The link there is to the full news article about myspace. It was more about the young kids who use it but still interesting I admit I like both it and (e:strip). I worte the guy an (e:mail) and let him know that I liked both here and myspace. Ihave no idea if he will check out this site out or not. The article seemed more like it was about parents knowing what there kids where doing and the things they would confess online. I havn't seen any articles there about (e:strip) there but they do talk about other blogs. So if you think you might be interested check it out. Metalpeter's Journal
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01/11/2006 19:35 #28272
Myspace articleCategory: news
The link there is to the full news article about myspace. It was more about the young kids who use it but still interesting I admit I like both it and (e:strip). I worte the guy an (e:mail) and let him know that I liked both here and myspace. Ihave no idea if he will check out this site out or not. The article seemed more like it was about parents knowing what there kids where doing and the things they would confess online. I havn't seen any articles there about (e:strip) there but they do talk about other blogs. So if you think you might be interested check it out. 01/10/2006 20:09 #28271
Up, Up, UpCategory: money
I can't belive stamps went up. For those of you that communcate through the web and pay all your bills on line then that is a nice savings but most people don't do both the minority of people pay at tops or through the internet. New york state sales tax just went up. So for those who get paid Minimum wage and just got a raise now how much of raise did you really get since the tax went up half a cent. It is like the Regal there prices sneak up every so often and you don't notice it untill you think back a couple years and compare prices. I saw Fun with dick and jane over the past weekend I enjoyed it. I had more of a point of how prices went up but lost it somewhare. On another note I thought Truffles where candy oh well little do I know.
01/09/2006 20:41 #28270
hockey NY Rollergirls tatsCategory: tv
Some random thoughts on various things to hit on. Firstly on the TV front. Starting Tuesday at 10pm New Episode of Miami Ink are on. I think it is an interesting show I saw the ad during one of the episodes I missed last season on a marathon last night (on A&E). I Posted about Rollergirls and today they had a good review of it in the Buffalo News. I thought it was a good discrtion of the show. I have seen a couple good reality shows lately One is MTV True life I'm a gun Owener very interesting. But the true life "Im moving to NY was also verry interesting. The price of rent is unbelivable. I also saw part two of Taxicab confessions NeW York New York. It was raunchy like it is sometimes but it was still entertaing.
The steelers and Redskins won over the weekend wich was awesome but the sabres lost oh well. I'm going to the game on thursday I'll be in the 300 level hopefully I will get some pics and post them then I'm going to the game on saturday as well. Both teams are from the west coast Phoenix and the KIngs will be fun if they can win both that would be awsome my sabres luck isn't the best. On Friday the Bandits (lacrosse) season starts they play in toronto. I don't know if the games are on the radio like they where last year. With Hockey and Football it will be a busy weekend. If I'm not around here I hope everyone has a great weekend. Oh yeah the Senecas are still in the news. I read some article about them moving along and calling in people to suggest designs for the casino don't remember the entire article from the news. I know I forgot something but don't really remember sith so many random thoughts. Of to catch the end of wife swap and then Wrestling to find out what happend at the PPV.
The steelers and Redskins won over the weekend wich was awesome but the sabres lost oh well. I'm going to the game on thursday I'll be in the 300 level hopefully I will get some pics and post them then I'm going to the game on saturday as well. Both teams are from the west coast Phoenix and the KIngs will be fun if they can win both that would be awsome my sabres luck isn't the best. On Friday the Bandits (lacrosse) season starts they play in toronto. I don't know if the games are on the radio like they where last year. With Hockey and Football it will be a busy weekend. If I'm not around here I hope everyone has a great weekend. Oh yeah the Senecas are still in the news. I read some article about them moving along and calling in people to suggest designs for the casino don't remember the entire article from the news. I know I forgot something but don't really remember sith so many random thoughts. Of to catch the end of wife swap and then Wrestling to find out what happend at the PPV.
01/08/2006 10:38 #28269
Expanding Airport/Attack on Buff NewsCategory: artvoice
There is an interesting article in artvoice it is the cover story and can be found at www.artvoice.com . For any one who is interested in reading it is right there at artvoices website. In a previous journal [inlink]metalpeter,460[/inlink] I posted a long artvoice article about the writers trip to china. Towards the end of the article the writer presents idea about how the NFTA should expand the Niagara falls airport and how they could get a ot of flights from other countries. He mentions that Buffalo or Niagara Falls (if don't count them as the same) is in a great cental area for people from other countires to go to boston, toronto, montreal and a bunch of other big cities. Recntly I have read a Buffalo news article where they bascily dismissed or said this idea was stupid (if I remember correctly). I wish I would have thought to post it at that time. I'm guessing by now it is archieved but not sure. In any event in the new artvoice article they attack the Buffalo News and even give some exmples of bad ideas the Buffalo News supported. There general point there was that since so many people read the news they helped push there idea on the people and the city of Buffalo. Not sure if I really agree with that or not but it is a good point. From what I have read on both sides I agree with artvoice (or the writer of the article). I can remember years ago when the Concord was the most famous plane but it couldn't land in Buffalo because the runway wasn't long enough. That is the advantage the NF airport has you can land huge planes there and form asia it takes just as long to fly to the east coast as it does west coast. That seems had to belive but I assume there facts are correct. I think that the steps taken to improve the airport and get international flights into Buffalo is a great idea. Do I think a China town will form like in the article, no but it would be possible I think just dismissing the idea is a bad idea. Don't be affrid to chime in, even if it is to say who gives a fuck.
theecarey - 01/08/06 16:15
Thanks for posting the information, both in support for and against. I am a big fan of getting as many pieces of the picture before coming to a conclusion, or to challenge my own conclusion.
Thanks for posting the information, both in support for and against. I am a big fan of getting as many pieces of the picture before coming to a conclusion, or to challenge my own conclusion.
metalpeter - 01/08/06 11:30
I found the article that I mentioned above at the Buffalo News site. As I expected it was in archives wich means it is no longer free. It was from Dec 27th I belive. But i did find an editoral that agrees with the news on there site. To be fare here is the other side of the arugment (if anyone cares).
Put Falls terminal on hold
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Without a sound market study, NFTA is flying blind at airport
1/2/2006
It's hard to imagine a more ill-considered decision than the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's push to spend $24 billion of hard-earned taxpayer dollars on a Niagara Falls airport terminal that shows every indication of getting somewhere between little or no use at all.
The NFTA has yet to do the needed comprehensive and objective marketing study that could make or break the case for a new terminal. Instead, it relies only on a "build it and they will come" plan. That's not enough for a major capital outlay in a region that has other pressing needs for public money.
We'd love to see a thriving new terminal, but the history of trying to make the Niagara Falls airport work is one of constant failure. Every such attempt by NFTA management has failed, and those failures have had little to do with having a new terminal. Not a single solid airline or charter service has been lined up. There is no cargo service carrier ready to sign, and if there were, a new terminal would not be necessary to do so. The potential interest in terminal usage that bolstered earlier support for this project simply has not been realized.
The NFTA's inability to turn those promises into realities leaves its commissioners, and any state or federal agency inclined to throw taxpayer dollars at this idea, with serious questions:
Are any bona fide, financially stable airlines signed up to use a new terminal?
Why hasn't the NFTA commissioned an objective and comprehensive marketing study?
Even if the project gets its hoped-for $13 million in casino slot-machine shared revenue, however unlikely, don't other Niagara projects need the money more?
Despite not making the list of projects proposed to voters before they ratified the recent $2.9 billion state transportation bond act, why is there optimism that bond money - or the larger but highly competitive $35.8 billion state transportation fund - can be tapped for this project now?
Why count on charters when, despite years of charter-flight discussion, the most active charter operator in Western New York left Niagara Falls years ago for the Buffalo airport and indicates no plans for returning?
Why count on Niagara's longer runways being able to handle jumbo charter jets, when no new charters of any size aircraft have been lured to the airport?
If the NFTA thinks it has a good idea, then it needs to go about proving it without adding another $23 million to the $1 million it already has spent on concept and design work. That added expense, so far unsupported by any real signings or market analysis, could threaten improvements at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, which already adequately serves this region including, only minutes farther than Buffalo, the tourist mecca of Niagara Falls.
It's time for Mary Martino, the acting head of the NFTA who wants to be permanently appointed, to put staff activity for this terminal on hold until she commissions a truly objective market study and NFTA management produces signed commitments from bona fide carriers that would make this project economically viable.
I found the article that I mentioned above at the Buffalo News site. As I expected it was in archives wich means it is no longer free. It was from Dec 27th I belive. But i did find an editoral that agrees with the news on there site. To be fare here is the other side of the arugment (if anyone cares).
Put Falls terminal on hold
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Without a sound market study, NFTA is flying blind at airport
1/2/2006
It's hard to imagine a more ill-considered decision than the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's push to spend $24 billion of hard-earned taxpayer dollars on a Niagara Falls airport terminal that shows every indication of getting somewhere between little or no use at all.
The NFTA has yet to do the needed comprehensive and objective marketing study that could make or break the case for a new terminal. Instead, it relies only on a "build it and they will come" plan. That's not enough for a major capital outlay in a region that has other pressing needs for public money.
We'd love to see a thriving new terminal, but the history of trying to make the Niagara Falls airport work is one of constant failure. Every such attempt by NFTA management has failed, and those failures have had little to do with having a new terminal. Not a single solid airline or charter service has been lined up. There is no cargo service carrier ready to sign, and if there were, a new terminal would not be necessary to do so. The potential interest in terminal usage that bolstered earlier support for this project simply has not been realized.
The NFTA's inability to turn those promises into realities leaves its commissioners, and any state or federal agency inclined to throw taxpayer dollars at this idea, with serious questions:
Are any bona fide, financially stable airlines signed up to use a new terminal?
Why hasn't the NFTA commissioned an objective and comprehensive marketing study?
Even if the project gets its hoped-for $13 million in casino slot-machine shared revenue, however unlikely, don't other Niagara projects need the money more?
Despite not making the list of projects proposed to voters before they ratified the recent $2.9 billion state transportation bond act, why is there optimism that bond money - or the larger but highly competitive $35.8 billion state transportation fund - can be tapped for this project now?
Why count on charters when, despite years of charter-flight discussion, the most active charter operator in Western New York left Niagara Falls years ago for the Buffalo airport and indicates no plans for returning?
Why count on Niagara's longer runways being able to handle jumbo charter jets, when no new charters of any size aircraft have been lured to the airport?
If the NFTA thinks it has a good idea, then it needs to go about proving it without adding another $23 million to the $1 million it already has spent on concept and design work. That added expense, so far unsupported by any real signings or market analysis, could threaten improvements at the Buffalo Niagara International Airport, which already adequately serves this region including, only minutes farther than Buffalo, the tourist mecca of Niagara Falls.
It's time for Mary Martino, the acting head of the NFTA who wants to be permanently appointed, to put staff activity for this terminal on hold until she commissions a truly objective market study and NFTA management produces signed commitments from bona fide carriers that would make this project economically viable.
01/07/2006 16:55 #28268
HushCategory: advertising
I hope to talk more about advertisng soon. But for right now I will start with one distrubing add for a place called HUSH. there is a new Lunge in Casino Niaigara called Hush. I don't know if it is supposed to be a gay club or gay friendly club. If it isn't then they sure picked a bad model. I can't tell if it is girl or a guy. I don't have any problems with guys who look like girls or vice versa, or gays or transexuals. But that being said I don't understand how that ad could be aimed at stright guys and girls. To me it seems as if they are trying to sell androgeny wich is fine. But I have a fealling that, that was not the attempt. Hopefully I can do a little more reaserch and get more answers. I don't even have time to rant about that creepy burger king who wakes up next to the guy in bed but maybe that will be my next post who knows. Go Redskins, Go Sabres I'm off to watch sports and see if I see any other weird adds. [bgcolor]#ffeef3[/bgcolor]
metalpeter - 01/08/06 09:56
The king in the old days was a good Character. But he has the scary plastic head. In the first add you could tell his hands where hairy and he had on gold rings. The newer ads arn't as creppy but looking in through the guys window. I prefer burger king food but they need to get rid of this new guy and let go of the crepy ads.
The king in the old days was a good Character. But he has the scary plastic head. In the first add you could tell his hands where hairy and he had on gold rings. The newer ads arn't as creppy but looking in through the guys window. I prefer burger king food but they need to get rid of this new guy and let go of the crepy ads.
imk2 - 01/08/06 02:46
omg! i know! that burger king guy totaly creeps me out! and his voice? i can't take it.
omg! i know! that burger king guy totaly creeps me out! and his voice? i can't take it.
Ajay you make a good point about USPS. It is nice that the postal workers are given a good paycheck and are federal employes. I was just making the point of everything costing more. Great storry about the candians that was funny.
Well, you can't blame the USPS. Imagine their gas costs (they operate the largest fleet of vehicles in the country, I think).
I still think 39 cents is a bargain for the fact that you can send a letter from Bangor (ME) to Barrow (AK) and have it delivered by hand. The postal rates in the US are far below the rates in the rest of the Industrialized world.
Consider, for example, Canada. I read about a business that had office in Vancouver and Toronto; and it was cheaper _and_ quicker for them to drive over to the US, mail their letters from here to Seattle, and have someone come down and pick them up (and vice versa).
indeed, truffles are a type of chocolate. it also shares its name with a rare fungi. i could have chosen to be more clear that i was speaking of the latter :)