Category: walking
01/11/15 10:32 - 30.ºF - ID#59744
Winter walk
No dice. The line was almost a half hour long just to pay for admission, not even the line for skate rentals. It's good that it's so popular - the space is awesome and it probably brings more people downtown on a weekend than anything else.
So instead we continued our walk over to Riverworks. It was much less crowded and the ice looked way nicer. It was already closing when we got there, so we'll have to try another time. Some weeknights they're open until 10pm.
This house on Franklin has been done completely in white. Blank white walls inside, fresh white paint on the outside, white snow on the lawn.
The dreamland crew made these pretty ice globes out of water balloons
Riverworks and the river
When we got home (e:terry) and I made a delicious curry with the leftover paneer from my sandwich.
I continued my work on porting the Paul's CSS color themer away from surebert while we watched a terrible zombie movie called World War Z. It's amazing how all so much of the javascript that needed to be abstracted into toolkits and frameworks has been standardized in the past couple of years (if you want to ignore IE8).
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Category: gay
01/11/15 10:31 - 30.ºF - ID#59743
Bear night
I also am nearing the a good first draft of Squeaky Wheel's wordpress. It's a lot less generic looking now - I want to make it more artsy by porting over Paul's custom colorpicker code to it.
Warm laundry for (e:paul)
At night, we went with (e:flacidness), (e:dianne), and Heidi's nephew Tyler out to bear night at Ohm. It was kind of what I thought it would be like, big men, big beards and a lot of cheesy music. Almost nobody was dancing so we had the floor to ourselves, which is a lot better than Funky Monkey. Fittingly Bear night has free pizza. It was amazing.
I came across this really cool picture of a wolf and 3D art online. It turns out it's by Daniel Yemchuk who we saw at Bass Mountain. He does a lot of his generative work with Javascript.
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Category: house
01/11/15 10:02 - 28.ºF - ID#59742
Solar powered dream
I requested a new quote from them this month, and it's so much more in reach. The proposal they gave us has the south facing roof covered in 19 300W panels, although more could fit on the flat peak. This would be more likely to get by the preservationists. I've attached the documents comparing the two estimates, but here are the key points. (These numbers are for the smaller array, but the size could increase which would improve the numbers even more.)
- Since 2011, the cost per watt on similarly capable panels (19% efficient) has dropped almost in half
- subsidies have dropped from $1.75 per watt to $0.80 - and dropping
- despite the subsidy drop the net cost to us has dropped from ~$12k to ~$5k
- even with Basra using 2150W for heating in his 7 month wintering, we can cover 40% of our electric use. Without his environmental disaster, I have to image it'd be closer to 70-80%
- the return on investment, even on a smaller 5kW array has dropped to 6 years, from 9-11 years
- the 25 year savings (length of the panel warranty) would total ~$30k
We haven't decided for sure if we are doing it yet but the estimate alone gives me a huge nerd boner. It's crazy how quickly affordable renewable energy is becoming, even in a a cloudy place like Buffalo. Imagine a distributed grid powering Buffalo throughout the day and the Falls powering us at night. No one would ever have to breath in the disgusting Huntley coal fumes again.
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Category: pets
01/10/15 03:10 - 15.ºF - ID#59736
Pet shopping
(e:paul) and I went to Pet Supplies plus to get a new lightbulb for the beast. I think the only type of shopping I do like is at pet stores. Everything there is so cute - look at this shirt for dogs. Its supposed to calm them in thunderstorms.
Animals also get these delicious looking peanut butter cookies, and rodent trail mix. They remind of the yogurt snacks I used to share with my guinea pigs.
Afterwards Paul and I had a bromantic date at Taj Grill where we talked about programming and ate fried food. Yum.
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Category: food
01/08/15 10:32 - 14.ºF - ID#59732
Paneerwich
It was very good but I can't imagine it was much healthier than (e:paul)'s chicken finger sub.
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Category: weather
01/08/15 10:32 - 14.ºF - ID#59731
Winter weather
Night walks are the best. I get to let out my energy and it feels like I get all of Buffalo to myself. If only (e:terry) or (e:paul) would come with me. :(
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Category: church of the ascencion
01/08/15 10:30 - 14.ºF - ID#59730
Tschüss Church of the Ascension
I actually didn't mind living next to them. Free park/bocce court/drone launchpad and a nice looking building. I hope they keep that with the new senior housing.
Buffalo news story
If they build a giant parking lot on our side or in the courtyard I'm going to park a bulldozer in someone's house.
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Category: random
01/05/15 12:25 - 28.ºF - ID#59721
Sato's dirty mirror
Afterwards we finished up Mario Wii. Everyone went off to watch UFC, while (e:paul) and I programmed. I am finally almost done with the Squeaky Wheel front end.
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Category: dancing
01/04/15 12:44 - 47.ºF - ID#59717
Reanimate: New Year's Rave
We all got a little bit ridiculous, and so did the music. The lower level had house music and the upper had more jungle, some DnB and sadly some trap. We danced for hours - after getting there after 12, we didn't leave until almost 7 am. I did some of my best dancing ever according to (e:paul).
At one point (e:terry) and I panicked a bit because we needed to pee, but we couldn't wait in an hour line for the 5 port-a-potties. For $10 reentry, we had the privilege of peeing outside - I guess that's the going rate these days. Our night greatly improved after that. You can buy happiness.
I was so exhausted by the end. Our coats and clothes were caked with mysterious floor mud and I'm pretty sure I had black lung. But it definitely was one of the best raves I've been to yet.
Paul in a mask - reliving his vegan power days. If only his vegan self could meet him now.
(e:keith) tearing it up
The end of the night lead to the most awkward night of my life. Maybe I'll post about it one day. Moral of the story - if anyone ever gives you this stare, run:
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Category: art
01/04/15 12:32 - 47.ºF - ID#59716
An artsy fartsy day
The old location is a hoarder's paradise. Most of what we moved consisted of tons of old, broken projecters and TV's ready for the e-scrap yard. There also was the boxes upon boxes of physical media - VHS tapes. Even (e:uchina) would have found it to be vintage.
After we dropped the waste at the scrap yard, we stopped for Breadhive's bagel brunch at Hydraulic Hearth. (e:terry) and I split a kimchi/yogurt bagel and a pepper hummus bagel. I learned that Jax loves invasive species, and this other girl Anna wants to be the mushroom foraging pioneer of Buffalo.
The restaurant had a phonebooth art installation by Leslie Zemsky - Howard Zemsky's wife. She designed and decorated most of the restaurant.
Afterwards, we brought the rest of the tapes and shelving to storage in the Hi-Temp Fab warehouse on Perry Street. Being in such a big old warehouse was neat. It also was covered in art.
One gallery had a this super strange painting of a bare-chested Aunt Jemima atop a stack of pancakes. I can't decide if this was supposed to be racist or not.
There were plenty of safety bicycles there too if you wanted to take a spin. i think artists may just be hoarders.
Afterwards we went for a hot toddy at Jax and Kyle's place. Spiced whiskey is a little much for me. But we got to show off the Samsung VR Goggles and compare them to VR art on the Oculus Rift VR1. The Samsung headset is so much better to look at. The field of view and resolution is a million times more advanced.
We got to sample these legendary macaroons from a hospital in Massachusetts
The last artsty thing we did before walking home was visiting Julian Montegue's bird photo exhibition. Normally I think his drawings are cool, but honestly, I didn't get this. It was blurry pictures of birds in Buffalo, like my mobl post quality.
I was ready to go home and work on the new Squeaky website at this point.
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