We went on the garden walk, see (e:matthew,761) for better pics.
My favorite gardens were the ones in the West Village which is kind of at the end of Prospect near downtown.
The ice cream truck was there the whole time.
Afterwards we hid out at Globe Market
This guy must be so warm with so many dreads
Has anyone ever eaten these chocolates. Lemon Pepper Chocolate?
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07/30/2006 17:28 #32710
Garden Walk DayCategory: buffalo
07/30/2006 13:37 #32709
Clean ShavenCategory: body
(E:terry) asked if I would shave my mustache for once so I decided to try it out. Then I was like, what does my cin look like? I mean I don't think I saw it since I was 17. Maybe once, so I ended up shaving my whole face and then I was like, why not just freakin' shave my head.
So here I am, as close to Mr. Clean as I am ever gonna get.
So here I am, as close to Mr. Clean as I am ever gonna get.
rzoo - 08/01/06 00:36
Looks nice.
Looks nice.
07/28/2006 18:34 #32706
Harris Beach = Bad Service for MeCategory: housing
I am so dissatisfied with our lawyer at Harris Beach . She never gets back to me and never answer the questions I have. There page looks all flashy and their office is nice but pretty much I have never gotten a real lawyer, just a paralegal, and one who seems always too busy for me to inconvenience her into doing her job. If we weren't on such a stringent timeline i would just pay them off and get a new lawyer.
TUES - LAWYER NOT AT THE OFFICE
We talk to the seller asking for a final closing date after they missed the July 11th one and are now talking about missing the Aug 1st one. Seller flips out and decides to not talk with us anymore.
WED morning - Talk to the lawyer
She says she is nervous because she still hasn't received the search which she expected weeks ago and asks me to tell her ASAP if she wants me to declare time is of the essence.
WED 4:28PM LAWYER TO ME
Hey, just got the search we are getting closer..
WED 4:35 PM ME TO LAWYER
Jacky,
Are we in a position to cancel the deal at this point? What are the legal rammifications for that?
If it cannot be done sooner, go ahead and give a time is of the essence for aug 8th. I don't understand why we would have to wait until the 8th with Time is of the Essence. Could you not issue it now since we were supposed to close on July 11th? I did not officially agree to even Aug 1st, he just sort of demanded it as a date when he could move out by, the same way he said Aug 4th now.
This is so totally frustrating because he is not talking with us since his bizarre freakout yesterday, which it makes it impossible to find out any information from now on.
Perhaps, we should schedule a meeting with attorneys present? Does that seem appropriate?
Thank for your time,
Paul
WED 4:37 ME TO LAWYER
I'm sorry , I think our emails crossed. As soon as I sent mine I saw yours. That is good news. What does it mean exactly?
THURS 3:35PM ME TO LAWYER - with a multitude of calls in between that all ended up at voicemail
How will we go about finding out when he expects to close? Is he saying he 4th now, or is it still up in the air. Is there anything else that you need from either party in order to close besides the date?
Thanks for your time,
Paul Visco
FRI - Morning till about 1PM. I call, I call, I call, finally I get through to her, she picks up the phone and says, "I am really busy right now I am going to have to call you back."
No Call Back.
FRIDAY 6PM
Jacqueline,
I realize you are a busy woman, but I would appreciate a return message as I have been trying to contact you since wednesday - and at this point and now it is already the weekend.
I would also appreciate an answer to the questions I asked you on wednesday.
1. What is the situation now that we have the search?
2. Do we need any other documentation from either party, or at this point are we just waiting on him to move out?
3. Is the closing date Aug 4th? How do we find out when the closing date will be without him talking to us?
4. Do we need to schedule a meeting with our attorney's present.
Paul Visco
TUES - LAWYER NOT AT THE OFFICE
We talk to the seller asking for a final closing date after they missed the July 11th one and are now talking about missing the Aug 1st one. Seller flips out and decides to not talk with us anymore.
WED morning - Talk to the lawyer
She says she is nervous because she still hasn't received the search which she expected weeks ago and asks me to tell her ASAP if she wants me to declare time is of the essence.
WED 4:28PM LAWYER TO ME
Hey, just got the search we are getting closer..
WED 4:35 PM ME TO LAWYER
Jacky,
Are we in a position to cancel the deal at this point? What are the legal rammifications for that?
If it cannot be done sooner, go ahead and give a time is of the essence for aug 8th. I don't understand why we would have to wait until the 8th with Time is of the Essence. Could you not issue it now since we were supposed to close on July 11th? I did not officially agree to even Aug 1st, he just sort of demanded it as a date when he could move out by, the same way he said Aug 4th now.
This is so totally frustrating because he is not talking with us since his bizarre freakout yesterday, which it makes it impossible to find out any information from now on.
Perhaps, we should schedule a meeting with attorneys present? Does that seem appropriate?
Thank for your time,
Paul
WED 4:37 ME TO LAWYER
I'm sorry , I think our emails crossed. As soon as I sent mine I saw yours. That is good news. What does it mean exactly?
THURS 3:35PM ME TO LAWYER - with a multitude of calls in between that all ended up at voicemail
How will we go about finding out when he expects to close? Is he saying he 4th now, or is it still up in the air. Is there anything else that you need from either party in order to close besides the date?
Thanks for your time,
Paul Visco
FRI - Morning till about 1PM. I call, I call, I call, finally I get through to her, she picks up the phone and says, "I am really busy right now I am going to have to call you back."
No Call Back.
FRIDAY 6PM
Jacqueline,
I realize you are a busy woman, but I would appreciate a return message as I have been trying to contact you since wednesday - and at this point and now it is already the weekend.
I would also appreciate an answer to the questions I asked you on wednesday.
1. What is the situation now that we have the search?
2. Do we need any other documentation from either party, or at this point are we just waiting on him to move out?
3. Is the closing date Aug 4th? How do we find out when the closing date will be without him talking to us?
4. Do we need to schedule a meeting with our attorney's present.
Paul Visco
07/29/2006 11:41 #32708
Robot Eating Candid Frat BoysCategory: web
I like to make robots that do random tedious tasks for me. to It's a great way to feel in control of your life. Sometime they are really complicated to build because of the security and protections that people create to make Mr. Robot have a hard time eating his web food. This one was really easy to make. In fact I included to source code minus the gallery URL so that you can see how it works.
This journal includes random male nudity provided by the internet, so just stop now if you are someone or somewhere that should not be/does not want to be involved in that.
Someone left 217 galleries (11,379 images) of mobile phone/candid pictures of men at frat hazing, in speedos, drunk out of their minds, at the lockeroom, at the nude beach, mooning, showing off, playing sports, camping, in a sauna, at mardi gras, peeing on the street, at stag parties, in amsterdam, etc available for Mr. FratBot to eat.
It's almost what you would consider "guys gone wild." But frankly, more it's also kind of "guys gone normal" because it is a lot more "normal" for guys to do get crazy than girls.
I decided to include Mr. robots guts here in case it helps anyone else out getting started building their own robots. Of course robots do not need to only eat scandalous picture, you can try applying this to some ordinary web tasks as well.
I a removing the actual URL of the gallery to prevent them from getting hit too many times. If you really need it, you could always email me.
I can translate the code for you a bit into english. It says, "Don't worry - I am someone using Internet Explorer not a robot. I a just going to loop through your overly simplex file structure and eat every image that you site has. Mr. Robot eats.
Don't scroll past the code box if you don't want to see a sample of the robots collection.
[box]
<?php
echo "starting...".date('m/d/y h:i:s')."n";
ini_set('max_execution_time',-1);
class eatFratBoys{
public $baseUrl = 'http://OMMITTED_FOR_THEIR_SAKE';
public $serial=0;
public $begin_gallery=1;
public $end_gallery=217;
public $current_image;
public $opts;
public $context;
public $debug =0;
public $directory ="pics0";
function __construct(){
$this->serial = count(glob($this->directory."/*.jpg"));
echo date('m/d/y h:i:s');
$this->time_start = microtime(true);
$this->opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET",
'header'=>"Accept-language: enrn" .
"User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)rn"
)
);
$this->context = stream_context_create($this->opts);
for($this->current_gallery=$this->begin_gallery;$this->current_gallery<=$this->end_gallery;$this->current_gallery++){
echo $this->current_gallery;
$this->eatImages();
}
}
function eatImages(){
for($this->current_image=1;$this->current_image<60;$this->current_image++){
$pic = $this->baseUrl.'/'.$this->current_gallery.'/pic/'.sprintf("%02d", $this->current_image).'.jpg';
if (($fp = fopen($pic, "r", false, $this->context))) {
$meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
if($this->debug==1){
print_r($meta);
}
if($meta['wrapper_data'][8] == "Content-Type: image/jpeg"){
$this->savePic($pic);
}
} else {
echo "nError loading image:".$pic;
}
}
}
function savePic($pic){
if(!is_dir($this->directory)){
mkdir($this->directory);
}
file_put_contents($this->directory."/".$this->serial.".jpg", file_get_contents($pic));
$report = "n".$this->current_gallery.",".$this->current_image;
file_put_contents("report.txt", $report, FILE_APPEND);
echo $report;
$this->serial++;
}
function __destruct(){
echo "nending...".date('m/d/y h:i:s')."n";
$total_time = (microtime(true)-$this->time_start);
echo "nTook a total of ".$total_time.' seconds';
}
}
$grabImages = new eatFratBoys();
?>
[/box]
I'll add comentary for fun.
Who had the camera in this place whatever it is?
Artistic Takes
Of course there were hundreds of at the computer with web cam pics. I wonder if this guy even knew anyone was recording his web cam.
Lots of farting on drunk guys heads. I am glad I never get this drunk, but (e:terry) does and I have an idea for next time now, lol.
Just when you think no one saw it.
Random crowd pics.
Random sporting feats.
Of course lots and lots of mardi gras.
Enough mooning pics to make a werewolf howl, lol. This one seems particularly and outrageously dangerous.
What do you think the story behind this one is?
Are they fighting or is it some frat initiation game.
Fuck waiting in line.
Now peeing in a line, thats another story. There are about 150 of those.
Even sadam gets peed on.
Is this what the pro lockeroom is like. I suppose those sportscaster ladies have it good.
Isn't that a foul of some sort?
What can this be about besides being drunk.
Go team, there are so many of these that I wonder if it is normal.
Lots of dorm room craziness
And lots of showing boners hidden behind clothes.
There were lots of automobile pics. I picked the silliest ones to share. But there were hundreds of just like random dude, proud of his car/body.
And from the nascar collection
Mac, making you hard, mile after mile, haha.
I think this one is the funiest of all. They look so scary and mean but then together they look like stuffed animals. Does the bulldozer do something for soeone, because there were lots of men on bulldozer pics?
You don't get to see any of the more hardcore ones, sorry.
This journal includes random male nudity provided by the internet, so just stop now if you are someone or somewhere that should not be/does not want to be involved in that.
Someone left 217 galleries (11,379 images) of mobile phone/candid pictures of men at frat hazing, in speedos, drunk out of their minds, at the lockeroom, at the nude beach, mooning, showing off, playing sports, camping, in a sauna, at mardi gras, peeing on the street, at stag parties, in amsterdam, etc available for Mr. FratBot to eat.
It's almost what you would consider "guys gone wild." But frankly, more it's also kind of "guys gone normal" because it is a lot more "normal" for guys to do get crazy than girls.
I decided to include Mr. robots guts here in case it helps anyone else out getting started building their own robots. Of course robots do not need to only eat scandalous picture, you can try applying this to some ordinary web tasks as well.
I a removing the actual URL of the gallery to prevent them from getting hit too many times. If you really need it, you could always email me.
I can translate the code for you a bit into english. It says, "Don't worry - I am someone using Internet Explorer not a robot. I a just going to loop through your overly simplex file structure and eat every image that you site has. Mr. Robot eats.
Don't scroll past the code box if you don't want to see a sample of the robots collection.
[box]
<?php
echo "starting...".date('m/d/y h:i:s')."n";
ini_set('max_execution_time',-1);
class eatFratBoys{
public $baseUrl = 'http://OMMITTED_FOR_THEIR_SAKE';
public $serial=0;
public $begin_gallery=1;
public $end_gallery=217;
public $current_image;
public $opts;
public $context;
public $debug =0;
public $directory ="pics0";
function __construct(){
$this->serial = count(glob($this->directory."/*.jpg"));
echo date('m/d/y h:i:s');
$this->time_start = microtime(true);
$this->opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET",
'header'=>"Accept-language: enrn" .
"User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)rn"
)
);
$this->context = stream_context_create($this->opts);
for($this->current_gallery=$this->begin_gallery;$this->current_gallery<=$this->end_gallery;$this->current_gallery++){
echo $this->current_gallery;
$this->eatImages();
}
}
function eatImages(){
for($this->current_image=1;$this->current_image<60;$this->current_image++){
$pic = $this->baseUrl.'/'.$this->current_gallery.'/pic/'.sprintf("%02d", $this->current_image).'.jpg';
if (($fp = fopen($pic, "r", false, $this->context))) {
$meta = stream_get_meta_data($fp);
if($this->debug==1){
print_r($meta);
}
if($meta['wrapper_data'][8] == "Content-Type: image/jpeg"){
$this->savePic($pic);
}
} else {
echo "nError loading image:".$pic;
}
}
}
function savePic($pic){
if(!is_dir($this->directory)){
mkdir($this->directory);
}
file_put_contents($this->directory."/".$this->serial.".jpg", file_get_contents($pic));
$report = "n".$this->current_gallery.",".$this->current_image;
file_put_contents("report.txt", $report, FILE_APPEND);
echo $report;
$this->serial++;
}
function __destruct(){
echo "nending...".date('m/d/y h:i:s')."n";
$total_time = (microtime(true)-$this->time_start);
echo "nTook a total of ".$total_time.' seconds';
}
}
$grabImages = new eatFratBoys();
?>
[/box]
I'll add comentary for fun.
Who had the camera in this place whatever it is?
Artistic Takes
Of course there were hundreds of at the computer with web cam pics. I wonder if this guy even knew anyone was recording his web cam.
Lots of farting on drunk guys heads. I am glad I never get this drunk, but (e:terry) does and I have an idea for next time now, lol.
Just when you think no one saw it.
Random crowd pics.
Random sporting feats.
Of course lots and lots of mardi gras.
Enough mooning pics to make a werewolf howl, lol. This one seems particularly and outrageously dangerous.
What do you think the story behind this one is?
Are they fighting or is it some frat initiation game.
Fuck waiting in line.
Now peeing in a line, thats another story. There are about 150 of those.
Even sadam gets peed on.
Is this what the pro lockeroom is like. I suppose those sportscaster ladies have it good.
Isn't that a foul of some sort?
What can this be about besides being drunk.
Go team, there are so many of these that I wonder if it is normal.
Lots of dorm room craziness
And lots of showing boners hidden behind clothes.
There were lots of automobile pics. I picked the silliest ones to share. But there were hundreds of just like random dude, proud of his car/body.
And from the nascar collection
Mac, making you hard, mile after mile, haha.
I think this one is the funiest of all. They look so scary and mean but then together they look like stuffed animals. Does the bulldozer do something for soeone, because there were lots of men on bulldozer pics?
You don't get to see any of the more hardcore ones, sorry.
carolinian - 07/30/06 14:44
Thanks a lot! I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the good work!
Thanks a lot! I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the good work!
metalpeter - 07/30/06 13:56
For some odd reason I can picture a "reserch" CD making party on the horizion somewhare. Well actully if the pictures are allready on a CD it dosn't take verry long to copy a CD it is just that adding them takes some time. Maybe I should buy stock in a CD company :-) .
For some odd reason I can picture a "reserch" CD making party on the horizion somewhare. Well actully if the pictures are allready on a CD it dosn't take verry long to copy a CD it is just that adding them takes some time. Maybe I should buy stock in a CD company :-) .
theecarey - 07/30/06 13:44
for, um, 'research' purposes, there are quite a few cd's that I am sure you have, that I think I shall need...
;)
for, um, 'research' purposes, there are quite a few cd's that I am sure you have, that I think I shall need...
;)
paul - 07/30/06 11:44
As carolinian described, they are basically programms which follow a presecribed format for surfing and doing something based ont he results. In this case a very simple, visit the gallery, check for the images and download.
Before everything was in xml and rss feeds I used this technique extensively for collecting information from the web.
The robots visiting the site are gathering data for search engine, rss feed readers, etc.
P.S. If anyone wants all these images on a CD for "research" purposes I could help you out.
Carolian, I can provide you with a chat feed that goes in either order. However, I won't have a chance till later this week.
As carolinian described, they are basically programms which follow a presecribed format for surfing and doing something based ont he results. In this case a very simple, visit the gallery, check for the images and download.
Before everything was in xml and rss feeds I used this technique extensively for collecting information from the web.
The robots visiting the site are gathering data for search engine, rss feed readers, etc.
P.S. If anyone wants all these images on a CD for "research" purposes I could help you out.
Carolian, I can provide you with a chat feed that goes in either order. However, I won't have a chance till later this week.
libertad - 07/30/06 09:31
I dont understand robots. Why are there bots on estrip? what are they doing here? RIght now it says there are five.
I dont understand robots. Why are there bots on estrip? what are they doing here? RIght now it says there are five.
carolinian - 07/29/06 21:22
I tend to write a lot of these myself. I've had to write enough of them that I've actually come up with an entire design pattern for writing them, although I usually call them "distillers" as opposed to "robots" (other people call them screen scrapers, etc).
The other day, I was writing a distiller in python that would hit up the (e:strip) "past chatter" section of and reverse the progression of the lines (I find it difficult to read from bottom to top), as well as show me more than the 100 message maximum. All was going well, until I realized that to get more than 100 lines, I'd need to login, and messing about with authentication stuff was a bit more than I wanted to do for what was supposed to be a 5 minute project (I'd probably use PyObj-C to get the cookies from WebKit/Safari if I didn't want to be lazy). And I figured that the more practical approach would be to ask you for a feature that would show a larger number of past chatter lines (e.g. all the day's lines, arbitrary number, all the chat lines by a particular user, etc). Also, going the official route would let other peeps enjoy these features, too.
So, if it's not too much work, is there any way you could add a feature to reverse the direction of past chatter/show more lines?
I tend to write a lot of these myself. I've had to write enough of them that I've actually come up with an entire design pattern for writing them, although I usually call them "distillers" as opposed to "robots" (other people call them screen scrapers, etc).
The other day, I was writing a distiller in python that would hit up the (e:strip) "past chatter" section of and reverse the progression of the lines (I find it difficult to read from bottom to top), as well as show me more than the 100 message maximum. All was going well, until I realized that to get more than 100 lines, I'd need to login, and messing about with authentication stuff was a bit more than I wanted to do for what was supposed to be a 5 minute project (I'd probably use PyObj-C to get the cookies from WebKit/Safari if I didn't want to be lazy). And I figured that the more practical approach would be to ask you for a feature that would show a larger number of past chatter lines (e.g. all the day's lines, arbitrary number, all the chat lines by a particular user, etc). Also, going the official route would let other peeps enjoy these features, too.
So, if it's not too much work, is there any way you could add a feature to reverse the direction of past chatter/show more lines?
metalpeter - 07/29/06 17:15
For some reason if pictures are crazzy I will view them. I don't really get the technolgy of web robots or bots. But That one picture I'm guessing was some kind of military drug test or maybe they had dirty sex with a whore so they had to be checked out, but then why the blue bags. Who takes pictures in a locker room that is insane. Well now that I think about a bunch of budies of mine did take a mooning video in a highschool looker room so I guess it isn't that strange really.
For some reason if pictures are crazzy I will view them. I don't really get the technolgy of web robots or bots. But That one picture I'm guessing was some kind of military drug test or maybe they had dirty sex with a whore so they had to be checked out, but then why the blue bags. Who takes pictures in a locker room that is insane. Well now that I think about a bunch of budies of mine did take a mooning video in a highschool looker room so I guess it isn't that strange really.
07/28/2006 19:04 #32707
Fried Poop = Golden BallCategory: food
Fried Poop
My co-worker who is from China and has a thick accent just told me in Asia they have a delicacy which is made of fresh poop from young girls. At first I though I was totally misunderstanding him and was kind of embarassed that I though he was saying poop.
Then I realized he was in fact saying poop. Apparently, he told me it is not just the poop of young girls but young boys too. The picture from some asian newspaper talking about it looked like that thing that (e:soyeon) freaked out about where the eat the sushi off a girl. Accept this time they were eating her fried poop off of her. Anyways, I laughed for about 2 hours. He said in english it is translated to Golden Ball.
My co-worker who is from China and has a thick accent just told me in Asia they have a delicacy which is made of fresh poop from young girls. At first I though I was totally misunderstanding him and was kind of embarassed that I though he was saying poop.
Then I realized he was in fact saying poop. Apparently, he told me it is not just the poop of young girls but young boys too. The picture from some asian newspaper talking about it looked like that thing that (e:soyeon) freaked out about where the eat the sushi off a girl. Accept this time they were eating her fried poop off of her. Anyways, I laughed for about 2 hours. He said in english it is translated to Golden Ball.
metalpeter - 07/29/06 17:19
That is completely insane to me. Not to mention it has to be verry dangerous. Can you imagine all the bacteria you would have to really fry it to get rid of all of that.
That is completely insane to me. Not to mention it has to be verry dangerous. Can you imagine all the bacteria you would have to really fry it to get rid of all of that.
mike - 07/29/06 13:40
that is insane....i am a fan of all things fried but that is taking it even too far for me!
that is insane....i am a fan of all things fried but that is taking it even too far for me!
haven't had this particular one, but i have had cayanne pepper in chocolate before. i like it. have you ever had chocolate chicken? it's either a spanish or mexican dish, and quite good.