I have to go to a meeting but I don't want to leave the car. Why not just snow already, it is less wet

I get a phonecall from a Dmitiri and figured it was the new landlord because I heard he was eastern european from the realtor. I turned out to be a job recruiter. I keep getting so many calls and emails, it is crazy. Anyways, he seemed excited about my resume, etc and then when it got down to it he asked me if I had any other offers. I told him about the possibility of the alamedanet project and he told me I need to get the hell out of buffalo while I can. He was so excited for me to move to SF and kept saying do I really want to end up 45 with a wife and 3 kids in buffalo an dno way out.

Then I told him I have to finsish my theis and ha dthe possibility of a professorship job in the fall. He asked me how old I was and I said that I was 27. He then replied that, "Do you really want to be a professor at 27, you need ot get out and live your life." San Fracnisco is so cool, Buffalo is a dying city.

How am I supposed to feel about this? He is kind of making fun of my home town.

Job Title: PHP talent needed!
Date Added: 2004-11-16 09:00:21
Pay Range: $20-30/h
Location: New York/open
Required Skills: PHP, Linux, MySQL, XML, PERL
Description: A merger-created ISP with locations throughout the country is looking for PHP talent. You will work on a CMS system, in a Microsoft and Unix environments. Strong familiarity with Linux and its tools is necessary. You should be a programmer, not a web designer. PHP is the central language, with PERL and XML being pluses. You will work with MySQL and SQL server. You will work with database driven web pages and do some light layout design. You should have great communication and written skills. Some local travel may be necessary. You should have at least 2-3 years of experience. This is a great environment to exhibit your skills and continue to evolve your skill set. We have a rather relaxed environment with a great friendly team of well-balanced professionals. The position will start off as a 3 months contract and will potentially evolve into a permanent role.

Lenovo, which is partly owned by the Chinese government , is going to buy IBMs PC division. The "communists" are going to buy IBM PC division. This is so surreal.


Does anyone know about IBM's sorted history with the Nazis ?

Black explains that ultimately, IBM helped the Nazis carry through their policy of genocide. Without this assistance, Hitler’s regime would not have been able to carry through its extermination plan with such efficiency.

During a break, while paging through the Canisius College magazine I found a picture of President Truman at Cansius. I decided to find out the offical dates of his term online because I coudl not remember. I knew he dropped the atomic bomb but wasn't sure eaxctly if that was the beginning or the end of his presidency. I probably should know that but it has been replaced by some non-important computer trivia at this point.

My search lead me to the most random site I have ever encountered. The collection of data is so strange and totally non-related. There is also no information explaining it's conception, purpose, etc. Nonetheless, it is a really interesting blend of stuff. Check it out for yourself .


UPDATE: I just found the homepage here

Is anybody else freaked out that on Tuesday we can no longer take books out from the library. It appears to be really happening. I was thinking that seeing as the library is dead and we can't support the infrastructure, why not take a tiny portion of the money that would normally go there and offer free dial-up Internet service to all the people of buffalo. Then everyone could still have information, even if they can't afford the Internet, especially since computers cost as much as a television now.

Does anyone know if you can get dial-up service without paying for phone service because if you can't yet that could be a huge market.

An ontehr note, I was talking to (e:dan) last night who told me that he gets 230k using his sprint cellphone as a modem for his computer. that is what we are missing (e:chris) .

They have tasty food and drinks at hardware. Sorry we missed you (e:ajay)

Check out my hat (e:terry) made it. It is warm but really big. Like I need dreadlocks to fill it.

This was a nice living room.

We have 14 apartments to look at thihs weekend. I am both excited and overwhelmed but it should be nice to live anywhere besides this shit hole apartment. My favorite is when all the silverfish come out here. Does anyone else have those? They are the cutest bugs ever. I am totally lying, they are disgusting.

The orange computer flakes now write poems that start wiith "ing" words instead of "ly" words. I was in the mood for something new. Here is the newest one it wrote for me.

communicating ,
particularly effects ,
frozen pond deeply .

I guess it is very appropriate for tonight because I made the winter blue version of the site. Many of you probably remember the winter blues from last year. Well, after spending two hours setting up the perfect colors, I realized i was not psychologically ready for winter blue and grey and decided that i would stick with the green, brown, and orange of falll for a little longer. I don't know about you guys but I stare at this site a lot, and its colors really effect me. This is the best color scheme yet and I am just not ready to let it go. Maybe I will do a winter orange and grey instead of blue.

Either way the poem said it all. Here is another.

misunderstanding ,
Apparently yesterday ,
totally behind .

As the semester ends my insanity begins. I have so much stuff to start planning. Like moving my courses from Cinema 4D to Maya. It's exciting, and it opens up lots of possibilities but it means I have 1 month to redo all my lesson plans which is never very fun. Then I have all these new upgrades for the site that I still have to test out an upload. Some of them should be good.

Some people have asked to use the site for their projects. Like new sites for other communities. I am excited about the possibility but would rather die than just hand someone two years of work right now. Maybe I should start some sort of service. Oh, if I only had more of that thing called time.

Worst of all I have to read student response papers, most of which are horrendous. Actually, some are almost unreadable which makes me wonder what is going on with the english requirements in Liberal Arts these days. Most of my students cannot write to the point where it will cripple their future. I am not talking about simple grammar and spelling mistakes. I am referring to writing that simply does not make sense. Some of you that teach must know what I mean, right?

The kicker is that we have to move by Dec 31st and that we are not going to Las Vegas. Jim Leong, our landlord has made us sign a contract saying we would move. Our neighbor hated him so much he actually told Jim to go back to china where he came from. This is amusing on many levels. I mean Jim Leong isn't even Chinese, but the racial slur rolled into that one probably infuriated him more.

Wouldn't surprise me the way he cuts corners on stuff and hires such cheap labor. I overheard one of the foremen saying that he tried to hire the cheapest labor for the electric work and it ended up screwing him out of so much money because of their incompetence. I wouldn't be surprised if they serve cats at his restaurant on Kenmore Avenue called mai jen.

I really don't want to be giving him money anymore anyways and he agreed to charge us $400 for December if we move out by Dec 31. This is after several illegal mishaps on his part where he broke in and entered our house with no notice. He then tried to deny he gave the construction workers a key to our house, but I came home twice with them in the house and one day I locked the door before they came in and found me in my dining room. Same thing happened to (e:matthew). Many days with no water, days with no electricity and 24/7 construction and paint fumes for his financial gain.

For once I want a landlord that cares about the facilities. The apartment before this one, the ceiling feel down in the bedroom. just like what happened to (e:southernyankee).

The drama with the landlord is why the elmwood banner is down. I think he wanted to charge me for it's presence. I wasn't actually there when it came down.

The whole thing is related to the fact that he accidentally gave us heat included in our contract and needed a way to get out of that. None of the new apartments have heat included and the price is going up in all of them. Teresa old apartment was actually reduced in size and the rent is going up plus no heat included. I can't believe there was a need for a huge price increase plus a size reduction. Those poor tenants.

At least it will be really, really warm this december. Maybe even warm enough to keep the windows open for a couple weeks it could be like that $1000 vacation to Las vegas right on elmwood.