"Broken Tree On Linwood" written by Paul on estrip.org

03/31/11 04:54 - ID#53949

Broken Tree On Linwood

Its been several weeks since the tree fell down on the property down the street from us. The property is the back of the fairfaxes parking lot. Its annoying because no one ever shovels it, or cleans the garbage piles from it and now the tree. I wonder how long it will take.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

03/29/11 10:37 - ID#53944

My Latest Flavor Bowl - Rare Tuna Style

I was at premier on Delaware picking up more Bubbies mochi ice cream treats when I saw they had sashimi grade tuna on sale at a great price. I got this very filling portion at the very reasonable price for $5.48. It was a little more than 1/2lb.

I paired it with mung bean noodles cooked with chopped mushrooms and seasoned with sesame oil on the bottom.

Then a layer of chopped celery, grated carrot, steamed escarole, asparagus, and sauteed shallots.

I cooked the thick tuna in long blocks real quick on each side and then sliced those blocks up further after cooking.

Here is the final product

As for the bubbies mochi icecream, this time I got tiramisu and chocolate peanut butter.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/29/11 10:41

Category: web

03/29/11 10:17 - ID#53943

Japanese Tsunami Footage Comments

I saw a link to this video posted by Casey on (e:terry)'s facebook wall. It seems so scary watching it rush in. I think I would have had a heart attack viewing it from the filming perspective. I wonder if those people got down safely or not? The real crazy part is the comments.

You're a muslim whichï»¿ means you're a dirty brown person who needs to be washed away like half of Japan!! -- jesuswashere0000 7 minutes ago

@NobleSquad 9/11 was worse because it was an act of hatred from one groupï»¿ of people to another. this was an avoidable act of nature.

goaliemanshubi 16 minutes ago

It saddens me when God takes action against the non believers but who am I to try and comprehend and judge his will. It is a shame but theï»¿ japs did had it coming.

jesuswashere0000 42 minutes ago

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: buffalo

03/29/11 09:57 - ID#53942

Forced to Watch at the Holding Center

Everyone knows how much I hate advertising but this is really taking it over the top. I guess these people are prisoners for a reason but it seems like the beginning of something bad.

Starting next week, advertisements will begin to run at the Erie County Holding Center in Buffalo. Interspersed will be some "need-to-know" information, in case this is your first time in lock-up.

The screens will run relevant information, such as the rules and regulations of the holding centre, while also airing public-service announcements for â€œsocially responsible issues and county servicesâ€ such as addiction rehabilitation.

It will also air advertisements, most notably for defence attorneys and bail bondsmen. since the audience will likely be looking for some help in that field....

However, the ads will not be limited to just services targeted to those in jail, Diina said.

â€œEventually, most of these people get out. So they do represent the future of the marketplace,â€ he said.

The crazy part is the payoff is so litte.

The advertising at Erie County Holding Center could bring in more than $10,000 a year. Half of the spots already have been sold.

I guess any profit made is good in Buffalo desperate financial situation but it seems like such an insignificant amount in the budget of Erie County. Like that could have saved that much not running generators 24/7 for like 5 months on my corner when they were doing road construction.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/30/11 12:32

Category: vacation

03/28/11 10:04 - ID#53937

The worst vacation ever - rant

So my final two vacation days to burn up. Just before I took them I got a huge project to deal with at work for thursday. I am beyond capacity at this point and it doesn't seem to get any better.

I worked on it a bunch this weekend and then last night:
a. The windows XP machine I needed for testing had some sort of disk failure.
b. I decided to compile gnome-shell from scratch to see the latest version - which ended up taking forever.
c. I got a freakin cold. I can't believe I am sick now.

So today I spent the whole day with full-on cold, mostly napping. I am convinced it has to do with my new tooth crown - which I hate as it tastes like metal. If I realized porcelain meant, porcelain fused to cheap metal like nickel - I would have just gotten a gold tooth. Now its kind of too late. To get it off would probably make me lose my whole tooth and a good chunk of change.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/28/11 10:15

Category: pets

03/27/11 06:21 - ID#53926

Monster Basra Vs Prickly Pear

He really goes nuts for prickly pears. I hate them because they have those prickly splinters all over the outside. I started burning then off over a gas flame but now I invariably burn myself in additional to still getting the splinters.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/27/11 11:48

Category: food

03/27/11 12:01 - ID#53923

Salmon Olive Brocoletti

This combination of orange and green food tastes so good together. The citrus is uniq fruit and the salmon is smoked ducktrap brand.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/27/11 12:01

Category: beach

03/26/11 04:56 - ID#53914

Times Beach Freezing Day

It was so cold at Times Beach today. The wind was frostly but at least the sun was out. Almost all of the ice gone or paper thin translucent there. We had fun smashing some remaining parts.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/26/11 04:56

Category: church of the ascension

03/26/11 04:29 - ID#53913

Church Of The Ascension Driveway Drama Cont.

I can't believe this is still going on. All I want is for them to not drive on my property or to block my in the driveway.

Today I get a letter from their lawyer asking us to forward the letter to our lawyer. He didn't even get Terry's name right.

I love how it mentions "their driveway." It seems simple to me. Here is the property map. Notice their "driveway" is only 3.5 feet. Not wide enough for a car. Since then they have slowly added more stones to their grass, and just parked on the grass until it became drivewayish, but the skirt remains the same size.

When the previous owner bought the house in 2001, the church had an agreement with the new owner of the house to allow the church unobstructed access to the driveway to "provide ingress and egress from linwood avenue to the grantors remaining property." This makes it clear that their part of the skirt was not large enough.

The kicker is that "the reservation of rights shall not be covenant that runs with the land and does not bind all successors, heirs or assigns of grantee."

Well thats me. I bought the house from the guy with 2001 agreement in 2006. At that point there was no agreement, nor do I permit them to use my land or driveway for access. It would have been a different story if the people were not so rude and obnoxious, and did not do things like drive on my lawn, block me in, scream at me telling me they went have been here longer than I have, etc.

Here are the docs in PDF format:

Letter from Mark Peszko ::READ PDF::
Property Map ::READ PDF::
Defunct Agreement ::READ PDF::

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Location: Buffalo, NY
Last Modified: 03/26/11 04:46

Category: food

03/26/11 12:13 - ID#53911

Bubbies Litchi Icecream Dessert

(E:lilho) bought these delicious litchi mochi ice cream treats for (e:matthew) for his birthday but he didn't like them for some reason. So I tried one and to me, they are the tastiest dessert ever.

The outside is a sweet chewy mochi with litchi ice cream inside. We got them at premier on Delaware and there are a bunch of other flavors.

tinypliny writes at 07:34:57 04/01/11 - Comment #61553: I want these!!!!

paul writes at 10:46:31 03/26/11 - Comment #61475: What an interesting backstory :::link:::

tinypliny writes at 02:02:38 03/26/11 - Comment #61464: I need to tell you about the funny thing that happened when I tried to take a pic of Corasanti... (so not saying that online.. lol)

tinypliny writes at 02:01:30 03/26/11 - Comment #61463: Whoa that was a very fast tonight. :) thanks!

paul writes at 01:50:26 03/26/11 - Comment #61462: It also prevents you from clicking save twice now.

paul writes at 01:47:22 03/26/11 - Comment #61461: I fixed it. They parse when at the beginning of the comment now.

paul writes at 01:28:54 03/26/11 - Comment #61460: Nope the format is fine, I just looked. The issue is that I have it expecting a space or new line at the beginning. That is why the same :::link::: works here. I will fix it later tonight and it will update.

tinypliny writes at 12:36:31 03/26/11 - Comment #61459: Why didn't that convert to a link? Is it coded so that only things that end in htm/l convert to hyperlinks?

tinypliny writes at 12:35:50 03/26/11 - Comment #61458: :::link:::

tinypliny writes at 12:34:28 03/26/11 - Comment #61457: I miss having real litchis and a fruit called the "nongu" that grows on palm-like trees. It looks like an egg, has an egg like shell that you peel off, inside it's like a litchi with a tender coconut flavor and at the core is juice that is like a blend of coconut water and sweet litchi juice. Seriously, the nongu blows your mind. I once ate 30 of them one after the other on one vacation to my grandma's. I just couldn't stop. I was in nongue heaven... and then went to hang out that beach later that evening. I miss the beach.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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