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jim 00:33 Movie over time for sleeeeeep.
tinypliny 00:16 Aarrrgh. Home remedies without basis
tinypliny 00:16 because it doesn't
tinypliny 00:15 Unless they mean it increases the white cells - which makes no sense
tinypliny 00:15 I mean mucus is like white cells and infection jumbled together - the immune reaction to an ongoing infection - how does milk increase this?
tinypliny 00:14 I don't see how milk is a mucus-inducing food
tinypliny 23:44 That local sneaky bloke must have such a workload if he or she is real - which I suspect they are not.
tinypliny 23:43 for just about everything.
tinypliny 23:43 I was looking for best pizza places and I was SO annoyed looked at that generic paragraph with "Our local sneaky blah blah"
tinypliny 23:42 that website is SUCH a colossal letdown!

Jim's Journal from 03/2009

03/06/09 16:51 - 54ºF - ID#47970Category: aminalsRed Panda

The Buffalo Zoo should get one of these:

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Actually, I should get one of those.

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03/12/09 12:58 - 24ºF - ID#48029Category: appleiPhone 3.0

Preview demo March 17, 2009

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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 need for the apps I want to build.

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03/14/09 18:52 - 41ºF - ID#48054Category: hiking18 Mile Creek

Thanks Paul, Matthew, Terry and James, it was a fun day big_grin

I took lots of photos, but most of the ones that looked good were the more abstract ones of the ice.

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03/17/09 14:11 - 50ºF - ID#48087Category: techiPhone 3.0 SDK

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:

And build robots with iphones for brains. hooray!

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03/18/09 09:11 - 51ºF - ID#48099Category: religionGod vs Satan

Posted for mindless, meaningless amusement.

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03/19/09 21:17 - 32ºF - ID#48128Category: all grown upHome Ownership!

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 me with a down payment for a house. That coupled with the $8000 first time home buyer's credit (

) means that I am pretty sure that I'm going to own my own place sometime this year.

James and I have talked, and the only downside is that we'd only buy something if we knew exactly where we were planning on living next year, and we've been talking pretty seriously about moving to Portland, Oregon or Austin, Texas.

Money certainly doesn't go as far outside Buffalo. For the price of a 2,000 sqft Victorian home here we could only get a really cute 1 bedroom condo in downtown Portland, like this:

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Of course it would be in the middle of an awesome urban area that only gets 2" of snow every winter and has excellent public transit and career opportunities...

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tinypliny writes at 07:20:12 03/26/09 - Comment #47064

I say go (or stay) where you can create the most worthwhile life. Good Luck! :)

heidi writes at 10:50:05 03/20/09 - Comment #46812

I want you to stay!!!

But I have some logical reasons too... It's hard to find a good community - you have one here, you have roots... you've said "I don't want to die here" (hmmm... might have been (e:james)) but that's what retirement's for! You can *live* here, and die somewhere else. :-)

And you really can't beat the housing prices... damn! $159K?? That's awesome. (Mortgage interest deduction!!! Every year!)

jim writes at 02:54:49 03/20/09 - Comment #46802

It's not a loan, it's a credit. No payback needed. You get an $8000 tax refund.

metalpeter writes at 02:16:15 03/20/09 - Comment #46796

I admit I didn't follow the links so I may have missed something. But the first interior looks pretty nice. I would say that taking the first time home owners loan is a bad idea. Granted I don't have all the facts but to get a tax credit on your taxes of that much money that you then have to payback seems like a bad idea. I don't know the percentage or how you pay it back but to me it seems like you could wind up just owing the IRS money. Of course the person who you should ask about that is (e:Terry).

james writes at 11:08:30 03/19/09 - Comment #46786

That last one looks suspiciously like the section-8 housing on Elmwood between Summer and North.

paul writes at 10:27:57 03/19/09 - Comment #46784

I hope you guys stay.

jim writes at 10:07:36 03/19/09 - Comment #46783

It is pretty exciting - my parents never had much money, so in the last 10 years I've pretty much been on my own. They bailed me out of jail once... that's about it :) It's not really that much money in the scheme of things, but it makes buying a home likely instead of a some-year-soon thing.

To get this kinda opportunity is very unexpected and nice.

mrmike writes at 10:06:30 03/19/09 - Comment #46782

Nice to have the option

libertad writes at 10:04:21 03/19/09 - Comment #46781

How exciting. Good luck in finding a place.

jim writes at 09:50:14 03/19/09 - Comment #46779

I think James wants to move more then I do :)

I'd be perfectly content to live in this:

drew writes at 09:45:14 03/19/09 - Comment #46778

Home ownership is very cool.

Leaving Buffalo is not.

Now that (e:James) is on the fast track to Mayor, you have to stay.

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03/20/09 11:28 - 30ºF - ID#48133RIP Space Bat

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This bat was clinging to the space shuttle during take off.

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In honor of space bat's memory:

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03/25/09 07:51 - 38ºF - ID#48194Life Spans of Deleteable Items

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03/26/09 10:25 - 52ºF - ID#48209Category: partyBirthday Party!

My 30th birthday party is on Tuesday, April 7th at 7:30pm. We've reserved all of Europa Bistro ( map

) - you can come for dinner or just drinks, but all are welcome. Just give me or e:James a heads up if you're planning on coming, so we can make sure we've got a good count.

Hope to see you there big_grin

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