07/27/14 12:15 - ID#59237

Luxury by the Hill hotel

The boarded up and paved house next to the Hill Hotel on Franklin now has a sign from Sinatra that "luxury apartments" are now coming to the property. I wonder if he's behind the LLC that boarded up the house and paved the lawn? But finally! I can't believe it's sat vacant for so long.

If this is true I can't imagine the Hill hotel is going to be the way it is much longer.

On one hand I hate the owner for putting nothing into it and letting it rot (the Erie County Real tax site says Richard A Panicali is in care of trust that owns it). It's one of the worst properties in Allentown (how long has that busted Porsche been rotting there?). Any sort of renovation or improvement would make the street and Allentown so much nicer. Maybe it would even kick off development on the parking lots all down the street.

On the other hand I do feel sorry for some of the residents if they get kicked out for nicer housing. There aren't many low cost housing options this central to everything. And the fact that the owner has put zero into it and could probably turn a huge profit by selling it makes me sick.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: garden

07/25/14 01:46 - ID#59234

Himbeeren

(or raspberries) is what I thought these were. But they're really just unripe blackberries. I'm glad Paul told me before I tried to eat them. There's a ridiculous amount of them on the blackberry bush, I can't wait for them. Not so many blueberries but the ones that are ripe are huge.

The garden looks so colorful right now. Apparently we are a Buffalo in Bloom garden, whatever that entails.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: allentown

07/24/14 09:32 - ID#59229

Spider tires

Allentown put out these bike tires as some sort of art thing in May. Since then they've been floating around as a living trash sculpture. One time someone hung it in a tree and it looked like a spider.

Someone also filled in the trash garden with some plants. Hopefully it'll stay nice.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/24/14 09:32

Category: walking

07/22/14 01:30 - ID#59224

Night walking on ants

After getting out of work early tonight I forced (e:paul) out of bed for a walk.
Ant errywhere. They were swarming this dead slug, it was really gross.

This parking lot next to Globe is on it's way out, woop. Beyonce even visited to tag her name on the barriers.

Bike or Bar had a redonk light show going on

Mode finally has a new place opening up in it. After 5 years. The sign says Saigon Cafe - is it related to Saigon Bangkok?

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: buffalo

07/22/14 01:29 - ID#59223

Starin Train Station

After the Italian fest we continued our bike ride through Parkside and the Park before heading home. The Starin Parkside neighborhood is so ridiculous and I always forget about it. Not only are the houses huge but the roads and lawns too.

One of my favorites that is not so big but so cool is the old belt line train station at Starin and Amherst. It's sunk below the street next to the tracks and has this old cobblestone driveway down to it. You can rent it on airbnb for $300 a night.

We had a pretty shitty experience at the park (ask (e:paul)) but Hoyt lake was especially bad that day. I assume it was the rain.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: buffalo

07/21/14 12:22 - ID#59222

Everybody loves an Italian boy

(e:paul), (e:terry) and I went on a bike ride after getting our hair did. Terry wanted a cannoli so we stopped at the Italian festival for a bit. For once the stands were a little less fair and a little more Italian food.

The cannoli were so amazing. We also got an eggplant roll up and free cheese samples. Yum.

Making it rain on them ho's.

The crowd was not very Italian but is North Buffalo even Italian anymore?

Jewel of India served lasagna and pasta. I wonder if they were forced to have an Italian menu.

The city of Buffalo would like you to recycle the crap they are handing out.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: fashion

07/21/14 12:12 - ID#59221

Short hair, don't care

After getting back from camlping, (e:Paul) cut his beard, (e:terry) shaved his golden locks and I trimmed back to a small fauxhawk. Woof.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 07/21/14 12:12

Category: food

07/20/14 02:29 - ID#59217

Valle de Mexico

On Friday before Brushwood, (e:Paul), (e:Terry) and I went with Vanessa to go get lunch at Valle de Mexico on South Park.

There were so many choices but I didn't really know what most of them were. I wanted to get the soggy chips in sauce that Terry talked about, but the menu was limited since it was the greased pole festival. Instead I got the veggie burrito. The food was slow to come out but it was because they made it fresh.

The burrito was not that good although the poblano peppers in it were. I think Paul just ate his kryptonite because he was dying after.

The best part was the horchata. The waitress described it as rice pudding in a drink and that's what it tasted like.

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Category: estrip

07/18/14 03:59 - ID#59210

What stops you?

What stops you from posting?

tinypliny writes at 04:01:41 07/24/14 - Comment #72078: hahha, I have to live up to the reputation of the human-comment-bubble. I actually was a comment bubble in one of the halloween extravaganzas at the 24.

joe writes at 01:44:07 07/22/14 - Comment #72066: I really want to add new features and modernize the mobile app with Paul. Maybe even advertise more. I just don't know when there will be more time- maybe winter?

(e:tinypliny) you manage to write more than I post with your comments. I always appreciate the email storm I get when you log on.

sina writes at 04:12:21 07/20/14 - Comment #72056: Sorry my phone show posts confusedly

sina writes at 04:10:59 07/20/14 - Comment #72054: The third picture is the burrito?
What is inside it?

metalpeter writes at 10:40:36 07/19/14 - Comment #72045: I forget to come here everyday need to get back into the habit of it .... Part of that is that when I'm on twitter it Feels as if one is having a conversation, then I get behind on reading posts ... I still haven't posted about iphone , Hoping to try a mobile post today if I can click on the mobile part it isn't easy but do have a sort of copy paste one coming up hence why I'm here today .....

tinypliny writes at 11:43:38 07/18/14 - Comment #72037: Bunch of reasons.
I am so exhausted in my mind and spirit that I think I have very little to say nowadays.

I thought my life was somewhat boring in Buffalo, but here it is at a standstill. Now I just take a million pictures and since all of them are automatically uploaded to G+ its super easy to hit a button, write a sentence and send it along to my family or to a small circle of friends.

I write a LOT, all of it pretty technical. On an average I start 2 Google Docs a day. On top of it I just started a github blog for notes. All this writing highlights my dreary existence even more.

I love coming and here and hearing all about the best friends whom I left behind and I always wish I had met you before I left. :-)

heidi writes at 10:39:05 07/18/14 - Comment #72030: My phone's apps all decided that they wouldn't cooperate with estrip and/or estrip itself kept crashing (see my April post). I think the latest update that happened about two weeks ago might have fixed it but now I've gotten out of the habit. I really enjoy your and everyone's posts, and want to contribute more.

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Category: random

07/18/14 03:58 - ID#59209

No sleep

Ich have zu viel Energie.

Its 3:30am and I am not tired. Everyone is asleep. i just got back from Jims with (e:yesthatcasey). I got the veggie taco and and mac and cheese bited for $5 and the cashier said they both were vegetarian. They both also smelled like fried dough.

Now I'm sitting in the park at Franklin and North. It's really nice but almist never used. I woke up a drunk guy so his phone doesn't get stolen.

Maybe I should Deutsch üben. Or program. I have a bug at work that needs to be fixed but Terry might kill me if I work more hours like Paul. I wish (e:terry) would post.

If someone were awake right I'd go for a walk. woof woof. I bet midnight would.