We went to Allentown Athletix for the first time after signing up over the weekend. It is really clean and the lockerroom/showers actually do not smell bad in any way like they do at the downtown BAC. The showers were really clean and the water pressure was like Hotel amazing.
We will see how motivated I am to keep going but it will help that it is only 2 blocks away. I miss the stomach twist machine from the BAC. Maybe they have one too. I kind of had a hard time finding my way around at first.
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06/02/2008 23:21 #44525
Allentown AthletixCategory: gym
06/02/2008 00:14 #44516
Indian Buffet at Tandori on TransitCategory: food
Don't forget to check out my previous post about Artist and Models. We went to Tandori on Transit for Indian Buffet today. The buffet costs $12 but is of a much higher quality than the Buffet on Elmwood at Taste of India. The rice was amazing as were all the food choices. I really enjoyed the curry goat.
They had this amazing pickled vegtable condiment. I love pickled anything. This one fruit, however, remained a total mystery. I am hoping maybe (e:tinypliny) can identify it for me. It had the consistency of a green, unripe plum but a totally different kind of pit. Anyone know what it is? It was just slightly smaller than a golf ball.
At the end they give you rose water to wash your hands I think. I hope it wasn't supposed to be some sort of dessert soup, because I washed my hands in it.
Also, here is a cute picture of (e:matthew) with jesus hair
They had this amazing pickled vegtable condiment. I love pickled anything. This one fruit, however, remained a total mystery. I am hoping maybe (e:tinypliny) can identify it for me. It had the consistency of a green, unripe plum but a totally different kind of pit. Anyone know what it is? It was just slightly smaller than a golf ball.
At the end they give you rose water to wash your hands I think. I hope it wasn't supposed to be some sort of dessert soup, because I washed my hands in it.
Also, here is a cute picture of (e:matthew) with jesus hair
tinypliny - 06/02/08 00:39
I love Matthew's hair. It looks so silky and awesome! :)
I wish my hair would stop looking and feeling like a broom. :/
I love Matthew's hair. It looks so silky and awesome! :)
I wish my hair would stop looking and feeling like a broom. :/
tinypliny - 06/02/08 00:31
I need to check out this Buffet.
That pickled fruit is one of my favourites! It's the Indian Gooseberry also called Nellikai in Tamil and Amla in Hindi. If you eat it raw and then drink water at room-temperature, the water actually tastes sweet and COLD! It's like a small gastronomical miracle. I have not yet spotted the raw variety here in the US. :(
In north India, they make a sweet pickle out of the Amla called the Murrabba. In the south, they make a HOT, salty and spicy pickle. In the west, they make a sweet-salty version. I am not sure what they do with it in the east. You can get the southern version at the Indian Store. It tastes excellent with curd-rice or with flat-breads such as the chapati and the roti (or maybe the naan).
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I need to check out this Buffet.
That pickled fruit is one of my favourites! It's the Indian Gooseberry also called Nellikai in Tamil and Amla in Hindi. If you eat it raw and then drink water at room-temperature, the water actually tastes sweet and COLD! It's like a small gastronomical miracle. I have not yet spotted the raw variety here in the US. :(
In north India, they make a sweet pickle out of the Amla called the Murrabba. In the south, they make a HOT, salty and spicy pickle. In the west, they make a sweet-salty version. I am not sure what they do with it in the east. You can get the southern version at the Indian Store. It tastes excellent with curd-rice or with flat-breads such as the chapati and the roti (or maybe the naan).
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06/02/2008 00:07 #44515
Artists and Models @ Central TerminalCategory: art
On Saturday night we went to the Hallwalls Artists and Models fundraiser at the Central Terminal. (e:Terry), (e:matthew) and I went with (e:imk2) and (e:mike) went with (e:jill). We all met up there. Saw a bunch of other peeps there.
There were thousands of people. Check out these shots of the crowd. Here I am standing in the middle and took a pic facing each direction.
Most of the art was really lame. Some of it was pretty cool. One of the most interesting pieces in the show was the release of all these red, white and blue balloons onto the veiling. Each one had the name of a soldier that died in the war. They slowly descended to the ground over the night. People were hitting them around and playing with them till they realized what they were. It was interesting to see the number quantified in something other than digits.
I decided to take the picture to look him up afterwards. It is creepy weird that I could find his funeral on youtube. Are all the soldier's funerals on youtube?
(e:imk2) and I had fun in the asbestos closet that was not an actual event but a closet that was just gross. It had a label on the door that said Canadian Customs.
Then we had fun in the bi-polar room. (e:imk2) explains it well with her facial expression. I just like the way the other pic came out with the slow lens speed.
(e:holly) and her boyfriends Brian did a pretty sweet interactive, multimedia experience piece. I forgot to get a picture of (e:robin)'s video but it was great as always. Somehow, I realized as we left that I missed (e:liz)'s piece or at least I am not sure which one it was? Anyone know?
There was another interactive installation that involved nurses, I could never get close enough to figure out what they were doing.
The highlight was the burlesque show. It was at that point that I discovered how much better (e:imk2)'s camera was than mine. I am now going to get a new one. Her pics were crytal clear while mine were blurry and crappy. We were the same distance away, both with all auto on but her camera is like 2 years younger that mine.
I captured this amazing performance for (e:metalpeter), I thought he would enjoy it. They did a blond vs brunette dance to the tune of "Dueling Banjos"
There were thousands of people. Check out these shots of the crowd. Here I am standing in the middle and took a pic facing each direction.
Most of the art was really lame. Some of it was pretty cool. One of the most interesting pieces in the show was the release of all these red, white and blue balloons onto the veiling. Each one had the name of a soldier that died in the war. They slowly descended to the ground over the night. People were hitting them around and playing with them till they realized what they were. It was interesting to see the number quantified in something other than digits.
I decided to take the picture to look him up afterwards. It is creepy weird that I could find his funeral on youtube. Are all the soldier's funerals on youtube?
(e:imk2) and I had fun in the asbestos closet that was not an actual event but a closet that was just gross. It had a label on the door that said Canadian Customs.
Then we had fun in the bi-polar room. (e:imk2) explains it well with her facial expression. I just like the way the other pic came out with the slow lens speed.
(e:holly) and her boyfriends Brian did a pretty sweet interactive, multimedia experience piece. I forgot to get a picture of (e:robin)'s video but it was great as always. Somehow, I realized as we left that I missed (e:liz)'s piece or at least I am not sure which one it was? Anyone know?
There was another interactive installation that involved nurses, I could never get close enough to figure out what they were doing.
The highlight was the burlesque show. It was at that point that I discovered how much better (e:imk2)'s camera was than mine. I am now going to get a new one. Her pics were crytal clear while mine were blurry and crappy. We were the same distance away, both with all auto on but her camera is like 2 years younger that mine.
I captured this amazing performance for (e:metalpeter), I thought he would enjoy it. They did a blond vs brunette dance to the tune of "Dueling Banjos"
metalpeter - 06/03/08 17:25
Now it works for some reason nice video.
Now it works for some reason nice video.
metalpeter - 06/02/08 19:06
First of all video wise when I click on it if flashes loading and continues to do so for about 3 minutes now, I'm using firefox as my browser so maybe I'll have to come back and try to view it again with a different one. But I wondering is there anything I do at my end so I can see the video? The girl in the picture above the video does look very nice, I haven't seen any burlesque stuff in a couple years.
The thing is about art that it is so subjective what one person will think is great someone else will hate. I think that is very true in performance art. I wonder if in the Red White and Blue balloons if all the people used where people that a search would bring up something on youtube and if that was another part of the art. Glad you had fun and got to see other (e:peeps).
First of all video wise when I click on it if flashes loading and continues to do so for about 3 minutes now, I'm using firefox as my browser so maybe I'll have to come back and try to view it again with a different one. But I wondering is there anything I do at my end so I can see the video? The girl in the picture above the video does look very nice, I haven't seen any burlesque stuff in a couple years.
The thing is about art that it is so subjective what one person will think is great someone else will hate. I think that is very true in performance art. I wonder if in the Red White and Blue balloons if all the people used where people that a search would bring up something on youtube and if that was another part of the art. Glad you had fun and got to see other (e:peeps).
james - 06/02/08 07:42
asbestos closet FTW! You guys bring your own performance art.
asbestos closet FTW! You guys bring your own performance art.
06/01/2008 10:27 #44506
The hunt for a turkey baster in BuffaloCategory: food
If you have already seen this before, it is because I just took this chunk off my last journal and moved it into it's own journal.
Lunch
We ate yummy mung bean noodles with veggies for Lunch. I strived to eat five vegatables in one meal and exceeded it: sweet potato, onion, chive, zucchini, summer squash, tomato, carrot, and garlic.
Turkey Baster
So last week we were making 6 racks of ribs for a family bbq at our house with (e:matthew)'s family. This was one of two platters this full. There were 16 people.
That day I went to Walgreen, Rite Aid and Tops on Niagara street but none of them had turkey basters and we ended up using a spoon and pouring which was super inconvenient for so much food. So when I was at wegmans this week, I looked for some and they had two varieties. The $1.49 variety and the $9.99 variety. I am a spend thirft and I am a sucker for luxury items but this one struck even me as totally fucking ridiculous. What could it possibly do that made it worth so much money and why is the sticker red like its some fire hot bargain.
Lunch
We ate yummy mung bean noodles with veggies for Lunch. I strived to eat five vegatables in one meal and exceeded it: sweet potato, onion, chive, zucchini, summer squash, tomato, carrot, and garlic.
Turkey Baster
So last week we were making 6 racks of ribs for a family bbq at our house with (e:matthew)'s family. This was one of two platters this full. There were 16 people.
That day I went to Walgreen, Rite Aid and Tops on Niagara street but none of them had turkey basters and we ended up using a spoon and pouring which was super inconvenient for so much food. So when I was at wegmans this week, I looked for some and they had two varieties. The $1.49 variety and the $9.99 variety. I am a spend thirft and I am a sucker for luxury items but this one struck even me as totally fucking ridiculous. What could it possibly do that made it worth so much money and why is the sticker red like its some fire hot bargain.
metalpeter - 06/01/08 12:23
Is that bottom one a sex toy and what is that thing that comes with it for? I think the price is because of that thing that comes with it looks like some kind of cleaning thing. It also looks like the plastic or is that glass is solid so it won't give, it also looks like it has lines on it so say you a certain amount of something you will know how much you have, but not sure.
Is that bottom one a sex toy and what is that thing that comes with it for? I think the price is because of that thing that comes with it looks like some kind of cleaning thing. It also looks like the plastic or is that glass is solid so it won't give, it also looks like it has lines on it so say you a certain amount of something you will know how much you have, but not sure.
fellyconnelly - 06/01/08 08:25
i always love your food shots... they make my mouth water..
i always love your food shots... they make my mouth water..
05/31/2008 20:41 #44502
Random - pre artist and modelsCategory: buffalo
So I was emptying my camera in order to make room for Artists and Models shots. As a side note I cannot believe we are going back to the freakin' Central Terminal on another chilly night after all the swearing and bitching we did about how much we hate the place. remember when I got death threated for hating on it (e:paul,31900)
web
I noticed that the Elmwood Village /Forever Elmwood site took down their link to us. I was never really into them anyways.
police
I got pulled over this morning coming down main street and turning left on North. Normally, there is a green arrow for the folk coming from downtown, but there wasn't today - maybe not on weekends. Luckily, the guy let me go - I was like 40 yards from my house.
The rental property
We are having the rental property's upstairs kitchen linolified. The previous tenant decided to take down the splashboards and stucco the whole freakin' kitchen. White stucco sucks for a kitchen, so now we have to do something with it. One thing I hate more than tenants that do nothing are ones that try and do things they are not capable of. This is the same kid that tried to fix the lights on Christmas eve and caused the big christmas drama (e:paul,42649)
The Church and parking
Well, they never actually moved pakring to the north side of the church like they said. They did, however, finally get the parking sign (you can see it in the pic below) and the parking guard but it didn't really work all that well.
The best was when the people didn't park across driveway but parked across the driveway two houses down from us, while the people in the house were trying to get a dumpster out of the driveway. The woman was all screaming and bitching about how crazy it was to get a parking spot when they made her move it. Seriously, when is it even ok to park your car across a driveway and leave it. People are fucking ridiculous. How are you goping to explain their anger Father Armand, more rascist neighbors, lol (e:paul,44401) That whole rascist is so ironic considering the way estrip started (e:news,29677)
The Jewish Card
I saw this card at the coop. Maybe some Jewish person can explain why his head is in a curved box. I get the whole Torah part, but the head part totally throws me, does it have meaning?
The gym
We went and joined the gym today thanks to (e:james,44431) The place seemed clean and nice - I am excited to go back. Ww promptly got into a fight about when we would go. Here you can see (e:matthew) looking thrilled to join.
Dibbles Hardware on Ferry
We do a lot of our hardware shopping at Dibbles Hardware on Ferry and at the Bargain Market across the street from it. From these keychains, you would guess they mostly have spanish speaking clientelle.
Why is Adolfo ok as a name while Adolph isn't - did it not translate over after WWII or have they already made reconciliation with the forever damned name.
web
I noticed that the Elmwood Village /Forever Elmwood site took down their link to us. I was never really into them anyways.
police
I got pulled over this morning coming down main street and turning left on North. Normally, there is a green arrow for the folk coming from downtown, but there wasn't today - maybe not on weekends. Luckily, the guy let me go - I was like 40 yards from my house.
The rental property
We are having the rental property's upstairs kitchen linolified. The previous tenant decided to take down the splashboards and stucco the whole freakin' kitchen. White stucco sucks for a kitchen, so now we have to do something with it. One thing I hate more than tenants that do nothing are ones that try and do things they are not capable of. This is the same kid that tried to fix the lights on Christmas eve and caused the big christmas drama (e:paul,42649)
The Church and parking
Well, they never actually moved pakring to the north side of the church like they said. They did, however, finally get the parking sign (you can see it in the pic below) and the parking guard but it didn't really work all that well.
The best was when the people didn't park across driveway but parked across the driveway two houses down from us, while the people in the house were trying to get a dumpster out of the driveway. The woman was all screaming and bitching about how crazy it was to get a parking spot when they made her move it. Seriously, when is it even ok to park your car across a driveway and leave it. People are fucking ridiculous. How are you goping to explain their anger Father Armand, more rascist neighbors, lol (e:paul,44401) That whole rascist is so ironic considering the way estrip started (e:news,29677)
The Jewish Card
I saw this card at the coop. Maybe some Jewish person can explain why his head is in a curved box. I get the whole Torah part, but the head part totally throws me, does it have meaning?
The gym
We went and joined the gym today thanks to (e:james,44431) The place seemed clean and nice - I am excited to go back. Ww promptly got into a fight about when we would go. Here you can see (e:matthew) looking thrilled to join.
Dibbles Hardware on Ferry
We do a lot of our hardware shopping at Dibbles Hardware on Ferry and at the Bargain Market across the street from it. From these keychains, you would guess they mostly have spanish speaking clientelle.
Why is Adolfo ok as a name while Adolph isn't - did it not translate over after WWII or have they already made reconciliation with the forever damned name.
If it is the stomach twist machine I am thinking of, those are so bad for your back. Just grab a medicine ball, lie on your side on a BOSU and crunch away. Better for your back and it targets your obliques more efficiently.
oh man those stomach twist machines are the greatest! i'm getting more and more jealous of you folks.... :(