"Pavlovas are delicious" written by Paul on estrip.org

01/18/09 12:57 - ID#47433

Pavlovas are delicious

I made pavlovas for dessert. I have a smeaking suspicion that each
one is over 600 calories of goodness. It's a giant meringue base
covered in whip cream and strawberries in syrup with grated dark
chocolate over the top.

I think I might have burnt out the beaters trying to whisk it into
stiff peaks. It's really time I get a stand mixer.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/18/09 12:52 - ID#47432

Beef Roast

Megan made a beef roast for dinner this evening. It had coriander
seeds on the outside. Tgey make for such a good taste. It was so
delicious. I finally got to use my silver roast serving tray and my
new electric knife, which (e:mike) got me for Jesus' birthday. They
really do work like magic.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/17/09 04:31 - ID#47431

Buddha's hands at wegman's

I think I wrote about this once before when they were on sale but
called Buddha's fingers. I don't understand where the fruit is. It
looks like 90% pure rind. Seriously, who pays $14.99 for this. I
think $4.99 sounds like too much -they do look cool though.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

01/17/09 12:41 - 6ºF - ID#47427

Playstation 3/Wii Youtube Interface

Today, youtube came out with a playstation 3 and wii interface that is really well suited for television. I think it is also well suited for the computer as it is really streaminlined and nice.

Sadly, they don't make it available for viewing it on the computer.

But you can make it work on your computer.

The way they check is by checking your playstation 3 user agent. Luckily, you can make your computer pretend to be a platstation.

The playstation user agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 2.00)

There a lot of different ways to fake your user agent. I am going over how to do it with Safari on mac.

First you need to enable the "develop" menu in Safari. To do this open the terminal application in /Applications/utilties/terminal.app. Then type the following into:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

Once you do that, restart Safari and you will see a new "Develop" menu between the "Bookmarks" and "Window" menu. I know its weird because the command says IncludeDebugMenu and then you get a Develop menu, but just trust me. Click on Develop and choose, User Agent-> other from the drop down.

In the box that pops up type the Playstation 3 user agent from above.

Then visit the new youtube TV interface:
http://youtube.com/tv

Remember to switch back to the default safari user agent when you are done using the same menu.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/16/09 02:18 - ID#47424

Wegman's empty parking lot

Last night I headed to wegman's to get some more of that tummy organic
sirloin but they were all out. Not just that, they were out of a
significant amount of organic things - even organic bananas. I wonder
if I just hit the down day or if more people buy organic now. I mean
I get why the organic wegmans brand peanut butter is out with that
salmonella scare, but why beef and bananas.

So the title of the journal has to do with this picture. I think it
is the first time I saw wegman's so empty. It was only like 9:30pm
but I guess it was like -5F

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: warcraft

01/15/09 01:08 - 7ºF - ID#47412

Gayloch the blood elf

I just had a five minute conversation about work with gayloch, formerlly know as (e:terry), after which he told me he didn't hear me so much because he was too busy. Ya, too busy playing warcraft to interact with the people around him. The whole time he pretended to hear me by nodding and stuff until I asked a comprehension question which through him off.

Its not like other video games he used to play where he could pause. It is a totally consuming experience that transforms (e:Terry) into gayloch for like up to 12 hours at a time. What's worse is that if we do force him to stop he friends in the game get mad or worse yet, his family in las vegas who all play with him.

Should I have seen this coming. Well maybe with all the fantasy books and stuff, I just never thought it would be so totally consuming being a blood elf in world of war craft. Its like his total everything. I would rather that he be a drag queen. At least there would be more downtime.

He even has the dorktastic headgear now so that he can totally immerse himself in the experience. He thinks he is the only one that can hear the other dorks talking.

I have a feeling this is what he is going to look like just before (e:matthew) murders him someday.

tinypliny writes at 05:39:35 01/23/09 - Comment #44813: I don't get this fascination with the unreal world. Someone I once knew (but since has gone back to being a stranger) dropped out of high school and went broke due to this evil game. I guess murder is sometimes warranted.

metalpeter writes at 05:49:19 01/17/09 - Comment #44574: That was a great episode. Not sure if I remember how it ends. But what I think (e:Paul) might want to do is go find a place to play and get level ups (or what ever it is called to get stronger) All for the effect so you and a few friends can attack (e:Terry)'s character and slay him. Maybe even do funny lines through the head piece like "I just wanted to talk" "talking time is over" "Its time to die" Or if one of you gets hit real hard "Its mearly a flesh wound". HA.

imk2 writes at 08:47:53 01/16/09 - Comment #44542: oh...this is just like that south park episode. did you guys see it?

fing writes at 12:55:43 01/15/09 - Comment #44518: Sounds like you need some time based access lists ;)

lilho writes at 12:33:12 01/15/09 - Comment #44515: don't kill each other! im sure it will be better when it warms up, which is pretty much never... i swear some wives have threatened divorce because of wow.

theli writes at 10:54:51 01/15/09 - Comment #44514: I've played so many MMOs, for so long, that they've all started to run together in my mind.

I've played Ultima Online for a short period. Beta'd and played Anarchy Online and Shadowbane on and off. Played Dofus. (A french turn based strategic 2d MMO.) Messed around with Maple Story. And beta'd and/or played at least a dozen or more others. Including 9Dragon, for which I actually helped act as editor/proofreader for a portion of the help file translations. (Originally korean.)

Haven't been playing all that much in the past few years though. Although 2008 had some time spent in Azeroth, but I eventually dropped that. It's a fun game, but still just an MMO. And MMOs only really have value as long as you have fun and/or you have people you know that you really want to play and have a good time with.

Nowadays, I'm into this free (ie. cash shop) megaten MMO brought over from Japan by Aeria Games. Although I haven't had much time to play as I've spent almost all of my free time since NYD working on a firefox plugin to do basic word replacement to make interpreting japanese wikis on the game easier. (Almost done, just gotta fix this one last annoying problem... UGH)

Anyway, good luck on your attempts to grab their attention. If you're not used to this kind of game, it can really wreck you for a while.

enknot writes at 10:23:49 01/15/09 - Comment #44512: yeah I've been thinking about jumping back in too. Sill I've been trying a low budget lifestyle, and if all you play is WOW it kinda works to eat up tons of hours and provide even more tons of fun, but there are better things to do...though maybe not cheaper.

Otherwise, my friend Casey is video game addict and what would be a short jaunt into Asteroth for me would leave him stranded in that place for a very much longer time. I'd rather spend time with him in other ways. We're thinking about starting a podcast of nerdy proportions soon. If he were WOWin' out we'd never get anything done...

jason writes at 09:54:53 01/15/09 - Comment #44511: What Blizzard did was to reduce the maximum size of the raiding parties. This means that high end game content is available to more people, which is good because more people feel they are getting their money's worth.

Doing this also had the negative effect of making each one of those people in the raiding party *very* important, as well as hard to replace in a pinch because experience usually matters when raiding. One little mistake fucks people over.

On top of this Blizzard has made the game unbelievably fun and engaging. Millions and millions of people play world wide. The really, REALLY cool stuff in the game takes time and effort. This is a formula for addiction.

I realized I couldn't commit so much time because I had to focus more on professional development and getting my head straight. But now I admit I'd love to go and create a new character to try out some of the new areas of the game. Playing lower level toons is still really fun and doesn't take all day.

enknot writes at 07:56:50 01/15/09 - Comment #44507: I feel your pain (e:terry) and yours to (e:paul) and (e:matthew). That game is too good and soooo bad for everything else in life. I've seen peoples who pay to get into an event where u can play with other people in the room with your computer log onto Warcraft. Even after they moved their computer, monitor and all to some room and they could have done all that without leaving the house, or paying an entry fee.

Anytime u dudes wanna come over and Wario Ware or Rockband with us u let us know.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

01/14/09 12:20 - 12ºF - ID#47401

Illusions Night Club

On a non-related note, the club that was the icon, and then club-e and then something else is now becoming illusions nightclub. I wish them the best because I would love a new place to dance.

Sadly, if the quality of the club can at all be measured by the quality of the website

, it is going to close before it opens. They really need to invest in a web developer or strip the site down to something more basic. It looks like some failed web design 101 project.

I had to disable flash to even get in because it kept insisting I don't have flash player although I do. You can skip the craptastic flash animation by skipping to this stupidly named page

God, after careful inspection the code is even worse then the design. scripts tags with no type, javascript in the head, not xhtml or even close table design, blank description and title meta tags.... black text on dark blue

If its so under construction I would keep it password protected because otherwise it just gives such a bad image.

paul writes at 09:58:17 11/20/09 - Comment #53004: I already bought tickets for :::link:::

james writes at 09:45:23 11/20/09 - Comment #53003: Apparently this will be open November 25th.

tinypliny writes at 05:42:58 01/23/09 - Comment #44814: (e:James), I almost broke my spine laughing at your comments to this one. LOL

metalpeter writes at 08:21:42 01/14/09 - Comment #44498: If that is the place I think it is, it reopened as The Icon and was an interesting place to see a show. For those of you who are into the heavy music you might like to know that Damage Plan played there the one night and the show they did the next night was when that crazy guy came in and started shooting and killed "Dime Bag" I didn't go to that show, but I did see Hoobastank and Papa Roach there (seperately).

james writes at 01:07:24 01/14/09 - Comment #44490: And have you seen their weekly schedule?

Stereotype Tuesday's sounds chuckle-worthy.
Wii wednesday. You can get drunk and play video games in someplace other than your living room. huh?
Fish Bowl Friday sounds good. Like big ass drink night, but on a Friday.
Saturday has drag queens, which is to be expected.
Sunday. Like Wii wednesday, but you get drunk and watch a movie.

james writes at 01:03:15 01/14/09 - Comment #44489: I think illusions is a great name for a club though. Nothing is more illusory than the persona of the evening for the clubber. Just stamp Caveat Emptor on the building and you have no excuses for waking up with Jabba the Hut and chlamydia.

But, I hope their web investment is like their club investment. Just throw a bunch of money at something and hope it comes out well. Sound system, here is some cash! Top shelf liquor, here is some cash! Decadence is what a club is all about and throwing money at decadence is a grand idea.

enknot writes at 07:59:00 01/14/09 - Comment #44467: Boy...you just let em have it. It was all great criticism but I hope they take it positively. People get so touchy aboout things sometimes.

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Category: gym

01/14/09 12:18 - 12ºF - ID#47400

At the gym with Phil

I never thought i would be at the gym working out next to Phil. In high school we were in gym together and were both not very sporty. Apparently, adulthood has changed us. Weird. I think he was the only other person at the gym tonight.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

01/13/09 01:05 - 25ºF - ID#47388

Bebo and stealing music

First off, I am so damn tired from working out. Between yesterday with James, then buying the weights last night, then working out this morning and then going to the gym tonight - I am seriously tuckered out.

This evening, I was busy stealing Dj Fresh music from bebo after I saw Bad Company

was playing at Circa this friday in Toronto

His music is pretty awesome if you like that style, which I do

Unfortunately, he is not with them anymore.

I am fascinated with the amount of information people media sites make available to the flash debug log.

It makes downloading the music a snap. Then a little ffmpeg flv to mp3 conversion and I have a new playlist. Way faster then trying to limewire it.

Anyhow, I also found this ultra dramatic buffalo, ny video. Thought someone might enjoy it.

While I was tailing the flash debug log, I noticed that I left debugging of the flash storage for the restore backup button in the journal on, which slows typing down a bit in a big journal. I will fix that for the new site, which I promise is coming out soon.

Here is a screen capture of it, although you can't tell much about new functionality from the screen capture.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

01/12/09 09:33 - ID#47375

Heavy whipping cream 50 x 32

I knew that heavy whipping cream had a lot of calories but yesterday
evening I read the nutrition facts. 50 calories per serving sounded
reasonable till you realize that it has 32 servings per container.
Holy crap.

This explains ice cream's calorie count. The last time I went to
nutritionist a while back they suggested adding some igh calorie
snacks like ice cream to my diet.