"More Mckinley Mall - Frank Lloyd Wright" written by Paul on estrip.org

02/12/09 02:42 - 49ºF - ID#47727

More Mckinley Mall - Frank Lloyd Wright

The other day, when at the McKinley mall I noticed that their lounge/sitting area was distinctly Frank Lloyd Wright style. My brother would not believe me when I told him, so here are the pic - you decide.

First check out the ceiling pattern and colors, openess and natural lighting.

Here check out the open space, large oversize pots and furniture, plus the color

Then this pillar with the tiles

Unrelated:

They had snow shoe attachments for your sneakers at the mall. Has anyone used these before. Its like snow tires for your sneakers.

My stomahc is getting buffer with 100 situps a day routine. I am also only like 2 lbs away from my target weight of 160.

Shopping Tip: Organic vanilla beans are cheaper than the conventional ones in the wegman's natures market place area.

While there you can also get a 5lb bag of 16-20 count wild caught shrimp for $50. That's only $9.99/lb.

tinypliny writes at 03:19:06 02/13/09 - Comment #45484: I had yak trax on my shoes for my second winter in Rochester. My friend got it for me because I fell around 20 times in my first winter. I wore it all the time and in the end the springs came off and as I was walking in my department's corridor, one of the springs got stuck in the carpet fabric and unravelled a whole line of carpet without my realizing. I could never play down that incident because the unravelled line lead directly from the stairs to my office! People pointed at it for a whole year and the stories became wilder and wilder. I think the last time I heard it - people were talking about how I had swapped desks with a grad student from another program and had dragged it all the way up the stairs and tore the carpet!! (I did swap a desk with someone, but come on!)

PS: The other grad student had a pink and white desk and hated the fact that it was too feminine. I traded my brown and black desk. Hehehe Man. I miss it!

jacob writes at 03:13:15 02/13/09 - Comment #45482: FLW definitely. Your chest has angry eyes! (>.<)

heidi writes at 09:51:04 02/12/09 - Comment #45475: The shoes - Yak Tracks? are the latest rage among the outdoor gear types. They work really well, according to Liz at wildasaphoutfitters.com in Tioga County.

Definitely FLW.

metalpeter writes at 06:27:13 02/12/09 - Comment #45472: (e:mrmike) that is a great line. Of course they might not be able to find the food court either and if they did they might wind up someplace else when they tried to leave

leetee writes at 01:57:51 02/12/09 - Comment #45465: totally frank lloyd wright.

mrmike writes at 11:03:22 02/12/09 - Comment #45462: I agree, and better him than MC Escher (people would never leave the food court)

hodown writes at 09:25:37 02/12/09 - Comment #45459: Thats typical FLW. You're right.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/10/09 02:32 - ID#47704

The roof has finally caved in

How long before the is a major accident?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/08/09 03:38 - ID#47683

Super nintendo

This was only a fraction of the super nintendo games available at the
mckinley mall.

The amazing thing is you could probably fit all the roms on one DVD.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/08/09 03:34 - ID#47682

Niagara drinking water?

Today in desperation for some new adventure we headed to south
buffalo. We were going to go hiking but after stopping at the marina
but decided it was too muddy. So instead we headed into south buffalo
and touted around the places in south buffalo that we haven't been.

We randomly ended up at the mckinley mall which brings me to the title
of this journal. There was a dollar store with niagara drinking
water. Where does niagara drinking water translate into something you
ingest. To me it sounds like a better name for a cleaning solution.

I guess the fact that it was at the dollar store means it wasn't a
sucess.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/08/09 01:15 - ID#47680

I want to go Ice fishing

I know it seems like a strange topic the day after people died ice
fishing on lake erie but we were at the marina watching ice fishers.
If anyone here ice fishes, please take me with you.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/06/09 06:20 - ID#47662

Blood pressure

I swear, everytine I check my blood pressure, they drop the value for
ore-hypertension to something lower. Is 126 really pre-hyper tension?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: mustache

02/06/09 11:04 - 22ºF - ID#47656

Facial Hair Gone Wild

I want to cut my hair, and my facial hair but I walk everywhere and it is freezing out. I wish it would just warm up so I can shave my head again. I keep telling myself I am going to trim my mustache. Maybe today.

So I trimmed the goatee, not so great ;( I having feeling this is going to end with a shaved head - damn it

Then it was this.

And then in the mdidle of trimming the battery trimmer dies. I am destined to look like a freak I guess.

This is where I am stopping for today.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

02/03/09 09:18 - 21ºF - ID#47613

Six to Ten Inches a Day

There was a times articles about how snow in the UK paralyzed London. In the comments section, someone from buffalo wrote:

"Hey ! Sorry that you guys in London, UK, got hit with snow. Noticed you can't handle it very well!" wrote Charles Gangarossa, from New York state, USA. "What would you do if you lived in Buffalo, NY, USA? We get 6 to 10 inches daily lately! Come visit Buffalo in the winter and you will appreciate the little bit of snow you got! Happy shovelling!"

Don't you think that is exaggerating a bit. Imagine a month of 6 to 10 inches a day.

metalpeter writes at 01:33:04 02/08/09 - Comment #45360: Well that would be a good Business Idea for Buffalo, HA. They had a week and Knew it was coming but decided not to do anything. The article I read said that they do have some snow equipment. Hey the least they could have done is try to use it, or get other things ready that aren't made for snow but could be used like what ever those big dirt mover things are at construction sites.

tinypliny writes at 01:03:18 02/08/09 - Comment #45358: LOL LOL@(e:heidi)'s comment.

heidi writes at 07:26:15 02/06/09 - Comment #45280: (e:metalpeter) - what were they supposed to do? Rent some snowplows from Buffalo?

metalpeter writes at 06:27:19 02/04/09 - Comment #45177: From my understanding they do have some plows. They also knew the storm was coming with about a weeks notice but didn't do anything about it. (e:drew)'s comment is awesome.

tinypliny writes at 05:16:21 02/03/09 - Comment #45132: We do get 6-10 inches daily. I do wade to and fro from work everyday.

theli writes at 03:55:37 02/03/09 - Comment #45111: What? You actually don't like extolling some superficial superiority just so you can act condescending? Weird.

@drew: Har!

drew writes at 10:30:41 02/03/09 - Comment #45094: six to ten inches. Isn't that the standard exaggeration?

james writes at 10:23:49 02/03/09 - Comment #45092: Could you imagine how pissed off we would be if someone from London made an estrip account to tell us about all the things London is doing better than buffalo? We do ONE THING right and suddenly we are hot shit.

ladycroft writes at 10:11:14 02/03/09 - Comment #45089: I had to laugh when Rory sent me the link to this headline. But yah, that nitwit just doesn't get that they also don't have snowplows because it rarely snows in that magnitude.

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Category: computers

02/02/09 09:15 - 25ºF - ID#47598

ASUS EEE PC

I don't understand why any non-graphic designer, gamer would buy a laptop other than one of these. If you are using the internet and typing papers it is such a bargain. They are light and do just about everything a regualr laptop does. Also the battery life sounds fantastic with some models almost reaching 10 hours.

They have also done ton for linux by making it available to more people. According to wikipedia

it can run a multitude of linux distros, windows XP and even OS X!

Devices like this have lowered the entry cost of college in a way. Remember when a laptop was like $1500-2000 even for a non-fancy one.

It has multitouch gestures and the newer models coming out even have touch screens. I think at some point I am going to want one.

fing writes at 01:06:08 02/04/09 - Comment #45144: I am obsessed with these little things. I constantly think about how I can use one on a regular basis to justify the cost. I know it's not a huge sum of money but I don't want it to sit around and collect dust. I have always thought about getting one for work so I don't have to run around with my MacBook Pro all day. Network closets can be very dirty and dusty sometimes.

tinypliny writes at 05:17:52 02/03/09 - Comment #45133: <$200 for a laptop that loaded is EXCELLENT. I would buy one more!

libertad writes at 02:53:29 02/03/09 - Comment #45103: Wow! I had no idea that you could get something like that for so cheap. If I ever do get one I would hope that it would have more drive space in it to avoid (e:uncutsaniflush)'s problem because that seems like a pretty difficult fix. $200 seems like a great deal because online at bestbuy right now they are like $329.

uncutsaniflush writes at 07:39:53 02/02/09 - Comment #45079: We got an eee 900a (1gb ram 4gb ssd) a couple of Fridays ago at Best Buy for 199.99. We like the form factor and hardware.

The Xandros Linux Easy Mode is ok but asus should be ashamed of themselves for shipping this model as configured. Because of the unionfs, there is not enough drive space to install the updates that Xandros's updater forces on you. Firefox 3 is especially problematic since it also requires some lib files to be upgraded.

There is a workaround (this is Linux after all) that gets rid of the unionfs and merges two smaller partitions to make one larger partition. It can be found at :::link:::

After doing that, I can say that the eee 900a is decent wee netbook and the Xandros Linux is ok. I plan on putting some other distro on it at some point in the future.

btw, I'm writing this on the eee.

tinypliny writes at 07:12:34 02/02/09 - Comment #45074: Yeah, very trendy. But brand reliability is one reason why I always stick to Toshiba.

theecarey writes at 06:16:04 02/02/09 - Comment #45063: yes, I have been wanting one of these for awhile! It is my next laptop- perfect for bringing it everywhere (small, lightweight, can take a beating..).

heidi writes at 01:12:39 02/02/09 - Comment #45059: I love my eeepc 900 running some linux distro, xandros, maybe. I use it to take notes in class, listen to music in bed, watch youtube, etc. Very useful. The only bad thing about the linux distro is that I can't figure out how to upgrade firefox, open office, etc. I read the instructions and tried it several times but I must be doing something wrong. Anyone want to help me (and play with my EEE PC?)

lilho writes at 10:51:35 02/02/09 - Comment #45058: my brother has that. i think he likes it. it's little and cute. way cheaper than my macbook.

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Category: estrip

02/01/09 09:43 - 32ºF - ID#47595

Buffalo's Original Green Publication

Estrip.org is Buffalo's original green publication.

I love how Buffalo Rising

is now pretending that being green was a motivating factor in giving up their print publication. I think failed business model and inability to see the obvious death of print was more likely.