So I was looking at the statistics of the site today and started to wonder where all the not white people are. I mean there are a couple non-white people but in general the site is like 99.9% white.

Do you think it is the name elmwoodstrip.or implies the neighborhood elmwoodstrip which is kind of segragated. I am wondering if maybe a new name would help. I am pretty atatched to the name though. If not what else can be done to reach out to other people. Maybe even some spanish speakers. It would be pretty easy to translate the interface if I had some help.

I am also curious why so many people have signed up recently but have not written. This week I totally redid the formerlly lame welcome letter and added the tutorial link at the top. (e:jim) was supposed to help me with setting up a newbie guide but I am not sure what happend with that as I never was able to get ahold of him. When that is complete it will help to.

What can we do to get new people that not only sign up, but join in and start writing? Any ideas?

We went to OPM lounge but they wouldn't let us in because (e:terry) forgot his ID. So here I am programming again. That is the third time I haver been turned away from OPM lounge because one of the people I was with didn't have ID. It's so weird because we deifnately don't look young.

I want to go to this tomorrow night in Toronto but I doubt we will do that either as we can never organize anything.

Eating octopus after the gym makes me grow stronger. Time to go dancing.

The trainer said I lost 2 lbs of fat and gained 6lbs of muscle. I am down to 9% fat.

I know I brag about the lunches at my work all the time but this one tops them all. A huge piece of salmon and veggies for $6.

We got new exercises at the gym, my arms are getting seriously buff but these are (e:terry)'s.
I am missing (e:matthew) while he is in Toronto. Who will I watch starek with.

On another note I am just about to release a really sweet foto rss feed maker for the non techy in ou. Simply title and comment on a photo attach it and poof, you have you very own rss feed with your latest photos, or other photos you want to write about.

It's another (e:strip) exclusive and should be released this weekend.

I want to buy a mansion. This one is in my price range and location requirements. Unfortunately, it is totally full nasty of cats. I guess it could be decontaminated but it would take about 6 months.

Mike Glove, the guy on the left in the photo introduced (e:matthew) and I. I hope that is probably just a bad picture of him. I mean how can anyone look glamorous reaching for cake. We met when he took both of us to some ghetto hair extension market with him. I don't think we ever hung out with him again after that day. I wonder what he is doing now.

I am at the infotech niagara show/thing at the convention center. The synacor people talked to me again about leaving my job. They said they hired Mike Cooke, one of my (not very reliable but talented) former students.

Nothing here is interesting. Geico, verizon. We didn't know we were supposed to have a stand.

This won best web site in western NY There is a serious problem with that because it is not the best web site by any means. It looks like a student project and has very little content.

At least the snacks are good.





Ingram micro was giving out fans. They were seriouslt the lmaest ever. They came with a screwdriver to open the battery pack, but unfortunately the screwdriver was the wrong size for the escrew. Why not a latch. They also doubled as a radio. Who needs a cell phone size mini fan/radio. What total crap!



The whole evening was pretty lame. It seemed like a bunch of people that paid a lot of money to be in a group to give each other awards. None of the people nominated were outside the group it seemed. At least the food was pretty good.

The only cool thing I learned was about a group called myhealthfinder.com . They have compiled lots of useful health care data per hospital compared to state average. So you can see which hospital to go to and which ones not to go to. The devloper was showsing us the graphs and was like, if I was having a heart attack I wouldn't go to this one because its way off the charts. You would probably die.

Looking at the graphs and stars Kenmore Mercy looks like a bad choice for just about everything. Its funny that they are based on gold stars (e:dragonlady7,5)

I am building a new Blog Feeder for roswell. It basically allows executives to write rss feeds with about one click. Those rss feeds, feed blogs on the main site. go XML!

Maybe I will adapt it for estip so that you can use it to publish your journals entries from it.

The colors are those of the new upcomming Roswell Park site.

So with the various job prospects around the corner, the real question is can anyone else compare with the food selection at Roswell. Today was stir fry day. That is my favorite at Roswell. They have all these veggies and you can make your own mix. THen they have tofu, steak, chicken and shrimp that you can mix and match with. Then they stir fry it with lomein noodles or rice and teryaki sauce or sweet and sour sauce.





Yesterday, I got really hungry and decided to see just how far I could push snack time. I wanted to eat more than two thousand calories just to see what it felt like to be a super fatass.

Here was my snack of over 2000 calories


Chocolate Milk ~420 calories


Combos ~1170 calories


Gummi Candies ~195 calories


Orange Juice ~240 calories


Necco Wafers - no pictures but around 300 calories

So like over 2000 calories it was for only about $7. Too bad it was such dicusting food. Combos taste good but they must be so sick for you.

My arm is much buffer now. I know you body builder types are saying what that is a stick but hey someday I will beat the shit out my worst enemy with it. Who are you worst enemy and how many more time do I have to press metal.



I cut off my crazy mad scientist hair. I went back to doing it myself. It takes 5 minutes instead of 2 hours.

This is like the tenth job offer this month but it is so hard to want to leave the benefits of being a state employee with long term job security.

The top of my semi-outdated ( I have made so much new stuff) says:

I am looking for a challenging full-time PHP/SQL/XML/JS/AJAX web programming/design job with benefits such as health insurance in my home town of Buffalo, NY. I have an amazing web development job in Buffalo, NY. Now I want one that pays me more than $50,000.

I changed it this because I was sick of job offers that were less than what I had going on. I mean who goes in that direction.

Then I got this email today.

Hi Paul,

I came across your resume (Google search on 'buffalo resume "content management"
Perl MySQL')

I am looking for a knowledgeable, creative and self-motivated person in Buffalo with
web/software development and content management system experience that is interested in playing a key role in the development and growth of my company, COMAND Solutions.

The intention is for that person to eventually become the Chief Technology
Officer.

Required Skills:
1. Web Page Development with HTML and JavaScript
2. Programming experience with PHP and Perl
3. SQL (more specifically MySQL)
4. Linux system administration including set up and maintenance of RedHat/Fedora
servers with Apache, PHP, MySQL, etc.
5. Excellent organization and communication

Initial Responsibilities:
1. Develop, implement and maintain client web sites (HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)
in webCOMAND, our content management system.
2. Manage collection of remote webCOMAND, email and backup servers.
3. Manage and prioritize webCOMAND feature requests and bug reports.

Future Responsibilities:
1. Project management, including project specification, estimates and delegation to
a small team of developers.
2. Find, develop and implement systems to improve and automate company operations.
3. Help develop webCOMAND.

You can learn a little more about COMAND Solutions and webCOMAND at:


From what I see online, it looks like you may be the perfect candidate, except that you seem to already have a job at Roswell Park. However, I think this opportunity may be far more interesting to you and offers a lot more potential, as far as long-term growth. It is also a work from home position, which may or may not be more appealing to you.

Let me know if this is something you might be interested in and we can discuss everything in more detail.

Thank you,
Mitch

Mitch,
I may be interested in your position. I believe you are correct when you said, "it looks like you may be the perfect candidate for the job." I have a lot of experience and capability that I could transfer to that position.

At this point I would like to learn more about the nature of your company and more importantly the long term prospects of what you are proposing. Google returned no results for ("command solutions" buffalo) and webcommand.com appears to just be a list of links by associated by keyword.

While money might lure my interest to a new project, the longterm stability and benefits of my current Programmer/Analyst position at Roswell also have to be factored in.

Hope to hear from your soon.

Thank you for your time,
Paul Visco

I wonder where this will go. I imagine nothing will rip me away from Roswell.