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08/27/2011 22:34 #55040

Dragonfruit
Category: food
Finally got some dragonfruit in Canada. They are so beautiful and the inside resembled kiwi in consistency but is not as flavorful. They taste kind of like a slightly acidic cucumber.

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paul - 08/30/11 19:23
The allergy attack started two days before. I was not allergic to this fruit.
tinypliny - 08/30/11 19:18
Hmm.. how many of these did you have? Is this the first time you are having these fruits? How long after having this fruit did your allergies start and peak? Was there any itchiness when you were eating it? New foods should always raise flags.
metalpeter - 08/28/11 13:29
Wait I thought they where a fruit and kinda tasted like that... Well that being said a fruit and its juice don't taste the same like apples great apple juice um not so much now apple cider :).... Then again I have only had drinks that are supposed to taste like dragon fruit or flavored with it.... All though the one had a dragon I think on the bottle and I thought they where from the Orient so maybe those and these are different?

08/27/2011 11:05 #55035

The New Angrier Me
Category: haircuts
I love having this haircut. I think it is my favorite. I just can't stand having hair anymore.

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tinypliny - 08/27/11 14:32
Yikes. You do look scary. I would have second thoughts about hanging out with the person in the 1st pic. Is that really you? :)
metalpeter - 08/27/11 14:17
If my facial hair grew like that I would love that hair cut....But I would keep the top long and then dye it all jet black but hey that is just me....1st pix you look ready to kill...

08/26/2011 23:27 #55032

The Frech Quarter on Allen
Category: food
Has the best crab cakes ever. There are like no other I have ever had. They also have a lot of vegan and vegetarian options.

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vincent - 08/27/11 19:18
It only makes sense that whoever bought the land did somehting with it, Heck the other end of the Right of Way became a Target in North Buffalo.
tinypliny - 08/27/11 00:09
I tried out their side of fried okra... not sure I liked it too much. It was floating in oil and made me slightly nauseous. But then, I don't know what I was expecting with the word "fried" right before okra. I guess I was hoping it wouldn't be breaded but unfortunately it was. I was also not thrilled with the smell of oil. They don't use peanut oil for frying - the only oil I would ever consider for deep frying.

08/26/2011 23:25 #55031

Partway through shaving my head...
Category: haircut
I really looked like a terrorist.

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YesThatCasey - 08/27/11 03:17
I absolutely love that first comment, Tiny.
tinypliny - 08/27/11 00:03
This is hair hypocrisy (H-squared!) especially after your comments about how I should keep my hideous hurricane of hair. (H-cubed!)
tinypliny - 08/27/11 00:01
I think that is the perception of terrorists. Most "terrorists" wear suits and walk about openly extorting money and people don't even realize it.

08/26/2011 22:46 #55030

Playing on the tracks by hannah's frosty treats
Category: buffalo
I can believe those tracks are becomming suburbs. The giant sign says, suburban houses, urban lifestyle. We used to play on those tracks when I was a kid so much
It was a great way to get around and hang out unsupervised before we had cars. All the tracks around the suburbs connected.

We ended up covered in bugs as it was the day of flying ants. It was even worse in the streets. I have never seen then so thick.

All in all it was a 16.5 mile trip with a Carmel frappachino at the best buy plaza in tonawanda.

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metalpeter - 08/28/11 12:10
When I was a kid someone I knew lived near that Ice Cream Place and it was great.... Had no idea there was all that land though... there where tracks there?
tinypliny - 08/27/11 14:35
Try lactocalamine lotion. It takes the itch right out and soothes the skin.
paul - 08/27/11 12:18
And I have poison ivy on my arms and legs. I washed them with tecnu, covered them in benedryl creme and it still itches like crazy. Hopefully swimming will help.
paul - 08/27/11 11:15
If you look at the map in full screen it kind of looks like there is a path on the railroad tracks, just on the other side.
paul - 08/27/11 11:13
Oops I reposted the kml file with the map. And (e:yesthatcasey) - that is an old phone. Its like ~2 years old.
YesThatCasey - 08/27/11 03:17
Seeing pictures like this is one of the few things that makes me want to get a newer phone
YesThatCasey - 08/27/11 03:16
Evil paparazzi!
tinypliny - 08/27/11 00:06
Is this near the toxic nuclear waste dumps?