Metalpeter's Journal

05/06/2010 18:29 #51516

Buffalo Sat #3
Category: elmwood

I did have a good time on my short adventure on Saturday. So back to where I left off I guess. I just wish it was bright out I think it would have made the pictures "Pop" more and would upped the fun level a bit also. But I did run into 4 people I know so that was interesting and I did get to see the Carvings for a cause with out freezing my hands but forgot to go see the one I saw at Grover in the Paper.

I think there has to be something those towers can be used for, yeah I know that aren't as cool looking as like towers in europe but they are pretty nice and it should be used I think.

In Terms of Pano's the pictures below I'm not sure if they really show the point I want to make. (e:MrMike) wrote about how he wants to or is going to add a patio. Now adding one I think is silly. If you look at the grass it doesn't look like there would be much room really. But the other thing is you see those panels they slide open so you have a covered patio when it is nice. Not to mention that would have to be open anyways how would the wait staff get to the patio other wise. Also I have never been to the thirsty Buffalo but their side area looks like a lot of fun.

That day was odd I had a visual or flashback kinda of when that shoefly tent took out (e:Vincent) man that was crazy.

Well that Saturday was interesting we shall see what happens this Sat. I would really like to see Snapcase that show really snuck up on me we shall see then Sunday is Mothers day of course.

ladycroft - 05/13/10 09:36
They re-did that house shortly after I moved on that street...so 2006. The garden came after; you're probably on target with your guess.

metalpeter - 05/07/10 17:13
It is on Bryant about a block from Elmwood heading towards Richmond it is on the opposite Corner from Aroma or what Ever the Italian Place is called. I don't know the entire History of that little house but what I do know is that on that Corner their used to be a commuity Garden. So I assume at one time there was a house there. I really don't remember. I guessing a few Years ago is when they started or maybe finished that little house there. I have no idea if someone bought the land or how that all works. I can't remember if (e:ladycroft) lived on that street when the garden was there or if it was the house. The reason I mention that is she may have more info on it then I would based on when it went up (niether of her roomates post here any more so......)

Just wanted to add one other thing about the place across the conrner. It used to be Called Taste of Italy or something like that. Before it closed or got bought or what ever I went once and didn't like it. It wasn't that the food wasn't good. It was one of those fancy places with fancy stuff I don't like, what no plain noodles with plain sauce, what no simple Alfrado sauce, argh. Haven't tried the new place though.......

heidi - 05/07/10 16:45
I love the little red house. Where is it? Great photos, Peter!

metalpeter - 05/07/10 16:39
Glad you liked the Photos. There is one thing that I don't know if I was clear on I only walked one way. What I mean is a caught a bus down to The area around Hoyt Lake and then walked back towrds my house. On the way down those front sliding panel doors at Pano's where open well at least a little bit open.

tinypliny - 05/06/10 21:54
Loved the photographs! I feel like I should have gone walking with you!!!

05/04/2010 19:55 #51503

So Saturday was interesting part 1
Category: elmwood

So On Saturday I was hoping it was going to be as nice as Friday but it wasn't but I still had a good time. It was nice to see Carey and Dana briefly, again I said it there so I'll say it here. My mind was kinda some place else and I had no money but I still should have stopped into ETS and said Hello.

Down around the Museums I had some odd flashbacks. There is this part of the hill that in HS when you ran cross country you had the option to go over or around. Then later I had a visual of us leaving a meet and walking down this little pathway. That was odd.

Well here is the beginning of the pictures.

Well Time wis that is about it, hoping for part 2 on wends we shall see.

metalpeter - 05/06/10 18:32
Yes that would be the house all right. It does look amazing, I can't Imagine what the inside must look like.

jbeatty - 05/06/10 09:34
I love that house that is near the pedestrian bridge. I think its owned by the guy that owns ricks tally ho. I suppose that would be Rick.

metalpeter - 05/05/10 17:00
I went to Leonardo DaVinci , back then that meant you ran for Grover. I will admit I didn't get to a picture of that yet I was hoping to but ran out of time, so that will be in part 2.

ladycroft - 05/05/10 05:29
aww, spring time. I miss spring and flowers and trees and grass and bunny rabbits and rain and fresh air.........

paul - 05/04/10 22:58
What high school did you go to?

05/05/2010 19:55 #51511

Interesting Sat Part 2
Category: elmwood

I was hoping the Japanese Garden would be very nice, it didn't seem ready and there was stuff all over the place, but it has been so long since I'm been there, but even in the rain I had a good time.

So in my previous post I mentioned that I had a Cross Country flashback. Where you see the split in the road is the way we came down the hill. You had the option to run up it and down or run around it. No idea how each person made their choice really. I know I don't remember.

I thought that sign was funny since there is no ice they just leave it attached all year I guess. The Picture of the Albright Knox is interesting in that there is an ambulance up there. So I squatted down and the angle I took it at you can't see it, hence the picture above.

One thing about the rose garden as you can tell taking Flower Pictures is fun. As anyone who is reading this can tell there are people on here who could do a much better job of making the flowers look nice in picture format. One thing I can never really tell or figure out is if it is better to show a bunch of flowers or a close up. Also different flowers are in different states of bloom. Yes I was thinking about that as I was taking the pictures.

Well this is where I have to leave off with my look on Buffalo for a bit. I just have to say that not sure what was up on that Saturday but my mind was someplace else or somewhere I'm not used to being. I haven't been to that Museum since I was a little kid. I only was outside here. But it felt weird. It was like where is Music IS art? It felt odd without stages and places to eat and a DJ area it really was odd and no one around, it was surreal it really was. One thought Did cross my mind, and that was how amazing it would be to Have an MIA VIP pass. That way I could be up on that fenced in area and look at the stages and it would be easy to go from one stage to the other. I think if I could pay for one I would. Hey maybe on facebook I should send MIA and Robby a message about that, or maybe not we shall see. Hope the holiday was well to anyone reading this. Oh yeah that part where it says stuff was often used as a place to stand at MIA.

05/02/2010 10:15 #51490

My Problem with the iphone

First of all I have to admit that Yes I Do Want a Cell Phone. But see I don't want it to talk to people. I want it for all the cool things it can do, like text as an example. I want to be at a festival or concert or sports event take a picture then up load it to multiple sites. I think that is what it would be perfect for. What phone I would get I don't know. They all have these plans where you have to commit for years and then what if you don't like the phone or the pictures are crap.

I Like ads that are funny or smart. I have seen a bunch of great ones and see great ones each year. But I have to say because of them I hate the iphone.

1. Apple has always had this "we Are Different and Better and Cooler then You" Vibe and I so see this with the iphone.

2. The apps I have seen lies on those ads. Lets see it is a phone it can't send a box fedex. you need the box and the phone won't print out labels for you.

3. The apps again imply that they do all the work when they don't. They show this one where someone turns off their lights with their phone, um yeah right. The only way that would work is if you had one of those smart houses and then you link that with the phone some how.

What this comes down to when you combine is that Apple is selling you a bill of goods. They make it look like the phone does all this stuff on its own and that all you have to do is push a button. It also makes it look like all this stuff is preloaded on your phone. Um no you have to pay for each app. If any other industry pulled this they would be locked up for fraud. Can you imagine if you bought a car and the rear breaks where extra. What the iphone does is really just a bait and switch or a con if you believe the ad.

But there is another issue with the iphone or any "smart phone" I have that isn't addressed really. They love to show you how much the phone can do. Yeah and it is great that you can be on myspace, twitter and facebook all at once. It is great that you can link all your e-mail and other websites through a facebook log in. It is great that there is all this stuff going on line, and it is great that you can turn on your lights, turn off the alarm and open your garage door all with your phone. You have control of your entire life with your phone. Well that is until you hook up with an ex and they take your phone as you shower and they ruin you life on all the social network. How about when someone steals your phone and takes over your life with it. But see these ads don't tell you the dangers of this or just you setting your phone down and someone who doesn't like you picks it up and starts shit. Hey What I'm saying is that when you walk into a store someone needs to go listen, it is great you can do all this stuff with this phone but just remember when a criminal gets a hold of this phone they can now do everything you could do with it. Hey all I'm saying is that the sellers of this tech or any tech should have to explain the downsides of the tech also.

jenks - 05/02/10 17:24
I know it's not really your point peter, but Apple actually does have a thing where if you lose your iphone, you can erase all your data- so if someone finds it they can't use it. And it keeps a backup, so that if you find it later, you can put it all back. It also shows you on a map where the phone is, using GPS, and can make it beep and say "give me back" or whatever you want it to say.
I hope I'll never have to use it- but I do like knowing it's there.

metalpeter - 05/02/10 13:10
If the camera on the phone was good enough so when the picture was printed out it looked good then it might take the place of my camera, well except for snow and rain and stuff like that cause the waterproof camera is great for that stuff.

I am going to someday hopefully soon look into the phone thing. But not sure if it is really worth it though? But it would be nice.

In terms of phone loss. Here is what I'm thinking about. After I joined facebook Yahoo has something where you can link it to facebook and someother sites do the same thing where if you like something it sends it to your facebook page (if you are signed in). Certain web browsers ask if you want them to remember your password. If you say yes then any site with that option you are no longer you there. Hopefully sites like with loans and credit card info and bank pages, people are smart enough so that the device won't remember that. But I don't think most people think about what if someone steals this phone or I drop it at a bar or whatever. The possibility of what could happen is worse then your wallet I think because of how quickly things could happen over the internet.

Am I saying there should be a federal law, well maybe. There should be at least a practice in "The Tech" world that when someone is about to buy (as an example) an iphone that they are told by the person selling it about secruity. Is anyone going to read that pamphlet. Maybe it could be part of the instructions not sure really.

tinypliny - 05/02/10 11:52
Well - you don't really need to get an iphone. There are plenty of other devices in the market (nudge nudge Google phones. :-)) Plus, I am finding out that I don't even need a dataplan to do half the cool things I can do with my google phone. I don't do extensive social networking etc, but use the phone for occasional email checking (it works without a data plan - if you are near any wifi somewhere).

I have not used my camera since I got the phone. I am not always logged in to my email so if ever my phone gets stolen, I will lose the phone itself (sad) but not get all my details stolen because I don't have them on there (because I am not logged in and clear the cache periodically). The big picture is that having your phone stolen is like having your wallet stolen, you run the risk of identity theft in both cases.

05/01/2010 17:12 #51488

AZ shows how this country is backwards

So this Az Anti Imagration law drives me insane for a number of reasons.
1. It turns cops into Border Patrol. Hey they have enough to deal with , they don't need to also be boarder agents.
2. This law was aimed at mexicans only really
3. It doesn't get that there are good people who work and follow laws and pay taxes but are not here legaly and that they are different then crimanls but yet these two groups would now be treated the same.

What drives me the craziest about this though is how like in so many things this country fights things backwards.
1. Deporting people who have family members who are here legaly isn't an answer
2. Building a great wall along the boarder would never work it is to long and americans don't work that hard anyways

But see those ideas are from the backwards view. If you don't want illegas coming here then give them no reason to. In other words work with mexico so it isn't a shit hole. Yes it has great beaches but the country is poorer then us. When US companies send jobs over there they pay them shit compaired to here but they are still often the best jobs over there. Untill you get Mexico good enough that people don't want to leave you will allways have an Imigration problem.

metalpeter - 05/03/10 18:07
Well if the Indians would have been like any other nation in the world when we found this place they would have cut of our heads put them on spears and put them on the beach as a warning to not come back (kinda like the vikans who found this place before europeans). In other words unless you are 100% Native American one of your ancesters (sometimes very recently) where an imegrant.

Why can you not throw people out. Well that is an easy one.
1. They have a legal citizen that is a child, who will raise the kid?
2. They do Jobs that most americans won't. You know things like pic fruits and shit like that.
3. There is a certain part of society that does benefit from them.

Here is the thing is that their is a lot of guised speak in terms of imegartion . The illegal asian girls who work in chinese food places, and giving messages and call girls and shit like that see those are ok, but mexicans are not thought in the same way. For some it is that if you are from a European country then that is fine.

What there needs to be is some kind of new program to deal with people who are here illegaly and aren't doing anything wrong. Here is what I would do.

1. Any one who is found is given a number
2. They are fingerprinted
3. Picture Taken
4. Then a Name is established
5. That name is them from now one with that picture and those prints
6. There are in many cities these adult education classes they are sent to those and they must attend (guesing they take attandance), In English (can't make them speak it but they will atleast learn it)

Anyone can call in anyone else and say I think so and so at such and such a place is illegal. Guys can show up scan your State, or school ID (they will all have a bar on them) and it will bring up all your info. {hey I don't like this big brother stuff but I guess it is nesacary]

DEA and Border control can do this not like the DEA has anything else do anyways, HA. Oh yeah or the feds could do their job.

Now here is the bigger question if I can come up with an idea that can work or would at least be base why can't any president come up with one?

tiburon1724 - 05/02/10 22:21
I don't know why it's not as simple as...are you legal? Yes-ok you can stay. No-get the fuck out. Now.

metalpeter - 05/02/10 13:26
On a personal level there are a couple reasons I don't cook really.
1. With it just being me stuff winds up going to waste (all the cooking stuff for multiple dishes)
2. Taste wise I like the unhealthy stuff, things like beef and things like that.

That being said if cooking where to fit me I would do it. I think there are still many familes where people do cook, I'm just not one of them. Just because you cook doesn't mean it is good for you. I used to do fried chicken, YUM. But not to good for ya.

I do agree with you that you need people to do things that are healthy for themselves. But I think that in terms of the medical field prevention should be #1 goal and not profit, and then the #2 goal should be to fit illness. Cures for things fit right in there with both things.

Yes there are some health plans that do pay you for doing things that make you healthier like exercise. And here is my but. They are doing it for the wrong reason. They know that if you do healthy stuff you chance of getting sick is less so they will make more money. It isn't that it makes you healthier and that is better for the world. So they are doing the right thing for the wrong reason. But it is a start.

I think there must be some way to let people know and encourage them to be healthy. It is true that people with cars do a lot of preventive stuff but they don't do it for them selves. Again this is tricky cause some people can't exercise or have to do certain things. For example Running is bad for the knees but good for the heart. People have to start out slow and work into things. There has to be some enjoyment as well.

I don't have the answers but I do know that we are fighting health, the drug problem, and imegration backwards one must fight the cause and not the symptom. Best example I have is my school loan or even a credit card bill. Those companies will let you pay only the interest. Well when the balance never gets any lower you will pay them back untill you die. If there was a way that you only paid off what you owe and then got that done then paid of the interest you would be much better off (you pay some interest and some of the premium I still have some time to go on mine).

tinypliny - 05/02/10 12:00
Peter, great comment about prevention. But prevention has one major stumbling block. It needs personal resolve, determination and conviction on the part of the individual who needs to adopt prevention. Tell me this. Will you be willing to devote an hour to cooking each day if I guaranteed you that you will not end up with say, heart disease when you hit 60? What is you gut reaction to this statement? (Don't say that you can't cook, because in a preventive environment, let's assume that someone will be able and willing to come to your house and show you how to start this).

metalpeter - 05/02/10 09:50
I think that Drugs should be legal and taxed. Hey everyone who was alive then saw how when you made Alcohol illegal it pushed it into the streets and there was all this crime. That is a very debatable point. But the drug war Is fought backwards in this country just like immigration . What they do is they lock up people for using drugs and selling them. But what happens is new drug dealers show up. I get that drugs do destroy a lot of peoples lives. But it is supply and demand, if there was no demand then no one would sell drugs. Another way to look at this is you locked up all the cocaine then people who do that and need to get high would find some other drug. But if there was a real system in place that aimed to make it so people don't need to take drugs that would take care of the drug problem (well most of it).

(e:Tinypliny) you mentioned something in one of your posts or comments about prevention in being healthy. I agree with you and ad this. Health is an example where we so often come at being sick from the backwards way. Diet pills are to get thin and lose weight not about being healthy. Go into a drug store and you have all kinds of pills that will make you feel better and some might make you less sick, that isn't really the point. The point is that all this stuff is to make you better after you are sick. This is true of Scripts also. Yes there are people who work on cures for things, but even that is a cure so that say you have cancer or something it will go away. Here is a better way, why not approach health as a preventive measure so people won't get sick. Granted it could never bee 100%. But Imagine if instead of finding a cure for AIDS (some day) and Cancer. What if there was a way (yes eating healthy is a great start but often you need more) that people who may get breast Cancer could take a pill or shot of some kind that could prevent that kind of cancer from growing. Yes there is some movement in the Medical field for prevention, but it should be the entire way of thinking. Now can you control what do to be healthy, no, but you can still help prevent a lot of stuff by leading with prevention as opposed to reaction.

metalpeter - 05/02/10 09:33
I have a theory but it is just a theory. No Matter what major city you came to there was this system in place where everyone who was Irish lived in the same area and everyone who is polish lived together. Most major cities still have a China Town. It makes sense that if people speak the same Language and have the same customs that they would naturally form groups. Then I guess it makes sense that One Group of people don't want people with different ideas and morays living with them.

Where I get lost is that after a few generations where everyone speaks english that this should go away. I think that over time what at once was I hate this person for this is down to the level of a joke. But Also think that everyone who is "White" kinda blended together and people who look different (black and Hispanic) there is still a lot of hate for.

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying I'm all for illegals to come here. But I do get that after Europeans landed here we took over the country bought LA, had a war and got some of mexico. Indians still live on reservations (not all of them) and have Casinos and Battle over tax of Cigarettes so we are still very connected to our forming of a country.

I'm not going to blame the Church for this, but we Americans Think we are better then others. I"m not saying all Americans but a Vast Majority I think it has become an American Thing.

But Part of the point of my post is that we do so many things back wards in this country and it drives me crazy that will be my next comment.

tinypliny - 05/01/10 20:41
It's interesting that this country was built wholly through immigration. It's cutting edge scientific prowess is 90% attributable to immigration. It's cultural and communal societies are built on tolerance and heterogeneity.

I wonder why this heterogeneity of the country does not influence guided law-making in an area that is so central a theme here.