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11/08/2007 20:22 #42050

Suburban Snow Storm
Category: weather
Well, we have no snow in the city, but it looks like they had a bunch in cheetovegas.

I am so sad I missed Sushi ;(


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lilho - 11/09/07 14:03
cheetovegas! you need to copyright that now! oh my pauly, i miss you so!
james - 11/09/07 12:33
I was in Orchard Park on Tuesday (not willingly) and it was snowing buckets. I saw a car spin out of control and two accidents on my way back to Buffalo.

Buffalo, where there was no snow to speak of.

We so have the wrong reputation.
flacidness - 11/08/07 23:25
SHIT!!

11/07/2007 19:19 #42033

Eating on Server Day
Category: food
What would a server setup day be without some other exotic seafood. Today I tried these white clams with black stripes. I think they were cultured because they were in fact the cleanest clams I have ever seen, they were also maybe the tastiest.

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Then (e:terry) made bacon wrapped asparagus. I would suggest it to anyone.

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And then I ate a pomegranite. I think this is the first one I ate so much of. Usually, they just end up drying out.

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Are neighbors had the funk truck come by today. Since when is Funk, organic fertilizer. I thought it was spray chemical. Have they changed their business model?
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mike - 11/09/07 10:46
i love bacon wrapped asparagus!
fellyconnelly - 11/08/07 10:01
jbeatty you said it before i could...
bacon wrapped.... ANYTHING!
paul - 11/07/07 19:58
I never saw ones like that either. I found them at the coop.
jbeatty - 11/07/07 19:30
I have never seen clams like that before. Do you know what kind they were? Bacon wrapped anything is usually a good idea.

11/07/2007 03:12 #42020

Special Characters In estrip v6
Category: estrip
Her you can see a paragraph in German using special characters in the new estrip v6 coming soon to a website near you.

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tinypliny - 11/08/07 23:32
I LOVE the colours. I can't wait for the cream and the green!
jim - 11/07/07 09:48
Tøtälly Awésome

janelle - 11/07/07 07:30
Finally, I can post in German with real umlauts and double ss's. I'll never need to write another post in English again. Thanks, Paul!

11/06/2007 12:13 #42005

Jim's Harness
Category: work
Looks like (e:jim) is testing harnesses at work.
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james - 11/06/07 18:28
I thought this post would be about something entirely different.

yes, it was dirty.
jim - 11/06/07 13:14
autotest, baby!

11/05/2007 22:01 #41990

Text Pagers and the Wegmans Parking Lot
Category: work
I cannot believe at Roswell, they still make employees carry those stupid 16 lb, chunky 1980s, green screen text pagers. Looks like Kaleida uses them too as (e:jenks) was carrying one today too. How is it that the device can only text page when a cell phone that big is capable of video chat. Seriously, it is so backwards. I feel like it shouldn't have to be any bigger than an ipod shuffle clip. Its like that company make them way back when and just never upgraded technology as everything else got more advanced and smaller.

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The new vendor system they bought for the phones is supposed to let you forward your pages to another user when you are out, but after of a bunch of terrible ( in my opinion) decisions and huge amounts of resource and time waste, no one knows about the new vendor system or how to use it, it doesn't properly integrate with our in house systems (that people actually use and (e:enknot) created). The escalation feature that it has could have been implemented much more efficiently in house. I wish that was my project.

I know for a fact that some people just don't get pages from our directory and no one seems to care, hm. Seems important to me.

What set this off. Seeing (e:imk2) in the hall carrying two stupid pagers around. She said sometime she ends up with four. That just blows my mind. It must weigh more than a laptop.

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I wonder how anything really gets done in big organizations.

On another note, for the first time ever I saw Wegmans parking lot nearly deserted on Halloween night. i guess it is the kind of holiday that no one is really cooking a meal for. Why is that? Isn't there some special Halloween fare besides candy? Next year I am just going to make it up and eat a halloween goat - that sounds like the appropriate animal for such a Holiday.
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lilho - 11/06/07 11:00
count me in for halloween goat. can i help to sluaghter it?
imk2 - 11/06/07 04:32
yeah, i'm so glad that mine is a text one. now only if i could text back from it....one can only wish.
tinypliny - 11/06/07 03:18
Halloween Goat. hahahah *I am not sure I should be laughing so hard at 3:00 am in the morning.
libertad - 11/05/07 23:30
Nice pics of (e:imk2)
jenks - 11/05/07 22:55
yeah, paging technology blows. They keep telling us they "want" to give us some sort of amazing 'communication device' but claim they can't b/c of HIPAA. But I'm sure it's all about the $$.
But get this- those giant pagers you're talking about are like the creme de la creme. We're HAPPY when we get those those ones- usually get the shitty little tiny numeric-only ones. So mine died once, and i needed a replacement, and I thought I would be sneaky and get an upgrade while I was at it, but noooo b/c the numeric ones are $3/mo and the text page ones are like $6. I wanted to be like "I will pay you the extra $10 for the 3 months I carry this pager."

Wow, that was a lot of words about nothing. I think it's bedtime.