Paul's Journal

07/09/2007 20:43 #40026

myspace.com
Category: web

Sorry we weren't able to find "paul visco" " on MySpace.com

Holy crap, I went on a little tour de myspace for the first time today - it kind of gives me that scummy feeling I get after hanging out at the pink.

Robert at work told me that Nick Battaglia, someone he knows, knew me. The name sounded familiar but I couldn't exactly remember who it was. So I searched their name online and ended up at

,which led me to myspace, which led me to see a hole bunch of people I know tangentially but did not know were interrelated. I realized through the connections that he was in fact the younger brother of someone I went to school with.

It all took me back to (e:chris)

iriesara - 07/10/07 12:27
Paul I think that's Cara Battaglia's little brother. They lived on Wabash, down the block from Julie.

bridgette - 07/10/07 04:45
yes i agree. its the whole 6 degrees of separation thing, we're all connected somehow.Besides being juvenile geared, i like my myspace. (sorry paul...not everything can be as cool as your baby right here :) ) but i got sucked in... my oage is phatty. check it out if u want :::link:::

mike - 07/09/07 22:29
myspace interconnections between people you never knew would know each other is insane!

07/08/2007 22:23 #40017

Our Baby Sugar Glider Is Growing Up
Category: pets

I wonder if this will ever stop or if we will have 30 of them like we did with the pet mice in Germany.

An with special effects.

Scary

paul - 07/09/07 20:44
They like sugary things.

tinypliny - 07/09/07 19:45
What do they eat? Sugar? Hence the name?

paul - 07/09/07 19:34
It will be a while before we can tell if its a boy or girl.

metalpeter - 07/09/07 18:56
I think this is the first time I have seen the Baby Sugar Glider. That one effect one reminds me of Mighty Mouse.

lilho - 07/09/07 16:10
oh, i love the babies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

brit - 07/09/07 15:12
is it a boy glider or a girl?

bridgette - 07/08/07 23:03
you guys are too silly!!! :)

07/08/2007 19:26 #40008

Languages and Cases
Category: language

I was thinking about how I was getting bored with only computer languages and wanted to branch out back into human ones when I realized historical languages might be more fun.

Old English (WIKIPEDIA - old english) piqued my interest because of its tied to the germanic languages and because it is so interesting. I am over that desire now, but while I was researching the languages of yore, I found a site dedicated to linguistic that talk about cases.

I thought German having dative, accusative, nominative and genative was over the top but there are so many other cases out there

I think I am going to just go back to german and maybe just research a dialect.

metalpeter - 07/09/07 18:53
I'm bad at languages. But If I could learn them I would love to learn Chinesse. Of course with my luck I would learn the Manderian dialect and then try to speak to someone who only knew Cantonase. I did see part of a special that showed how Chinese has changed over the years. They showed how something used to be a picture of a tree and how that writing changed over time. Korean might be preaty cool to since from what I have been told they use the Chinese Characters for some things and then they have the own language for other things. If I was going to do it for fun I would learn Klingon or maybe some Elf Langauge but only if someone told me if there was really a way to right Moon leters light in the hobit. Those are letters that only appear when the papper is held up to the moon.

james - 07/08/07 20:19
There was an onion article, or an actual real article, I can't remember which, who's headline read "Now more speakers of Klingon than Cherokee."

I have a problem learning languages because I never need to use them. It has never been useful knowing German except one time when I was a waiter and had German tourists at a table. It was never useful learning Japanese except to decipher what idiotic characters people had tattooed on their ignorant bodies. With no need to use it, I have forgotten both.

So unless you really dig Beowulf.

jenks - 07/08/07 20:13
to book = the book

jenks - 07/08/07 20:08
ooh paul old english is cool. I took a 'history of the english language' class in school and we studied a lot of old english. way cool. Yes, very germanic. And a lot of latin too. And cases. I think I have to book somewhere if you want to see.

mrdeadlier - 07/08/07 20:00
The only thing better than historical languages is made-up ones. That said,I want to learn Elvish!

07/08/2007 19:20 #40007

Solid Grounds on Elmwood Sucks
Category: food

I will never eat at Solid Grounds on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, NY again. I used to love it. In fact it was one of my favorite restaurants but now in July of 2007 it has gone really downhill. The decor, service, and food have all gone seriously downhill while the prices remained the same.

Our long haired, medium height, red-headed waitress at
Solid Grounds on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, NY sucked so much. She never even refilled our free refill lemonade. When the people behind us, which arrived after us, got their food I was pissed. (e:terry) joked that maybe our waitress had left. haha, right?

About five minutes later at Solid Grounds on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, NY our waitress shows up from the kitchen with her purse on and left the restaurant. What the hell!?

Eventually, some other waitress brought us our food minus the usual salad and potato side (on the menu) that makes $7.50 for an omelette seem reasonable.

Compare this very plain meal from today

with the very same order (e:paul,32837) placed in December of 2006

The salad was under the bread. Both of these same order of the same meal cost $7.50

Solid Grounds on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, NY also no longer have the slab style thick bacon, but have replaced it with ordinary thin bacon for the same price.

I heard some other guy complaining that he was charged for wheat toast that he asked for twice but never received. The girl at the counter actually asked him if he would like the side of wheat to go!

Totally unrelated, while sitting for 45 minutes waiting for my simple Apple Omelette at Solid Grounds on Elmwood in Buffalo, NY I read Artvoice and saw this ad. I can't believe there is a sale on VHS anything as we are in the era leaving normal DVD. Even weirder, is that it is for such a niche market.

jim - 09/21/07 20:45
We went by Solid Grounds today and it looked like they are out of business. Storefront is empty.

metalpeter - 07/09/07 18:46
I Personaly think DVDs may and should fail and everyone should go back to VHS. The reason is that you have four formats of DVDs that I know of. This doesn't include some other type of Disc that they used in I think Japan (some dvd's will playthem). This mess get started with sony. Sony makes Blue-Ray discs. Yes they hold more data but A blue ray player only plays blue ray. Then you have Hi-def Discs for people with Hi-def TV's. Then Sony decided that they wanted there PSP's to play DVD's well guess what they are two small to play normal DVD's so they came out with another form of disc. So now when ever a Movie comes out on DVD it has to come out in 4 formats including regular DVD. It is company irresponsibilty to have all these formats. I will admit that some HD DVD's do have non HD stuff on the other side. But what I'm waiting for is #5 and that would be HD Blue Ray who knows sony might even come out with there own TV's that you have to have that same type of player and discs for. The thing about Video Tapes is they are so much better for underground stuff like stuff shot in a basement or a wrestling tape from Japan. There is another DVD issue to. Some new players follow that right protected stuff so some shows they won't record but that isn't the case with VCR's. I won't lie it is really cool the way you can jump around on a DVD like on a CD but you could also do that on laser discs.

I don't know as I have ever ate at solid grounds sorry things where bad there. It sounds like they are disorganised. I have had a waitress go on break or leave and what she did was come right up and tell me that someone would be replacing her. Not to defend them but it sounds like they are cutting corner maybe it is because that part of elmwood is runed down. There are a few store fronts that have been empty for a long time now.

james - 07/08/07 20:24
One day, when I am unquestioned overlord over all of humanity and other sundry things, I will make it illegal for any coffee establishment to use the word 'grounds' in their name

Solid Grounds
Common Grounds
Grounds for dismissal

(e:Jim) and I went there about a year ago and I was overwhelmed at how underwhelming everything was about the place.

jenks - 07/08/07 20:10
hehe, way to make solid grounds on elmwood ave in buffalo ny so googly!

07/08/2007 11:12 #40001

Action Packed Weekend
Category: food

I did a lot, managed to really hurt my neck again and still didn't dance.

Got a letter from Germany that the university I attended is having a 450 year anniversary

and is inviting back all the Alumni. I would really like to go. I wonder if I can convince (e:matthew) . I should apply for italian citizenship first so that I can be all EU.

Taste of Buffalo was yummy. It is my favorite festival of all.

There were lots of people at The Taste Of Buffalo 07. I had fun with (e:terry) and (e:matthew) but no Taste of Buffalo is the same without (e:hodown) or (e:mike) , the biggest food enjoyers I know, neither of which I was with.

I ate craw dads, the main reason I like to go.

Everytime I see these cookies I think of (e:jim)

The polish sausage from the Polish Villa was tasty.

(e:terry) being attacked by a monster

Saw Matt Puchler - I was sad we didn't get to work together but it is really awesome working with (e:jim)

I finally painted the garage and the french doors on the back of the house. I am so happy as they really looked like crap before and it was stressing me out.

Then I attended Kenmore Days for the fireworks. Damn those people know how to put on a fireworks display. My cell phone can't manage fireworks pics like my real camera which is now totally missing in action.

I had my first taste of funnel cake, it was quite yummy.

I have been wanting to go dancing for so long but didn't notice Soma's chat post about the HEMF (music fest) on Grand Island

until today ;(

Which led me to

- I went to school with him in Kenmore. It is strange how our raver days never coincided. I think once when I was home and he was home we saw each other at a party. Now we are neighbors, he lives in the building behind us, but we haven't hung out - even though I saw him and said I would call. I am just not good at making friends or doing things other than computing / house repair.

brit - 07/08/07 14:41
guys, you never told me about the food festival, I would have come back and eaten myself to death. food in britain sucks, no chicken wings, no cheecheeburger, no casa, no cozumels, no anchor bar and worst of all no wendy's.....wtf?!

mrmike - 07/08/07 13:14
Ah, the funnel cake, the one true reason to look forward to canal fest

metalpeter - 07/08/07 11:59
Looks like you had a good time. I never thought a gecko could look scary but in that picture it does.

jenks - 07/08/07 11:18
ok paul the big questions is- did you suck the heads on the crawfish?