"I am (an) Italian" written by Paul on estrip.org

08/27/07 05:33 - 81ºF - ID#40760

I am (an) Italian

Well just about everybody knows that that is what I am ethnically but soon enough I will be able to really say I am an an Italian when I reclaim my citizenship. I finally got all the paperwork I needed - really in order. I guess it would be cooler if I could say it in Italian - I think it would be "Sono un italiano"

The next step is dragging myself and my stuff to the consulate in New York City and probably dragging my mother and maybe brother along with me. I suggested we take (e:mike) to and make it a Mom and me trip, lol. I wonder if there is a consolute in Toronto I could go to considering I am applying to reclaim my Italian citizenship which has little to do with America. Seems like it should not matter where the consulate is.

I am kind of excited and a little be apprehensive because it opens up so many possibilities as a world citizen.

leetee writes at 05:02:58 08/28/07 - Comment #23268: i'm still just canadian. people ask me all the time if i am a u.s.citizen and when i say no, they think i am illegal, as though there is nothing inbetween citizen and illegal immigrant.

so... will you travel to canada on your italian or us pasport?

jenks writes at 04:18:53 08/28/07 - Comment #23265: paul, how does this work? how are you an italian citizen? cool! I wish I were (more) italian- haha.

(and tiny, do you speak italian?)

jason writes at 08:15:48 08/28/07 - Comment #23223: Cool, now when I call you Paolo I am not technically wrong anymore!

paul writes at 11:30:40 08/27/07 - Comment #23217: It is actually way easier for mom because she just has to prove she never rejected her Italian citizenship. Then we would both get it.

fellyconnelly writes at 10:50:45 08/27/07 - Comment #23204: lucky!
i wish i could be a citizen of anything-other-than-america!

tinypliny writes at 10:39:06 08/27/07 - Comment #23199: oooooh, Lei parla l'italiano?

mike writes at 09:37:42 08/27/07 - Comment #23187: OMG Paul do it so then I can do it. See Paul has to prove lots of stuff but if he does then I only have to prove he is my brother!! by the by mom just said she thinks we should go to NYC.

libertad writes at 08:54:48 08/27/07 - Comment #23181: That is so great. You have an EZ out if things get hairy around here ;) You still can't go to Cuba though, it isn't legal for dual citizens either.

paul writes at 06:07:45 08/27/07 - Comment #23168: Mike, this could be good for you: MILITARY SERVICE
Decree n. 226 of 23 August 2004 (G.U. n. 204 of 23/8/2004), calls for, as of January 2005, the early suspension of obligatory military service and the establishment of professional military service.

james writes at 05:37:32 08/27/07 - Comment #23167: And as a citizen of an EU nation you can go anywhere! Lucky dog.

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Category: gay

08/26/07 08:48 - 71ºF - ID#40745

Summer in the City

We went to Summer in the City gay pride festival at Lasalle park today. It was a fundraiser for the ride center but we got free tickets from our new roommate. I guess it is an offshoot project from the old Pride at the Pier festival. We saw lady bunny

She was really funny in a I was really drunk and she was really a really raunchy comedian kind of way.

Nameless Bitch and (e:jim) and (e:james) went with us and a good time was had by all. I think the free beer from 2-5PM helped making it extra fun. I saw Chris Parada and Angelo Cicatello and we reminisced about the gay old days in boy scouts troop 225. Apparently, it was way gayer than I thought.

I also realized I met (e:james) once a long time ago. I think (e:flacidness) is the only one who would remember this.

I love (e:jim) and (e:james) they restore my faith in having friends.

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Category: buffalo

08/25/07 01:58 - 80ºF - ID#40727

Bad Experience at Cozumel on Elmwood

On friday August 24th at around 9PM four of us went to Cozumel

at 153 Elmwood Avenue in the Allentown area of Buffalo, NY in order to get nachos($10) and rock shrimp ($12) along with some frosty mixed drinks. Generally this ends up costing around $60+ for 4 people because the appetizers are expensive as are the drinks. The outdoor bar was packed with people so we went inside to site and they seated us.

When we went to order our blond waitress went and spoke with the ugly brown haired one and then came back and she they refused to serve us at a table if we didn't order dinners. She said we could only order appetizers at the bar which is complete bullshit as we have eaten appetizers and ordered drinks there many times sitting at a booth. There were about 8 empty tables so it's not like we were taking up space. She was just being a lazy bitch.

It will be a while before I ever go back there which is their loss because I have spent a lot of money there in the past. (e:terry) said he overheard the one waitress saying she didn't feel like serving anymore that night.

The rest of the evening
Then we headed over to Couter Bay where a bunch of epeeps were hanging out (e:jim,40718) Got to meet (e:drew) (who looks and is much younger than in his pic) and (e:janelle) (his lovely wife) and hang with (e:jim) , (e:james) , (e:jbeatty) , (e:fellyconnelly) and (e:lauren) . It was a great evening. Afterwards, we headed over to Frizzys to meet up with (e:mike) , (e:beast) and (e:maureen) then over to Cathode Ray where I saw Brian and we got our picture taken by the Buffalo Barfly

photographer. Then off to Roxy's where we danced for the first time in a long time. It was nice to see (e:jim) dance and be happy like myself. Holy crap I accidently typed mysql the first time I was typing mysql, lol. I'm bringing dorky back.

ajay writes at 12:44:48 08/26/07 - Comment #23098: Hmmm.... Roxy's ..... brings back memories.

No wonder I'm living in the heart of Lesbianistan.

metalpeter writes at 11:20:14 08/26/07 - Comment #23096: That whole thing at Cozumel sounds strange. My take is that since you can get apitizers at the bar then if that waitress does both the bar and the seats it makes her job easier if you just go to the bar. The part that gets weird is what if after you have apitisers you are joined by someone else or someone gets hungry and orders a dinner. It sounds to me like as you said one of the waitresses was lazy and the other one wasn't going to take her table from her. I'm glad you still had a great time out and about.

paul writes at 10:19:19 08/26/07 - Comment #23091: sqlplus is an oracle client I don't have that. Windows on mac you can use vmware fusion :::link::: It is $59 bucks right now with a rebate from the site - it's totally worth it. You want to buy the real thing so you can get updates.

You will need to get a legitmate copy of winows from school to use it. At UB you can get them for like $5.00. You should see if your school has something like that, I am sure they do.

Once you have vmware you can install linux on that too. Linux is free. What linux do you need? You can download it from the internet. Just tell me which one you need there are like 50 millions flavors of it.

Wow, it kind of sounds like you are in web programming school and not in digital media arts web design school. Not neessarily a bad thing but it sounds like more programming. You might as well give it a try and se if you like it. If you do, your job possibilties are huge.

tinypliny writes at 07:12:07 08/26/07 - Comment #23085: I am a horrible dancer, as (e:terry) may or may not remember. Maybe I should take a few lessons from (e:Jim).

lilho writes at 02:52:14 08/26/07 - Comment #23081: paul im in software crisis, you have all the programs i need!!! i need sql plus for mac, where do i get??? also windows for mac??? linux? meh.

vincent writes at 12:55:05 08/26/07 - Comment #23080: It seems that to me that the brand is going to fall into an identity crisis soon. My perception of it has been as a place to see and be seen sort of the trap Pano's fell into.

Now throw on top of that above perception right or wrong, a new southtowns location in the Southgate Plaza and what is the place? A elmwood cult establishment or a regional brand like Jim's Steak Out or Mighty Taco?

fellyconnelly writes at 05:21:20 08/25/07 - Comment #23060: no hangovers?
well i'm glad i have felt like poo on a biscuit all day...

museumchick writes at 03:39:05 08/25/07 - Comment #23055: That really sucks about Cozumel. I've had just appetizers there before in the regular sitting area- that's strange that they did that.

I'm glad you had a good night otherwise, though.

james writes at 02:26:20 08/25/07 - Comment #23052: Jim and I are so surprised we aren't hung over today. I guess that means we aren't too old to go out. Now we have no excuses.

mike writes at 02:03:09 08/25/07 - Comment #23051: nice seeing everyone, sorry that we missed dancing at Roxy's but i didn't drive and everyone else i was with was ready to go home cuz they had to get up early!

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Category: computers

08/24/07 03:26 - 84ºF - ID#40711

Billy And I

At work today my new dream server came in. Actually it isn't that much different than th estrip server - a dual core, dual processor 2.6ghz HP. I am seriously in love with CentOS. Whoever, it was that suggested it to me, (e:ajay) or maybe (e:uncutsaniflush) - thank you.

This marks huge shift for the Roswell web team as up until I got here it was all windows server 2003 and ASP. Somehow, I convinced everyone that PHP and linux servers is the way to go. I am so glad this is happening.

Virtual Dream Machines
I have Centos 5 running in a virtual machine on my Macbook using vmware fusion

I was running virtual machnes with Parallels before but vmware fusion is definately much smoother and less resource intensive.

Virtual machines are the freakin' coolest thing ever. I assume that (e:uncutsaniflush) must be going crazy now that he can install even more linuxes on virtual machines. Before I let (e:enknot) use the vaio I had suse running centos, ubuntu and windows in a virtual machine. Do you have a machine running every linux flavor yet, lol?

Anyhow having a duplicate test server on my laptop is amazing. It lets you have the freedom to play around with the exact same server without the worries associated with braking a live server or the cost associated with having a physical test server. PLus, just like everything computer, you can save sattes and undo whatever you did to the guest OS by saving snapshots or backing up you virtual machine to disk or dvd.

It is so convenient too. I can for example drag and drop and shared clipboard between it and my host OS X installation. I couldn't have really imagined it would be this great before, even though I had used virtual PC way back in 1999 with red hat on my blueberry ibook, it wasn't nearly the same as the experience I am having on my 4GB macbook pro now, lol.

Who would have thought I would ever be running osx, windows, and linux all at the same freakin time and be able to integrate them seamlessly. It makes the whole operating system seem so meaningless. Really you should easily be able to run OS x in a virtual machine but apple is against it so there are all kinds of hindrances.

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Category: food

08/23/07 10:19 - 78ºF - ID#40698

Medina Deli On Main Street in Buffalo

I was so excited to see the old falling down gas station looking place on the corner of North and Main street turn into a restaurant. When I saw all the Arab men working on it throughout the last couple months I was excited for some middle eastern cuisine (e:paul,40180) in the neighborhood but then we got Yet Another Pizza Place.

What was the Media Deli thinking. I went in there the other day and ate some delicious cheesecake for $1.65 but other than that the food is so any pizza place.

I mean I haven't tasted the pizza or wings but that the same exact food is attainable at the Anchor Bar and directly across the other street at the North Street Subway shop - not to mention Just Pizza right down North Street and Jim's Steakout on Allen and Destiny Pizza only two block downtown on Main Street.

I wonder if they picked American food with the hope of appealing to Americans when I think, in reality, they would make more money not serving ethnic food with a name like Medina Deli.

It is especially weird because buffalo doesn't seem to really have an Arab fast food place. Every other big east coast city seems to have lots of Arab food, not to mention Europe. I think when I was in Germany I ate ore Turkish food than German food, lol.

Well, I hope they change before they end up closing or that a lot of people decide they need their pizza.

Side notes - At Destiny Pizza they carry Crystal Beach Loganberry. I used to love Loganbery at Crystal Beach

I wonder if it is the same

Why is here still this dead zone on Main Street right next to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Complex. Everything else there seems to be doing so good and it just seems desolate. Is this building full of asbestos or something? At one point I heard a rumor that the tapestry High School was buying it?

This morning had some serious thunder storms, just look at those storm clouds.

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Category: phone

08/23/07 07:12 - 82ºF - ID#40696

Listen to this weird phone call I got

I got some calls from some crazy girl today. It was a restricted number which I usually don't answer but my parents number is now restricted so every once in a while I pick up. Well, that is the end of that.

At first she was all, you know who I am right. Seriously, I have no idea. Then she was all, "Are you gay, Paul."

So I hung up and she called back to leave this message. Some people are so weird. It almost sounds like (e:matthew) 's sister but I can't see it being her.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

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Category: buffalo

08/22/07 09:00 - 77ºF - ID#40683

Random Buffalo Things

Check out my other two journals before this one. I finally plugged in my Camera to change so I grabbed some pics off it.

Today we went to lunch at Kuni's on The go over on Lexington. The food was delicious as usual. Outside the Coca Cola truck parked to drop off a beverage delivery. Check out the rusty propane tank on the truck. It looks like maybe it could use a safety inspection?!

Here is a pic of Megan standing in front of our house after lunch with (e:jima) nd (e:enknot) today.

You can see the moving truck of our new roommate who is moving in today. I hope this works out and he doesn't eat all our food, lol unlike nameless bitch our old roommate.

People ask me why I am not so fond of the sky mansion building that is supposed to be going up on Gates circle. Well the reason is these two towers down the street from the proposed location. I am sure they looked oh so sheik when the were first be erected but now they look like horrible anachronisms. I doubt glass and chrome exteriors will look modern in the "Real Future"

(e:hodown) and (e:lilho) 's ex step sister, Jessica Magleietto, is now running for office in the Delaware District of Buffalo. That is so awesome - she is just about (e:lilho) 's age. At first I just assumed it was someone with the same name but then i saw this billboard on the corner of Delaware and West Delevan. I hope she wins.

jason writes at 12:22:43 08/23/07 - Comment #22900: I'm sure if Bruce wanted to, and felt that he had something to offer the public, he would take ownership and run for office. Being a coach is a lot tougher than being the sideline reporter. =D I give this girl a thousand percent more credit than most people because she's actually found the bollox to run and to put herself up for scrutiny. Well done to her.

By the way, I agree that the apartment hi rises are out of fashion, even my limited sense of style can recognize that level of ugly. Who knows what will be in or out tomorrow. I wonder who is actually going to be able to afford to live in the new building.

paul writes at 08:53:25 08/23/07 - Comment #22887: Wow, I am glad I am not running for office as I am a notorious mispeller and I say frankly a lot.

"In her response to the Stonewall Democrats' questionnaire, Jessica Maglietto twice wrote "principals" when she should have been writing "principles." Either she doesn't know how to spell the word or she doesn't know the difference in two words that :::link:::

hodown writes at 03:30:56 08/23/07 - Comment #22883: (e:zobar)- i kinda have to agree w your articles. She was best friends w my old roommate until my old roommate got sick of hanging out with slutty drunk girls (aka jess mags).

zobar writes at 11:20:12 08/22/07 - Comment #22875: Wow. And tomorrow we're running two articles totally trashing her :::link::: :::link::: . Considering that's my mom's district and it looks like she's cruising for the easy win, I hope for the city's sake that she's more intelligent and less spineless than Bruce Jackson makes her out to be. [Bruce Jackson is hardly known for impartiality, and the incumbent is kind of a dim bulb himself.]

Those apartments are hideous, and there are several other buildings all down Delaware that are almost as bad. I don't mind them putting in another high-rise, and I'm glad they've put at least some thought into aesthetics, but I'm not convinced that it won't look totally idiotic there.

I'm a total drag tonight. Sorry man.

- Z

lilho writes at 10:50:07 08/22/07 - Comment #22869: holy shit. thats my ex step sister! lol. buffalo is such a funny little town!

fellyconnelly writes at 09:57:56 08/22/07 - Comment #22867: oh man those seafoam green monstrosities of buildings are hideous!!

lauren says it reminds her of the "Under the Sea" dance from "back to the future".

paul writes at 09:38:00 08/22/07 - Comment #22863: I think things at moderate sizes that fit in with their surrounding, are made of natural materials and in earth tones seem to fit in much better and look nice.

james writes at 09:13:47 08/22/07 - Comment #22862: But, we can't not build crap because it will someday be out of fasion. That is like not having babies because one day they will grow old and die.

But Jesus, those other apartment buildings are ridiculously ugly.

mk writes at 09:04:14 08/22/07 - Comment #22860: those two apartment buildings are seriously the ugliest things ever. but apparently the apartments inside are very nice. i still wouldn't live there though. ick.

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Category: friends

08/22/07 08:59 - 77ºF - ID#40682

Enknot and Megans Baby Shower

Last Sunday we went to (e:enknots) and Megans Baby shower in the Parlor of Spot downtown. She is the manager of the downtown spot so it was the perfect place.

Here is (e:enknot) with his mommy.

Here are some other people

Jeremy Jungels was there. He is great. Buffalo is so small it is amazing how everywhere I go I end up know so many people.

(e:matthew) won the name guessing game. He picked Fern. I wonder if they would really name it fern. He won like $35 which makes him a winner at the last two party games he played.

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Category: computers

08/22/07 08:58 - 77ºF - ID#40681

Another Mac keyboard

I got my second (e:40662) new mac keyboard today. They messed up the order. Originally, we ordered thought the developer store for the $4 discount but when there was a problem with the order, we canceled it. At least, they said we did but today the second one came. (e:mrdeadlier) will be using it for his mac when he gets one.

I can't believe the big box they ship in. It makes no sense because it is not filled with padding, just a big empty box with the keyboard inside.

The second one was even bigger.- which is totally ridiculous.

So I asked the cleaning lady about where I can recycle the cardboard and she say they just throw all the cardboard in the dumpster. She even offered to do it for me. I think I am going to have to look into this soon because I can't believe a place as big as Roswell Park would not recycle cardboard.

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Category: housing

08/21/07 10:25 - 65ºF - ID#40667

New York Record Retieval, Inc Scam

I got this very official looking letter offering to sell me a certified copy of the deed to my house. It came from New York Record Retrieval, Inc. For the low cost of $59.50 they offered my an official copy of my own deed. To bad it only costs like $5 to get one myself. I can imagine how a lot of people would get sucked into believe this was an official document.

I love how they add the
RE: ERIE COUNTY CLERK

as though it has anything to do with the Erie county clerk.

Surprisingly, there is very little information about it being a scam accept from this warning from the Westchester Country clerks office

In fact, there is nothing about them and Erie county, maybe this is new here.

"No Westchester County homeowner needs to pay an excessive fee to obtain a certified copy of their deed," cautioned Idoni. "And homeowners should not be made to feel that they need a certified copy of a document which has been properly recorded in our office." Idoni continued, "Deeds are recorded by my staff and then returned to the party who has recorded them. In most cases, this is the attorney for the new homeowner."

Idoni and his staff became aware of these letters in recent days as the result of calls and emails from residents around the County. They urge Westchester residents to know the facts about obtaining a certified copy of their deed. "Westchester County homeowners can always obtain a certified copy of their deed from our office for the cost of only $5.00 for up to five pages, plus $1.00 for each additional page," stated Idoni. "And residents should know that if their deed was filed in this office, it has been recorded and remains valid whether or not the homeowner has a certified copy of that deed in their possession."