Technically its disco fries, the New Jersey bastardization (sp?) of poutine
made with colby cheese, but geographically acceptable as poutine. Only at
Jims steakout. This food requires a firm knowledge of your GI tract, or you
will pay. Dearly. This #snap is by Huw, for his Brodie, who can't believe
the food of his motherland can be found outside the borders...

Now i love me some electro, but I also love distortion. Adam Kesher is from France, and his style of garage rock sounds a lot like Bloc Party without all the studio touchups (I still love you Kele!). Speaking of Electro, I first heard of Kesher when I came across the Strip Steve Remix to his "Irene." There is just something gritty and loverly about Adam Kesher, and his video for "Local Girl" will make you want to dig a little deeper. I suggest heavily that you buy all of his music from Amazon (yes iTunes just went all DRM-free, but Amazon doesn't cram that gnarly aac format in your face and it's .89 cents a song as opposed to .99 for iTunes).

This is the time when Buffalo sucks... the Wintery Mix. Boots do not help...
you need spikes or stay the fuck home. Thankfully, at the moment, above
freezing temps and rain have kept the ice slightly crunchy... #snap

This is it: the final keynote, and the last Macworld with Apple as a direct participator. Phill Schiller will be delivering the "One More Thing," keynote, as Steve Jobs, who is NOT dying, wanted to spend time with his family. The keynote starts NOW so check after the jump for all details.. refresh and repeat.

• All the timestamps are in EST form, though its 9am at the Moscone, its 12PM here. Productivity ceases now....
• 12:00 - Coldplay.... again.
• 12:05 -  Schiller on stage, stoked to present, blah blah blah, Apple store Metrics, blah blah, Beijing, 9.7 Million macs.

PS - I'm getting the feed facts from Macrumors and Gizmodo. there isn't a covert ustream feed... yet.

• 12:08 - iLife 09... New iPhoto. I say screw that, Google's Picassa just launched for Mac.
• 12:13 - iPhoto adds face recognition and geotagging support. more ways for Apple to hypermanage your stuff.
• 12:16 - iPhoto adds native export support for facebook and flickr... Finally. Note that you can do this now with free plugins.
• 12:30 - iPhoto demo over with... meanwhile macrumors livefeed gets hacked. "STEVE JOBS JUST DIED" flashed on the screen, a few minutes later.. "SEX ME" appears to be an AJAX injection attack.  Moving on..
• 12:32  - iMovie 09 gets precision controls, insertion of 2d and 3d maps. Video stabilization, and themes. *Macrumors feed goes down.
• 12:45 - PhilNote carries onto Garageband. New feature, "learn to play." Teaches you to play an instrument, will not make you better at Guitar Hero.
• 12:52 - iLife ships in late January, $79 upgrade, or $99, Family pack that installs on 5 macs.
• 12:54 - iWork - it uh, works. Keynote adds some new effects, transitions. Phil used it for his keynote, but still can't be Jobs.
• 12:55 - Keynote Remote... lets you view and control slides from your iphone or iPod touch.
• 1:06 - sorry, fell asleep. you can get iWork and iLife as a box set with Leopard for $169 when it ships in late January.
• 1:07  - iWork.com lets you view and share documents over the web. beta launching soon.
• 1:13 - One more thing. new 17 macbook pro's with the same Unibody hardware as the 15-inchers.
• 1:17 - integrated 9400M and 9600M graphics cards. 320GB HDD or upgrade to 256GB SSD. Supports up to 24inch cinema display, and 17-inch screen ships with a native resolution of 1920×1200. Also the lightest and thinnest 17 notebook evar. Whooopdeedoo.  Battery can not be removed, but claimes 8 hours, with 1000 cycles. $2799
• there is a bit more about itunes but i don't care.. eff this shit.

There is a new Buffalo blogger in town, and its my buddy Kirk...

HI All, So I just started this new blog called Re-Think Buffalo! http://rethinkbuffalo.blogspot.com/ the theme is for me to post my meandering thoughts on being in Buffalo and things that are going on here. It will mostly be my thoughts and feelings at any given minute. I have 2 posts so far and would love to get added to your google reader or rss feed. Hope people can make it to the event on the 2nd post it is gonna be a lot of fun. Thanks for checking it out! Rock, Kirk

He also started to twitter not too recently, after realizing that the only way Huw I would talk to him is if he @'d us. Follow him here.

Its been such a rollercoaster of busy day, nappy day... with New Years in
the middle of the week and the holidays just before... today is the last
Lazy Sunday till the first full work week of Aught Nine. #snap grats to
Scranto who is also being lazy today

Or so he claims... His signed T-shirt does lend him some credibility though. This was a season opening with ceremony.. first, a moment to remember veteran sportswriter, Tom Borrelli, who passed away last November due to a tragic accident. Then, the Bandits got to drop the 2008 NLL championship banner. What came next seemed almost natural (although the 4th quarter was a little scary): they proceeded to whip their old enemies, the Philadelphia Wings, 15-11. #snap Im not a sportswriter, but Andy Kulyk is. Check out his post here when it goes live.. wnymedia.net/blogs/

The absolute best fresh/import market is on Grant street. Rumored to have
contributed to Elvis' downfall with sammiches, the deli has the best meats
and cheeses from all over. Then take a walk through the assorted dry import
goods aisles, and you'll know why Guercio's is a Buffalo treasure. #snap

Girrrrrrlllllll! #snap

Oh Frankie.... interesting effect with the G1 cam and our Martin 3000
strobes. #snap