Posts from July 2004

Provincetown is the gayest place in the world. There is also tasty food.



I feel bad for all the families on vacation that must have thought it was not so queer.

I am glad we aren't staying here. Everything is tourist priced. @matthew ordered scallops for like 17 bucks.



Terry and I got the lunch special for 7.95 which was really bad. White bread, mayonaisse, white fish and canned clam chowder. Yuck. Total: 43.00 for not so tasty food.

It was called the mayflower family diner on commercial street. This town is definately a capitalist mecca.

Everybody in Provincetown seems into the Atkins [inlink]paul,519[/inlink] diet. Notice this sign from a soda-pop machine.

It's july and we found a christmas store in Provincetown. WTF, they even played Christmas music. It made me feel like I was in the twillight zone.

I have to stop taking sky pics with the sidekick, I have no idea which are which. I think one is sherkston (rip off 25 dollar) and one is herrington Cove (7 dollars.)

@matthew has a bunch of these too.

The hudon River is lame. We are just about back to albany and we crossed of the Hudson River. I expected something big and thunderous, like the niagara, but it doesn't look like that at all.
Sorry about the bad photo of the hudson river from the car window. Thatt's the hudson as viewed at 80 mph, I mean 65 mph of course.

Also, with this entry is another picture from the clam roll restaurant, I will put it with the right journal when we get home tonight.

We made a little stop along the way at UNO's in Henrietta, to end the "blinding sun in the eyes while driving westward at sundown" drama. The worst is when you drive to out to the wild west and it sun in your eyes everyday.

UNO's food was pretty tasty, albeit, a little bit greasy. Since this whole atkins crap skyrocketed, it has become easier for @matthew to find food for his gluten intollerant body.

Here we are posing at the boatslip ocean pier tea dance. We met some people that remembered us from the beach.

By now I am sure you have all heard about the viruses on web pages that track your keystrokes. Even my parents heard about it, and they are by no mean computer savy.



According to the article
This week, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, part of the Department of Homeland Security, advised Internet users to "consider" using a different Web browser as a possible solution until Microsoft fixes the flaw that allows Explorer to be exploited.

I agree switch to mozilla firefox . It is what I use when designing and viewing elmwoodstrip.com. I have noticed that 60% of you still visit here coming from Internet Explorer. You are risking so much using software that is poorly constructed and hated by the millions of people that want to see microsoft collapse.

Mozilla firefox is open source and best of all its free. It is avaiable for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. You can get a copy by clicking on the "get firefox" link at the bottom of the e:info journal's link list or clicking here . I have made this so easy , you have no excuse not to protect yourself and switch.

Here is a link [inlink]paul,627[/inlink] to another entry I wrote a while back on this and other open source, free, and useful software.

I decided to venture on out of the house tonight to see elmwood first hand. Right now I amat Coffee& waiting for @mike.



Everyone thinks I am busy typing so they are talking freely about how it might close cause no one comes here. It is so sad cause newly corporosized spot is packed. As a matter of fact, I went by spot first and had to leave cause I remember how corporate they were getting and that they were going to franchise into the middle east.

I think there are two problems here at Coffee&. The first one is location. It is slightly more hidden than spot. They also don't appeal as much to the nouveux riche suburban crowd because of their deco. I mean it definatelt, appeals to the hippie elmwood crowd but that'snot the crowd with the expendable income.

I also heard their Coffee wasn't that great although, honestly, it tasted good to me. If they had the best coffee in town people would come no matter what.

The counter boys were saying they should make advertisments on their own initiative. When is the last time you heard a worker say something like that. They must actually repect their employer and enjoy their work.

The one dude just said, "I haven't even gotten paid yet and I would carry a sign down the street. We gotta do something" He is right.

I remember when Buffalo used to be full of coffee houses. Anyone remember the old topic? I used to be a chess champion there, I also used to love how the young and old would integrate their and share a cultural experience. None of that at starbucks. Starbucks sucks, first off cause it's full of corporate fuckheads and pretentious yuppies but also because its the equivalent of a coffee walmart. They clearly moved in here to destroy local business. I mean even if the coffee market sucks they will survive till everyone else closes.

I am so mad that elmwood is going corporate. And now that the coopisdoing their knock down and rebuild it crap, everychain store on earth is going to follow. When will they just put a glass ceiling over the top and open a rainforest cafe.

Everyone said the lunch crunchies [inlink]paul,1246[/inlink] were too cute to be effective, so I added this new one, that is the blackness of satan. By the way I was once called the blackness of satan by my old roomate in South Carolina.

Anyways, it worked for me, one week since I quit and I am willing to brave the pink tonight.

This lung crunchie is like the gremlin that got wet. I might just try and get a job with those canadian cigarette companies!

I was going through some of my backup files and found some old pics of me. My favorite is the fat one (I was never fat, its a camera trick.)

Here we go in chronological order.

Me as a kid at nonna's House.



Here I am in 1987 feeding some seagulls at Lasalle Park.



Going camping with Deidre @haikuster circa 1994



1995 in my backyard



In Germany on the way back from Italy in 1996



In Flasgtaff at my mini apartment 2000 15 x 9 (3 dudes)


At the Volcano in Flagstaff 2000



Germany 2001, Terry and I hang this add up to find an apartment without having to write any words. It worked and we got a great one.



In my backyard woking on one of my early web projects . I was taking pictures of the site and transforming my Lexington Avenue Backyard into a tropical rainforest.