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1. I'm starting to notice more people with unusual moustaches and beards. Is facial hair coming back into style? Or are people with facial hair deluding ourselves that it's coming back int0 . . .
I just got a coupon in the mail for $100 towards Google ads. I'm not going to use it but if you do, send me an email and I'll give you the coupon code. Value drops to $75 after December 4,0 . . .
Great party last night! It's always fun but also interesting hanging out with the e:peeps. We left around 1a because e:dragonlady7 was sleepy and actually under the weather . You may not bel0 . . .
e:dragonlady7 has started up a craft club which involves bringing a craft project, ignoring it while you drink a lot of alcohol, staying over, sleeping late, working off your hangover, and then puttin0 . . .
1009/SmileTrain1022.png ...but if you don't, we'll send the deformed babies in person next time. Cleft palate is a serious problem, and they say they can fix it in 45 minutes for only 0 . . .
Is this awesome? http://images.google.com/images?q=zobar YES! NO. (Check one.) 1009/Zobar1007.jpg - Z0 . . .
The thing about living in Buffalo is that you always need to take visitors to Niagara Falls. Now I actually like going to Niagara Falls, but this past summer we ended up taking two sets of people the0 . . .
Two items. 1: Brian May is an astrophysicist. How did I miss this? http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/NewsUpdate/index_92016.htm 2: Somebody screwed up a little: http://apple.com/retail/walden/map 0909/Woo0 . . .
I've had a number of visitors from out-of-town ask me: 'Why is it that you call your highways The 33, The 198, The 90, The 190, The 290 ... when everywhere else in the world they would simpl0 . . .
but I'm just going to put this out there: the QA on my MacBook was horrible, and my customer service experience at the Walden Galleria branch of the Apple Store near Buffalo, NY was not significa0 . . .
4GB of data was sent 60mi by carrier pigeon in two hours - 1:08 in flight, and the rest of the time to copy from the memory stick to the computer. In the same amount of time, South Africa's larg0 . . .
On days like today, fortune favors those who stay in bed. There is a small group of Latvians who are visiting Buffalo. On Monday, my aunt was driving them through the Finger Lakes, doing some wini0 . . .
e:dragonlady7 has finally read everything there is to read on the Internet and has started over from the beginning. 0909/Cartridgezzz0913.jpg http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/7/1 - Z 0 . . .
So I have a distant n'th-cousin from Latvia visiting my aunt. She asked if we could take him out to do "young person things" on the 11th or 12th. I'm like: no problem. And she&0 . . .
If you find yourself hungry in Rochester, seek out dogTown gourmet hot dogs & garbage plates http://dogtownhots.com . Never before have I had a hot dog served on hand-cut French bread or, for tha0 . . .
0809/Fivedollarspock0826.jpg - Z0 . . .
It's a True Fact that before 2011 we'll each be called before a Nazi Death Panel. This is a democratic country but the legislation is shaping up fast, so now is the time to weigh in: who fi0 . . .
Nicolas Cage: is he reallly a bad actor? Or is he a so-so actor who gets cast in a whole lot of really dumb movies? Exhibit A: Face/Off, which is a really dumb movie wherein Nicolas Cage plays Joh0 . . .
More likely than not, you didn't really want to know. Click 'play' and get what you deserve: OVAdCKaU3vY Don't mind me, I'm just going to go over here and be a nun now.0 . . .
Just spent a week hiding out in the woods with a bunch of people who were not really pretending to be pirates http://pennsicwar.org . Oddly enough, I probably had the most actual pirate cred among th0 . . .
You Linux guys got a real sense of humor. 0709/Ok0726.png - Fedora Core 8 installer And yes, this goes into an infinite loop. - Z0 . . .
dib2-HBsF08 C69NvFGxZQE I fear that this will not end well. In the absence of real information, we bring you the following live-blogs. The Guardian http://guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/180 . . .
If anyone else is as riveted by the protests in Iran as I am, probably the most interesting information is coming from the liveblogs on the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2009/jun/17/ira0 . . .
0609/HiScore0614.png I half-expected there would be a guy waiting for me in my driveway to shake my hand and give me a chocolate eclair. - Z 0 . . .
I didn't think any of these really warranted their own post. 1. A couple of weeks ago, Federal had bogo bacon and cheap stuffed pork chops. Swine flu creates a global freak-out, and I reap al0 . . .
There's definitely something wrong with me. 0509/RaisonDetre0528.png http://catandgirl.com/?p=1743 http://xkcd.com/562 To the driver of the orange Saturn VUE with New York State license pla0 . . .
As the Western terminus of the Erie Canal and an important part of Western New York's industrial heritage, North Tonawanda has a rich and interesting history. The North Tonawanda History Museum 0 . . .
I could watch this video all day. I just wanted to see what it was like to watch it twice at the same time. c5j4McFzieshttp://youtube.com/watch?v=c5j4McFzies I think this guy needs a cable TV s0 . . .
I don't know if anybody else is having this problem, but we're having trouble with the google-webs at my house. It's weird, I can't concentrate without it. I don't know if I0 . . .
0509/140470507.png Evans, NY 14047 Ever since I was a kid I was mesmerized by maps. In my off-time I created this little art project http://david.kleinschmidt.name/patchwerks/36029.svg where I tu0 . . .
B's calling me the 'bat-whisperer' now but I am just a dude. We've been doing a lot of work outside lately, what with the weather and all - e:dragonlady7's been in the gard0 . . .
BUSTED LAWNMOWER L@@K Engine kinda works. Side discharge, no handle. $0 DISHWASHER CATASTROPHE, runs. Summer fun for the kids. Outdoor use only. $0 KIDDIE POOL OF MYSTERY. Be a super sleuth0 . . .
0409/142230427.png I'm between projects now, and I'm using the time to do a little data art. Here we have an 'abstract' rendering of my neighborhood - 14223. http://maps.google0 . . .
You mean with the windows rolled up and the radio turned down and obeying all posted traffic control devices so as not to arouse the suspicion of the 5-0? How boring. A recent survey of 450 colleg0 . . .
This is almost the photo I was looking for. http://lighthouse.boatnerd.com/gallery/Erie/BuffaloIntakeInt-BW.jpg 0409/BuffaloIntakeIntBW0420.jpg I swear I saw a picture looking down, and it was j0 . . .
So the paint on my garage door was peeling quite badly and it was making the house look a little more West Virginia than I'm comfortable with. Part of the problem was that someone had decided to0 . . .
Sucks being self-employed. http://verysmallarray.com?cat=17 0409/5415100415.png - Z0 . . .
Even when you think you understand the client's business, you never really understand the client's business. This is a screenshot from an application I'm developing for an unnamed base0 . . .
This http://nymag.com/news/business/55687 is a narrative from the guy who wrote the software that enabled "Collateralized Mortgage Obligations," one of the extremely complicated financial in0 . . .
I have a client who was very explicit that I should not be using standard book colors for Pantone matching, and is now wondering why everything looks all wrong. In addition to straightening out the m0 . . .
0409/PPopPortrait30401.jpg From the collection of the Museum of Bad Art http://museumofbadart.org/collection/portraiture-3.html - Z0 . . .
Can we quit with the shooting rampages already? Seriously. - Z0 . . .
Public service announcement: you should not be frying with extra-virgin olive oil. Spend some dollars and buy a bottle of peanut oil. Then spend some other dollars and buy a pound of bacon.* Then u0 . . .
My network went down this morning. That would not normally be a big problem, except that through a convoluted ordeal my network provider is EarthLink which is commonly considered to be only microscop0 . . .
Sex sells pageviews but so does politics. I've basically been working nonstop since Thursday morning, except Saturday which was all derby . We have a .NET web app that they're converting0 . . .
0309/94787410302.gif Also, a secret that web designers won't tell you: if you set your browser to 800px wide, the only thing you're missing is advertising. - Z0 . . .
OK poetry world, I'm sorry e:zobar,47483. I like you again. Bridal Shower by George Bilgere http://georgebilgere.com Perhaps, in a distant cafe, four or five people are talking with the0 . . .
0209/Sunday0222.gif - Z0 . . .
attempted not known Thing three: we finally did get the Obama coins, ugh. http://www.carolwrightgifts.com/Leisure-Travel/Collectibles/Barack-Obama-Gold-Coin-Set/14951.cfm e:zobar,47301 They were ad0 . . .
I'm starting a new category called 'education,' where we can get ourselves smart'd -- together. My great-aunt used to live in this house. She was the only person I knew with an0 . . .
The cosmos has been trying to tell me all week that I am out of favor. I did not get the message until today. I am not a superstitious person but when the cosmos is trying to tell you something, the0 . . .
Today was a gorgeous day if you're the sort of person who doesn't notice when water is pouring out of the sky, so I decided to walk to the bank instead of driving . I like walking, because 0 . . .
and you can have it for free. I think there should be a game show, where they ask you your own "Forgot Password" security questions, and if you get it right on the first try, you win cash0 . . .
Separated at birth: Robert Plant, and the Lesser Pirates from 'How To Kill A Mockingbird.' http://albinoblacksheep.com/flash/mockingbird 0209/DreadPirateRobert0209.png - Z0 . . .
I never really looked closely at Apple's 'huge' icon for a Windows file server before. 0209/Cute0205.png Cute. - Z0 . . .
Man I don't have time for that. You only get four things, but they're good ones. 1. I know Esperanto. 2. I pronounce 'URL' and 'Earl' the same way. 3. Late at night0 . . .
0209/Pointless0201.gif Somebody needs to revoke my Photoshop license. - Z0 . . .
What the fuck happened to my French toast?! 0109/OaktownToast0131.gif U Can't http://www.mtvmusic.com/video/?id=11945 This - Z 0 . . .
Today's "Baddest Motherfucker" award goes to Vint Cerf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf the man who invented TCP/IP just so that he could have a Facebook page http://facebook.com/0 . . .
> Pose as a team, because SHIT JUST GOT REAL. 0109/Pose0126.gif You copy and paste your previous poses into a new file and animate the background rapidly. > - Z0 . . .
I've been crabby lately. 1. Saying 'guesstimate' instead of 'estimate' doesn't make you sound clever. I could be persuaded, but only if you could convince me that you0 . . .
Item! 0109/23780108.jpg by Jeremy Fish http://sillypinkbunnies.com - Z0 . . .
Don't ask me how, but we somehow started getting the geezer-est catalog in America http://carolwrightgifts.com I'm not the kind of dude who worries much about getting older but holy crap th0 . . .
There's a theory that you never actually forget anything - the memory is intact but the last pathway to it gets dropped. The upshot is, if you can forge a new neural pathway to one part of the m0 . . .
So I've been totally effing swamped at work. As a result I haven't got a whole lot to report, and what I do have to report is pretty dang boring. My world the last couple weeks has been mo0 . . .
I just drove home from the Captiol Region and holy crap I haven't seen traffic this bad since I left the New York metro area. Granted the weather could have been more cooperative but I've ce0 . . .
I had a busy day Tuesday. Some good, some bad, but man it kicked my ass. At 11am I dashed back from the client's office to the contractor's office to fix some stuff before I had to go back0 . . .
Huh. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/11/images/20081112_d-0077-5-515h.html 1108/Shocking1114.png - Z 0 . . .
So the auto makers say to the government: now that people aren't spending money they don't have, they're not buying cars they don't need and there's nothing left for us to mak0 . . .
I guess I'm back to posting geeky things I found on the Internet. Today's installment: Super Obama World http://superobamaworld.com a Flash game that starts in Alaska and ends, um, somewher0 . . .
I heart stop-motion animation. This is from PES: 1108/GameOverByPES1111.flv Check out his other stuff http://eatpes.com - 'Western Spaghetti' is cute and 'KaBoom' is really 0 . . .
From the 'I wish I'd thought of it first' file, the world's first $200 HSDPA ocarina http://ocarina.smule.com RhCJq7EAJJA I lost this weekend to an emergency instaproject. I0 . . .
Cat and Girl http://catandgirl.com/view.php?loc=673 sums it up for me: 1108/Morning1108.png - Z0 . . .
'Yes' on Proposition 8? http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-2008election-california-results,0,1293859.htmlstory?view=8&tab=0&fnum=0 Since when are the Mormons an autho0 . . .
There is a proposition on the ballot today, which may be difficult to find on your voting machine. It will be at the very top, above all the candidates for office. All candidates for government em0 . . .
Don't just go in there and start flicking levers. Don't vote the straight ticket just because you think it looks nice when all the flags are lined up. Don't vote for John Doe (Democra0 . . .
of prostatic massage... mJBTTnxcDfk What the fuck?! It's unavailable. It's Dr. Francis Fesmire, winner of the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine http://improbable.com/ig/ig-pastwinner0 . . .
but Google News wanted me to. 1008/Woop1028.jpg I went down to the Apple Store this morning to finally fix my dang Airport card. I can only get reliable reception if I'm in the same room a0 . . .
I think the thing about Mac OS X is it doesn't have the same sense of humor about itself that Windows does. 1008/MobiusTrash1026.png Like seriously what does this even mean? Does it go int0 . . .
This is a jar of store-brand whole black pepper. 1008/IMG00521023.jpg 1. Why a shaker top? What kind of deranged individual shakes whole black peppercorns onto their food? I can think of two r0 . . .
You can make hot dogs in the Toast-R-Oven. If I'da known this ten years ago, college would have been very different. - Z0 . . .
...or, an easy way to waste one hour, three minutes, and 49 seconds of your life. There's actually a lot of pretty cool stuff on YouTube. But how come when I'm bored all I can find is Ja0 . . .
I was feeling adventurous last week so I managed to install Windows Vista Ultimate on my MacBook. It's certainly got its share of annoyances but I don't understand why everybody seems to ha0 . . .
but I really like this houndstooth pattern. http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=themes&url=david.kleinschmidt.name/houndstooth/ Apparently 217 other people do, too. I guess it attracts the ki0 . . .
You read the news, you get what you deserve. These ads http://mccainpotatoes.com are on rotation at the Boston Globe http://boston.com 1008/SweetVictoryForMccain1010.swf 1008/MccainFallingFast1010 . . .
Back up your hard drive. Like right now. Read the rest of the post once you're done. --- You didn't do it, did you? Today was the second time my MacBook's drive failed in the 2 1/0 . . .
OK, so I really need to get out of the house, so we decided on barbeque. I'm a Kentucky Greg's man http://kentuckygregs.com but the place is a bit small and I'm feeling a bit cooped-up0 . . .
B's younger sister is gradually moving in with us. She brought her cat Remington with her first stuff a little over a week ago. But you know how you never see Clark Kent and Superman in the sam0 . . .
As the 1972 election results came in, my uncle locked himself in his bedroom and drank one shot of whiskey for every state Richard Nixon won. He was very drunk indeed United_States_presidential_elect0 . . .
If you don't love politics read this http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html instead. I try to steer away from political stuff since there are already too many co0 . . .
Mr. Bernanke, how's the economy? http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2008-09-22 0908/Economy0923.png If Enron and WorldCom are proof that the system works, what are Bear Stearns, FNMA, 0 . . .
I'm going to take an unpopular position: I liked Microsoft's ads. I don't even like Jerry Seinfeld, but I liked the idea of Bill Gates as a warped Dave Thomas. I liked the idea of two0 . . .
I made a meatloaf last night and it smelled like hot dogs. I don't know how something like that even happens. )-: Natalie Dee http://nataliedee.com is funny in a way that is difficult to expl0 . . .
1: WANTED: Stats geek to hang out with hot babes. Inquire within. 2: Q: When did Russians start being awesome? A: Once you click this http://vimeo.com/1223566 !!! 3: The problem with me in liv0 . . .
1. In the United States, the word that precedes 'historic' is 'a,' not 'an.' 'An' precedes a vowel sound, and the 'h' is not silent. If you have tho0 . . .
It happens to me too. Today is the second day of football practice: 0808/IMG00340819.jpg Notice the situation: has parked illegally across my driveway to avoid parking illegally next to a fire 0 . . .
She sends me a photo, and some commentary. 0808/Aug7370817.jpg But this is not the commentary of any Earth being: 'I don't even know how you'd process a photo to get it to look0 . . .
I had started this project a while ago e:zobar,39008 but then my hard drive crashed and other things came up. I had some free time to myself this week and so I started again. 0808/Billustrator0800 . . .
Holy schlamoly! Woke up at 4am to the sound of a half-dozen sirens screaming down the street. Normally I would roll over and go back to sleep, except for the strong smell of smoke all up in here. W0 . . .
Adobe AIR is an impressive* new technology that the BBC has used to produce a swearing Olympics monkey. http://www.mmtdigital.co.uk/monkeymagic Although they've since updated the application, t0 . . .
Rice Krispie Treats! 0808/KrispieKoozie0804.jpg Also: successfully nailing Jell-O to a wall.* http://www.myscienceproject.org/j-wall.html Conclusion: There is still good in this world. - 0 . . .
The suburbs are boring and humorless. So when you see something like this on your street you know that's a special thing. 0808/What0801.png - Z _______________ I am blogging a lot late0 . . .
I have a lovely sunporch off the back of my house, with big screened windows all around and an aluminum roof that goes pok pok pok in the rain. We have a table and a couple relatively comfortable cha0 . . .
So I guess there was like this huge hype about a new search engine named Cuil? except the comment threads of the news sites are telling me it's pretty awful. When I Google myself it's mos0 . . .
0708/SeparatedAtBirth0726.gif I admit it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I've just always thought bacon looked like Norway. - Z0 . . .
So suddenly I'm a poster-boy for size acceptance, go figure! A reporter from the Buffalo News discovered e:dragonlady7,43746 where she goes on about size acceptance, which he is writing about bu0 . . .
Before I'd even woken up this morning the most adorable cat in the world had killed her first sparrow and was tossing it around the backyard like a feathery beachball. We shut her out of the hou0 . . .
0708/TinyKittenBeers0715.png - pictures for sad children http://picturesforsadchildren.com - Z0 . . .
0708/3651434685d8bd55292O0713.jpg - tinfoilraccoon @ flickr http://flickr.com/photos/tinfoilraccoon/365143468 Just for the record, I worked 64hr in five days last week. Those of you who are not s0 . . .
So ... apparently even though Show-Biz Pizza Place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showbiz_Pizza went out of business, the company that made their robot animal band http://robotsandgames.com stuck aroun0 . . .
I've sort of dropped out of posting on e:strip but reading it keeps me going. e:tinypliny I have read a couple of your transient chatter-rants and I think perhaps you're cracked. I'0 . . .
Tequila & pomegranate with hail. 0608/TequilaPomegranateHail0616.png - Z0 . . .
We have not had a president with facial hair in 100 years. The last president with a moustache was William Howard Taft . The last president with a beard was Benjamin Harrison . The last president w0 . . .
I've got an original MacBook . If I upgrade the RAM to 2GB and the drive to 120GB, would that be sufficient to run Fusion + Vista? Also, Latvian music is crap . - Z 0 . . .
Every once in a while some weird fucker will ask me about Latvian culture. And I sort of look at my shoes and mumble something about vodka because the truth is so much more depressing http://www.euro0 . . .
The graduated butter dish. Think about it: You go to make yourself some toast in the morning, but the butter dish is empty. You take a stick of butter out of the box. Perhaps you notice the clev0 . . .
I've written off the possibility of doing anything useful this afternoon. I've been 100% on this one project that was due Thursday and so, since everyone was strictly ordered to get out my 0 . . .
My job is programming. My hobby is also programming. This means that my hobby really isn't much of an escape. I also enjoy creating art, but my capabilities at illustration are uniquely terrib0 . . .
My extremely short attention span had long since turned away from splashing around in the sewers e:zobar,44012. Damn you, Internet!! I read your message about Scajaquada Creek and wanted to send a0 . . .
next episode: gaydar, which was really sort of a rubbish post about finding gay bars with extraordinary accuracy but not being able to realize it despite the leopard print wallpaper and portraits of d0 . . .
I am once again sitting in my hotel room and writing on the interblogs while I wait for e:dragonlady7 to get back from practice with the London Rollergirls. http://londonrollergirls.com I've ju0 . . .
It is, in fact, a series of tubes. We landed in the UK around 9.15p; it wasn't until about midnight before we finally emerged from the ant farm. Heathrow was probably very conveniently laid-out0 . . .
it's a series of tubes. - Z0 . . .
So it turns out that we're going to London next week and I've been quietly stressing out about weird things. I'm not worried about the standard things, like whether the luggage handle0 . . .
I am totally fascinated by the Scajaquada Creek. It empties into the Black Rock Canal at Squaw Island; if you were an insane person with a canoe going upstream along the creek http://bnriverwatch.bl0 . . .
So basically amateur pro wrestling is fun as hell. I had a blast but I think I ended up rooting for the wrong people most of the time. We had to leave early for a party, but we stayed long enough to 0 . . .
Dinner tonight was a George Foreman weenie I bought at the Wheatfield VFD on Amateur Pro Wrestling Nite. Details to follow. - Z0 . . .
Last night's game was a big success, though I have to admit that from the AV Club's bench, things looked a little bit different. 'Baby' Joe Mesi made his formal announcement of 0 . . .
My aunt called me up yesterday, as she is wont to do when she has computer problems. I told her that I was working but I'd be over once I was done. She told me she was impressed with my self-c0 . . .
So my passport is in the mail and I'm headed to London for a lesbian shotgun wedding. We're basically flush right now but I'm finding that London is a bit cha-chingg. Flights from T0 . . .
How come whenever I go grocery shopping it always becomes an adventure? Thing one. OK, so at Wegmans you can buy fresh herbs either in a little tiny tray that is exactly what you need, or a humong0 . . .
So this week I finally went from the ranks of the nearly-employed to the ranks of the telecommuting. That is, I still sit around the house in my underwear, only now I get paid for it. I thought o0 . . .
After a comprehensive nationwide study of nearly 50,000 postmenopausal women, lasting eight years and costing over $400M, the National Institutes of Health determined that it doesn't fucking matt0 . . .
I think passport photos are specifically designed to make everyone look like terrorists, in order to keep the customs agents on their toes. I've been practicing my passport photos in the mirror.0 . . .
So my mom gave e:dragonlady7 some tickets to Lord of the Dance for Christmas. She thinks it's because mom secretly hates her. I thought it was a nice thing to do, because B's into celtic c0 . . .
e:dragonlady7 says she thinks time should be a boolean. Either it's time, or it's not time. When people ask what time it is, nobody cares what the numbers are; they only want to know if it0 . . .
...'cause you can't afford the ticket. This shit is messed up, yo! I went to Wegs to pick up some stuff for my poor sick honey ...Sudafed? Used to be like $15 for a tiny box, wicked med0 . . .
You ever notice how cemeteries never seem to fill up? People die all the damn time, but there's always huge amounts of empty space in cemeteries. So I asked. From: e:zobar Sent: Thursday, F0 . . .
Old business: e:zobar,42527 Taylor pork rolls are available at Wegman's/Niagara Falls Blvd for $6.19/lb. In New Jersey you could buy four slices at a time if you wanted to but up here this i0 . . .
Thursday night we were invited over to a coworker's house for a cocktail party and had a wonderful time. Sitting on the table among all their decadent homemade desserts was a bowl of Russian cho0 . . .
Out at the bar last night, Extreme Cagefighting http://wec.tv came on the TV. I'd never really watched it before. A couple dudes in a cage throw a couple punches, then they start rolling around0 . . .
So locally it looks like the Obamists got out earlier with their campaign signs but the Clintonites used their late arrival to their advantage - all up and down Delaware Ave there's a Clinton sig0 . . .
Run, don't walk to your local record store and buy this album http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=264783631&s=143441 0208/100Days100Nights0203.jpg Attendance at0 . . .
So I come home from work, and I'm barely in the door, and the phone starts ringing. e:dragonlady7 picks up, expecting my mom. Nope! This toolbox over here http://apoteosurprise.com/quisommes0 . . .
I received a spam this afternoon from a ridiculous company that will tell your lover you love 'er. I clicked the http://apoteosurprise.com/indexEN.htm and read it. We thought it would be hyster0 . . .
Had I even left? Here's a brain dump of the last couple days. ITEM ONE: Food. e:dragonlady7 wrote http://dragonlady7.livejournal.com/964774.html#cutid1 about the things we have eaten recen0 . . .
0108/SortOfStoned0101.gif e:dragonlady7 bought me a framed color print of this comic http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01272005 for the wall in our office. We now have teh kewliez office in Kenmo0 . . .
I can't help but think that this whole tradition of giving gifts at Christmas perhaps adds more stress to the holiday season than it should. I agree it's a very special thing to give somebo0 . . .
The real reason you learn to make sauce Mornay is not for eggs Benedict, Welsh rabbit, or potatoes au gratin. The real reason you learn to make sauce Mornay is that you bought some foolishly exp0 . . .
'television static' translates to 'myrornas krig,' or 'battle of the ants.' - Z0 . . .
Has the American conservative movement lost its focus? According to the statistics page http://conservapedia.com/Special:Statistics from 'Conservapedia: The Trustworthy Encyclopedia,' it se0 . . .
OK, I admit to being a webcomics geek, and a tagline of 'Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines' sounds like the kind of thing that's already been done a bajillion 0 . . .
To anyone who considers him or herself an adventurous eater, I recommend "Steve Don't Eat It," http://thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php a website wherein a guy named S0 . . .
From: molly miller To: webmaster Subject: Dance Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:52:52 -0700 Are you really doing the hokey pokey tonight? - Z0 . . .
OK so we've got two Halloween parties to go to tonight, and I'm only wearing one costume. The roller girls http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m93/omgurl/rollerghoulposterlvr20lc7-1.jpg will0 . . .
"Winter in Blogville" by Jennifer ("14221") Wutz-Lopes (Buffalo Spree, Nov 2007, p26) Someone ( everyone!) over at Estrip.org has their panties in a bunch about something to do 0 . . .
Because I know everyone's been holding their breath for this, here's the HTTP auth Javascript http://david.kleinschmidt.name/sandbox/auth.js server-side script http://david.kleinschmidt.name0 . . .
You know, I just can't fucking leave well enough alone. This morning e:paul mailed me a short Surebert script to do logins, which works, yet I'm still hacking this HTTP auth problem. Stay 0 . . .
Don't bother reading unless you give at least a quarter of a shit about XMLHttpRequest and HTTP authentication. Here's a stupid geek trick. The correct login information for this http://0 . . .
OK I admit it, I'm too cool for school. I don't like getting dressed up for Halloween. I think costume parties are lame. One year we sat at home with all the lights out so nobody would tr0 . . .
On January 16, 1926, the brand-new Shea's theater opened to great fanfare with a screening of "The King on Main Street." The baroque-decorated movie theater, seating 4,000 and incorpor0 . . .
There's no way I'm the only person here who thinks this http://xkcd.com/327 is super funny. - Z0 . . .
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The future perfect tense Future perfect tense is used when, at a certain time in the future, you will be able to look back in the past and say that the event happened. It's a somewhat esoteric c0 . . .
Thank you, Wikiquote, for providing this afternoon's waste of time! http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Last_words - Z0 . . .
"Cat and Girl" is a different kind of awesome. http://catandgirl.com/view.php?loc=522 - Z0 . . .
Two very confused bloggers arrived promptly at 6pm. 'Are we in the right place?' Two tables sat reserved and unused in the corner of someone else's event. Middle-aged Cheektowagans, 0 . . .
Work just bought me an iPhone. No really, WTF? - Z0 . . .
This is what you get when you start a company, name it something completely idiotic like AMP'D Mobile, and convince them that you're so awesome they need to buy you a Ferrari: Guess what! Y0 . . .
1: My ISP sold my DSL account to EarthLink when they got out of the business. Tech Support said they were sending me a new modem, but it is nowhere in sight. Today was our sixth day without tubes, a0 . . .
Emergency Bulletin! Jon Spencer at Mohawk Place next Tuesday http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n36/see_you_there/heavy_trash_with_powersolo Now on with our regularly-scheduled post: OK, I was discuss0 . . .
1: Facebook is quite addictive http://facebook.com/p/David_P_Kleinschmidt/648849009 2: Usually I stay away from politics, but here's something to chew on. Both major political parties have 0 . . .
Item! It feels nice to be wanted. More details later, or not. Item! My buddy and his wife ended up in Cancun this weekend. I can only hope they got a hurricane-season discount. They ended up &0 . . .
The other night I had a weird dream. e:dragonlady7 's Norwegian cousin Aleksander was visiting us, and someone suggested that we should take him to a community ed. class about Norwegian Culture 0 . . .
My kitty Chita Rivera is such a spaz, a product of her surroundings I suppose. 0807/ChitaTurtle0813.gif 0807/InvisableMicrophone0813.jpg Also, see my previous post if you want to hear all the0 . . .
So we've been renting a house from my mom for a while. It's a nice house but the walls are hideous. Somebody once decided to paint the living room periwinkle. My room is a smudgy light-0 . . .
Item! Keep your meat-hole clean. While the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets is fucking around with a Freedom of Information request, Weggies gave it to me straight. Their meat g0 . . .
I do not seriously consider the quality of a mobile phone's camera when I'm shopping for one. It is a phone and I use it to talk. That having been said, if a phone should come with a camer0 . . .
I will refrain from adding my own commentary. http://buffalogeek.wnymedia.net/blogs/2007/07/31/buffalo-rising Since at least mid-June, BRO has been posting negative stories about Buffalo that are s0 . . .
1. You ever wonder what it's like to be a sysadmin for an alt weekly? You want to find out? Send me your resume. 2. You ever see those ads on political websites showing the president making 0 . . .
We have a WiebeTech http://wiebetech.com hard drive enclosure at work and I'm very impressed with it, so I ordered another one for my new home backup drive e:zobar,40088 . Have you ever read an 0 . . .
There are certain orders of monks who will spend weeks pushing colored grains of sand into vibrant, colorful, breathtaking circular designs. When it's complete, they say a few prayers and sweep 0 . . .
The Queen City Roller Girls - Steel Town Tank Girls game yesterday was fun, if you're the kind of person who likes watching house fires, say, or CNN. Watch as Tori Nado decks Sweets in the face 0 . . .
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In response to e:imk's question: YES! There is, in fact, something going on at Albright-Knox with the derby girls this Friday. http://albrightknox.org/gusto/jun07.html#jun_22 Much like the bo0 . . .
of the hideous animated gif 0607/Hideous0618.gif - Z 0 . . .
Click his head http://objectiveministries.org/kidz#ATHEIST . He sounds just like you. And for all yall Hindus, you can click sad Habu's tilak and watch him blow a question-mark bubble out his t0 . . .
That would be e:dragonlady7 . I can't say as I understand why that's any of your business, but I just wanted to get that out in the open, there. I have sex with women, and you can't c0 . . .
On April 12, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed the Open Government Act ... would strengthen the federal Freedom of Information Act... The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelming0 . . .
So, for a while I had a high-concept idea for sneakers: Chuck Taylor rental bowling shoes. But the thing is, it would be extremely difficult to get them dyed right - red on one side, blue on the othe0 . . .
We got any early adopters here? I'm putting together a little toy for work http://artvoice.com:8088/sandbox/radio_artvoice/index.html and I'd like some real preliminary feedback. Concept: 0 . . .
Ya so I started talking to B-52* on our trip about an idea i had a while ago e:zobar,37324 and now it's bugging me, beacuse I'm totally convinced I'm a visionary genius. I've even0 . . .
Today is Cinco de Mayo. Do you have any idea what you're celebrating? I'll give you a hint: it is totally unrelated to Mexico's independence from Spain. 0507/OsmerusMordax0505.jpg 0 . . .
0507/LazySundayAfternoonShadow0504.jpg ...from Brandon Bird http://brandonbird.com I can't tell which is better: his Law & Order coloring book, or the Special Victims Unit valentines. 0 . . .
It turns out that buying a laser printer for your house is not like buying an inkjet printer for your house. First off, you don't so much buy an inkjet printer as find it slipped into the packag0 . . .
More than it is reasonable for a man to despise any faceless corporation, I hate Radio Shack. Every Radio Shack store I go into is uniformly terrible, and yet each Radio Shack shopping experience is 0 . . .
This buffalo totally has a wang. 0407/Wang0425.jpg - Z0 . . .
0407/AlbertoGonzales0424.jpg I think it would be great to start a 'political cartoon' of sorts with no actual commentary or talent - just a picture of today's top headline with googl0 . . .
I have begun a perverse new project which I call Billustrator, a simple drawing program with a familiar interface: 0407/Billustrator0422.png It is written in Java, and thus runs on Mac OS X 0 . . .
One of the benefits of working here is that sometimes people will send press releases for their events to me instead of the calendar editor. This came across my desk this morning, and I sincerely wan0 . . .
This dude just tried passing me in the oncoming-traffic lane of Kenmore Ave. After he realized what an idiotic idea that was, at the next red light he got out of his car to yell at me. The light tur0 . . .
0407/ConservativeAttractionSecrets0410.jpg Trust me, we don't care. This means you, e:james,38834 - Z0 . . .
0407/Superkitty10406.jpg http://icanhascheezburger.com - Z0 . . .
0407/AgentCooper0403.jpg The Twin Peaks Season 2 DVD is now finally shipping http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000M3439E?tag=sycamorerecords&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creative0 . . .
0407/Ready0402.jpg 0407/Go0402.jpg Photos of the game are forthcoming http://queencityrollergirls.net - Z0 . . .
Wow!! Sabres pogs!! http://adfare04.adfare.com/ads/sabres/sabres.htm YourHub, The Buffalo News' fledgling social networking site, has been around for a few months now and I was initially res0 . . .
0307/Wikihow0328.gif ... those sweet sweet cravings ... - Z0 . . .
The part of the big pink bunny will be played by yours truly. You'd think it would be more difficult to rent a pink bunny suit than it would be to rent a tux, but such is not the case http://cos0 . . .
0307/BreakingEggs0320.png Tickets are now available online https://secure.vertasource.com/sslorders/order.aspx?eid=47 I asked if I could get a Derby Widow discount. e:dragonlady7 said, only if 0 . . .
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Ya the Prius was cool, but I felt the need to move on... Used the insurance money to buy a nice, solid '65 GMC Handi-Van. Here's some pictures I took of it coming off the truck: 0307/Mys0 . . .
So this morning I had a little bit of an accident in my poor car. Some guy had decided that he needed to turn left immediately, which happened to place his passenger side door directly inside my engi0 . . .
Doing my volunteer duty: $5 for Hospice gets you into 48 bars on Chippewa, Elmwood, Allen, and elsewhere. e:dragonlady7 and I will be at the Century. http://thecenturygrill.com 320 Pearl St, B0 . . .
674 Ellicott St, 14203 Tonight we went to the single least cool place in Buffalo. It's not even the kind of uncool where you can go there and be ironically cool - there is no cool to be had, 0 . . .
This morning my valentine surprised me with two thinly-veiled threats laid gently on my pillow, a heart-shaped box of chocolate-covered guilt, and flowery proclamations of inadequacy http://dragonlady0 . . .
...she looked up this joke on Your Mom. Fact: Every Subway restaurant is independently owned and operated. So why do they all smell like the same armpits? - Z0 . . .
So, we went to the roller derby tonight and saw e:mrmike there* - it was a really close game, and the Kissers beat the Sluggers 100-95. Despite grumblings about ticket price, they still sold out all 0 . . .
This guy wants you to go to Slugs & Kisses. 0207/InAGaddaDaVida0207.flv Tickets http://queencityrollergirls.net/events-021007.php are selling fast, and they think they're likely to sell0 . . .
...stating point of view. Indicate precisely what you mean to say. There's only sixty-four questions. What a gyp! 1. The phone rings. Who do you want it to be? When the phone rings, 0 . . .
OK, I'm doing the 'derby widow' thing. Tickets are $10 presale, and I can Procure them for you. It will be fun, and there will also be beer. It is expected that the event will sell o0 . . .
but it's not like I do them on purpose. Since I can't seem to stop doing dumb things, at least it makes life interesting for me and those around me. Mostly me. When I was in college, Da0 . . .
OK, so e:dragonlady7 sent me this link http://www.therebelution.com/modestysurvey to The Rebelution.com Modesty Survey. The first question, before they even let you register for the survey, is '0 . . .
A local CD duplication services is sponsoring our Battle of the Bands . They're the only sponsor to come back from last time, and it's great that they're supporting the local music sce0 . . .
This chick is so foxy I wish I'd sold her Windows 386. 4915875929930836239 But he doesn't stand a chance once she meets this guy. 4528224696516614147 - Z0 . . .
As long as everyone's sharing their weird dreams... So e:dragonlady7 and I moved to California so that she could go to school there. Things worked out well, because my sister had just moved o0 . . .
OK, some of you chemical-heads were probably wondering about the absinthe e:zobar,130 so - inspired by e:joshua 's beer reviews - here goes. We cracked open the bottle on my birthday, and though0 . . .
Within my extended family, we do a Secret Santa gift exchange. Some time ago, someone decided it would be fun to add in a gift wrapping competition as well, with the winner receiving a small bottle o0 . . .
...behind Danielle and I went to college together, but when she graduated she moved to Los Angeles to become a movie star . We haven't seen each other in five years, so it seemed Important to make0 . . .
My family has congregated in San Diego for Christmas; e:dragonlady7 is with her kin near Troy. I received this text message last night: From: e:dragonlady7 To: e:zobar Argh I thought was joki0 . . .
How a hip computer geek spends his Friday night: 1. Will it blend? That is the question. http://willitblend.com 2. Catfish/green bean wrestling: the bean loses. Everyone else wins. 3. 1206/g0 . . .
On Tuesday, I received an unusual message from an unusual person http://schneiderdigital.com best known for his work on a highly regarded local website http://buffalorising.com - 'due to creative diff0 . . .
My family does two Christmas gift exchanges every year: one within our immediate family where everyone gives something to everyone, and one secret santa thing with my aunt's family. There is a bit of0 . . .
Hope everyone had an excellent Thanksgiving. I was going to upload Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree," but even if I could get it to fit in 5MB it would sound like an AM station 0 . . .
I think this should be our new marketing campaign: 1106/issues_t5102.jpg Very succinct, and it sure beats all these pretentious 'The Art Of Thinking' and 'Welcome to the 21st Century' bumper sti0 . . .
...but I wanted to see what it would look like if I put our entire bar/business/gallery/restaurant directory on one map. Answer: really crowded. http://artvoice.com/directory.kml If anybody can t0 . . .
Dammit! I had my meth lab all set up in my basement and ready to go - until I got to the drug store and found out I had to ask the pharmacist for a 24-pack of Sudafed. Damn, damn, damn! Curse my ba0 . . .
I have to get this off my desktop, but I don't want to lose it. One of the video guys sent this to me a while ago. He was putting together a commercial for a client and had the video cued up wrong a0 . . .
http://ananova.com/news/story/sm_2022498.html - Z0 . . .
I got some productive fucking-around done at work today. I've been playing around with Django http://djangoproject.com a lot. It's a very young framework, but as long as the developers retain tigh0 . . .
Ever since e:dragonlady7 joined the Rollergirls http://queencityrollergirls.net she's been going to practice early every Sunday morning ... giving me a chance to sleep in, take my time waking up, and 0 . . .
because my laptop is in the shop. See, the thermostat is mounted to the heat sink and wired to the power management unit. When the heat sink expands, the thermostat shifts just so and disconnects fr0 . . .
OK, the last time I cleaned out the fridge it was because I was moving out of my Westchester apartment in 2004, so when I finally did it again last night, after our four day power outage ... I was exp0 . . .
1. e:dragonlady7 and I are ok. Our power was out from 9pm Thursday until probably about some time this morning. We hung out with my mom on Friday and left for the Capital District Saturday after the0 . . .
...what can only be described as 'mauve,' which is not the color of food. Anderson's SPoTted Cow Float - coffee, frozen custard, whipped cream, chocolate syrup - with the black raspberry flavor of th0 . . .
I had just finished telling someone how much I hate when people don't put on their left turn signal until they're already in the intersection and they have to stop and wait for traffic. Why would you0 . . .
I admit it. It's true. It's tough to be humble when you're this God-damned brilliant. Next time you get a parking ticket - chill out. It's not a stupid waste of your time and money - it's a $0 . . .
I had an idea that ended up morphing into what can only be described as The Stoner Channel. It is a high-concept TV channel that is not for stoners per se, but rather for anyone who has totally given0 . . .
I have not posted in a while, because I have sequestered myself in the attic until I finish writing a new backend for our calendar database. This may strike you as a weird thing to do, but the attic 0 . . .
is founded on an interesting idea: without Judas, there'd be no betrayal, no passion and death, and no resurrection, and without that - there's not a whole lot of Christianity either. Gospel of Judas0 . . .
Ohhh, so this http://wikihow.com/Get-a-Job-in-Computers is what I'm doing wrong. Good news for some, but less so for me: it looks like I'm stuck here for the forseeable future. I'll put off my exist0 . . .
Hiring me has got to be a bizarre experience, but at least I'm having fun with it. Today I put my references on notice: Some time in the next few days, you may be asked what kind of Worker I am. 0 . . .
Last night I thought- why don't we go rent a movie? And while we're at it, why don't we visit the new Mondo? Now I'd never been to Mondo before, so I was totally unprepared for the weirdness they ca0 . . .
I found this cool website http://humanclock.com . After I got home all crabby yesterday I stared at it for a couple hours and for some reason everything was ok again. People have submitted some very0 . . .
Buff State has asked for my college transcripts. I requested that the RIT registrar mail them over. I told my contact at BSC that it may take a week to process, but that I can save her the suspense 0 . . .
Out of 22 full-time employees in our office, eight have quit since I started working here and one new position was created. Today I found out two more will be leaving in a couple of weeks to go see 0 . . .
In the United States, we pledge allegiance first to our flag and only secondly to the republic for which it stands. What happens if the flag no longer stands for what it once stood for? If someone d0 . . .
Correspondence with has piqued my interest in the Web Applications Developer position listed on Buffalo State's Human Resources website. I have spent more waking hours of my life developing, maintai0 . . .
e:dragonlady7 and I missed the e:mike & e:terry partysplosion this weekend because we took our wheels to Toronto instead . We had a wonderful time, and perhaps I will write about it in more detai0 . . .
"100," a demented and somewhat fractured love story by the users of e:strip, as edited by e:zobar I personally like the opposite sex (on a good day, that is). e:southernyankee,100 What d0 . . .
Item: when I was at school I took a class with a professor who was very instrumental in the VRML VRML specification. One of his big proof-of-concept projects was called vrmLab http://streamer.rit.edu0 . . .
No really, WTF??! http://www.vgmerchandise.com/misc.html - Z0 . . .
One of the local scooterists has a Stella GB150 http://genuinescooters.com/gb150 with a license plate that says 'GOT MY'. I understand that custom motorcycle plates only have six letters, but, like, 0 . . .
...and he says: 'Make me one with everything.' So the vendor gives him the hot dog and he hands over a $20 bill. The vendor takes the money, and goes about his business. The Buddhist says, 'h0 . . .
It's Porn Saturday! This is up there for one of the most ridiculous spams I've ever received. Keep in mind that every single one of these ads is flashing and, in some cases, undulating: 0806/cute0 . . .
Thing #1: The super-ghetto school-bus-conversion ice cream trucks seem to be improving, technologically. The one I saw yesterday on Delaware Ave had a drum track to its little tune, and a number of w0 . . .
No subject, no signature: Where can I get Dr. Klein's Bagel Bars in Grand Rapids , MI ?? So I typed "Dr. Klein's Bagel Bars" into Google with unexpected http://google.com/search?q=Dr.+Kl0 . . .
I finally got around to installing The Gimp on my new laptop. So now I want to start a Photoshop contest on the theme of this photo of e:dragonlady7 's dad: 0706/original3114.jpg The only0 . . .
Now we've got these weird fuckers popping out all over the place. 0706/goombas4858.gif - Z0 . . .
We used to have an air conditioner in the office, but it didn't work very well. This morning we replaced it with a convenient portal to the underworld. 0706/underworld0114.jpg Last night I made0 . . .
http://buffalonews.com/editorial/20060716/1021227.asp 'Buffalo's bloggers took a break Saturday from criticizing Joel Giambra, Wal-Mart and the Buffalo Sabres' proposed new logo to eat some barbec0 . . .
More mms madness 0706/0087150001153002881.gif0 . . .
The air conditioner for the back office is busted and it ain't getting fixed. I feel kind of bad about it, partially because I'm in the back office but mostly because I'm on the outs with managemen0 . . .
On the one hand, what a weirdo. On the other hand, can you blame him? http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1022292006 - Z0 . . .
First things first: e:libertad,79 got me thinking about the environment, sort of - so my new user sound is '(Nothing But) Flowers' by the Talking Heads gather:0052634001152745342 I'm a little chees0 . . .
Dear sir or madam: My name is . I'm the features editor at City Newspaper in Rochester. We're currently preparing to completely overhaul our website, giving it both a redesign and massive content u0 . . .
I hate the way that photo sharing sites are laid out. I have a big screen, I want to see a big motherfuckin' picture - not acres of whitespace. 500x375 is not high-resolution, Yahoo*. If I had a sm0 . . .
If i'd known eminent design had custom ramin i'd have gone there more often. 0706/0868444001152451763.jpg0 . . .
So you're hanging out at the mall with your friends, and you see a tornado coming. Quick! What do you do? No! You do not get your phone out and point it at the tornado! What is wrong with you?!0 . . .
who checks out other peoples' groceries in the checkout line and thinks completely baseless snarky and judgmental thoughts about their diet? - Z0 . . .
So I saw An Inconvenient Truth yesterday and it freaked my shit right out. I am not in the proper mental state to have to deal with tornadoes in Cheektowaga. You can't just spring that shit on someb0 . . .
I have spent the last week surrounded by romantic beginnings and endings. My buddy Tom got married last night . His parents had divorced not too long ago due to some long-standing and deep-seated we0 . . .
1. e:paul did a technical demo of e:strip during discussions with my company. I didn't get it. A little while later e:paul helped us out a lot with getting the Geek Meet together. I still didn't ge0 . . .
Friday morning when I woke up my roommate said to me '...Did you hear anything weird last night?' 'No... why?' '...because I think I may have poured a beer into my laptop.' but that does not 0 . . .
Went to a reception at the William J Clinton Presidential Library. It's not exactly the kind of place I would travel to, but there's some pretty interesting stuff in there, including a replica of the0 . . .
Yes: this is the Peabody Little Rock. Kind of insane with the ducks, but all in all a nice place. This is the 29th Annual Convention of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies http://aan.org/a0 . . .
So they sent me to Little Rock for a conference. Sitting in the room, biting off a little something something from the hotel's wifi network. My itinerary said our flight was supposed to leave at 60 . . .
So the Park Lane http://parklanerestaurant.com is slated for closure and likely demolition next year. There is understandably some hubbub regarding the new development, and the latest person to regis0 . . .
So e:dragonlady7 took a mental health day today and we popped down to Allentown with the goal of visiting all four festivals. Considering that my office is in Allentown, I figured I could drive in an0 . . .
After being told that one of my pairs of jeans had an enormous hole in the ass, I bought a new pair http://prisonblues.com that just came in the mail today. They are supposedly unique in that they ar0 . . .
I will refrain from engaging in the tradition of posting porn on my 69th post, but I will send you to this http://fatchicksinpartyhats.com that is SFW but probably shouldn't be. Last night we moved0 . . .
An actual email exchange that occurred between myself and our accountant-ish person. Hello all. Now that the warm weather is here, please remember to close all the windows when you leave at ni0 . . .
e:dragonlady7 , If you and e:zobar want to really get at the old bitch next door, I can bring over about 1500 pounds of grass clippings to add to your compost pile. Not sure if you remember the mup0 . . .
and that's all there is to it. I just got off the phone with the building inspector re: the Compost Heap of the Apocalypse with what I felt was a reasonable compromise that would address his fire haz0 . . .
Yesterday was a busy day for me. I went with my very talkative aunt to collect a couch from my cousin in Rochester. While we were chatting, she told me a funny story about how very small Buffalo is.0 . . .
So I had a power lunch today with Maxwell Truth http://offbeatcinema.com/about.html who is trying to put together an Internet-based television station with the help of yours truly. We agree that it i0 . . .
So e:dragonlady7 's parents left for home this morning, leaving a number of unfinished projects finished and unstarted projects started. I wish that we had Hung Out more and Made Them Work less, but 0 . . .
Last night I was talking to some people about the kinds of anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists who perennially leave us messages in our mailbag, email inboxes, and voice mail systems. Eventually we 0 . . .
somebody puked on my pillow and called it my head. Nice meeting all y'alls and hanging out. Usually when I go to a party of people I haven't met I just kind of hang out in the corner and quietly e0 . . .
hey guess what guys i'm at e:paul 's house and he's having a party. 0506/Photo_31133.jpg - Z 0 . . .
This post is extremely nerdy, so for those of you who don't care about Javascript's object model, have a good weekend, you may skip the rest of the post. OK, so now that I'm talking to the nerds, h0 . . .
My computer and me are both brief in this world, both foolish, and we have earthly fates. Yes, it's dorky to eulogize http://david.kleinschmidt.name a computer, but I am a computer geek and one ten0 . . .
So my computer's been pretty good to me, but lately just weird little crappy things have been going wrong with it. The CD/DVD drive, I think, was a lemon that kind of worked when I first got it, but 0 . . .
OK, so a socially-conscious hip hop act goes on tour, underwritten by a major Japanese auto manufacturer . Of course they need an over-the-top promotion. Since they are a hip-hop act, it would se0 . . .
I picked up a copy of 'Kepa 3 Gallery News,' v1n1 at lunch http://cafe59.com today. Very amusing. It is a one-page, front-and-back, 11"x17" xeroxed paper, written and illustrated entirely 0 . . .
e:kara made an excellent point in my last journal e:zobar,53 that nobody gives a good God damn what a website looks like as long as it delivers the goods http://drudgereport.com . I couldn't agree mo0 . . .
A little vignette for background: A few months ago I was walking past the boss's office and he called me in and said 'hey Dave, come here - I want you to look at this website.' So I came in and crawl0 . . .
I wish I could say that this was the first time this happened to us e:zobar,12 . They called us up to tell us one of our lines was down, we said go ahead and test it, and they took down the other one0 . . .
A healthy dose of randomness to start your week. My new user sound is 'A Man Like Putin,' by a short-lived band called 'Singing Together,' widely believed to be a concoction of one of the political p0 . . .
We: lost in Livingston County Me, driving, blithely: Which way should we go now? She, under a pile of maps, furious: What, so I'm the navigator now? --- Our little wine-tasting junket was just0 . . .
Been busy lately, with this and that. Now that the Menus/Best craziness is over, I'm taking some me-time. e:dragonlady7 and I are going to hop in the car tomorrow afternoon and wander our way down0 . . .
how someone becomes a columnist? e:dragonlady7 was pondering on this some years back, and I just kinda shrugged and said I dunno. Turns out, the way you become a columnist is, you happen to be sta0 . . .
Because in no other country in the world would someone invent 'freako instruments' called The Egotar, The Swiss Army Bass, The Droning Betsy, or the Great Train Wreck. Out of duct tape. http://jay0 . . .
Any country where you can be invited to a state dinner for the president and the press and proceed to lambaste both, and still wake up the next morning, is OK in my book. http://dailykos.com/storyonly0 . . .
I just got an IM from e:dragonlady7 at home - we just had the health inspector drop by for tea and biscuits! http://dragonlady7.livejournal.com/777199.html I guess he stopped in, had a look at the 0 . . .
but I swear I use my powers for good and not for evil. So my miserable old cuntbag of a neighbor, who is most famous for uprooting my garden http://dragonlady7.livejournal.com/683253.html , started r0 . . .
That is extremely high-quality. OK, except I got hit by a log and it crashed my computer. Kind of ups the ante a bit, eh? - Z0 . . .
Good News: Tomorrow you should run not walk to your local bus stop or coffee shop and pick up a copy of the paper. Our yearly restaurant guide hits the stands tomorrow and it contains 120 restaurant0 . . .
...now we can both be cool. I guess I just don't know what's cool anymore. This morning I had a discussion with e:dragonlady7 wherein i posited that the coolest car in the universe would be a new 0 . . .
so e:dragonlady7 and I are going to hang out at the Century Grill 320 Pearl St TOMORROW and drink beer and eat wings. . I don't know when we're going or how long we're staying, but if anyone else 0 . . .
Geezer drinks are the new hipster drinks. Had a brandy alexander at Shadow Lounge last night that rocked my socks off. Here's another goodie you'd be able to make if only you hadn't poured out that 0 . . .
It has recently come to my attention e:zobar,37 that some people have formed the opinion that I am what is referred to as a "Jersey hater." I categorically deny all allegations. I used 0 . . .
The weather was gorgeous, so here's a couple unrelated tidbits for anyone else who's coming off their seasonal funk disorder: Got the scooter out and hit the strip. Enjoying the weather, watching 0 . . .
So at about 4.45pm I got an email that there would be a companywide meeting tomorrow at 10am regarding our annual popularity contest. At 4.50pm I got a frantic phone call from the same person askin0 . . .
SPONGE CANDY AND BLACK JELLYBEANS FOR BREAKFAST!!! BLACK COFFEE SWEETENED WITH MOLTEN DARK CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY CREAMS!!! IT CAN ONLY MEAN ONE THING!!! IT'S EASTER!!! AND I'M HIGH AS A KITE ON SUGA0 . . .
somebody'd mentioned being a Morphine fan, so here you go: 'Bo's Veranda,' from the Get Shorty soundtrack. I'm going to try to keep my journal music instrumental, since I often find vocals distract0 . . .
Last summer e:dragonlady7 and I went to Dick's so she could pick up some work shoes. She spent an hour hemming and hawing over different kinds of sneakers. I immediately found a pair of low-top roll0 . . .
For those of you without an iPod: if you have an Internet-enabled cell phone, our restaurant guide is in pre-beta and available by typing the usual link into your phone's web browser. If the logo a0 . . .
Yet another geeky post, but there's a cool technology preview at the end. Feel free to skip the geeky part. <geeky> I am considering how to do a distributed GUI for backend database managem0 . . .
So I did my annual white suburbanite duty today, drove into the East Side, spent 45 minutes and $4 at the Broadway Market, and got back to Kenmore, happy to report that my car did not get 'jacked' by 0 . . .
The annual restaurant guide http://artvoice.com/menus is set to be published on April 27th. It looks like it's going to be a good one - we're listing over 100 local restaurants, and I'm putting toget0 . . .
Three things: 1. Neat event at the UB Art Gallery http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n14/see_you_there/net_3_sociable_technologies entitled 'NET<3: Sociable Technologies.' Some geeky computers-facili0 . . .
e:dragonlady7,7 's voluminous post regarding our garden is kind of offputting. Gardening is a whole lot of work, but there's really only one thing you need to remember: Green side up and mind the pac0 . . .
Question: do normal people use the wireless web? - Z0 . . .
We had a brilliant idea for the cover of our annual popularity contest that everyone loved, excepting the publisher. Since it looks like it's not going to fly I feel justified in posting it here: 0 . . .
I just discovered this excellent technology http://google.com/apis/homepage that lets you develop your own modules for Google Personalized http://google.com/ig . It was cool enough that they let you 0 . . .
I grew up in Buffalo, and spent a not-insignificant amount of time in suburban Rochester as well. Both cities take their food very seriously. Buffalo, of course, but you can't overlook the birthplac0 . . .
I am going to tell you a little story about Buffalo, which happens to be approximately this big. Around St Pat's day, we ran an article http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n11/david_moore about Dave Moor0 . . .
It has recently come to my attention that my employer is the worst kind of publisher - one who carries the banner of fair, balanced news coverage while participating in a vast Republican conspiracy ht0 . . .
Woke up this morning on the floor reeking of a two-day software development bender. I've got a tattoo on my butt that says 'I Python,' and this program I've never seen before is on my desktop saying0 . . .
I'm not usually fond of the idea of blogging from work, but this is so cool I peed myself. The new editor's personal laptop just died. The new sysadmin had a look at it, took a deep breath, and s0 . . .
So I'm a shareware software developer, since I wrote a program last summer when I was unemployed that at least three people have paid me $5 for. It is a Gmail notifier for Mac OS X, much like the Win0 . . .
This is the last week to vote. http://artvoice.com/best Every vote counts! Furthermore, be wary of certain unsavory establishments http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n12/news_briefly/big_shotz_or_big0 . . .
If you are in on the Doc Platinum mythos, my userpic is self-explanatory. If you are not, do read on: Doc Platinum was a very high-concept band for whom I was the drummer, on and off, from 1997 on0 . . .
Bridget asks on her Livejournal http://dragonlady7.livejournal.com/760063.html : what do you think about as you're drifting to sleep? When I go to bed I find myself inventing solutions to invented 0 . . .
I admit to being on a huge Stevie Wonder kick right now. For the last two days I have cranked the factory stereo on my Toyota subcompact and dialed my iPod into 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered' http://phob0 . . .
We recently bought a couple new 4x2.5GHz G5 computers for our video department, with beefed-up nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT graphics cards. The graphics card has 2 DVI ports; one of our video guys has 2 VG0 . . .
The aforementioned two-bit NOC http://telcove.com called us this morning to let us know that one of our two data lines is down. Which was very nice of them. What with the automatic failover and ever0 . . .
I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hate Cyrus I hat0 . . .
Why are you on the computer? I've been in denial about coming down with a cold for two days now. Sore throat, phlegm, but thankfully no cough. I had planned to spend the weekend in bed in a code-0 . . .
point http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n9/elmwood_village_hotel / counterpoint http://artvoice.com/issues/v5n10/letters_to_artvoice May it never be said that we aren't fair and balanced. (-: - Z0 . . .
OK, I admit to being a total Achewood http://achewood.com junkie, and the Great Outdoor Fight storyline http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01252006 has got me hooked. I believe that 'fugue' http://0 . . .
When I started this blog lo these many days ago, I decided I wouldn't talk about national politics. People seem to get very excited about national politics these days despite the fact that it's nothi0 . . .
So my buddy Chris called me up to go out on a man*date tonight. When I asked him what the occasion was, he said his wife had invited all her feminine relatives over for dinner, and there were just to0 . . .
I am very annoyed right now, because a certain person from a certain organization is angry at me, because this organization was not personally invited to attend an event that I helped organize this pa0 . . .
I had planned to write about how today was Read Across America day and how I went to my mom's 4th grade class to read stuff to them, but mom was sick and didn't come in today. Instead, I spent an 0 . . .
So it looks like somebody http://flickr.com/photos/dragonlady7/106343726 made an ass of himself at the Century last night. Note to self: one should always take care to be on the proper side of the ca0 . . .
Fat Tuesday festivities began with an hour and a half in the bitter freakin' cold holding up a 'Parade In Progress' sign. Reminded me of this book my Latvian grandmother made me read about Siberian e0 . . .
Yeah, so I'm not much of a blogger, but I figured, what the hey. Ever since I started working for a certain prominent local alternative newsweekly* I find myself saying 'the Internet needs to hear ab0 . . .