"Video at last" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: video

06/01/06 02:09 - 71ºF - ID#32642

Video at last

After a bit of wrestling with this mobile video format crap and not having any google to help I finally unconvered my problem. Now .mp4 even with .amr audio works and converts into flash video. Fixing up the crappy player I stole is the next step but seeing as that is dynamically added I can go ahead and start blogging videos from my phone at last.

Here is a really lame test video. I promise stuff actually worth watching later.

[flv]0606/vid0947.flv[/flv]

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Category: web

05/31/06 11:45 - 73ºF - ID#32641

Google Was missing for a bit

Apparently, this happend before

but it scared me.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: potpourri

05/30/06 09:34 - 82ºF - ID#32639

Lots of Miscellaneous Stuff

Buffalo Gay Pride 2006
By the way gay pride

is this weekend. I want to do new estrip street interviews (e:news,332) like we did in 2004. Anyone want to be the interviewer. Maybe (e:jill) again?

The world's largest drag show is also this weekend. It should go into the guiness book of world records twice, once for the world'slargest drag show and once for the world's worst web site. I feel bad for them, they could have raised more money if the web site was nicer I think. The intro

looks nice, although I am not a big fan of flash spalsh pages but then the inside is a mess. They would have been better off just having a myspace, lol.

Remember the flyers for pride last year (e:paul,3395) . Too bad I barely handed any out, no pun intended.

I got this great pic of true buffalo ants going nuts over spilled blue cheese on the warm concrete.

What was this place with the chesseboard tabes out front that is in such disrepair on Franklin next to the Hamlin House.

Hamlin House

We pruged all our old salvation army cothes to give back to salvation army.

Soem of them were not even good enough for salvation army.

Tony I found the pic of one of those giant hamburgers you were talking about.

Leftover Pics from the bumpser sticker party

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Category: politics

05/30/06 07:31 - 88ºF - ID#32638

Gay And Lesbian Democrats

I had no idea how much fancy was in stonewall democrat. Here they have a giant fancy tent set up in the plaza outside where (e:hodown) used to work. The place across from the golden somewhere they have ice skating in the winter.

I hated working at HSBC but some part of me really misses the culture of downtown buffalo business daytime in the summer. It is constantly bustling with people and stuff to do.

By the way gay pride is this weekend. I want to do new estrip interviews. Anyone want to be the interviewer. Maybe (e:jill) again?

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Category: food

05/30/06 06:46 - 88ºF - ID#32637

pearl street brewery

Roswell had a little party at Pearl Street Brewery tonight in honor of the launching of the electronic medical records system. There was so much tasty food. Chicken fingers, artichoke hearts, mozarella balls, chicken wings, nacho dip extravaganza and an open bar.

It was well worth the walk over here. It started with the DaVinci code and now a coworkers asked, "Do we believe in god." Where is this gonna go?

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Category: classifieds

05/29/06 04:17 - 82ºF - ID#32636

Intensional Line break?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: hiking

05/29/06 12:03 - 79ºF - ID#32635

Hiking at Zoar Valley and Xmen

We went hiking at Zoar Valley followed by seeing Xmen and going to sleep. Sorry (e:robin) that I didn't see any of your messages, I thought you would still be around today. Hope everything goes good on your trip down south.

Zoar Valley was nice as usual, there were a million people to the point where there were no more parking spots in the Point Peter lot. I was so summery out, actually warm enough to swim around in the creek. I didn't bring my phone so I didn't take any pics but matt brought his camera. Hopefully, he will post some pics. I stole this one off his camera.

Afterwards we went to go see Xmen, which was the worst piece of crap movie I ever saw. I mean generlaly I hate movies but then I went to see V for Vendetta and thought it was pretty great so I decided to give Xmen a chance. What a waste of $30 for the three of us. I prefered the stupid Silent Hill movie. At least it had a plot. I would never watch another xmen movie again. Special effects do not substitute for the plot of a movie.

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Category: food

05/28/06 12:47 - ID#32634

Wegmans and blood pressure

Made a quick trip to wegman's in order to pick up some food for the week. I was also out of protein powder and cliff bars.

While we were there I decided to check out my blood pressure which is normally extremely low. Seemed a little high but I tested it again two minutes later and it was normal. I don't trust that machine but I do want to know why my bloodpressure was like 10-15 points higher than usual. Is it that cholestrol laden protein powder?

Does anyone else go grab a magazine for the checkout adventure? This time I grabbed mobile computing magazine which I paged through with the equivalent passion a suburban fervor teenage girl has for a fashion magazine. "Will I still look nerd trendy enough with my laptop and phone through 2007 or do I need a (insert explicative) model to maintain my geek suave."

In the magazine I saw disney is making cell phones for kids that allow the parents to track the children from their phones. Two words: creepy and cancer. Those kids are gonna have brain tumors the size of lemons by the time they are 15.

Thanks to everyone for coming to the party last night. Who has pictures to post? I think everyone was quite thoroughly inebriated which turned out to be fun. I stayed up with the squireels, (e:robin) and soon to be epeep sarah-paul till about 5am.

Clams taste good at wegmans but these kind freak me the hell out. On eitm ewe were in vacation where they only had these funky clams. It was very dissapointing. I mean I love seafood but these ones remidn me of that Klinmgon dish QAGH (WIKIPEDIA - qagh) - lots of info here -

(e:terry) really wants a passion flower (WIKIPEDIA - passion flower) plants but they are $16.99

mrdt writes at 12:10:14 05/29/06 - Comment #8282: Don't pay retail for protein powder!!!
Go here and every few months I'll post a code for free shipping: :::link:::
Till 12:00 midnight Mat 29th it's: SPRING06

And those clams are way to old to eat and not stored proper.... They look like they were sitting in their own waste for too long.

theecarey writes at 09:03:42 05/28/06 - Comment #8277: I love impromtu gatherings! Its always nice to chill with friends, as Lee said, new and "old". Thanks for the bumper stickers, my car wears them proudly :)

ajay writes at 07:48:29 05/28/06 - Comment #8275: 130/80? Pshaw...

I used to have 180/130 in Buffalo. No, you read that right. Yes, it _was_ 180/130.

Now I've stopped measuring it. ;-)

leetee writes at 04:58:12 05/28/06 - Comment #8269: had a good time at the impromtu party last night. thanks for hosting and the invite! Good to see everyone... new and "old". :O)

jenks writes at 03:42:59 05/28/06 - Comment #8267: yeah you should totally get the passion flower. $17? that's like 2 coffees at spot. ;) They're cool. I wonder if it would grow passionfruit too. Is buffalo warm enough for them?

twisted writes at 03:29:33 05/28/06 - Comment #8266: Nice Passion flower vine!

mrmike writes at 01:44:28 05/28/06 - Comment #8263: Thanks for the party Paul, it was great to meet with people whose words I come to hang on.

metalpeter writes at 01:28:15 05/28/06 - Comment #8261: I had a good time should have brought more drinks then I did, oh well. I hope you like the pics I posted. One thing from last night caused me to have a question about the site. Some people made those hand writen banners. That got me to thinking on my computer I don't see banners. I remember when you put up a few picuture of the new or custom themes they had banners and my view dosn't. How would I get to see banners? Also in my custome view The background and bars between my journals is there a way to change them? How would I do that I can't figure it out? I use firefox when on (e:strip) but usaly use Internet explorer for most other sites or some sites if that is any help.

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Category: web

06/01/06 01:33 - 71ºF - ID#32633

Slowly the whole internet went away

I cannot get to any of the web. It slowly wittled away until there was nothing left. I have now had no internet for two hours which is really putting a cramp on the research I was doing on mobile video formats - argh.

I cannot restart my router because (e:terry) is fucking playing warcraft.
Then I remembered that my fancy phone was also a modem that gets speeds of aroudn 300k/s and decided to use it with my laptop. Thank god for that. I am my own access point now, it is a real sense of frreedom that I can brig broadband with me. I still hate warcraft. It makes every evening sound like "Argh, swish, stab, blech, blech, blech, argh, kling, kilng smash" I would record it on my phone but it is busy being used as my internet connection.

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Category: nature

05/27/06 04:39 - 72ºF - ID#32632

Inky Caps Eat Plants

The inkycap mushrooms in our yard are destroying everything near them. I have never seen them be so killer. It kind of looks like a miny gang of zombies. I wonder if the plants have nightmares about them.