Looking for a dog park in Buffalo? Well, most people have heard about the one in LaSalle Park. That's a nice facility and all, but after the 100th visit or so, you might be looking for somewhere else to take your 4-legged friend..

Not many people know about the "secret" dog park... Amherst State Park (WIKIPEDIA - Amherst State Park) on Mill Street in Williamsville. (MAP TO: 400 MILL STREET)

It's a beautiful old abandoned apple orchard, with a stream running through it and PLENTY of room to run. This little known gem in Amherst has been a closely guarded secret of the residents of Amherst for years.

Here's the catch... it's a STATE PARK... it's for everyone, not just rich white folks in Amherst. So I'm blogging here to let everyone know about it. If you're looking for a good "off leash" dog park, check out the AMHERST STATE PARK. Your taxes are paying or it, so go enjoy it!

Technically, the rules say you're supposed to keep your dog on the leash at all times, but from what I saw, no ones seems to follow that rule. Most people show up at 5 or 6pm on weekdays and let the dogs play 'til sunset... it's a blast!

As you may have noticed, my e-strip productivity has kinda died off. I haven't stopped writing, I've just moved it to my own little corner of the web. This will likely be my last post here, unless I use the API and tie it into Mambo somehow...

Why? This move is a good thing. Mainly b/c my wife and I have lots of stuff to post, much more than blog entries. Our main project on the site (ivyhurst.com) is our family genealogical project.

If you've never done any genealogy for your family, you totally should. It's been the most addictive and rewarding hobby for my wife and I. Digging through old records, tracking family members through history, finding out that I might be somehow related to Jesse James... all cool stuff...

Anyways... that's all on our site. (and my stupidity in blog format is represented, as well.)

About the site:

I went with Mambo ([link=www.mamboserver.com]http://www.mamboserver.com[/link]) for our main CMS, as it was easy to set up and customize. I just customized the default template, installed a few components and it was a go. I'm currently working on a new template, and that's coming along nicely.

For the genealogical portal site, we used TNG). That was one of the better $40 I've spent, as the software creator was super helpful in installation and dealing with moving our stuff from "ancestry.com", who is a pack of morons (for reasons to be explained in later blogs). TNG took a standard GEDCOM file and built a dynamic portal via php and MySQL. Very easy to customize, and very slick.

Since 1 site is enough, looks like I'm taking my lil' blogginess over to my new website (http://www.ivyhurst.com).

I did enjoy e-strip, and may post here again at some point. The community aspect is great,and I'm quite sure I won't have as many folks stumble onto my rampant stupidity there as would here, but that's OK. (Who really reads this stuff, anyways?)

-S

Here's a real scoop...



I think if/whenever I think I've totally lost it, I'm just going to re-read that bit of news and I'm quite sure I'll feel good about who I am and what I'm doing with my life.

Haven't posted anything in a while, but I have used a few post-its.

It would appear that one of my co-workers felt it was safe to take Monday off. It was not, and the 3M corporation thanks me for the increased sales of their popular Post-It product.




I think my lame office pranks are starting to grow predictable and stagnant. The formula seems to be:

Co-worker is away = Scott (and others) cover desk with crap.

Next time, I think I'll break the chain and just throw someone's shit out the window, or cover their tinfoil in office supplies.

When they return, I'll just deny everything. Now there's a prank. I can see it now...

Co-worker: "Dude... WTF? Where's my desk?"
Me: "Dunno. Haven't seen it."
Co-worker: "Seriously... not funny... where's my desk... my computer..."
Me: "I already told you... I haven't seen it! Fuck off already!!"

...oh the hi-jinks and hilarity that ensues...

In another work-related topic: I must travel to San Diego this weekend for a Pharmacy conference. Aside from scoring free drug samples and visiting the zoo, I'm open to suggestions on things to do in San Diego.

(This site needs a typo counter... mine would be up to around 500 b y now)

Here's why you should never leave your cube unattended anywhere near mine.



This cube belongs to The PJ, former drummer for a bunch of crappy bands, including my own former band 10 Pound Cock (Long defunct drunken punk rock band, and source of current user sound)

PJ's a coworker of mine and well, we all just felt he needed to be foiled.

As you can see, there's nothing quite like it. It's like a mini-xmas. Oh the joy!

Feel free to rip off this juvenile prank for your own purposes. (I sure as hell didn't invent it.)