Category: zen

07/12/07 09:30 - 72ºF - ID#40088

public service announcement

There are certain orders of monks who will spend weeks pushing colored grains of sand into vibrant, colorful, breathtaking circular designs. When it's complete, they say a few prayers and sweep it into the river.

I spend my time pushing molecules around on silver platters. Up, down, up, up, down - you can't see the patterns, but they are there. I don't get a broom, though. All I get are SATA errors.

Back up your data. Mahalo.

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: roller derby

07/08/07 09:19 - 75ºF - ID#40000

hamilton

The Queen City Roller Girls - Steel Town Tank Girls game yesterday was fun, if you're the kind of person who likes watching house fires, say, or CNN. Watch as Tori Nado decks Sweets in the face and fails to get ejected.

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: food

06/29/07 11:14 - 69ºF - ID#39852

vanilla IS a flavor

dammit

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: roller derby

06/21/07 01:39 - 75ºF - ID#39754

tomorrow night

In response to (e:imk)'s question: YES! There is, in fact, something going on at Albright-Knox with the derby girls this Friday.

Much like the bout this Saturday

there will be all kinds of disjoint entertainment at the gallery, both on and off wheels. In addition to outdoor demonstrations of the sport by QCRG, they will be screening Kansas City Bomber (1972) starring Raquel Welch. And also there will be a seventies disco party, hard cider tasting, and Francis Bacon.

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/18/07 11:13 - 71ºF - ID#39717

the undisputed master

of the hideous animated gif [cf: (e:twisted,39685) ]

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: religion

06/06/07 08:28 - 60ºF - ID#39556

for all yall atheists

Click his head

. He sounds just like you. And for all yall Hindus, you can click sad Habu's tilak and watch him blow a question-mark bubble out his trunk.

And that's why I roll with Professor Giraffenstein the creation scientist.

EDITED TO ADD: Holy shit, you can totally pull on Mr Gruff's belt!

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: gay

06/03/07 10:38 - 66ºF - ID#39519

proud of who i'm fuckin'

That would be (e:dragonlady7) . I can't say as I understand why that's any of your business, but I just wanted to get that out in the open, there. I have sex with women, and you can't change that about me.

This afternoon I skated in the Dyke March* with the Roller Girls. We had fun, but it was a bit grueling. We busted our asses to get to Kleinhan's by 11am only to stand around in skates for two hours. I still haven't properly broken in my skates so by the time we got to Bidwell my feet were killing me. I whipped off my skates at my earliest convenience and walked around in my socks the rest of the day.

Before the parade, one of the roller girls' girlfriends was talking about an encounter she'd had with a protester. The protester had worked himself into a holy fervor and she was pretty proud of her comeback, and I said gosh - it's good to know that everyone's having a good time. To some extent, I meant it- what fun is a gay pride parade without a little tête-à-tête with the fundies? But for the most part, it seemed that the few protesters there were, were pretty bored.

You know, there were probably more people in floats owned by churches than there were protesters. There were probably more grandmas & grandkids on the parade route than there were balls-to-the-wall sexual deviants. There's probably a commentary lurking in there somewhere, but gramma's gotta go soak her bunions.

- Z

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I thought it was the Pride Parade too, but the No Parking signs that the police put up along the parade route clearly stated Dyke March. Who am I to question the government?

New music: "Gay/Not Gay" by King Missile III.

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Category: a series of tubes

05/30/07 05:03 - 83ºF - ID#39462

process of elimination

On April 12, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed the Open Government Act ... [which] would strengthen the federal Freedom of Information Act...

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a similar measure in March - but that bill was blocked from reaching the Senate floor for a May 24 vote because an unknown senator placed a secret hold on the bill.

A secret hold. On a bill that would help the public have greater access to public information. Think about that for a minute.

Well ok that's pretty fucked up, but the Society of Professional Journalists has come up with a quick and innovative way of weeding out the culprit

Now really - if you don't know how your elected, paid representatives are voting, how are you supposed to decide whether to continue electing and paying them?

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: fashion

05/28/07 11:55 - 67ºF - ID#39434

rad shoes

So, for a while I had a high-concept idea for sneakers: Chuck Taylor rental bowling shoes. But the thing is, it would be extremely difficult to get them dyed right - red on one side, blue on the other, beige in the middle. Also, you can't take the shoe apart because the sole is melted on.

Enter Converse's latest marketing scheme: custom kicks

. They actually have a pretty respectable number of designs to choose from [Hi-top and oxford Chucks in canvas, leather, and suede, extra hi-top Chucks and Jack Purcell in canvas and more]. Each panel can be a different color, and certain designs are part of (PRODUCT)RED

.

And so, finally, I present to you: Dave's High Concept Chucks [allow 3-4 weeks for manufacture & delivery]:

UPDATED TO ADD: (e:twisted,36796)

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

05/23/07 12:49 - 81ºF - ID#39388

early adopters?

We got any early adopters here? I'm putting together a little toy for work

and I'd like some real preliminary feedback. Concept: all-local Internet radio - runs as a tiny window on your desktop while you're working & shows who's playing. Currently 137 songs, ~10hour playlist.

Known bugs:
- loading message doesn't show [you have to wait a couple minutes before it starts playing]
- volume slider doesn't work [use system volume]
- a number of the songs have f*d up ID3 tags [these won't show any info]
- the mysterious white box doesn't show ads yet
- pause/fast forward buttons don't exist
- a lot of the music is crap*ola

- Z

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:31:38 05/23/07 - Comment #18777: oh yeah the pclinuxos box has a 2.66 mhz celeron processer and 768 megs of ram and the sound did work.

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:28:51 05/23/07 - Comment #18776: I answered one of my own questions, here's a screen shot of your widget running on pclinuxos .93a (more or less) with firefox 1.5x with flash player for linux 7 something :::link:::

tinypliny writes at 09:12:56 05/23/07 - Comment #18774: Hmm.. tried to load it on Opera (Win XP) and all I get is this: :::link:::
No sound.

uncutsaniflush writes at 09:02:14 05/23/07 - Comment #18773: It works in elive(debian etch) using firefox, err I mean ice weasel. It took about 10 seconds to load on an athelon 900 with 378 megs of ram.

What version of Flash Player are you are coding for? Do you think it will work with Flash Player 7?

carolinian writes at 04:17:34 05/23/07 - Comment #18749: As an Artvoice reader (assuming that you're doing this for Artvoice) what I would find really useful is a way to hear music from the bands listed in your music events section, as this would help me make an informed decision about what I want to go to.

Look here :::link::: and imagine a "Play" button by every entry (or a link to the band's myspace page). That's what I think would be really cool.

As for your radio station, "Dashboard Widget Candidate" definitely.

museumchick writes at 01:54:01 05/23/07 - Comment #18736: Very cool:). I wish I had headphones in the library now so I could try listening to it.

kara writes at 01:49:19 05/23/07 - Comment #18734: I'm trying it out. It'll be competing with pandora.com though.

jsl writes at 01:10:11 05/23/07 - Comment #18733: I love the idea! It took about 30 seconds to start playing on firefox/linux here but sounds fantastic now. It's playing DMP - Wildfire. Is this a local band? Can you link to their web site from the player page?

If we get a community wireless network functioning we can have tons of free bandwidth for this kind of thing. ;)