02/14/04 06:23 - ID#30745

Wine Bottle Security

I spent the rest of the day working on highly secret security scripts. Some of them I will share with you. Others are top secret. Even the people that think they no have no idea where its at.

The ones that are open for everyone are the wine bottle scripts. You can check them out in tempreal town on the little metal table with the wine bottles.

The green one is a bottle that likes to travel. Each time it gets taken out of somebodies inventory list, it send a messgae to the original owner as to where it located. When its clicked on, it sends an IM to it current owner telling them that someone has clicked on it and the name of the region. I the bottle is taken out in certain regions, namely, Argent, Slate, or Jesse, the bottle give a little commentary.

This script has a lot of potential to track the flow of peoples models and to tell stories.

The next two wine bottle, the purple and the blue one, are slef-destructing bottles. They will self destruct if taken out of inventory in any region other than their defined home region. The purple one is from Argent and the blue one is from Slate. If you take a copy of either of them, and then try and take them out in a land other than the one they originated from, they will self-destruct. This is a great script to add to models that we want people to be able to play with in tempreal town (Argent) and not just anywhere.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/14/04 06:22 - ID#30744

Scripting in Discoland

I spent about 12 hours in SL today. I decided to master scripting and write about it for this review I am doing. I ended up finsihing my disco script.

Currenly, it works like this. The user clicks on a giant admission bracelet and then receives a mini wearable bracelet. Thereafter, everytime the user clicks on the disco ball , while wearing the mini admission bracelet, their avatar does one of a series of 10 dances.

Its great to watch everybody dance in sync with each other. It made us look like a boy band.

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I hope that some people start designing a disco soon for our event test/quiz!!! I expect to see at leats 50 avatars come to it. So we need modelres to start getting our party going. If anyone els ewould liek to work on the scripts, I would like to teach someone about it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/13/04 02:12 - ID#30743

Rosa Parks

She is cute. She changed history. This is the kind of person that we need more of. FOr those of you that don't rememeber, Rosa Parks is the lady that refused to ride on the back of the segregated bus system and got arrested.

Quote from the The
Troy State University Montgomery
Rosa Parks Library and Museum Site

"On December 5, 1955, four days after her arrest, Mrs. Parks was found guilty and the Montgomery bus boycott began. In response to her conviction, the African-American community in Montgomery boycotted the city bus line. Instead they walked or banded together to organize alternate transportation. The boycott continued strong until 381 days later when the United States Supreme Court ruled the segregation of bus service to be unconstitutional."

I question if this kind of tactic would work here in Buffalo, if ever used for any reason. Not that the buses are segregated, I just mean that if anyone boycotted public transportation for any reason, I think they would just shut it down. That's sad, there is no leverage anymore.

On another note, TK told me that during his school days, the buses were still segragated, albeit, voluntarily. My question is "WWRD?"

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/13/04 01:43 - ID#30742

Elmwood Radio

We have had some pretty nice programming on elmwood radio for the past three days.
1. "The Model Sons"
2. "Kimya"
3. "The SUN Project"
4. "Matthew's Radio Drama Show"
4. "Elllen Degeneres"

Unfortunetaly, we have had only one listeners during the whole thing. This is exactly what hapend to the radio last year. We were really excited and then no one listened, so I am questioning, if it is to difficult to useor is the programming uninteresting?

I have offered to start a radio show for anyone interested. It can be pre-recorded or live. Pretty much it can be anything you want, music, talk, etc.

I am totally surprised that nobody is taking me up on this offer. It seems incredible that we have access to such great streaming technology on our server, and nobody wants to use it. I just want to why and not the letter Y, hahaha.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/12/04 03:55 - ID#30741

Facial Poses

During my time away from school and work, I have had time to work on the VR art project I am modeling for. I am making some facial poses for the masks. Youc can see them below. The programmer will code it so that when the character changes emotional state, as per the AI, the facial expression of the mask will change and itnerpolate from the last pose to the new one, making it look really emotionally provacative. At least I think so, we will have to see what it really looks like in the end.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: school

02/12/04 03:54 - ID#30740

Excellent Student Work

On another note, I was pleasantly surpised with the work of one of my student's work. They created a really nice shower scene for their homework assignment this week. Here are the images they rendered out for their class journal. In case you know her, it was Jennifer Perry.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/12/04 03:53 - ID#30739

Echinacea

Well, for thos eof you that have been wondering where I am in Real Life - I am sick as hell.

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I have a terrible cold and my throat is swollen shut. I went down to Feel-Rite to buy some echinancea, which always seems to work for me and it was on sale for $10.50. On sale! That is an insane price. It's usually about $7.50 to $8.00. They raised it becaus epeople are sick. That makes me so angry. I mean I understand its business but that it really putting it out of price range for lots of people I know. I guess is not as bad as prescription medicine prices, but it is still really to high.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/12/04 12:21 - ID#30738

Highlighting

This is the new color of highlighting. The old one was to dark. hope you like it.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/11/04 04:00 - ID#30737

New Title Missing Notification

I added a check, to make sure that each journal entry had a title when posting. Some people had been forgetting to post them with their entries and while it may seem insignificant on your journal, it is really important for the search feature which lists results by title, as well as, for future structural designs.

Thanks for understanding.

--paul

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Location: Buffalo, NY

02/10/04 07:39 - ID#30736

Another Postcard

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This new postcard is brought to you via re-purposed art from my 2001 portfolio of Adobe Illustator crap.