"Snow on Losson Rd" written by Paul on estrip.org

12/17/10 12:54 - 30.ºF - ID#53289

Snow on Losson Rd

(e:hodown) and I were over on Losson rd. I can't believe how Mich snow they got. Its like 5-6 feet high. on the side of the road. We got like 2 inches
downtown.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

12/15/10 07:36 - 20.ºF - ID#53282

Blue Fin On Elmwood on the Strip

The food there is freaking amazing. I am not sure why its not more busy when I go in because it's some of the best Asian food around and the prices are great. This mango chicken that (e:enknot) got was so good. I also had delicious veggie lo mein with a side of mackerel sashini that was presented very nicely.

If you haven't been there you need to check it out.

tinypliny writes at 11:26:57 12/23/10 - Comment #59906: OH how I love that noodlegraph!!! I really need to get there someday.

tinypliny writes at 11:26:26 12/23/10 - Comment #59905: YES!!!!! Martin Luther Weekend ---> The weekend I get my food grade camera!!!!!!!!!

tinypliny writes at 10:58:55 12/17/10 - Comment #59823: Nexus S is a more picturesque take on Nexus one but apparently nothing big is new - except that I will owe my hand-me-down to its release. ;-)

paul writes at 02:02:35 12/17/10 - Comment #59805: That's so exciting. I love the nexus one. It is such a nice device. You need a data plan.

tinypliny writes at 10:51:52 12/16/10 - Comment #59803: He doesn't hate me apparently... which is good news. I suspect (e:paul) had something to do with it. :)

BTW, I REALLLY love that shot of the noodles. Every time I look at it, I want to walk towards that restaurant. Thankfully, I am lazy person and don't make it out of my front door.

AND I am getting the hand-me-down nexus soon - the only thing I can think of is... FOOD GRADE CAMERA!

metalpeter writes at 06:45:18 12/16/10 - Comment #59802: Why Does He Hate (e:tinypliny)?
Guessing it is still Open
Guessing that when you look at it, it looks small and it is hard to tell if it is open it never looks open so maybe that is why so few people?

tinypliny writes at 12:57:38 12/16/10 - Comment #59793: Its between Cleveland and Auburn and its closed now. :/

tinypliny writes at 08:02:17 12/15/10 - Comment #59777: Can you please ask him next time? Thanks.

tinypliny writes at 07:49:38 12/15/10 - Comment #59776: And do you know if (e:enknot) hates me now?!

tinypliny writes at 07:48:53 12/15/10 - Comment #59775: veggie lo mein? I totally need that. Where is this place? Cross street, please. I want to go there after work today.

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Category: computers

12/15/10 01:19 - 17.ºF - ID#53277

Why I Hate Macs for Real

After a 12 hour workday I came home to Terry's broken inaccurate with flashing system folder. When booting off an external mac in target disk mode the drive still doesn't show up even in diskutil, fdisk or parted.

Then to get the drive out and replace it requires special suction cups and crap. Just check out this how to

Look you need a suction cup for one of the steps. Seriously.

He is going to try and take it to the apple store and see how much it costs to fix out of warranty.

tinypliny writes at 12:51:49 12/16/10 - Comment #59792: My brother has has innumerable macs (by now, I have lost count..) and in one of our crazy we-are-so-bored moments we calculated how many of his macs had a failed harddrive or optical drive. Guess what the % was. Take a wild guess...

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86%. I am not even kidding. I can't believe people still keep on trusting macs. I don't want to be this nasty windoze freak but sometimes macsters are ridiculous in their fan worship..

PS: This does not mean I am calling you a fangirl (e:Oda). :-) Please do post a link to your website/CSA. I hope you have a distribution hub in the city so I can buy your produce!!! I am really excited for you. I actually remember my first year with my new computer back in the day. There was no one to take me through anything because my brother was away and my parents were just not interested. It was just awesome to be able to learn and do everything on my own. :)

paul writes at 11:29:03 12/15/10 - Comment #59790: Wow that is awesome oda. I never thought I would see a time when you were excited about a computer!

The situation with (e:Terry)'s imac got so ridiculous. He brought it to the apple store and the drive happend to load. They blamed the problem on a VPN client from when he was at UB. That was such bullshit. As soon as he brought it home and turned it on, the drive started clicking and stuff and finally died.

oda writes at 10:34:11 12/15/10 - Comment #59788: paul, i got a mac for a present this year.

you will be proud to know that i am actually learning how to use a computer. i have found the mac to incredible for someone like me, at a low computer-level knowledge, to be able to answer my own computer questions. this thing is so self-explanitory.

also, i am taking these one-to-one classes at the mac store in the galleria mall. soon, i will make the website for our farm/CSA.

it is exciting to start to explore this computer world.

uncutsaniflush writes at 06:14:30 12/15/10 - Comment #59766: I love how your spell-check or auto-complete turned "imac" into "inaccurate" The Apple Inaccurate it's not just a slogan, it's a way of life.

tinypliny writes at 05:44:36 12/15/10 - Comment #59754: Why do you hate Macs for fake then?

heidi writes at 02:03:24 12/15/10 - Comment #59748: Oh no!!!! Poor (e:terry) can't game :-(

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Category: work

12/15/10 01:15 - 17.ºF - ID#53276

Toys in a cage?

Last year the the toys were just on the dock. But this year they're locked behind the cage. I wonder if that means people were stealing.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: google

12/13/10 06:51 - 11.ºF - ID#53263

Google Voice

Buffalo Medical Group is calling to confirm with Paul that you have an appointment with Dr. Herman my dog bro.

I'm guessing he doesn't really go by that.

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Category: holidays

12/13/10 10:22 - 13.ºF - ID#53258

Our wreath

Our wreath never got assembled. Its in pieces on the porch.

Whenever we buy a tree they ask to trim it. That pile of trimmings becomes wreathes they then sell for like $20-$30 each. Seems like a rip off when they are already charging you like $60-$70 for the tree.

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Category: computers

12/12/10 09:52 - ID#53254

Linux vs Mac

I tried to spend about 10 hours on a mac this weekend because I was thinking about trying to develop an estrip iphone app but I remember now why I switched back to linux. I just wish I could get a hardware accelerated mac virtual machine on my fedora box. Without the hardware acceleration I can't seem to get xcode to work or safari to run flash. I can't believe that's not possible yet. I makes me crazy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: web

12/12/10 09:05 - 36.ºF - ID#53252

Paul Visco on Twitter

So I figured seeing as I joined facebook, I might as well also join twitter. Twitter always irritated me the most because I wanted to start something similar my second year into estrip and everyone told me it was stupid and no one would want to write about everything they were doing.

Same thing with my mobile restaurant review site from 2003-04. I guess I was just on mobile internet before it caught and then got totally consumed by my job at Roswell by 2005. If only times had been different or I had lived in a more online city. Not that I hate what I am doing or anything but I just feel it could have all been so different.

So the real point was that when I went to go sign up for twitter I chose the account name paulsidekick and it told me someone already had it. I was so pissed because I use that name for everything. Its like Tony's enknot for me.

So I went to go check it out and it was me after all. Apparently, I signed up in May of 2008 for twitter and just forgot about it. Either than or another paulsidekick was waiting for terry to get home with money.

The thing is I can't figure out how this ties into my much more interestingly described weekend on estrip (e:paul,44454) or any of the month of may where I don't mention twitter at all

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Category: web

12/12/10 08:41 - 36.ºF - ID#53251

Facebook and Terrorists

I was reading about the swedish suicide bomber story

and they mentioned he had a link to a facebook group that had burning towers as their profile pic. So I looked them up and sure enough, it exists. Then I realized I must have still had facebook login cookie set which probably they have now profiled me as a terrorist. I hate facebook already.

Apparently, he had a swedish wife and left behind children. It seems so insane to me that anyone would care enough about anything not directly happening to them, to want to blow themselves up.

This guy doesn't fit the hollywood driven vision of what a terrorist should look like at all. I found it interesting that it also mentions he was seeking a second wife at muslima.com There is a site for everything now.

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Category: shopping

12/12/10 04:35 - 35.ºF - ID#53248

Mike at his happiest

He gets so excited about anything glitter based.

We spent the whole day christmas shopping for my parents at best buy. I hope they like their gift.

Then we went to pick out a tree for my mom at Adams. My father is done with real trees but my mom still wants one so my father asked me to get one for my mom. (e:mike) and I are really useless at making decisions like which tree is the best one to buy.