"Inauguration Day" written by Jim on estrip.org

01/20/09 09:03 - 10ºF - ID#47456

Inauguration Day

For me, the best part of today is not that it's Obama's first day in office, but instead that it's the 43rd time that power has been transferred peacefully between presidential administrations. Obama is the 44th president in a chain stretching unbroken back to the founding of our country.

It's easy to forget what happens in some other countries. Seeing what happens in Zimbabwe and Myanmar, it's a relief to me to live in one of the countries that's moved beyond institutionalizing personal or party power above all else.

So, cheers to all the Presidents, Washington through George W Bush, who have stepped aside and let the political process govern who gets power.

We're not a perfect country, but we do get many things right and this is one of them.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

01/14/09 10:01 - 2ºF - ID#47404

Computer / Electronics Recycling

SATURDAY January. 17, 2009 9:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.

E-Waste & Computer Recycling
Electronic Items which can be brought to the site for
free, proper disposal include: Computers, Monitors & all Peripherals * Modems * Printers * Cell
Phones * Fax Machines * VCRs * CD & DVD Players * Games * TVs * Rechargeable Batteries * Fluorescent Bulbs

For Questions contact Erie County at 858-6996.

Drop-off Site, Buffalo State College, enter from Grant Street Overflow L-Lot

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: lulz

01/13/09 08:50 - 16ºF - ID#47397

HALP

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: local

01/09/09 09:27 - 20ºF - ID#47338

Buffalo Feed

I've created a site which aggregates and links to all the local Buffalo bloggers that I could find. It's been up a few days and I've shaken out most of the initial bugs.

Buffalo Feed:

This weekend I'll have time to add a few features like categorization and the ability to filter out sites you don't want to see, and it'll be even more useful.

I like to think of it as an inside-out (e:strip). It'll never be a community of it's own like (e:strip) is, but instead it's a way to look outward to almost 200 individual sites, each of which represents someone who is passionate about writing and sharing. There's actually a lot more bloggers in Buffalo then I ever would have thought.

Let me know what you think and if there's any way I can make it better. If you use Internet Explorer let me know if it looks broken and if so what version of IE you're running.

^_^

OK, back to work. Just wanted to drop a quick note here before the day really gets started.

libertad writes at 10:21:53 01/13/09 - Comment #44454: I like what I have seen so far. I am amazed at how much of buffalo is blogging. It seems like a great way to find out new info.

paul writes at 01:33:08 01/10/09 - Comment #44261: I know I already told you personally but I wanted to say it publically. Buffalofeed is an awesome idea - it is so refreshing to see another non-commercial, Buffalo-based portals to information.

dcoffee writes at 11:27:44 01/10/09 - Comment #44260: Sweet, good idea, damn useful.

jim writes at 12:08:04 01/09/09 - Comment #44243: Still not in Google, will need a bit of time to get found & indexed.

drew writes at 12:06:24 01/09/09 - Comment #44242: I googled Buffalo Feed when you said the site was almost there (but wasn't yet) and all I got was links for what bison eat.

james writes at 12:00:00 01/09/09 - Comment #44241: Jim, as your agent I wish you ran this post by me first.

The site if BuffaloFeed. Buffalo. Who gives a rats ass about Batavia? Change the picture.

^_~

I am very happy you finally got this pet project up and running. You are an awesometastic programmer.

jim writes at 10:28:49 01/09/09 - Comment #44236: Currently it sometimes displays photos, depending on if the photo is included in the summary of the feed. I'm going to have it strip out all photos, and then generate smaller photos that link to the original post if a photo is included in summary or in the content.

I don't want to post full size photos on the site, but instead have people go back to the original site to view them.

I'm going to make the site more iPhone friendly, but probably not for a couple weeks.

matthew writes at 10:22:32 01/09/09 - Comment #44235: Very cool jim, when's the iPhone app coming out? :) does it display photos as well as text?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

01/06/09 06:08 - 25ºF - ID#47311

Bacon Cups

Bacon cups:

Hey, maybe there is a God after all!

metalpeter writes at 07:21:42 01/07/09 - Comment #44194: That looks so tasty. This idea is a new twist on an old idea. See people don't like salad so they put something bad for you on it that tastes good like ranch dressing or bacon bits. It as also been used with things like cheese on Brocoli or other things, I think this might be my favorite form of it though.

mike writes at 04:02:36 01/07/09 - Comment #44192: OMG YUM-O

iriesara writes at 11:40:32 01/07/09 - Comment #44166: how yummy would it be to bake a little quiche in there!?! or like a cheesburger cassarole type thing baked right in, yum! I'm sure there's more creative things you could do, but that much bacon makes me go into cave man thinking...me like bacon

lauren writes at 10:08:40 01/07/09 - Comment #44159: oh.my.god.
that is beautiful.

paul writes at 12:05:05 01/07/09 - Comment #44155: Yum, crunch, yum!

joshua writes at 10:27:53 01/06/09 - Comment #44149: Ha - this is cool. But I still need my bacon in my salad, rather than having my salad in the bacon!

libertad writes at 08:28:40 01/06/09 - Comment #44141: those looks so freaking good.

james writes at 08:16:42 01/06/09 - Comment #44139: are they dishwasher safe?

mrmike writes at 08:11:31 01/06/09 - Comment #44138: that is beyond awesome

tinypliny writes at 08:02:17 01/06/09 - Comment #44137: Haha - she was actually obsessed enough to photo document all of that step by step.

Loony #1.

jim writes at 07:11:03 01/06/09 - Comment #44134: All that salad is lacking is bacon bits.

jim writes at 07:10:51 01/06/09 - Comment #44133: I think a 50/50 bacon to lettuce ratio is perfectly appropriate!

theli writes at 06:59:46 01/06/09 - Comment #44132: To bad our favorite deity made our arteries so bad at handling it. :p

I find it hilarious that they actually contain salad.

janelle writes at 06:24:40 01/06/09 - Comment #44131

salivate*

hodown writes at 06:10:28 01/06/09 - Comment #44128: Wow, just wow.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/06/09 03:54 - 29ºF - ID#47308

Afternoon Nap

I wish it was culturally acceptable to take naps in the mid-afternoon. Then staying up until Midnight wouldn't make me wretched the next day.

Permalink: Afternoon_Nap.html
Words: 24
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: life

01/05/09 03:13 - 26ºF - ID#47288

Sucky Day!

First panic attack in a year. This is awesome. I frickin' hate myself sometimes.

December was 2 weeks of being mostly sick and semi-functional, a week of vacation, and a few days of holidays. Plus quitting smoking this week. No wonder one of my project's schedule has slipped a month, but still it's freaking me out. At least the big project is still on track.

Oh well, at least I have a nice co-worker who is covering my communication duties today.

Sorry, world, for spilling my crazy all over you today.

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Words: 90
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: holidays

01/01/09 10:11 - 6ºF - ID#47236

Happy New Year!

The party last night was a lot of fun, thanks everyone & best wishes for the new year!

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Words: 18
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: aminals

12/31/08 09:14 - 19ºF - ID#47225

Michael Vick

My brother's job is to rehabilitate Michael Vick's dogs. 22 of his dogs were placed at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah where he works (

).

It's a very weird intersection with fame. They've got like half a dozen people working with these dogs every day to get them adoptable. My brother says that most of them are actually fine, but they've got to go to extreme lengths to prove that they're harmless before they can be considered adoptable.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

12/29/08 02:51 - 37ºF - ID#47211

Quitting Smoking

I quit smoking this morning. It is going pretty well so far.

I just need to get past to Friday and I'll be OK. My one smoking co-worker is off on vacation this week so this is my best chance to avoid temptation. We're each other's doom when it comes to quitting.

I quit for a few years, up until New Year's eve last year when I was a little drunk and had one, and then slowly over the couple months after that I ended up hooked again. So it's been a year now of on-again off-again smoking and I hate it so much.