would probably use this for everything from now on but $35/gallon is
kind of steep considering I don't know if it works well or not. They
should have a cheaper introductory price so you could test it. The
color selection is great.
Paul's Journal
My Podcast Link
05/21/2009 15:51 #48714
Earth/lung friendly paintCategory: linwood
Home depot has this new low VOC lung and earth friendly paint line. I
would probably use this for everything from now on but $35/gallon is
kind of steep considering I don't know if it works well or not. They
should have a cheaper introductory price so you could test it. The
color selection is great.
would probably use this for everything from now on but $35/gallon is
kind of steep considering I don't know if it works well or not. They
should have a cheaper introductory price so you could test it. The
color selection is great.
05/21/2009 12:50 #48711
Get together BBQ?Category: holiday
Anyone down for a bbq on sunday at the 24? (e:southernyankee) is in town and we thought being memorial day weekend and all it might be a good time to have a bbq?
paul - 05/23/09 20:04
You guys can being food or drinks or dessert but I will prob have enough food here even if you don't bring anything as not the many people are going.
I am going to make sausage and burgers/ maybe ribs. Robert and James are making different kinds of salads, libertad is making pasta salad.
You guys can being food or drinks or dessert but I will prob have enough food here even if you don't bring anything as not the many people are going.
I am going to make sausage and burgers/ maybe ribs. Robert and James are making different kinds of salads, libertad is making pasta salad.
vincent - 05/23/09 15:15
I'm with (e:metalpeter) do we need to bring our own stuff? Also what time does this all start?
I'm with (e:metalpeter) do we need to bring our own stuff? Also what time does this all start?
metalpeter - 05/23/09 09:46
Would I be correct to assume that if I grabbed some burgers on my way over someone could cook them up? I suck at grilling my self
Would I be correct to assume that if I grabbed some burgers on my way over someone could cook them up? I suck at grilling my self
fellyconnelly - 05/21/09 20:22
looks like an awesome opportunity for me to reconnect with everyone, but of course sunday and monday are my only opportunities to visit my mom....
Drat.
looks like an awesome opportunity for me to reconnect with everyone, but of course sunday and monday are my only opportunities to visit my mom....
Drat.
metalpeter - 05/21/09 18:40
Sounds like a great idea (I don't think I'm doing anything).
Sounds like a great idea (I don't think I'm doing anything).
james - 05/21/09 15:47
gosh darn it. I love Ms. Southernyankee too.
gosh darn it. I love Ms. Southernyankee too.
jenks - 05/21/09 15:17
Im on call all weekend, but could still maybe swing by...
Im on call all weekend, but could still maybe swing by...
mrmike - 05/21/09 13:45
That would be cool.
That would be cool.
jim - 05/21/09 13:19
James and I will be out of town :(
James and I will be out of town :(
matthew - 05/21/09 12:53
What a great idea Paul! The weather should be nice on Sunday.
What a great idea Paul! The weather should be nice on Sunday.
05/20/2009 10:39 #48702
Sushi at wasabi(E:enknot) and I went to wasabi on elmwood for lunch the other day. We
both got the sushi/sashimi lunch for $12. It comes with lots of fish
and 6 crunchy crab peices. I also ordered some octopus and the sales
girl upsild us on some toro (fatty tuna) which brought my total closer
to $20 which is redox for lunch but it's also rare we eat sushi of
that caliber.
jbeatty - 05/20/09 21:55
Yeah, they are all about pushing toro there. I got roped into the live scallop, which I'm certain wasn't really live. I like wasabi for lunch, service is a bit on the akward side thought.
Yeah, they are all about pushing toro there. I got roped into the live scallop, which I'm certain wasn't really live. I like wasabi for lunch, service is a bit on the akward side thought.
jenks - 05/20/09 17:35
Have you been to Seabar? I finally went... and it was definitely good- but i'm not sure it was AS good as everyone made it out to be. (I'd been told that once I eat there I will NEVER want to eat sushi ANYWHERE else again.) It was also super expensive. Like $10-12 for a roll. I like wasabi.
Have you been to Seabar? I finally went... and it was definitely good- but i'm not sure it was AS good as everyone made it out to be. (I'd been told that once I eat there I will NEVER want to eat sushi ANYWHERE else again.) It was also super expensive. Like $10-12 for a roll. I like wasabi.
jason - 05/20/09 13:26
Last time I ate at Wasabi the waitress pushed the Toro as well. I went with the Uni instead because I always wanted to try it. Have you ever had the Uni? Interesting texture to say the least.
Anyway, I really like fatty tuna belly. Eating seafood is in my blood but I really don't get enough of it.
Last time I ate at Wasabi the waitress pushed the Toro as well. I went with the Uni instead because I always wanted to try it. Have you ever had the Uni? Interesting texture to say the least.
Anyway, I really like fatty tuna belly. Eating seafood is in my blood but I really don't get enough of it.
hodown - 05/20/09 12:55
That is SO much sushi for $20. If I ordered that here it would easily be $40 plus..
Color me jealous.
That is SO much sushi for $20. If I ordered that here it would easily be $40 plus..
Color me jealous.
05/19/2009 09:38 #48694
I wrote this after my first conscious visit to a hospital. I fell on
a pine cone and it ripped up my knee on 5-22-84. I remember the
doctors picking pine needles out of the wound and saying how it is
dangerous if they got inside. Apparently, I was bad at spelling then
too.
tinypliny - 05/19/09 15:01
Seriously, why do you have these ancient notes?
Seriously, why do you have these ancient notes?
mrdeadlier - 05/19/09 14:56
so what will you be doing on friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary?
so what will you be doing on friday to celebrate the 25th anniversary?
05/17/2009 21:22 #48686
Community College Drama on CraigslistCategory: web
I am fascinated by the drama on the craigslist's missed connections thread.
It all started because of a missed connection involving a bus and an ECC student that the writer admired. It then quickly turned into this over the top trash talk concerning community college. I see no reason why anyone would do this other than to inflate their own ego. I mean why would they even care, especially in the context of craigslist missed connections. The whole point of the site is hooking up with people you made eye contact with, right?
And the guy who wrote all the slander's location says New Haven. What is someone from New Haven doing in the Buffalo room anyways.
Original Post:
Responses:
Paul says: If only they hadn't written "ass whole" instead of asshole.
It all started because of a missed connection involving a bus and an ECC student that the writer admired. It then quickly turned into this over the top trash talk concerning community college. I see no reason why anyone would do this other than to inflate their own ego. I mean why would they even care, especially in the context of craigslist missed connections. The whole point of the site is hooking up with people you made eye contact with, right?
And the guy who wrote all the slander's location says New Haven. What is someone from New Haven doing in the Buffalo room anyways.
Original Post:
May 14 - the guy in the buss from ecc north - m4m - 27 - Date: 2009-05-14, 7:31PM EDT: we both were waiting the buss. i remember your black back pack. let me know if you know who i am and hopefully you know what i was wearing.
Responses:
re: the guy in the buss from ecc north - m4m - 27 - Date: 2009-05-14, 8:47PM EDT - Lately I've noticed this trend of people wearing backpacks and clothing with the ECC logo. What happened to the days when people were ashamed of going to ECC? Come on, you don't even need to know basic things like how to spell "bus" in order to attend.
Paul says: If only they hadn't written "ass whole" instead of asshole.
re: re: the guy in the buss from ecc north - m4m - 27 - replying to ads?] Date: 2009-05-16, 7:26PM EDT - To the ass whole who thinks there is something wrong with going to ECC.
It may not be an Ivy League college, but it is part of the Suny System now. It is no longer some shitty community college. Secondly I think it is admirable for someone to be taking the steps to better themselves whether it is at a community college or a university. Finally there is an admittance exam there, and you do need to know how to spell bus... have you ever seen a typo in your life ASS?
To any of you who do go to ECC there is no reason to be ashamed for going there. Hell I started out there got my AAS and now I have an MBA (from NU). If it was not for my start at ECC I would be working at some minimum wage job.
So I like many others are proud for attending ECC!!
Re: re: re: the guy in the buss from ecc north - m4m - 27 - m4m - 27 (Not a shitty school) - Date: 2009-05-17, 2:36AM EDT - Congratulations! You went from earning one shit degree at a school nobody respects to getting a useless degree from a school nobody knows exists. Doesn't it make you proud to boast about these non-accomplishments on craigslist? So long as ECC remains on your resume, the taint of failure will follow you to every interview and job you obtain. And, even if you remove ECC from your resume, the same taint - or perhaps a more pernicious one, the stench of poor judgment - will be evident from your MBA at Niagara University.
If you disagree, I suggest you to direct your frustrations to US News, an authority on school rankings. Let's have a look-see at Niagara's data, hm? First, Niagara's unranked, in contrast to schools like Harvard, MIT, and Dartmouth. A $35 application fee? Nothing compared to Dartmouth's $220. I see Niagara's not doing much to keep the riff-raff out. But how would you have gotten in otherwise? And look, unlike real schools, Niagara couldn't even be bothered to submit employment data. Am I supposed to believe the school's unglamorous "N/A" is in some way better than Dartmouth's honest 85% employment statistic in the face of a depression? Please, use all those critical thinking skills you no doubt acquired in the vaunted halls of learning at THE Niagara University.
In conclusion, you present a flawed premise. You claim that you have achieved something after graduating from ECC when you clearly have not. Do not respond to this; you'll only further embarrass yourself. ECC is a very bad school and part of a worse university system, given its potential.
re: ecc buss m4m - 40 - Date: 2009-05-17, 11:08AM EDT - just another angry queen that has nothing else better to do than start trouble.
its queens like him that give the buffalo gay community a bad rap... why don't
you old nasty queens get a fuckin life and leave others alone....
RE: The Bus Business - m4m - 2009-05-17, 3:11PM EDT Wow, it's just so great to see that classist, elitist douchebags will take any opportunity to inflate their undeserved sense of self-worth. So you attended some expensive school. Join the club. It doesn't make you a good person, it just means you had an opportunity available to you that others did not. And you're accusing other people of being entitled?!
Erie County Community College-BUSSSSS - Date: 2009-05-17, 12:51PM EDT - With reference to the obviously disturbed individual who spewed unkind things about the individual attending ECC & NU (whether or not they are true), I simply have to wonder who did what to this individual to have him be so unkind and nasty. Sad.
Erie County Community College-BUSSSSS - m4m - (New Haven) - Date: 2009-05-17, 2:46PM EDT Hi, the fellow who criticized ECC and NU here again. I'm not a queen, just concurring with the first person who asked where the shame in attending a community college went. Among people who accomplish things in life, this is in fact still a shameful thing. Nobody ever "did" anything to me to make me dislike either of these schools; my thoughts arise from the few times I've had to interact with graduates from ECC, NU, Medaille and plenty of other "schools," to the extent you can call them such with a straight face, while they served my dinner, mixed my drinks, de-scuffed a racquetball court, or mowed a golf course's fairway. Nobody should ever seriously consider applying to, let alone attending, those institutions.
These lesser institutions breed individuals who know nothing but have a haughty sense of undeserved worth. Witness the individual who utterly is convinced he's accomplished something by not failing out of ECC, he did not disclose where he finished his bachelor's, and then climbed all the way to the peak of academia at ULTRA-PRESTIGIOUS AND GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, THE CURRENT AND FUTURE HOME OF ELITE BUSINESS EDUCATION. Please. I'm doubtful this fellow could have gone elsewhere, as he probably got tripped up by all that complex ninth-grade algebra on the GMAT, provided he didn't drool all over the computer screen first. Who knows, maybe the labor of conscious breathing was too much for him to overcome in earning a decent score. No matter. The point is that not only are these graduates idiots, they are entitled ones, making them the worst kind of people to work with (assuming, of course, they could obtain meaningful employment). My message is simply a ray of light in a dark world where these people have convinced themselves that knowledge is power, their degree is worth something, and a world of riches awaits. In reality, these are directionless numbskulls whose biggest accomplishments will be the accolades they heap upon themselves for joining the middle class, in their view, and ignoring the nagging sensation of inadequacy belied by their resume.
Strive on, strivers. Strive into oblivion. Just know that those with greater native intelligence have already won.
The Bus Business - m4m Date: 2009-05-17, 3:11PM EDT - Wow, it's just so great to see that classist, elitist douchebags will take any opportunity to inflate their undeserved sense of self-worth. So you attended some expensive school. Join the club. It doesn't make you a good person, it just means you had an opportunity available to you that others did not. And you're accusing other people of being entitled?!
metalpeter - 05/18/09 19:24
Well when I have heard of ECC I have heard it called Easy C so many times. What this fight doesn't cover is the real facts of what ECC is supposed to be.
1) Cheap
I don't mean that it doesn't cost money but compared to state schools and private schools it is much cheaper. I think in California Community schools are free. I think you have to pay for books and stuff. Now that it is part of SUNNY or atleast their stuff transfers price may have gone up to SUNNY Price not sure.
2) 2 year and 3 year degrees or less.
I don't know what they are but lots of degrees take less time. Then you can take other classes at some other school. But what if 1 year in you don't like it, what would you do then if your where at Canisius.
3)Get college life
What I mean is for a lot of people college isn't just about learning. It is about being on your own for the first time and working and paying for school and going to bars. There is a balancing act. I don't have the stats but, I do know lots of students who did great in HS don't do good in school as freshmen and some drop out or fail all the classes they have before 10am. Do you really want to do this at some $40,000 school.
I think when ever anyone gets to their goal they should be proud. Then drop the pride and go after the next one.
There is another reason you can be proud to go to ECC, if you are on one of their sports teams.
There are also people who only need like a couple of classes to get there degree so they take a class there. I was in a class with a bunch of nursing students once, To say I felt dump isn't the word but it kinda was correct.
Well when I have heard of ECC I have heard it called Easy C so many times. What this fight doesn't cover is the real facts of what ECC is supposed to be.
1) Cheap
I don't mean that it doesn't cost money but compared to state schools and private schools it is much cheaper. I think in California Community schools are free. I think you have to pay for books and stuff. Now that it is part of SUNNY or atleast their stuff transfers price may have gone up to SUNNY Price not sure.
2) 2 year and 3 year degrees or less.
I don't know what they are but lots of degrees take less time. Then you can take other classes at some other school. But what if 1 year in you don't like it, what would you do then if your where at Canisius.
3)Get college life
What I mean is for a lot of people college isn't just about learning. It is about being on your own for the first time and working and paying for school and going to bars. There is a balancing act. I don't have the stats but, I do know lots of students who did great in HS don't do good in school as freshmen and some drop out or fail all the classes they have before 10am. Do you really want to do this at some $40,000 school.
I think when ever anyone gets to their goal they should be proud. Then drop the pride and go after the next one.
There is another reason you can be proud to go to ECC, if you are on one of their sports teams.
There are also people who only need like a couple of classes to get there degree so they take a class there. I was in a class with a bunch of nursing students once, To say I felt dump isn't the word but it kinda was correct.
lilho - 05/18/09 10:06
wow. i go to a cc, its cheaper and easier to transfer, and i know i'm not stupid so i could care less what anyone else thought. but those people are insane! and i know how to spell bus and most words, but apparently spelling has nothing to do with intelligence.
wow. i go to a cc, its cheaper and easier to transfer, and i know i'm not stupid so i could care less what anyone else thought. but those people are insane! and i know how to spell bus and most words, but apparently spelling has nothing to do with intelligence.
tinypliny - 05/18/09 00:41
This is hilarious to the extreme. Hahahaha
This is hilarious to the extreme. Hahahaha
james - 05/17/09 23:07
That showed up in my RSS reader. Who trolls craig's list forums?
That showed up in my RSS reader. Who trolls craig's list forums?
I don't know who makes it but I saw an interesting ad for some kind of paint that they claim helps your house smell better. I think that they claim that it obsorbs the smells but I'm not sure it sounded like it would be pretty costly, I also wondered if it was safe does anyone know. I rent so it really isn't an issue for me.