02/09/04 01:29 - ID#30731
Republican PopUps
It makes me sad the way that people abuse popUp windows. Its starting to ruin the internet. I know you can block them, etc but I really wish people would just stop using them maliciously, instead of us having to cut out a feature of the web to protect ourselves. I escpecially feel bad for the dial-up user who's connection can easily be overwhelmed by a barage of popUps that call for new popUps.
PopUps such as that one are particularly malicious in that when you click on them it send information (possibily a great amount) to their parent site, in this case republic-info.com.
The address it takes you to is For those of you that don't understand what this is doing, it is sending you to their site but it is also sending information about what site the popUp add came from and the particular media is in the popUp window. It is probably also recording your IP addr, MAC addr, etc.
By the way the popUp add was "Paid for by the Republican National Committe Not Authorized By Any Candidate or Candidate Committee, 310 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003
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02/08/04 06:08 - ID#30730
Mask With Hair
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02/08/04 04:21 - ID#30729
Machine Validated Vocal Performance
Terry sang "Billy Jean" and I sang "Girl's Just Want To Have Fun." The machine picked them for us. My cousin, her husband, my brother, Terry and I sang three rounds in a competition and the machine validated our performance.
The whole time I was thinking about how weird it is that we found this activity to be totally normal yet I cannot imagine the situation with the machine. I can't imagine sitting around taking turns singing and voting on who is better at it. By the way Christina is the best, by far. She is a karaoke diva.
QUESTIONS:
So what about the machine makes the activity so normal and accepted? Is this the situaion for many other activities? Does the addition of a machine make it seem somehow logical and thus acceptable? Is it perhaps that we are slowly being conditioned to accept the machine as source of authority? Have we been convinced by Sony/Konami that its more fun with a machine, so that we can buy their products? Does anyone have any ideas about this?
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02/07/04 02:04 - ID#30728
HornDance
I added some bones and some soft Ik and was able to re-pose the geometry to look like two object walking or one object stalking the other.
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02/07/04 12:12 - ID#30727
First Nerve for Brain
Its kind of hard to imagine them without seeing them in his project. So we will have to see. The project involves the viewer being present in the brain of a riot police man during a protest march. You watch through his eyes and then judge, using the facts and feelings you are presented with. When speaking with him on the way to the Trinh Minh-Ha screening yesterday,, he said it was an experiemnt of mixing documentary and VR.
I hope he likes the nerve. I have a feeling it would look nice if it had a pulsing light texture.
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02/06/04 11:39 - ID#30726
Masks for the VR Project
Since these models were created Josphine had me change t hem a bit - they look more like China Dolls now but I like them like this so for now you can see this version.
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02/05/04 02:37 - ID#30725
Music Lower Middle Class
The lower to middle middle class download music. Belonging to that income range, many of the people I know download music of the internet with some sort of P2P program like Kazaa or ?.
It is noteworthy that it puts them in a specific class I believe, directly in the middle of the class spectrum. They are the people that are wealthy enough to have a sohpisticated computer system and broadband internet connection but not so wealthy that buying retail priced CDs in mass quantity is no problem. It seems that the upward limit of the music downloading scheme are probably people in the upper middle and wealthy classes. At that point you are able to just buy CDs without monetary impact, so downloading music might not be worth the time.
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02/04/04 02:05 - ID#30724
Second Life Scripts
Who know how it will go, but I think it could be the start of a sucessful disco business. I will post some pictures later tonight.
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02/04/04 12:11 - ID#30723
World Traveler gone WWW
Rockhill, South Carolina(1 Year) Winthrop, the school, is really beautiful, unlike Canisius which has beautiful pictures in the catalog and is really 3/4 of the year under snow, Winthrop is always nice. I chose this chair from the main building's porch because as a crazy 18 year old, me and my friend Amy ran naked across campus and took pictures sitting on these chairs. Those pictures have been censored, but the chair gives you a feel for the craziness of that day.
Flagstaff, Arizona(1.5 Years)
One of the most visually pleasing cities in the world. there is so much natural beauty abound, that is is almost inspirational.
Jena Germany (1 year)
Not so beautiful, bu thte Christmas market is pretty with all the lights. It's nice than buffalo at Any time.
Flensburg, Germany (1 Year)
Definately a cute city on the ocean. I loved living there.
Missing Image ;(
During that time I traveled to so many cities, some of which I will list here in no particular order. These are only the cities/towns I stayed in, not just drove through, and can remember quickly. There are links for the cities where I attended school:
Toronto, Vancouver, Niagara Falls, Montreal, Quebec City, Moyi, Hope, Nelson, Edminton, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Richmond, Washington DC, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Ithaca, Myrtle Beach, Rock Hill Columbia, Charlotte, Charleston, Savanah, Atlanta, Athens(GA), Tampa, Phoenix, Tuscon, Prescott, Flagstaff , Sante Fe, Denver, El Paso, Juarez, Huimas, Las Vegas, Reno, Portland, Seatle, New York City, Sacramento, Yuma, Redding, Eureka, , San Francisco, San Diego, Sioux Falls (Canistota), Barstow, Jena , Dresden, Flensburg , Husum , Strasbourg, Leipzig, Neu Muenster, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Eckenfoerde, Kassle, Konstanz, Freiburg, Berlin, Koeln, Dusseldorf, Lubeck, Kiel, Dortmond, Munich, Stuttgart, Lugano, Luino, Basil, Geneva, Copenhagen, Paris, Nice, Genoa, Rome, Milan, Robagano, Treviso, Venice, Florence, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Gibralter, Fez, Marakesh, Valencia, and London.
Growing up in Kenmore, I had the idea that by travelling around the world, I could be exposed to other ideas that I thought I was missing in Kenmore and needed to properly develop into an adult. I think I was right. Especially during the German Years. I was hungry for other experiences. Or trying to subconsciously escape living near the former Linde plant [inlink]userName=paul,blogID=397[/inlink]
(hahaha.)
Anyways, then I started getting hooked on computer communication and my world shrunk. I remember my first experience with the internet was in South carolina. I just kind of figured that the internet and Netscape were the same thing. I rememeber using pine for my email, and being really excited when I figured out how to look stuff up for the exchange program in Germany. I found that the school I was going to had a site. That didn't mean they had good internet access. When I got there, I found one computer lab that had very sparse hours. Crazy now, thats probably why I got so much done during those years. By the time I got back to New York and then moved to Arizona I was ready to get my very own computer, so in 2000 I took out my first loan and bought my iBook. Let it RIP, matthew watered it with the plants in 2003, and its days came to a close.
The iBook was my very first personal Computer after the Commodore 64 I had as a child and the very first computer I owned with a modem. I still traveled but brought the computer with me. Then as time went on I began to purchase
more and more communication devices and my world traveling came to a halt in 2002. Now I have 3 computers and a cell phone that can go on the web and I almost never leave my neighborhood. It seems that as my computer communication methods expanded, my world traveler days came to a close. I am really kind of sad about this.
I can still talk to people from everywhere and get ideas from them at least, I guess that was my the most important part of travelling to me. It was also about getting to know who I was without the restaint of my friends and family who knew who I was.
My biggest worry is that it all goes the other way. People from really isolated places aroun the world can tap into American superPopCulture and download it into their worlds, as well. This sucks for everyone in a way, soon there will be no reason for anyone to travel.
My greatest problem is that in all of the cities I saw, especially the American ones, it was kind of the same. Especially out west, while each city had its own little flare, most of them had a corner that included a target, office depot, home depot/lowes, dollar store plaza. Each one also had a super walmart, even the Canadian ones. No kidding, I even saw a Walmart in former communist Jena, Thuringen, a small city in the old East Germany. What the hell is going on with that? So now I have decided that I can just live here in Buffalo and visit electronically.
The only cities that were truly mind boggling were Fez and Marakesh. They seemed like they left development about the time Mohammed walked the Earth.
I hope to organize this journal entry and its meaning later, but I figured if I did not write it I would never get that far and its been bothering me.
--update
I realize that other things have changed iin my life that brought me to this static place. I am just saying the computer helped a lot.
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02/03/04 08:54 - ID#30722
Friday the 20th
We are having a big camping party at Aleghany on the 20th. So if you can have it another day it would be great. On the other hand feel free to come on the camping trip. We have a bunch of cabins at Aleghany and there will be skiing involved!
Everyone is chippin in $25 each for the cabbins. Email me if you have questions.
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