Category: food
08/04/07 07:10 - 81ºF - ID#40381
bad weggies!
This is a document hanging up at the entrance to the Amherst St Wegmans. You cannot read it here because my phone's camera sucks, but at the top it says 'NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - INSPECTION - 6/23/07.' It is hanging up with all kinds of other boring paperwork, like their beer & wine license, and the building's rated maximum capacity, and like the minimum wage laws and employee of the month. Boring.
Except-
what is that checkmarked box labeled? You cannot read it here because, once again, my phone's camera sucks, but it says 'CRITICAL DEFICIENCIES.' [The other options were 'this establishment is in compliance...' and 'critical deficiencies which have been addressed...']
Ya.
- Z
Permalink: bad_weggies_.html
Words: 189
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: news
08/01/07 11:06 - 79ºF - ID#40338
schadenfreude
Since at least mid-June, BRO has been posting negative stories about Buffalo that are saved to a hidden cache page and not posted to or made mention of on the main pages that we are all familiar with.
I didn't read about the YWCA heroin-at-daycare case on BRO, did you? Yet here it is, and it was Dugg by nearly two thousand users. Which put it on the frontpage of one of the web's most visited pages, seen in the neighborhood of 200,000 times.
Here's a story BRO didn't post (but did) about the man who was beaten with his own prosthetic leg. I especially love the accompanying graphic. It's been posted to Digg.
To top it off, BRO has even posted stories from way outside city limits - Lockport, County of Niagara, is representing on BRO's cache site, with sodomizing pitbulls galore. Digg? Check. Over 1,000 Diggs, to be precise.
[...]
So, while promoting the wonders of Buffalo to the local audience, Buffalo Rising is perfectly content to promote some very ugly, very negative stories about Buffalo (and Lockport, County of Niagara), to a separate worldwide audience in order to artificially inflate web statistics.
- Z
Permalink: schadenfreude.html
Words: 281
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
07/24/07 04:54 - 76ºF - ID#40238
vox pop
2. You ever see those ads on political websites showing the president making a monkey face or Hillary Clinton's eyes popping out of her head, and the ad says: 'Do you approve of the job this person is doing? Vote in our completely neutral and totally legitimate ballot.'
I've never clicked on one, so I don't know if they even register your 'vote.' I'm sort of half-curious about how the voting breaks down for those, but I'd be more interested to know how many people vote on those at all. [And also, academically, how many of the people who vote on those things actually vote with real ballots in November.]
I am not a big fan of Newsvine [I find it far too self-referential to be of any use] but they are running an interesting presidential primary poll. Get websites of varying levels of bias and neutrality, give them a relatively neutral ballot, and see what comes up [sample ballot: ].
What is interesting is not so much how the political sites are biased ['The Mitt Report' is 96% for Romney, imagine that] but how nonpolitical sites can be strongly biased in weird ways ['ClanTemplates,' which appeares to be some kind of gaming site? has Al Gore with a convincing lead, and I don't even think he's running].
- Z
Permalink: vox_pop.html
Words: 254
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: a series of tubes
07/20/07 12:38 - 69ºF - ID#40174
order confirmation
Hello from WiebeTech,
We just received your order and we think it's just super duper that you've chosen to do business with us.
If you check the shipping status of your products hopefully you'll see everything is squared away and ready to go (those are called "out-the-doorsies"). Sometimes everybody wants the same thing you want at the same time you want to have it and we run out of stuff (those are called "out-of-stocksies"). If you ordered an "out-of-stocksie" it makes us sad, but then we're happy again because we know that it will soon turn into an "out-the-doorsie."
So after all the money and shipping twiddle bits are set to go then all the products you ordered are built skillfully by hand in a magic realm called "Production" by clever little beings called "Wiebes." The Wiebes will carefully test and format every function and characteristic of your product(s) before carefully packing it and sending it off with a smile and a wave of their little orange hands. If you want to check on the Wiebe's progress with your order you can send an email to shipping@wiebetech.com. But don't worry, they will send you an email when it goes out the door.
When you receive your order don't forget to register it (www.wiebetech.com/registration) so the Support Wiebes can assist you with your product should you need it.
Also, we're on the edge of our seat wondering what you think of WiebeTech, our products, our people, our website or even of life in general. Would you mind just taking this little survey for us? www.wiebetech.com/survey it won't take but a minute.
We had the greatest time doing business with you. You are now our new best friend!
Thanks a Bunch!
WiebeTech, LLC
It's like Charlie and the Hard Drive Enclosure Factory over here. I'm picturing Laverne putting a glove on my enclosure as it rolls by on the conveyor belt and waves to the assembly line.
- Z
Permalink: order_confirmation.html
Words: 383
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: zen
07/12/07 09:30 - 72ºF - ID#40088
public service announcement
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
Permalink: public_service_announcement.html
Words: 79
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: roller derby
07/08/07 09:19 - 75ºF - ID#40000
hamilton
- Z
Permalink: hamilton.html
Words: 55
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
06/29/07 11:14 - 69ºF - ID#39852
vanilla IS a flavor
- Z
Permalink: vanilla_IS_a_flavor.html
Words: 3
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: roller derby
06/21/07 01:39 - 75ºF - ID#39754
tomorrow night
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
Permalink: tomorrow_night.html
Words: 93
Location: Buffalo, NY
06/18/07 11:13 - 71ºF - ID#39717
the undisputed master
Permalink: the_undisputed_master.html
Words: 12
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: religion
06/06/07 08:28 - 60ºF - ID#39556
for all yall atheists
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
Permalink: for_all_yall_atheists.html
Words: 60
Location: Buffalo, NY
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I still bought some produce and raw fish there. I guess I just live dangerously.
- Z
btw, according to NYS, "critical deficiencies" is defined as posing an "immediate" threat to
public health.
thanks Weggies.