What a stupid day. At 1PM (e:terry) and (e:lilho) came by Roswell for lunch. At that point, I had these wild dreams about going to the beach or doing something refreshing like a water park. Instead my errands got out of control.
First we were supposed to stop by the tenants house to get them all to sign their new leases. Instead, we ended up dealing with all this drama because one girl did not pay the gas bill and they shut the gas off. I seriously cannot believe it. It took about an hour. She is the same girl that always pays her rents late. I told the girl who is still living there, that this is her chance to kick that girl out because the leasing are gettign signed but that she would need to get soeone else in right away. At least one tenant paid their entire rent through december.
Then I tried to call the lawyer again about 16 times. She never retrunred my calls or email so I decided the only way to deal with it was to confront her in person because our landlord wanted an answer right now as to when we are moving. Unfortunately, there office is way far away in the top floor of the larkin building. Its all nice cherry and leather fanciness. In fact all the floor of elevator announce the floor number until you arrive at the top and it says Welcome to Harris Beach."
I think we made a huge mistake choosing such a large law firm for such a tiny case. I think maybe they would have been a appropriate firm for a car accident or something. Turns out the title problem still exists but that we can move in early if the seller agrees. The lawyer says that the problem is they cannot find the paper saying that the church (a non-profit) was able to sell the house. Fortunetly, the church really did want to sell the house to the guy and they just need to find or get new paperwork. Unfortunately, it requires a supreme court of NY judge and they are very busy golfing during the summer. Those were her exact words.
So then after that we went to the sellers house and believe it or not he doesn't think there is any problem and plans to move out on the 4th and close. This is good for us if it really happens. So I guess he is agreeing to us moving in earlier. So we really might be moving on Saturday.
On another note, I am glad that someone keeps track of the spelling on this sites interface:
@ 07/31/06 12:57 Kara wrote:
Hi Paul - "Lattest Chatter" should be "Latest Chatter" in the chat box.
@ 07/30/06 19:42 Jenks wrote:
hey paul- typo alert. the chat box says "lattest" chatter.
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08/01/2006 18:10 #32712
What a Terrible Day but we are movingCategory: housing
07/31/2006 14:15 #32711
The 24 Linwood Saga ContinuesCategory: housing
So now our lawyer gets the title from his lawyer and it turns out there are both tax problems and they are missing paperwork saying the church was able to sell the property to them. I think we are reaching the beginning of a long journey instead of the end of one. I cannot believe this process started back in May. Watch it be an entire year before we get the house.
If I saw the guy in front of me right now, I would probably go to jail.
If I saw the guy in front of me right now, I would probably go to jail.
kara - 07/31/06 20:29
What about suing this guy for being a total sleeze? That has to be a crime :/
What about suing this guy for being a total sleeze? That has to be a crime :/
metalpeter - 07/31/06 19:22
Not sure on the laws but if they can't prove they own it then how can they sell it. I would really look into the tax thing, cause I know in some cases if you buy the house then you owe the tax on them. I'm not sure how that works just recently read some stuff in the papers about houses being fliped and houses that get taken for not paying tax and that some people bought the houses and then couldn't pay the back taxes. What ever happens it sounds like a nightmare I wish you the best of luck.
Not sure on the laws but if they can't prove they own it then how can they sell it. I would really look into the tax thing, cause I know in some cases if you buy the house then you owe the tax on them. I'm not sure how that works just recently read some stuff in the papers about houses being fliped and houses that get taken for not paying tax and that some people bought the houses and then couldn't pay the back taxes. What ever happens it sounds like a nightmare I wish you the best of luck.
libertad - 07/31/06 18:09
did the lawyer ever answer you on if you can back out of deal or not? Is that something you even want to do at this point?
did the lawyer ever answer you on if you can back out of deal or not? Is that something you even want to do at this point?
uncutsaniflush - 07/31/06 15:35
Wow!! that sucks. So sorry to hear that.
On a positive note, usually title problems can be cleared up with time.
But I know, you wanted to close on July 11 and already you had to wait way too long.
Good luck.
Wow!! that sucks. So sorry to hear that.
On a positive note, usually title problems can be cleared up with time.
But I know, you wanted to close on July 11 and already you had to wait way too long.
Good luck.
07/30/2006 17:28 #32710
Garden Walk DayCategory: buffalo
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?
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?
ladycroft - 07/31/06 13:37
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.
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.
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.
07/29/2006 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.
I prefer the word "geek," thank you very much!
haha... at least i'm not the only nerd.
Good news about the house, finally!
Good luck!