Category: lurve at the louvre
01/24/08 07:43 - 19ºF - ID#43018
it's on now
This toolbox over here called me up at like 11:45 France Time to say that he didn't like my little penis joke [which is now accompanied by a disclaimer of liability]. He would like me to let you know that he has an important reputation and several very rich clients. He also uses the word 'American' the way some people use the words 'faggot,' say, or 'nigger.' He's a real classy representative from the Parisian tourist industry, see.
I couldn't get a word in edgewise, or I would have told him that I work for a newspaper with over a quarter million readers, and we're relatively desparate for articles for our Valentine's Day issue. Considering the weird fuckers who read our paper, I bet there's at least one reader who would totally get off on being seduced by this guy here:
Fact is, if I were the kind of guy with EUR16,000 (USD23,000) to burn, there is nothing better to spend it on than getting an enormous wang sky-written over the Eiffel Tower.
- Z
Permalink: it_s_on_now.html
Words: 216
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: love
01/24/08 04:21 - 21ºF - ID#43014
very juvenile
Say 'I Love You' in the Company of Columbo
Hand in hand you'll visit a distinguished castle and meet the famous Lieutenant Columbo who'll head an amazing investigation which will conclude with your penis...
- Z
Permalink: very_juvenile.html
Words: 123
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: everything
01/19/08 04:31 - 20ºF - ID#42955
am i back?
ITEM ONE: Food.
(e:dragonlady7) wrote about the things we have eaten recently. I will distill the knowledge:
1a. Chocolate toffee pancakes. Holy poop I thought I would be able to handle these but I had three and passed the fuck out. It was like eating chocolate cake for breakfast.
1b. We had some shrimp penne primavera last night that was very tasty but I'm really proud of my particular component, the shrimp. First off, Weggies has uncooked peeled/deveined shrimp which is so genius that I can't understand why you can't find them elsewhere. Second off, these shrimp are so easy, tasty, and aromatic, and you can probably put them in anything:
Get a wok or something, and put in 2 Tbsp each of peanut oil and dry sherry. Grate one clove of garlic into it. Heat that up until it socks you in the nose, the garlic looks tasty, and the sherry is reduced a little bit.
Some people are going to say look man, you can't mix the oil and sherry like that because the sherry will keep the oil from heating up. Maybe they're right, but shrimp cook so fast it can't make a difference. If they keep bugging you just make them stop and take a deep breath. Mmmm. Then kick them the hell out of your kitchen.
Add the shrimp and fry them until they're pink all over, not a second longer. Then, do whatever you want with them. (e:dragonlady7) used the garlicky shrimp-oil for flavoring the alfredo sauce, and that was a good idea.
THING TWO: A lament on HTML parsers
One of the things I do for the QCRG AV Club is to get the photos people take at the game and collect them in one place. Naturally people put their photos wherever they feel most comfortable, so that means that out of four photographers, two have used flickr, one has used Photobucket, and one has used MySpace Pics. I think 'download album' as a zip file is a pretty obvious feature but it seems the people in power don't agree. Photobucket at least has an RSS feed for each album. flickr does not have RSS feeds, but they have a pretty nice API.
MySpace Pics has neither [but did you even have to ask?] which means automated form submission & HTML scraping, with cookies. Enter Python: the urllib2 module has optional support for temporary or persistent cookies, and the HTMLParser module does a hell of a job on HTML 'as deployed' [which is to say: the opposite of well-formed & valid XHTML]. HTML4 is such a hugely popular format, and lexically speaking it's not significantly messier than XHTML ... it makes me wonder why HTML parsing libraries are nowhere near as ubiquitous as XML parsers.
THING THREE: Location-based services
I've believed for a while that mobile phones are theoretically capable of locating themselves without GPS by triangulating on cell towers. The new "Locate" button in iPhone Maps answers the question: yes, but it's not real accurate. Oddly enough, it seems to be more accurate where there are fewer towers. At home, it puts me on a side street within walking distance, and the margin of error goes from Colvin to Starin, which is not too bad. When I'm at work, it puts me within walking distance at Roswell Park, but the margin of error goes from Fort Erie on the west to Bailey Ave on the east, all the way up to Linden Ave on the north. That's like 85% of the city. [When I'm at the rink it puts me in the river somewhere.]
THING FOUR: Office 2008
I haven't bought it yet but I probably will eventually. The Home edition is only $150, which I think is pretty reasonable. The Standard edition costs $400, but as near as I can tell the only difference is in Entourage's support for Exchange Server and scriptability. An Exchange client is also built into Apple Mail, so are those two features really worth $250? The Standard license is also upgradeable, but the upgrade is still $90 more expensive than a full license for the Home edition.
And then there's this 'Expression Media' that is part of the Special Media edition. Is this different than the media databases that are built into iPhoto or iTunes, or Adobe Bridge? Is it really worth $100?
I think somebody messed up on the pricing for this one, is all I'm saying.
- Z
Permalink: am_i_back_.html
Words: 767
Location: Buffalo, NY
01/01/08 11:31 - 24ºF - ID#42719
i wonder if my mom knows
(e:dragonlady7) bought me a framed color print of this comic for the wall in our office. We now have the kewliez office in Kenmore.
My buddy Chris had a small get-together last night for New Year's. Man, we're geezers. Drove way the fuck out to Lancaster, played half a game of beer pong, watched the ball drop, and by 12:45 I was zonked out on an air mattress. My kinda people.
Roller derby ate my life. If I don't see any peeps at the rink on Saturday I'll disembowel myself in the game room and play Skee-Ball with my still-beating spleen. Could be fun.
- Z
Permalink: i_wonder_if_my_mom_knows.html
Words: 114
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: xmas
12/23/07 08:54 - 33ºF - ID#42629
it's really gotten to me this year
To my coworkers, who have become my friends, I would not be at Artvoice if you weren't.
To the people who make up (e:strip), you have created a fun, eclectic, warped, and thoroughly enjoyable community just by being yourselves. It has been a pleasure and I wish I could be more involved.
To my friends, the fact that we have never really exchanged Christmas gifts is perhaps the greatest gift of all.
To my family, relax. I got you something.
To (e:dragonlady7), you'd think after spending so much of our lives together that I'd know exactly what you want. I don't, but I've got some ideas. We'll talk later.
Merry Christmas, everyone. Until next year,
- Z
Permalink: it_s_really_gotten_to_me_this_year.html
Words: 249
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
12/15/07 06:31 - 19ºF - ID#42527
what the cia won't tell you
The real reason you learn to make sauce Mornay ['cheese sauce'] is not for eggs Benedict, Welsh rabbit, or potatoes au gratin. The real reason you learn to make sauce Mornay is that you bought some foolishly expensive herbed, veined goat cheese to impress your girlfriend's parents at Thanksgiving, which they politely ate but did not finish, and now that it's nearly Christmas with no food in sight, you're fucking hungry and you don't care whether that's a 'delicate rind' or 'disgusting crust of mold.'
Sauce Mornay: because you paid too much for that cheese to admit it's gone bad.
- Z
Permalink: what_the_cia_won_t_tell_you.html
Words: 108
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: tidbit
12/13/07 11:16 - 36ºF - ID#42509
in swedish
- Z
Permalink: in_swedish.html
Words: 15
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
11/30/07 09:38 - 30ºF - ID#42339
'gay bowel syndrome?'
- Z
Permalink: _gay_bowel_syndrome_.html
Words: 39
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: a series of tubes
11/27/07 09:12 - 30ºF - ID#42309
are you man enough for this
That is unusual talent.
- Z
Permalink: are_you_man_enough_for_this.html
Words: 91
Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: a series of tubes
11/08/07 08:22 - 40ºF - ID#42051
"in hell, this is all you get"
I think the term "ROFL" is used too often and never literally, but I came very close. Don't worry; there is a happy ending.
- Z
Permalink: _quot_in_hell_this_is_all_you_get_quot_.html
Words: 67
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Ok, maybe we don't "need" that per se, but still.
It doesn't get any better than that.
The way you altered the page with the laws and the Yes/No option was golden.
Then I saw the original site.
Anyway, yeah, the whole situation is ridiculous. Amereecan Peeg!!
I don't know what he thinks I can do about it because it's not even hosted here. Now I know why I never went back to calling them French Fries after 911, lol.
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@ 01/24/08 17:54@81.56.15.101 Guest wrote:
Good evening,
I am the General Manager of the french company ApoteoSurprise, and I have a real problem with one of your members, Zobar.
In one of its posts, he said my company is “ridiculousâ€, as you can see there :::link:::
Ok, my company is ridiculous, no problem, and that’s why, maybe, we had news articles in more than 35 countries all over the world.
But I can’t accept that :::link:::
We have an international copyright on texts and photos. So, please ask your member to quickly delete that page.
Kind regards,
Nicolas Garreau
www.apoteosurprise.com
Also, didn't he die??
Really, there are not enough WTF's on the internet for this one.