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11/06/2005 13:33 #32330

Sorry Mike
Category: appologies
(e:mike), I am so sorry I had no idea that you had to drive (e:ladycroft) to Hamburg or I would have never volunteered you as you had to work at 8am. I thought she just had to get back to Canisius - I guess I didn't pay enough attention to the situation.
mike - 11/07/05 00:30
Don't worry about it! I'm totally over it! I hope my camera survived the trip to the haunted cemetery!
ladycroft - 11/06/05 15:11
OH NO!!! Is he mad!??? Oh gosh, I feel horrible! I'm sorry Mike!!!

11/05/2005 22:17 #32329

Painting With Light
Category: art
I decided to take advantage of the slow shutter speed on my phone and captured some nice paintings of evening in the City. It is exciting to strip a picture of its meaning.

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I also got one of (e:lilho) trapped behind some glass. She looks like freedom [inlink]paul,3700[/inlink]

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11/05/2005 00:10 #32328

My dream Automobile
Category: transportation
So I have been thinking a lot about how I don't need 3,000 lbs of steel to propel my less than 200 body to work only about 10 blocks away. It's actually totally ridiculous seeing as I could get there on way less energy. I want an elecrtic mini car contraption thing. Toyota is coming out with these i-unit mobile things. I want to build one. I think it may turn into a hobby.

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Here is a review

Here is a review on gizmodo

and one on greencarcongress

This one hold two people
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Or this for a more vanilla look
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These ones have a dealer in toronto and a video

Enviromotive Inc.
Mr. Monty Gisborne
9 Codeco Court
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3A 1A1
Phone: (416) 432-7067
Email: emotive@sympatico.ca

Electric Transport.net

I could drive to work in a peapod
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They have a company that actually sells mini electric vehicles in India called the reva, but how do I get one here?


WHy are some companies crunching them up?

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paul - 05/25/08 12:05
I still want this peapod car.
metalpeter - 11/05/05 16:17
Interesting cars I must say. I have seen a few electric cars that look more like golf carts around Grant Amherst. Maybe it was the same one multiple times. Hopefully some people start buying these and maybe it will spread from there. Those Toyota ones look like something from Anime or scince fiction movies, or maybe it is just the glasses and the funny outfits, but interesting anyways.

11/04/2005 17:15 #32327

Forest Lawn Cemetary With Matt and Katie
Category: nature
I went over to Forest Lawn Cemetery with (e:Matthew) so he could take pictures for his journal [inlink]matthew,662[/inlink]. While we were there Katie found us at the Lake.

I cannot believe how many pictures my phones holds. At 640x480 resolution, it can hold 11666 pics. At 1152x768 it can hold 2,400 pics. That seems amazing and the quality is not too shabby. I still am ready to trad eit in for one with a keyboard. Maybe not trade but I wouldn't mind having a second phone with a keyboard. I could just share one account.

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This person is from Maine but they love Buffalo. I thought that it was a nice shoutout for our home city.

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A lot of the trip looked like this because I kept driving to new places to chase the sun.
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Here I am with the Nokia

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11/04/2005 12:44 #32326

New Job
Category: work
So as some of you probably remember I was so stressed out when I found out that Erik, the new Prof at Canisius, did not have his MFA, something that I was told was a pre-requisite for the job and I spent tens of thousands of dollars and 3 years working non-stop on at their request. When he told me he didn't have one, I was seriously blown away as it seems like every school in the country expects an MFA for any art teacher. Either an MFA or a PHD. I guess Canisius doesn't have very high education standards, they care more about business. I suppose that should have been obvious considering the blunder with Mr. Wolfe a couple years back. He seriously had no idea what he was talking about. THere was even a point when students filed a petition to have him removed.

The final straw was at the faculty meeting last week when the new fantasy full time lab director position got pushed back from spring 2006 to fall 2006. It really made me lose hope. I mean I gave them five years of my all and I just wanted a full-time job with health insurance. Considering that education cost about ~30,000 a year for full tuition/dorm students I can't believe that they are too poor.

Reading my journal about the sadness concerning the sitution [inlink]paul,3909[/inlink] prompted (e:nicholas) to bring me a newpaper clipping with jobs [inlink]paul,3910[/inlink] , which lead to the interview, which lead to the job. Thank you nick, you will have a special place in my world forever.

So this is the message I was talking about getting last night on my previous entry [inlink]paul,3959[/inlink].

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::



I barely slept last night because it was all I could think about. When I woke up at 9am, which I better get used to fast, I called and found out I did in fact get the job. I am so excited because the job itself sounds really fun, not to mention that it pays really well and includes health insurance, which everyone knows was my pre-requisite for a job.

Thanks (e:ajay) and George Johnson for writing me recommendation letter although (e:ajay), yours never arrived according to Roswell.

Now (e:strip) and rememberbuffalo can finally have there own server!
boxerboi - 11/05/05 12:31
Hey Paul!

Congratulations on the job!!! That is fucking awesome! I'm so glad you are out of Canisius. Good Luck!

:o) Matt
boxerboi - 11/05/05 12:31
Hey Paul!

Congratulations on the job!!! That is fucking awesome! I'm so glad you are out of Canisius. Good Luck!

:o) Matt
theecarey - 11/05/05 12:21
Congrats! This is great news! Lookin' forward to the tales of this new adventure..
robin - 11/05/05 03:52
Hurray! Time for a new Rocking chair for Matthew.
maureen - 11/05/05 00:13
Congrats, Paul! I'm sure you will dazzle them at your new job :)
ajay - 11/04/05 23:58
What?? I emailed them the letter of reccomendation! I didn't get a bounced email back, so I assumed it went through.

This is so typical Roswell. I'm very happy for you, (e:Paul), but that is one seriously screwed up organization.
jessbob - 11/04/05 18:12
congrats
uncutsaniflush - 11/04/05 16:20
Congrats Paul.

(e:leetee) and I are both very happy for you. In fact, she jumped up and down and clapped and yelled "yay! paul!!"

I hope your new job is everything you want it to be and even more.
buffalopundit - 11/04/05 16:14
Congratulations, Paul.
alison - 11/04/05 15:10
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


this makes me believe that there is still good in the world.
you so deserve this!
love, alison.
matthew - 11/04/05 14:54
Congratulations Paul! I'm proud of you! although cancer doctors are evil, they're probably less evil to work for than Christians. Maybe i can finally pay back some of that $80,000 i(we) owe Roswell. :)
iriesara - 11/04/05 13:59
Congratulations Paulo! That's awesome!