04/02/10 04:34 - 76ºF - ID#51313

priorities

If you think a free t-shirt is appropriate compensation in exchange for a pint of blood, you might oughta reexamine your priorities. The crackers alone should be enough.

- Z

jenks writes at 05:42:33 04/06/10 - Comment #55664: yeah, it's stupid. I mean yes, I understand wanting to screen out people at high risk for HIV. But just because someone is gay doesn't mean s/he has AIDS. ugh.

and when you donate and do their screening questions, there's all the stuff about your travel. (which is really getting out of hand. you have to add up the total number of weeks you've been out of the country over the last like ten years- not just "have you ever lived in africa" like it used to be.) then all the "have you ever had sex for money or drugs?" "if you are a man, have you ever had sex with a man?" "if you are a woman, have you ever had sex with a man, who has had sex with another man?" To which I usually respond 'i hope not'. They are never amused.

jason writes at 04:04:32 04/06/10 - Comment #55662: At first I thought you all were joking about the whole them not wanting gay blood thing.

heidi writes at 01:52:01 04/06/10 - Comment #55661: Article on the political battle to allow gay blood donations. :::link:::

"Between 10,000 and 15,000 of the 25,000 Americans with severe hemophilia -- a hereditary disorder that disrupts blood clotting and often requires large-scale transfusions -- are believed to have been infected with HIV via tainted blood products in the late 1970s and early 1980s, said James Curran, who at the time headed the first AIDS task force at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

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"Because blood drives are frequently held in schools and businesses, the donation policy can stigmatize gay men by preventing them from participating in an activity often used to build camaraderie and teamwork, said Sean Cahill, a managing director at the Gay Men's Health Crisis of New York.

The current ban "promotes the idea that gay men are a health threat," Cahill said."

libertad writes at 01:56:26 04/05/10 - Comment #55646: Of course they don't want our gay blood either. My mom (in Florida) just got free tickets to Disney for her blood. Kind of ironic since they don't want gay blood.

jenks writes at 12:54:19 04/04/10 - Comment #55631: They refused me because I didn't have much time, and couldn't wait in the whole line. I mean, I guess it's obnoxious to ask to cut to the front of the line- but if they're really as desperate for donors as they always act, you'd think they wouldn't turn away willing people. ah well.

tinypliny writes at 06:54:27 04/02/10 - Comment #55607: They give you Naked(TM) juice now when you donate at Roswell. (Or did, last year). I tried pretty hard to get in because my priorities are in the right place, of course and who in their right minds says no to Naked(TM) juice, right? But they point blank refused me because I didn't meet their weight criteria. :/

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/28/10 09:43 - 42ºF - ID#51285

from the rink

I need a button like this on my work computer:

Ready to roll:

- Z

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Words: 19
Location: Buffalo, NY

03/26/10 12:33 - ID#51271

jerzmati

This box of Rice-A-Roni was purchased [probably] in Jersey City some time after August 2001, and sat in a cupboard until January 2003. It was then moved to a different cupboard in Hastings-on-Hudson until almost exactly two years past its expiration date. At that point it was inexplicably moved to a third cupboard in Buffalo, where it sat until this evening.

I bought this box of Rice-A-Roni before I knew (e:dragonlady7). At the time, I slept on an air mattress, and most of my furniture was boxes I hadn't bothered to unpack. I drove a red 1992 GMC Jimmy with broken air conditioning and power windows. I ate more Chinese take-out than is advisable, from two restaurants: one had good food but crappy egg rolls; the other had good egg rolls but crappy everything else. I spent a lot of time wandering around lower Manhattan. I didn't know anyone in the area, so I was that weird guy who went to shows alone. My two favorite live bands were Cordero and Big Lazy, both of whom still seem to be active. I drank a lot of Skyy gimlets and the best ones were at Tonic, which is closed now, where they used fresh-squeezed lime juice.

When I bought this box of Rice-A-Roni, gas was $1.35 per gallon. Enron had yet to prove that the system works. The World Trade Center was still the easiest way to tell which way you were facing when you came out of the subway. The United States was not at war.

Goodbye, Chicken Teriyaki Rice-A-Roni. I knew the magic had gone from our relationship when I picked you up and a cloud of dust poofed out from the bottom. You may not be missed, but that is not because of any lingering animosity; it is because you are an eight-year-old box of Rice-A-Roni.

- Z

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/24/10 10:34 - 39ºF - ID#51262

ok i get it

The architecture of my office is nowhere near as awe-inspiring as the Roswell Park tuna can. But check out this sweet view from the corner office!

- Z

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Words: 30
Location: Buffalo, NY

03/23/10 10:36 - 36ºF - ID#51256

drainage situation at work

- Z

metalpeter writes at 05:57:09 03/24/10 - Comment #55486: Clash Of the Titans does look really good. hey if that grass is as crazy as it sounds maybe The Discory Channel could do a special on it.

tinypliny writes at 05:47:23 03/24/10 - Comment #55484: Bet it's an energy-conserving move-or-the-lights-go-out-automatically green building - yes?

jason writes at 02:26:22 03/24/10 - Comment #55479: Speaking of Kraken, I'm super geeked about the Clash of the Titans remake. So and so from Avatar is playing Perseus.

libertad writes at 01:28:52 03/24/10 - Comment #55474: I was also thinking all of the same things regarding this building, I just didn't want to say so.

jim writes at 01:24:03 03/24/10 - Comment #55473: It is always waterlogged and full of fowl (and kraken and sea serpents).

james writes at 10:42:54 03/24/10 - Comment #55472: Ugh. Not to mention that it is an ugly building surrounded by lawn that is constantly swampy. Plant some freakin' trees, would ya!

drew writes at 10:27:41 03/24/10 - Comment #55471: That is the most architecturally depressing structure ever built. It seems designed to kill your soul a little bit each time you look at it. The monster helps though.

james writes at 10:08:24 03/24/10 - Comment #55469: Thank god for touch typing.

jim writes at 10:00:03 03/24/10 - Comment #55467: That's where my face went :(

The blood constantly pooling in my uncovered eyes sockets prevented me from seeing you were the culprit.

zobar writes at 08:57:13 03/24/10 - Comment #55464: I also sit at his old desk and go to his meetings and pick up his paychecks and wear his face as a mask.

- Z

carolinian writes at 01:42:56 03/24/10 - Comment #55463: You and (e:jim) work in the same building.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/21/10 09:24 - 38ºF - ID#51241

z_bar

(e:zobar,51200)

- Z

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Words: 6
Location: Buffalo, NY

03/17/10 10:13 - 40ºF - ID#51211

buy this album now

Melo-M: 'Singalongs.'

'Take On Me:'

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

buy buy buy

LATVIA FUCK YEAH

- Z

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Words: 26
Location: Buffalo, NY

03/16/10 05:08 - 56ºF - ID#51200

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I don't know who these people are or where they get off putting my name on
their foolish granola bars. I categorically deny all involvement with this
product.

- Z

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I don't know who these people are or where they get off putting my name on their foolish granola bars. I categorically deny all involvement with this product.
- Z

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Words: 86
Location: Buffalo, NY

03/15/10 09:27 - 45ºF - ID#51196

bad scene

We had a few enormous geese take up residence in the fields around the office. Today I noticed they were all gone. I wonder what happened?

- Z

Permalink: bad_scene.html
Words: 30
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: awexome

03/11/10 09:03 - 47ºF - ID#51160

AXE COP

Write off the next ten months, I hereby declare AXE COP

to be the Best Thing of 2010.

It's written by a five-year-old and illustrated by his 29-year-old brother. I'm pretty sure something this nonsensical needs a special permit from the Pope to be this awesome.

- Z

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ps. Don't listen to your music library sorted ascending by track duration. Bad juju.
pps. Coffee Crisp

tastes like a doughnut, if a doughnut were a candy bar instead.