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03/03/2007 21:45 #38349

Another Food Journal
We saw this car with a silent service bumper sticker. I took a picture while driving because I wanted to remember to look it up. This is what I found . I don't believe that can be it because the license plate looked so official. It even had a miniture SS before the number. Maybe just NAZIs.

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(e:lilho) flew on over to our house for our last homage visit to compusa before it closes, leaving Buffalo computerstoreless for the foreseeable future. Everything is 5-20% off right now. Mac stuff is only 5% off.
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Here is (e:terry) looking oh so sad.
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I was a typical visit to compusa, then we went to Michael's for (e:matthew) and lilho got her hawk on.

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Then off to red pepper for dinner. Yummy vietnamese food.

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Her fortune.
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My fortune was broken
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But good
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Yummy Pho
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Afterwards to feelright for some free goji juice tasting (WIKIPEDIA - Wolfberry)

It seems to cure everything including cancer, libido and weight problems, lol.
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Vegans have it so easy nowadays.
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theecarey - 03/05/07 23:05
Love "red pepper" !!

Love the "HoHawk" too :)
lilho - 03/04/07 12:07
yesterday was prob my fav day in a long time. thanx!

03/03/2007 15:56 #38345

I'm down with PHP, ya you know me
Category: programming
I never thought of targeting this market. I should write an OOP javascript and AJAX book for teens.

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But why the pretty-boy? Maybe there are more girls programming nowadays but I have to say I never see them in the computer programming section in the bookstore. Maybe they are so smart they don't need books.

Maybe it's for gay programmers. I looked at the book because of him but I still think they would do better with a cute girl on the front or even a spaceship or a race car.

If I was straight I would be embarassed to have the book lying around the house.

robin - 03/03/07 16:34
that's funny.

casey was just taking about learning php. I bet a football player would attract him to the book.

03/03/2007 14:30 #38342

Danish Protestors Clash with Police
Category: protest

The clashes began after police evicted squatters from an abandoned building that has served as a center for anarchists, leftists and punk rockers.



More than 500 people, including scores of foreigners, have been arrested since the riots started Thursday. Authorities said 207 were arrested early Saturday following overnight clashes in which demonstrators pelted police with cobblestones and set fire to cars.



The wikipedia article about the "youth house" has already been updated
This is what makes wikipedia so great. It is already updated to include the most recent of recent history.

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FRom the wikipedia article

In 1999 the building was set for sale to the highest bidder by the municipality following controversy on the renovation of the building and a refusal from the inhabitants to pay the rent agreed upon in the original contract. Which prodded the users of the building post a large banner on the fascade with the message: "For sale together with 500 autonome, stone throwing, violent psychopaths from hell.".



From

The building at the centre of the recent riots, known as "the youth house," has been viewed as free public housing by young squatters since the 1980s. The eviction had been planned since last year, when courts ordered the squatters to hand the building over to a Christian congregation that had bought it six years ago.



Vandals even covered Copenhagen's famed Little Mermaid statue with pink paint, though it's not clear if that's linked to the riots. In the past the statue has been beheaded, doused in paint and been blown off her perch with explosives.



Europe is so extreme. I love it. I think that americans can't get so crazy because first of all the police would just kill the protestors and second of all because we are so used to long term stability at home.

Here is a youtube video for calling the youth's into action


Here are photos from the building

The is a ton more info in the wikipedia article's (WIKIPEDIA - Ungdomshuset) external links section.

Police began clearing the building early (about 0700 local time, CET) Thursday, March 1st 2007.


03/03/2007 12:25 #38339

Remembering a Life Before Food
Category: food
Remember when my journal was a bit crazier. The years before I started only posting about food. It sees like getting food is now become the only social activity in my life. I have to keep reminding myself that soon winter will be over and I will do stuff like go on walks, go hiking, bird watching, etc.

I had lots of meetings yesterday. Turned out that we are going to be making a Roswell version of estrip for kids and young adults. I a excited to see how it turns out but this means I a going to be crazy busy from now until I leave for San Francisco.

The view from up top of Roswell is interesting. I bet it looks so much better in the summer.
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The have all this missions furniture in the lobby. While I think it is pretty to look at, I find that that particular style is really standoffish and uninviting, I wonder why they went with it.

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And for food.
For lunch we ate at the Delta Sonic on Main Street because they gave us all $3 coupons. They are kind of like a truck stop. My $5 sandwich came to $2. While I think the food was pretty ok, I don't like the atmosphere of eating at a gas station. At first I thought it was cool that you operate the touchscreen to order the parts of your sandwich but now I think it just feels like they were to cheap to hire ore workers and that you do the work for yourself.
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Last night we tried to go to Casa Di Pizza but it was crowded so we headed over to Kosta. We were actually two cars worth of people so it was tricky trying to coordinate somewhere to eat. I am always a big fan of Kostas because they have the tastiest octopus.

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I did not die from eating the bayleaf in my clam chowder. When we were kids (e:mike) was so scared of bayleaves.
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I drank white wine and ended up with a headache again. I wonder if I have some reaction to the sulfites.

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This is what I felt like afterwards. I ended up going to bed with a headache and everyone else went out.
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metalpeter - 03/03/07 15:49
That is an interesting view in that picture. What would really be cool is to see the view from other sides of the building. In terms of getting out more I'm sure spring and summer will be verry busy. Hopefully I can say the same thing for myself as well. It wouldn't surprise me at all if we run into each other somewhare.
southernyankee - 03/03/07 13:12
I miss you too Paul!
mike - 03/03/07 13:11
i am still terrified of bay leaves!

03/02/2007 02:31 #38325

A day at the office
Category: work
Wow, I just wrote this huge journal but when I plugged in my mouse , my laptop short circuited and restarted. I think I was at the point where I was angry about the prospects of retiring in a cubicle.

The only sentence that survived was:

It is a huge waste of my abilities to have me make a CD-ROM which sells christmas cards. I just don't get it. It is like hiring an auto engineer to change your oil.

It is probably better I did not publish it.



I started eating jaw breakers because they are the only candy I cannot chew through when I am stressed out.
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We ate at Gin Gin's in Chinatown on sheridan. I am fascinated at how the once oh so white KenTon is getting all multi-culti. Someone told me this story once about a suburb of Toronto that was the same way. They were saying that the city became trendy again and the canadians moved out of that suburb and back to the city. Then the suburb became like the ethnic hub.

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Something about a blog in chinese.
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(e:eknot) drank bubble tea. He agreed, shooting the bubbles out the straw was fun
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I ate chopped squid. It tasted really good. I refuse to eat normal meat like chicken where I am not sure what the meat really is. You just can't fake squid.
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The candy machine was full of nasty candy that had been there for years it looked like. Now, there was a sign that said it was out of order, but for how long. Why not just haul the machines away.
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They have a regular american menu with the typical american chinese crap like sweet and sour chicken, but then they have a right to left chinese menu with the good stuff.

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That area is definately becoming chinese. Remember when it was just kind of white trash with Ames.
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Wow, these guys are poptastic
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mrdeadlier - 03/02/07 23:29
take deep breaths, we'll wade out of all this crap and get to the "good stuff" soon enough. just be patient.
metalpeter - 03/02/07 19:19
They look like an American Pop-punk band or a Korean pop band. Yes I will admit I have heard Korean pop music I think it was Korean it sounds just like american pop except I couldn't understand the words. There used to be an international chanel on Adelphia but then it changed its name to or letters to AZN or something like that.
mike - 03/02/07 16:57
comp usa is closing. You might want to hit up their going out of business sale!
mike - 03/02/07 10:06
i also thought you had a raw egg in your mouth. how random
theecarey - 03/02/07 10:00
hehe (e:vincent) beat me to it! In the great metropolis of "Cramsomville" exists a convenient store-gas station-pizza shop, a bank and a car dealership. And thats with it being 'built up' over the past few years. P&K Vending??? never heard of it- probably went out before we were born. I wonder how old that candly really is? :)

oh, there is also the speedway, never been though. Its a 'pass through blink and you miss' sort of 'town'. Now you know more than you'll ever care to know!
jenks - 03/02/07 06:45
MMMM Stripestomash with ginger scallions and Roat Duck. My favorite!!

And in that jawbreaker picture I thought you had a whole raw egg in your mouth.
vincent - 03/02/07 03:13
Your answer for the state of the vending machines lies at the home office of the vendor, RansomTUCKY!!!!! as we refer to it. Right (e:theecarey) ???