Paul's Journal

01/27/2008 17:31 #43051

Replacing Honey
Category: food

Don't ever go shopping when you are angry that someone was stealing your honey, you have lots of money in your pocket, and there are rare and exotic honies to be had.

Sadly, this is not a metaphor for anything other than honey. Seeing as I did nothing this weekend, I spent all my fun time money on exotic foods suvh as imported proscuito, honies, olives, seafood.

This exotic, rare, white, organic hawaiian honey

is the best I ever tasted. zthe consitency is like butter.

I felt so guilty in the end so donated $5 to the food shelter. I know that not but no one else in line donated, so at least maybe I will gain some karma back.

I also bought organic sugar coated, fruit gummi bears at Feel Rite. They taste so freakin' good. It would be way cheaper to get the in bulk online

but I think I would die if I had 10 lbs of them. When I was chatting with (e:jim) about this I accidently type organic commie beers, weird.

fellyconnelly - 01/28/08 09:30
so what would make a commie bear organic?

jbeatty - 01/28/08 00:00
don't feel guilty, I spend all of the money I can afford on delicious ingredients.

james - 01/27/08 20:52
I love commie bears. Olaf is a good friend of mine.

01/27/2008 13:30 #43047

Ivory Soap
Category: photos

The best kind of clean.

paul - 11/26/10 11:57
I forgot about this, but google did not.

carolinian - 01/27/08 13:56
Ha-ha. The funny thing is that if there was a man and woman in full body swimsuits in the bath, it would probably be considered too racy for the era.

01/27/2008 13:03 #43046

Computers Suck Sometimes
Category: computers

I spent the entire evening working on the server. There is so much stuff that is barely documented in any easy to find place - argh but it seems to be working and it is way faster than the old one - so good for that.

(e:terry) went to some party with cats and then dancing for the last night of dancing at Off The Wall and (e:matthew) worked and then went to bed.

I hope winter will just end soon because right now I am on the verge of going crazy. Yesterday, a hard drive with lots of important backup stuff crashed. I was so annoyed considering I could have easily had a backup of he backup - but I didn't. Sometimes, even I hate computers.

I have a recovery program that could grab the data off of the drive but its a really time consuming file by file process and I don't have the time. So what is going to happen is the drive is going to go in the attic with the other 20 miscellaneous hard drives and someday if I need the data I will try again then.

01/26/2008 11:19 #43040

Words that annoy me
Category: words

Unbleached
What is it with words like unbleached. I was reading the ingredients on some bread that said it contained unbleached flour. To me, it seems like it should really be non-bleached flour as unbleached implies that it was bleached and then the bleaching was removed or something.

Like, how untying your shoelace kind of requires that it be tied in the first place.

Wireless Thermostats
Does anyone have a wireless thermostat. I want one but I never saw one before. I ams ure they exist.

james - 01/27/08 10:32
:::link:::

Thanks internet!

joshua - 01/27/08 09:15
Would you call unpolished silverware non-polished silverware? Would you call uncooked food non-cooked food? See, thats the dilemma.

jenks - 01/26/08 16:17
No see paul, that would be "debleached"

kidding.

My favorite line from the simpsons, or one of 'em, is when Dr. Nick says 'who knew inflammable meant flammable!'

Good point, dr. nick.

I hate that stuff too.

fellyconnelly - 01/26/08 13:10
mmm olives.

jbeatty - 01/26/08 11:27
Kinda like "pitted olives". To me it sounds like they have had pits installed.

01/26/2008 10:17 #43039

Friday
Category: buffalo

YAPL - Yet Another Parking Lot
On the way to work in the morning I was walking past this building and what appeared to be a Realtor outside was telling a couple that the building I circled in red was slotted to become a parking lot. They were just working with the city to get the permits or something. Maybe, I heard them wrong. I really don't care either way as that part of the street is so dead from Medina Deli to the Dare Care but I wonder just how many parking lots will be on Main Street in the end.

For some reason, that was the only picture I took yesterday. It's weird.

Work
It was a great day for programming. I got so much done but I still feel like 10 feet underground because of the crazy amount of stuff I have lined up. There are seriously like 17 million things I have to program. Maybe I need a 30 inch monitor like (e:jim).

I got this security system deployed for the IP cameras at work. I was really happy with the result and apparently so was the VP of secuirty.

Uh, can I RAVE about this Paul Visco guy just a little bit right now.

Smokin hot.

So, seriously, I am a hard worker and I love doing what I do - and it is so great getting positive feedback from work. During my five years at Canisius I did some amazing stuff which I thought really helped the program and I never felt appreciated. What a difference it makes to feel like you are making a difference at your job and that you are important.

Night Time
(e:terry) and I went out with (e:jim) and (e:james). It was fun as usual and the first time I had some drinks since the Crohn's thing started. I felt fine. In fact I didn't feel sick at all today. Asacol is seriously a miracle drug. I just wish I didn't have to take 9 pills a day.

metalpeter - 01/26/08 13:46
First of all glad you are feeling good paul.

Here is the thing with the train. Allot of people use it. If you live in the burbs and work downtown my understanding is that at the park and ride it is free to park then you can catch the train downtown and I'm sure that is cheaper then driving all the way down there and then paying at a lot. allot of people do use the train. I here the excuse the train killed downtown Buffalo you can't drive down main.
1) first of all what killed Main St. is the Galleria mall. The few Big time stores that brought people to the Main Place mall area all left and went to the Galleria mall or some other mall and then a store at the mall moved to the galleria.

2) There are two street you can drive down on the other side of main st that will get you to everyplace you need to get to on main. Some buildings like sheas and the building next to it and T.G.I. Fridays/hotel have entrances on two entrances one of wich is on Main. One of those takes you to the movies and the arena. The other goes behind sheas and can take you down past the pearl st. grill. Oh yeah and they both along with Elmwood & Delaware take you to the chip strip and isn't that really all we need.

Yeah it would be great if our Downtown was the center of town but I think those days may be over forever. Lets say some one gets there stuff together and builds a great waterfront where you can drive up on your boat park it and shop then go back out and fish and the fish are safe to eat. Then that Casino becomes a fire star casino that people from Asia come to visit and there is a strip club and high priced Asian Hookers. Then they build I state of the Art Football stadium that is a more modern skydome (now rogers center) and the Bills are a playoff team and so are the sabres, bisons and Bandits. That is all well and good but you will still have the two downtowns. The people who work there will go home after work. You will have the chip strip people and then there will be the waterfront Area and downtown I think will allways be that kinda middle unused area. It will never be like Torontos young st. Where people are out at 2am and you can't figure out what is really still open.

All that being said I would love for Buffalo to be Like TO where you have the rail down the center of the road and then you have traffic on both sides of it and people also walk down the street. I don't know as that would really work here though. I used to use the train allot when I went to Canisius and haven't used it in a long time. But It may get used on friday not sure yet.

fellyconnelly - 01/26/08 13:12
thats so awesome that you are feeling better with the aid of Asacol.

jbeatty - 01/26/08 11:25
I'll admit I don't find the train all that useful to me currently. But once I start classes on south campus I will probably use it everyday instead of driving.

paul - 01/26/08 11:03
Really, where would you go on main street that you have been avoiding becaus eof that lack of car access. The freakin' main street mail, lol?

I don't think the street trolley/subway being on main street is what makes it not work. I guess they could do like they do in toronto and mix the trolley plus cars but seriously, that subway is really used a lot.

Having worked right downtown at HSBC one for several years and seeing if first hand - I think peple don't realize how much that subway is actually used. It is often very packed. Its not lkie this empty unused system that just needs to go.

mrdeadlier - 01/26/08 10:34
"I wonder just how many parking lots will be on Main Street in the end."

There can never be enough. Like it or not, we suburbanites are spoiled with having a parking lot in front of every establishment. Honestly, this is good... Make it easier for us to get downtown and spend our money and we will!

The next step should be to get that stupid "subway" off of Main.