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Category: buffalo

11/09/14 05:10 - ID#59554

Tour de West Side

(e:paul) and I decided to fight the last bits of our colds by going on a walk for groceries. What started as a simple trip to Elmwood Market and the co-op turned into a shopping tour of the West Side.

The coop has gotten as expensive, if not more, than Wegman's since their own renovation. Or maybe the Farmer's market is just too good. Either way, there wasn't much I wanted to get there.

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The burned out Elmwood house has a new roof, and is getting new siding - I can't imagine that really fixes the problem, but at least they're not tearing it down. Maybe they can undo the remuddling.

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We tried going to Guercio's to get dandelions for the tortoise. Unfortunately, they were closed.

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So we warmed up with a PSL (so basic Paul), chai and egg sandwich at Sweetness 7.
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(e:mike) and (e:libertad), your neighborhood looks nice.
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Lin Asian market was the first Grant Street store we stopped at. It was small but pretty clean, and still had a lot of good stuff. We got a 5 lb bag of jasmine rice for about $6.
They had egg tofu there - I wanted to try it but it was full of hydrogenated oil.

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After we walked across the street to Vineeta International Foods. This store was not the best - it had a lot of rotting vegetables (or durian fruits?), and meats that looked like they had been defrosted a lot. Even Paul didn't want to get anything. Gross.
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Frozen fried paneer. I would try it but I didn't trust it. Could probably make it much easier.
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Golden Burma - the last stop on Grant Street
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They did have this cute hund statue
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The garbage on Grant Street was real gross
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What's up with this building? The cornice is completely gone and so are the windows. I hope it's not getting razed for another dollar store.
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Paul wasn't ready to buy any camel meat

We continued back down on Ferry and then cut over on side streets to Richmond. There was:
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West side lawn Mary
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and the Italian wrought iron everywhere.
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Murrica.

We finished the day at Price Rite and getting some egg sammiches for (e:terry). Definitely got our 10,000 steps in.
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Category: computer

11/09/14 05:09 - ID#59553

Brand new server

Since we're moving the server from the basement to the new (e:allenstreet) offices, (e:paul) wanted to build a new server. The old one is still very fast and useful - but too loud for an office apparently.

Paul and I spent all Saturday building it - we had everything but a new case. So we cannibalized an old one from (e:terry)'s office.

The specs of the new server:
Intel Xeon E3-1271 v3 - 4 cores, 3.6Ghz, 8MB of L3 cache and only a max power usage of 80W.
32GB of ram
2x Samsung 500GB 840 SSDs in software RAID 1
And a giant super quiet heatsink and fan

It's the fastest computer I've ever seen - all the packages Paul was installing on it finished near instantly. Hopefully it'll use way less power than the old mechanical drive server. The new case should be here and ready to go on Tuesday when we move the server and cable service over to the office.

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Category: going out

11/09/14 05:08 - ID#59552

Attic party

On Friday, (e:terry) went out to Dreamland's nonprofit fundraiser, and then a house party for someone named Corey Dodge. (e:Paul) was too sick to come :(

First, we met up with (e:yesthatcasey) at Dreamland. Terry and I went to go steal some nachos from Founding Father's, and ran into (e:robert) who joined us.

The attic of the party was an amazing dance floor - definitely something I think we can do here. Really, we just have to stop people from falling through the floor. Plywood up.

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Category: food

11/09/14 05:07 - ID#59551

Wholesale wine by the Farmer's market

(e:paul) and I stopped by the end of the Clinton Bailey market and got some apples, onions, beans, honey and peppers. The food market is part of the Niagara Frontier Grower's coop - it must have been such a bigger thing when more food was shipped by rail.

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Across the street, we noticed a wholesale wine seller. It's crazy, you can get almost anything wholesale at the food terminals. I remember my mom used to buy 5 pound bags of cheese and restaurant quantities of flour down there.

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While doing some googling I found (e:tinypliny,0498)'s post about the market. I wonder how much different the early morning wholesale market is? Maybe if we have a late night, we can go. It seems much easier to go from the 4:30 side.

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Category: paul

11/08/14 03:58 - ID#59549 pmobl

Bear at work


Looks like Paul's become more of a bear than he thought.

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Category: halloween

11/08/14 03:57 - ID#59548

Cleaning up the porch

We finally finished cleaning up the aftermath of halloween. Our front porch looked so frat house-y. I couldn't believe how much I found in the bushes.

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Mostly clean now.
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I also had to put some of the pumpkins in the compost. My feelings exactly.
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11/07/14 01:38 - ID#59544 pmobl

Allergy Pride


I saw this sticker on the back of a car on Allen - I realize people have serious allergies but it reminded me of the allergy pride parade in Portlandia.



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Category: android

11/01/14 06:49 - ID#59537

Google Fit

The Google Fit app came out the other day and is a million times better than the S Health app that just counts your steps. The app keeps track of all activities and times and durations, including bike rides, and also can pull data from other fitness apps.

The weird part is it records the locations of the activity but only shows you a circle containing the beginning and end points. They obviously record the exact location but don't show it. I wonder if its to keep people from being reminded they're tracking themselves 24/7.

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Category: halloween

11/01/14 06:41 - ID#59536

A very spoopy Hollaween

It was absolutely insane. I think there had to be over 150 people who came by the end. The music was awesome, so many people got to meet and catch up, and I didn't see a single person having a bad time. Full on debauchery.

I wanted to be a puppy but had nowhere enough time. So I became Michael Phelps. Just add goggles, (e:paul)'s swim suit and ready to go.

Even the Buffalo bike party came and made us a stop on their party tour.

Thanks to everyone who made it out and made it super spoopy.

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Sha-nay-nay
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All dressed up and ready to go
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The basic bitches, Lindsay and Carrie
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Chun-Li breaks it down with (e:heidi)
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Mark's link twin
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Just like the night the pictures get blurrier at the end
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Category: shopping

11/01/14 06:37 - ID#59535

Savers thrift store

While doing some last minute Halloween shopping with (e:paul) and (e:flacidness), we came across this awesome new thrift store in the old Rosa's plaza at Sheridan and the Boulevard. It was huge, super clean and had a ton of decent clothes. I would have gotten some if we didn't have too many. There even was this guy buying a really nice road bike when we got there.

The only gross part was they were constantly spraying air freshener around the store.

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Rudolph is a little scared of (e:paul)
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Please help him
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Shirts I thought (e:terry) would really like
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A cabbage patch kid - Paul reconnected with her

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In contrast, we stopped at Michael's before and it was full of brand new garbage. Somewhere in the world, people are producing plastic fruit destined for the landfill.
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