Happy birthday (e:matthew) - I hope that your 25th year is th best one ever. I will update this with pictures tonight.
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03/18/2006 13:10 #32528
Happy Birthday MatthewCategory: brithday
03/18/2006 13:08 #32527
Left BankCategory: food
Last night I went with (e:hodown), (e:lilho) and (e:terry) over to Left Bank for dinner. Unfortunately, (e:matthew) couldn't make it becaus ehe had to work. I felt bad because he has wanted to go there for so long.
Their food is seriously fancytastic but quite expensive. I would have to say it seemed worth it though. I don't know if I would have felt that way a year ago.
We started out with fried Calamari, fried Oysters, a salad and fried wanton combo and giant jumbo shrimp on top of artichoke bottoms.
For dinner (e:terry) had a giant ravioli cheese extravaganza, I had lamb stew with the softest yummiest lamb bits I have ever had, (e:hodown) had the most expensive thing on the menu: a really nice steak with jumbo shrimp on top, then covered in melted cheese. (e:lilho) had salmon.
I drank wine. The first cheaper wine actually tasted much better than the second round of more expensive wine.
I think it came to something like $150.00 plus a $45 tip. My phone battery was dead so i didn't get any photos, but I think hodown did. Unfortunately, she has one of those old fashioned non-digital cameras- so who knows if we will ever see those pics.
Their food is seriously fancytastic but quite expensive. I would have to say it seemed worth it though. I don't know if I would have felt that way a year ago.
We started out with fried Calamari, fried Oysters, a salad and fried wanton combo and giant jumbo shrimp on top of artichoke bottoms.
For dinner (e:terry) had a giant ravioli cheese extravaganza, I had lamb stew with the softest yummiest lamb bits I have ever had, (e:hodown) had the most expensive thing on the menu: a really nice steak with jumbo shrimp on top, then covered in melted cheese. (e:lilho) had salmon.
I drank wine. The first cheaper wine actually tasted much better than the second round of more expensive wine.
I think it came to something like $150.00 plus a $45 tip. My phone battery was dead so i didn't get any photos, but I think hodown did. Unfortunately, she has one of those old fashioned non-digital cameras- so who knows if we will ever see those pics.
03/17/2006 02:43 #32526
Busy DayCategory: estrip
Before I left work I connected my laptop to the internet via a USB cord and my phone. I actually get 2.3mbps. I love my phone.
Then I came home form work and met with (e:kara) about public relations and changing some stuff on the site. Some of it is big changes, some of it is little changes. First of all I fixed the inlink system so that it is as easy as the regular elinks. Hopefully, this will make connecting journal entries much easier which I think is an important thing to make easy as it makes reading and understanding the flow of jorunals much easier. I encourage you peeps to always link between your own and other epeeps directentries e.g. (e:news,782) instead of just (e:paul) You
basically just add a comma in between the username and the specific entry and it makes follwong a conversation a lot easier for readers. I will retrofit all of your old inlinks this weekend.
So bye bye, inlink chains. I feel free-er already. Here is what (e:kara) and I discussed.
goals:
more committed users - what make some ~100 user sign up but not write. What makes people tired of writing?
strategies to achieve this goal:
ongoing viral marketing projects; incentive programs (contests for new users, mobile users); signage in college residence halls and college newspapers.
Newbie Guide focusing on "what to do when you get to the (e:strip)" - publishing and chatting, to start.
- additional sections: why you should draw; why you should use epad; uploading media; using links, file sharing with gather, testmonials?
Promote Bonus Features: remember buffalo; gather; documeet; media library; sounds and music.
For Paul:
updating each user's profile page to be more free sort of like a mini myspace; converting the newbie email to plaintext from HTML to avoid email system inconsistences; popup messages should appear on the page as they are posted, not after a page reload - live private messenging; add a musical note icon to the "sound on";when "inlinking," change the code to be (e:paul,15); rewrite the categories using AJAX or pulling in the categories already used; make the "add a sketch" graphic say "(e:draw)" - something more explicit about drawing.
Explore options for partnerships with verizon, cingular, tmobile to promote mobile features.
Side Note:
I also "completed" my truly awesome web site maker today. Now you can include PHP or HTML/javascript snippets on a per page basis. So basically, it has the option to be parsed using estrip's textBling parser or to just use regular HTML, CSS, javascript, PHP markup. I may user part of the concept for the new profiles. I want some sort of drag and set layout for pictures music, text, etc.
Then I came home form work and met with (e:kara) about public relations and changing some stuff on the site. Some of it is big changes, some of it is little changes. First of all I fixed the inlink system so that it is as easy as the regular elinks. Hopefully, this will make connecting journal entries much easier which I think is an important thing to make easy as it makes reading and understanding the flow of jorunals much easier. I encourage you peeps to always link between your own and other epeeps directentries e.g. (e:news,782) instead of just (e:paul) You
basically just add a comma in between the username and the specific entry and it makes follwong a conversation a lot easier for readers. I will retrofit all of your old inlinks this weekend.
So bye bye, inlink chains. I feel free-er already. Here is what (e:kara) and I discussed.
goals:
more committed users - what make some ~100 user sign up but not write. What makes people tired of writing?
strategies to achieve this goal:
ongoing viral marketing projects; incentive programs (contests for new users, mobile users); signage in college residence halls and college newspapers.
Newbie Guide focusing on "what to do when you get to the (e:strip)" - publishing and chatting, to start.
- additional sections: why you should draw; why you should use epad; uploading media; using links, file sharing with gather, testmonials?
Promote Bonus Features: remember buffalo; gather; documeet; media library; sounds and music.
For Paul:
updating each user's profile page to be more free sort of like a mini myspace; converting the newbie email to plaintext from HTML to avoid email system inconsistences; popup messages should appear on the page as they are posted, not after a page reload - live private messenging; add a musical note icon to the "sound on";
Explore options for partnerships with verizon, cingular, tmobile to promote mobile features.
Side Note:
I also "completed" my truly awesome web site maker today. Now you can include PHP or HTML/javascript snippets on a per page basis. So basically, it has the option to be parsed using estrip's textBling parser or to just use regular HTML, CSS, javascript, PHP markup. I may user part of the concept for the new profiles. I want some sort of drag and set layout for pictures music, text, etc.
03/16/2006 09:45 #32525
Bye bye Buffalo CurrentCategory: buffalo
This is as farewell as it gets. Here is the truck picking up all the Buffalo Current boxes last night.
I wonder if I could get three of those. Does anyone know the people behind the Buffalo Current.
I wonder if I could get three of those. Does anyone know the people behind the Buffalo Current.
theecarey - 03/17/06 08:08
I only recently began seeing Buffalo Current in circulation. I would also find it in obscure locations.. like below the sales flyers at Rite Aid.
I only recently began seeing Buffalo Current in circulation. I would also find it in obscure locations.. like below the sales flyers at Rite Aid.
metalpeter - 03/16/06 18:38
Acording to the Buffalo news they went out of Business because they didn't get enough advertisers. One thing that seemed to hurt them I think is that they had all those purple Boxes. If they could have just been inside shops and boxes with artvoice I think it would have saved them money and got them more exposure.
Acording to the Buffalo news they went out of Business because they didn't get enough advertisers. One thing that seemed to hurt them I think is that they had all those purple Boxes. If they could have just been inside shops and boxes with artvoice I think it would have saved them money and got them more exposure.
dragonfire1024 - 03/16/06 17:50
word has it they were bought out by a corporation??
word has it they were bought out by a corporation??
imk2 - 03/16/06 11:40
i know of one, my coworker's friend. she will now be collecting unemployment
i know of one, my coworker's friend. she will now be collecting unemployment
03/16/2006 01:33 #32524
New GamePreview of a game I am working on, it loads new userpics each time.
metalpeter - 03/16/06 18:47
interesting I want to see what it is like when finished. Will it be a complement to hangman or will it replace it.
interesting I want to see what it is like when finished. Will it be a complement to hangman or will it replace it.
Mmm I love left bank...
I just went there thurs with ladycroft and my friend Erin and her brother... I didn't know you could get the full menu at the bar, but you can. I had the tuna tartare- it was awesome. I was sad when it was gone. Ladycroft had some good bruschetta and erin and brian had the fondue... And either the bartender liked us, or there was some fuckup, b/c somehow he charged us $55 for the three dishes and six drinks... Oh- and it turns into a dance club sat nights if you didn't know that. Laurens the bartender DJs.