Paul's Journal

01/25/2008 00:52 #43026

At School WIth Terry
Category: school

I am so glad I was never in a major that involved classrooms with lots of people.

(e:terry)'s classes are in a room that could hold like 300 people. It has the ambiance of a bingo hall. It actually sounds almost just like one. People were disgusting and they left food everywhere.

Liek in every direction people just left food and drinks. I don't think I was ever in a class with more than like 30 people. Oh, once this biology class in germany but it was very intense and the people were really into it as you had to respond.

UB had this whole display about planning and talked about parking. Wow, there is sure a lot of it there on North Campus.

I got home a decided to take apart one of the old PDAs to see if I could canabalize the gsm modem for the not phone. I think it is totally possible but now I want a HSPDA one.

Watching the way over GPS

They had these crazy new pillar statues that look like they are being blown over, over by capen.

We ate dinner at Fuji Grill again.

Fuji Grill tastes pretty good but my surf clam was nothing liek the one I got the other day although it was very cute

(e:terry) got stir fry

jbeatty - 01/25/08 14:09
That looks like Knox 20. I fucking hate that room.

james - 01/25/08 13:47
you must have been lucky with the surf clam that one night. I have had it several times and it is always so meh..

fellyconnelly - 01/25/08 12:57
that stir fry looks really really tasty....

lilho - 01/25/08 12:55
can't wait to see you!

mrdeadlier - 01/25/08 11:22
Where is this Fuji Grill? I've never been there and it has GOT to be better than Shogun.

leetee - 01/25/08 09:52
You and Terry are so cute...

jason - 01/25/08 09:33
Oh, and I think I miss academic settings. I used to love just wandering around campus.

jason - 01/25/08 09:32
Man, I don't really remember people being so nasty with food and whatnot in the lecture halls. Freaking animals.

joshua - 01/25/08 09:13
Ahh yes... this reminds me of the statistics class I took in the School of Management. I showed up three times - the first day, the mid-term and the final. My friends signed me in the rest of the time... lawl.

I really liked the upper level classes though - 25 students or so and I only took stuff that interested me anyway... and I have to say that although I graduated with a degree in financial analysis I appreciated my English courses a lot more.

scott - 01/25/08 08:50
Oh how a miss large-scale lectures at UB!

I preferred the anonymity of large lectures. Here's why: I had felt more free to learn at my own pace. I could really dial-in and participate in material I needed to focus on, as well as "zone out" when the class went into material I already knew.

I always felt guilty when I ignored the instructor in smaller classrooms. (It just felt rude to be ahead on the reading when someone's lecturing to a small group.) In the massive munch-fest lecture halls, my complete disregard for the fluff material just felt less offensive.

jenks - 01/25/08 08:12
paul you're so cute. Did you go to class just for the hell of it?

gotta love those giant science classes. I would skip them all and read the lecture notes/handouts later. or not.

01/24/2008 23:40 #43024

8,000,000 views later
Category: estrip

I seriously cannot believe the journals have been loaded over 8 freakin' million 8,000,000 times. It seems like only yesterday it was 8,000. It amazes me more when I think about how much the old server has been though over the last couple years. I already am reconditioning it as a second server. Someday maybe we will need it.

I know code on a much more tightly timed loop could run a quadrillion times but it is exciting to see something you made work 8,000,000 without that many problems.

metalpeter - 01/25/08 18:27
Wow that is really allot. Congratulations to all of us and the readers and writers and viewers.

leetee - 01/25/08 09:49
cool

mrdeadlier - 01/25/08 00:08
Awesome news! Congrats.

I love this thing you've built. Not only the site, but the community itself.

01/24/2008 19:48 #43019

I freakin love the not phone
Category: mobile

I know everyone is probably sick of hearing about it but this new Nokia n810 and the xjournal

program that lets you handwrite full size pdfs and draw on them as journaled diary pages is like everything I ever dreamed of.

Hopefully now my handwriting just gets better.

paul - 12/12/10 01:40
Oops I meant n810 not n900. The n900 had its own connection but it was on tmobile so I never got one.

Ya it totally connects to wireless. It can also use another phone to get online. It think its actually the fanciest electronic device I ever owned. Its real metal, beautiful high res screen. I bought it like 3 and a half years ago and it still better than most of the devices I have minus that it didn't have its own connection. I looked online and they still go for like $325 - crazy.

You want to borrow it?

tinypliny - 12/12/10 01:18
I think I would draw a ton more if I had a tablet on the go and my drawing my get better... Right now, I struggle with expressions and active forms.

tinypliny - 12/12/10 01:17
WOW - I need exactly THIS. Handwriting. Drawing. Online Connectivity. Storage for a zillion PDFs. Support for annotation.

Can't you hack this phone to connect to wireless hotspots at the least?

paul - 12/12/10 01:15
I really miss the nokia n900. I wish so bad that it could have had a mobile connection of its own or that the new version was on AT&T. The handwriting with the stylus using xjournal was incredible.

01/24/2008 17:48 #43017

New Doctor and Allergies
Category: crohns

Dr. Bartolone believes it is crohns too. Says it doesn't matter either way as the meds are the same. I guess I really am on asacol for the rest of my freakin life. I am going to do a time lapse of my 270 pills in a bottle going away to 0.

At least it doesn't have any real side effects for me. He said if I am not experiencing them now, I won't probably later.

So seriously, no one knows what causes this and I am at least lucky that mine is manageable. I think I will just east healthy from now on and hope for the best.

I hope medical science figures out some more details, someday.

And I got a copy of my allergy tests. I am way less allergic to dogs than cats. It wasn't just in my head. I am as allergic to maple and birch trees as I am to dogs. Cats I am way allergic to but even more than that I am alergic to mold that grows on plants and ragweed. In fact I am almost 5 times s allergic to ragweed as I am to trees.

They are sending me for a celliac disease test too s the other allergy test only confirmed an allergy to wheat and not that I am gluten intolerant.

Dr Bartolones office is so the future of doctors offices. It was beyond clean and formal. Everything was digitized and all the nurses carried portable tablet PCs. Even the screen had privacy screens. Morever, all the signatures were digital.

paul - 09/09/11 23:13
I can't believe how much more allergic I am to ragweed and orchard grass than cats.

paul - 01/24/08 21:49
Its like the future. I kind of expected to get in some pod and have them hold a tricoder over me. I was on my Nokia tablet the whole time before and after and then went through a self checkout and ate a sushi bar. It was exactly what I expected from the future minus the take a red pill - in five minutes take four more - help is on the way.

imk2 - 01/24/08 21:47
yeah, that's how my neurologist's office is too. everything is super digital. they just press a button and it automatically faxes my scripts to my pharmacy, or they automatically print their scripts from their tablet to a script writer. they're probably able to afford that because they have 30 thousand patients that visit that office.

01/24/2008 15:36 #43013

GPS 7
Category: mobile

This is my seventh GPS device and I think my favorite yet. There is something ironic about taking a picture of this new device and talking about it from my windows mobile device.

Oh god, how I am going to choose what mobile devices to carry with me. I think the tilt but really be the best one ever. The keyboard on it is just so damn good. If only it ran something besides windows mobile.