"At School WIth Terry" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: school

01/25/08 12:52 - 16ºF - ID#43026

At School WIth Terry

I am so glad I was never in a major that involved classrooms with lots of people.

(e:terry)'s classes are in a room that could hold like 300 people. It has the ambiance of a bingo hall. It actually sounds almost just like one. People were disgusting and they left food everywhere.

Liek in every direction people just left food and drinks. I don't think I was ever in a class with more than like 30 people. Oh, once this biology class in germany but it was very intense and the people were really into it as you had to respond.

UB had this whole display about planning and talked about parking. Wow, there is sure a lot of it there on North Campus.

I got home a decided to take apart one of the old PDAs to see if I could canabalize the gsm modem for the not phone. I think it is totally possible but now I want a HSPDA one.

Watching the way over GPS

They had these crazy new pillar statues that look like they are being blown over, over by capen.

We ate dinner at Fuji Grill again.

Fuji Grill tastes pretty good but my surf clam was nothing liek the one I got the other day although it was very cute

(e:terry) got stir fry

jbeatty writes at 02:09:00 01/25/08 - Comment #30874: That looks like Knox 20. I fucking hate that room.

james writes at 01:47:36 01/25/08 - Comment #30872: you must have been lucky with the surf clam that one night. I have had it several times and it is always so meh..

fellyconnelly writes at 12:57:47 01/25/08 - Comment #30868: that stir fry looks really really tasty....

lilho writes at 12:55:04 01/25/08 - Comment #30867: can't wait to see you!

mrdeadlier writes at 11:22:29 01/25/08 - Comment #30866: Where is this Fuji Grill? I've never been there and it has GOT to be better than Shogun.

leetee writes at 09:52:54 01/25/08 - Comment #30862: You and Terry are so cute...

jason writes at 09:33:24 01/25/08 - Comment #30857: Oh, and I think I miss academic settings. I used to love just wandering around campus.

jason writes at 09:32:22 01/25/08 - Comment #30856: Man, I don't really remember people being so nasty with food and whatnot in the lecture halls. Freaking animals.

joshua writes at 09:13:31 01/25/08 - Comment #30850: Ahh yes... this reminds me of the statistics class I took in the School of Management. I showed up three times - the first day, the mid-term and the final. My friends signed me in the rest of the time... lawl.

I really liked the upper level classes though - 25 students or so and I only took stuff that interested me anyway... and I have to say that although I graduated with a degree in financial analysis I appreciated my English courses a lot more.

scott writes at 08:50:29 01/25/08 - Comment #30849: Oh how a miss large-scale lectures at UB!

I preferred the anonymity of large lectures. Here's why: I had felt more free to learn at my own pace. I could really dial-in and participate in material I needed to focus on, as well as "zone out" when the class went into material I already knew.

I always felt guilty when I ignored the instructor in smaller classrooms. (It just felt rude to be ahead on the reading when someone's lecturing to a small group.) In the massive munch-fest lecture halls, my complete disregard for the fluff material just felt less offensive.

jenks writes at 08:12:55 01/25/08 - Comment #30847: paul you're so cute. Did you go to class just for the hell of it?

gotta love those giant science classes. I would skip them all and read the lecture notes/handouts later. or not.

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Category: estrip

01/24/08 11:40 - 16ºF - ID#43024

8,000,000 views later

I seriously cannot believe the journals have been loaded over 8 freakin' million 8,000,000 times. It seems like only yesterday it was 8,000. It amazes me more when I think about how much the old server has been though over the last couple years. I already am reconditioning it as a second server. Someday maybe we will need it.

I know code on a much more tightly timed loop could run a quadrillion times but it is exciting to see something you made work 8,000,000 without that many problems.

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Category: mobile

01/24/08 07:48 - 18ºF - ID#43019

I freakin love the not phone

I know everyone is probably sick of hearing about it but this new Nokia n810 and the xjournal

program that lets you handwrite full size pdfs and draw on them as journaled diary pages is like everything I ever dreamed of.

Hopefully now my handwriting just gets better.

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Category: crohns

01/24/08 05:48 - 19ºF - ID#43017

New Doctor and Allergies

Dr. Bartolone believes it is crohns too. Says it doesn't matter either way as the meds are the same. I guess I really am on asacol for the rest of my freakin life. I am going to do a time lapse of my 270 pills in a bottle going away to 0.

At least it doesn't have any real side effects for me. He said if I am not experiencing them now, I won't probably later.

So seriously, no one knows what causes this and I am at least lucky that mine is manageable. I think I will just east healthy from now on and hope for the best.

I hope medical science figures out some more details, someday.

And I got a copy of my allergy tests. I am way less allergic to dogs than cats. It wasn't just in my head. I am as allergic to maple and birch trees as I am to dogs. Cats I am way allergic to but even more than that I am alergic to mold that grows on plants and ragweed. In fact I am almost 5 times s allergic to ragweed as I am to trees.

They are sending me for a celliac disease test too s the other allergy test only confirmed an allergy to wheat and not that I am gluten intolerant.

Dr Bartolones office is so the future of doctors offices. It was beyond clean and formal. Everything was digitized and all the nurses carried portable tablet PCs. Even the screen had privacy screens. Morever, all the signatures were digital.

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Category: mobile

01/24/08 03:36 - 20ºF - ID#43013

GPS 7

This is my seventh GPS device and I think my favorite yet. There is something ironic about taking a picture of this new device and talking about it from my windows mobile device.

Oh god, how I am going to choose what mobile devices to carry with me. I think the tilt but really be the best one ever. The keyboard on it is just so damn good. If only it ran something besides windows mobile.

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Category: crohns

01/24/08 12:31 - 21ºF - ID#43010

On The phone waiting

I spent so much of the morning on the phone waiting on hold to try and get all my medical records and test results to one place for a doctors appointment this afternoon.

Luckily, you can program and wait so it wasn't so bad. I am going to try and get my own copy of it all, now that it is in one place. This should be exciting to see one gastro enterologist who specialized in these types of problems, with all my test results (CT, colonscopy, and blood test) all in one place.

The doctor is Dr. Bartolone over at Buffalo Gastroentrology Associated at 60 Maple Rd.

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Category: health

01/24/08 10:16 - 18ºF - ID#43007

Stupid Zits

Argh, the steroids are starting to give me zits on my face. I never had zits like this before.

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Category: mobile

01/23/08 09:07 - 17ºF - ID#43004

wegmans has free wifi now

how great is that. makes shopping with the not phone great. and they have a page for recipes and shopping tips, sales etv. go wegman's

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Category: food

01/23/08 03:05 - 21ºF - ID#43002

clif bars - no wheat

Who woould have thiught, clif bars are wheat free.

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Category: food

01/23/08 12:59 - 20ºF - ID#42998

Tears of flour filled sadness

I knew it. I am freakin' blood test certified allergic to wheat and corn. I am totally not surprised as I am such an allergic person and I am sure that Hay and grass are one of my main enemies. This morning my stomach was all gurgely, squishy which is not a good thing and I did eat wheat yesterday for the first time in weeks.

I have a doctors appointment to discuss this on Friday Feb 1. I wonder if anything else is wrong with me - I took so many tests last week.

Finally, I have an appointment with a gastro on Thursday. I wasn't going to go but now I might go to discuss this with them. What if everything is my allergies. I am really only a step away form bubble boy. What the fuck happend to me that made me so allergic to everything. It seems liek my immune system is so over the top xenophobic.

Gluten causes damage to the intestinal lining by eroding the villi and microvilli essential for digestion and absorption processes. This damage then increases the likelihood of partially digested gluten proteins passing into the bloodstream. Certain proteins cause our immune systems to react. Undigested partial proteins found in gluten cereals have morphine-like properties once they enter the bloodstream, suggesting an origin for the phrase 'comfort foods' and its addictive nature. Once an immune response has been initiated, inflammatory reactions can cause a whole host of wheat allergy symptoms. A gluten/wheat allergy may not always be a severe frequent reaction but can result in many digestive symptoms � flatulence, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, pain etc. � and may aggravate a host of other symptoms.

--paul

chico writes at 01:29:27 01/24/08 - Comment #30824: Sorry Paul I goofed. The Ezekiel bread is flourless but actually contains just about everything that you are not supposed to eat. So scratch that idea and shame on me for not checking the facts first.

chico writes at 11:17:03 01/23/08 - Comment #30811: hey Paul sorry to hear the rotten news. Ami suggests (if you're not already hip to it) eating Ezekiel bread. It's available in the freezer/refrigerator case of the Lexington Co-op and the Amherst St. Wegman's (natural/vegetarian foods section).

We've been eating this Ezekiel stuff for 10 days or so and I have to say, if you like whole-grain bread it's pretty tasty, and apparently it's gluten-free and all that.

metalpeter writes at 06:03:22 01/23/08 - Comment #30799: I really can't imagine being allergic to something. I know a lot of people are but for me it is a hard idea to grasp. The part that drives my mind wild is that some are caused by your body thinking things are harmfull that aren't and then that causes problems. I wish you luck in getting what is wrong all figured out and dealing with it.

brit writes at 02:50:33 01/23/08 - Comment #30777: wow...I honestly honestly believed that in america health care was awesome if you had insurance and if you had something wrong they would diagnose you in a week and sort you out...it's just as bad as Britain and not even free!

paul writes at 02:13:42 01/23/08 - Comment #30775: I do, but this might be my trigger or make it worse? I realy need to talk to my doctor before I know more.

brit writes at 01:32:11 01/23/08 - Comment #30769: does this mean that you don;t have crohn's or the ulcery thing? Or are they still not sure..I am as confused as you now

joshua writes at 01:22:25 01/23/08 - Comment #30766: Dude -

I'm really sorry that you are going through this. I know how much you like eating various foods and this has to be a major lifestyle change for you. The good news, AFAIK, is that you can still eat all the seafood you want. Still though, I hope that you can find ways to enjoy eating with limiting how compromised you feel.

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