"Sportsmanlike hockey fight" written by Jbeatty on estrip.org

10/13/07 12:49 - 54ºF - ID#41626

Sportsmanlike hockey fight

Whoever said fighting in hockey was unsportsmanlike?

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10/11/07 04:08 - 58ºF - ID#41601

College makes me laugh

As a whole college students are smart enough to learn and understand advanced concepts in numerous subjects...

Apparently we haven't quite figured out how to use a fucking microwave.

john writes at 10:30:00 10/28/07 - Comment #27111: Everyone has their "duh" moments. I started a fire in the microwave once. I walked down the street in the middle of winter to buy a couple slices of pizza, and instead of doing the intelligent thing and eating them there, I carried them home in the cold and then tossed the bag in the microwave, forgetting that the slices were wrapped in foil. The foil sparked and the bag caught on fire. Luckily I was standing there so I could stop the thing, pull the slices out and stick them on a plate before they burned up.

metalpeter writes at 07:55:19 10/12/07 - Comment #26193: I think the reason that sign is there is cause you allways here that so it kinda sounds like an urban legend. I'm sure people have gone to reheat chinesse food or something with a twist tie and not known it metal and sparks fly everywhere or forget and leave a fork on there plate. If the sign is there then something like that must have happened at least a couple times.

janelle writes at 11:21:52 10/11/07 - Comment #26145: They probably had one too many students learn that lesson the hard way.

lauren writes at 07:31:22 10/11/07 - Comment #26134: But but but...I though microwaves were kinda like duct tape, they can fix anything!

james writes at 06:20:14 10/11/07 - Comment #26131: I love that about college.

1) you study the most useless, academic stuff.

2) you are in an environment with people with no real obligations and no supervision.

a real formula for learning the intimate details of cellular biology while simultaneously getting a meth addiction.

carolinian writes at 05:12:22 10/11/07 - Comment #26125: Nor have they figured out that aluminum is a metal.

ladycroft writes at 04:52:34 10/11/07 - Comment #26124: oh oh oh!!! i just bought a new phone here a few weeks ago. as i was trying to find the page on where to load my sim card, i came across the following warning:

"do not dry phone in microwave"

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10/09/07 11:22 - 73ºF - ID#41558

Video Games Live

I just found this today on youtube. It's pretty cool, somebody has orchestrated a bunch of old games and set it to a video. Apparently the Buffalo Philharmonic will be performing it this Sunday

. Selections include Mario Brothers, Zelda, Tron and Final Fantasy. I would like to go but not certain I want to cough up $29 to see it especially since Rollins is tonight, the New Pornographers are next week Pat Metheny Trio is coming to Buffalo in two weeks. Sorry the video is kinda crappy but you get the idea.

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10/07/07 06:55 - 74ºF - ID#41543

The Fruits of Southeat Asia

mangosteens on the left, rambutans on the right

I don't recall what these were called, but I needed lots of water after eating one

One of two Durians I devoured

You can almost smell the goodness

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10/07/07 03:26 - 65ºF - ID#41536

Sunday Afternoon

After yesterday's fungi adventure I had a craving for some mushrooms in my dinner. This morning I found this recipe

from Lidia Bastianich for Bucatini with Chantrelles, Spring Peas, and Prosciutto. I watched her make it a couple years ago on PBS and it looked fantastic. I hit a few obstacles along the way however, apparently Wegmans pasta selection sucks and they don't have Bucatini, so I reluctantly substituted it with Spagettini. Chantrelles are also quite expensive, although not the same price point as Iranian Caviar, but the recipe called for a pound of them and at $20/lb I opted for oyster mushrooms instead. Despite my flagrant butchering of the original recipe it turned out pretty good, although next time I will use regular peas instead of sugar snap peas. I have no idea if this recipe is Tuscan but I had it with a cheap bottle of Chianti and some Tuscan bread. Allegedly this serves 6 people but I would guess more like 8. This was much better than the typical lunches I had this week, which was pretty much just olives, havarti and apple cider.

I love Sundays because I actually have time to cook. It's probably one of the most relaxing things in the world. Taking a couple hours to buy the ingredients and tackle the prep list is therapeutic really. It has to be awesome to be a chef in some great restaurant and have some of the rarest, most delicious ingredients at your disposal. I suppose if this whole school thing at UB doesn't work out I will just move to NY and go to culinary school like I should have 10 years ago.

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10/06/07 01:40 - 70ºF - ID#41520

Mushroom Hunting

I went to Delaware Park today to complete a Bio assignment. Actually it was for extra credit, but I could certainly use an extra 10 points averaged into my lab grade. I had to collect different species of Fungi for 1 point each. I found eleven that seemed to be different species, but I suppose I will find out Thursday. It was a pretty nice out when I got there about 11:30am. By the time I left around 1pm, I was soaked head to toe and had dirt halfway up my shins. But I still had fun, it's a nice park but really disappointing to find trash all over the place. It always seems to be shit like empty steel reserve bottles, lottery tickets, and McDonald's bags. I guess it tells you the kind of scum that don't really care to keep the park looking nice. I also found someone's drivers license and state benefit card lying on the ground. I did my good deed for the day and mailed it to him when I got home. I left my return address off though in case he thinks I nicked his wallet.

I feel like a dealer

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10/05/07 11:24 - 62ºF - ID#41504

For your viewing pleasure

I blame my brother for my love of older British TV, except for Doctor Who, I really don't like that show much. But I love this show the Young Ones and particularly like this episode that Madness was on.

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09/29/07 08:03 - 49ºF - ID#41395

Love my neighbors

This morning at about 1am I was awakened to obnoxiously loud forced laughing and screaming. It was the neighbors children and their friends being slightly too loud. I thought whatever...all part of living in this neighborhood I suppose. At about 1:30 one of the drunk assholes decided to chase one of the girls around my parking lot. I watched most of this unfold, I went back to bed and heard several bottles breaking. A few minutes later the guy in my building was screaming at them about how he called the cops, which I doubt ever showed up.

When I awoke at 7am I decided to clean part of the mess that was nearest my and my fellow tenants vehicles. I bagged the shards of alcho-pop bottle, wrote a note and left if on said neighbors porch. Now that I think about it I should have scattered it behind their car.

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09/28/07 08:44 - 60ºF - ID#41388

UB: 2 - James: nil

Today is a day I would like to forget. I had one quiz and two exams. I know that I really did shitty on all of them. I was banking on the calc exam sucking, but the bio exam was much harder than I was prepared for. I have the feeling of defeat right now. I almost want to curl up into a ball and buy a lotto ticket. I'm not accustomed to doing poorly on exams, so I suppose that I need to get my ass in gear and start studying harder. I have been blaming UB for my lack of understanding in my classes. I still think my calc prof sucks. But in another sense I feel like I'm being a pussy. I suppose this is one of those moments where I really need a god, a dog, or a girlfriend. Tomorrow is my physics exam. I feel somewhat ready for it, but after today I have no preconceived notions of how easy it will be. If I fuck this exam up tomorrow I am going to be so pissed at myself for being a lazy piece of shit.

jbeatty writes at 09:26:39 09/30/07 - Comment #25538: Terry would should definitely do that. I am so bad at calc. I will do my best with O-chem for you, but don't ask me about molecular orbital theory, because it has never made sense to me.

metalpeter writes at 02:20:00 09/29/07 - Comment #25462: I have never been to UB , but I have heard that it isn't really a good learning school, that they are a great research school and even teaching school, again not sure if this is true. What I will say is that you learn in different ways in a class 1) The teacher and in class stuff 2) Reading the book 3) Projects, homework or even research for those. The key is know how you remember things the best is sounds to me like you might remember things that are said the best. That is why having a bad teacher effects you. The point I'm making is that how ever you remember stuff the best is the form you should use to study your information. I admit I have no idea how to find out you learning style. Calculus and physics I only took at the Regents High School level and cant remember much of it. The only thing that I do remember is that you had to have Calculus to take Physics, I guess because if you didn't have the math skills to do the work in physics but I don't remember there being that much math in it. On a side note maybe you did better on the tests then you thought that does happen some times.

fellyconnelly writes at 07:41:14 09/29/07 - Comment #25440: calculus. biochemistry. physics. three things in life that are so beyond me i'm suprised i spelled them correctly.

drew writes at 10:06:21 09/28/07 - Comment #25426: You can borrow my God or my dog. I'm no help with the girlfriend.

jenks writes at 09:58:32 09/28/07 - Comment #25422: yuck, there's not much worse than that 'fuck. I just bombed that test' feeling. The only good thing, is that often I find it didn't go as badly as I thought it did. I have ONE test a year. The same test every year, no less. You would think I could study decently for it.

Apparently I can't.

Good luck tomorrow.

terry writes at 09:10:27 09/28/07 - Comment #25412: we should have a study date or something. I took the Bio you're in and you took the Chem I'm in... Can't say as I'd be awful helpful at Calculus, since it departed my brain eons ago...but who knows...

tinypliny writes at 08:51:13 09/28/07 - Comment #25409: I thought you were getting a degree in Biochemistry? Where did Calculus sneak in?

tinypliny writes at 08:49:58 09/28/07 - Comment #25408: All the very best! Have confidence in yourself!

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09/24/07 05:52 - 79ºF - ID#41294

This bloke is barking mad

So at Columbia University today Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave a speech about various topics. It was a highly criticized appearance by many Americans, which I personally find to be lame. Not that I think the guy has anything worth saying that isn't as nutty as what comes out of the likes of Pat Roberston's mouth. But I am aware that one of the founding principles of this country is the right to free speech. So if that is still the case whats wrong with extending that privilege to our visiting(I use the term loosely) "dignitaries". I see nothing wrong with letting him speak and then questioning his logic and opinions in a good old fashioned American way.

So anyway he has made some pretty bold statements in the past that are just plain scary. He is also very misinformed about many things including the existence of the Holocaust. So I was very interested in what kinds of things would be said by such a crazed, although somewhat powerful guy. Thankfully he didn't disappoint. My favorite quote from today is definitely this:

In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. We don't have that like in your country. ... In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.

Imagine that! Not a single homosexual in all of Iran? I haven't listened to the entire speech yet but I'm almost certain there are plenty of other good ones yet to come.

carolinian writes at 10:27:43 10/28/07 - Comment #27110: John, you're now an (e:peep). Congrats!

john writes at 10:23:21 10/28/07 - Comment #27109: Rollins opened up his shows here talking about Mahmoud. That guy is a complete lunatic, and we should let him spout off. Unfortunately, thanks to the far left and the far right, free speech and public discourse has more or less become a thing of the past here. Don't like what someone says? Shut him up!

jason writes at 08:37:34 09/25/07 - Comment #25134: PS - Opposition to this guy was definitely bi-partisan. The guy's a straight up Jew hater, and he's visiting NYC.......you sort of should expect some kind of outcry.

Now, me, I happen to agree that he should be allowed to come and talk, if only to expose the guy for the nut he is officially. That pretty much comprises the value of "negotiating" with someone like this. Apparently the Columbia President had no problem with using that approach.

jason writes at 08:33:31 09/25/07 - Comment #25133: I wouldn't think ol' Mahmoud would represent (R) any more than Stalin represents (D).

fellyconnelly writes at 11:00:56 09/24/07 - Comment #25118: Sounds like the gays should invade iran and do some recruiting!

drew writes at 07:35:16 09/24/07 - Comment #25105: I listened to some people say, "we shouldn't turn this into a photo op."

Yeah, Bush, Gulianni, and a million other politicians didn't do that.

Of course, if we allow him to express sympathy (which we might want to encourage--right?) then we can't claim that he did it, which I am sure Bush will try to claim, somehow, in the coming months.

And if this guy can prevent homosexuality in his country, why don't the republicans love him? Just asking. I'm surprised Cheney has invited him to his house for dinner (ooh. That was a cheap shot, wasn't it?)

james writes at 06:16:52 09/24/07 - Comment #25104: I did think he had a good point that the holocaust shouldn't be justification for the state of Israel; Nazi crimes payed for by the Palestinians. But, that isn't much of a point to make and a moot one at that, so a slight glimmer of reason in an otherwise vapid speech.

The prime minister of Japan said that his nation also does not have homosexuals. This was in the early 90's I think. We also make friends with loonies.

What bothered me about the whole fiasco was all the people wailing about Ahamadinejad wanting to lay a wreath at the world trade center. John McCain said he would personally restrain him if needed. We didn't want the guy to have his little PR coup. Is America so fragile that a leader, unpopular in his own nation and internationally, can't have a little photo op? Now that is might!

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