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No boom, no bust
ByDerek
USAToday profiles Buffalo’s housing market, one of the few to remain a steady grower while other areas of the country go POP! While many cities have suffered the effects of subprime mortgages and home foreclosures, Buffalo’s housing market — including suburban areas such as Amherst and Orchard Park — has enjoyed a slow but steady…
Buffalo | Derek | Preservation | Skyway
Are you ready for this? Hang on. Literally.
ByDerek
Kids, you can’t write comedy better than this. Tim Tielman has come up with a plan to turn the Skyway into a park. Here’s the image and story posted over on Buffalo Rising. Now, let’s think back to all the reasons that people bellow forth as to why the Skyway “needs” to come down: It’s…
Squish the fish, then steal the TV
ByDerek
At a time when Ralph Wilson is bemoaning the future state of the Bills, our arch rivals show off all their large market glory with this… the world’s largest High Definition display: From Engadget, “the 720p display is a whopping 137 feet wide by 50 feet high, making its diagonal dimensions 1,750 inches.” Now if…
Aquarama headed for the scrap heap?
ByDerek
I haven’t reported anything on our rusty old buddy, the Aquarama, recently. Frankly, I haven’t thought much about it. Until today. I got an email inquiry asking if I knew anything about it being sold to an Indian scrap metal salvage company. I hadn’t, but a little googling turned up an article that seems to…
Picnicaching/Treocaching/Bicyclaching
ByDerek
I made up three new words Saturday during our annual picnic in Rochester. I know they’re new because they all returned 0 hits in Google, which I wasn’t even sure was possible. Right now a server at Google HQ is probably flogging itself for failing in it’s role to return at least one paid ad…