . . .
Kuni's is gone, and Lé Metro is for sale, so it too will be gone or changed. There might be a new sushi place opening up though, just a block or two away. So that's at least something.0 . . .
I dig chicks!#0000000 . . .
linky: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/x3/large.html0 . . .
From PETA Children will read: "Imagine that a man dangles a piece of candy in front of you. ... As you grab the candy, a huge metal hook stabs through your hand and you're ripped off the groun0 . . .
"Maybe you can no more cure a naturally pompous person than you can reflower a virgin." -- Allistair Cooke0 . . .
Ugh. I was shopping around for rates for an additional T1 or partial T3 for my work, and I must have given my phone number to the wrong company at some point, because now I'm getting a dozen calls a d0 . . .
A similiar Hurricane Katrina site: http://hurricanearchive.org/map_browse.php0 . . .
I miss the skkssssshhh skksssshhh of shuffling feet through a deep drift of leaves. That's the best part of fall. 0 . . .
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In the last year, I've given up: - Cigarettes - Salting Food - Soda Also, I've been working out and putting on weight. I'm pretty much in the best shape I've ever been. This New Year's I'm 0 . . .
I'm making my first foray into Flash. I generally despise it, but I've come up with a hideous way to potentially make money with it. I feel like such a traitor.0 . . .
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1105/webmin-svn5441.gif If you can't get subversion to work, and your server vhost administration program is webmin, it might be because you're a frickin idiot and forget to highlight the name of y0 . . .
I don't know if any of you estripians are on flickr, but for anyone who is: please consider joining my 50+ member Buffalo Flickr Group http://flickr.com/groups/buffalo See you there!0 . . .
1105/christmas32457.jpg I was shocked to see them putting up the holiday stuff. It feels like it's still a bit early.0 . . .
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From last week: my boy out walking Ben. 1105/walking-ben3041.jpg 0 . . .
1105/d2002150.jpg Seriously, this camera. Hot. http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=2&productNr=25235 And the new 18-200mm DX with VR? http://www.nikonusa.com/template.php?cat=1&grp=5&0 . . .
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Just got home from the 444, had a great time. Tired though, long week & month. 1005/mpt-10116.jpg 1005/mpt-20116.jpg 1005/mpt-30116.jpg 1005/mpt-40116.jpg 1005/mpt-50116.jpg 1005/mpt0 . . .
e:trollheim and I went to le Metro Thursday for pumpkin carving. We were there from 7pm to 1am, and it was just about the most fun I've had in months. I love the people that work there, especially 0 . . .
This is clearly the proper way to carve a pumpkin. 1005/pumpkin4237.jpg Just ask e:Trollheim.0 . . .
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My Mother died a month ago, on September the 18th, 2005. She was 51. I went out to Utah for the funeral, and stayed out there for a couple weeks. There's a memorial mass for her tomorrow at St. Paul'0 . . .
A couple months ago I bought a lifetime web hosting account. This will be the first month that I don't have to pay a hosting bill. I'm saving about $50 a month. I can't tell you how sweet that is. It 0 . . .
I'm getting sick of all the meth tags and graffitti everywhere. I know it's the result like only about two or three tweakers, but they've covered half the city with this shit. 1005/meth4328.jpg 0 . . .
... eating pistachios 'til I'm sick. 1005/nuts4226.jpg Saturday, though: Donnie Darko --- Update This is Ben hanging out tonight in his favorite place, the bath tub. 1005/ben-shower33350 . . .
This house is for sale on my street. I love it so much, it towers over all the others around it. I never spent much time on Hodge before moving to my current apartment, but there are many many cute ho0 . . .
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A diner in Niagara Falls. Do not ever eat there. Ever, ever. 1005/goose5944.jpg In addition to their poor spelling and punctuation skills, 1005/smoothered0024.jpg The food was awful and se0 . . .
1005/benjaminimum1848.jpg This is my goofy-ass dog. Part Newfoundland, part Retriever. All black and fluffy. Happy Birthday! One year old! And two months living with us!0 . . .
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I am not out of labels for my labelmaker. I was beginning to panic. My whole organizational system was about to come crashing down around my head. Then I remembered... my spare cassette in my secret s0 . . .
0905/flower-orange-banner-(small4841.jpg First post, so I will keep it short, thanks Matthew and also Paul for encouraging me to sign up. 0 . . .