"Mother's Day Extravaganza" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: food

05/14/06 10:39 - 55ºF - ID#32607

Mother's Day Extravaganza

My mother seriously outdid the last three mother's days. While waiting for the food to be ready I caught this on TV. A show called Po vs Connie where Husband and Wife duo Maurey Povich and Connie Chung do a liberal vs conservative schtick. What is the world coming to.

There was also a variety of new reality Television shows including Shalomn in the Home and some other show about the life of a family of dwarves. You would think the reality televsion bubble has got to burst soon.

I thought last years mother's day had the most food possible (e:paul,3303) but this year she had 5 kinds of meat. I wonder when I look back at the data after world war three what I will think of the excess we have now.

(e:mike) at the dinner table

We ate a lot, then we played games

Banana minus Peel equals eel

This is supposed to be a barber.

Old anger revisited
After looking around last year May on my journal, I realized how much my life has changed for the better. I went from the most unhappy time in my life to being satisiied with just about every aspect. I hope that it makes those of you who are unhappy now realize how much your world can change. I realized I truly hated this time last year and I am so glad those days are over. Nonna died, I had no money, and I didn't get the job that I thoughtwas my dream job. Now I have a job I love so much, awesome coworkers and money to buy a house. I really hate the fact that I doubted the future then.

I blame my unhappiness on working with too many old people whose talent had either dried up or who never had any. Looking back I realize now that Canisius was really holding me back on every level. I guess that is what happens when you work with mediocracy for too long - it just makes you complacent. I truly feel sorry for students that waste their money on that lame digital media program.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: on the go

05/14/06 01:26 - 61ºF - ID#32606

Ants and Gas

Ants like to eat eggs apparently. They had a kitchen full of stuff to eat including some fruit the squirrels left behind and they chose the eggs.

Gas prices are so high.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: housing

05/13/06 11:05 - 57ºF - ID#32605

words of mansion, thesis and food

Well at least we put a bid in on one. We made an offer and seeing as we are the only people who have an offer in, I think we are buying it.

We ate at jimmy mac's with (e:robin). I know I have posted a hundred pics of these burgers but I finally, I have a comparison of something to the size of the chesseburger and it' (e:robins) head.

Afterwards I went to Julie Perini's thesis show. I really enjoyed her dance and reverse order food ordering videos. The show setup was great to. I had not been over to the Big Orbit Gallery on Essex Street before.

Man, I could kill myself for not having handed in my thesis. I had edited it a bit but then (e:shawnr) had his thesis drama and it freaked me out.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: teaching

05/13/06 12:05 - 60ºF - ID#32604

thanks mark

Hey Paul,
Hope all has been well with you and your job. I wanted to let you know that my coding experience that I gained from your class helped me get a job at Datatel, formely known as LiquidMatric, in the development department. Other students in the dma program have been asking a few of us where we learned to make such cool web sites when compared to their photoshop sliced sites and we all get to credit you and the advanced programming class. A few of us have also been wondering how Hour720 is coming along. And finally, as I am now phone shopping, could you tell me what model you have? I remember is being cool and computer-like, but not huge like some other pda-type phones.
Thanks!

--
Mark Taylor

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: school

05/12/06 09:41 - ID#32603

I Graduated?

I am at (e:robins)'s house and according to the commencement pamphlet I graduated. Maybe I can just hang that on my wall.

The house on prospect needed mowing. One tenant hasn't paid the rent yet and she is out of town now.

The sky was beautiful on Prospect for a minute.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

05/12/06 07:32 - 67ºF - ID#32602

Hayes Fish Market

I went to Hayes fish market in Kenmore (MAP TO: 3279%20DELAWARE%20AVENUE) today as part of my year long quest for the rock shrimp source. There is also one on Harlem Road (MAP TO: 3985%20HARLEM%20ROAD). The fish monger told me it wasn't the season but when I asked when it was he smiled and said he didn't know, lol. If any of you know where I can buy these, besides at a restaurant, please tell me.

Anyways, the place is also a fried seafood extravaganza. It smelled so yummy. I find it bizarre that my seafood dependent mother had not found this out before or at least not told me. I got the fried shrimp dinner.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

05/12/06 04:29 - 68ºF - ID#32601

Another Day

Okay three salmon meals in 48 hours is excessive.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: pets

05/11/06 10:52 - 60ºF - ID#32600

Holy crap my squirrels bark loud

Who would have thought that such tiny little squirrels could bark so loud. We have been giving them free reign of the house and they are reverting to their jungle mentality I think.

Just last night at like 6am there was a squirrel trying to get under my pillow and then running all over our beds.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

Work has been really fun. I have something pretty neat I am working on but I will talk about it more after I decide if I can get a patent for it.

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Category: spam

05/09/06 10:36 - 65ºF - ID#32599

I'm not fat and my dick isn't small

I also have a college degree and am not interested in a mortgage from an offshore bank or a casino account.

I open my mailbox and bam: your dick is your weak issue because it is so small.

I feel bad for all the guys out there with little dicks that get the same spam mail I get. I must make them feel really bad. Sometime I get like 5 a day, I mean they end up in the junkmail box, but they exist - what a waste of digital space. Same for diet spam.

I wonder who the people are that make spam mail a profitable business. I mean who believe there is a "creme" that would make your dick bigger. Unless they are meaning some sort of temporary bigger, like with lube ;)

"I was originally amazed that the first two pills I took of Hoodia 920+, almost immediately took my cravings away. Now 4 weeks later, 3 belt holes later, I have become an advocate for this awesomely powerful, natural supplement!"

Victoria K., New York

If those people really knew me, they would know that I would die if I lost 3 belt loops.

On another note, my father calls me at work today desperate to install some work program for his business. He tells me th new computer I bought him doesn't use the kind of floppy disk he has. I tell him I got them a usb floppy drive and he can use that. He says, "I tried but the disk doesn't fit."

Wasn't a 3 1/2 incher- called a floppy but not floppy at all

I think to myself. OMG, this cannot be a 5 1/4 inch disk, a disk that actually was floppy. Anyone else remember the hole punch to make them double sided?

So I ask him to get out a ruler and measure it. I think, what the hell can this be. Maybe this ancient piece of crap?

He tells me it is about 4.75 inches. I think, "Some sort of proprietary disk from the past that I never witnessed?" So then he tells me our old computer had a drive for it and I think. Alright dad, "I don't believe there is this other kind of floppy disk. What does it look like?" He says, "it's shinny!" It was a freakin' CD. I told him to press the button on the front of the computer to open up the drive and that worked. I have true respect for all the poeple that work at technical help desks. I think it would dirve me crazy.

It was simply a CD, I guess it is just as floppy as a 3 1/2 incher.

metalpeter writes at 06:10:46 05/10/06 - Comment #7662: The cream stuff isn't really about being small. It is about adding size to it. Just like some girls with good sized breasts still want them bigger. A lot of avarage guys would still like a few more inches if they could have it. I think the real aim of those ads are for people who have erictile problems or whos penis gets hard but dosn't completely fill with blood. I think spam is still no whare as bad yet as Junk Mail. I rent and get stuff saying i can now get a loan to lower my house payments, I get car insurance stuff and don't own and never owned a car.

lilho writes at 04:28:31 05/10/06 - Comment #7659: stories about your dad, are seriously the funniest ever. on the other hand, my friends dad did just burn down half of their neighbors house yesterday. julie got home, and her whole family was on the couch crying. even her teenage brother.

scott writes at 08:12:29 05/10/06 - Comment #7645: Ragarding your spam issues, there are people out there who recycle spam, turning it into poetry...
:::link:::

Part of my job involves customer support (it's a small company, so part of my job involves anything...). I get people worse off than your dad...

The worst: I had a customer complain that our software broke her computer. She insisted that it was the last program she'd ran. (Since our software's shite, I wasn't suprised. Still, I'd never seen it actually fry a machine.) So, I have her check a few things. Nothing worked. Eventually, the truth was revealed... The power in her building was shut off for the day. She was on her cell phone. She had threatened to have me sued, fired, and at one point even threatened physical harm...

Best part... this woman is a dean at a health care professional school. It's prestigious and in Boston, and rhymes with "Marvard".

mike writes at 12:10:28 05/10/06 - Comment #7643: I just read that story out loud to dad, he was laughing hysterically. But you don't know the first part of the story, they called me at work first....asked if we have a disk drive...I was like "are you sure it isn't a cd" and he insisted it wasn't...I told him the disk drive was on top of the computer...he first insisted it wasn't there then hung up (I guess he didn't believe me) and then called you...where the hilarity ensued

kara writes at 11:48:28 05/09/06 - Comment #7640: At least he didn't tell you "that's not a disk drive, it's a cup holder!"

twisted writes at 11:21:22 05/09/06 - Comment #7637: OMG. You had me going there. The hole punch was just to make them write-enabled. You could then write on both sides if they were double-density. Holy christ! How old am I? lol.

theecarey writes at 11:06:59 05/09/06 - Comment #7634: hehehe cute story about your dad... I remember that style of floppy. I much prefer the circular ones, haha.

mrdt writes at 11:01:50 05/09/06 - Comment #7633: you mean this stuff doesn't work...damn fooled again

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: renting

05/09/06 09:47 - 61ºF - ID#32598

house paint

No wonder it will cost $5400 to paint this house. Seems like the winter was really hard on the remaining paint. The front looks extra crappy because I actually hung out the window and scapped it in the fall thinking I was going to paint it.

I hope people don't think I'm a slum lord. I guess it will be fixed soon enough.