"RubyConf 2007" written by Jim on estrip.org

09/07/07 10:24 - 77ºF - ID#40985

RubyConf 2007

Registration just opened for Ruby Conference 2007. Hmm... a vacation about programming? In North Carolina in Buffalo's cold November?

I think I might just have to go...

Permalink: RubyConf_2007.html
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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: hobbies

09/06/07 05:29 - 91ºF - ID#40973

Camera !!!

I got a new lens today, it is a 30mm normal/wide prime lens that I adore already. Here is my first photo from it:

(bigger size here)

I sold some other stuff to pay for this but man oh man it was worth it!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

09/06/07 12:20 - 88ºF - ID#40968

Meow

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Words: 2
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: namesake

09/05/07 11:13 - 65ºF - ID#40944

C is for Cookie

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: life

09/04/07 06:37 - 74ºF - ID#40934

This is totally not like me at all.

I am never like that.

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Words: 12
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

09/03/07 05:01 - 77ºF - ID#40918

Dream House

Considering...

1. I love mansard roofs
2. I am jealous of not have a mansion like (e:MPT)
3. I think I could afford the mortgage, but probably not the heating bills

This is my dream house:

Huge double lot, brick, second empire house. A bit in a bad area maybe though... Niagara Street near the college and armory.

matthew writes at 10:25:28 09/04/07 - Comment #23831: $333! that's crazy. what temp do you keep it at? 85 degrees? :) We kept it at 70 during the day and 65 at night. It can be chilly but you could just throw on a sweater. Do you have storm windows?

tinypliny writes at 08:23:11 09/04/07 - Comment #23818: If "Mansard Roofs" are the ones with the hexagonal/pentagonal tiles, I adore them! They are perfect.

carolinian writes at 06:53:54 09/04/07 - Comment #23806: $450 a month in a 4000 sq. foot 100 year-old house? I have an 850 sq foot apartment in 100 year-old house. My highest heating bill was $333. Did I mention I did the whole plastic thing and caulked the windows? That's just not right. Not right at all, I say!

matthew writes at 05:33:00 09/04/07 - Comment #23804: very nice! The heating might not be as bad as you think, if you're careful. Our house is about 4,000 sq feet. and our highest heating bill last winter was $450. We had a new high efficiency furnace installed this summer, so this winter's heat bill should be even lower. and just imagine if we tweaked our windows! i remember everyone telling me i was crazy when we bought our Linwood house because the heating bills would be "crazy". But they were wrong. if the house is built well (which i have no doubt an 1860's buffalo 2nd empire is) it contains the heat well and keeps the cold out for an 100 year old house. Just heat the main rooms during the day and the bedrooms at night. Also, it says that one of the fireplaces is in working order. Score!

jim writes at 05:02:09 09/04/07 - Comment #23802: Now if only it stays on the market until the spring!

jason writes at 04:00:05 09/04/07 - Comment #23801: Looks like a fantastic (although freaking giant) home. Living in a little apartment for so long, I think I might feel odd having so much space.

joshua writes at 10:22:58 09/04/07 - Comment #23789: That heating bill has to be murder though. Murder, I say!

fellyconnelly writes at 09:36:42 09/03/07 - Comment #23778: oh thats great!
buy it and invite me for parties!

drew writes at 08:22:46 09/03/07 - Comment #23760: Wow! This seems like a great deal.

jim writes at 05:20:34 09/03/07 - Comment #23747: Yeah... I think we'll end up staying in Buffalo just so we can buy an awesome house and waste all the earth's resources in keeping it warm through winter.

joshua writes at 05:19:38 09/03/07 - Comment #23746: Hmm - that is in very good condition for its age, at least from the outside.

Personally, my dream house is a beach home in California... but I'm still saving my nickels.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

09/03/07 03:39 - 77ºF - ID#40913

Estrip is Dying

As you can see from this graph, Estrip activity is exponentially decreasing over time, a disaster in the making, and soon no one will be posting comments.

You all must view and post comments to my journal, thus propelling me into Silver Medalist position... err I mean thus saving Estrip!

Late Update:

Thanks to your hard work, we've saved Estrip!

Permalink: Estrip_is_Dying.html
Words: 64
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: photos

09/02/07 03:28 - 70ºF - ID#40889

Mike and Terry's Birthday 2007

Here are my photos from last night, also the full set of 50 or so photos is available here on Flickr:

jim writes at 02:12:09 09/02/07 - Comment #23697: I updated this journal with all the rest of the photos. You may need to clear your browser cache and then refresh if you see weird squished photos.

paul writes at 01:17:17 09/02/07 - Comment #23694: Oh, I see it now on the flickr page.

paul writes at 01:16:24 09/02/07 - Comment #23693: Which one of (e:jill)?

paul writes at 01:12:32 09/02/07 - Comment #23691: Jim, you can upload more into any journal. It only lets you choose 20 at a time. The n you can load 20 more.

metalpeter writes at 01:11:39 09/02/07 - Comment #23690: The Graphic ones are nice nothing wrong with those. The limbo pictures came out really good that one of (e:jill) is amazing.

paul writes at 01:11:33 09/02/07 - Comment #23689: My favorite one is the last one of megan and I.

libertad writes at 01:01:59 09/02/07 - Comment #23687: Paul is such a filthy pig rolling around in that porn.

Did Mike and I pose for that picture you posted of us on estrip? I like the one of us in the dining room.

I love that card I got Terry that looks like Andy Warhol. Fabulous! Your the boss applesauce!

Nice pics. I think my camera would have a hard time in those low-lighting situations because I don't use the flash (its hideous). I tend to get a blur in those situations, sometimes I like that though.

jim writes at 12:52:52 09/02/07 - Comment #23686: I took out a couple graphic ones, sorry!

lauren writes at 12:26:51 09/02/07 - Comment #23685: Fabulous pics as usual! Yay for cute little sugar gliders, nipples, and fire!

jim writes at 11:56:33 09/02/07 - Comment #23684: Peter, thanks! And done: :::link:::

There are the rest...

metalpeter writes at 11:31:45 09/02/07 - Comment #23683: If you up load all your pictures to another site you can give us a link to it or even another journal.

metalpeter writes at 11:12:39 09/02/07 - Comment #23682: Great pictures and thanks for posting them the one of (e:lilho) is great that is one picture that I wish I would have gotten of her video chatting with someone the two of (e:paul) where you can see the picture of what he is looking at is great to. I didn't realise how big that fire got, again great pictures.

jenks writes at 10:19:27 09/02/07 - Comment #23678: wow... I definitely left too early.

Permalink: Mike_and_Terry_s_Birthday_2007.html
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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

08/31/07 07:39 - 77ºF - ID#40866

Business Cards

I'm pretty happy! I made the text a point or two too small, though.

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Words: 16
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: movies

08/31/07 12:12 - 59ºF - ID#40856

10 Things I Hate About You

I really liked that movie. Every time (e:Drew) posts I am reminded of it. You better stop, Drew, before I put it on the NetFlix queue and force (e:James) to watch it.

And I like a lot of other really dumb popular movies where people in their mid-twenties play 15 year olds. And I tend to cry easily at ridiculous movies. I am really not fit for being exposed to popular culture.

Also, I am 28. I only have another year where I could conceivably move to LA and find a job playing a teenager on a new sitcom on the WB (or CW or whatever it's called now). I better get cracking.

I should be working right now, but I felt like yesterday was Friday and that would make today Saturday.

james writes at 03:08:27 08/31/07 - Comment #23590: When I turned 18 I felt a great loss. Now I never could do kiddie porn.

grains of sand in an hour glass Mr. Lindley.

tinypliny writes at 03:07:16 08/31/07 - Comment #23589

I haven't seen those movies...

duly noted :)*

tinypliny writes at 02:27:32 08/31/07 - Comment #23573: I love that line where that kid from the 3rd rock goes something like: "One question before we talk, do you think you should be drinking when you have no liver?"

Hilarious!

drew writes at 02:21:01 08/31/07 - Comment #23570: Sorry to start all of this.

For the record, my favorite adults playing teens movie is Mean Girls.

I'm not really into the teen movie thing, but I had to watch it because it was writeen by Tina Fey. I will post 10 things I like about Tina Fey sometime soon.

jim writes at 02:15:08 08/31/07 - Comment #23565: My favorite Freddy Prinze Jr movie is [link=http://imdb.com/title/tt0192111/]Head over Heels[/link] where a beautiful girl (who dresses frumpy) moves in with 4 supermodels, and gets made over. Then, she falls in love for F.P.jr's character who may or may not be a serial killer, but she is not very concerned and keeps going out with him anyways.

Turns out he is a secret undercover agent working in the fashion world to uncover the brutal blood diamond traders, and they all team up, the main character, the supermodels, and the undercover agent, to stop the evil guys. And there is a great dane named Hamlet.

mike writes at 02:07:15 08/31/07 - Comment #23561: those are the best movies. Can't Hardly Wait is really the best one thoguh. don't you dare steal my 25 year old playing a 15 year old dream. When I turned 22 I really felt like I lost my chance because that is the age when the guy who played Dawson on Dawson's Creek was discovered while majoring in sociology like I was at the time. Maybe there is still a chance....

tinypliny writes at 02:01:20 08/31/07 - Comment #23559: You know what? I am WWWAAAY ahead of your game. I dug up that movie and watched it already, a couple days back (for about the 7th time) - and it was *all* Drew's fault. That movie was the first thing I thought of the minute.. no, the second I saw his first "10 things" list hit the estrip list.

Yeah, and I love pop movies and start crying the minute a James Horner/John Williams soundtrack screeches out of speakers. Heck, I don't even need any plotline - I cry watching trailers with emotional soundtracks.

So now that the basic qualifications have been outlined, do you think I could get a job too? I have one more year (maybe half) more than you. heheh.

And why pretend? I have stopped working altogether.

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Location: Buffalo, NY