Category: social media
03/26/11 07:41 - ID#53917
facebook fading?
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Location: Youngstown, NY
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Category: death
03/08/11 06:50 - ID#53786
Everything Ends
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Location: Youngstown, NY
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Category: tv
02/17/11 07:14 - ID#53634
TV land vlog
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Category: music
02/15/11 09:41 - ID#53615
Who is Arcade Fire?
I am just happy that a Canadian group got to sit on top of the musical world Sunday night with Album of the Year. It's funny reading these comments on this tumblr
The Suburbs is the name of the band??? Look Tiffany, just because you never heard of them doesn't mean that they're not Phenomenal, the world does not revolve around you or started when you were born. It's funny and yet sad to sort through that thing.
But I have to say their sit eating grin at the beginning of Ready is just priceless and EPIC.
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Category: music
02/07/11 11:22 - ID#53566
Emo Starbucks Run
The beauty is that I was driving down the Lane, Ferry St and then Clifton Hill. It was pretty quiet as the Super Bowl ended 1.5 hrs ago. But driving down Clifton Hill with the Get Up Kids "Long Goodnight" just was a perfect song for the moment.
Now I also realized just by looking at their website how lame WBNY is most of the time. This is compared to what I am exposed to when I listen to WBER out of Rochester. It is not even close, WBER has much more of a dynamic range and also gives you in detail what they play. I just so wish I was able to play WBER in my car.
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Category: music
02/05/11 11:17 - ID#53556
Scary Concept
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Location: Youngstown, NY
Last Modified: 02/06/11 03:04
Category: vlog
01/29/11 01:13 - 25.ºF - ID#53508
Car Vlog Rambling
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Location: Youngstown, NY
Last Modified: 01/29/11 01:13
Category: life
01/26/11 10:10 - 28.ºF - ID#53499
death & facebook
Now I go to his page and see most everyone writing on his wall. A part of me wants to write something and another is kind of creeped out at the same time.
A while back I remember reading about a service that stores your passwords and acts like a digital will like what this company offers
But yea, another death and another reason to add to the pile of my hermit ways these days.
I may write something, but calling a couple of friends of mine with the news today really was hard to do.
Life is short, enjoy it while you can take full advantage of it.
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Category: religion
01/03/11 11:50 - 26.ºF - ID#53390
May 21, 2011
I remember 12 years ago or so when the Chen Tao people came to this area in Niagara County because the guy that blew the whole "God will appear on TV" thing & then subsequently had a vision that they had to go to the one place in the USA where 8 the Chinese lucky number intersected. Route 18 (Lake Rd) and Route 78 (Transit Rd) intersect out in Olcott NY. Yea, they were funny to look at as we were the center of attention for a while but come on people!
But seriously why is it that these cult people are always the weird looking border line ugly ones? This Allison Warden chick just screams "The Hot guys never liked me" so I immersed myself into kooky religion.
At least Marshall Applewhite of Heaven's Gate was entertaining when he castrated himself and had all of those black sneaker wearing people kill themselves back in 1997 due to the Hale-Bopp Comet because the UFO behind the comet was going to do something. Maybe they got the attention because of their website back then, but is is totally freaky and funny at the same time to go to it as it is still maintained WITH THE REGISTERED TRADEMARK!
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Category: football
12/27/10 09:28 - 14.ºF - ID#53341
Fair-weather vs Masochism
To be honest from my perspective anyone that went to that Buffalo Bills game and sat there futilely after the first drive which resulted in the Bills only points is just a masochist. Yes the tickets for the game are cheap compared to the rest of the league. The face value on the scalped Club seats that I sat in at Raymond James Stadium yesterday were $200 but for me it would take more than a collective excuse to get hammered drinking to keep me out freezing my ass off watching pathetic football in Orchard Park. Yet it the place had a healthy crowd! Is it that Western New York just goes out there like a victim of systematic abuse just to keep the perception that it is a healthy metropolitan area and an excuse to get bombed every Sunday in the Fall/Winter? I just don't get it.
I understand that Tampa fans are not big on Raheem Morris or the Glazer family. Their financial problems are not popular as well as they appear to be stuck quite a bit of money from Manchester United It's just to me that it is more than the cold weather that keeps Tampa Fans away. The economy also doesn't seem to be an excuse either as the mall where we parked to go to the game was to capacity. But to me it was just freaky to see a stadium half empty looking like a paper bag scene from the 1980's not a winning team.
Needless to say I had fun for $85 in the club level sitting around a couple of fun lesbian couples and a couple of guys from Chicago who did the game thing we did but paid only $75 for the row behind us. The funny part for me was to notice the "mile" long line that I witnessed for hot chocolate, those people must have waited a quarter to get to order. In my mind I would rationalize, "it's 45 degrees, it's above freezing, this isn't bad at all." Since I was wearing layers it was nice given that I also had a knit cap for when I come back to the BUF. Just watching the Floridians freeze and shiver was kind of hilarious. Some woman told me, "Just keep on telling yourself that you're warm maybe eventually you'll believe it!" Well Lady, I was warm as I spent the entire halftime show outdoors and not hiding in the club. What was scary was it seemed that the crowd didn't return for the second half as when I ventured back in to grab a drink the place was crowded. Also the stadium looked like the dying days of the St. Louis Cardinals in 1987 as it looked like it was at 25% capacity during the 4th quarter.
It is always a refreshing change of pace to be able to go another NFL stadium and enjoy a game in different surroundings. So I hope long term the Buccaneers stick around and don't get moved or anything else along those lines.
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I also think that Tweeter is going to be an important part of facebook.... Well so is the cell phone you can post a picture from a show or tweet something and if you set it up right it goes right to facebook....
Love the line about have people gone to real life....... There are things you can't really post to facebook...... Wish I could think of a real life example of my case..... Oh wait just thought of.... I wrote a blog about how it is a little bit gay (not a bad thing) if you watch Hardcore porn..... Now on facebook you might not want to post about I know I wouldn't I don't know who looks at my stuff But I know I have 6 cousins I think on there and an aunt but who knows who else since it is a public page..... Again the picture thing
It is hard to say where facebook is going to go but what it seems like to me is what you often see in Porn is that facebook will become an internet portal.... Say you want to know about The Bills or the sabres or the cowboys or about when movies open... You won't have to go some sight about that team or that thing you go to Facebook and everything you care about you can find there....... What happened with myspace to a band I followed is that they dumped their website for a site on myspace... Myspace was free and In stead of paying for a site every month and they made it sound as if a myspace page could be run by them you don't know how to code and all that stuff.........
Maybe (e:paul) is right there are plenty of people who will feed the facebook frenzy for a long time to come. Myspace died a fairly quick death once Facebook opened the up membership to anyone. I would guess that Facebook is ripe for being the next Myspace but it needs some sort of catalyst to really put the nail in the coffin.
On one hand I understand this push for everyone to be themselves and their real identity online to promote honesty. The Buffalo News comments would be a perfect example of a place where anonymity makes for an unruly environment. Facebook was the biggest impetus for this coming out of a school setting. I was/am totally into that but I think for a lot of people it stiffles creativity and what they are willing to talk about publicly. One of the benefits of the internet where people had separate online identities from their real identities was the ability to be more open and perhaps different from their real life. Imagine being from a small town.
Ironically, when I created estrip I was rebelling against the anonymity. That's why I am (e:paul) and almost all of the original people were their names. Now I find the anonymous internet more interesting.
I don't write much there, or anywhere myself, and when I do it tends to be vague despite having my profile set to private.
For example, If it wasn't for Death Cab for Cutie posting stuff on their page I wouldn't have know about a small intimate club show that I bought tickets for today. Or the stuff I get from Vegas hotels like the Hard Rock like their "Twitter Tuesdays" where if you book through a link through their tweet you get slashed room rates.
For me I still long for the interconnection with other people. Right now I feel like I stayed too late at the party and everyone else paired off and went home with each other.
If you are seeing facebook die, it might be the natural online lifecycle of the people you are on there with. There are a bunch of studies about this phenomena. Its not that people are going somewhere else, they just get over the excitement of posting their whole life online. That or they have some bad experience that makes it less positive. Looking back at my blog stats I went through something very similar. Just compare the number of blogs I published in 2004-2005 to 2006-2007.
The thing is there will always be new people who have just discovered being online and they will feed the facebook frenzy for a long time to come.