"Turning to dust" written by Paul on estrip.org

04/07/07 12:04 - 24ºF - ID#38779

Turning to dust

The study, published online in the journal Science, predicted a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest - one of the fastest-growing regions in the nation.

The data tell "a story which is pretty darn scary and very strong," said Jonathan Overpeck, a climate researcher at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.

Fuck you southwest. Let's see how much everyone extols your virtues and copious opportunities when you are dried up and crunchy from lack of water. I am never going to agree to ship water down from the great lakes if that is what you are thinking.

The prospect of a drier Southwest is particularly troublesome because the region has some of the nation's fastest growing cities, including Las Vegas and Phoenix.

Richard Seager, also from Lamont-Doherty and a lead author of the paper, said the region will have to rethink how it uses water. Governments "need to plan for this right now, coming up with new, well-informed, and fair deals for allocation of declining water resources," he said.

james writes at 01:34:50 04/07/07 - Comment #17223: We should give water to people who live in absurd places like the desert.

We should give air to the people who settle in undersea villages.

We should give our brains to zombies.

Good, glad that place will dry out. I mean, it is a fucking desert. People aren't supposed to live in a desert. That is why it is a desert and not, let's just say, a temperate forest zone with ample water for cities.

joshua writes at 10:46:37 04/07/07 - Comment #17221: Opportunity for what, dying of thirst? Haha.

I'd sell water to them - but I would make it extraordinarily expensive. I'm talking megabucks. You don't want to die of thirst? Then you will pay.

Or, what they could do is solve the problem on their own through investing their own money in technology. Doubt that will happen.

Or, they could do what countless other groups of people who deal with natural tragedies do - get the hell out and settle somewhere else.

I don't particularly care about LV, or Phoenix, or any of those places. I really don't. Especially LV, full of degenerates and whose history is as shady as any city's history. If they were forced to scatter it wouldn't break my heart. Life's tough, wear a helmet!

lilho writes at 06:16:03 04/07/07 - Comment #17219: wow! so great thing im moving there, and you wont give me water. i dont really agree with thye whole thing either. but, the world is already a pretty fucked up place, and my name aint sarah a. ho for nothing. i will come back and steal the water, peaches!

paul writes at 12:14:36 04/07/07 - Comment #17216: That would be so freakin' great, like the way they guard the mexican border with militia's now.

mike writes at 12:07:22 04/07/07 - Comment #17215: they are totally gonna get our water. Maybe we should arm ourselves and start some kind of Great Lakes Defense Militia.

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Category: food

04/05/07 09:37 - 23ºF - ID#38765

The Biggest Pork Rinds2

Yes, It snowed today. I am over it. I have a video when it snowed on April 19th. While it does tend to snow between october and april, it by no means snows everyday. But here it is, the way I saw it this morning.

While at the Washington Market. I saw these enormous pork rinds (WIKIPEDIA - Chicharrones). I have never seen such a freakin disgusting snack which just re-enforces my feelings that Mexican food is disgusting food. I mean I am alergic to Cilantro and Avacados to start out with and I hate beans. I know that everyone will hate me for that, but I really don't like it.

Like if you have seen tony's hands, that should give you an idea. Each individual piece was enough to wrap a football.

Look how disgusting they are.

Yummy

zobar writes at 03:23:32 04/06/07 - Comment #17206: BBQ-flavored pork rinds are one of my favorite snacks. (e:dragonlady7) won't even stay in the same room if I'm eating them. At least she doesn't steal them like she steals my Chee-Tos.

Once I went to visit Mr & Mrs (e:dragonlady7) and discovered a bag of pork rinds on top of their fridge. It did not seem like the kind of snack her parents would have, but I had just driven all the way across New York State and I was a bit munchy. As I ate them the dog started looking at me all funny. I thought she was better behaved than that, but whatever. Her dad didn't say anything but when her mom came in she told me '...those are for the dog.' Hmph!

- Z

mrdeadlier writes at 10:17:23 04/06/07 - Comment #17197: One of my father's favorite snacks in the whole world is pork rinds. I grew up eating them not realizing what I was actually putting in my body. Yech! Only other food more unsettling (figuratively and literally speaking) to me is tripe.

carolinian writes at 01:45:34 04/06/07 - Comment #17195: I tend to find mexican food a little disgusting myself. However, there are exceptions. Mole sauce is yummy--a non desert usage of chocolate! How cool is that?!

james writes at 12:52:21 04/06/07 - Comment #17193: I fucking hate you for all eternity you bean hating piece of shit.

And yet, I have to love you for showing me what has to be the most disgusting food man's foolish hand has wrought.

leetee writes at 11:56:16 04/05/07 - Comment #17190: I love mexican food. Don't much care for the pork rinds either, though. However, i think i would cry if i couldn't have cilantro and avacados. I think seafood is smelly icky. Good thing we all have different tastes.. or i would have to wait even longer for a table in my favie restaurants!!

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:42:13 04/05/07 - Comment #17188: NOTE TO SELF: Don't invite (e:paul) out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant.

Those are real deep fried pork skins. I think that they are quite yummy. Unfortunately, my digestive system does not agree. So they don't look disgusting to me.

Alas, paul, I hate to disappoint you but I don't hate you for your food preferences.

If you want me to hate you will have to try a lot harder than that. <eg>

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: drugs

04/03/07 12:38 - 39ºF - ID#38725

Has anyone tried foxy?

I was reading about club drugs during my day of recuperating and pop culture and found all these references to 5-Methoxy-diisopropyltryptamine it is also called foxy (WIKIPEDIA - 5-MeO-DIPT) - which has been illegal since 2003.

It was listed along side GHB, LSD, ecstacy, and crystal -

I never ever heard of it. The article I was reading was about sindergarten, some sort of druggy school bus for elite high school students in NYC. You can read the whole article on radar

It sounds insane.

Here is some more info about foxy on erowid

and some medical info

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: vacation

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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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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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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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.