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06/21/2007 20:07 #39758

trip pics
Category: randomo pix

pics of our trip to buffalo... there are not i know...

drivin drivin drivin

but this is our new home!

and this is our balcony!

anyway, i feel the need to inform you that one of my cats just jumped onto my shelf and stuck his head into a box of tampons and ran off with two of them. just what i need.

back to work!

leetee - 06/23/07 10:04
congrats on the new place. and welcome. i hope the move goes smoothly. :O)

fellyconnelly - 06/22/07 12:56
southernyankee: did you live in that tall building?

everyone: thanks

james: delaware avenue was just too damn colorful. besides, we wouldn't know what to do with all that balcony/kitchen space... it is just too much for the two of us. it would have been a waste, really....

drew - 06/21/07 22:43
Welcome. My wife and I are new, too.

james - 06/21/07 22:33
What? Was the one on Delaware not arty enough for you?
Sheesh.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

jim - 06/21/07 20:37
Welcome to Buffalo!

southernyankee - 06/21/07 20:11
I used to live across the street before I moved to DC! It's an interesting part of Elmwood. Lot's of character one might say...
Enjoy the strip!

06/19/2007 22:03 #39738

OFFICIAL NOTICE!

We just got back from Buffalo
(pics later)

We went first to esquared's sheldon apartments wherein they started showing us this first apartment....

"the guys who lived here before were artsy"

and when i mentioned (e:jim) and (e:james) she promptly said that it was their apartment!

we saw your plaaaaacceee...

lauren loves your color preference, but we have no idea how you could have lived with that kitchen...

and i have to ask... they were really going to raise your rent due to the 'balcony'?

anyway - we went over to the other place and fell in love. we took it.
we are official (e:strip)peerrss!!! 367 elmwood baby!

more soon...

leetee - 06/20/07 20:25
Congrats on finding a place. Well done! I hope the move is a smooth one...

fellyconnelly - 06/20/07 19:58
apartment is cozy but we don't really need huge amounts of space...
James: they were asking $750 for that apartment.... i don't know how you managed to peel OR roast a carrot in that kitchen!
and yeah... maybe they meant 'gay' when they said 'artsy'... or maybe she said 'colorful' that is kinda gay right?

thanks for all the well wishing... i think we homos and our homo cats will fit in just nicely....

ladycroft - 06/20/07 16:52
welcome to the hood :)

metalpeter - 06/20/07 16:50
First of all congratulations on getting a place that you both like. I'm not sure of the numbers on elmwood I can never remember them but I don't think you two are to far away from me, maybe I'll see ya around the hood.

libertad - 06/20/07 16:37
Do you think that she equates artsy with gayness? Maybe it was her way of saying yeah two homos lived here before, you will fit right in. Artsy Friendly housing.

james - 06/20/07 10:22
artsy? More like farsy.

They were going to raise our rent $40. After we moved out they were renting that place for $135 more than we were paying.

And that kitchen.... the stove it too small to roast anything bigger than a carrot, not enough counter space to peel said carrot. I turned the dining room into our kitchen and had to... oh, I am going on.

Congrats. I hope you like the place. That is a cool part of town to be in.

jason - 06/20/07 09:40
Congrats Felly. See, things have a way of working out one way or another.

chico - 06/20/07 09:25
Great location... right in the middle of everything, close to Allentown and walking distance to downtown in good weather. Well done! What's the apartment like? When do you move in?

Best of luck in the new digs!

joshua - 06/20/07 08:47
Sweet - you are my neighbor although you live a few blocks away. Congrats! =) =) =)

06/17/2007 12:56 #39704

rooaaaddd trip.
Category: randomo

buffalo HERE I COME!

i think we are leaving around 5 am. lauren hates me for that. but i'm driving, right?

we have to get up to wilson and drop off a bunch of my stuff at my brothers house, visit, and make it over to my other brothers house in ransomville before heading back into buffalo for a 2 oclock double appointment at sheldon apartments and elmwood village apartments.

then i have to run around putting in applications all over b-lo

tuesday morning at 9 we are to call and confirm a noon showing of another apartment.

we also have to call about a 2 bedroom on ashland.

and do some more job hunting

and lauren has to go visit the college at some point.

BUSY BUSY BUSY

and I still do not know where i'm going to end up staying. the problem is now that my family is guilting me into staying with them. oh sweet jesus if they were to find out that i came to western ny and did not stay with them then they would be convinced that the world is ending... so lauren and i are just going and saying the hell with it - we will get to where we are getting and do what we have to do....

okay i need to get some food and look for more apartments online

mk - 06/18/07 12:24
Good luck with everything!!!!

james - 06/17/07 19:07
That throughway stretch from Syracuse to Buffalo is brutal during sunset.

oh wait... 5AM? never mind.

06/16/2007 22:27 #39696

pop goes the brain cells
Category: randomo

so i'm recounting the deposits for the last week so that i can make a bank deposit....

and as i'm counting i'm noticing something strange...

i keep losing count between 14 and 15.

i say 14 in my head and then 15 and then i'm like... wait... was that right?

i did this about ten times just now and it makes me wonder if there is some reason i have forgotten that after 13 comes 14 then 15 and so on... perhaps its true...

this job has eaten my brain.

or maybe its just the zombies...

okay at any rate its time to go home, thank god.

fellyconnelly - 06/17/07 11:33
ACK! i do beleive you are right! that must have been why that guy was all waving his pocketwatch at me and telling me i was tired...

ladycroft - 06/16/07 22:40
i bet you were hypnotized to forget 14 follows 13. yah, it happens! look out for those random street hypnotizers!

mrmike - 06/16/07 22:29
I feel like that with increasing regularity at my job

06/14/2007 22:44 #39664

360 days in a year
Category: archaic

There is something about ancient knowledge that fascinates the crap out of me. The kind of ancient evidence that goes against what we know. We have an established history and millions of books that say 'this is the way it is'. And what interests me is the stuff that gets the panties of scientists and historians in a major knot. There are so many phenomena that are simply ignored because to actually look at it realistically would cause such an enormous shift in our paradigm of the world that nobody wants to even bother.
Anyway, I would go on forever about it, but instead I'll present you with my most recent findings.

This is from a book I'm presently reading.

The Aryabhatiya, an ancient Indian mathematical/astronomical work states:'A year consists of 12 months. A month consists of 30 days'

The ancient Babylonian year consisted of a 12 months and 30 days in a month.

The old Egyptian year consisted of 12 months of 30 days.

Plutarch wrote that ancient Rome (during the time of Romulus) the year was made of twelve 30 day months.

The Mayan year consisted of 360 days.

The Incan year was divided into 12 quilla of 30 days.

The Ancient Chinese Calendar consisted of 12 months each of 30 days.

In all the previous cultures, the addition of 5 extra days to the yearly calendar (and in some cases even the addition of a day every fourth) is indicated to have occurred around the same time.

This is the basis of the theory that at some point in the archaic past the earths orbital position underwent a change. Which leads to many other theories that I won't even get into. Because they involve everything from pole shifting, the changing height of human beings, floods, Atlantis, dual moons and the like.

Okay I've bored you all enough.

jenks - 06/16/07 21:47
hehe ridonkulous. I love that word.

fellyconnelly - 06/16/07 20:29

sigh* those evil clones and their silly games...

and yes mr stick in the mudpants, height and nutrition go hand and hand, but i think this theory was moreso suggesting that

a) long long long long long ago humans were much taller (in the 7 foot range)
b) at some point the gravitational pull of the earth increased and people started getting shorter..

theeeennnn all of us slowly started getting taller due to the sudden desire to eat our leafy greens...

but again, this is all a fun little theory, and even the notion that at one point we were 7 foot tall is viewed as highly ridonkulous by most...

james - 06/15/07 23:18
Oh no, that was a most foul typo put in by my evil clone/copy editor who was banished to an digital prison replete with horrid special effects like Superman II.

Not to be a stick in the mud, but the change in human height is most often explained by nutrition.

We gargantuan whities of the west are a head taller than we were a century ago because more people have access to better nutrition (agrarian France was covered with fast food chains until the 30 years war 1784-1787),

During the US occupation of Japan and the following economic boom the height of the average Japanese person has grown like it did in europe over a few hundred years.

I have records in my villa in Hyperboria Thule

fellyconnelly - 06/15/07 17:31
holy crap i love you people!

the whole idea of height being related to gravity is a new one to me and only briefly touched upon in the book. It seems as though the idea is that the less the pull of gravity downward, the less resistance there is for humans to grow taller. There is speculation that there was some type of celestial happening that involved the moon, gravity and resulting in a pole reversal, axis tilt and a sling shot action of the earth moving further away from the sun in its orbit.

Anyway, the book that I'm reading is actually about Atlantis, but once you skip through the 'channelling of the ancient high priests of atlantis' parts then you get to the good info about ancient myths, stories and some scientific stuff that is all quite fascinating.

And James - i'll keep an eye out for those authors. And I don't know if you MEANT to say that we are NOT history buddies, but if you did i'm crying on the inside right now. It is a flood of tears enough to sink atlantis. And Mu.

james - 06/15/07 10:06
Since we are not history buddies allow me to make a few recommendations.

Danial Borstein doesn't write hard academic history, which is good as that allows him to write fascinating stuff. You might enjoy The Discoverers. It deals with ancient knowledge, how we have come to know what we know, and the people who made those changes.

Loren Eisely. Anything by Loren Eisely. He was a paleontologist who would write about the human condition in the context of his field. Knowledge of the world is a central issue. You can get his work, which is some of my favorite writing, for pennies on Amazon. Phelestines.

These various civilizations each based their models on the universe on ones they imported from other places. Indian astronomers knowledge of the solar system spread into China, Babylon, to Egypt and finally into Europe.

By the Mayan's and Incans? They didn't even have metal tools and they built pyramids larger than in Egypt? But they totally received knowledge from aliens or astral beings or something. That is like having the combustion engine before fire.

theecarey - 06/15/07 00:25
bored? hardly! ooh, I am all about paradigm shifts. I often say- "learn and unlearn"-- think outside the box!

and yeh, i am always fascinated by streams of information that were left out along the way. Like, if history as we know it is a mathematical formula, and all of the variables of the formula are things that we know and accept (ie, textbooks, controlled lab experiments, and anything else generally accepted as truth), which add up and form a tidy equation.
Then explorers, seekers of information, "unlearners" and others, bring forth new/forgotten/hidden information, this blows the former equation to bits (ah, paradigm shift)!!

Those new variables change everything- excites some people, scares the hell out of other people.

ie; what do you mean the earth isnt flat?!

panty bunching doozies off the top of my head--creation of antibiotics and hygiene standards, Dead Sea Scrolls, Mayan mysticism, cave drawings, unearthed vessels, The Arybhatiya, quantum physics, Barney, space exploration, stem cell research, --etc etc etc-- variables that keep having to be added to this giant "life formula".

and yeh, like you said, new info gets a whole bunch of "this is the way it is" peoples panties in a major knot. And thats ok!

The book you are reading sounds cool. As a science nut (while believing that everything is related on some level), its neat to read about different theories. Would llike to hear more about your take on the changing height of human beings.

museumchick - 06/14/07 23:14
I think its fascinating, actually. I never knew that theory about the earth's orbital position. I could see how that could cause floods. How would it affect people's heights, though?