Category: web

08/21/09 08:14 - 75ºF - ID#49593

Bing vs Google - Buffalo Clarity

Now I know there are lot of things to compare in google maps vs bing maps. One being street view which bing just doesn't have, the other being birds eye view which Google doesn't have. Or photographs or 3d buildings or live data, etc. But I am not comparing that. Here I am going to compare apples with apples, so to speak. I am looking at my house in arial, in the most zoomed version on each and am sadly dissappointed in the crap imagery provided by google.

See for yourself:

I know its not the same for other place though. For example flagstaff, AZ is only black and white and low res on bing and normal looking, yet hazy on google maps.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/21/09 06:09 - 76ºF - ID#49592

The attic of surprises

I was cleaning the attic with (e:terry) in prep for the new roof and
found a couple surprises.

1. The squirrels have eaten have re insulation which I think leads to
number 4.

2. A new sumac tree started growing in the chimney and was removed.

3. Who the frick, fucked in my cage? I never had sex in there but
someone at one of our parties must have and left a yellow used condom
in it which melted to the floor. Thanks jerk. At first, it just
looked like some debris so I picked it up to throw it out. It then
melted to my hand as it has somehow started to degrade. Ya I had to
use mineral spirits to remove it, yuck.

4. Just when roadkill started to get cliche, I bring you attic kill.
I wondered where those flies were coming from.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: internet

08/21/09 02:09 - 75ºF - ID#49588

The true speed of verizon FIOS

There is really no excuse for me to be such an idiot, I am a computer guy after all and I was bamboolzed by the verizon marketing gimmick. For some I thought 20/5 FIOS was 20MBps download by 5MBps upload. I couldn't understand why I was getting uploads speeds of only 500KBps for upload on the server. Turns out its 20 mbps/5 mbps. Notice the lowercase, it then read as bits where the bytes were. Read more about bits and bytes here

e.g. What they should say is that verizon high speed business FIOS is 2 MBps down by 0.5 MBps up but who wants to advertise in 0.5 when 20/5 sounds so much sexier.

Here you can see the results I am currently getting from speakeasy speedtests on the server:

Last Result:
Download Speed: 19397 kbps (2424.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 3049 kbps (381.1 KB/sec transfer rate

I mean I thought it was too good to be true. Now I am wonder if I ever even needed FIOS to begin with as the backups aren't that much faster than they would be dedicated with DSL or cable. I mean for a server its only the upload speed that matters.

Arghs.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: life

08/20/09 10:57 - 72ºF - ID#49583

Where have I been

I have been so busy with work. It seems to somehow take up my entire life on most days. Lots of awesome stuff got done but mostly I am just tired right now.

The roof is going to start this or next week. There goes $20,000 - at last it isn't the $30,000 I thought it was going to be.

My work is making me use a blackberry because the iphone is too insecure

The upside is that he blackerry is for work only and comes with tethering which which means my iphone's battery will probably last longer.

I found this awesome ibm site that tracks visualizations. Its pretty neat.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: neighbors

08/20/09 12:47 - 68ºF - ID#49579

Mowing the lawn

It's 12:45am and that blur near the street is my neighbor who just started mowing his lawn. What the fuck?!

It's been going on for like 40 minutes, at first I thought it was a helicopter but then it just kept going.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/18/09 04:35 - 79ºF - ID#49570

Damn pear blight

I am so freaking angry about this. It ruined almost every pear ;(. I
wonder if the insides will be okay?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/16/09 08:23 - 80ºF - ID#49552

Delaware park

Shakespeare in the park is jammin. There are so many people.

On another note, The water in Hoyt lake is fucking disgusting.
Normally I would say freaking but seriously the disgustingness really
deserved the upgrade.

There are so many cans and bottles jammed up in the weeds. Who throws
their garbage in the water. I think those people deserve to be tazered.

I wonder if there could be any hope in cleaning it up by making the
water flow better. I mean I have seen lakes in other city parks that
wernt so sick.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/16/09 07:28 - 83ºF - ID#49551

Cosmo at walmart

When at walmart in new hampshire, I was fascinated by three things.

1. The prices, we never go to walmart but holy crap shit is cheap -
still I think a lot of it is lesser quality. A good example is that
the Hanes cotton t-shirts we bought at walmart are definately thinner
and more cheaply seamed than the ones we got at target. It's obvious
to the eye.

2. Just how trashy, white trash can get.

3. That this woman with revealing cleavage on the cover of cosmo is
not too revealing to be shown but the word sex and all the article
titles are.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/14/09 10:17 - 74ºF - ID#49539

At the ledges in vermont

Damn, this is really lame compared to my previous posts about the ledges, sorry.

We spent the whole day swimming in perfect 80 degree sunshine in nothing other than SPF 60 NOAD sunscreen but there is not one pic.

Sorry (e:mike) the sunscreen was from walmart, can we still be brothers, lol? While I was already there I also bought socks. Its kind of a ridiculous story, I was so hungover the morning we left I only brought the outfit I was wearing and have worn it every day since. Today, I got to change my socks. Luckily, we swam almost everyday so I don't smell that bad. I mean I know I am an outfit repeater but I generally change my socks and underwear.

So back to the ledges? Who goes swimming for the whole day and doesn't bring snacks? Well we did. not sure what I was thinking there - aren't snacks a quintessential part of the whole aquatic experience.

We also met this guy who runs a gay campground in new Hampshire

that is only 4 miles away from our current lame ass campsite in Vermont. He said they have horses. Sadly, we had prepaid for the cluster camp spot because we didn't know where else to go. I would like to never camp at fort dummer again. Maybe we can revisit that new hampshire place someday.

If you are ever in Brattleboro, Vermont eat at the top of the hill BBQ stand. It's pretty delicious and priceworthy.

Finally a boring picture. This car in the parking lot at the ledges was seriously dinged up. I guess the owner thought bandaids would help.