"Paul Visco Facebook" written by Paul on estrip.org

Category: web

12/12/10 12:14 - 33.ºF - ID#53241

Paul Visco Facebook

So I signed up for facebook. I played with it for a little bit. It did a good job of suggesting all the people who would be friends with me but then I felt overwhelmed with having to choose and interact with a lot of people who I am not very connected to. It reminded me of why I avoided myspace but it was worse because it has the potential for making you feel guilty about not being interested.

I found it ironic that my capture phrase was "reaming liberation."

At first I tried to integrate the "like" button with the blogs but it ruins it all if people started just "liking" and "commenting" on facebook instead of commenting on the blogs itself. Eventually, the facebook stuff would get out of sync or change format and the associated information would be forever lost. I can't seem to find one good integration point.

ajay writes at 12:18:44 12/12/10 - Comment #59664: The real reason why people join FB: :::link:::

I'm not sayin'.... I'm just sayin'....

tinypliny writes at 12:09:06 12/12/10 - Comment #59662: I see who you meant. Sameer aka the cool breeze aka Zephyr.

metalpeter writes at 12:04:01 12/12/10 - Comment #59661: Ok maybe I miss spelled it or thought you knew him I might be confussed (e:Heidi) knows him and uses like sam on here?

tinypliny writes at 12:00:04 12/12/10 - Comment #59660: Who is Samer?

metalpeter writes at 10:44:04 12/12/10 - Comment #59654: (e:tinypliny) Samer is on there........

I have my page linked to all kinds of things that maybe I shouldn't. If I had the time I would love to go to myspace and link it, and then just post from myspace

(e:paul) I just sent a friends request and as part of it I sent a bunch of suggestions now I'm not sure if they are all (e:peeps) But they all should have been at the party I some how don't think I saw tony though in the list but hey hope you enjoy it.....

tinypliny writes at 01:11:32 12/12/10 - Comment #59647: I get a minimum 2 unsolicited emails every month from ghosts from my past asking me to register on facebook. It makes me not want to go there. I don't want to speak with my past again.

tinypliny writes at 01:09:32 12/12/10 - Comment #59646: Citeulike - my citation website is trying a variety of integration strategies with facebook - but there is a lot of resistance among the users. :::link:::

I am not sure I understand why everything needs to be integrated with facebook.

paul writes at 01:07:22 12/12/10 - Comment #59645: Just don't leave estrip when you join. There wouldn't be much left without you ;)

tinypliny writes at 01:06:09 12/12/10 - Comment #59644: Maybe I should just join for the sole purpose of stalking my salsa teachers. I really have no other reason.

It is just awful that I miss the two of them and the dance class so much. It's like they are an addiction.

paul writes at 01:00:51 12/12/10 - Comment #59642: I doubt it is going to change my life very much. I just had to see how it all worked so I had a frame of reference when discussing it.

heidi writes at 12:55:43 12/12/10 - Comment #59641: booo. i liked that you were a holdout. :-)

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Category: web

12/11/10 05:55 - 36.ºF - ID#53239

Robocalls restricted in NY

(e:libertad), you will be happy:

Buffalo, NY (WBEN) -- As of Saturday, December 11, "robo"-calls are subject to stronger regulations in New York State.

Under a new law which takes affect this weekend, New Yorkers who've signed up for the state's "Do Not Call" list should no longer receive automated-message telemarketing calls.

I am still torn on if this means I should get on that list or not. At first my mom said yes but then I heard it was some sort of scam to collect more phone numbers.

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Category: pets

12/11/10 05:00 - 38.ºF - ID#53238

Basra the builder

I gave Basra some peices of wood to push around. It keeps him busy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 12/11/10 05:00

Category: body

12/11/10 03:36 - 38.ºF - ID#53236

Starting to wonder...

If I am going to die from this plague. I can't wait till my dermatology appt on Wednesday. It seems so ridiculous that I have money and health insurance and its taken two weeks so far before I can see a dermatologist.

Everyday I think its going to start going away and it gets worse. In a way it does seems like the original ones are fading but new ones are coming in places I did not have them before.

paul writes at 01:22:39 10/05/11 - Comment #65341: Oops I was wrong, it was not before the tongue thing. The red tongue thing started around 05/2010, 7 months before this. Its the painful tongue followed by the orange tongue that started after this.

paul writes at 01:18:35 10/05/11 - Comment #65340: Until I put this timeline together tonight, I never realized that this 3 week body rash from hell happend directly before the tongue issue started.

tinypliny writes at 11:30:53 12/23/10 - Comment #59908: Its SO unfair that you didn't post a follow-up yet!

tinypliny writes at 11:30:14 12/23/10 - Comment #59907: WELLL??? What did he say??? Come on! You have one faithful reader here who REALLY wants to know what the dermatologist's opinion was??? What was the diagnosis?? How are you now?? Has it gone down? Has it worsened?? Forget about the indirect inquiring minds... I WANT TO KNOW!!!

metalpeter writes at 10:48:19 12/12/10 - Comment #59655: Hopefully it is nothing serious, but what (e:libertad) said is true..... Sometimes it might not be a skin issue it is an infection issue that shows up on the skin... With out being a doctor I'm guessing that you being allergic to cats and other animals means you are having some kind of reaction to something you don't know about ...

tinypliny writes at 12:22:56 12/12/10 - Comment #59639: It's a kind of paint that is lightly applied and dries on your skin in a pinkish thin shell that you can just flick away later. But yeah, all that hair might be a problem. There seems to be many lesions where there is no hair, though.

Did you recently buy and wear some new sweater or maybe an animal origin coat of some sort... maybe cashmere or wool?

Also CMV/EBV may sometimes have very uncharacteristic presentations... I can't be sure. Do these bumps lose their reddish color/blanch when you press them? Are they tender when you press them?

paul writes at 11:03:04 12/11/10 - Comment #59637: (e:tinypliny) - I feel like taking two benedryl is way easier that trying to work any sort of liquid into chest hair. (e:libertad) - I figure at this point I might as well wait for a specialist.

libertad writes at 10:09:28 12/11/10 - Comment #59635: You could go to an after hours clinic. You don't have to see a dermatologist for skin problems.

tinypliny writes at 07:47:34 12/11/10 - Comment #59623: If you can get lactocalamine topical solution to apply, you could wean youself off benedryl. It is anti-pruritic (anti-itch).

paul writes at 05:21:12 12/11/10 - Comment #59620: No I don't scratch them. None of them have any broken surface. In fact they don't itch too much anymore and when they do I take benedryl which I am slowly becoming addicted to.

tinypliny writes at 04:42:47 12/11/10 - Comment #59618: btw, the mortality in dermatology wards is close to zero... unless it carcinogenic, which I think, its not.

tinypliny writes at 04:35:53 12/11/10 - Comment #59617: Are you scratching that area? I hope not. Maybe you should try an application of lactocalamine solution if they are itchy.

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Category: web

12/10/10 10:41 - 35.ºF - ID#53231

Grooveshark.com - is it legal?

I always am so behind on internet crap because I barely surf the web for entertainment purposes.

Tonight, I decided to spend a little more time visiting the chrome app store

I am not really sure what the advantage of the chrome app store is other than a place to easily find the apps. Unlike the app stores on mobile devices there is no app to install per se. So it seems kind of like a store that sells/helps you locate urls? Isn't that just a search engine?

To its credit, I found grooveshark.com from it.

Anyhow, grooveshark.com seems totally amazing. I am able to search for and listen to just about any music I want, kind of like rhapsody.com but it appears to be free and I can rewind and replay whatever songs I want. Maybe I just haven't gotten to the catch yet but it seems easier than have to maintain my own library minus the it only plays when online part.

i was curious how they could do this legally so I went ahead and searched for is grooveshark.com legal and how there is a whole lot of drama there. Check out this yahoo answers for example

or this arstechnica forum

Its interesting because it seems like the company tends to respond to the questions.

I still don't really understand how it is I can listen to whatever music I want and not pay anything. They don't even have audio advertisements like pandora and clearly, when you listen to the site you aren't looking at it much so the ads to the side are kind of useful.

They must have deals with the record labels, but what kind of deals. I mean this seems "free" like as in free from back in the napster days. The fact that they let anyone upload songs is great for independent artists but I find it hard to believe that Michael Stipe decided to upload all the R.E.M albums I am currently listening to.

In a way I am jealous as I would like to work on something like that web app much more than dealing with all the rules and regulations of dealing with employee and patient data in the hospital setting that makes up my life now. It must be so fun to make stuff simply for entertainment purposes. Maybe it would feel meaningless. Or maybe it would just be so much less stressful.

You can even download the music with this simple little hack that I am sure makes it all totally illegal. I am not suggesting it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: pets

12/10/10 08:47 - 34.ºF - ID#53229

Feeder Fish

I used yo have a turtle that ate these. Glad I just have a vegetarian tortoise now although he is being such a pain right now. Today and I had to bathe him and oil his shell. He is getting so fat that I need to put him on a diet but eating is like his only entertainment.

He is getting so big now.

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Category: web

12/08/10 09:40 - 19.ºF - ID#53226

Estrip SSL certificate authority

I am so tired of needing SSL certs or having to ignore or confirm exceptions. I decided to just create my own certificate authority, once my systems trust that, they trust any of my certs.

If you are in a sketchy place and want to use the SSL version of estrip to protect your session you can.

First accept the estrip server as a certificate authority. Using firefox it is easy, go to

and check all three boxes. Then just go to the ssl version of the site

for the rest of your trip. You can do the same thing with other browser but you will need to follow you OSes way of importing certificate authorities as chrome, safari and IE all use the OSes cert trust store unlike firefox which has its own.

As a side note flash uploads will not work without having your OS truststore accept estrip as a certificate authority, however, drag/drop and mobile site upload will.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 12/08/10 09:51

Category: body

12/08/10 08:47 - 20.ºF - ID#53224

Frickin rash illness from hell

Like two weeks ago I had this first spot on my arm. I thoight it was a bug bite. After a few days I got another then it spread all over my chest and neck. At first it was super itchy but bendryl helped figuring it was an allergy. Then days turned into weeks and it now seems like its not an allergy. I use hypoallergenic everything to start off with and I've introduced nothing new.

Now I think its pityriasis rosacea. It fits the description very well with hive like welts that have a cigarette papery center. Trust me I have researched like every skin condition under the sun and it seems the most plausible. They radiate out like a Christmas tree if looking at me head on. The unfortunate part is that takes a long time to go away. Here are some links

So I have money and health insurances but it seems like every dermatologist has a months long waiting list and no idea about anyone else to call. Luckily, I made a dermologist appoint for next week about 4 months ago just to get some moles checked out. Here is to forward thinking or being psychic.

And more luckily, thankfully my boss let me work from home while it was really bad this week.

The lighting in the picture don't really do it justice in terms of the redness.

The watery drip in this last pic is really just a water drip not some blister.

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Category: food

12/08/10 11:30 - 22.ºF - ID#53223

Hubbard squash soup

(E:terry) made some yummy Hubbard squash soup. What surprised me is that we bought he squash before Halloween (e:paul,52960) and it was still totally good. Terry read it can last up to six monts so that people would store them for winter.