Category: nerd
01/23/15 11:02 - 24.ºF - ID#59784
Microsoft Hololens
The interaction part is so cool. You can manipulate and affect objects as if they were really there - and you're not in your own isolated world like the Oculus gear.
Imagine if you could just build the 3D environment like legos instead of drawing it out on a 2D screen. The minecraft type deal they came up with is super neat and a good demo of this.
The only downside I've read so far is the engadget review that said hardware is bulky and compact and light like the Gear. But with the rate phone hardware is advancing, it can't be that far off before this is much better than Google Glass ever was. I would totally wear these on the street, to work, anywhere - just a little bit closer to being a computer.
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Category: american repertory theater
01/23/15 09:20 - 25.ºF - ID#59782
American Repetory Theater sucks
Total raised, $85
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: buffalo
01/23/15 05:38 - 27.ºF - ID#59780
Historical society
The Roxy's building is looking worse than it did before - all that's been done in it so far is a party thrown by some douches I went to high school with. I wonder if Paul Rubino, the developer is actually going to be able to finish it.
When I got home, Paul and I decided to head to the Historical Society to look at some pictures in their library. It was pretty neat. We looked at our block of Linwood and saw all the houses that filled in the current parking lot gaps. The best part about them were all the wrap around porches that used to be here, and the amazing elm canopy. My favorite building, the Lin-Nor looked awesome even in the 20's. It had a Liberty Bank branch downstairs, everyone was walking, the street looked very complete. It's still my favorite building because it's the perfect scale, density, mixed use and even includes amazing greenspace in their garden.
The most ridiculous part of the visit was looking at the pictures themselves. All pictures must be requested through a librarian, who pulls them out of a file cabinet and gives them to you with gloves. You aren't allowed to make copies and nothing is digital. This seems insane given that the library is a public resource, most of these images are from the city, and the ones that aren't are out of copyright. Why are these not digital accessible? Paul an
Paul says the librarian, Cynthia Van Ness, likes keeping them this way because it draws people in for research. I say their goal is realized a thousand times over by making it accessible online for everyone. Plus, what if the library burns down? There's no way there's duplicates of anything in there right now. I think their funding should be contingent on scanning the maps and photos in - tagging and transcribing them could be crowdsourced for nothing I'm sure.
The historical society had a 21 inch all in one running on Android. And they said Linux on the desktop was never going to happen.
Paul Visco and Joe Herzig are now members of the historical society.
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Category: birthdays
01/23/15 02:03 - 25.ºF - ID#59777
Paul's spank day
Breaking out the good stuff
A 360 attempt
Paul got himself a new nose piercing
Mickey drew us the best bear on bear picture I've ever seen.
Even Fuzzy got up for some fun
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Category: birthday
01/22/15 10:13 - 21.ºF - ID#59774
Happy birthday Paolo
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: birthdays
01/22/15 12:51 - 21.ºF - ID#59772
Business outings and Paul's prebirthday
(e:paul), (e:terry) and I went to the pride center business mixer at the Black Swan which was super fancy pants. (e:steve), (e:heidi) and (e:dianne) were also there. It was also super loud. When we went to leave and get Paul a birthday treat, we discovered the keys fell out of Terry's pocket. The bartender told us that someone had turned them in - and instead of keeping them at the bar, they gave them to pride center staff. How ridiculous - what if the customer who lost them wasn't at that event? So Heidi and Dianne drove us down to Hamburg to pick them up.
Anyway, we tried to go to the Butterwood dessert place, but it was closed. So Chocolate Bar it was. We ate so much dessert it was insane - they even brought out an extra for Paul's birthday with a firework in it!
Gotta get ya pics in.
We decided Terry looks exactly like this 18th century dandy. He just needs a little more shirt plumage.
Happy boy in his cocoon
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: random
01/21/15 01:45 - 10.ºF - ID#59771
Squeaky Wheel and Zucchini cakes
When I got home, (e:terry) and (e:yesthatcasey) had done dinner night without me. They made these freaking amazing zucchini cheese patties (with a sprinkling of zucchini for yer health) and a canelli bean pasta.
Zucchini cake recipie
Cannellni bean pasta
Then I packed even more in the night by meeting up with Emily, Mike, Annie and Andy at McGarrets. Its such a bro bar but it was super cheap. I accidentally got three beers for $5.50.
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Category: friends
01/19/15 11:20 - 23.ºF - ID#59768
Wiedersehen Roberto
There was a pumpkin based brownie to celebrate - yum.
When I got home (e:paul) and I estripped a little and got ridiculous. Before that I noticed that the ceiling in the dining room seemed to have more deflection than before. I took pictures before but can't find them right now, so I thought I would document them here.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: rochester
01/18/15 07:41 - 33.ºF - ID#59763
Rochester conservatory
The quails are so cute. I want one as a pet, that we also could raise for ethical eggs and cuddling. (e:paul) could not eat them.
Sounds familiar... Basra.
As far as I could tell, this was their Delaware Park. It backs up on this giant forested hill in the middle of the city, almost to (e:uchina)'s house. If I were her, I would abandon the apartment and spend all my time on that hill, mountain-man style.
Scenic vista.
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Category: rochester
01/18/15 07:38 - 33.ºF - ID#59761
High Falls bridge
First we went to breakfast at a Ayn Rand themed(?!) restaurant called Atlas Eats. The kimchi pancakes were amazing and I drank too much coffee.
We then headed over to the High Street bridge, which seemed to be like a Canalside type district with actual old buildings. It overlooks the Genesee Rivers waterfall and also gives scenic vistas of both a Kodak and Genesee beer factory. I couldn't decide which one was responsible for more toxic products.
I love being in a city that isn't flat. Here is a 360 degree photo sphere I took on the bridge. I want to try it out on (e:paul)'s VR headset. The disembodied butt of (e:terry) and the floating Masumi head make you feel like you're really there.
A Christmas tree of beer.
The most ridiculous thing I have ever seen was this Pepsi machine, hooked up to a generator at the end of the bridge. How could this even make any money? Do people get so exhausted crossing the bridge that they need a cup full of sugar to make it back? Crazy.
I rediscovered some of the fun lens modes on the Note. Mostly useless but kind of cool
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