12/04/03 03:34 - ID#30611

My Final Interactive Environment Project

My project worked out. Unfortunately, I spent so much time working on the virtual Amy Goodman that by the time the real one came around I had passed out. I guess thats life. Terry ended up going and told me all about it.

I think Amy came out quite well although I didn't get to see her in person so now I can never be totally sure.

In my video animation Amy Goodman gets interviewed for our web site. Then she meets the liberal superheroine Liberty. She is kind of like a liberal, sexy female version of the hulk. I am thinking of continuing the saga here on elmwoodstrip.com.

I was really impressed with the reflectivity on the microhphone during sunset on my FireGL X1 256mb graphics card. It really beats the Nvidia Quadro 700 128Mb Go card hands down. All in all i am glad that my project ended up having a sociio-political relevance. The video will eventually end up here. Right now I have to recompress it for Quicktime instead of Windows Media Player and maybe even refilm in daylight. The freakin' sun went down in Secondlife just as I started to film, how weird is that. So the bottom pictur eis nice an dclear during sunset but the video is quite dark.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: politics

12/01/03 01:49 - ID#30610

Bush Protest

Here are some live quotes from the signs at the Bush protest. Huge turnout - many more pictures and text updates to come. Come on down.

"I wasn't using my civil liberties anyways. Two terms for Bush."

"One in washington, one in prison one humanity, one struggle free speach zone?"

"Let's bomb texas, they have oil too"

"Regime change starts at home"

"Got rights?"

"One humanity, one struggler."

"Who would jesus bomb?"

"A snare drum that says "death walks behind you" osama bin ashcroft

"We don't need big brother. Stop US war crimes."

This is what CNN says his visit was about. We heard from sources inside the speech that it was mostly Police and law inforcement officiers in the crowd.

They are provisions that:

Allow sneak-and-peek searches to permit law enforcement agencies to surreptitiously enter a premises for evidence and inform terrorism suspects later.

Give law enforcement agencies the ability to obtain library records on demand for terrorism investigations.

Bush disagrees that the provisions go too far.

"The terrorists declared war on the United States of America, and the Congress must give law enforcement all the tools necessary to protect the American people," Bush said Monday.

He is demanding that Congress make the law's provisions permanent.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/30/03 09:29 - ID#30609

Project Drama

My secondLife movie project starring Amy Goodman and the statue of Liberty is driving me crazy. Everything is ready but the video capture part is sucking for me. I hope that it works out. I guess I could just consider not getting an A for once. But if I get a B I might as well get an F.

I am just sticking my eye here a year later cause i found it while finding the pic that was missing from this journal.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/30/03 04:22 - ID#30608

Updates for Quickness

Here is a rundown for some of the (e:strip) v1.5 updates. Its not a huge change from v1.4 to v1.5 but there are some great improvements.

1. The (e:strip) logo at the top of the banne ris a link back to the elmwood journal/home page.

2. There is a new "QuickUpdate" button on the journals directly under the user's pictures. By clicking on it you bring up a pop up box which allows you to quickly add a journal entry wihtout having to access the more ocmplicated update page.

3. The traditional update page still accessed by the write button at the top, has had many upgrades. You now can update and delelte multiple journals at a time. This saves lots of time. I have also mmoved the uploaded images library to a separate window in order to speed up load time when doing text-only updates.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/30/03 02:07 - ID#30606

Listen to This - Caught Matthew

Here is a

to the Richard Stallman MP3 about the development of the GNU/Linux and opensource movements.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/28/03 06:06 - ID#30605

You may wonder . .

Where has paul been lately, what's going on? I have been searching for a cell phone. I have never wanted one before but now as they are getting more powerful I would like to start developing applications for them. In order to do that I would like to have a real one to test on.

Unfortunately, no service would offer me a no voice service but unlimited internet service. At first T-mobile agreed but then the manager said no. Which sucks. I really want to have wireless internet access via a bluetooth cell phone. Believe it or not, verizon does not offer bluetooth cell phones. Their phones seem to be really behind the times.

And T-mobile has the phones I want but not the service I am looking for. Basically, it means that you will not see cell phone features for (e:strip) yet. I was really hoping to allow people to update and read their journals via cellphones. But although, I have an emulator I could use for development, I will not be very motivated till I have a phone.

I seriously, cannot afford a phone for $39.00 a month, whn I know I would only make like 4 phone calls with it per month.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/27/03 03:57 - ID#30604

Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I am really busy with my final projects so I have no idea how much celebrating I will get in over thi sbreak, but my mother invited us over for Thanksgiving and i please contact me and I will try to get it worked out. It will definately be a tasty meal.

If you having any problems with the site, please email me - version 1.5 will be coming out sometime in mid december iwth lots of improvements.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/23/03 02:18 - ID#30603

Update del Linux

So this is what happens when you get too close to your avatars head in seocndlife. You can see that you avatar has no brain.

Do you think that it means its also has no soul?

I finally got my voice recorder, the one that is going to change my life in way yet known to me. It is realy all I dreamed of. On the politically correct front, I moved the super comp on over to linux. So I had to say goodbye to some of my favorite programs, like Cinema 4D. Luckily maya runs of Linux and there is a freeware 3D app called blender. The whole purpose was to start a server, so some neat things will happen soon I hope.

The one thing that sucks about Linux is the Mp3 browsing apps. I want something just like iTunes. Unfrotunately, there isn't. Right now I am using Yammi, which I had to compile for Suse 8.2. Its better than nothign but still not my favorite. I also got icecast 2 to compile and work via oddcast with xmms to broadcast the radio station. I think it will go back on air this week. Hopefully, with better shows.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/20/03 11:16 - ID#30602

Iriitation

I am getting so irritated, the elmwood server is not responding right now. I need to update some stuff and it keeps on not connecing. I wish so bad that I could just ove this onto my computer at home. I mean I own a server, I just cannot afford a fast enough connection. Maybe something will change.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

11/19/03 03:19 - ID#30601

Parts of Second Life Missing?

Well, Since Second Life allowed digital artists to have control over their own productions I have only seen chaos. Well not really but the entire land next to my is missing. It is like a blank space. Either the serve rholding that land went down or someone sold the rights to Fox News, hahahaha. Anyways, I circled it in red so you can see what it look slike when a digital world is missing.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

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