"The worst day ever" written by Paul on estrip.org

07/13/11 02:27 - ID#54695

The worst day ever

So instead of going on vacation we get a letter from the insurance company that they are going to cancel our insurance on the fucking nightmare rental property unless we paint the porch and patch the concrete.

I kept holding out because I thought I would have sold it by now. After scraping the wood its rotten because there was a wet rug sitting on it. The concrete pretty much had no option but crumble off and start over.

That house has been a money pit for me. If I could start over I would have just not lived in Buffalo when it came I to my life so that this moment would not happen.

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Category: food

07/12/11 08:37 - ID#54690

Dinner for Mary's Birthday Last Night

Figured Joe's crab shack would be packed last night as it was grand opening so we went to red lobster instead. Their food always looks nice and tastes good, I just wish it was less salty.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

07/11/11 12:47 - ID#54686

One upping lobster mac and cheese

Believe it or not I don't line lobster Mac and cheese. Maybe I was just always missing the bacon? Sadly, I didn't get a chance to try it on my way back as I was already too stuffed.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: brushwood

07/10/11 05:29 - ID#54675

Weekend at brushwood

We accidentally all went a weekend early to brushwood for Sirius rising. Luckily, (e:hodown) stayed because the event is next weekend and she would have missed her plane.

It was still fun to hang out and camp. We also got to swim a bit, although in a chlorinated pool. In the evening casey and I almost cooked ourselves to death in the hot tub because it was so cold walking back to camp wet that we didn't want to get out.

Man, I thought those chairs were uncomfortable for me. I can't imagine being as tall as (e:keithT) and trying to nap in one. It would kill my neck.

I am going to try and cut out of work early this week and use up some vacation time to attend a couple days of the festival and the fire this weekend.

I guess going a week early is better than going a week late.

One of the coolest parts was a vertical campfire in a hollow tree log with holes allowing viewing inside. I would have taken a picture but I no phone with me.

The overall best moment was dancing to the music of the drum circle barefoot by the campfire. The worst moment was trying to do a roundoff off of bench and missing my target.

I feel like this shrine/trash mound/artwork we found really sums it up.

This corn thing is too crazy

Look sandals with no socks

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: buffalo

07/09/11 02:13 - ID#54672

Buffalo Horse Share

I would actually be more likely to do that then car share.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

07/09/11 02:12 - ID#54671

The waste of buffalo

I just couldn't pass up this pic.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: food

07/09/11 03:48 - ID#54668

The Eights

We went to the eights for Kim's birthday. The food was great. I would have killed for a restaurant like this during my vegan years. What on earth is vegan beef on weck like.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: stuff

07/08/11 09:23 - ID#54667

Nine Freakin Ninety Nine

It seems amazing that this is at the counter at rite aid on elmwood at this time of year. Not only that but its $9.99. Its 2 tiny pieces of plastic. There is more substance to the packaging.

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Category: food

07/08/11 09:20 - ID#54666

whipcreme flavored vodka was awesome

They came out with alcohol infused whip cream. I think the combination might be excessive.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Category: mobile

07/08/11 07:25 - ID#54665

Trip Down Sketchy Lane

So my nexus one's SD card died. Not sure what happend, I think it just reached its natural lifespan. Anyways, the card appeared empty but was not totally crashed so I mounted it in linux and ran dd to make a copy of the contents.

Then I ran photorec on it to try an extract the files

Its nice because I could run the photorec right on the disk extract so I had no fear about ruining the car any further.

It extracted thousands of files. Whats scary is that most of the files had been deleted for months if not years. I guess thats the nature of storage devices but holy crap, you think something is gone from your phone and its not.

I would never ever sell a phone ever again. In fact it makes me want to buy old phones just to look at people information.

Once I extracted all of the data I started coming through it for things. I search my name and matt's name. The weirdest thing was that matt's full name was embedded in a Pink - God is DJ song I bought from itunes. What is apple up to there. Is it to prevent file sharing or allow tracking. The weird thing is he never listened to that song and it was bought on terry's account using terry's computer. Somehow they have us all linked.

So basically, all that porn you looked at on your phone and personal information you stored and thought you cleared out - its all still there waiting for someone to discover it. I mean its the same with a computer, but you don't accidentally drop your computer out of your pocket.

From now on, I want everything mobile encrypted like my computer. Its not really an issue with android specifically but with any unencrypted drive.

paul writes at 08:01:03 07/08/11 - Comment #63469: The fragments of website text included huge chunks. It could easily contain sensitive information.

metalpeter writes at 08:01:00 07/08/11 - Comment #63468: that is kinda scary at least you found some porn?

tinypliny writes at 07:54:50 07/08/11 - Comment #63467: You never know... the dead fish might enjoy your music and porn...

tinypliny writes at 07:51:27 07/08/11 - Comment #63465: I say, come and watch the sunset with me and we can chuck our phones into the water over ice-cream and opera.

tinypliny writes at 07:50:33 07/08/11 - Comment #63464: In the end, maybe all those sci-fi paranoia they-are-totally-watching-and-tracking-you movies are true...

I was somewhat surprised at first that Google+ had suggested my name as a circle friend to you.. but then it was easy to figure out they mined your gmail contacts.

tinypliny writes at 07:46:05 07/08/11 - Comment #63463: I don't like itunes. For a while there, (e:himay) and I had a music swapping experiment going. I coudn't play most of his songs even though they were unencrypted just because they have some complex linking stuff going on with the music they sell. The metadata on their mp3 or m4a or whatever format they are using now is all enmeshes WITHIN the song, so you can't strip them out without damaging or segmenting the song data itself.

Anyway, apple is like all_things_jennifer to me. same blind hatred.

tinypliny writes at 07:43:29 07/08/11 - Comment #63462: do you have autofill or lazarus installed maybe?

tinypliny writes at 07:40:44 07/08/11 - Comment #63461: this is so disturbing... and what if some designed some "cool" android marketplace app that people loved and extracted all of this secretly under the broad license and your consent that it can access most of your phone..

paul writes at 07:40:36 07/08/11 - Comment #63460: I don't even understand half of it. There are all of these gif files but inside them are like fragments of website text I visited altogether. Its not cookies but something way more intense. Or maybe its just the cache files all mashed together during recovery.

paul writes at 07:37:05 07/08/11 - Comment #63459: Its so much worse than I thought. All of the things you mistyped when typing things you wouldn't want kept are inserted into the freakin dictionary files. I wonder how much sensitive information ends up in people's dictionary files. Mind you I didn't even explore the actual phone, this is just the external SD card.

paul writes at 07:33:35 07/08/11 - Comment #63458: I searched parts of my social, etc and nothing came up. I would totally use linux. At least you know how to find everything easy.

paul writes at 07:32:57 07/08/11 - Comment #63457: omfg, every song that was purchase from apple using terry's account has his full name it. Only one has matt's name. None have my name.

tinypliny writes at 07:32:50 07/08/11 - Comment #63456: The very fact that I do online banking creeps me out sometimes... and I am sure my taxes and SSN are on this comp. Maybe I should just do all financial and administrative stuff on linux... thoughts?

tinypliny writes at 07:30:57 07/08/11 - Comment #63455: I am more concerned about the lifespan of this phone. I know about how it is designed to die just as the new one comes out.. but hey! I don't want to go back to my lame no fancy screen phone or even that bulky google phone version one.. I kind of like this phone.

paul writes at 07:30:18 07/08/11 - Comment #63454: I never thought about last.fm being involved. I think terry has that on his imac.

tinypliny writes at 07:29:24 07/08/11 - Comment #63453: That is scary. Which is probably why I just accumulate laptops and computers and whatnots and diligently strip out hard disks out of every desktop I have ever owned before giving them to someone (rarely, if ever)

And SO sketchy about that itunes thing! How on earth? Do you guys have a joint account or something? Or do you have a music tracking and taste service in itunes like last.fm?

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