"The love that never shuts up" written by Paul on estrip.org

04/02/07 07:44 - 50ºF - ID#38722

The love that never shuts up

Lesbian Straight guy thing.
While sick today I was reading pop culture articles instead of programing for once and came across this article written by a lesbian about the bond between straight guys and lesbians

Call me closed minded but I always kind of thought lesbians hated men. I guess I was wrong. She also mentions the lesbian shift from owning cats to owning dogs in the 90s. I never thought about that either. My favorite part of the article was her way of describing the hetero-female homo-male relationship as, "The love that never shuts up."

San Francisco recap
I still cannot believe (e:jacob) was there and we did not see each other.

(e:matthew) really likes escargot

I really like everything else

This fish was so fucked up. I guess they all flip like this as the grow up. Probably still tastes good with garlic butter.

Scared (e:matthew)

Here is some ice on Lake Erie as seen from the plane.

Here is sheridan park

And strawberry island

Some more pics from the trip.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: health

04/01/07 08:36 - 56ºF - ID#38713

Strep Throat

Well, my fourteen hour plane ride is over. I think I have strep throat now like I have never had before. My throat and lungs are on fire and I have a fever. Like it hurts to breathe and swallow. I hope I feel better in the morning, if not I am going to the doctor it feels so bad. I guess there is a rapid strep throat test now. Maybe there was always one and I just didn't have a doctor before. Argh.

I am so glad about being home in Buffalo. Big City life is really not for me. I think I would die of anxiety if I lived in San Francisco.

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Category: airlines

04/01/07 06:24 - 49ºF - ID#38705

I Hate Delta Airlines

I would never fly Delta again, it is this sub-trash piece of shit airlines. The flights were terrible.

On the second flight, the seats going back function was broken which really sucks on an overnight flight. Although there was a movie we were not able to see the screen due to the way the cabin was configured. They didn't even bother giving us earphone ports for the sound.

But here is the kicker. I was annoyed when we arrived in Atlanta at 5am for our 9:20am flight to buffalo. But what made that totally unacceptable is that there is a 7am flight to Buffalo. Why would they have not put us on that flight when I requested a ticket from San Francisco online. It just doesn't make sense. So I asked the stupid fuck behind the counter if we could switch and he said no.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: vacation

03/30/07 02:13 - 50ºF - ID#38697

More Pics of San Francisco

(e:matthew) and I spent most of yesterday in the park. We walked from Buena Vista park down Haight street to the golden gate park to the ocean and all the way back.

How did graffitti get in the electric or phone box or whatever this is.

Here is the city view from twin peaks.

This is where (e:twisted) often visits estrip.

This flower in the park smelled so sweet. I want to know what it is.

A pretty twisted branch.

Another pic of flowers at golden gate park. The viewfinder in my camera makes purple look blue so I thought it was not taking pictures of purple/pink things properly but it is. Just that they show up blue in the viewfinder.

(e:matthew) taking pictures

This pine cone was so large and heavy. It is hard to tell in the pic.

This tree trunk over water was almost the death of me. I ran across it and then got scared and sat down as it was high up over water. Then I had to shimmy the rest of the way.

When we got to the beach we ate yummy food.

A cubby hole in the woods. I thought (e:terry) would like it.

Next to Buena Vista Park is this house that resembles ours accept for theirs is smaller but has a grander entrance.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: vacation

03/27/07 10:05 - 59ºF - ID#38660

Touring Around San Francisco

Here are some of the pics from San Francisco in no particular order.

Okay, this one was before the trip. I finally cut off my hair. I feel free. There was a video of the process but unlike the old days of the smaller audience I think it is no longer appropriate.

there was this magazine on the plane with furniture in Nice, France that make syour whole house into a rock garden. I want it so bad.

(e:matthew) really did not like flying. The two hours of severe turbulence didn't help. I was liek the plane was going to rip apart. My neck hurt from the stress of thinking I was gonna die plus the jarring motion of it whipping around. We didn't even have service or sound for like 2 hours.

People bring their dogs and cats on planes in their backpacks nowadays. As an alergy sufferere this makes me mad.

I thought Dave Doyle would like this. I know he likes messed up signs.

This one too.

On Saturday (e:hodown) arrived

Here is the goldengate bridge

These boat houses cost more than double the cost of the mansion.

Alcatraz from telegraph hill.

Yummy Seafood

Lots of no dumping signs with junk in the grates.

At the conference today I was scared that an earthquake would crash down the part I was in.

A delorian maybe?

I love Aroma Tea Shop

at 302 6th avenue

(e:hodown) already opened up a restaurant here.

Lombard street is twisty

Do you think the workers really get the $1 surcharge per plate? No where else had one.

From North of the bridge

This is the Palace of Fine Arts. I felt at home being a master of fine arts.

(e:twisted) had lots of yummy snacks for us.

this pic of (e:matthew) is for (e:terry)

metalpeter writes at 06:22:27 03/29/07 - Comment #16966: Nice pictures, thanks for sharing them. There is nothing wrong with studding Bay Area alternative medicines and personely trying each one out to find out what the effects are.

twisted writes at 11:41:59 03/29/07 - Comment #16953: I think he had pressing pharmaceutical duties to attend to. Maybe next time he can substitute credit on an independent study of Bay Area alternative medicines, haha.

jenks writes at 01:36:58 03/29/07 - Comment #16948: btw why is poor (e:terry) not on this lovely vacation? poor baby. :(

deeglam writes at 11:25:53 03/28/07 - Comment #16941: i like your new haircut.

matthew writes at 10:28:24 03/28/07 - Comment #16938: I'm really having a much better time than paul's photos seem to show. :)

twisted writes at 10:21:22 03/28/07 - Comment #16937: Hey (e:terry) - I will try to return them in the same condition I received them in. you are sore missed here too, believe-you-me. next time?

p.s. - Hey (e:iriesara)!

mrmike writes at 01:34:51 03/28/07 - Comment #16914: The Delorean actually is a Porsche I think, but it must have an impressive flux capacitor to get up those steep SF hills.

joshua writes at 12:08:39 03/28/07 - Comment #16913: "SF minimum wage surcharge?" Haha - now that is a hustle that I haven't heard of yet. There's no way that the extra money is going to the workers, and most restaurants wouldn't bother with an idea like this - they simply increase the price of the plates directly.

I hope that you are enjoying your time!

paul writes at 11:51:34 03/28/07 - Comment #16912: Yes, I bought the blue oolong tea! Now, let's see how long it takes me to actually send it lol. That is the hard part.

iriesara writes at 11:01:46 03/28/07 - Comment #16910: Did you get me any tea you bastard? I sent you an email a couple weeks ago....blue people oolong, please...no really, I mean it.

Love to Matt Lisa & Jess!

terry writes at 12:15:43 03/28/07 - Comment #16906: Is that (e:lilho) in that last pic or what?

She musta left her double with me. Looks like all goes well in St. Frank's land, glad to see (e:matthew) recovered and (e:hodwn) alive! You are sore missed here, but at least we can live a bit vicariously through our journaling experiences. Hi (e:twisted), thanks for taking in my roustabouts for a while.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: conference

03/26/07 10:33 - 63ºF - ID#38644

Web Design World

Well day one took us through the CSS you'd learn in intro to web design. Hopefully, something more exciting will be on the plate for tommorow. This woman in front of me asked the man next to her what a 'div' is.

It's nice to find out most of the choices (e:enknot) and I have made are also backed by other industry professionals.

The food was tasty. I even got my own personal size chocolate cake. Somehow a pigeon got into the conference. I fed it some cookies.

These dolls are so damn freaky.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: conference

03/26/07 02:10 - 71ºF - ID#38626

Ajax Speech Quote

"You don't want to develop a javascript framework. That hard work has already been solved by the really smart people."

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: conference

03/26/07 01:10 - 54ºF - ID#38625

ruby on rails

This has become a ruby in rails promtion event. which is fine with me. The speaker just went off how hard php is to maintain because it's all speghetti code. The way he talked about it, it seemed like the only php code he saw was code that hobby programmers wrote for php3.

Woman1: this is crazy. It used to be an event that promoted microsoft. Didn't he see how many peole raised their hand for .net

woman2: well, I am going to try ruby if it's the future.

woman1: I don' think microsoft will support it. All our servers are microsoft, and it's too expensive to switch.

hahaha

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: conference

03/26/07 12:15 - 54ºF - ID#38623

So I made it

I am at the san fran web design world conference now despite freaking out about thinking I was enrolled n the wrong connference.

They just asked developers what they are using. Hands went up and percentages you would expect for microsoft's .net, php,and java technology. What surprised me that only like two people raised their hands for rails. I was totally surprised.

Did you guys know tthat less than 5% of people publish more than once a week on their blogs?

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Category: celebrities

03/23/07 02:27 - 51ºF - ID#38592

Jake Gyllenhaal and Squeeling Pigs

Our (e:lilho) leave all her gossip magazines at our house. My favorite quote from one is this quote from Jake Gyllenhaal.. Who enjoys a pig being slaughtered. Is he being sarcastic?