To try and feel a little better about asian stuff I decided to immerse myself.

I ate lunch at Kunis To Go again. I had the Bento box. Seriously, it is the best lunch deal in Buffalo - only $8 for enough food to be full. You get everything in this box plus a miso soup.



On the way back I saw the lady in white. She definitely knew I was taking the picture and posed. I see her almost everyday on main street.


First stop was (e:tina) 's art design show which was very excellent.






Later we ate at Ming Tea Cafe
3268 Main St. (near UB South Campus), Buffalo.
833-6988.

(MAP TO: 3268%20MAIN%20ST)

I had the crustal shrimp. A little dear at $18.00 but it was tasty. They only take cash. When I went to the ATM on main street near there it dispensed the money in $10 increments. I never saw it since the 90s.





(e:lilho) and (e:tina) had the udon noodles with shrimp.


Tha spicy calamari was really good but also expensive at $9.00





Here are some close ups of the anti-war rattle at the bus stop from the last journal. I can't believe (e:lilho) picked it up to shake it.

I hate traveling on public transportation. There I have said it. It's not that I would rather ride a car, it's just I would rather go nowhere or walk everywhere in my neighborhood - which I usually do.

I am also not so good around foreign people which is weird considering how I am one only once removed. It's just that I am a little scarred of arabs on busses and angry looking asian students since the other day.

Maybe I just hate UB and riding the subway to the bus is freakin me out.

Below are some pics from the camera. The can is some weird rice filled rattle that was used to protest the war by asking them to shut down the recruitment center at UB.

I didn't want to sit near it because I thought it was a bomb at first but (e:lilho) rattled it.





At work (e:enknot) and I visited the computer graveyard in order to drop off some CRTs and pick up some flat panels. I was very surprised how many monitors their were.



This woman saw (e:enknot) and I pushing the cart with the monitors on the bottom and the mouse on the top. I think it appeared that we were just using a giant push cart for a mouse.

First a quick shot of (e:matthew) reading a book in the living room while we cooked.



I wish I could say this was a how to cook artichokes video blog but I didn't record the cleaning the artichokes part.

Basically the recipe involves cleaning the artichokes.











Chopping parsley

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Grinding Pepper corns

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Stuffing the artichokes - you might recall the tune I am whistling from a previous journal

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Then you pour olive oil on the artichokes and steam them in a pan for an hour.

Finally you chew the goodness out of them.

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Watch out for the ghost version of (e:lilho)

A US Federal copyright panel upheld a contentious decision on Monday that would increase royalty fees Webcasters must pay to record labels.

Instead of looking at this as bad news for webcasters you could look at it as good news for non-commercial music not on labels, as more webcasters will want to play label free music. Unfortunately, I am pretty sure it just means webcasters will pay more.

How are they going to enforce this on foreign servers?

I am so tired of chasing estrip.com. It all goes back to when it was a Korean photography site back in 2002. I wrote to them to ask for it then but they would never respond. I got this email from contact@estrip.com today.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your interest but we have the domain listed on several premium sites and are holding out for a better offer. I will however keep you on file should our situation change.

Best wishes for the future,

Daniel

I wrote back to ask the how much they are looking for. I can't find the domain name purchase offer anywhere.