I was only going to go to the Terminal for a couple hours to help out with Dyngus Day, but the crowds were so overwhelming that I ended up staying all night to help! It was wildly successful, and there is no doubt that Dyngus Day is becoming a huge event in Buffalo.
Being a geek by trade (and at heart) I found this article – O’Reilly: What Is Web 2.0 – quite interesting. I’ve been around through the entire life of the web. I used to “surf” on the old Buffalo FreeNet, which would connect you with other FreeNets around the country. Images were uuencoded into thousands…
… but BuffaloGeek’s heartfelt post made me do it. Mostly because our stories are eerily similar – both involve geeks, wonderful women named Amanda, and an anniversary. Amanda and I had started dating in the late summer of 2001, so we were still really just getting to know each other. Of course everyone was a…
Once again, the government’s attempts to fix “problems” they are incapable of fixing will screw us, the consumer. The latest energy bill has a provision to ban incandescent light bulbs. From the Chicago Tribune… “In this bill, we ban by 2012 the famously inefficient 100-watt incandescent bulb,” said Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), who co-sponsored that…
A couple weeks ago I mentioned a trip to the East Side to visit the former Sears building on Broadway and Fillmore. Broadway-Fillmore Alive has posted their article on the building which we are now calling the Eckhardt Building after the family it was built for, whom opened Eckhardt’s Department Store in it, and who…
Took these while at the Central Terminal tonight. Fifteen minutes later I was in a torrential downpour in East Aurora.
How come the crowd didn’t suddenly break into a dance number? Seems to be the thing to do these days…
BBD
Well, there was dancing, but not the flashmob kind. 🙂
I was absolutely floored when I walked into the Terminal last night with the crowd!