"Illegal Onondaga Chiefs" written by Paul on estrip.org

11/04/08 09:37 - 57ºF - ID#46530

Illegal Onondaga Chiefs

I got this message today on the site. Not sure what its about. Did someone write a journal about it that I missed?

The real Onondagas'no longer want these illegal chiefs recognized by any government and many other of these people they have violated the Great Law of Peace now it is time for their punishment! they have all been reported to the Dept.of Justice for all their violations!

Permalink: Illegal_Onondaga_Chiefs.html
Words: 70
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: voting

11/04/08 09:01 - 57ºF - ID#46527

Crazy Voting Experience

I went to Lafayette High School with (e:terry) and (e:matthew) where I normally vote and I wasn't on the books. They both were, none of us had updated our location, despite the fact that our house is directly across from a polling station.

So they told me to check the one near my house and see if I ended up on there. I ran down and they refused to let me vote there. Then it was like 8:30. So I went home and looked online where it shows I am set for Lafayette. Then I called the Erie County Board of Elections who insisted that I vote across from my house. I went down there, with the woman on the phone and she told them to let me vote there. All of a sudden everyone changed their tune and was super nice.

I got to fill out a provisional ballot. I hope they bother counting that. I felt so dumb because I raised my hand to complain that Sam Hoyt wasn't on the paper ballott but he was on the poster on the wall. They laughed and said, you don't live in the village anymore - its a different district. So I voted for Crystal Peoples. She was the only choice. I had no choice.

I wish I could be strong like (e:vincent,46508) and vote for nader but I really don't want to risk McCain winning and honestly I am a little over nader. He seems kind of washed up now.

For some reason I show up inactive on the voter registration site. What does that even mean?

Permalink: Crazy_Voting_Experience.html
Words: 272
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

11/03/08 11:39 - 51ºF - ID#46504

Worst Work Day Ever

Well, not ever, but close. I worked so hard all day from the moment I got there at 10:30 till I left 5 minutes ago at 11:30 - a fun 13 hours laters. My brain actually hurts. To make it even more fun I have to be at work at 9:00am to give a presentation I already gave to the same group of people that didn't pay attention the first time. I barely had any time to prepare new material for it because I had lots of other real work to do. I find I have to explain everything like 16 times at work. Even when I use flow charts, graphs, power point presentations, send email, add wiki pages, etc - no one ever goes over it. It is so frustrating.

I also spent a whole bunch more time on IE6 problems again. I hope the programmers of that application die.

The fun sound of my macbook pro santa rosa fan dying. This is really great because I have a ton of work and no way to get to the apple store till friday when I am sure they will be too busy.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

Apparently, I am not the only one

Permalink: Worst_Work_Day_Ever.html
Words: 199
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mobile

11/03/08 10:10 - 53ºF - ID#46489

PDAnet for iphone tethering

Having a jailbroken iphone is great for a lot of reasons. The best of all which is you can tether. All the tethering options until I tried this point sucked. None of them were as good as any of the windows mobile solutions.

This latest one PDAnet is totally awesome. No socks proxy, no messy settings, just ad hoc wifi network and one simple switch for on or off in the application. It even has WEP, and although WEP isn't amazing security, its better than none and seeing as it is just a temp network... its fine. Everything runs lightning fast and you can use your laptop as you normally would if connected in any other way. I can't believe it took this long for something to come along.

Here is a blog with the instructions:

Now if only apple would support this type of solution.

Permalink: PDAnet_for_iphone_tethering.html
Words: 155
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

11/03/08 09:19 - 53ºF - ID#46488

Time Change Decisions

I woke up an hour early effortlessly thanks to the time change. Could be a good time to change my work schedule by one hour. Then again, I might just hate it after a week. Maybe I will just go in early today and see.

Permalink: Time_Change_Decisions.html
Words: 45
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: holiday

11/01/08 10:26 - 39ºF - ID#46469

Halloween Party 2008

We started out the day at the Bonton so that (e:hodown) could get pantyhose and some makeup.

We decked out the house with lots of spider webby stuff.

I decided to be the demon farmer. I wanted a costume that was fun, easy, and revealing. I thought this one worked.

By 5am I was pretty much exhausted. This is me trying to make a serious face while posing for (e:hodown). It was the first time I wore contacts in years.

I work up at 9:20am to one messy ass kitchen. (E:flacidness), (e:hodown) and I cleaned till like 11:30. Then we left for the farmer's market. The best part was when TK first woke up he was thirsty and poured a glass of cider to chug. Unfortunately, it was the cider that Robert and James brought which was alcoholic.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: holiday

10/31/08 08:09 - 58ºF - ID#46455

Costume Time

I had a hard time resisting being (e:lilho)'s boil. I ended up being a farmer again. This time with a devil pitch fork and some mask. (e:hodown) is her girl crush form TV.

Permalink: Costume_Time.html
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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: www

10/31/08 12:32 - 58ºF - ID#46446

The creepiest classified ever

I was perousing through

as I find it endlessly entertaining to read about other people sex lives. I have a feeling the Buffalo ones are tame compared to those in SF or NYC. This

is definitely the most creeptastic one I have ever read. It reads like the beginning of a serial killer movie.

I am a middle-aged white man looking for a young(18-20yr old)white guy who wants to be my houseboi in sunny,warm,and wonderful,Tampabay,Florida! NO Snow,lots of sun and fun! You will have to get here on your own! I will provide room and board,No experience needed,will train the right guy. This is a long term relationship,im a dominant type of guy,a top,5'10",7"cut,heavy build,and I can be strict.I want you to do some light housekeeping,take care of my wants and needs,go places and do things with me,all at my expense! You won't need a salary,I will pay for everything!No other job allowed,No outside dating,No one in the house,and No going out with anyone! I like the quiet submissive type of guy,who does what he is told,and likes to serve others.If you are interested,send stats,photos,and contact info to me asap! this position won't last long,christmas is coming!no car wanted or needed,fly down or take the bus!
Tell me what you are into? this is a great location,beats WNY by a mile! CYA! IF THIS ISN'T FOR YOU,KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF! GET A LIFE! I'M NOT LOOKING FOR A CRITIC,IM LOOKING FOR A HOUSEBOI!

To me this reads as a serial killer looking to cut you off from all communication and rape you continuously. Especially creepy is the "no car wanted or needed,fly down or take the bus!" That just screams, there will be no trace that you ever came here, and you are never leaving.

I started searching for words from the ad and found some other links:

He has either been on the search for a while or he wore the old ones out.

He also didn't post it on Tampa craigslist about it which sounds like he wants a person who has no local connections. Creepy.

Permalink: The_creepiest_classified_ever.html
Words: 410
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: english

10/31/08 10:55 - 52ºF - ID#46445

Boy, Guy, Man - Girl, Gal?, Woman

I never call a male a boy, but sometime I call a female a girl. I think that seems wrong but often the reason is that I don't want to say woman as it sounds formal and kind of oldish. Just like I almost never refer to a male as a man.

I never say, "I talked to this man at work the other day." I would instead say, "I talked to this guy at work." Somehow, it doesn't even seem to matter what age the male was, I almost never say man. (e:hodown) says she says dude for where I say guy.

The problem is that Gal - what I think is the female equivalent of Guy - seems so colloquial and not very popular, not to mention it kind of comes off as having a sexist tone, even when unintended - like broad. Maybe its because of the generation that would typically use it. "I talked to this girl," sounds demeaning. "I talked to this woman," sounds cold and unfriendly to me.

And Then There Is You Guys
What's worse is that I often find myself saying "you guys" when referring to a group of woman. Approach by a group of female friends: "Oh, I haven't seen you guys in so long." You gals sounds sound ridiculous and y'all is way to southern colloquial. I could always use the more Buffalo based expression. "I have seen yous? in so long" I don't even know how to spelled it, it is pronounced like "use."

So what should I say? I think I might just never refer to females with pronouns again to avoid the embarrassment. But then thats kind of weird too. It almost like the language makes it difficult to refer to females

Gosh just try and look up all these terms on google images and it give you an idea about their usage.

tinypliny writes at 10:30:19 11/01/08 - Comment #41383: Call a spade a spade. To me, if its a woman, its a woman or a lady. If it's someone who I think is definitely in thier teenage years or younger, it's a girl. If its a man, it's a man. I used to say bloke a lot but thankfully it has worn off slowly. I think I hesistate to use guys because a lot of times it sounds out of context.

gardenmama writes at 02:06:00 11/01/08 - Comment #41381: I have a friend who refers to women as "chicks" but generally only when there are a group of women. It's kind of an older term, and some people find it offensive, but somehow it doesn't feel that way when he says it. I don't know, maybe it's something in his tone.

There used to be all kinds of terms: birds, babes, dolls, etc. but none of them seemed to last the way guys has. My vote is ladies over women. And I can't stand "yous" or "yous guys" - but I grew up in a house with an English professor for a mother - we would have been whacked in the head for using either of those.

metalpeter writes at 07:31:37 10/31/08 - Comment #41380: Guys as been turned into the plural for a group of people if it it is women. Gals doesn't sound right and the other problem with gal is that when said it sounds like the name Gail. Ya'll is fine yes it is southern but it is southern that everyone knows. Why not use the term ladies. Yes I know it is kinda not correct because it doesn't mean females it means a certain type of female just like using the term gentlemen isn't really correct either. I say stay with the southern use of Madame or mam and mister but how to say hi to a group of ladies or of men and women I'm not really sure.

heidi writes at 07:03:14 10/31/08 - Comment #41377: I use y'all a lot, but I have the excuse of living in Maryland for nine years. I definitely prefer and use "woman" or "women" in any professional/work/school context.

libertad writes at 06:33:34 10/31/08 - Comment #41375: I prefer to refer to girls as peaches.

theecarey writes at 11:43:15 10/31/08 - Comment #41368: I rarely say, "men" or "woman". I simply dont like the sound of it. It sounds so 'mature' and I feel so immature still, ha. On the other hand, I like to sometimes use "gentleman" and "ladies". A little bit quirky.

Like you, mostly it is the use of "guys", that I prefer. Never "gals" though. I often generalize "guys" to include females. It is more neutral sounding to me than gender specific when used as "hey guys whats up". But obviously gender specific if i hear/say, "I talked to this guy.."

When I use the word "boys", it is slighted to be demeaning or cutesy. I do however, often use and hear "girls" and I don't think it sounds demeaning or cutesy. It is more equivalent to the "guy" word than using "gal", I think.
So "guy/girl" it is!

jenks writes at 11:38:54 10/31/08 - Comment #41367: yeah I agree, there's a hole in the language there. We need a female version of "guy". I think I say girl... like "I was talking to this girl at work..." or maybe woman if they're older/more senior. But I will call a group of girls 'you guys' all the time. I have no problem with that.

jim writes at 11:32:37 10/31/08 - Comment #41366: Or Baltimorian "yos", as in: "Haven't seen yos in a while."

"Yos" and "y'all" both sound southern and informal of course. And we can't forget Drew's Appalachian "yinz" or the (common in Buffalo) "yous", completing our tour of common second person plural gender neutral pronouns in American sub-dialects.

I tend to use "y'all" sometimes.

drew writes at 11:32:28 10/31/08 - Comment #41365: yinz? It works in Pittsburgh.

jim writes at 11:25:36 10/31/08 - Comment #41362: y'all, maybe

jason writes at 11:08:04 10/31/08 - Comment #41358: I usually say "you girls" which hasn't earned me a kick to the crotch yet.

mike writes at 11:01:59 10/31/08 - Comment #41357: i generally refer to guys my age or younger as kid. which i guess is weird. And i think whatever age I am will be the cut off in my head. I will say like I saw this kid today but really it could be a 25 year old but i never use kid when referring to females. Weird.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

10/31/08 12:28 - ID#46438

Mom is gonna lance your butt!?

We were eating diner at the new Pano's and (e:lilho,46439) called us for the
midnight update on her butt drama. She's thinking of going under the
lance. Wish her luck.