09/06/10 07:26 - 70.ºF - ID#52673

Swimming at the beach

I am so glad I got to go swimming. I have no pictures but (e:heidi,52672) , took some. Just like when it is warm out and the super shallow is super warm, today that part was super cold. Once it was deep enough to swim in the water was about the same as usual. The water temp doesn't fluctuate as fast as the air. It was so great to swim without the lifeguards present. You could actually go out to where you could swim instead of wade.

I really feel like they need to change the whole system during the summer. Make it swim in the lines in for protection or swim outside at your own risk. Even if it is 18 and over something but I would really like somewhere you could just go out and full on swim. Seems like every other city on water has beaches like that. It makes me hate Buffalo sometimes.

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Category: food

09/06/10 10:45 - 65.ºF - ID#52667

The Steer Restaurant

Tried to go to Pho 99 for dinner last night but it was closed so we went to the Steer. I had never been there for dinner. By the sign on the outside that said, steaks, ribs, fresh seafood and the name Steer, I got the idea that it was a steakhouse.

However, the menu inside has no steak or ribs but instead a bunch of tasty small size tapas style foods. Thats a seriously change.

I mean it tasted delicious and I would totally go back but it was definitely not filling like the steak I wanted ever the whole day of hiking. I had the lamb burger, the calamari in lime chili sauce (amazing) and the fig proscuitto pizza.

Update: They own Dug's Dive and the Lake Effect Diner too

Dug's Dive is definitely one of my favorites in town. I heard this year it will be open year round.

I added their current menu to this blog. You can now uploads PDFs to estrip.

::READ PDF::

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Category: food

09/05/10 10:58 - 60.ºF - ID#52665

Pear Time

The wind blew all the pears down. I am kind of sad because they weren't ripe yet and because they have the stupid blight. Luckily, the blight is only on the skin and the pears will ripen soon enough even off the tree.

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Category: food

09/05/10 10:55 - 60.ºF - ID#52664

Ham Parfait

I tried to post this earlier but my connection died. Seriously, this ham parfait was so gross.

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Category: hiking

09/05/10 10:53 - 60.ºF - ID#52663

Griffis Sculpture Park

I really enjoyed the day at Griffis Sculpture Park with (e:matthew), (e:enknot), (e:keithT), (e:terry) and I went out down to the park.

(e:keith) had a hard time getting 3g so he went to the top of the tower

The white flowers are awesome.

Keith looks like he is having fun.

This is matthew from the tower

This statue was gigantic.

The palette hive was awesome. It seems like they nailed it together and then shaved it with a chain saw.

(e:keith) really loves a handful of metal

here is (e:Terry) as a monkey, you should have seen (e:keith)'s reach

(e:Terry) and (e:enknot) in a tree

Here is the KML file to track our path through the woods. I figured it would almost be impossible to find some of the stuff again without it. I forgot to track the part from the parking lot to the cement bags sculpture, the place where I started recording.

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Category: rochester

09/04/10 06:28 - 61.ºF - ID#52656

injera and grapes

I ate so many grapes at the Eastman house. Then we went out for Ethiopean vegan food. Not my favorite but not terrible although I am not a fan of the ace bandage resembling injera bread which is made of formented Teff. What it really needed was like goat or Lamb. I love that my phone thinks Lamb needs to be capitalized. I concur.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: rochester

09/04/10 06:18 - 61.ºF - ID#52655

Mt. Hope Cemetery

This cemetary has some seriously old graves.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: biking

09/04/10 01:13 - 66.ºF - ID#52650

Friday Night Bike Ride Through Buffalo

This was the first bike ride I went on since my bike was stolen at canisius college back in 2002.

At the end of the ride I tried to write my name in the Jew center parking lot via GPS but unfortunately I had the drop point set to every 16 ft so it just looks all curly. I will have to try again with shorter intervals.

In the last eight years I became quite a bit furrier and tonight I realized furry butt, tight jeans and bike seat aren't a good match. Maybe that's why people wear bike shorts.

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Category: computers

09/03/10 09:50 - 72.ºF - ID#52647

Revisiting Clipboard Security in IE

The day (e:samathon86) and I revisited the IE clipboard insecurity site

I made five years ago. Many IE users are still 100% vulnerable to this stupid exploit and it seems like no one cares. I bet a huge percentage of all IE users are. Basically, it lets a website read your clipboard in Internet Explorer if you don't have your setting set properly. The interesting part is that it allows the site to continue to read it in the background.

In fact I found it to be so extreme as to read the host OS clipboard while IE was running in a VM.

You can use the site to test your browser's vulnerability and turn it off. You are totally safe if you are using a browser besides IE, although I am wondering if flash presents a similar risk. I might check it out more this week.