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08/05/04 08:42 - ID#31123

Thursday in the Square

It's not so crowded tonight which is nice. It's also pretty cold. According to [search]nonna[/search] Auguest 1st is the birth of winter.
The music seems to be really good for once. I wish that I had some sort of voice recording capability. I am trying something new and stamping the picture with data on my phone.
I'm trying something else new and calling my answering machine to record sound. I really have to set the server up to accept audio blogs from cell phones.
Hopefully, I'll see you all at the pink.
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08/05/04 04:24 - ID#31121

Sister's Hospital

I just realized that Sister's Hospital, the place I was born is almost directly across the street from my office at Canisius. I feel like a Salmon that swam upstream, does it mean I am old now?
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08/05/04 06:00 - ID#31120

Trip to Harriman Hall at UB South

(e:lilho) really needs a home. In an effort to accomodate her continued survival, we headed to the UB Off Campus Housing office on South campus to pick up a list of available apartments in the area.

South campus is so confusing, I've haven't been there much. I am glad I didn't ever have to live there or even attend UB as an undergraduate. I can see why (e:lilho) didn't like it.

I wanted to test out my new prrogramming on the go module, so I edited the blogme code to accept 15 instead of 9 attached journal images and documented our trip.

This is weird, I decided to add an old pic of our house that I had on the sidekick and crazy enough (e:lilho) 's car is in the same spot it was today. So it looked right minus the sun.

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Here she is getting ready to leave on the trip.

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Thi sis a great picture of Canisius , where I work accept that I work on the other side of the street.

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We made it down to university height, I hate it there. Sorry, to all of you who live there but I think it sucks compared to e-ville. I noticed that Access Community was for rent. I said they were moving. Access community is the project of another kid from Trebors class named Lauren, we both started work on our community projects at the same time. His was definately mroe hands-on and mine was about producing a recorded history for people with no technical skills.

The maps at UB suck, there is no you are here arrow on them. What is up with that.

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(e:lilho) tries to decipher the map.

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We finally located another sign that pointed to Harriman Hall.

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We tried to start walking according to what the building looked like on the map.

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Posing for the sidekick on the ground. People looked at us like we were crazy but we were hot on the trail.

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Here it is - please find (e:lilho) a home!!

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The inside was pretty but also looked a little under construction, I gues sit is just that time of year.

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Once we were inside the building finding the Off Campus Housing office was no problem. They had signs on every surface. Here is one on the ceiling.

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Finally at the office. Oh no, they are out to lunch.

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Then (e:lilho) found a photocopied list of available housing and got excited when she thought she was stealing it but it turns out they were there for the taking. hahaha.

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08/04/04 07:20 - ID#31119

News Channel 4 and the Standoff

Not having a functioning televsion, I have not watched TV in a long time - years with the occasional at my parents or a bar moments. I get all of my local news from our local papers, word of mouth, and ths site. When I was first making the site, I thought we would be like a local newspaper, but that hasn't happpens quite yet. On a tangest that reminds me that I am thinking of adding our own police blotter than it much better than the real one, where we report crimes ourselves.

By depending on these sources it leaves me completely in the dark about the suburbs and county issues and I question if that's bad or if I am freeing myself up to think about other things instead who had a house file in Alden or what Amish people are doing in their rumspringa (must come from herumspringen). I figure if they are ever important enough, th einformation will trickle down to me through the many other mediums.

Well anyhow, while watching TV today with nonna [search]Nonna[/search] I noticed how the local news is totally sensationalist. Everything is super dramatic including their oh so frosted hair styles. I wonder if images of frosted hair will look the same as 80's one foot high bangs do, looking back now.

So the point, there was this story of what really looks like (e:matthew) standing on our roof at the 567 with the elmwoodstrip.com sign light on. I think we should pose a mock up photo of it tonight just to be funny. Even the blue hoody!

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Here is the story: Just before 1:00 AM Wednesday morning, officers got a call about a domestic situation on Esser Avenue in Buffalo's Riverside Section.

For about two hours, neighbors watched as 32 year old Douglas Rogers paced the roof, smoked a cigarette and drank out of a coffee mug. But he also lashed out, and threw stuff at police and neighbors below.

Neighbor Debra Smith said, "He was throwing shingles off the roof and throwing bricks all over the place and hitting cop cars one after the other."

Cops confirm at least one police cruiser was hit with a brick or shingle. But officials say it wasn't until Rogers told police he had weapons, that officers called in other law enforcement teams.


Of course they made the whole thing out to be like police standoff with terrorists. At least that was the attitude you got from the sensationalist news version. I love how someone said "He was throwing shingles off the roof and throwing bricks all over the place and hitting cop cars one after the other." yet the police only confirmed one case of this.

He was for sure just an angry drunk guy, fighting with his wife and then felt cornered, so he climbed up on the house.

The tech side of it all. So I wanted to put a link to the video which became problematic as they have it all hidden in these really convoluted javascripts. I ended up sniffing the streaming packet as it come over to our computer. Then when I went to get it, I realzied I had found the entire news cast in high resolution includeing the commercials and everything in a nice 49MB package. Definately better than satellite reception. But my question is who watches this and why is it there and on akamai.

Here is a
to the whole show in streaming Windows Media Format, sorry mac users, I don't think you can see this one but it's not my fault, blame news channel 4

The story in question is somewhere around the middle of the newscast and you can fast forward I believe. I love when the newscaster says that is our big story i
n buffalo for the day even though a B
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falo soldier was critcally wounded today in Iraq.

If anything it is nice to have a document of what is was like in Buffalo on Aug 3, 2004. I will add it to my digital scrapbook.
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08/04/04 03:23 - ID#31118

Expedia's Description of Elmwood

I love expedia's description of elmwood.

[size=m]Elmwood Strip[/size]
This funky street overflows with possibilities: fine art, aromatherapy, piercings and pizza.

On another note, what happend to Steve Kurtz? [search]steve kurtz[/search] At one time it was the rage of the town, now I hear nothing.
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08/03/04 01:57 - ID#31117

Mike, his Car and Gameboy

(e:mike) I feel bad about your post-separation anxiety with your car [inlink]mike,225[/inlink]. My only hope is that you find my gameboy advance in there before you junk it or something. I think I left it in there, complete with flash cartridge and Warioware, the other night when we went with (e:terry) and (e:matthew) to Gabriel's gate

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Here is a link to there guestbook. I guess they really do have the best wings in Buffalo. I should have just ordered them while we were there. I wish I would just bust out the epeeps restaurant review section.

For those of you that do not know the warioware game for gba, (e:shawnr) suggested it to me and it is by the the best game for short attention spans on the go. I played until I beat it and I don't even really like video games. In the game you play a million 2 second games that have no real instructions.

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You just try and figure each one out as you go and by the time you get it, its on to the next game.
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08/03/04 01:25 - ID#31116

More thoughts on Advertsing

I contacted (e:sqb) about his thoughts on advertsing and he suggested that we contact the The West Side Times to see if they could review the site. So I wrote to them to see about it.

I really need to write a new site description. I agree with (e:liz) that the one on the flyer is a little to esoteric.
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08/02/04 10:57 - ID#31115

Satan Performing Miracles

Here is a picture I drew of satan performing miracles. According to the ghetto preacher we were listening to on the radio as we returned from Zoar Valley, "satan often does this to trick people." The preacher also said that it is dangerous to go to college because they teach you to by an athiest. He said that is why the most "intelligent" people are really fools.

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Luckily, I heard him yesterday and promptly dropped out of the MFA program at UB. God forgive me, for I am educated.
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08/02/04 05:12 - ID#31114

Ronnie at the Volcano

I just found an email from my friend Ronnie in my inbox. Ronnie was one of Terry and I's best friends when we lived in Flagstaff, Arizona where we orginally met. She still lives in Phoenix . Ronnie also went to Germany for a while and stayed with us for about a month. I really miss her.

In the email she sent a picture of one of our favorite hangouts. A volcano in the middle of the desert just north of Flgagstaff and just south of the Grand Canyon.

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Here I am at the same Volcano in 2000.

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It is really an awesome place where this volcano exploded out of the desert floor and the lava froze into these crazy spires. I really miss it there.

What is up with these simultaneous posts both Robin at I at 16:10 and Chris and Keith at 14:41. Dare I say blog jinx? It is like mini zeitgeists.
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08/02/04 02:29 - ID#31113

Saving Journals

I just realized that you guys have no way to save your journals to anything, which is really weird. Everybody is writing and writing and I guess you can save each entry individually but there is no way to save a month or your entire journal. So I figure I will implement that next. I mean it is your journal, and your life, you need a way to save it efficiently.

So now the question becomes, what format do you want? Text format seems to be eternal but it is missing images. I think PDF's are also good, but the server we are using doesn't have the PDF libraries for PHP installed. Another possibility is that it save them as a static webpage with images and then zip the whole thing like a web archive. XHTML readers will be around forever. I could even just use XML files but do you guys know what to do with those.

Maybe, I could just make multiple options. Any ideas? My favorites are to save them as static web sites or PDFs. On another note, why does nobody use the A/V profiler foudn in your control panel with the mic icon.
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