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02/02/2007 22:13 #37974

Dear Journal I am sorry
Category: life
It seems after years of daily dedication to my journal I am at some weird point in my life where I have nothing to say. Okay that is not true as I am still writing. I used to write in my journal multiple time every day for years but really who wants to see more pictures of inside roswell or at my house. Don't worry there are pictures at the end of this.

The truth is I never go anywhere or do anything interesting much anymore. I don't barely leave the 5 minute radius around my house. As soon as the weather gets warmer I am sure things will change so drastically. I remember what it was like occupying my life with housing building tasks. There is lots of stripping and building to do. I am sure I can occupy much of my time with making my house sweeter.

In the mean time everything exciting seems kind of at a standstill. I think I just might have settled or something. I have everything I ever wanted now and I am bored with it a bit. Who complains about that? I should really look on the bright side. Maybe it is just season disorder or the fact that I worked way too many hours this week. Maybe if I owned a projector. That's what I keep telling myself. I really need a projector to expand my horizons.

On the programming front I am bored too. I think I am burned out with content management. I am more interested in data mining, social networking and visualization. I am tired of other people making web design/programming decisions based on bullshit. Someone actually, I am not joking, asked me for a website with a scrolling marquee today. It felt so 1997.

I hope I am not at one of the moments where I change career paths again. I doubt it only because I am so comfortable and complacent doing what I do, I am well compensated and I have little interest in leaving the city.

Unlike everyone else, I am definately not trying to escape to a bigger city with more to do. I mean even if there were more exciting things to do, like in another larger, warmer city - I would not do them. I don't even like going out much. I frankly, just want to feel like I am part of something slightly more exiciting content management, even if it is for a good cause. I suppose working with (e:enknot) makes content management seem fun.

So here are some things going on.

1. I miss twisted. I just wish we lived together. think I might be going back to San Francisco in march for another conference. Let's hope that works out. Next time it is her turn to come here. PErhaps on the way back from italy?

2. I love linux. I am never going back to windows ever on my personal computers and seeing as they will be on vista for the next 20 years or so, it won't be that hard to just say no, if I make it past this month.

3. Tomorrow, Josephine Anstey and some students are coming by to talk about web programming and online pervasive games. This is something I am very interested in. Sometimes I am still angry that I did not become a professor. I guess there is always the future and there are many other careers I would rather have.

4. Speaking of which I miss jesse, jesse.org jesse. What ever happend to him. Did he get eaten by China? Maybe Josephine will know.

5. On closing, here are some pictures from my phone, I was cleaning it out in hopes of starting to take new pictures and going back to journaling.

Mike getting hammered, lol
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Eating haddock today at Roswell. I have eaten so much fish recently, this one almost killed me. I had three isnatnces of almsot swalling a bone followed by one really sharp one stabbing through my gums. That is a really unpleasant feeling. I wonder if the fish are trying to just say no.
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Here is one left over pic from the ice storm. It is not the pretty kindwith the fancy camera but the low res kind with the cell phone. It still was pretty neat.
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The mice that were makign us all crazy and doing things like this seems to be gone. The "humane" traps worked really good to trap them so we could kill them. Ironic as it may be, it beats having to spray or put poison everywhere. I would rather die from the mice and the poison.
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Like at this place on elmwood. Are they going to knock it down soon. It seems liek such a health hazzard and it is on some of the most prime real estate in the city. I just don't get how it exists there empty and abondoned.
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Salmon tastes really good. I like it.
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The wig is still out there. I saw it the other day.
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lilho - 02/03/07 12:39
i want to go to san fran too! olease?
mike - 02/03/07 12:11
you can't stop posting pictures. I love the random pictures. Don't the the winter duldrums get you down.
twisted - 02/02/07 23:24
re: 1997 flashback. was it that same crazy person who wanted you to build a site counting down police suicides in a scrolling marquee? do you remember that?

p.s. -- I miss you so much. I can't wait for you to come out here again. bring terry & matt. I need help making house decisions, and it would be fun. I promise!

01/31/2007 20:25 #37942

I hate humane traps
Category: housing
They just make no sense. Now I simply have a bunch of live mice I have to dispose of. They have two options, die under my boot or freeze to death in the trash can outside. (e:matthew) suggested feeding them the poison. The reason we didn't just use the poison in the first place is because we were afraid the squirrels would get poisoned.

I thought about building some sort of mass extermination chamber but it all seems so first stage of being a serial killer - don't you think? It seems liek putting them out in the blue bin is the best option for my personal sanity, they will freeze very fast.
zobar - 02/01/07 10:07
Donate them to Science?

- Z
joshua - 02/01/07 09:14
That is sort of like a rodent Auschwitz. In this case the irony is that the more humane way of killing them would have been to use the traditional traps. There's no good, clean way to take care of the problem now, so if you want to disassociate yourself from the problem I'd do the blue bin option.
oda - 01/31/07 21:43
paul, you would look hotter in your new user pic if you put a silver horse in the background.
paul - 01/31/07 21:35
I would rather die than spray the house with poison. The real problem is that for months there was food all over the house, especially after parties and we weren't doing anything to stop them. Like for my birthday , the pizza got left out for today. Which is ueber disgusting. Since then we have cracked down a lot. Yesterday, we started trapping them. Today we got four of them. I think between trapping and not leaving food out we can keep them out.
imk2 - 01/31/07 21:34
why dont you guys put an ad out on craigslist saying you have live mice for people who might need them to feed their snakes. it's still the whole circle of life thing.
theecarey - 01/31/07 20:54
Never used an exterminator before..maybe a company could come in and kick some tiny mouse ass? As long as the squirrels and Basra are safe, ofcourse.

seriously, those mice are desperate freaks. I dont see them as cute anymore. Maybe if they were just hungry and cold little field mice. But these ones.. are mutants! Little resourceful psychos were trying to get into my baking stuff. I didnt want to leave it in the kitchen, so I placed the goods on my desk; tapped, bagged, tapped again, bagged again, then wrapped in towels. I heard some rustling.. the brown blob saw me and flew through the air and disappeared. First they jump like kangaroos, now they fly like squirrels. crazy!!

they are gonna eat us next- and I am much more of a meal then you guys. oh shit.

time to call Mice Busters!
mrmike - 01/31/07 20:33
mousecicles!!
jenks - 01/31/07 20:32
Or do what I did... Take them to some park or something and find a "cozy" little spot that you can trick yourself into thinking would make a nice nest for them. And leave them there, and feel good about yourself for 'saving' them. Then turn around just in time to see a bird swoop down from a tree and eat them. Circle of life, I guess.

01/31/2007 01:21 #37936

Harry Potter is Hotter
Category: pop culture
The actor who played Harry Potter is playing a stable boy in an upcoming play where he does a nude scene that involves a horse? I read Harry Potter fan parents are all up in arms about this.

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metalpeter - 01/31/07 18:43
Well All I will say is that to bad all Those girls who had the vibrating witchs brooms still don't have them they could really have fun now. but what I wonder is if he and a horse are naked unless they are doing something dirty why would you notice him and not the horse when if it is male I'm guessing it is about the size of his arm. On a side note I'm sure it can't be as bad as that scene in Jackass 2.
pyrcedgrrl - 01/31/07 16:34
Well, it's better than lusting after him at 14. :-x
uncutsaniflush - 01/31/07 16:11
In all seriousness, why would anyone's parents be upset? Is it because he is all "nekkid" as they might say in the South. Or is it because he is nekkid with horse?

Or is he hung like a horse and millions of little girls lust will be broken when their future husbands don't measure?
imk2 - 01/31/07 11:39
wow, i feel reeeeeely, reeeely dirty right now.
ladycroft - 01/31/07 10:15
gasp! daniel radcliffe is growing up!
theecarey - 01/31/07 09:58
OH MY GAWD!

  • WhirlofdirtyHarryThoughts,butwillKeepmyMouthShutAsHeisjust17*



thanks, this was my first post viewing of the day
lilho - 01/31/07 09:19
so hot. fuck harry potter.

01/30/2007 14:14 #37922

The Beast Costs Money
Category: downtown
I am at Spot on Delaware for lunch at I saw the Beast is now $2. Will anyone pay that for the Beast?
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jenks - 01/31/07 19:46
Seriously. $2??!! fifty cents- maybe. but 2 bucks? I wouldn't pay that much for a sunday NYT.
libertad - 01/30/07 22:38
If the Beast had a coupon insert, I might buy it for two dollars. Otherwise, I wouldn't buy any local paper including the buffalo news and Artvoice for two dollars without being promised at least two dollars in usable coupons. I wonder just how many die hard beast fans there are? Actually maybe if I saw a good cover I would buy it for that. They have had some good ones.
zobar - 01/30/07 17:01
I've always maintained that in a market of our [small but respectable] size, there is only room for so many alt. weeklies. Even though Buffalo Rising is going after us, it's the Beast that's getting squeezed out.

Whether people will pay for it when they can get it online for free largely depends on whether their editorial gets any better.

- Z
uncutsaniflush - 01/30/07 16:57
For anyone that actually wants to read the Beast without paying for it, the lastest issue is available at :::link::: in pdf format. It also looks like most of the content is available in html format at :::link:::

vycious - 01/30/07 16:34
ahh, the death rattle of yet another independent buffalo rag....
joshua - 01/30/07 14:19
After some considerable thought (aka a split second) I've decided that I won't be paying for The Beast.

My dad, on the other hand, is going to be heartbroken... whenever he visits us he walks over to New World to get copies of Artvoice and The Beast for him and his friends. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't pay for it.

01/27/2007 17:47 #37892

Whoever sent this to imk2
Category: fuck off

tried joining this site and it has more bugs than my garden ... keeps saying "invalid user" u prolly wont get this as the site is weak



Go fuck yourself. Don't bother joining the site, in fact do me a favor a stab yourself to death (thank you pan's labyrinth for you inspirational violence.)

I have spent years work on the site as a purely non-profit side project. It generally works amazingly considering the amount of stuff it does and the fact that there is not one employee who is paid to run it. It runs on mac, windows, and linux, plus on cell phone both in wap and xhtml flavor.

I have spent thousands of hours dealing with the server and the people on the site, their emotional problems, the server problems, the nasty swarms of attack bots, the server hackers, arranging its hosting, progamming new features and helping people who don't know how to use computers very well. You have no idea how much behind the scene work goes on, beyond the programming and server upkeep. I am the server tech, the customer service team, the networking guy, the designer, the database admin, the public relations team. I also work 40-50 hours a week at my real job.

Please give me the address of the site you run so I can have ample opportunity to rip your project the fuck apart.

Fuck you,
Paul Visco
joshua - 01/29/07 15:45
This was magnificent. Bravo!

No project is perfect by any means, but this person didn't have to be so dull about things.
shawnr - 01/28/07 10:40
That eye-talian fire makes me smile... I miss Buffalo...
deeglam - 01/27/07 22:32
Paul- the work you do for this site is not unappreciated! You do a wonderful job and if anyone wants to say shit about it, then fuck 'em. Less shit you have to deal with, right??? Cheers to you!
paul - 01/27/07 20:12
So I went ahead and signed up for the site using my gmail address and it worked no problem.
paul - 01/27/07 20:03
Hi Paul - "You could have asked me or anyone else for help in joining the site" ... I did .. Imk2
and I got "go fuck yourself"

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You did not ask for help. You simply criticized the site when I was very tired from dealing with a server attack. I guess I could have been nicer but you could have too.
paul - 01/27/07 20:00
"Hi again Paul
Didn't see an admin contact, my mistake.
I simply tried any thing that worked to contact something/one. Its fine, feel free to curse at me anytime due to my inabiltiy to overcome technical issues; again my mistake. Good luck with the site."

Once again, I don't really care. You see you did not ask her for help. You specifically said, "This site has more bugs than my garden .. it is weak." An appropriate message would have said ..
Hi, my name is blah and I am having trouble signing up for the site. I am not sure what is wrong, but maybe there is a bug with the site preventing me from signing up. My contact information is ...

Had you done that I would have helped you gladly. In fact I generally am very helpful.
paul - 01/27/07 18:53
"hello paul
u seem a bit overly emotional ... I've actually viewed the site a hundered times over the past few months ...with mixed results. It was down late nite, came back,and I thought I would join today. After 30 minutes of no luck I got frustrated. The "go fuck yourself" message linked to my unmasked ip was a surpise, but if thats how the site operates I guess its my mistake for wanting to get involved. cheers!"

I am so glad you made that decision. I could care less if you or anyone else joins the site. You could have asked me or anyone else for help in joining the site, or reported the bug to the site admin - myself - instead of messaging imk2. I spent the evening and early morning dealing with an attack on the server. It is rarely down. In fact in the last four years it has been down less than two days.