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10/19/2008 10:31 #46190

Halloween Costume and Strippers
Category: dancing
I am thinking about being Freddy Mercury from queen.

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So last night was Bad Boy Bill at Madmoiselles Gentlemen's Club that I wrote about in (e:paul,45944) The atmosphere was so weird. The club is one big dance hall with a dual cat walk and stripper poles. The women were actually pretty okay to good looking. Not what I expected. Although, honestly I was surprised that only 2 women out of all of them did no have cellulite despite being skinny (with curves). Is it a genetic thing or an age thing? Do all women have it and I just never saw that many of them so clothesless?

The women can't get really naked. Not only do they where outfits but hey have these weird nipple shapped bandaids on their nipples. Its not like in Canada where I saw the male strippers. I imagine the female ones are crazier in Canada too.

The fact that most people were there for dancing and not for the strippers made it all such a strange atmosphere. At first I felt weird dancing because the strippers are dancing but as the music got better most of the crowd started to dance. The problem is it was dancing on carpet. I hate dancing on a carpeted dancefloor. No pun intended.

Broke my glasses on a stripper
So (e:enknot) gave me a dollar to give to a stripper and I tried. First, he and (e:Terry) went then I went to give her a dollar and when she moved her breast hit my glasses and broke them. She was like, "I think I am breaking you glasses." I am such a dork. I later noticed you are supposed to take them off. I guess you live and learn although I don't know the next time I will go anywhere, where the drinks cost so much and are so weak.

Notice the missing pads.
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james - 10/19/08 21:11
I believe the term is pasties.
tinypliny - 10/19/08 20:21
You look really tired in that picture there. Get some rest!!!
metalpeter - 10/19/08 16:26
In terms of strip clubs in Canada Full Nudity is legal. I have been to a couple in Toronto. But here is where things get weird. IF you go to one in Toronto the girls will be on the stage and you can get lap dances and girls will sell you lap dances in fact that I think is where they make there money. I was talking to this one girl briefly who used to work at one of the places in the falls and she basicly said just watching doesn't go over there. I went to GTR's once (like 9-10 years ago I'm guessing) {Canada right over the boarder before you get to the KOA campground) and guys ladi on stage girls hit them with belts, looked down there boxers, Poored a pitcher of water on them, and the one guys girl at the time flashed the stripers her snatch. I don't know if the laws are different in differnt parts of Onterio or if it is the enforcemet. Hey things could have changed. I know in NYS it used to be legal for women to go topless in public anyplace a man could go topless, that is as long as it wasn't done in a sexual way.
leetee - 10/19/08 13:42
Perfect costume idea for you, Paul. :O)

In Canada, or more specificly, Ontario, it is legal for ANY woman to be topless. Back in the '90s, some chick from Guelph Uni took off her top and fought the laws saying that her inablity to take off her top and the ability of males to take off their top was sexist. Nothing will make a politician shake in his boots more in Ontario than a sexist label, so, after much debate, it became legal for men or women to be topless in public. That first summer in Toronto was interesting, to say the least. I think the "hey look at my tits" phenomena has quieted in recent years.
tinypliny - 10/19/08 12:21
Yeah, you do look like him. :D
dragonlady7 - 10/19/08 11:55
I went to Pharaoh's and they weren't completely topless-- they wore those weird clear little nipple cover things. You could see nipples right through them, but they weren't bare nipples.

They also couldn't show bare genitals, but I thought that was pretty standard. The NY State law is that no place that serves alcohol can have total toplessness, hence topless juice bars.

In Canada they are allowed to be topless. I am not sure about going bottomless. I only saw male strippers in Canada-- I wanted to go upstairs to see the girls, but the coworker I was with was really uncomfortable with the whole nudity concept and adding girls to the mix would've broken her tiny mind, so I stayed down with the mens with her.
The men showed full nudity, but not much of it. So I suppose that would mean the women could too.


Incidentally I think you would be awesome as Freddy Mercury, (e:paul).
Oh! I'm bringing a friend, one of my roller derby comrades, to the party-- I'll warn her no heels or wheels in your house. We may stop by and then go on to another party, but if we do we'll probably leave (e:zobar) with y'all and come back later. (E:strip) parties are like going out and being home all at the same time! :)
carolinian - 10/19/08 11:13
About two month ago I saw a picture of you wearing a thin mustache and thought you bore a striking resemblance to Freddie Mercury. Go for it.
metalpeter - 10/19/08 10:57
I assumed that at that place they could go completely topless. I know at Pharohs they go completely topless. I wonder if having an event there changes them to not being able to show their nipples or if they figure most people are there to dance screw it. I'm not sure how it is done exactly but I would assume that if the dollar is given and the looking is done right you can see some snatch. I'm not a dancer but it seems like dancing on a rug would be weird since some dancing moves you slide your feet or maybe even legs and a rug would kinda stop that. Still sounded like a good time. Hey in terms of the costueme that might work pretty good.

10/18/2008 14:20 #46180

Time warner and channel 4

This is so ridiculous. My parents have Time Warner cable. My mother
works at channel 4. The two companies still don't have an agreement,
so to watch the news channel 4, this is the solution.
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tinypliny - 10/18/08 22:56
A quicker solution. Just ditch the TV. :)
metalpeter - 10/18/08 15:35
I agree it is pretty stupid and both sides seem not to care at all about the viewers. I admit I kinda jealous of those two TV's next to each other it would be awesome to be able to watch a show with a story and then sports right next to it. Yeah they do need to be more civilised and do what is best for the viewers.
mrmike - 10/18/08 15:07
You're right. It is ridiculous. It's a corporate level fight which leaves both sides in each market to just take the abuse. You'd think Ch.4's owners would recognize the golden p.r. opportunity of keeping the channels on and taking the high road, but no......

10/18/2008 12:40 #46178

Rusty cars

I know buffalo is notorious fir rusty cars but I never saw one like
this. I probably should not text and drive on this corner seeing as
it is the only place I ever got into an accident. I am stopped at a
red light at least.
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tinypliny - 10/18/08 22:58
Heh... with a little creative gradient painting, it could look as if the car had a nice orange to brown gradient design in the back.
gardenmama - 10/18/08 12:59
I can't tell what kind of car it is but I know there was a line of Chevy cars in the late 1990s that had a bad problem with their paint. I had one that my dad had given me when he was done with it and the paint started coming up in bubbles and then flying off in big sections. I had to have it stripped and repainted - and no, Chevy didn't pay for it. They maybe had a problem like that but didn't take care of it.

10/18/2008 10:43 #46175

Worky, worky
Category: work
Last night I worked till like 11PM to finish up all the projects that had to be converted to the new flash upload. Some of them still have to be launched into production because I can't do that without signoff. At least they are ready to go. I can't believe what a pain in the ass it has been because of this one decision Adobe made. I wonder if they realized so many people were using their system the way it worked in flash player 9. Then I worked on a new AD based security system which seems to work out well.

I also had this serious issue where IE6 was blanking out on cached javascript files. I kept thinking it was some problem witht he scripts themselves but it turned out to be that it really just can't handle javascript gzipped. I set my .htaccess file to stop gzipping the content for IE6 and everything was fine. Honestly, that browser has cost my thousands of hours of wasted time over the years.

By the time I got home I was just ready for bed. So despite having guests over I passed out.

Today, there are like ten million other programming tasks I want to accomplish like adding native querySelectorAll support to the surebert toolkit but I am going to try and take a day off. The native querySelectorAll is pretty neat and it is extremely fast. The browser makers are finally starting to realize that programmer want js dom node selection through css selectors and it could be much more efficient if the browser just did it instead of having to use a js library. Safari 3.1 already has support, so does firefox 3.1 beta and the new IE 8 is going to have it at well. I can't believe something new will have cross browser support.

If only Roswell could move past IE6 which is sadly still our official browser.
tinypliny - 10/18/08 11:37
I just want to thank you for posting this. I was feeling awfully demotivated today morning and somehow this post makes me want to go out and do what it takes to accomplish the random things I need to do! You are an inspiration right now! THANK YOU! :)

10/16/2008 22:32 #46149

New York State Salaries and Offices
Category: work
Someone sent me this link the other day where you could see the actual paid salaries of all New York State workers for 2007

Its hard not to be jealous, especially when you are talking about the top paid people at Roswell.

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I thought Dr. Hohn retired, maybe that was his severance package. According to this , he is administering "the newly-formed Empire State Stem Cell Board." From what I hear everyone loved him and he really turned Roswell around.

Seriously though, can you imagine making that much money in Buffalo. It amounts to about $30,000 a week. Let me repeat the - in Buffalo part. Are there even properties worthy of that salary in this city. He could buy the best properties in the city on one years salary.

In comparison, here is the top paid at Suny Buffalo. How is it that Dr. Linda Brodsky makes so much more than the other execs at Suny Buffalo. Check out that $799,000 salary! I guess being a doctor and an executive is really the way to go, its the same with all the top paid Roswell employees.

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I decided to just go ahead and look up the top salaries for all New York state employees regardless of organization and guess what Dr. Hohn is still #1 followed by closely by Linda Brodsky and all the top execs at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

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What's even crazier is when you think of all the money they make on their side companies and discoveries. I am so curious how that all works. It seems to me when I make anything at Roswell they own it, but all the top people have side companies. I really need to work on the side company thing in my 40s.

Back to my Dept
In my department the difference between the different jobs is not too extreme. Not like in the medical depts. It goes from $35k to about $100k. This year I didn't make as much as I could have if I was overtime elligable. Next year I will make more because I moved up a couple pay grades this year. In the end I am satisfied although I sometimes want to kick myself for not going to medical school.

In the short term, I would rather have an office than more money. Two of the guys I work with just moved from cubicles to offices and I was visiting today thinking how nice it would be to have a meeting space/demonstration table built into your work space. I actually live in the shafted cube thats cut back to make room for an isle and don't even have a chair for people to sit at like other the other guys do. Its kind of redic seeing as I have constant meetings with people on how to do stuff as part of my new job and they just stand behind my chair or sit on a chair just outside my cube.
mike - 10/18/08 10:03
I am so nosey, I love this site!!! i am looking up people like whoa!
tinypliny - 10/17/08 22:04
Because you are paid via federal grant money, not NYS money?
imk2 - 10/17/08 08:55
why can't i find my self or my bosses?
tinypliny - 10/17/08 00:13
Heh, I know this is such a cliché but sometimes, money isn't everything. Because in the end, the differences you made with your life, and the meanings you found for your limited time here will matter far more than anything else. :)