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Hi estrip. I thought I should make a post to commemorate my visit to Buffalo. I stayed with e:paul and co. Some friends and I came into town for the &Now festival to present a project. It was 0 . . .
It's been awhile e:strip, but I'm once again making a new year's resolution I find myself making nearly every year alongside taking off a few pounds and taking the dog for more walks: I0 . . .
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I got a bike today. It was kind of exasperating searching, but once we bit the bullet and went into an actual bike shop, things got a lot better. It really makes a difference on something like a bike 0 . . .
Wow, I can't believe how awesome these Japanese signs are. I also can't believe there are FIVE PAGES of these things. I learned so much about Japanese Smoking Etiquette: 1) Don't smoke around other pe0 . . .
Here's an example of what I love about Wikipedia (and I found this linked from Digg, which I also love): "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammati0 . . .
Hello e:strippers! It's been awhile, but after spending a weekend in Idaho, I felt like I should update you on what we've been up to. It's been six weeks since we moved away from Buffalo. In some ways0 . . .
And the winner is... e:Ladycroft ! Of couse. How could this entry http://www.estrip.org/articles/ladycroft/312.html NOT win? (Plus, it was pretty much the only one... But that should not detra0 . . .
Well, it was a big deal, but we made it. We're officially in VA. We've got internet. We've got driver's licenses, and we've got all of our stuff inside and gradually getting organized. I wanted to say0 . . .
This is just a reminder of my previous post ( this one ) about giving away our tickets to the August 24 Jurassic 5 concert in Buffalo. It's easy to enter -- just reply in a comment or email to one of 0 . . .
Well, Sarah and I found a place. It's a good place for a good price, but it's in the more suburb-y part of Alexandria. It's not quite living in East Amherst, but it's a little like living in a new dev0 . . .
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This is a test image from the new phone. 0706/0841677001152853022.jpg0 . . .
Hello estrip! As you may know from the post below, Sarah and I are moving. While it's really exciting, it's sad that we'll miss both the Violent Femmes and the Jurassic 5 concerts this summer. The0 . . .
I typically try to keep business businees, and estrip not business, and i plan to maintain that separation. But sometimes an offer comes along that one can't resist. Such is the case here: In spite0 . . .
My good pal PFC_Spengler from the Unofficial UB Forums (a must-read for any UB students/alum and pretty fun for many others) hooked me up with this awesome video and photo content all for estrip! S0 . . .
Here's my answers to e:Paul's survey... People: 1. How did you find out about/why did you become of estrip? Paul told me about it, relatively early on, I think. Paul was one of the first people0 . . .
Last night I was hanging out with e:Paul , e:Terry and e:Matthew (and Sarah http://sarahwichlacz.com ), and we were talking about their new mansion. What a cool building. I must have had too much Flyi0 . . .
OK, who in e:strip land knows about the Buffalo Zoo gate sculptures? I know others are familiar with the sculptures; at each of the old gates of the Buffalo Zoo there are these cool sculptures of diff0 . . .
I saw this bot contest online and I thought I'd post it up here for anyone toying with chatterbots on E:strip. Or interested in doing such a thing... Robots or "BOTs", are software progra0 . . .
I made a site using Ning. It's a Buffalo Restaurant Reviews site http://buffaloeats.ning.com . Rappaport's site is good, but clunky. And I don't know of another site that allows user-reviews. So here0 . . .
Wow, Two posts in one day, what a deal! I want this. I want two. http://www.jesuspan.com 0606/JesusPan0245.jpg 0 . . .
Watching TV today, I saw Lloyd Kauffman and the Troma crew at Cannes promoting Poultrygeist. For those new to the 'Strip, my wife and I were extras in the protesting crowd scene, and we got to do a so0 . . .
Calling all Alternative Gamers! 0506/altG_banner12635.gif I just started a new webzine called Alternative Games. You can view it at http://www.alt-games.com (that's Alt - Games.com) and I welc0 . . .
Josephine and sarah performing a vr drama at the epoetry symposium 0406/0716475001144604088.jpg0 . . .
Butt paste on sale at target... 0406/0543851001144604090.jpg0 . . .
Wow! I'm blown away by this device, not so much because of what it does (although I think it would be a brilliant sound toy to have), but because of the way it makes me think of interactivity. Here's 0 . . .
there is an ePoetry event at UB this weekend. Loss Glazier has organized a two-part symposium. The first part is this weekend at UB and the second part will be at the University of Western Virgina whe0 . . .
Mixed in with the veggie burgers at the grocery store is cubed goat meat... 0306/0748153001143487673.3gp0 . . .
Shawn reading little nemo 0306/0772698001143164747.jpg0 . . .
Lance reading at the delany conference 0306/0911519001143164747.jpg0 . . .
My brother rob got me the largest book I've ever seen... 0306/0494980001143040898.jpg0 . . .
Would you believe I built a painstaking model of Buffalo in my basement? Would you? 0206/downtownBuffModel0433.jpg (I wouldn't... hehe)0 . . .
Got all caught up in the Tilt-Shift wave and treated one of Sarah's many photos... Whaddaya think? 0206/liberty_bldg3851.jpg 0 . . .
Buffalo is so famous! The teaser trailer for the movie Troma shot in Buffalo last summer is up. I believe you can see me and sarah in it if you look real hard. I'm holding the What Would Toxie Do? sig0 . . .
0206/SR0651.jpg Real Name: Shawn Rider Height: 6'7" Weight:330 lbs. Finisher: Rider Driver(Steiner Screwdriver) Set-Up: Chokeslam to Hell Age 18 Birthdate: July 21st, 1982 I'm a0 . . .
I trusted Broadcast Machine when I know i shouldn't have, and turned on the server sharing in the latest version. Now I'm locked out of my websites until the whatever refreshes. When I do that the ser0 . . .
Awhile ago people sent in photos of what estrip looks like to them. I hooked up my new monitor and estrip looks amazing. 0106/0769945001137529396.jpg0 . . .
The price of truffles has doubled at wegman's. 0106/0608638001137453635.jpg0 . . .
Judy spys a goat. 0106/0458706001136679297.jpg0 . . .
Just chilling with the sheep. 0106/0718746001136679198.jpg0 . . .
Waiting for our flight in chicago. 1205/0199224001135921499.jpg0 . . .
Sunny and warm in salt lake city. 1205/0360186001135894077.jpg0 . . .
Paul and i getting ready to kill some skeet. 1205/0229058001135650990.jpg0 . . .
My father in law and me. 1205/0978974001135650934.jpg0 . . .
Action shot shooting the ten guage. 1205/0811513001135650916.jpg0 . . .
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Tim out on the small town. 1205/0115583001135315541.jpg0 . . .
Santa is walking this year... 1205/0941974001134957501.jpg0 . . .
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My parent's neighborhood on the edge of idaho falls. 1205/0008747001134951638.jpg0 . . .
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Sarah driving a way too big truck. 1205/0710387001134781041.jpg0 . . .
OK, e:strip, I'm off to Idaho. We're leaving the day after tomorrow, but I figure I will be busy getting ready to go all the way to Idaho for a few weeks. We have to take a generator, convert our mone0 . . .
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our new gf host. 1205/0634227001133749467.3gp0 . . .
The twins and jessica the director. 1205/0438755001133737107.jpg0 . . .
The twins doing the white balance. 1205/0259150001133736748.3gp0 . . .
Making the second episode of gamesfirst television. 1205/0919003001133733705.3gp0 . . .
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Any other e:Strippers on Xbox Live? I am. All the time. If you're online and you like games that don't suck, then get in touch: I'm GameFirst on XBL. Whether you're on or not, you might enjoy the test0 . . .
Too many xbox games... 1105/0398958001133069908.jpg0 . . .
Number one in the world on xbox live. Enjoying it while it lasts. 1105/0798987001132475223.jpg0 . . .
You must watch this video now: http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=CH6-2UizHfI&search=science It's a video of some scientists playing with cornstarch and water -- sounds boring, but the two form0 . . .
Dramatic street corner. 1105/0968797001132260100.jpg0 . . .
I was helping my neighbor put together some business cards, and one of the local Buffalo print shops was advertising XKardz. What are XKardz? Well, check out hte image below. 1105/kardzsample47060 . . .
Paul reading from the site based poetry. 1105/0888968001132112457.jpg0 . . .
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The two men sat staring at the whiteboard. A line down the middle of the board separated two lists, one labeled "Life," the other "Death." Under "Life" were a few bullet 0 . . .
Sarah in front of her winning photos. 1105/0258847001131840462.jpg0 . . .
Main street railroad bridge after voting 1105/0629394001131482167.jpg0 . . .
A Plot or Storyline Patent application seeks to patent the underlying novel and nonobvious storyline of a fictional story. Such protection is to be contrasted from the copyright protection of one of 0 . . .
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has0 . . .
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This is one half of an accident involving a bus from the school. I was riding the UB Stampede to school, and I saw lights. I should have gotten out my cam quicker, then I would have been able to get t0 . . .
Fire on vernon place 1005/0490911001129588938.jpg It looks like nobody got hurt, except a firefighter who looked like he was being treated for smoke inhalation. He seemed like he'd be OK, from my 0 . . .
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Wow. This blog post (via BoingBoing) talks about a Chinese farm producing food for McDonald's (I assume that's the Chinese McDonald's, since I don't think this stuff would go over so well here). This 0 . . .
Totally orange cracker on the street. 1005/0599496001129334829.jpg0 . . .
Last week i sent a photo of this which i know isn't a swastika but is awfully weird. 0905/0771094001127879728.jpg0 . . .
The train coming in. I'm curious about the motion blur. 0905/0123134001127417816.3gp0 . . .
At the station this morn. 0905/0150994001127417806.3gp0 . . .
"This is a plain and brazen violation of copyright law," Nick Taylor, president of the New York-based Authors Guild, said in a statement. "It's not up to Google or anyone other than the authors, the r0 . . .
So i found this swastika on the floor of just pizza and i thought it was a pattern but i couldn't find anymore. Wtf? 0905/0571086001127274071.jpg0 . . .
Video evidence of subliminal advertising. 0905/0660980001127206885.3gp0 . . .
i saw this subliminal frame come up on the television. Wtf? This is in the middle of brainiac, some british show on g4. 0905/0460958001127206603.jpg0 . . .
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The parasite, Cymothoa exigua, attached itself to the host fish's tongue and snacked on it to the point where it replaced the missing part of the tongue. The parasite, which does not harm humans, only0 . . .
0905/bushTreehorn22040.jpg 0905/bushTreehorn2040.jpg I'll tell you what I'm BLATHERING about: I've got information, man. New SHIT has come to LIGHT. And, shit, man...0 . . .
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Fred's opening tonight. 0905/0586093001126389917.3gp0 . . .
From the sublime to the ridiculous. This comes from a funny post about a dwarf stumbling upon some hot P2P action in World of Warcraft. Out of sheer boredom and the need to do a little PvP research0 . . .
Katrina People Finder Voluteer page: http://192.122.183.218/wiki/index.php/PeopleFinderVolunteer Look, if you can make a post on e:strip, you can help with the Katrina People Finder Volunteer effor0 . . .
The extreme abstraction show. 0905/0156774001125704756.3gp0 . . .
Hey, GF! has some rad new shirts available. Check out the Gift Shop link, or just go directly here: http://gamesfirst.spreadshirt.com I made them all myself. Like this one: 0805/1star0741.jpg 0 . . .
Just to prove to Paul that people will still paul,3796 to other journal posts in spite of comments being enabled.... hehe OK, the whole credit cards on campus thing is no joke. But that's the mo0 . . .
Wow, it's like some kind of nipponophile week for me on eStrip. OK, so while playing Eye Toy at e:Paul (and e:Terry and e:Matthew)'s house the other night, e:Jesse brought out his Japanese porno ma0 . . .
It's turned into a regular estrip eye toy party. 0805/0926211001125023227.3gp0 . . .
Another angle of terry playing kung foo. 0805/0446392001125022284.3gp0 . . .
Terry playing kung 2. 0805/0376234001125021772.3gp0 . . .
Paul is an air guitar king of rock. 0805/0346418001125019993.3gp0 . . .
Eating at charlie the butcher on cayuga 0805/0086385001124920764.3gp0 . . .
I just watched the most bizarre segment on BBC World News: Online Suicide Clubs have been forming in Japan. What's even more bizarre is that the segment I saw tonight is a followup to this coverage fr0 . . .
Wow, it's incredible how much work I've been putting into the new GamesFirst! (http://www.gamesfirst.com). e:Paul helped a bunch and gave up a few key scripts that made my life SO much easier. I defin0 . . .
Paul playing some more. 0805/0467198001123280736.3gp0 . . .
Paul playing in a virtual playground. 0805/0656322001123280686.jpg0 . . .
Paul all vr'd out. 0805/0066067001123280319.jpg0 . . .
Virtual reality with paul terry sarah and sarah. 0805/0016106001123279962.3gp0 . . .
Another vomit take. 0705/0476237001122846053.3gp0 . . .
Done with shooting this weekend... Or almost done... 0705/0706798001122845869.jpg0 . . .
Post massive vomit take. 0705/0926210001122845786.3gp0 . . .
The general has chicken. 0705/0361024001122822604.jpg0 . . .
Activity on set. 0705/0906276001122820767.3gp0 . . .
Lloyd and the general's harem. 0705/0046042001122816258.jpg0 . . .
Lloyd and crew setting up. 0705/0416115001122810590.jpg0 . . .
Looking like a real movie set. 0705/0036305001122810278.3gp0 . . .
Lloyd and crew. 0705/0776226001122730248.3gp0 . . .
Sarah is modeling our official movie sign. We will be holding the what would Toxie do sign. 0705/0856373001122726584.jpg0 . . .
Bright and early at the american chicken bunker. 0705/0456114001122721894.jpg0 . . .
Lloyd giving constructive criticism. 0705/0296048001122322472.jpg0 . . .
Totally GWAR dude. 0705/0006281001122325509.jpg0 . . .
Troma rehearsals this weekend were pretty fun. Nothing like a little pantomime protesting and a whole bunch of waiting around. At least there are interesting people there, and all the Troma folks seem0 . . .
A quick pan of the protestors. 0705/0556110001122225255.3gp0 . . .
Lloyd is here today. 0705/0933536001122224638.3gp0 . . .
Rehearsal is mostly waiting. 0705/0926361001122139184.3gp0 . . .
Troma rehearsal for real this time. 0705/0346303001122130855.3gp0 . . .
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Troma protestor rehearsal for Poultrygeist ( http://www.poultrygeistmovie.com ) today was just down the street from P:Labs (e:paul), in the basement of the Linwood Street Church of Christ? (I might be0 . . .
This year the Best of Buffalo Readers' Choice ballot is online and easier to fill out. We've also added fun new cateogories to vote for, and great prizes for a lucky winner who votes for at least 20 c0 . . .
Troma films is shooting their new zombie musical, Poultrygeist, here in Buffalo, on Bailey at the Old MacDonald's rest (it's just a little ways north of Amherst street if I'm thinking of the right one0 . . .
e:terry bravely made us Lupper on Thursday, the hottest day in Buffalo for all of the three years I've been here. Seriously. They wrote about it in the News. And this was the driest May in like 30 yea0 . . .
Uncyclopedia.org (http://www.uncyclopedia.org) is the opposite of Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org): Welcome to Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Full of humo0 . . .
The Interwebs are powerful with this one... So folks might remember my last post which got a bit of traffic and kind of sort of weighed down estrip a bit. Sorry about that. Seriously. Paul and I di0 . . .
I can't believe the way people confuse Bit Torrent with movie piracy. Let me set the record straight here: Bit Torrent is a technology for distributing large files without incurring massive server loa0 . . .
I just got this new server software for my DSM320 Media Center (or Media Hub as the new server software calls it). The new software is called TVersity (http://www.tversity.com) and it's free to downlo0 . . .
Wow, what a difference a week in LA can make. I still get so giddy flying from sea to shining sea. Why isn't that our awesome Go USA song? Too commie, I guess... Anyway, a lot has been up with GF! 0 . . .
Adieu mes amis! We're heading to LA for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (http://www.e3insider.com) We'll be moblogging our journey with some images here http://moblog.gamesfirst.com, and as alway0 . . .
the new wap estrip is way cool. now i just need a qwerty phone. ttfn0 . . .
Scud -- whoa there, cowboy. You're gonna make a mess on that fancy new Xbox 360.. Here's a link to my impressions from last night. http://gamesfirst.com/v4/index.php?m=l&i=563 I'll also be moblogg0 . . .
0505/gfOnPSP4301.jpg This is what GF! looks like on PSP. I dig it. I really love twoplayer on PSP because the color and resolution looks so good. I think we should make a PSP page for twoplayer b0 . . .
0505/note1752.jpg This image is a bit blurry, so a translation (the note is from Dee, and I obscured his phone number with my thumb): Baby, that walk got me going crazy for yo ass. Let me suck0 . . .
By the year 1990 there could be as many as 10,000 computers in britain. Experts like Computer Jones will eventually become irrelevant as, by then, computers will be able to program themselves, clea0 . . .
The Time Traveler Convention May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W (42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees) Wha0 . . .
With every point I expressed that ran counter to a view she held, she removed one article of clothing. Soon she sat on my couch naked, gently pulling at her untrimmed pubic hair, staring intently but 0 . . .
Just when you think nobody is reading... robin,386 terry,419 jason,123 uncutsaniflush,50(I always thought you were "uncut" mr. saniflush...) ajay,337 metalpeter,332 OK, OK, so I w0 . . .
The National Organization of Restoring Men is a non-profit support group for men who have concerns about being circumcised, are considering foreskin restoration, or are in the process of restoring th0 . . .
I was all taken in by e:zipzock's post about the Comix Cafe (zipzock,8). I thought it was a comix (books) cafe, and I was like, "Wow, a cafe dedicated to comic books? How cool!" Alas, I a0 . . .
So we had much better luck with the scanner camera today. We're starting to get the hang of it, and we got some great photos today. Mostly I'm just going to post up some photos for you to check out. I0 . . .
So begins the saga of the scanner camera -- skip below if you want to see the first two shots.. What is a scanner camera? Well, I'd link to the fellow's page who describes it, but it's totally down0 . . .
I love open source stuff, but the prevalence of closed, corp software makes the decision something of a pragmatic one. For example, I run a videogame website. I cannot go All-Linux because then I woul0 . . .
The Experimental Gameplay Project: create 50 to 100 games in 1 semester. New games every week. The Rules: * each game must be made in less than 7 days * each game must be made by one pe0 . . .
My friend Steffan is always talking about doing a game where the rules change everytime. Then I always go, "CalvinBall!" and he sighs at me. Sorry Steffan. But I found this Game of Nomic 0 . . .
So I made this thing last weekend. It's a dynamic short story called "So Random" (http://www.shawnrider.com/soRandom). I hope you like it. e:paul is helping me do cool things with it. Thanks0 . . .
Wow. That's all I can say here. Not only is this some of the highest quality LARPing I've ever seen, but it's also phenomenally well-shot documentary footage. Really nicely put together to illustrate 0 . . .
From BoingBoing (http://www.boingboing.net), but I can't resist this image -- woot, li'l cowpokes! 0405/comic_tot141004.gif The artists who created these covers probably never meant for them to 0 . . .
I just heard about this site, Our Media (http://www.ourmedia.org/), which apparently is some kind of relation to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), which is one of my most favorite things 0 . . .
http://www.stortroopers.com/index.html The StorTroopers are back, after like a few year hiatus. The site is cool for generating little avatar images and stuff, and I appreciate those kinds of appl0 . . .
0405/upcoming228_Yucef-Merhi_ataripoetry4--web-0431.jpg, Yucef Merhi's Atari 2600 generated poetry A friend of mine pointed me to this link (http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=upcoming#Yucef_M0 . . .
0405/mike4316.jpg, Mike Peutz or Michael Peutz - my former roommate If anyone sees Mike Peutz around, let me know. He used to be my roommate and was a really great guy. I haven't seen him for lik0 . . .
Wow, I haven't like a cop drama in ages, but that JC Supercop is a bad shut-cho-mouth. I love the part where Jesus shoots the thug, then brings him back to life to get the last bit of information out 0 . . .
helping e:paul test out the server -- seems super spiffy! nice work!0 . . .
Wow, I just received payment for my Sync Magazine (http://www.syncmagazine.com) article about Sociolotron (http://www.sociolotron.com). Sync is supposed to be like "Maxim meets Wired" which 0 . . .
e:Paul said he thought it was pointless to duplicate Google's planned video blog features (http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1236), and I can understand not wanting to "compete" with Go0 . . .
Wow, I'm not the biggest Hunter S. Thompson geek, but I'm all for people digging him and his stuff. I just found this http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/05/hunter_thompsons_ash.html through BoingBoing 0 . . .
I just came across this, via the ultiBlog, BoingBoing (www.boingboing.net). It looks like awhile back there was a flare-up of the blogosphere regarding a topic called "Toothing." Toothin0 . . .
My friend Dave Logan (http://www.dave-logan.com/blog) made this rad video for They Might Be Giants' song, Bloodmobile. Here's the link http://www.dave-logan.com/animation/bloodmobile/ . It's a great a0 . . .
Incredible story on Indy Online here ( http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=qw1058427901273B235 ). It looks like a 20 year old guy from Taiwan (Taipei) committed suicide after his girlfriend dumped h0 . . .
Oh, yeah. I love it. I mean LOVE it... It's so great. It's like having a PS2 in my hand. but I've spent way too much time trying to get it to tunnel with xlink/Kai. I switched to XBConnect and it work0 . . .
jason,111 I know people here cuz I got to school at UB and all. I got into the site because e:Paul's my classmate, and when he told us about his MFA work, I thought, damn, that's a cool site. And y0 . . .
In these trying times... let's have an Easter Egg Hunt: 2600 (http://www.2600.com) is having an Easter Egg Hunt on the DVD for their film, Freedom Downtime, which is a pretty dang amazing piece of 0 . . .
Ooooh! ajay,304 Oooh, oooh! paul,2953 Yay, I love playing with images. I guess I should point out Sarah's "Name Game" project, which is a commentary on "network semiotics" --0 . . .
U.S. District Judge James Whittemore said the 41-year-old woman's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had not established a "substantial likelihood of success" at trial on the merits of their a0 . . .
Just to follow up on yesterday's post: The rates of oral and anal sex among people who planned to stay abstinent until marriage are higher than among other teens who have not had intercourse at all0 . . .
from here ( http://www.sexisforfags.com/ ) I understand that abstaining from sex protects me from: The regret and guilt caused by the disgusting, squishy act of stupid sex, which is basically li0 . . .
paul,2850 I remember that PlastikMan album "Sheet One" featured a sheet of blotter paper decorated with little Plastikmen... What would you do with that? I wonder if that's why it's so ha0 . . .
scud,80 Hey e:Scud , I'm on Xbox Live every once in awhile. I don't play any sports games, but lately some Halo 2 and Mechassault 2... my gamertag is GamesFirst (like my website) Look for me som0 . . .
Check this out, from BoingBoing ( http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/18/dvd_jon_creates_drmf.html ) Apparently PyMusique is a free program that allows you to download tunes from iTunes without the D0 . . .
Oh, damn, e:Paul, this is exactly the way I like to do it -- I come to e:strip to read other people's journals -- I always disliked how if I saw something I thought was cool or wanted to say something0 . . .
paul,2797 e:paul That image on Halavais' door looks like a Rasterbator ( http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/ ) print from here. Or it could just be a really huge print of a really large file that's 0 . . .
e:Paul has been having issues with his Basic Stamp, which is, apparently, something used in basic electronics. Don't ask me, I just read about this stuff... Anyway, I was reading Hack A Day (http:/0 . . .
Jon Udell does Screencasts, which is a pretty interesting thing in and of itself. While browsing his site, I found this great screencast about the Heavy Metal Umaut article on Wikipedia ( heavy metal 0 . . .
Hapened across this entry on Engadget this morning: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000917034960/ It's a how-to on hacking Google maps. Whee! 0 . . .
Wow, I love how sometimes an interesting blog posting will lead you to multiple things you've just GOT to know about. Case in point, this here post. I have to go make tacos right now, but when I come 0 . . .
I wanted to encourage e:Scud to check out Blog Torrent ( www.blogtorrent.com). It's a good little utility for serving files via Bit Torrent bit torrent . What's really cool is that it just requires b0 . . .
After a day full of getting loads of stuff done, I was about to test the first dry run of a new part of my thesis project and all of a sudden DW can't connect. Shit. So I check the server through FF -0 . . .
I'm sad that e:Soyeon left e:Strip. That was my favorite journal. As much as I enjoy reading stuff on all the journals from time to time, I always found Soyeon's journal to be really entertaining. I t0 . . .
Inspired by the discussion here... I found out that the URL ArtistOfTheCentury.com was available so I bought it. I decided to turn it into a little peer based art project. So, peers, let's get coll0 . . .
I don't care that these "robots" aren't fully automated. They're radio-controlled, and that's OK. And anyone looking for evidence of higher thought processes in machines built to destroy is 0 . . .
This is in response to e:Scud 's posting (scud,73): Webspace is a premium commodity for anyone wanting to Podcast. There is no solution like just sucking it up and paying for it. There are plenty o0 . . .
I love the indy podcasting stuff. I gave a lecture about podcasting and broadsnatching (or broadcatching, for the squeamish) earlier this semester (http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~srrider/dms538/notes/we0 . . .
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/23/pope.book.reut/index.html You know, if gay marriage is part of the "new ideology of evil" then covering up child sexual abuse, denying women0 . . .
I'm tired, but this still seems like a fun thing... http://quillion.pomstar.com/ The Quillion is like a funky anti-org group blog... e:Paul definitely needs to see it if he hasn't already... 0 . . .
Well, Sarah and I are heading back to Idaho Falls for the Xmas. Maybe I'll finally get off my butt and post some phone cam pix from IF (that's what the hipstaz call it). Out my mom's kitchen window yo0 . . .
This is for e:Paul -- students in a course on online reading and writing have been researching Second Life players in secret. Of course, it's not a secret anymore, and the SL denizens are pissed. Here0 . . .
1004/osama_cheney_rumsfeld1153.jpg i was so shocked that mtv2 was showing the new eminem video i mentioned in the last post that i snapped this phonecam pic. this is my fave shot of the whole video0 . . .
I thought I'd go with a headline that would get some attention... I was talking to Paul V today and told him about one of my fave nerdcore hip hop fellas, MC Frontalot, a SF-based rapper who is SUP0 . . .
Like Ajay sez, sign the petition to resist Pano's plan to tear down the Atwater House and put in a parking lot. Linky-link-link: http://www.petitiononline.com/1089elm/petition.html I've only l0 . . .
8* Wow, Soyeon's journal freaked me out. http://www.elmwoodstrip.com/elmwood/blogDisplay/index.php?u=soyeon&m=09&y=04 In the lab, no less. Then I came home and had to look at it again. An0 . . .
Again, far too large for an e:strip sample, but here's a link to the latest... This is a demo version also; we're re-recording now that the arrangement is finalized... Blackest Antics is here------0 . . .
Well, it's been too long, and I say that too much... . oh, well. Given the current climate I couldn't wait to put out an ultra-raw super bootleg, straight off the working loop and raw vox, version 0 . . .
http://www.fahrenheit911.com that is all0 . . .
has ne1 tried MUTE or konspire? MUTE is a super secure and anonymous P2P filesharing client and konspire is a broadcast solution. exciting stuff. here's a link... Konspirehttp://konspire.sourceforg0 . . .
0404/01100754.gif In 6th grade I was kicked out of the Catholic church and CCD in my hometown for drawing cat butts in the CCD workbooks and asking provocative questions in class. But it was the ca0 . . .
Sarah and I are playing with Google a lot these days. I just started playing around with the Google Web API and created this Google Poem Generator. Check it out here: http://www.gamesfirst.com/sarah/0 . . .
0304/fatbush.jpg I wanted to make a banner for e:strip, so I thought, well, who should be on it except the president? Of course! So I made him good and porky and put it into the banner. But then it0 . . .
To all of the unabashed sharers out there: Another source for the info you're not supposed to have. Banned Music (http://www.bannedmusic.org/index.php) is a site hosting BitTorrent downloads of illega0 . . .
Wow, drop out for a week and the whole world goes topsy-turvy. I just got the whole rundown from Paul the other night, and I have to say that on the one hand I'm incredibly shocked at some folks' vind0 . . .
They're coming up -- woot! OK, Paul wanted me to post a link to Pleix (http://www.pleix.net), but then it was down when I checked it. Usually it's up, and these folks make super rad videos... Paul sho0 . . .
0304/lostintranslation1.jpg Man, what kind of moron could vote Sean Penn over Bill Murray?!? I think Lost in Translation was an amazing film, incredibly well-done on all parts, and Bill Murray dese0 . . .
happier and calmer means ignorant and repressed honest and truthful means naive and mute when people say that the world used to be less violent, they really mean that the world used to not view vi0 . . .
Tradition ain't nothing but a great song in a musical. That's it. I want little to no part in tradition. Tradition is selling your daughter for a few cows. Tradition is putting in overtime at work. Tr0 . . .
OK, I'm writing raw here, but I just had to get this out. Of course I saw the great dictator on TV this morning, and I was outraged from the start: Gay marriage, or any other kind of marriage, is neit0 . . .
Old websites are grizzled old beasts that should be put out of their misery. I've been moving GF! (http://www.gamesfirst.com) over to a new server -- our old Idaho host just wasn't cutting it for us. 0 . . .
w3rd, the UT2k4 demo is available and it pretty much roxor my world, y'know? It's just such a high-energy, adrenaline-fueled speed shooter. Now that they added loads of badass vehicles to cruise aroun0 . . .
0204/cotton_scrawl.jpg Paul's built so many cool things into e:s here that I haven't had time to take full advantage of all of them. However, I had a disturbing experience when I noticed I could 0 . . .
So I got on this train via a link from BoingBoing to Neil Gaiman's weblog, and I thought it fitting for e:Strip. Looks like Bush's Dept of Education has created a new list of television shows that 0 . . .
Has anyone seen the documentary "The Gift"? It's an independent flick, check out what little info they have on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355482/combined Anyway, it's about a subc0 . . .
Wow, I'm so sad I haven't written on here more. Here, check out http://www.drivemeinsane.com and come back soon. I'll write something more. I promise.0 . . .
How Time Flies. I can't even believe that it's been over 30 days since I touched this journal. Shows you how good I am at this kind of thing, huh? I would like to use the excuse of being in Idaho for 0 . . .
OK, so Paul got back to me re:my last post and brought my attention to this humorous poster that Matthew put on his e:strip blog. Then I saw Holly's PhotoChop of the image, which is way funny. So then0 . . .
Xmas is always such a pain. And I don't mean to sound all Scrooge-y or Grinch-ish; I love the idea of coming together with family and friends to celebrate life and relationships, and I think the middl0 . . .
1103/cotton_thismachine.gif So Paul and I are both in DMS, and Holly's in my digipoeticals course, and I play Second Life (when First Life isn't ruining everything for everyone), and I write. So I 0 . . .
Have you ever wished you could get a quality treadmill workout without paying expensive gym prices? Look no further than the Treadmill Bike by the Bicycle Forest. The Treadmill Bike offers the same fa0 . . .