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04/28/2007 14:42 #39075
Ramen and LobsterCategory: food
There is nothing as good as ramen noodles and lobster. I think it the culinary equivalent of drinking kristal in a trailer.
04/28/2007 13:27 #39073
My last Visit to CompusaCategory: shopping
It is kind of sad that this is my last visit to compusa in Buffalo. Things are at 50% off which seems like a great deal but its still not competitive with internet prices in most cases.
I was so excited with the prospect of buying stuff cheaply and reslling it on ebay, but wap.ebay.com went down as I began looking up prices.
Never has ebay gone down on my, why now while I am in the midde of shopping.
10 minutes later: I have decided to just give up and go home. It think there was potential but I am not in the mood anymore.
Byebye compusa - we had good times.
I was so excited with the prospect of buying stuff cheaply and reslling it on ebay, but wap.ebay.com went down as I began looking up prices.
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Never has ebay gone down on my, why now while I am in the midde of shopping.
10 minutes later: I have decided to just give up and go home. It think there was potential but I am not in the mood anymore.
Byebye compusa - we had good times.
04/27/2007 22:53 #39067
60 hour work weekCategory: jobs
So I am just finishing a 60 hour work week in which I completed lots of really cool stuff. Unfortunately, I am not paid hourly anymore.
I really just want to go dancing but all my friends fell asleep already. I contemplated just going back to work as I know (e:enknot) is still there and I guess programming beats surfing for electronic gadgets I don't need to buy.
The other option is to work on estrip, or maybe even just watch television. I wonder what it would be like if I lived in a city whose nightlife was compatible with what I want to do. For sure, it is not go drink beer and hang out at the pink.
Artvoice Awards
I am in a pre-artvoice award depressed funk. I hate going to the Best Of Buffalo awards thing every year. I mean the food is great , it was great because it led to Artvoice hosting us and it is really fun, but it sucks to always lose. Part of me doesn't even want to go. (e:mike) told me that Susan Lucci
lost 19 times before winning so there still is hope.
Tuber Madness
What is this tuberous monstrosity. They old had one giant one with that slit in it at the store. It weighed like 10 lbs.
(e:terry) got a haircut
I ate octopus at Kosta's again. I really like it.
I really just want to go dancing but all my friends fell asleep already. I contemplated just going back to work as I know (e:enknot) is still there and I guess programming beats surfing for electronic gadgets I don't need to buy.
The other option is to work on estrip, or maybe even just watch television. I wonder what it would be like if I lived in a city whose nightlife was compatible with what I want to do. For sure, it is not go drink beer and hang out at the pink.
Artvoice Awards
I am in a pre-artvoice award depressed funk. I hate going to the Best Of Buffalo awards thing every year. I mean the food is great , it was great because it led to Artvoice hosting us and it is really fun, but it sucks to always lose. Part of me doesn't even want to go. (e:mike) told me that Susan Lucci
lost 19 times before winning so there still is hope.Tuber Madness
What is this tuberous monstrosity. They old had one giant one with that slit in it at the store. It weighed like 10 lbs.
(e:terry) got a haircut
I ate octopus at Kosta's again. I really like it.
metalpeter - 04/28/07 18:41
Granted I know Buffalo isn't Toronto or New York but I would think that there has to be someplace that has the type of night life you want. I do know that there are people in Buffalo who drive up Toronto to go "clubing" I know it takes some planing but it can be done .
In terms of the Artvoice awards I know the odds are not in favor of you or (e:strip) winning but I think you should still go. What if you where to win and you warn't there? The other thing is maybe there is someway to spread the word of (e:strip) there.
Granted I know Buffalo isn't Toronto or New York but I would think that there has to be someplace that has the type of night life you want. I do know that there are people in Buffalo who drive up Toronto to go "clubing" I know it takes some planing but it can be done .
In terms of the Artvoice awards I know the odds are not in favor of you or (e:strip) winning but I think you should still go. What if you where to win and you warn't there? The other thing is maybe there is someway to spread the word of (e:strip) there.
paul - 04/28/07 11:01
If I could have a total week long vacation with no ones intervention I would probably program the whole time in a new language for fun. I guess that is what makes me a super dork.
If I could have a total week long vacation with no ones intervention I would probably program the whole time in a new language for fun. I guess that is what makes me a super dork.
leetee - 04/28/07 10:05
(e:strip) will win this year!! Damnit!! Like (e:Museumchick), i can feel it...
(e:Terry) looks cute with the new 'do. Not only can (e:lilho) handle a giant tuber, but she can deal with a nogin? :O)
(e:strip) will win this year!! Damnit!! Like (e:Museumchick), i can feel it...
(e:Terry) looks cute with the new 'do. Not only can (e:lilho) handle a giant tuber, but she can deal with a nogin? :O)
carolinian - 04/27/07 23:35
I guess different programmers feeling differently about programming. After a long hard day at work programming, the last thing I feel like doing is going home and programming; it seems like it would be really depressing to do all that work by yourself and then come home to doing more solitary computer work. Of course, if you like the stuff you're working on (which I often don't), then it probably is a lot more motivating and fun.
I guess different programmers feeling differently about programming. After a long hard day at work programming, the last thing I feel like doing is going home and programming; it seems like it would be really depressing to do all that work by yourself and then come home to doing more solitary computer work. Of course, if you like the stuff you're working on (which I often don't), then it probably is a lot more motivating and fun.
mike - 04/27/07 23:12
isn't it just an honor to be nominated?
isn't it just an honor to be nominated?
04/25/2007 22:23 #39042
Hometown murderCategory: kenmore
When reading the local news tonight after my third ~twelve hour day in a row, I noticed that there was a shooting in Kenmore way back on April 4th. The drive by shooting actually took place in North Buffalo across from St. Joe's on the Kenmore border. I guess I am just really behind the times. I like to think when I was younger stuff like that did not happen around Kenmore, but honestly, I am not sure if I was just young and isolated.
I am amazed at all the comments on it
I can't even imagine if my brother (e:mike) was gunned down on the Kenbuf border.
I am amazed at all the comments on it
MONTY MASSIMI IS MY BROTHER. HE WAS GUNNED DOWN IN COLD BLOOD BY COWARDS WHO SET HIM UP AND ARE ON CRACK. HE LEFT BEHIND A BEAUTIFUL BABY BOY AND FIANCE. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION REGARDING HIS MURDER AND THE 6 INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED PLEASE CALL THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE ASK FOR SEDITA . MY FAMILY IS POSTING A REWARD IN THE BUFFALO EVENING NEWS THIS MONTH. PLEASE HELP ME BRING THESE SCUMBAGS TO JUSTICE!!! THANK YOU. WE KNOW WHO IS INVOLVED AND NEED ALL OF YOUR HELP AND STATEMENTS .IF YOU LOVED MONTY AND HE EVER HELPED YOU NOW IS THE TIME TO HELP US!!!!! THANK YOU
I can't even imagine if my brother (e:mike) was gunned down on the Kenbuf border.
mk - 04/26/07 23:55
if kenmorons have street cred, i think (e:mike), (e:jill) and i have the most, since we never abandoned the heartland. well okay, i guess i did for four and half years...but i always came back! good old kenmore...classy all the way.
if kenmorons have street cred, i think (e:mike), (e:jill) and i have the most, since we never abandoned the heartland. well okay, i guess i did for four and half years...but i always came back! good old kenmore...classy all the way.
deeglam - 04/26/07 23:43
how horrible! As a fellow Kenmoron, I think we should pass that off as a straight up buffalo shooting. Kenmore doesn't have shit like this going on; only buffalo does.
No matter where it happened, that is so sad. sign of the times.
how horrible! As a fellow Kenmoron, I think we should pass that off as a straight up buffalo shooting. Kenmore doesn't have shit like this going on; only buffalo does.
No matter where it happened, that is so sad. sign of the times.
mrdeadlier - 04/26/07 10:04
We Kenmorons are finally building up our ghetto street cred. Looks like we might be turning into "North Buffalo Lite" after all?
We Kenmorons are finally building up our ghetto street cred. Looks like we might be turning into "North Buffalo Lite" after all?
zobar - 04/25/07 23:13
Holy shit! Jacobi's is right around the corner from me, but I didn't see or hear anything about it. When they were renovating the place, old man Jacobi used to come into Curry's all coked up. I bet he's a mobster and he was all strung out on PCP. This neighborhood's going to shit, and it's time to move to Lancaster.
- Z
Holy shit! Jacobi's is right around the corner from me, but I didn't see or hear anything about it. When they were renovating the place, old man Jacobi used to come into Curry's all coked up. I bet he's a mobster and he was all strung out on PCP. This neighborhood's going to shit, and it's time to move to Lancaster.
- Z
mike - 04/25/07 22:26
still horrible and crazy just i mean its not like there are drivebys everyday
still horrible and crazy just i mean its not like there are drivebys everyday
mike - 04/25/07 22:26
um i'm pretty sure it wasn't random and was mafiaish type thing related from what I heard. People don't get gunned down in their cars outside of Jacboi's randomly last time I checked.
um i'm pretty sure it wasn't random and was mafiaish type thing related from what I heard. People don't get gunned down in their cars outside of Jacboi's randomly last time I checked.
04/24/2007 20:16 #39031
A nice dayCategory: food
The Monti Cristo and Chris's Sandwich shop on Delaware looks so amazing. (e:enknot) ate it.
It loosk very bright. I have had a considerable amount of time to work on a new interface for publishing that is much more dynamic. Hopefully, I will have a change to integrate it at some point in the near future. Lots of other stuff planned too.
There were so many African (like recently from another continent) people in robes today. I think I saw 4. That is 4 more than I have ever seen and they weren't altogether. I wonder where they came from. Robes kind of look comfortable but I would surely be mistaken for a terrorist if I wore one.
On the way back we had a photo opportunity with the best boss's boss I have ever had, the famous Joanne Ruh - also the winner of a BETA award this year.
Saw a poster for the roller girls on main street while flirting the scientologists (firefox keeps trying to make me change this to gerontologist, lol! )through the window on Main Street. There is some about men in a cult that makes me want to brainwash them.
Time to go start a fire and burn the ton of wood around my house.
It loosk very bright. I have had a considerable amount of time to work on a new interface for publishing that is much more dynamic. Hopefully, I will have a change to integrate it at some point in the near future. Lots of other stuff planned too.
There were so many African (like recently from another continent) people in robes today. I think I saw 4. That is 4 more than I have ever seen and they weren't altogether. I wonder where they came from. Robes kind of look comfortable but I would surely be mistaken for a terrorist if I wore one.
On the way back we had a photo opportunity with the best boss's boss I have ever had, the famous Joanne Ruh - also the winner of a BETA award this year.
Saw a poster for the roller girls on main street while flirting the scientologists (firefox keeps trying to make me change this to gerontologist, lol! )through the window on Main Street. There is some about men in a cult that makes me want to brainwash them.
Time to go start a fire and burn the ton of wood around my house.
James, they are frozen pees. And honestly they are organic rice noodles and not true ramen. I am a cheater.
I miss you to southernyankee. We mention you everyday at somepoint.
Are those freeze dried cup o noodle pees or forzen pees added to give the dish more class?
Paul, You make me laugh!!!
Miss ya...