Category: music

01/13/09 12:24 - 32ºF - ID#47392

The Dead in Buffalo

The Dead (remaining members of the Grateful Dead) will be playing at the HSBC arena 4/21... anyone else going?

Sunshine, daydreams!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

01/12/09 10:48 - 23ºF - ID#47387

Puddle of poodles, music

Before I left Tioga County yesterday, A and I visited our friends Kell & Lori who happen to have two of Nisha's siblings (not littermates), Cooper and Buster Brown. Everyone needs more poodles.

Nisha and Buster Brown very similar in coloring (he's a couple shades lighter), size and shape.

Buster Brown and Nisha

Buster Brown, Cooper and Nisha

(Nisha needs a haircut bad!)

(Just so it's clear that I do things other than take pix of my pets... )

A's new band had a gig New Years Eve. It was the first time I had heard them play out and I was tickled by what they've accomplished since I left in August.

A and his sister

Mike the drummer, Kell (poodle owner referenced above), and Adrian.

I'm back in Buffalo for a while... *phew* having two places that are "home" can be rough!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: roller derby

01/04/09 07:39 - 31ºF - ID#47284

Queen City Roller Girls

I went to the roller derby last night, too! I had to ask my phone what the heck was going on

I'm sure (e:dragonlady7) had no idea who I was when I got this shot:

Love the Suicidal Saucies' socks!

Part of the Nickel City Knockout team

If I want to take good pix of the derby, I'll have to spring for the front row seats.

The will-call line is pretty long, ya might wanna get tix at one of the retail locations.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

12/31/08 02:21 - 15ºF - ID#47233

Christmas Nisha

Nisha & Mataya were playing at my office today :-)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: cooking

12/27/08 09:11 - 56ºF - ID#47202

Cookies!!!!

To celebrate the end of my first semester in law school, I invited A and Nisha up from Tioga County and (e:TinyPliny) over from the Mayflower and we made cookies and cholay! It was certainly a cross-cultural experience - (e:TinyPliny) got to lick the beaters for the first time ever and we got to saute cumin seeds in peanut oil! ((e:heidi) is a dork!)

Cholay and pulao - mmmmm now I understand how to make a proper garam masala. My apartment smells like an Indian restaurant! :-)

We made my great-grandmother's molasses cookie recipe and made oodles of tiny cookies, perfect little bites of yummy goodness. A and (e:tinypliny) rolled out the dough and cut out the cookies.

(e:tinypliny,47194) was horrified by the amount of butter and sugar involved in making cookies - this recipe calls for 1 cup butter, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar AND 1 cup molasses, then sprinkle sugar on top before baking. She requested that some cookies be left naked (see cows below).

We also made molasses crinkle cookies, someone else's great-grandmother's recipe, which uses very similar ingredients but has a very different result - a sharper cookie, less cakey. They get rolled into little balls of dough, then dipped in sugar before baking. Here (e:tinypliny) becomes enthusiastic about butter and sugar :-) I've spent a little bit of time trying to figure out how to make these ones without butter and sugar - honey & applesauce seem like the best substitutes for the white sugar and butter - does anyone have any other suggestions?

(Nisha was pretty good and stayed on her turtle most of the time. (e:heidi,45816))

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Location: Buffalo, NY

12/26/08 06:46 - 36ºF - ID#47191

Cute pet pix

Here's China Cat checking us out from her temporary basement home (basement kitteh!)

Nisha considers any available lap an appropriate place to perch.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: weather

12/23/08 12:42 - 17ºF - ID#47151

what's up with the plowing?

I'm so confused about the snow removal situation in Buffalo. Allen Street got plowed about once a day Friday to Monday. Most of the sidewalks did not get shoveled, or just to the top layer got taken off. Irving didn't get plowed at all. Is this typical? It seems awfully dangerous to me!

Until Friday I had been telling folks at home that the weather in Buffalo is pretty similar to Tioga County - it snows, it's cold, Buffalo is windier. Oh my! Windy!!! I took Nisha outside sometime Sunday evening and she almost blew away!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: crime

12/17/08 04:07 - 32ºF - ID#47093

Homicide in Tioga County

Since y'all were talking about crime in the downtown area (e:paul,47085)

The last time there was a murder in Tioga County was about 1984, a love-triangle murder-suicide. Last gun-related homicide was in 1997. (Last homicide: a woman riding her new horse down Main Street in Blossburg got hit by a drunk driver, both woman and horse were killed.)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: bus

12/12/08 06:01 - 27ºF - ID#47045

Google Maps Transit: Now in Buffalo!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: politics

12/10/08 09:00 - 26ºF - ID#47020

Yea for science!

Obama's pick to solve the energy crisis
- Andrew Leonard

"You should interview Steven Chu," the scientist at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif., told me. "He already has one Nobel Prize. He wants to get a second one for solving the energy crisis."

That was two years ago, and I sorely regret not following through and landing an interview with Chu, a physicist who has dedicated his post-Nobel Prize career to the development of alternative sources of energy. Because as Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of energy, Steven Chu is going to get a chance to make his dreams come true, with the full backing of the U.S. government.