01/10/09 01:25 - 21ºF - ID#47346

Winter In Buffalo Pics

As a side note, I also updated the pics from the trip to the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens (e:paul,47265)

Why do people always use the snow on our porch as an ashtray. I can't stand smokers of filtered cigarettes that leave their butts everywhere. They do not biodegrade. I am fine with rollies being left around, but the plastic filter thing is redic. The lack of responsibility smokers take in their trash disposal is astounding. (E:iriesara) being an exception as I saw her storing her butts in her purse.

I walk to work every day and the path is usually covered in snow. Depending on how fresh it is, it is in many differnt states.

Clean Snow

It was so cold that day, the door got ice in the hinge which froze it open.

Dirty Snow
Two days later, it started raining a bit and warmed up. You guys probably remember seeing it was only like a week ago. This made for messing sloshy, muddy, scum snow.

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Category: food

01/10/09 01:09 - ID#47345

Korean vegtable?

We ate at Korea house the other day and had the Korean barbaque. It's so awesome, you sit around the grill while the matronly Korean lady cooks your food. Then you get letuce leaves and rice along with a
multitude of side dishes from kimchee to radish and fish cakes. You take all the side dish things and put them on the rice with the meat and then wrap it all in a lettuce leaf, kind of like a lettuce taco.

God, it is so tasty. Anyhow, this time they had something she refered to ask Kohare. At least I think so. It was a delicious vegtables that resembled some sort of plant stem. Does anyone know about it? I want more.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: computers

01/09/09 12:55 - 23ºF - ID#47340

A Virus On The Prowl

Remember when I wrote about my feeling concerning getting rid of windows in government organizations (e:paul,47052) - well nothing could underscore it more than a computer virus outbreak at the hospital yesterday. Its something virus makers probably don't even think about - what hapens when their stupid programs hit life or death kind of places.

Its such a disaster waiting to happen. Vendor software is not always compatible with system updates, systems don't get patched, worm comes and bam! It just seems like such a bad idea to have everything depend on windows and then worse to run an outdated OS from 5 years ago with IE6, a stone age browser. Especially considering those two in combo are the biggest and weakest attack vector. Its just asking for trouble.

The worm was getting people accounts locked out and slowing down the network. Imagine if you were at the hospital for some serious treatment/appointment and the computers were "on the fritz" because of unsafe computing, argh.

I made this image for a journal about bluetooth cell phone virus's back in 2004 (e:paul,31005) but I think it still gives a similar feeling for the drama.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/07/09 11:22 - ID#47318

Tossed aside like trash

It's the tragic story of every Christnas tree. Bought on a street
corner, decked out like a tramp on chipewa and then tossed out limp
and lifeless with the trash.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/05/09 03:13 - ID#47289

Presidential Inaugural Gala

Looks like you can go to the Buffalo Convention Center for the
Presidential Inaugural Gala. $20 advance/$30 at the door.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: men

01/04/09 12:20 - 19ºF - ID#47275

Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker

Ever since I first heard that nursery rhyme about the three men in a tub I was hooked on the dynamics of a three person male relationship. I am not saying any of these pictures of are men in "romantic relationships" but they are obviously close friends. One book that (e:matthew) had said that men were much closer in general before homosexuality was clinically defined at the turn of the century. Supposedly, it strained regular male relationships because they did not want to be seen as gay.

Anyways, I was going through this website

with vintage pictures of men posing together and found these ones interesting.

The one in the tighty whities would surely be (e:terry)

And then this one, because he reminds of (e:james)

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalorising

01/03/09 10:43 - 15ºF - ID#47272

Buffalo Rising Sinks To New Low

I seriously cannot believe this article on being "Buffalo-ish" which they describe as similar to being Jewish. Its offensive for Buffalonians, its offensive to Jews, it makes no sense. It is pretty much just pure crap. Maybe there just aren't enough good things to say about Buffalo anymore that they need more filler crap. To make it worse the article is written by an x-buffalonian living in Chicago, who left Buffalo because of the weather? What an idiot.

Here is a link to the article called "ON BEING BUFFALO-ISH" By John Wingspread Howell

metalpeter writes at 12:40:57 01/04/09 - Comment #44025: I admit I liked the article. I think that a lot of what he says is true, out side of Buffalo we do get no respect we are known for our wings and snow (even though other places get more snow then we do). Not sure about the comparison to Jews, it makes sense if he is a Jew, it makes even more sense since to me they seem like a Minority here. But the next time you watch a sports event notice that most Buffalo fans in another city are most often in groups. That thing with the sports teams I have seen happen before. Yes the article does seem like he wrote it like a poem but maybe that is his writting style I was going to leave a response there but it won't let me log in.

james writes at 12:07:39 01/04/09 - Comment #44016: I doubt Mr. Howell even experienced friendly company in this town. A walking douche bag is going to be poorly treated in Denver, Congo, or Buffalo.

ejtower writes at 11:36:05 01/03/09 - Comment #44015: Did anyone else catch this gem? "This is the first in a 3-part installment by John Wingspread Howell" What pisses me off is that this is exactly how a number of people that I know perceive the situation here. I don't mean the Jewish comparison which is just insanity. (like being Jewish in Tehran! Really? You think so?)

What I mean is this strange working class elitism reinforced by sports fanaticism. These articles and conversations that make Buffalo out to be little more than a frozen shit hole where you can only get drunk and watch sports exposes the fundamental disconnect between the people who are working to create something, and those who wish to gain some level of "street cred" for having grown up in a rust belt city.

Personally I think the unfriendly experiences this ex-pat writer has in other cities is probably rooted in his air of superiority. He probably tells his friends how much cooler than them he is for having spent time here.

james writes at 11:20:49 01/03/09 - Comment #44014: That is fucking ridiculous. I am still trying to figure out just what he meant by that and the sloppy article doesn't actually make a point so it is difficult.

reading that article is like being illiterate in a walk in freezer.

mrmike writes at 10:52:24 01/03/09 - Comment #44013: They are awful proud of the new web design, too bad most of the content is of suspect quality.

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01/03/09 03:35 - ID#47266

Fuzzy wuzzy was a cactus?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

01/03/09 03:20 - ID#47265

Hos in the buffalo botanical gardens

We went with (e:lilho) and broho to the botanical gardens. It's so nice
to be warm and not dry.

The penis cactus

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Category: programming

01/03/09 01:31 - 27ºF - ID#47262

Programming For Fun and Not For Profite

Today, I was searching for my stuff on google and found this ransom note writer I made from artvoice clippings. I made me miss the good old days of having time to program stuff for fun instead of for profit.