"Friday" written by Paul on estrip.org

01/26/08 10:17 - 22ºF - ID#43039

Friday

YAPL - Yet Another Parking Lot
On the way to work in the morning I was walking past this building and what appeared to be a Realtor outside was telling a couple that the building I circled in red was slotted to become a parking lot. They were just working with the city to get the permits or something. Maybe, I heard them wrong. I really don't care either way as that part of the street is so dead from Medina Deli to the Dare Care but I wonder just how many parking lots will be on Main Street in the end.

For some reason, that was the only picture I took yesterday. It's weird.

Work
It was a great day for programming. I got so much done but I still feel like 10 feet underground because of the crazy amount of stuff I have lined up. There are seriously like 17 million things I have to program. Maybe I need a 30 inch monitor like (e:jim).

I got this security system deployed for the IP cameras at work. I was really happy with the result and apparently so was the VP of secuirty.

Uh, can I RAVE about this Paul Visco guy just a little bit right now.

Smokin hot.

So, seriously, I am a hard worker and I love doing what I do - and it is so great getting positive feedback from work. During my five years at Canisius I did some amazing stuff which I thought really helped the program and I never felt appreciated. What a difference it makes to feel like you are making a difference at your job and that you are important.

Night Time
(e:terry) and I went out with (e:jim) and (e:james). It was fun as usual and the first time I had some drinks since the Crohn's thing started. I felt fine. In fact I didn't feel sick at all today. Asacol is seriously a miracle drug. I just wish I didn't have to take 9 pills a day.

metalpeter writes at 01:46:54 01/26/08 - Comment #30920: First of all glad you are feeling good paul.

Here is the thing with the train. Allot of people use it. If you live in the burbs and work downtown my understanding is that at the park and ride it is free to park then you can catch the train downtown and I'm sure that is cheaper then driving all the way down there and then paying at a lot. allot of people do use the train. I here the excuse the train killed downtown Buffalo you can't drive down main.
1) first of all what killed Main St. is the Galleria mall. The few Big time stores that brought people to the Main Place mall area all left and went to the Galleria mall or some other mall and then a store at the mall moved to the galleria.

2) There are two street you can drive down on the other side of main st that will get you to everyplace you need to get to on main. Some buildings like sheas and the building next to it and T.G.I. Fridays/hotel have entrances on two entrances one of wich is on Main. One of those takes you to the movies and the arena. The other goes behind sheas and can take you down past the pearl st. grill. Oh yeah and they both along with Elmwood & Delaware take you to the chip strip and isn't that really all we need.

Yeah it would be great if our Downtown was the center of town but I think those days may be over forever. Lets say some one gets there stuff together and builds a great waterfront where you can drive up on your boat park it and shop then go back out and fish and the fish are safe to eat. Then that Casino becomes a fire star casino that people from Asia come to visit and there is a strip club and high priced Asian Hookers. Then they build I state of the Art Football stadium that is a more modern skydome (now rogers center) and the Bills are a playoff team and so are the sabres, bisons and Bandits. That is all well and good but you will still have the two downtowns. The people who work there will go home after work. You will have the chip strip people and then there will be the waterfront Area and downtown I think will allways be that kinda middle unused area. It will never be like Torontos young st. Where people are out at 2am and you can't figure out what is really still open.

All that being said I would love for Buffalo to be Like TO where you have the rail down the center of the road and then you have traffic on both sides of it and people also walk down the street. I don't know as that would really work here though. I used to use the train allot when I went to Canisius and haven't used it in a long time. But It may get used on friday not sure yet.

fellyconnelly writes at 01:12:25 01/26/08 - Comment #30918: thats so awesome that you are feeling better with the aid of Asacol.

jbeatty writes at 11:25:03 01/26/08 - Comment #30908: I'll admit I don't find the train all that useful to me currently. But once I start classes on south campus I will probably use it everyday instead of driving.

paul writes at 11:03:25 01/26/08 - Comment #30907: Really, where would you go on main street that you have been avoiding becaus eof that lack of car access. The freakin' main street mail, lol?

I don't think the street trolley/subway being on main street is what makes it not work. I guess they could do like they do in toronto and mix the trolley plus cars but seriously, that subway is really used a lot.

Having worked right downtown at HSBC one for several years and seeing if first hand - I think peple don't realize how much that subway is actually used. It is often very packed. Its not lkie this empty unused system that just needs to go.

mrdeadlier writes at 10:34:18 01/26/08 - Comment #30906: "I wonder just how many parking lots will be on Main Street in the end."

There can never be enough. Like it or not, we suburbanites are spoiled with having a parking lot in front of every establishment. Honestly, this is good... Make it easier for us to get downtown and spend our money and we will!

The next step should be to get that stupid "subway" off of Main.

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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.

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(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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Location: Buffalo, NY

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.