NEW YORK - New York officials on Wednesday unveiled a new plan for the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero, saying the 1,776-foot-tall skyscraper had been redesigned to meet security concerns and would be even more elegant than originally envisioned.

Police had refused to sign off on the building's design two months ago, voicing concerns that its base was too close to the sidewalk and could not be adequately protected against a truck bomb attack.

Because of the changes, the 20-ton granite cornerstone that was laid with great fanfare by New York Gov. George Pataki last Fourth of July will have to be moved.

Quoted from: HoustonChronicle.com - Freedom Tower design tweaked for security

That thing is so gonna get blown up. I hate to sound callous but if anyone dies it in, I honestly won't even feel bad for them - unless it is (e:hodown) and even then it will only last about 5 minutes. After the original towers were bombed and then blown up, who would ever set foot in the new even more groteque "freedom tower." It's just screaming bring me down. I can almost here George Bush's texas twang when I say freedom in my head now. That word has become so perverted at this point.

Here is Jabe Pond. i will be there if anyone needs me, haha. However, you will need hiking boots and a canoe.



I stole this pic from somehwere on the web. I wish I could give credit but I lost the link if anyone knows where it came from IM me.

I am getting ready for camping today. We are going to the adirondacks starting tomorrow and lasting for a week. We will be really far away from people. The campsite is on an island in the middle of a lake on state land. You have to get their by canoe. It is pretty much in the middle of nowhere. It's a really bad time for me to go with the thesis and evrything but it won't be summer for long and I should take advantage of it. (e:mike) will be staying at the mansion.

(e:shawnr) tried to get me to put google ads on the site. I tried it for a bit with the ads above the banner when I was logged in. The idea would be that the ads would be there unless you were logged in. I gave it about five minutes and started to feel sick. I mean it was like this sick capitalist satanic mark across the top of my otherwise happy place.

Then I found this quote someone wrote on another blog where there were google ads

Just as disheartening as when professional hockey replaced the bare white boards with banner ads.

The "in your face" money-grab commercialization has spread far and wide. Perhaps it is the new reality, but nontheless, a sad one, faced every day by us all, everywhere. And, I think it has conditioned us to develop personal filtering systems that require "shock and awe" to penetrate. All this pushes the envelope of what is acceptable in advertising...which in many cases results in nothing more then an exercise in bad taste.
lwist : oh. well, that's a good reason

That was the end of that. I removed the google ads. I would rather work to pay for the site myself than to see it look all commercial. The ads arn't very well targeted either. Each one of mine was about magic and magic shows. I never write about magic and don't have nay magic links.

For those of you that have never been there the Italian grocery store named Guercios at the corner of Grant and Lafayette is by far one of Buffalo's finest food treasures. They have the freshest produce at the best prices. Even cherries were reasonably priced. For some reason they were so freakin' expensive everywhere else. I bought lots of tasty italian treats at the most reasonable prices. Parking on grant is a little tricky, but you can easily park in the church lot across the street.





The other day I saw this pic for a party at a place called the Warehaus. It was back in May. Does anyone know anything about hits place, or did anyone go to this party?

I deleted just about everyone who signed up over a couple months ago and had zero entries. It was time that I cut back the fat from the database and they were ready to go at this point. It was hard to decide on for a lot of them because I will always wonder wonder happend. Did they have some simple technical difficulty that I could have helped them with. Was it the community itself? Did they join myspace or livejournal, as was the case with most of the ones I talked too. A lot of people said they were pressured to join by their professor at UB and that they stopped as soon as they were no longer ebing graded. That seemed really sad and never what I intended. I hate to think anyone thought they were required to keep a journal as a chore.

So now we are back down to a reasonable 181 users with 166 that have already written. This is good. We now are ready for new people and a fresh start. The caching system should help with speed, and soon enough - most likely by fall - I will have a much bigger server solution.