Our continuing quest to de-blue the house took another huge leap forward yesterday with the repainting of the deck. See, the previous owners of the house had a fetish for this particular shade of blue, which was used… well… on pretty much any paintable surface. We’ve been slowly working to change that and add a few splashes from other locations on the color wheel.
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BuffaloGeek has touched off a flurry of commentary about another couple downer articles in the news today. Another census analysis on Buffalo’s increasing population loss, and yet another iteration of the “all the young people are leaving” requiem. I was going to throw in my comments on Geek’s site, but this constant Buffalo FUD is…
Word travels fast in the blogosphere, as Buffalo Rising already has a story on Bashar Issa’s visit to the Central Terminal on Friday. Bashar Issa spent over two hours yesterday touring the Central Terminal on Buffalo’s East Side – the same time we were touring the DL&W. Why? Because he is fascinated with the city’s…
Hehehe… Ed Brill is in Singapore this week and posted this photo from the Lotusphere Comes to You conference: I’ve been to Lotusphere in Orlando three times, and I’ve never seen that kind of advertising. Seems like something more out of SEMA than Big Blue.
Looks like Ethanol isn’t the answer to the global warming problem. Then again, what’s the problem? Canada is concerned about global cooling. I know, I know. Since we can’t quite agree on what the problem is we should be trying to solve, we can just generalize it and call it “global climate change.” Because dammit,…
Other items in the house that were/are blue: Bathroom (to the extent that they actually colored in marker all the little grooves in the wainscoting and I do mean ALL of them, even on the doors of the medicine chest hanging above the toilet), downstairs bathroom linoleum, kitchen wallpaper and wall, kitchen counter tops, curtains in living room (all of which have now been replaced), porch rug, house number sign near road, and the mailbox. A very nice Rubbermaid mailbox, painted the same color blue as the deck which is now chipping off. Did I miss anything?
looks much better!