Category: food
07/08/07 07:20 - 80ºF - ID#40007
Solid Grounds on Elmwood Sucks
Our long haired, medium height, red-headed waitress at
Solid Grounds on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, NY sucked so much. She never even refilled our free refill lemonade. When the people behind us, which arrived after us, got their food I was pissed. (e:terry) joked that maybe our waitress had left. haha, right?
About five minutes later at Solid Grounds on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, NY our waitress shows up from the kitchen with her purse on and left the restaurant. What the hell!?
Eventually, some other waitress brought us our food minus the usual salad and potato side (on the menu) that makes $7.50 for an omelette seem reasonable.
Compare this very plain meal from today
with the very same order (e:paul,32837) placed in December of 2006
The salad was under the bread. Both of these same order of the same meal cost $7.50
Solid Grounds on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, NY also no longer have the slab style thick bacon, but have replaced it with ordinary thin bacon for the same price.
I heard some other guy complaining that he was charged for wheat toast that he asked for twice but never received. The girl at the counter actually asked him if he would like the side of wheat to go!
Totally unrelated, while sitting for 45 minutes waiting for my simple Apple Omelette at Solid Grounds on Elmwood in Buffalo, NY I read Artvoice and saw this ad. I can't believe there is a sale on VHS anything as we are in the era leaving normal DVD. Even weirder, is that it is for such a niche market.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
07/08/07 11:12 - 76ºF - ID#40001
Action Packed Weekend
Got a letter from Germany that the university I attended is having a 450 year anniversary and is inviting back all the Alumni. I would really like to go. I wonder if I can convince (e:matthew) . I should apply for italian citizenship first so that I can be all EU.
Taste of Buffalo was yummy. It is my favorite festival of all.
There were lots of people at The Taste Of Buffalo 07. I had fun with (e:terry) and (e:matthew) but no Taste of Buffalo is the same without (e:hodown) or (e:mike) , the biggest food enjoyers I know, neither of which I was with.
I ate craw dads, the main reason I like to go.
Everytime I see these cookies I think of (e:jim)
The polish sausage from the Polish Villa was tasty.
(e:terry) being attacked by a monster
Saw Matt Puchler - I was sad we didn't get to work together but it is really awesome working with (e:jim)
I finally painted the garage and the french doors on the back of the house. I am so happy as they really looked like crap before and it was stressing me out.
Then I attended Kenmore Days for the fireworks. Damn those people know how to put on a fireworks display. My cell phone can't manage fireworks pics like my real camera which is now totally missing in action.
I had my first taste of funnel cake, it was quite yummy.
I have been wanting to go dancing for so long but didn't notice Soma's chat post about the HEMF (music fest) on Grand Island until today ;(
Which led me to - I went to school with him in Kenmore. It is strange how our raver days never coincided. I think once when I was home and he was home we saw each other at a party. Now we are neighbors, he lives in the building behind us, but we haven't hung out - even though I saw him and said I would call. I am just not good at making friends or doing things other than computing / house repair.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: programming
07/06/07 09:37 - 72ºF - ID#39974
Programming for the iphone
So anyways it gets worse. Not only can you only email photos via email. You can email only one photo per email. Basically, this translated to one picture per mobile entry from the iphone. And to make it even more ridiculous every attachment is named photo.jpg so that when they arrive the new ones were replacing the old ones.
I ended up writing a script that would take the file name and add part of the title after talking with (e:jim) about it. But as he pointed out, although I was able to script around it - what about all the grandmothers saving pictures of there grandkids all named photo.jpg. They will end up just replacing all the old photos.
Who the fucks decision was this. I think they should be fired.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: mobile
07/06/07 02:28 - 66ºF - ID#39942
Send via my cell phone with email
I believe it works now. (e:jim) just make sure you have it setup in your mobile control panel and use the old instructions.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
07/04/07 10:05 - 66ºF - ID#39917
Dinner in the glass castle
First, at Walgreens they have these ridiculous "signature hounds" that people are supposed to want for collecting graduation signatures. Isn't that what year books are for? Imagine having to store a yearbook and a giant signature hound in your memory box.
We had my parents over for dinner on the porch. We would have eaten in the backyard but the weather made that no so possible. Plus its so fun to have other people desire what we are eating.
It is nice to eat with the family.
The organic cherries at the coop were so darn yummy.
They had these cards asking how much money you spent at local business today or something. What the frick are you supposed to write on this? I mean I am all about local business but this is too much.
My mother made the yummiest BLT dip. It was very bacontastic.
We bought some cakes at Dolci on Elmwood. I love that place. One was lemon and one was rum cassata.
And we ate crab legs
I really had so much to say when I started this but decided that none of it was appropriate ;(
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: mobile
07/01/07 05:10 - 65ºF - ID#39877
Mobile Dump
When walking to thursday in the square with (e:eknot) the other week I saw this sign on La Lunas while we were buying Italian sausages (the food) outside. That is a serious amount of regulations.
I found some pics I actually took at Gay Pride in Toronto with my phone. Too bad I accidentally took them in black and white mode.
The food I ate in toronto was so yummy. Something with dried appricots, watercress and chicken in a grand marnier sauce. Yum!
We now only go grocery shopping once a month, its getting ridiculous how much we buy at once.
The roses in the backyard are pretty, they would be much prettier with the Nikon camera.
Here are some leftovers from when (e:matthew) and I went to San Francisco back in March.
I was amazed at how overflowing the park trash was in San Francisco. There are some things that make having a booming population not so great.
When in San Francisco I saw these drips grafittied on a wall. I really like the style.
It is so simple, look at it up close. From further away they look wet.
Here we have (e:matthew) eating shrimp at the San Francisco airport. We splurged figuring it might be our last meal ever.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: buffalo
07/01/07 02:07 - 65ºF - ID#39874
Reduce, reuse, recycle
After we went to Buffalo ReUse , a non-profit organization aimed at reusing building material from housing that are being demolished. They are located next to the Washington Market downtown. They have some job opportunities open too
I can't believe how many houses are awaiting demolition in our city.
Organizational Overview
Buffalo ReUse, Inc. is a new not-for-profit organization committed to developing the practice of deconstruction to create a community minded alternative to demolition. In Buffalo, there are estimates that between 10 and 20,000 structures await demolition and the city has tentative plans to demolish 1,000 houses a year indefinitely. Deconstruction, the careful disassembly of a building in the opposite order that it was originally created, is the vehicle for diverting reusable materials from the landfill; providing a source of high quality materials for homeowners; providing meaningful job opportunities; and creating positive changes in the neighborhoods in which we work.
Looks like they are just starting but there is a similar place in Rochester that seems more established
We also went and took a look at the building being demolished on Delaware near Niagara Square that (e:metalpeter) wrote about the other day.
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Category: mobile
06/29/07 11:54 - 67ºF - ID#39854
Jim and the iPhone
1. No instant messenging.
2. No tethering using it as a modem for your laptop on the go.
3. Slow, like really way slow compared to sprint.
4. No terminal, no ssh
5. No streaming radio. I have no interest in having lots of space for mp3s. I don't even have them on my lappy barely because I like the surprise of internet radio and have become accustomed to it.
6. No bluetooth means no GPS, no wireless syncing.
7. No way the battery could outlast the double battery I have on my phone right now and the battery is not easily accessible for switching.
8. No flash or java.
9. No third party apps.
10. There doesn't appear to be a file browse for uploading pictures from your phone to a website. LAME!
Look I found this later on macrumors. The battery is soldered on so you really can't switch it easily.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: mobile
06/29/07 06:13 - 75ºF - ID#39849
Not not iphone
My tooth hurts so much. I definitely need to go to the dentist now. It has a giant hole in it. I guess I probably eat too much candy.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: computers
06/27/07 11:02 - 75ºF - ID#39833
Surebert, Second Life and Felly
Saw one of my former students, Mike Spencer who works there.
(e:fellyconnelly) when do you arrive and how do you say your username? God I love this laptop now. It was playing second life, recording this video, running windows and mac, and the net all at the same time.
I went back into secondlife. I still have a lot of money there. If I cashed it in for American Dollars it would be worth about $450. Thats brings me to over $1000 I would have made from that game. I am so torn between selling the land and money for an iPhone or not.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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I don't know as I have ever ate at solid grounds sorry things where bad there. It sounds like they are disorganised. I have had a waitress go on break or leave and what she did was come right up and tell me that someone would be replacing her. Not to defend them but it sounds like they are cutting corner maybe it is because that part of elmwood is runed down. There are a few store fronts that have been empty for a long time now.
Solid Grounds
Common Grounds
Grounds for dismissal
(e:Jim) and I went there about a year ago and I was overwhelmed at how underwhelming everything was about the place.