"Canned Potatoes" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: food

02/26/11 06:35 - ID#53737

Canned Potatoes

Who is so lazy that potatoes are too difficult to cook? I guess they last longer but, seriously?

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/26/11 06:35

Category: food

02/26/11 03:09 - ID#53735

Blue fin on Elmwood, soft shell crab, yum!

Went to lunch at Blue Fin on elmwood with (e:samathon86) and (e:enknot).

I swear it gets better everytime I go and that says a lot because I really liked it from the first visit.

I usually get saba and toro sashimi with a side of fried rice or lo neon but all of the entrees I have seen and tried are so awesome that it's hard to keep getting that.

For example, (e:enknot) got the softshell crab. Check out how awesome it looks.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: mobile

02/26/11 02:32 - ID#53734

Moto Attrix Benchmark

I was really impressed with the motor attrix benchmarks.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/26/11 02:32

Category: games

02/25/11 06:09 - ID#53724

Bowling at kenmore lanes

Last night I was supposed to go bowling with terry and friends but I misheard which lanes. Apparently, I was supposed to go to Classic Lanes for disco bowling night but I understood Kenmore Lanes and I directed half the party there. So (e:samathon) won with the high score of like 153.

Hadn't been there in years, since like 93 when I used to go there to play gauntlet.

I found a nice pink ball to use but I only bowled a high of 119.

(e:keithT) dressed the part. I wish there was more light in the pic.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/25/11 06:09

Category: mobile

02/24/11 08:57 - ID#53711

Matthew's phone - Matthew's Journal

This screen is what sold it for me. Frankly, I am a bit jealous.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/24/11 08:57

Category: weather

02/23/11 06:15 - ID#53698

6:13 and its light out

Wow, typing and walking with blind trust in your spelling corrector doesn't work.

I meant

It feels so weird to leave work when its light out again.

not

It feels do weird to leave work I'm the light again.

Time to get my yoga on.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/23/11 09:57

Category: texture

02/22/11 09:50 - ID#53688

Fur on Metal

I am even more jealous of this HTC inspire 4g. The camera seems pretty amazing. The only downside is that it does not have the front facing camera.

The keyboard text selection on it better than on the gingerbread. At least the gingerbread I have have.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/22/11 09:50

Category: mobile

02/21/11 11:54 - ID#53680

Gingerbread is Pretty Fun

I couldn't wait any longer for the Nexus One to get gingerbread. For like a year I used Cyanoygen mod 6 on my nexus one but then I unrooted and reverted everything back to the standard android ROM around thanksgiving 2010 in anticipation of gingerbread coming out. Needless to say, it never came.

Tonight, I moved on to cyanogen 7 with gingerbread. I have no idea what standard gingerbread has because the cyanogen mods always have so much more. However, one thing I think is in both is the cursor when typing. This is great. It was one thing the android OS was really missing. Especially in devices like my Nook where I didn't have a trackball.

Another interesting thing is that it enabled the fabled FM radio chip in the phone making it possible to once again listen to FM radio on the go. I like this feature and missed it since giving up my nokia devices which had it. I don't understand why google didn't enable this by default if the chip was in there the whole time.

I am sure there are a bunch of other changes that I haven't discovered yet.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 02/21/11 11:54

Category: holidays

02/21/11 07:00 - ID#53676

National Holidays and the end of the civil war

In reference to the holiday comments on (e:heidi,53668).

My union celebrates the following holidays.

1. New Year's Day
2. Lincoln's Birthday
3. Washington's Birthday
4. Memorial Day
5. Independence Day
6. Labor Day
7. Columbus Day
8. Veterans' Day
9. Thanksgiving Day
10. Christmas Day
11. Election Day
12. Martin Luther King Day

I know, why do we still celebrate both Lincoln and Washingston's birthday in the same month when everyone else had moved onto Presidents day, if that. I really wish they would drop Christmas and replace it with a non-religious holiday. Its not like there are not float holidays, personal days and vacation time people could use to cover there religious holidays. Then the union would not look biased toward christians.

I guess this was the first time I really considered, "What is a national holiday?" One thing that seems to be a glaring oversight is the lack of an end of the civil war/ US reunification day to celebrate the end of the civil war.

According to wikipedia, the last shot was fired April 9th, 1865. Maybe this year I will use one of my float holidays and celebrate that instead. I also read the president of the confederacy was captured May 10, 1865. You think I would know seeing as I did a whole 4th grade presentation on Jefferson Davis, lol. Man that was so long ago.

Speaking of so long ago, I realized the other day that it has been more time since I was 17, than the time from birth to 17.

metalpeter writes at 07:39:26 02/22/11 - Comment #60871: Where I work there is no union... Each year we have a set number of holiday days..... Of course what days you get off changes based on when the holiday falls.... Yes there have been years when we worked New Years eve..... It works out to the same amount of days each year... This year we got MLK off but not because it was MLK we get Presidents day off but do to a shut down they moved that day to MLK......

libertad writes at 08:46:35 02/21/11 - Comment #60847: Christmas is hard to say is completely religious for me in the context of our culture. Even the anti-Christmas, Jews, can admit that it is hard to escape. I hope that doesn't sound anti-semitic cause it wasn't the way I intended it to sound. I enjoy having Christmas as a paid holiday. I was raised with it and it is nice that it is one of the few holidays that I am actually given the day off. I think that it is also nice for people who don't celebrate it to have a day of peace and quiet as well. I totally don't mind random days off. It just sort of makes sense that so many people in our culture want this day off, why not give it to them?

Days off at universities can be even more complicated. Could you imagine if Christmas was an actual day that people needed to report to class? The absenteeism would be so high it would be ridiculous. I think it is easier for everyone for it to be a planned day instead of one where everyone pretends that they are ill or have to prove or feign some type of religious attachment to the day.

As far as the other holidays, they could cut 2 and 3 in my opinion, I definitely let the union know that I didn't think we should have any more days off. From what I have been told, you should voice your complaints with the union otherwise they will not know what you want.

OMG, I almost forgot, I think Columbus day is so idiotic. That should be the first to go. You should also be aware that you could work those days if you wanted to and they would give you holiday pay I believe. At least in my union/department you can and are expected to work most of them. I opt to take a day off at my choosing.

In general, I think people need more days off. Not necessarily us, but just people in general. If state/federal/unionized workers lost their days off, it would only lower the bar for most everyone else.

tinypliny writes at 08:11:21 02/21/11 - Comment #60846: "National Holiday" encompasses a ton of concepts in India. We have a scarce set of days that mark when India became independent, became a Republic, Gandhi's birthday etc. And then we have a HUGE set of religious holidays that are actually decided by prominent religious representatives because they have no standard days and the ancient Indian calendar varies so much from the Anglican calendar. According to the Indian constitution India is first and foremost secular - which means we place as much or even more importance on respecting our diversity. In fact, it is only during the "religious" holidays that attendances suffer the most, not the government-related holidays.

heidi writes at 07:40:29 02/21/11 - Comment #60843: me, too, (e:flacidness).

According to this federal site, :::link::: :

Memorial Day is a federal holiday observed the last Monday of May. It originally honored the people killed in the American Civil War, but has become a day on which the American dead of all wars, and the dead generally, are remembered in special programs held in cemeteries, churches, and other public meeting places. The flying of the American flag is widespread.

flacidness writes at 07:27:56 02/21/11 - Comment #60842: I'm glad they recognize MLK day :)

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: church of the ascension

02/21/11 04:36 - ID#53672

Church of the Asenscion Plow Damage

Now that the snow is melting and the giant pickup truck is still plowing the freakin sidewalk - it is a disaster.

Is the convenience of not shoveling worth dealing with the amount of damage they will need to repair in the spring.

They already barely had any grass from the tracker/rider lawnmower tear up and their inability to rake leaves.

The ruts and piles are like a foot deep.