The competition kind.

As of yesterday, the 43 North submission ("Docugen") that (e:terry), (e:heidi), (e:yesthatcasey), (e:paul) and I are on together is a semifinalist.

We started with 6,932 applications from 96 countries and all 50 U.S. states.
That got boiled down to 2,603 qualified submissions.
Now, we're excited to announce our 113 semifinalists!

There's a single million buck prize, 6 $500,000 and 4 $250,000. And one of them has to go to a Buffalo idea, which there are about 30 of. It definitely could happen. It's so freaking awesome I can't believe it.

The downside is the second application is due August 15th, and the presentations would be in October. It's summer and we're all supes busy. But how can you pass this opportunity up?

Even if we don't win I think that it made it to the top 100 is a pretty good indication it's a viable idea. Look at us, all entrepreneurial and shiz.

After the taste of Buffalo, (e:Paul) got to show off his new Provincetown shorts.




It was a really amazing day for biking over for swimming. The water has warmed up a lot and is so clean compared to the lake. You're now allowed to swim until 9. I'm really surprised its not more popular.



We may have found a even more deserted quarry to swim in



Paul freaking out about this mole on his head

The taste of Buffalo was delicious as usual. Some of the things I tasted a paneer zucchini kebab from an all white Indian restaurant, a strawberry crepe from Orazio's, a mushroom Gorgonzola cheese risotto ball from Bambino and a kale salad from Merge. I felt full but not as full as the meat eaters did. (E:yesthatcasey) wanted to be rolled home. Paul got three servings of short ribs. We all got plenty of samples.




I didn't manage to get pictures of the food somehow but I did get a glimpse of a ginger mormon.



A lost child

So (e:yesthatcasey) came with us down to the Electronic Odyssey music festival at Willow Creek Winery. It was supposed to be an overnight EDM event but ended up being a terrible jam band/hip hop remix event. It was so bad it makes me think there are no good dance events around. I'd definitely never come back here again.

(e:paul) and I did get about an hour of good dancing in. And we had some delicious greasy food. We played a lot of glow Frisbee. But the best part was that it was a good place to observe bro culture. I don't think I've ever hears so many unironic "bros" before. There was a lot of bromance going on too. All morning we got to hear about how one bro snuck in a tent and stole another bro's socks.

We're down in Silver Creek for the Willow Creek music festival. We thought maybe we could go swim in the lake but it turned out to be literally brown with sewage. Not to mention the giant rotting catfish in the sand.

Its so fucking gross that with the amount of money in this country we don't even try to keep our water clean. for example, buffalo's sewer control program is only going to handle 70 percent of sewage overflows, at a cost of $380 million by 2034. We really can't dedicate any more resources to that? The US can spend hundreds of billions on the military and tens of billions on arming other countries,http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid ($3 billion in military aid to Israel) but there is only $19 million a year for Buffalo to stop dumping literal shit in our water.