After programming today, I was going through an old hardrive with my ten thousand art projects and misc stuff on them and found some of the video files were 0k. Argh, I was so mad, so I decided to take some of the video that I have already put on the web or on other harddrives and put it on youtube too. That way hopefully, one place or another it will exist.

Okay this is so fuckin rediculous that I can't even believe I did it. I remember I ran out of time to video edit at school so I was left with windows movie maker at work. It sucks so bad, but now it is kind of funny looking back. All the movements and stuff were scripted. If only I had a mac during that phase ;( but that was after the powerbook died.





I also foudn lots of video we took documenting our life and about 10,000 more pictures to add to my 1,000,000 pictures. Back in 1999-2000 (e:terry) , (e:jacob) , and I took this crazy trip from flagstaff, AZ to Vancouver and then across Canada back to Buffalo. I wrote about it lots of times and all the crazy shit that happend but now I lost half the video thanks to a harddrive failure. I am so mad. At least this half will exists on youtube.

I am now going to go crazy trying to find everything else.




Making my Mii for the Wii

I would like to thank (e:tinypliny) and (e:imk2) for their donation to the site last month. I hadn't logged into the account until today and noticed. If anybody else ever wants to donate, just click the donate link to the right of the latest entries list. It works with paypal.

On another note, my surebert accordian menu worked out great. It works on my nokia n800, terry powerPC mac, my macbook, IE 6 on windows, and in firefox. I bet it even works on the iphone - although how does the iphone handle mouseover. Anyways, it can be switched to work on mousedown instead. I am sure I will find a use for it here on estrip soon. I wish it was like the old days when I could program estrip 24/7.

Notice the surebert color picker widget in the one section. That should be easier than the surebert rgb slider for most people to understand.

Yesterday at work I was kind of sick thoughout the afternoon but I figured it was just something unsettled in my stomach. 12 hours later I am still mega sick to my stomach. I wish it would just end as I am not in the mood to spend anymore time in the bathroom. I hope it wasn't form the dinner on Wed night. The only other thing I ate was the fajita lunch at roswell, hm. But (e:enknot) and (e:jim) ate that too. I guess I did eat a cliff bar that looked kind of iffy. I threw out the bad looking part and ate the rest. Is anyone else sick?

At least today is awesome because they came out with a true mozilla based browser for my not phone that has flash 9. It does the site exactly as it should, sounds and all.

And I guess stomach flu can stop me from programming now that I have a sweet laptop with all my work on it. Wait a minute is that a blessing or do I now work like 24/7. Okay, at least I love it!

Who would have thought so much of my life would pass by at Washington and Carlton. I got so much stuff done today but there are like 10,000 things that still need to be done.



I am now phoneless, for me it is a lot like homeless. The not phone is becoming my new best friend and I am totally addicted to skype. for my telephone needs right now.

The pink house on the corner of North Pearl and Allen is for sale. i wish I could buy it. I think it would fit (e:hodown) quite well. You should move here and buy it. It is bigger than my house but pink and with apartments in it.

It's the one on the corner and it is for sale by owner. I never realized how big the one next to it is.



The cut the trees down on Franklin. I guess it is the aftermath of October surprise.







I brought this one home to maybe make a table thingy for the backyard.



The building at 920 main street caved in on the inside and the floor in front of the door is missing.


At least it looks like a cave in when you look through the glass. I mean it doesn't look like it could be intentional.




Looks like the store front on the corner of Allen and Main is turning into a gallery this week.



The touch screen on my PPC 6700 stopped working which leaves me in a weird place as the iphone doesn't do what I want and I don't want this phone anymore. I might just get a tmobile sidekick again. That was the best device I ever had and now that I always carry a camera anyways I could care less about the quality of the camera.

We made our annual trek to Jabe Pond in the Adirondacks followed by The Ledges in Vermont. We had to forgo, the usual trip to Rock River in Vermont because this year we didn't have as much time as usual due to Dave's work schedule.

The weather was fabulous. It was between 80-90 the whole time with no rain. In fact the only wetness we encountered that was not in the form of a swimming hole, was the dew this morning on the field we camped in Vermont on our way home.



The first part of the week we stayed at our usual get away at Jabe Pond. According to some nudist book that Dave has from the 80s, it is a nudist place. We hardly ever see anyone there besides the odd fisherman and I have never seen a nudist there but since there is no one else there...

Here we are launching our canoes in order to canoe out the the campsite which is on an island.



The campsite is great. It is really isolated and yet big enough of an island to make a great campout.



We canoed and swam a lot. It was the perfect weather for both and thanks to SPF 45 sun screen no one got burned this year.

We ate heathy things like watermelong


and tasty things like organic peppered bacon. I freakin' love bacon.


We swam and canoed a lot. I think this is the only time I really full on swam this whole summer which is sad. Every other time we tried to go, the beach here on Lake Erie was closed for pollution.



We swam so much that (e:terry) got goggle burn at one point.


We all had this ridiculous euro trunks , which were believe it or not, the only swimming-like gear we found left at Walmart. I guess it is the end of the season and Walmart was all that was around at the time of purchase. I mean they look like we ordered them out of a gay fashion swimsuit catalog. Apparently, they are popular I searched on Men's Underwear and Swimwear Guide and found this thread with some other pics of people wearing at USG



We sat around a lot and relaxed.


At night time we sat around some more. Our friend Dave is obsessed with having fires. Even though it was like 80-90 degrees the whole time I think if we had gone along with it, he would have had a campfire 24/7. I am one of those people that like to only have a campfire when I am cooking or freezing. Sometime at night for a bit. But honestly, I hate all the smoke that comes with drunk people making fires. Eventually, he or someone else throws in leaves or bark or something stupid liek pine needles and we all almost die of smoke inhalation for five minutes. Same with wet wood.

Someone else before us started a mini forest fire. That scares the hell out of me. I can only imagine drunk people not payig attention to their fire as it spreads across the dry pine needle floor. The picture really doesn't do the burn hole justice. It was about 8 feet across and about 2 feet deep.



We collected far too much firewood. We honestly only used a tiny portion of this but we collected it all first. I guess after the bad weather last year we were just cautious.



At night I discovered that my camera took pictures in High ISO mode which allow sit to virtually see daylight at nightitime.
Here is a picture before using high ISO mode.


I am not sure what high iso mode is as it normally can be dialed up to ISO 1600 but then there is high ISO after that. Why not have a number associated with it. Is it 3200 ISO? It is a bit grainy but wow, this is the same picture, same lighting in high ISO mode.


Here is the campfire in high ISO.


Here is a cool pic (e:matthew) took using my camera. He used the light from a torch to make the glow behind (e:terry).


Apparently, it made him very happy.


The next day we swam and canoed so much more. I actually got tired from swimming but it was hard to stop knowing it probably would be one of the last times I got to swim this summer.


We were on our way to go to the swam where we saw a snapping turtle last year, when (e:matthew)'s camera broke.


It just stopped taking pictures like normal. It kind of reminded me when my Nokia 7710 camera's died (e:paul,32341) Here he looks sad.


See, (e:terry) doesn't just hide behind curtains in the living room.


Beer booty.

The last day of our trip we headed over to The Ledges in Vermont. Here is a whole site about the place.

The Ledges, named for its large stone outcroppings, is a small section of the undeveloped 28-mile public recreational shoreline of Harriman Reservoir near Wilmington, Vermont. Many forms of "The Creator's" most beautiful work can be found here in distant mountain views, clean water, wildlife, sunsets, and the unclothed human body. On any hot summer day as many as 300-400 people can be found quietly relaxing and socializing in various states of dress. This quote is taken from Friends of the Ledges

Here are some pics other people took

It is one of the largest free public nudist swimming holes in the USA. The water was really low and you could see why the place was called the ledges. The other times we were there the water was too high (e:paul,32076) The water was so low I couldn't jump off the swinging rope because you could see the rocks in the water below. I wasn't going to break my legs to swing off the rope.

(e:matthew) fed this duck popcorn for about an hour.

Thanks to the miracle of SPF 45 we still did not get burned even in the glaring sun.



Dave got our picture at there (see below) to compliment this one (e:paul,32022) from back in 2005


This year we got one from the other side too, lol.



There are hundreds of naked people at the ledges, so it wasn't weird at all. That is till some really tan weirdo asked Dave if he was our Dad. When he said no, he asked if he was our uncle, then our grandfather. What a freako. I wish you guys could have seen his creepiness.

Once again we were the only people under 35 accept for one other guy who was 24 and really quite a nervous fellow. There were evn many people in what appeared to be their 70s-90s. I find it amazing that people have the courage to walk on treacherous rock trails naked with a cane.

I have spent most of the caride readin wikipedia. I never have tine to just read it and o to all the links. A six hour carride makes that possible.

I never had any idea what the 'evil eye' was really about. Did anyone else know it was cause by the envy of other people and that it caused drying action.

I also had no idea the little red horn charms my father has was to protect from it or that vaginas can protect from it because of their wetness. Or that fish were immune to it.

Check it out if you hae time.

There were these tiny ants on the porch. They are so freakin tiny, like little dots. They really like yogurt.



I took a picture after putting my arm down in the torotise cave that Basra dug. It is really poop filled but he seems to like that. Their poop is kind of like horse poop. It is very fibrous and haylike, and actually doesn't really smell much when it is dry but its still gross to make a nest of your own poop.



On Thursday night (e:terry) and I hit Allen Street. Here is my brother (e:mike) striking a pose, lol.


(e:terry) and I then headed over to the new creole place across from Allen Street hardware. It is only open from 6PM-2am but it is freakin; delicious. I love it.



I got an oyster poboy for $8 which was excellent. It was actually better than the clam counterpart one I had on Cape Cod (e:paul,31070)



And (e:Terry) got the muffelletta which was also really excellent.


Friday lunch I ate with (e:enknot), (e:mrdeadlier) and (e:jim) at Kibirashi. I really like their lunch special but it's honestly not as good as Kunis.



I think everyone hates it when we pay with 4 cards but it's the way of life with Direct Deposit.


On Friday evening we went to see VR divas, a show in the Buffalo Infringement Festival. It was at Hall Walls. They used some masks I made for another project to represent the characters. It was weird to see the masks out of context.



Followed by a tasty Chicken lavash wrap at Sahara Grill on Elmwood;



Then on Saturday we went to the garden walk before our party. To bad just about everyone missed the party.


The best garden on North Pearl in my option has this nice Lotus pond. Now (e:Terry) and (e:matthew) are obsessed with getting a pond. We found solar powered pumps online.


Check out this allergy coma inducing pollen ball called a blue globe thistle.


Purple is the new pink? Why did they paint the pink with that ghetto purple paintjob. The mural was much better.




After the garden walk all of our friends came of for the get together that all of our not-so-good friends missed. We ate giant clams. You can't tell how big they are in this picture but they are about the size of an adult man's fist. You can really tell on (e:jim,40289) next to (e:enknot)'s giant hand.


Why does Salmon come on cedar now? It seems like such a waste of wood.


On sunday we went to buy camping supplies for our annual nudist trip in the adirondacks (e:paul,32730) It is really my favorite week of the year mostly - so long as the weather hold up. While at the mall we ate at a place called Johnny Rockets. The prices were pretty reasonable for burgers but you have to consider that oth bacon and fries were extra.

(e:enknot), (e:jim) and I were standing on the corner of Main Street and Virginia next to the Scientologist building in Buffalo New York when some blond leggy scientology chick comes screaming at us - saying that she needs to talk with us about a stress test.

All of a sudden (e:enknot) busts out with "GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM YOU YOUR CRAZY PSYCHO, YOU ARE A FREAK, YOU ARE A FREAK!!"

I love it when people get in the face of religious weirdos getting in their face. She started screaming back about how he was crazy or something. I am so sick of the way those Scientology freaks on Main Street in Buffalo, New York rule the sidewalks there. Anytime I have to walk down main street I have to cross the street to avoid being harassed by them in their big yellow tent. There is a picture of it at the Bush Protest from 2004 on the news journal from the protest (e:news,29822)

I think it should be illegal for them to set up on the street the way they do. Eventually, it is going to cause an accident when someone gets hit by a car trying to avoid them by crossing or walking in the street.

He is some info about their presence in Buffalo

What is the deal with all their crosses. At first I kind of assumed they were christians of some sort but then I read this

So what is the deal with the crosses? This is their official site with pictures of their building on Main Street in Buffalo New York

Apparently, they even harass children

All I can say is that like any religious group that is secretive and close knit - they scare the fuck out me like children of the corn

I think this letter is the best all just seems so whack

UPDATE - I found this later I is pretty interesting