So I spent the last three days in a sort of computer coma, trying to get the server all set up and out of the house. It is finally set up and at artvoice but for some reason their network has crashed. I hope it has nothing to do with the server. I am not going to actually move the site until after it has been sucessfully running for a week. Once it is all up and going, I am probably going to start a video blog.

I took a lot of random pictures of my life along the way but had no time to post. (e:lilho) provided me with food. One day lobster and steak the day before rack of lamb - it was so yummy. She is a hard worker.







At some point I went to my parents house to pick up my dad to go take care of some tenant business. Everyone has paid their rent now. Somehow they got us to hand up a shelf for them. I always end up doing something weird liek that. My dad says it brings respect to a landlord/tenant relationship. I think it wastes my time but I am still learning.

There are almost no tomotoes left at Nonna's [inlink]matthew,564[/inlink]. I brought a buschel to my mother the other day. The end of the tomatoes is going to be really sad. In a weird way it is almost like the end of Nonna's cooking forever ;(



Tremont, where I grew up is on the other side of elmwood, north of the city. This is across elmwood from where I grew up.



This dairy queen was also across elmwood, which meant as a kid I had to cross a big street to get there. I remember wanting to cross so bad. Eventually I just did.



I spent a lot of night hanging around here with my friend Heather Killian. She has moved back to buffalo and we never see each other.

The coop has Quorn on sale for $2.99 /per box. I bought four boxes. I really love this stuff even if some people think it is made out of humans.



They also had red pepper for the not so sale price of $5.99/pound. By the way (e:joshua), they had fuji apples - even organic ones.

So (e:lilho) had a starbucks gift certificate from the holidays that she wanted to use. I don't normally go there but I figured if it's freewhy not. You can't believe the packaging I got for this piece of cake I ordered.

I thought the carboard and rope bag was over the top but there was another cardboard box inside. Never again.

The cake looked good


The bag was a little over the top


Especially seeing as it had rope handles and a heavy cardboard box inside


At least it tasted good. I don't think I would eat there again unless it was free.

We did our monthly shopping trip today and even though I bought lots of fancy food e.g. lobster tail, rack of lamb, buffalo, fondue - it only came to $300.21 for three people for 3 weeks.

I really think it is way cheaper to buy expensive fancy food at the grocery store than to go out even occasionally. Like when we went to Betty's last week I got two mini lamb chops for like $25, It's not like that kind of meat is hard to cook. But today I got a whole rack of lamb for for 3 for $15 at wegmans.

They aso have garbage pail kids now. This packs claims to have one unopened pack from the original series.

I think I still have almost all of the originals.

Today while spending the whole morning cleaning the house I thought to myself, why am I wasting my time doing this. I mean at one point I was cleaning out the fridge and sweeping and I would have been spending my time setting up the server for the move on monday.

I mentioned to (e:terry) that I thought we should pay someone to clean our house. I would be willing to pay someone like $50 for three hours of laundry and dishes. He thinks that makes me a classist asshole.

I think it's way above minimum wage and not everyone wants full timework, say students, so why not contribute to the trickle down effect.

When I was in high school I was a butler for this guy. He paid us around $8/hour to prepare and present his dinner in the evening and wash the dishes. For me it presented an opportunity to make more money than I was making as a cashier at Vicks and frankly, it was much nicer not having to deal with retails and the low level chain of command politics.

I just don't see anything wrong with it.

Recycling was so out of control this time because I found lots of stuff that had to go when I was cleaning the frigerator. There must have been 4 pickle jars and 4 speghetti jars. My hands smell sour in such a gross way now. Next time I am wearing gloves.

Wish me luck with the server. It is going to be so much work. I wish I had another server, database person to work with.

I am drunk and at the Pink at 7PM. I went out with my buddy Tony from work. (e:lilho) and he and I are going to eat at Sahara grill and then off to the We Are Scientists show at the icon. I havent't been there since I was like 18 and then once when it was club E.

Has anyone notices this graffitti in the oarking lot at the pink.

So a lot of my friends think that I obsessively document my life. I am really just trying to make up for lost time, when I didn't take record of anything. Lots of the most exciting years slipped by without even a picture. In fact during the time I traveled around the world the most, I didn't even have a camera. One place that I really regret taking no pictures of is Barcelona. It was perhaps my most favorite place on earth, although it could be the fact that it looks so strange and I had lots of drugs and lot of free time. Has anyone else been there?

Luckily someone else went on vacation there are took lots of pictures . Moreover, they left their pictures directory open on the web and it got indexed. If you search throught the pics enough you will find not only great pics of Barcelona but really cute finnish? girls, most likely the ones on vacation that took the pics.

At Parc de L'Espanya Industrial I got really high on mushrooms and watched a man get beaten with a baseball bat from across the water. I remember wanting to help but I was on the other side of the water and I was trashed. I think the man was really critically injured. I learned to not hang out in sketchy palces at night time after that.



I guess I am not really missing anything other than pictures of the people I met along the way.

It is so incredible how warm it has been the last couple days. If you don't believe in global warming then there is nothing to worry about.

This entire winter has been so warm. Here is the Anchor bar on a nice warm January afternoon in Buffalo. Someone told me it will be in the high 50s on Friday.



It was even sunny on my lunch break.



[size=m]It's Official[/size]
The other night I met with Jamie Moses at Artvoice. The server is officially moving there on Monday. I am also going to make Artvoice a mobile calendar site.



I ate chicken Ambrosia at Ambrosia. If you have never tried this and you are a meat eater, you have to try it. It is reminiscent of Chicken Soulvlaki but it has a mustard sauce instead of the vinigar oil dressing you typically get with a souvlaki.



On the way home I foudn this sign on a linwood lawn of the house I want to own but which is not for sale. I want it so bad. They apparently said no to the Casino which angered some people.



Then other people tacked up this boycott delta sonic sign on the say no to the casino sign. It's like a whole protest on their lawn - my lawn that should be.

According to (e:shawnr), a commodore 64 cost $100 when it came out. This is GEOS the graphical based operating system I used first. I rememebr being blown away with how much it could do.



This site has so much info about the commodore 64

Here are about as many game and applicatrion roms as you could ever desire

There are emualtors for every system including your phone. Here is one for the PC Just try google if you need another flavor.

When The Pawn came out in 1986, it was so amazing. I got so lost in this text based adventure you can't even imagine. Did anyone else play it?

You should try it in an emulator.

When did you guys get your first home computers? I got my first computer a vic20 back in the early 80s probably around '81 maybe before. I would play on it for hours, poking memory bits and moving sprite.



I rememeber my first program Basic went something like this

1 print "I love my vic20"
2 goto 1

and I was instantly addicted and saved it all to tape. Tapes were kind of fun. I can't tell you how much music got sacrificed to "save data".



The vic 20 had some really excellent text based RPGs. I loved them all. But it definately was not a gaming machine. In fact I don't think it had any graphics outside of text.

Then I saw Jason Fahmer's commodore 64 .



He was always the kid that had eveything first. Luckily, he was also my best friend at the time. I got one right after that. My mom said just about after they came out, which was 1982, so lets say 1983 when (e:mike) was born.

Many of my other friends had a tandy or an Apple II. I remember wanting an apple II GS, whatever the gs stood for.

I never got a modem because my dad was an insurance salesman and he couldn't have the business line tied up with me using the computer. I wonder what would have happend to me during the dot.com boom if I had had a modem before that. Luckily, the mail man [inlink]paul,2626[/inlink] would bring around programs and I quickly got my hands on GEOS, the first graphics operating system I had ever seen. The commodore 64 was truly a viable home computer for the time.

At school we played Oregon Trail ont eha Apple IIs (WIKIPEDIA - The_Oregon_Trail_%28computer_game%29)

I remember using logo (WIKIPEDIA - logo programming language) by third grade. PENDOWN FD 90 RT

We played some otehr game about mixing chemical on other planets to make compounds. Taht was fun too.

Nearly everyone I knew had a home computer. A lot of my good friends at the time. Jason Fahmer, Angela Vacanti, Kelly LeVan, Heather Killian , Chris Watson, Chris Parada. Seems like most of the people I hung out with in the early to mid 80s.

Then the macs came out in 1984. Those macs were pretty advanced machines that could do a lot of home computing tasks. Heather got one and so did Chris Watson. I remember distinctly that Heather always had some really cool computers.

I am sure everyone remembers the first computer based encyclopedia they saw. Mine was at Heather's house. Or maybe not because I lived in such an isoloted weird place like Kenmore.

I remember the crazy advertsiement with tthe woman running and smashing the computers or something . I wanted one so bad, but we didn't get one or an amiga.

(WIKIPEDIA - home computer)

I lifted this list from wikipedia.

* Apple II (June 1977, North America) (color graphics, eight expansion slots)
* Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 (August 1977, N. Am.) (first home computer for less than US$600)
* Commodore PET (December 1977, N. Am.) (first all-in-one computer: keyboard/screen/tape storage)
* Atari 400/800 (1979, N. Am.) (first computer with custom chip set)
* Commodore VIC-20 (1980, N. Am.) (under US$300; first computer in the world to pass the one million sold mark)
* TRS-80 Color Computer (1980, N. Am.) (Motorola 6809, OS-9 multi-user multi-tasking)
* Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (June 1981, N. Am.) (16-bit CPU)
* Sinclair ZX81 (1981, Europe) (£49.95 in kit form; £69.95 pre-built)
* BBC Micro (1981, Europe) (premier educational computer in the UK for a decade; advanced BASIC)
* ZX Spectrum (April 1982, Europe) (best-selling British home computer; "made" the UK software industry)
* Commodore 64 (August 1982, N. Am.) (best-selling computer model of all time: > 20 million sold)
* MSX (late 1983, Japan) (a computer 'reference design' by ASCII and Microsoft, manufactured by several companies)
* Apple Macintosh (1984, N. Am.) (first fully GUI-based home/personal computer; first 16/32-bit)
* Amstrad/Schneider CPC & PCW ranges (198?, Europe) (British std. prior to IBM PC; German sales next to C64)
* Atari ST (1985, N. Am.) (first with built-in MIDI interface; also 1MB RAM for less than US$1000)
* Commodore Amiga (July 1985, N. Am.) (custom chip set for graphics and sound; multitasking OS)

I think then there was a huge lapse before we got another computer when I was in my late high shcool years. That actaully worked out good for me because I was not at all into computers in high school. Liek I would use it sometimes to type a paper, but it was deifnately not my passtime. I was much more into doing outdoors stuff and exploring sex and drugs.

I know I will get a bunch of slack for this but print makers are notoriously bad web designers in my opinion. There have been a few exceptional cases that I have met, but generally, when a print design company tries to go web design, it usually looks like wrong. They almost always have a really beautiful giant splash graphic and thats where the magic ends. It's no longer just a picture that you put on the web, it's a living interactive interface.

Right now I am working on Ride for Roswell at work. You can look at last year's website to get an idea of where it is going It is designed by Flynn and Friend's, a company in buffalo . I decided to look up their firm on the net after seeing the CD I am supposed to work with had their name on it. The paradigm is so old, i received some photoshop pictures and it is supposed to become a web site.

If you look at the non-web media design portfolio on their website, it looks pretty nice. But the web deisgn stuff looks really mediocre, borderline lame. I guess the was interersting.

I think it is the result of print based web designers relying too heavily on photoshop. It's all still a throwback to when the web was all slice up tables based layout. My question is how much do they get paid for the web site design, when I am doing the coding here at Roswell and someone else enters in the data.