Now that I live in a place I generally made fun of (or nearly despised) much of my life, I can report first-hand the quirks of the neighborhood. My daughter considers the Seneca side of “town” to be an other-side-of-the-tracks sort of place, as she is more of an Abbott girl. If you know what [...]
Who needs an adult toy party when there’s a pet store around the corner? Chains, collars, and … well … I don’t want to know what the designers were thinking with some of the pet toys and accessories. Behold the “deshedding tool” … sorry, but not THIS man’s best friend.
While going through old crates of keepsakes, I came across the Buffalo News Prospectus ’94 (as well as for ’99 and 2000). The main reason I kept it was because it was utterly wrong: Prospectus ’94The Buffalo News Sunday, January 23, 1994 A Brighter FutureThings are Looking Up for WNY Economy First Article: “Recession yielding [...]
Or are you just happy to see me? Seriously, I took this photo at the campus of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery across from Buff State. Brings back memories of Green Lightning if you’re old enough to remember.
Usually “serendipity” has a positive connotation, but here I mean it as seemingly random coincidence in only the sense that no other explanation can be found. You see, when my wife or I call Jeff on his cell phone, we get our own voice mail. Yes, it’s his number. In fact, when trying to repeat [...]
This one deserves it. For those of you who don’t know, the law firm Celino & Barnes is now called “the Barnes Firm” because Celino was temporarily disbarred and Celino was censured, along with being forced to take the former out of any advertising completely. If you’re from around here you know their billboard branding [...]
It's a love-hate relationship, in fact. I love advances and thinking about the efficiency of pervasive computing in the future, and the philosophical and personal challenges in AI. But technology is just as stupid and fallible as anything else man creates. Other examples include governement, organized religion, and traffic engineering in Boston. But as much [...]
We've all heard these before – at least some of them – and so I immortalize them here as a joke suppository … er … repos – nevermind. For a split second before the porn image showed up in the preview pane in my browser, I caught glimpse of the (heavily-copryighted-I-think-not) “Joke of the Day” [...]
I was looking for an image of “Spartan 117″ from the videogame “Halo” to use as an avatar on LiveJournal. Nothing I could use, but instead came up with the following image, originally titled “chibiamy.jpg”. It is not only that I have no idea what the image has to do with “Spartan 117″, but the [...]
I thought my wife was infected with an urban legend, but she printed me off the article a while back – thought it would be well to post it here. Network Weblogs Antenna on the Cheap (er, Chip) And attached is a PDF fo the page in case it gets lost off the web … [...]
Hand Blow Dryers “To reduce the spread of germs caused by paper towel waste, we only use blow dryers for your convenience.” I have never heard such widely spread bull in my entire life. It should read “To save money by not having to buy paper towels or hire someone to change the garbage regularly, [...]
“Bufo” (latin for frog) is Merry's 1992 Ford Festiva. It was her first car, and the car she had when I first dated her. She loved that car, and when she bought it, she insisted they get her a red one no matter what, and wanted a standard but didn't get one. Well, it was [...]
Okay, I wear my beard like the Amish. In fact, someone in a health food store asked me if I was the other day. But usually I don't trim the mustache part and have a full beard. I have a “Western” hat that's actually from Australia, but with my frock coat, I look like a [...]
I just back from a walk. A particularly long walk, at least for me – almost 5 miles in just over 2-1/2 hours, including dawdling here and there. Mind you this was not really voluntary. The car decided to die while running errands, and I decided to d othem anyway – on foot. But it [...]
A letter to a newsletter ezine (supposedly): “My name is Kim Jarley, a resident of Los Angeles county, and a mother of a beautiful 12 year old woman. I'm writing to you today in hopes that you could be of some assistance to my young daughter's handicap. I'm not looking for a hand out, just [...]
These shots were taken from a bridge going over the thruway at a service area / rest stop. The first was looking out one side of the bridge windows …
Grand Prize – Brian K. Lewis Funeral HomesBillboard Southbound on Bailey Avenue in Buffalo, NY between Dingens and Clinton. To prove this is a real billboard actually in use, here is a smaller image, with a blow up in the next post …
Apart from bumper cars, this was a true highlight in rides at the fair for me (mainly because I wont go on any other of them). In the Health & Wellness Building or whatever it is called, I couldn't help but drink a full measure of the old WTF. Of course, I had to live [...]