05/04/10 06:41 - 60ºF - ID#51502

21st voter

I just voted in the School Board election. I was the 21st voter at my local polling place for two election districts combined.

I heard that turnout was low. But I had no idea it i was this low.

tiburon1724 writes at 11:42:33 07/31/10 - Comment #57577: I'm guilty of being a non-voter myself. I really only vote in Presedential, Governors and Mayors races as I know nothing about the other candidates nor do I really care enough to spend the time to research it to be perfectly honest. I'm lazy. As are most Americans.

james writes at 02:11:12 05/05/10 - Comment #56048: I was #344 out of 28K at my polling place at 7PM.

This election was awful. Our choices were either incumbents or candidatures illegally receiving tens of thousands of dollars from out of town special interests, as written about in Artvoice: :::link:::

Generally, the incumbents were terrible. But, between the incompetence you know and the incompetence someone buys I would rather in the incumbents.

Jay McCarthy is an special disaster. The son of a judge, the product of private schools, a bartender by trade he is replacing one of the few sane voices on the school board. Far be it for me to say anything bad about bartenders, but this man has not shown up to any of the candidates night I or my colleagues have gone to. Instead he has sent his campaign manager. His campaign pitch: "He was a bartender at the pink, so you know he loves you!"

His platform is fluff. His literature with my notes:
Busing - don't let black kids into your white neighborhood!
Accountability - How? He wont say.

A waste of a seat. I hope he does some good, but I doubt he is doing anything more than letting his daddy polish up his roguish GW Bush like son into something respectable.

uncutsaniflush writes at 10:57:39 05/05/10 - Comment #56046: I usually vote early in the morning so being a single digit voter doesn't seem all that weird to me.

heidi writes at 11:32:25 05/04/10 - Comment #56039: 4.19% according to the unofficial results here:http://www.elections.erie.gov/content.aspx?id=133

janelle writes at 10:50:48 05/04/10 - Comment #56037: They said voter turnout is usually 6% and this year was closer to 2%. So sad.

heidi writes at 08:35:11 05/04/10 - Comment #56036: I was #11 around 6:30 tonight :-/

metalpeter writes at 07:58:06 05/04/10 - Comment #56035: well voter turnout is low generally and if you don't have kids who go to public school then you even have less voters, and maybe even people who do have kids don't really care. I think the only time when turn out for that is good is when there is some political issue with the schools.

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03/29/10 09:07 - 42ºF - ID#51293

Still more monkeys than people

I found this by accident on the google web. The Costa Verde

hotel has a "house" that is made out of the fuselage of a 727.

The little boy in me says "golly gee, it's swell!"

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/28/09 11:42 - 38ºF - ID#50393

It's Snowing in Iceland

It's snowing in Stykkisholmur, Iceland right now. It's not snowing in Buffalo, USA.

And I say that the latter is a good thing.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/23/09 10:28 - 46ºF - ID#50370

11/22/09 03:43:56 pm

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: not music

10/15/09 08:52 - 38ºF - ID#50023

e:peep sighting

This afternoon I had the pleasure of running into (e:mrmike) at our local Wegmans. It was a nice reminder that the online community extends into meat space.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: music

09/27/09 09:22 - 63ºF - ID#49872

Too Drunk To . . .

Once upon there was a band called the Dead Kennedys. The first single I bought of theirs was "Too Drunk to Fuck." This is an acapella cover of the song by Camille who at one point in her life was in the bossa nova punk cover band Nouvelle Vague. Technically, I think this is an acapella cover of the Nouvelle Vague cover of the Dead Kennedys original.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: music

07/21/09 10:41 - 63ºF - ID#49348

GHP Goes Bananas

I've been a big fan of Mark Vidler and
Go Home Productions

for years. I think I think he is my favie mash-up artist. Here is one of his latest efforts. Enjoy it before it's gone

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Category: neighbors

07/02/09 10:11 - 65ºF - ID#49177

A Pleasant Surprise

Recently the Lovely Lettuce posted about our neighbors.

and not seeing the nicer side of them. Well today, I did.

The previous administrations of our house left us with evergreen shrubs and landscape timber in our front yard. I got rid of the shrubs a couple of weeks ago. And today's project was getting the landscape timber into the backyard so I could decide what to do with them.

The previous admin's used round telephone pole like timbers. As I was struggling with a timber pretty much as tall as me, our neighbor (the male part of the couple Lettuce wrote about) came out and asked me if I needed help. This was a very pleasant surprise.

By that time, I was covered in dirt so I asked him "Are you sure you want to? You'll get dirty" He said that he didn't mind if he did.

So he helped me carry one from the front to the back. And in the middle of carrying the second large timber, my bad shoulder popped. We got it to the backyard. And I told him I would deal with it some other day. I didn't want him to do all my heavy lifting.

I thanked him for helping. He said it was just a small thing. I said to me it was more than just a small thing and that I really appreciated it.

Given everything that has happened, it was a very pleasant surprise that he would take the time and effort to help me.

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Category: music

05/28/09 09:38 - 65ºF - ID#48779

No Pocky For Kitty

That's what I'm listening to right now. Years and years ago, someone I knew was a big Superchuck (WIKIPEDIA - Superchunk)fan and he recommended that I get this cd. This is the second time I listened to it this year. and I still like it.