"Visit to the Suburbs" written by Paul on estrip.org

11/20/05 06:15 - 46ºF - ID#32355

Visit to the Suburbs

It is very unusual for us to make a day out of the suburbs but today (e:lilho), (e:terry), (e:matthew) and I made it out to superflea and amvets in cheetowaga. I found nothing I wanted at either but realized that the is an entire market around old/stolen cell phones that I definately need to look into. Maybe I can just get a cheap side camera phone for now.

I am so sick of not being able to take normal pics with the oh so fancy nokia 7710. i cannot belive the camera is broken as the camera was the selling point for me. I have been redued from 1.3MP to 300pixels as only the preview of the image looks normal.

Amvets had this scary doll reaching up at me. I felt bad for her.

We ate at fuddruckers. I guess I have made a full 360 since the days (e:hodown) and I locked their doors with superglue during a vegan terrorism raid.

They had all these local history images.

I also got to eat ostrich. It really does taste just like beef. Suburban food is really crappy though, at east in comparison to something like Jimmy Macs.

The superflea had so much strange crap. Stuff I couldn't even imagine befoe like this 14k and diamond jesus. It seems so anti-jesus to me.

(e:terry) contemplates his food at fuddruckers.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

11/19/05 04:59 - 44ºF - ID#32354

Hello Motorola

I think I am going to get the Motorola Q when it comes out.

I have decided that I am done with the piece of crap nokia 7710 forever. It had such potential. I know that I bought a phone not made in the USA but it is ridiculous that the camera stopped working [inlink]paul,3983[/inlink] only 3 months after i bought the $400 phone. I just want to get the camera fixed. I understand that it is not under warranty. I am willin got pay to have it fixed. What is more ridiculous is that they sent this totally insane email as my reponse to a repair request.

My favorite part about this email is the accented e in America at the closing.

Dear Paul,

Thank you for e-mailing the Nokia Care Contact Center.

We apologize for the delay in responding to your e-mail message and appreciate your patience.

We will be happy to assist you with your inquiry regarding the concerns you are experiencing with the image stripes on your Nokia 7710 Widescreen Smartphone. We can provide the following information:

The Nokia 7710 Widescreen Smartphone you purchased will not be supported by our Authorized Service Center for evaluation or repair. We only support products purchased and intended for use in the United States; the Nokia 7710 Widescreen Smartphone has not been released in the United States.

It is recommended that you contact Cingular Wireless at 1-800-331-0500 or original point-of-purchase for warranty and repair options. You may also find support, warranty and repair information for your Nokia 7710 Widescreen Smartphone at www.nokia.com.

We hope this information helps you.

If you have any additional questions, please contact us. To ensure proper handling, please continue to use the current subject line.

Thank you for choosing Nokia for your mobile needs.

América
E-mail Specialist
Nokia Inc.

P.S. In an effort to continuously improve Nokia's service to you, please complete
our short 8 question E-mail Care Survey.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: peeptalk

11/19/05 01:17 - 40ºF - ID#32353

White Russian Sarah

As you may recall from my journal last night, I was waiting on (e:lilho) and and (e:terry) to return so that I could stop working on the server and go out dancing. At around 1:30am they came home and everyone was super drunk on white russians that (e:lilho) made.

At that point (e:mike) had already given up and gone home. We decided that we would go out anyways. I really wanted to take a break from server admin crap and I thought danicng would provide suitable exercise.

[size=m]Why they invented child locks[/size]
About 5 minutes into the trip down mainstreet citybound (e:lilho) says, "I need to puke." She unrolls the window and I thought she was just going to pull an (e:southernyankee) but instead she just opens the door and just kind of rolls out head first while the car was moving down mainstreet. Mind you she was not unconscious or anything. We were carrying on a conversation right before this.

Luckily we were turning into a parking lot but we were going about 10 miles per hour. Unfortunately, she did lose her purse and her ID in the incident. Well, at least she thinks so. Might put a crimp on her trip to NYC.

I have never had anyone do that. I yelled stop and tried to grab her but it was too late she just ejected like a pilot in a plane going down. Thank god she didn't get ran over. I mean it could have been a really traggic situation. I am going to refer to it as NTS, "Near Traggic Situation" (Visco, 2005).

Read the same story from (e:terry)'s perspective [inlink]terry,451[/inlink]

We never made it to see Darren Jay, by the time we got there are around 3:15am they were still charging $10, so we left.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

11/19/05 12:10 - 31ºF - ID#32352

Friday Night

I really want to go dancing to Darren Jay at opium lounge

but instead right now I am backing up a terrabyte size system and installing a new graphics, card, moving a harddrive and installing CENT OS on the new (e:strip) server. That bites. I hope that (e:terry) and (e:lilho) get home soon and I can stop with this crap.

In place of the superocmputer, which is moving to artvoice land, we are getting a fancy flat iMac. I usually hate macs but seeing as we already have PC and Linux and I will no longer be working in MAC land at Canisius, I will need some sort of Macintosh in order to do web site testing for those pesking mac users.

Well we headed down to compusa to check out the flat panel imac and it is pretty nice. We are going to be getting the one with the remote control. It makes a pretty fancy schamncy media center and had a built in camera. I like it because upkeep is easy on those machines and I already have like three other machines to take care of. I thought a lot about getting the mac mini because I already have some monitors and it was way cheaper. unfortunately, 32MB of video ram is just too lame for me.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

11/18/05 04:34 - 26ºF - ID#32351

Roswell Paperwork and Physical

So I went for to fill out forms and paperwork at Roswell today. Maybe someday I can help make that process online too. Afterwards, I had to go in for a physical to test for hepatitis B, TB, and to give some blood. I found it weird that I never had to take my pants off for the physical. The woman even did the cough test through my pants by just touching my thigh. When did that start? It has been so long since I have been to a doctor.

I also went took the subway home. It takes about 20 minutes total, which is great. I can also eat on Allen Street. It's one block from work to the subway and a block and a half from the subway stop I live at back to the house. I suppose I will probably make that trip many thousands of times so it is nice that it is short.

The subway was packed but I was the only white person. I know it is different at 8:30am and 5PM when people are traveling to and from work. (e:terry) said it is nice because they actually have a working public transportation system through their neighborhood. I wish we had something like it on elmwood. Like the trolley that used to be there. Anyways, I looked so out of place that a bunch of black teenagers commented on the front of the car saying, "white people to the back of the bus." I have to admit I thought it was quite funny myself.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

11/18/05 12:29 - 28ºF - ID#32350

Phone Update

My phone already arrived in Buffalo. I cannot wait until it gets back. Maybe the same guy that birngs it will bring (e:shawnr)'s xbox 360.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: world

11/17/05 07:14 - 32ºF - ID#32349

Japan and Harajuku

So I was trapped int he car the other day and (e:terry) left the radio on kiss or something like that. Some rapper sand some song in which she mentioned juku girls. I had no idea what this was but forgot about it until tonight when I was reading about a US Japan exachnage program in the UB media studies program

that mentioned the same word. I am sure everyone else knows about it but it was new to me. I found this info at wikipedia

It is primarily known as a hangout for teens and contains the department store Laforet, which has many trend-leading brands for young people.

Harajuku became famous in the 1990s due to the large numbers of street performers and wildly dressed teens who gathered there on Sundays when Omotesando was closed to traffic. This area was called "Hoko-ten" or "pedestrian paradise". This was stopped at the end of the 90s and the number of performers, visual kei fans, rockabilly dancers and punks has steadily decreased since.

Quoted from: Harajuku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And these pictures on google

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

11/17/05 04:44 - 32ºF - ID#32348

Proud owner of mobl.us

I was chatting away with Kara Kerwin

when we started to talk about the mobile site. We went through lots of names but ended up with mobl.us. I think it's awesome. It is easy to type and it can become other names like bflo.mobl.us. I also worked on starting to do some MIDP programming so that I can create actual phone applications and not just WAP and XHTML pages.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

11/16/05 04:25 - 42ºF - ID#32347

Mobile Empire

(e:shawnr) and I are going to team up and build the coolest mobile portal that Buffalo has ever seen. That should not be very hard to accomplish but it promises to be cool. So as the first step in bulding our mobile empire, we need a name for it.

The name should be short so that it is easy to type on a phone and also very easy to remember. Any ideas? Maybe I should make this a contest.

You will be able to access every other mobile buffalo project, play games like (e:shawnr)'s hour 720

, chat, visit artvoice, visit estrip and post/read, visit remember buffalo, read the news, check the weather, meet up with other people, find library books, link to bus schedules, etc. Bascially your one stop shop to link to everything else.

You will also be able to customize your mobile homepage using the site's browser based interface so that you can save rss feeds etc to it and read them on the go.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: artvoice

11/16/05 12:14 - 46ºF - ID#32346

Meeting with Artvoice

The meeting with artvoice went great. Jamie asked if I would be interested in working on some mobile stuff for Artvoice. Could I prossibly be more interested?! I have waited for the opportunity to reach out to a mobile audience for so long.

I also talked with Dave, the artvoice computer guy, about moving the estrip/rememberbuffalo server there. Next step is to set up the supercomp and bring it in. Then once it is up and running, I can add the primary doc section to rememberbuffalo.org. Soon, thereafter I can begin really promoting it.

I expect the site should be even faster once it is local and I have control over the server.

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Location: Buffalo, NY