The last two days I walked to work because (e:terry) had to tak ethe car at 7am. It's probabaly why I got sick but it was a nice glimpse of what it will be like when the warm weather comes and I can walk to work everyday.



According to my coworkers, it is fucking freezing in ur office during the summer. In fact my boss kleeps an extra jacket in his office for the summer. It's a little ridiculous because right now it is about 90 degrees in the office and on one side they have giant tubes that pump cold air in during the winter so we don't overheat too much. There is something to be said for efficiency. It actually freaks me out that the building I am in is where a lot fo the cancer research - sort of the forefront of science - yet they cannot figure out the enviornmental control systems. I know, it's not the same scientisist but it is the same organization.

I hope the new building we are moving to soon, doesn't have the same environmental problems. There is nothing I hate more than being freezing in the summer.

I took this picture and afterwards realized it looked like I was worshipping my phone.


The good news is I found out that my superphone is the only one sprint does not charge for tethering with. Happy tethering to me.

I really need to cut my hair off. I wish it would just warm up before the buzzcut. I cannot believe it just does this naturally. I haven't used a styling product since the 90s. I guess that is self evident.

I am really sick right now. I caught whatever (e:matthew) has and I just wanted to go to bed. I think I may be to sick for work tomorrow. Anyhow - I was programming this file sharing app at work today and when I got home I thought, hey, this could really work for the epeeps to let the share files with other peeps. The application is called gather and there is a link to it about the hangman game when you are logged in. You basically just upload files and oit gives you a secret url where other peeps or yourself can grab the file from later. You can even set the files to expire. Only logge din peeps can pick up and drop off files.

When I went to go upload the Little Link button to it, I accidentally erased the old chat. This left me in an awkward situations because ethe new chat had already been programmed for the geek meet but I didn't really feel like integrating it at 2am. I had no choice at this point because the old chat system would have also taken some work to get it back.

I think you will appreciate ethe new chat a lot more. I need to fix some media stuff up but generally it is much faster.

[size=m]New chat features/changes[/size]
1. The input box only shows up when logged in. When not logged in the chat refreshes every 10 seconds.
2. When logged in it refreshes near instantaneously, even more realtime than before.
3. The sound system has been completely redone using flash instead of quicktime. This makes the system more reliable but also ups the number of people with the plugin. Best of all it doesn't do that stupid window pop forward thing that eveyrone was bitching about. Blame apple, they started it.
4. The new chat is a complete rewrite of the system from the ground up. It is now an xhtml ordered list that uses DOM manipulation to insert nodes at the top. The only thing I am using innerHTML for right now is to post parse out the silly words and links.
5. The new version no longer uses MySQL but is based on SQLite and PDO.

The next thing to get upgraded is the text editor. Maybe even tomorrow. The code has also been rewritten from the ground up as is much more extensible so that we can add new features easily to the editor.

Then last the media library need some fanciness.

So I decided I am done thinking about the hotel. I really don't care now that home of the hits is included in the future of elmwood. It is a waste of my time when I should be spending it on other stuff like buying a house, finishing rememberbuffalo.org before none of the original buffalo is left and working out.

I am so torn between buffalo and one hundred other cities where I could make twice as much money. I will probably end up staying here out of pure laziness. I am so motivated when it comes to programming but so unmotivated when it comes to picking out a house or say finsihing my thesis which is now screaming - LEAVE OF ABSENSE.

Technically, I already own one big house but it is on Prospect near D'Youville and honestly that part of Buffalo is just not part of my immediate future. Sure, it is improving and someday will be great but not great enough for me to live there and not great enough ever in my lifetime. When am I going to put down this freakin laptop and buy a house. House, house, house, now.

One think I have remained commmitted to besides programming is going to the gym. I have managed to continue to going three times a week. The hardest part is eating all the freakin' food but soon I will be seriously tough. Then instead of debating stuff I am just going to kick everyone's ass.



I looked up our current residence at the historical society and it seems like our landlord paid $26,000 for this house in 1986. Now it costs around $200,000. Should I buy a house like this now - will it keep going up - or is it going to crash?

So those of you that are confused about the location. You can fly around it with microsoft Local Live Here is the direct location.

The actual location is on the corner there. I marked the atwater house. It is so cute, I wish I owned it. I remember they used to have the best stciky buns there.

I never said I was for the Hotel [inlink]dragonfire1024,16[/inlink]. Apparently, I am part of a radical anti-progress fringe group. Having grown up along the various parts of elmwood I have to say that this along with the coop's box and the giant box house store extravaganza across the street from the coop are really changing the atmosphere of the elmwood strip. How many of you residents actually go to Abrahams Jewlers? Ok now compare that to how many of you went to Home or the Hits, Mondo Video, or Don Apparel?

For all you people that keep complaining about the condition of those houses, you cannot overlook that person who wants to have the hotel built is the one who owns them. He also tried to build a walgreens there in the past. It's just like complaining that the Atwater house in in bad condition so they should let Pano tear it down, even though Pano owns it and let it get really run down.

I am totally anti-progress and anti-change - at least in the direction it is going. Just as the coop ripped down and put up their box, and the hotel will do the same, what is going to stop a walmart or a rite aid?

Speaking of which, if we could bring in some bigger chain stores like have in other urban cities, we would be set with the mall. Maybe a gap, how about a banana republic, a rainforest cafe, a glass ceiling and oh ya security guards to keep it "safe" and drug free. What about a foodcourt? It would definately need a McDonalds in it, but not just any McDonalds - a fancy upscale appearing McDonalds that appear to be "elmwoodfied" would be required. Maybe they should dhave a thing that the workers need to appear urban too.

Just as I said before with the coop it is setting up an example for the tear down and suburbanize policy.

Pretty soon, it is going to be too upscale for all the people that made it elmwood the place it is and become a lot more like a fancy mall with upscale stores.

My question is why does elmwood need to be upscale to attract tourists? The whole Ithaca outdoor mall/ elmwood reality is coming true and once it's complete I am moving to Williamsville. I really want a place by glen falls. How about Williamville.com? I mean by the time I decide to purchase a house in my newly gentrified neighborhood it will cost about $300,000 anyways. Already so many houses are hitting the $200,000 mark in the area all around the coop.