Category: a series of tubes
09/12/07 08:12 - 62ºF - ID#41067
line status: showtime
2: One of my coworkers lived across the street from these girls [NSFW]. She says they're total bitches.
2a: Anyone you know on here? It's tough to tell, they've got some stuff on their faces.
2b: No offense to all yall, but Buffalo is not exactly the place I would start looking for hot porno chicks.
That is all!
- Z
Permalink: line_status_showtime.html
Words: 134
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: a series of tubes
09/05/07 04:07 - 83ºF - ID#40950
cootie catcher
Now on with our regularly-scheduled post:
OK, I was discussing cootie catchers/fortune tellers with (e:dragonlady7). She said she didn't know how to make one, so I Googled it. It is not surprising to me that I found instructions for making a cootie catcher on the Internet. You may follow the link but the URL itself is more interesting than the page.
girlpower.gov/girlarea/gamespuz/cootiecatcher.htm
How wrong is this URL? Let me count the ways:
1: There are instructions on a US Government [.gov] website for making a cootie catcher.
2: There is a website called girlpower.gov at all.
3: I just visited a website's girl area.
Now I feel dirty.
- Z
Permalink: cootie_catcher.html
Words: 147
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
08/27/07 02:45 - 77ºF - ID#40757
flip flop
2: Usually I stay away from politics, but here's something to chew on.
Both major political parties have diverse, complex, and often contradictory platforms that go far beyond the simplistic conservative/liberal split. What is interesting is how they take sides when an issue is not addressed by the traditional party platform.
To whit: the electoral college. Republicans typically support it, and Democrats typically oppose it. Both sides can come up with long lists of lofty ideals that support/oppose it, but what it comes down to for both sides is that the electoral college elected a Republican twice in a row.
In the electoral college, most states use the Winner Takes All method but two states [Maine (D x4) and Nebraska (R x5)] use an alternate approach that arguably gives better direct representation. The Democratic Party proposed switching Colorado (R x9) to the new system in 2004, and failed.
Now it seems Republicans are all about more direct representation in the electoral college, but only in California (D x55). And who is defending the status quo? Yeah, the Democrats.
Conclusion: Only losers want election reform, but only the winners have the power to do it.
- Z
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Words: 216
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: misc
08/20/07 11:02 - 60ºF - ID#40645
headhunt'd!
Item! My buddy and his wife ended up in Cancun this weekend. I can only hope they got a hurricane-season discount. They ended up 'finding' plane tickets out at $600 a pop, which was still better than sticking around at the hotel that made no evacuation plans and had been wiped out by another hurricane a couple years ago.
Item! (e:dragonlady7) was out of town this weekend so I got some quality fucking-off done. I did some housework but more importantly I totally found the best article on Wikipedia: (WIKIPEDIA - Voynich manuscript). This is the coolest fucking thing, and it creeps the shit out of me.
Item! What do you do with a bored Norwegian in Buffalo? Take him to the Pirate Festival for "Adult Night!" I can't really explain why.
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Words: 150
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: weird
08/14/07 11:50 - 68ºF - ID#40534
and when i awoke i was alone
He kinda thinks this is totally lame, and there's all these people eating cheese and crackers, and so he says, you know, Norway's very similar to the United States in a lot of ways, except that when we eat cheese and crackers, we don't eat cheddar, we eat havarti.
And you know how in elementary foreign-language classes, when they teach you new vocabulary, the teacher says the word and the students repeat it? Everybody stopped what they were doing, said "HAVARTI!" in unison, and went back to chatting.
I split a gut and had to leave the room I was laughing so hard. Aleksander had half an idea of what was going on so he went on to explain that in Norway the cheese and fruit trays would be called a smörgåsbord [laying on the accent real thick-like]. And the entire class stopped, replied "SMORGASBORD!" and went back to doing whatever it was they were doing.
Laughing, Aleksander came out to join me in the hallway and asked me what the Hell was going on. I was laughing so hard I woke up.
Turns out neither havarti nor smorgasbords are particularly Norwegian.
- Z
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: lol
08/13/07 03:13 - 79ºF - ID#40515
lulz! [edited]
Also, see my previous post if you want to hear all the stupid details about my living room. Here's a pretty decent color sample - yellow living room to the right, blue stairwell to the left, [future] orange hallway in the center. The old color is so bleh, especially when compared with the new color at sunrise
- Z
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Edited to add 'invisable microphone:' damn this is addictive.
Permalink: lulz_edited_.html
Words: 103
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: home
08/13/07 11:56 - 72ºF - ID#40511
color
I told mom we were repainting the place whether she liked it or not. Then I showed her the swatches we'd picked for the living room. She kinda flipped out [she owns the house after all]. "You are an adult and you can make your own decisions. But when you leave the house you're painting it all white again." Hmf.
Now our living room is ZOMGWTFYELLOW!!! with all the molding in HOLY SHIT!!! PURPLE. It sounds like a trainwreck but it looks 300,000 times better. Turns out it was always a yellow room but nobody bothered to paint it that way. Pix soon.
I think maybe we won't tell mom what colors we've picked for the rest of the house.
- Z
Permalink: color.html
Words: 243
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: news
08/08/07 08:24 - 81ºF - ID#40447
extra extra!
Item! I am the Troy Tulowitzki of base humor. Anyone else want to try fitting Pablo Neruda, Joel Giambra, and the US Geological Survey into a joke about public sex, while commenting on the chronic underfunding of the Erie County public library system? Can you do it in under three sentences? Yeah, thought so.
Item! Don't be a cock to the press. This is pretty self-explanatory: we have a press and you don't. Furthermore, we're underpaid and cranky and if we're writing about you we already think you're a fucking idiot. Oh yeah, and we record pretty much every telephone conversation we have. What is wrong with you?
- Z
Permalink: extra_extra_.html
Words: 193
Location: Buffalo, NY
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
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