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| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
momments
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12:29p |
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buffalo_dorks
[ glitterboy4519 ]
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11:20a |
Extreme Makeover: Angst Edition
Please don't read this assuming that I'm hoping to incite some sort of conflict; I'm just curious and underinformed... Back when I had cable, I used to watch Extreme Makeover: Home Edition all the time with my housemates, and we'd cry and cry and cry as they drove the bus away. Then I moved out of that apartment, started working a zillion hours a week and lost all interest in ANYTHING on TV except for reruns of Roseanne. So why am I overhearing conversations such as: -"Did you hear about that family? How they got a car and all those scholarships?" -"Yeah, but they have to pass a test to keep the scholarships." -"Haha, guess we'll find out if they actually keep them." Now... I don't know where the house is, or who the family is. But if every episode of this show has been able to make me cry and get all emotional about people I've never met... Well, I can assume this one would, too. But am I missing something? Or is my office just full of particularly bitter people? |
buffalo_dorks
[ broken_contents ]
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10:20a |
Dresses for sale (edit: and 2 pairs of boots)
I have 4 dresses I am trying to sell to make up for unexpected vehicle repairs (at the WORST possible time of year no less). As a reference, I am 5'10... and I'll let you know where the dress came to on me. I figured I'd try here first.. give it a week, then throw them on on craigslist. So, got an office party coming up? I might be able to help you, while you'd be helping me. ( Sorry, pictures are kind of big... may not be dial-up friendly )Prices ARE negotiable. Sadly, I really need the money. Sorry for such an annoying post :-/ |
masu_senpai
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10:02a |
Realizationship
I don't want to be with Amy anymore. She lives to far away and she isn't willing to come out to NT to see me. She is drinking 80% of the time I see her. She smokes, and I mean REALLY smokes. I've been around a lot of smokers in my lifetime and she can out-smoke any of them, esp while she is drinking. And she's been smoking for less than a year! She almost never calls or texts me unless I call/text her first. She isn't affectionate at all. It seems like she is afraid to touch me, which shouldn't be the case because I touch her quite a bit so she shouldn't feel uncomfortable with it. I don't feel like she is someone I can open up to. she tells me she likes taking things slowly in a relationship but their is a difference between "slow" and not moving at all (if not going backwards). I don't feel any special connection with her. She's like a friend. And thats a big problem. Shes taking up the 'significant other' slot in my life while only providing a 'friend' relationship. However I'm afraid to break up with her. I don't like being alone. Lots of what ifs running through my mind right now. Do I try talking to her about all this? It seems like a long list to try to fix. Current Mood:  crappy |
| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 |
rdxdave
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11:07p |
Why I don't/Can't hate the Twilight Series
First off: because I haven't read any of the books or seen the movie. The great war of nerd-dom continuing on from the previous year is over the book series by Stephenie Meyer and the franchise phenomenon that has been all the rage at least until the next thing comes along. The nerds are pissed off because "these aren't vampires" according to the traditional definition of the mythical* creature and now the entire world of nerd-fiction is flooded with people wanting more vampires but not real vampires, those kind of vampires that drink animal blood and are good looking. Well let's get straight to it: the typical nerd isn't popular. He (because it's usually a he) likes the sorts of things that nobody else likes and now his realm of fiction is flooded by people who have turned off Gossip Girl and new versions of Gen X shows (90210, Melrose Place) to start reading about things that they now like...and it pisses them off. To all the nerds out there sitting at your computers posting in forums about what a hack Meyer is or how Bella is neither hot nor creatively named I have news for you: She won. Meyer won, because she wrote a popular series of books about teenage romance that featured a vampire and she won because for all of the rough drafts of stories that you may have started and never finished with the long haired brooding vampire she's been published, adapted, and popular. She won your war and she wasn't even trying to fight it. The worst part is that the victory is so Pyrrhic for you that you wished she had lost it. Now you have to share your domain, your sacred fantasy life, with the same people that wouldn't look at you in high school. In short, all the backlash against her is the same shit we heard five years ago with Avril Lavigne. Avril brought punk to the masses by watering it down. And like the rage directed at Avril Lavigne, the viscera directed toward Stephenie Meyer isn't because she wrote a bad book, although they will claim that is one reason. It isn't because the Vampires in the novels, allegedly break the "rules" of Vampirism,** although they will claim that is another reason as well. It's not because it adds to a cheapening of intellectual aspect of undead fantasy fiction (often times this comes from the militant defenders of Joss Whedon's insipid dialogue and thinly veiled misogyny) although again they will claim....No it's because Stephenie took it away from them in the same way that Avril took the elitism of punk away from its fans. Vampires are no longer the domain of gothic types sitting in Denny's at 2am writing in their black leather-bound journals with red ink. It's now the talk of the cheerleaders who pine away for their quarterback boyfriend to act for one second as devoted to her as Edward does to Bella; and that is what pisses them off more than anything. For every story that someone penned about vampires in a journal or in a buried file on their computer (so that on one could accidentally see it) half of them are about a lonely, smart, and misunderstood girl meeting a mysterious guy who turns out to be: a vampire. The other half are about a guy who is smart, lonely, and misunderstood being a hero to an attractive woman who turns out to be: a vampire. By Epicurus I think I wrote the latter in high school (never finished it) and the former is how the HBO series True Blood begins. A friend of mine called the series a "pop-culture abomination" but the thing about pop-culture is that it pops in and then it pops out. Avril Lavigne is hardly on the radar anymore, the boy band craze ended, this too will end. The thing about it is that it is so insanely popular right now that the counter culture people feel that they are being personally attacked by the mobs of people invading their turf. When the craze is over those people will hold on to the books for nostalgia purposes while the "true" vampire fans will still be penning their stories. If the series' popularity is the only reason you hate it then go buy a "non-comformist" shirt from hot topic and get ready for your formulaic complaint for the next craze that runs through the media because it's coming. The Twilight series isn't really about Vampires, it's about teenage romance issues as the target demographic is young girls. One of those girls, my cousin, told me that she doesn't read them because they are popular. At least she's honest about the whole thing which is a lot more than most people who level such polemics against the movies and the books. If anything the vampire thing is hot right now and the very people that hate it and her, should be thanking them for making their interests so much more accessible. Why not enjoy the fact that you now have something in common with more people than ever before, isn't that what all of those "no one understands me" complaints are about in the first place? Instead of hating a woman who struck gold with her first novel just let her fans have their fantasy. *Mythical: Of or relating to myths, described in a myth, of the nature of a myth; fabulous; IMAGINARY; fanciful, mythological. **Which is complete bullshit by the way. Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel is hairy palmed, ugly, and can walk in daylight. When was the last time a vampire movie followed that arch-type? And where was the bitching for Wes Craven's Dracula 2000 when he made Dracula's true identity Judas Iscariot? |
buffalo_dorks
[ lostallsympathy ]
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7:55p |
ATT: Missing Person!
My older friend kat's brother Michael went missing sometime on Wednesday, somewhere on his way to an inpatient rehabilitation clinic. Our family is extremely worried about him, think he is likely still in the Buffalo Area. If anyone sees or hears from Michael, please do not hesitate to call me or her other brother Anthony ...at (716)553-9547. Mike is 22 years old, 5'8'', brown hair/eyes and built stocky. There is a Missing Persons report filed on Mike. PLEASE look at the picture and keeps your eyes open for him. Sorry to make such a serious post, but we are trying to locate him and have very little options.  |
buffalo_dorks
[ deadsister ]
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6:50p |
Crafty Question!
Hey, kids! I make jewelry, very often using old found keys. I am here to ask you guys if you know of any places to acquire cool old keys. I've only found them in a couple of antique shops and they don't always have what I'm looking for. ( Pics for reference )Thanks in advance! P.S. Sorry the pics are so huge. I haven't had time to go through and re-size them. Boo. |
jfargo
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8:30a |
Sunday, Busy Sunday
Sunday morning, woken by the sound of a dog vomiting up a day-old sock. Time to get up, I suppose. |
| Saturday, November 14th, 2009 |
buffalo_dorks
[ x_brighteyes ]
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3:31p |
Old Cell Phones
I've some how, over the past years, have accumulated about 4 or 5 cell phones. They all have chargers and stuff, but they are just "outdated". I quote this because they are probably only a few years old but seeing as some many new ones come out so quickly they are becoming obsolete. Anyways, I was wondering if there was any place around here that buys back old phones. Not looking to make bank off of them but if I can get a ten spot for them all I'd be happy. If not, I know Best Buy will recycle them for free, right? Any advice is welcome. Thanks :) |
| Friday, November 13th, 2009 |
jfargo
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3:39p |
Musicals
I put all my musicals into a play list and put it on random today. I just wanted some music that I could sing along with, something to soothe and relax me on this dreary day, or something to energize me. Just anything, whatever it may be, to help fight off a funk. I winced as I added the musical "Cats" to the list thinking of all the horrible renditions of "Memory" you hear at just about any talent show, or on TV so often sung by people who have no little talent, but not enough to make this cliche of a song into what it's meant to be. Of course, it was the first song to be randomly chosen by the computer. EDIT: It's now tried playing it two more times within about a half hour. There are several hundred musical songs on there (don't you judge me!) and it REALLY wants to play Memory. Maybe someone's trying to tell me something? EDIT THE SECOND: And NOW I'm seeing the song in print while reading the Sandman graphic novels. There's a scene in a bar where a man requests it from the piano player, who refuses to play it. What's going on here? |
emeraldliz
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11:37a |
Hair Stuff
My hair is long again. As in, past the shoulder blades almost past the bra line long. I really should get it trimmed but I'm in a serious growing phase so it needs to ONLY be trimmed. However, I don't like and don't have the skill to really DO much with my hair. I hate products of just about all kinds so I don't want to use it to get particular styles. But I've come to the realization that just clipping my hair back on top of or further back on my crown with the very long hair looks both too 90s and too young/predictable for me now. I also have been using my hair to hide too much. I don't think I need to learn to do french twists every day, but I am trying out a few twistings and clips to get a fresher and more appropriate look. One thing that's nice is that when I say it's too young for me, I don't have a sense of loss of youth. Not that I don't miss the days I was 18 and just had to stand somewhere and get male attention and wish I knew then what I knew now to capitalize on that. But it's just a sense of rightness- I am older, I need to evolve into this older person. |
buffalo_dorks
[ lilbit6180 ]
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10:18a |
Emcee Cypher Tonight @ Merlins
Any Emcee's or Wannabe Emcee's out there? Here's your chance to be heard, to have a little fun and rhyme with buffalo's best Emcee's and musicians! Head on down to Merlin's for The art of Rhyme: emcee cypher all emcees and musicians are welcome! Dj CUFX on the wheels, Type Nice on the Kit, a plethora on emcees and musicians, maybe even a battle if cats are feelin froggy, free give aways, etc.  |
buffalo_dorks
[ vajsha ]
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8:27a |
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| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
masu_senpai
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4:46p |
Alice in wonderland
So I finished reading Alice in wonderland today. I enjoyed reading it and it was short so that's always good. Its funny how many adaptations their are of that story. I've only seen the Disney version before; as well as an audio tape from "through the looking glass"... said the white rabbit. I'm also reading Blood of the fold by Terry Goodkind. Now that book is not nearly as innocent. Rape, murder, torture, etc. The sword of truth series is probably going to take me years to finish, being that each book is about 900+ pages long, but they are action packed and I can't wait to see what happened to Richard and Kahlan next. On top of that I'm reading The making of a Story by Alice LaPlante. It's a guide to creative writing as well being packed with really interesting short stories. The story "Where are you going, where have you been?" by Joyce Carol Oates probably disturbed me more than even the worst parts of the sword of truth series. Their was so much tension in the story that I had my mouth wide open and I was a little bit shaky. I've been walking through the school library and their is tons of other stuff I want to read about but I'm afraid that I'll end up not finishing anything. |
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
rdxdave
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11:32p |
Civilization IV: a more game oriented review
Since I tend to rotate the subjects of my various blog posts an idea struck me many months ago to do double reviews of games. One of the problem with reviewing video games is that there is a discrepancy between how a game appears when it's first played and how the game lasts over time. Halo 3 is a good example of this, my review of the game was based around two things: it being brand new thus better than previous installments and one of my first games on a new generation console. Looking back the game doesn't hold up against its immediate predecessor in both campaign and online play. It's good but not as great as almost all reviewers have rated it upon release. With my first review of Civilization IV I played through three run throughs getting used to the new controls, features, and changes of the game. I concentrated most of the writing on the religious aspect as that was the newest feature. Would the game hold up against the years I have spent playing the previous two installments? The good news is that it does. The bad news is that some of the problems in the previous games still carry over into this one. The first major problem that I have found with the series is that progression through time is still too fast. The game should feel like you spend forever in the prehistoric, classical, and medieval ages. This is reflected in the games chronology as you do spend quite a number of years in these periods but that is not reflected in the number of turns. The turns in each age take a different number of years. So one turn in the pre-historic age may equal 50 years while in the modern age it only takes one year, even on the "epic setting" which promised a fix for what I am currently complaining about nothing changed. The second problem unique to this game is that the AI for opposing civilizations is too easy to placate. In previous versions this was reversed. What they changed was giving you the numbers and specific instances of why they are pissed off at you. If an opponent is at minus 6, they are angry which can be moderated by just handing over something that they don't have free of charge. This will raise them to a minus 5 which means that they won't declare war. Previously, the war declarations seemed out of the blue and thus unfair, but that did keep a player on their toes to constantly ramp up the defense spending or at least keep the most modern units guarding the borders. Here i can faithfully predict what enemies will want to fight me, and often goad the weaker into making the mistake. The biggest improvement has been the introduction of many more World Wonders. Previously each age only had about one or two wonders that needed to be built or else you were at a severe disadvantage. In Civilization II, not being the first to complete Leonardo's Workshop meant having to pay for every unit upgrade while the civilization that had it did not. When that person discovered gunpowder all of their melee units just changed into musketmen, this was a huge advantage. The new version mitigates the importance of one wonder by adding almost one for every technological discovery, and scrapping the Workshop altogether. My favorite world to play is a discovery world where every civilization starts on one or two super continents with a "new world" that exists on the other side of the planet. This changes the game as you have to both play against existing opponents while racing to develop the ability to traverse oceans in order to seek out and colonize the new area. It makes the game kind of easy, but only if you are the first one there. Plus the continent is developed by barbarian tribes. It took a couple of landings before I was able to actually put in place a permanent settlement, damn Skraelings*. The game definitely holds up. It still allows for various creativity in how you want to win the game and the difficulty level is reduced on the lower settings. I'm still searching for that happy medium between impossible and easy. The game's rating and recommendation hasn't changed at all, so maybe this experiment was a failure but we will try again. *Kudos if you get that reference, no wiki-cheating either. |
momments
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9:45p |
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buffalo_dorks
[ xamystarzx ]
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7:38p |
Hey all- I would like to pick up a few books for my Mom for Christmas but I need some suggestions. She's a big fan of John Irving, but has read all his books I believe so does anyone have suggestions for books or authors that she might like if she likes John Irving? Nothing too out there, just a good read. Thanks! |
buffalo_dorks
[ vajsha ]
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6:29p |
Moving/estate sale Saturday November 14
Hi Dorks!!!! I'm selling all my stuff - that makes it an estate sale. I'm selling my stuff because I am moving to China - that makes it a moving sale. 724 Columbus Parkway (near the Peace Bridge - in a big mansion-type building). Partial list of what's up for grabs behind the cut ( Read more )Map: 724 Columbus Parkway. Saturday 8 AM - 3PM No reasonable offer will be refused. |
masu_senpai
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5:07p |
Target
So I went to Target to do some shopping, I was looking for a tea kettle (I'm sick of heating water in a pan and then trying to pour it into a cup) and maybe some jeans. I was scoping out the video games when 3 teenagers approached me. They asked if I was willing to buy them the new call of duty game and offered 5 dollars for the trouble. I don't really believe violent video games are overly harmful to teens so I agreed. Bought the game went outside and handed it to them. +5 bucks for me. Buying games for teenagers; possible business venture? I went back inside and checked out the tea kettles. The cheapest one was 20 bucks! My mother swears she can get one for 10 so I passed. I went to mens clothes to look for jeans. After two trips to the dressing room I came up with a long-sleeve shirt, a reversible hoodie, and two pairs of jeans, one dark blue, the other REALLY dark blue. I also picked up a pair of gloves, they fit like a pair of gloves and are really snuggly. They cost 20 bucks but I just couldn't help getting them. |
buffalo_dorks
[ jljustice ]
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5:03p |
What's the deal with the Sahara Grille on Elmwood? Did it close or something? If so, anyone know why? I bought a coupon from restaurant.com for it and didn't realize it isn't open. Current Mood: creative |
buffalo_dorks
[ faerieboy ]
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2:36p |
NOFA conference and places to stay in Saratoga Springs
The New York Organic Farm conference schedule is out and I'm all sorts of excited. I highly recommend this conference to anyone who gardens food. Even in the lectures more directed towards full farms I got all sorts of good info, apple tree care, chicken raising (it's legal now, come and learn how to do it!), not to mention tons of good food and fun people. Link to conference informationSo any one want to go? Anyone know of cheap places to stay in Saratoga Springs? |
masu_senpai
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9:09a |
Concert
Metallica blew my fucking balls off! |
| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 | |
pfsc
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10:07p |
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jfargo
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8:19a |
Changes
So there are many possibilities in front of me, now that I have lost my job for at least the next two months. I could do nothing, become the lump of a man that I used to be, drifting from one dead-end job to the next, leaving before I could get fired, or being fired before I knew it was coming. 52 jobs in 5 years? No thank you. I only mention it because it's a possibility, not because I see myself going that way. There are jobs out there, and I could find any number of them. While I don't want a job at a fast food place, I could go get one if I really had to, follow in my sister's footsteps as it were. Be that guy at 30 years old, working the fry-o-later. Again, a possibility, but one I truly hope to avoid. Then there's the other side of the coin. Was my old job holding me back from finding something I love just as much or more? Could it be that this is an opportunity to go on a walk-about around the world, finding a job in New Zealand like my friend Earl did, travel the world doing odd jobs, seeing amazing sights and expanding my horizons? Maybe I'll apprentice myself to a local chef, learn his techniques, find a hidden talent inside of me for putting together flavor profiles in new and exciting ways. This could lead to world fame as an American Iron Chef. Or at least happiness with my own restaurant, and maybe a touch of local fame for the best chicken wings around. Who knows? It's possible that I'll stumble into something new, something I never would have expected. I just don't know. Hell, it's even possible that the furlough will end tomorrow because of a misunderstanding. Very unlikely, but possible. Who knows? There are so many roads in front of me. Every step I take puts me more firmly one way or another, but opens even more choices up for me. I'll keep walking forward, because the only time I feel like I've lost is when I stagnate. I need these chances in front of me to keep coming. In the mean time, if you need an 80wpm data entry/transcription guy with roughly 99.99% accuracy, let me know. I'll be over here, making possibilities. |
| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
rdxdave
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11:17p |
Dick Move
I'm used to playing assholes on the internet in all sorts of games. Mostly this is confined to the XBOX Live, where players "camp" over objectives, refuse to finish the game type in order to rack up their kill count, or just yell and scream into their microphones. These things unfortunately become normal and the best thing to do is ignore it going idle so that their victory becomes more tedious to them than the loss does to me. This is why I usually keep a magazine near me when I am playing. For some reason I thought it would be different playing chess. I've been a member of chess.com for a couple of months now playing once or twice a day. Then, today, I encountered a most unpleasant experience. My rating is pretty low, fluctuating around 1200 in Blitz (5 minute games). My opponent was at least 60 points above me. I thought I could win but I made some pretty sloppy mistakes early in the game that I never recovered from. The situation ended up with me possessing only a pawn, dark squared bishop, and a king forever evading check. My opponent, playing white, had a Queen, six pawns, and a light squared Bishop. My pawn was blocked by one of his pawns, which were both isolated along the center line. He had enough to place me in checkmate and could very easily have done so with only the Bishop and Queen. My king was along the G column and it was a matter of simple time. Given the proximity of our two ratings and the fact that I had a full minute of time on him I thought I may be able to pull a win off using time. It was a long shot and next move clearly illustrated that this was not going to be the case. I was pinned up and had about three moves in check. The correct move for him was to slide his Bishop to the F column where his Queen would then proceed into the final mating dance ending the game. This he did not do, instead along the A column he pushed a pawn. I thought it odd since it seemed completely unrelated to the game but I shrugged and moved my king again. He pushed the pawn again, and again. Then I figured it out, he was going to promote the pawn into another unneeded Queen. In disbelief I ran my clock trying to see if I was missing something but in my position I could not discern it. It wasn't for added protection, my existing material wouldn't allow me to checkmate him. Then the ingame chat* started out, "the resign button is to your right." I knew this, but with mate in three moves why even bother resigning? "I know, I'm trying to figure out why you are moving the pawn." "I'm going to promote all of my pawns to Queens." "Why?" "...?" "You can end the game now, unless you don't see it." "I see it I just want to promote all the pawns." "Isn't that kind of a dick move?" He didn't have an answer for my question only asking me why is getting upset about it. I responded that I wasn't upset, I was just wondering why ruin a win like this. My thinking was that chess is about outsmarting your opponent, something he clearly already had accomplished, now his goal seemed to be to rub it in more by reminding me that I was powerless to stop him from doing whatever it was that he wanted to do. I restated my "dick move" accusation which again garnered no response. I suppose that the bright side of the conversation was that it was more civilized than most online encounters. Instead of being called "fag" or "nigger" he was at least addressing me as a person. Although that is little consolation as the internet has found yet another game experience to ruin. |
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