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03/09/04 01:41 - ID#30797

Irritating Mess

I had to remove lunatiq38 and yoyo's journal today. They turned out to be the same person (against policy), they were posting porn(against policy), and they were sending nasty emails to other people on the site(against policy).

At first I had stuck up for her saying that she was a confused girl who needed an outlet, blah blah. Anyways she turned out to be a real psychotic bitch and sent Jessica and I nasty emails. It seems pretty messed up that she signed them in secret as Florida bitch. I would have respected her more if she used her name. Seems pretty spinless to me.

We had a meeting today and I am not sure what this means for the future of the site. We are going to have to make an official policies that people must accept upon signing up. I had hoped for this to be unnecessary. I am not even sure if I am really interested in the project so much anymore if it has to be so restrictive.

There are a bunch of possibilities:

0. We could enforce the local only policy, but that seems so exlusionary to people who had lived here or those related to those that live here. We would lose iresara, mk, hodown, and courtney to start off. The benefit of having local only is that people are held personally responsible for their actions. They fuck shit up, we beat the shit out of them. Okay, just in theory.

1. Ditch the project and start my own site for me only. Much more control for me, the site coudl be really technical. I may do this either way.

2. Start a fund raiser so we can buy our own T1 connection for the supercomp and control everything, also acceptable.

3. Only accept people via invitation or references. Restictive but effective.

4. Just let it go and hope there aren't jerks out there.

5. Anyone else have an idea.

On a similar note, I have decided not to let the journals be searched by google. I really don't want this site to spread on the internet. The orginal focus of the site was the deglobalization of the internet and we are already going to far in the wrong direction as far as I am concerned. I am seriously interested in moving it to a localized, wireless intranet because of the type of problems we are having now. I don't want random people from other places, with no vested or even indirect interest in our neighborhood to fuck it up.

I think that if we open the journals to be searched by the crawler bots, we are opening a can of worms. For people to find the site now they have to look for elmwood strip not just whateve rthe topic was for the day. That already eliminates so many peopel out there.
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03/07/04 02:41 - ID#30795

Funeral For Chuck

My dad's cousin died and I have to go to the funeral today. Hodown, you would rememeber him probably, we sat with him and his wife at my Cousin Paul's wedding at Salvatores. He was only in his 50s, so I imagine the family will be devastated.

This will be the first possibly tragic funeral I ever attended. All of the other funerals I attended were for much older people and everyone would reminisce about how they lived a long and happy life and it was just there time to go, etc.

At least I get to go with Mike. I imagine it may be hard on my dad too. Maybe not, as he seems to have attended a lot of funerals, but it is his first cousin and I can't imagine attending a funeral for Christina or Jennifer, especially if we were in our 50s.
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03/07/04 12:34 - ID#30794

Rocky Returns

So last night ended up beng insane. I decided to take a one night pause and I am glad I did because we had a bunch of unexpected guests come over. One of whom was Rocky. He just showed up after not hearing from either him or Kristina for a long time.

He told me about all of his drama, not wanting to settle down with her yet, etc. He still wants to live it up for a while and said she is already turnign middle aged. I kinda felt bad for him and then wondered if Terry thought the same thing, hahaha. So we went out . . . contact me for further information.

I also saw Jill Ferorce. That will probably only make sense to hodown

Anyways, it was really all very weird. Sorry Chris and Chris for not being the best host.
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03/06/04 10:46 - ID#30793

Candle Burning

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This was my attempt at modeling candle light using Cinema 4D. It seems to have come out pretty real. Maybe some glow at the top of the wick would be nice for next time.
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03/06/04 04:39 - ID#30792

CRazy coded evening

So where was I on Friday night - playing with my comp as usual. I was working on my new randsom-note php chat room (here is a preview only vowels ransomize), when Matthew at FallingforAutmn notified me of this great website where you can download 94509 corporate logos in eps format.

Vectors are mucho fantastico. They have just about everything including all sports teams such as the Sabres, and you know how I love my sports.

Well, we decided that process had to be automated so I spent the next little while writing a script to sucks the logos off the site automatically and transfer them to our computers. The best part about these logos is that they are full color, but also contain the vecoor paths and can easily be brought into a 3D program for extrusion and manipulation.
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03/05/04 09:10 - ID#30791

Television News

This makes me sick. Acording to a Wired magazine's February 2004 article by Paul Boutin - Starting in 2005 new digital televion and equipment will make it the television signal extremely restrictive in terms of recording television and time shifting television programming. As most of you know I do not watch television ever and could care less. What is important to me is the image they chose to use with this article. It looks like Soviet revolutionary propaganda.

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Notice the two characters are wearing the Soviet Star.

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The image looks like a picture of Times Square in NYC with all of the flashing ads, etc. There are two ways to look at this image.

1. It's 2005 and the evil, entertainment industry capatalists are restricting your freedom. Two freedom fighters are resisting the restriction on their unalienable right to television enterainment broadcasts! One ius the saluting the cause while the other shouts "resistance." Is this really calling for a people's uprising against the entertainment industry to free television and entertainoganda (visco 2004) rights for the people? If so, is this the kind of important poeple's resistance we need.

2. Or, is it saying that the US is becomming controlled like a Big Brother Soviet State. And the two people in front are resisting against that. If so, is the industry protecting its entrainoganda copyrights really restricting our true freedoms as Americans. There is no declaration of a free source of entertainment in the constitution as far as I rememeber.

It is so backwards. It is saying, "no, please let us spread your evil corporate and entertainoganda for you. We want to record and spread the message for free and you can't stop us." It is so confusing to me.

The important part, I have two solutions.

1. Show "big brother" you really care about this by not buying their products anymore. Throw out your televsion, cancel your cable subscription, stop going to the movies, and do something else much more revolutionary with your time.

2. Keep your television and VCR, cut the cable and try making your own independent media in your town and sharing it. This would be real revolutionary headline news , Angry Citizens Replace Local Blockbuster with Independent Media Sharing Center Now that could warrant this poster.
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03/05/04 05:49 - ID#30790

I am a busy bee

Soon you will see why.
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03/05/04 12:41 - ID#30789

New York Mayor Allows Gay Marriage Video

Here is a video about the New York mayor that condoned gay marriages. There is a link to a video with him halfway down the page.

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It is awesome when Paula Zahn or whoever she is gets unconfortable about describing his sexual identity. He is straight and she uses some werid phrase for it. Anyways, I put it here for Holly cuase I know how hot she thinks he is. Here it is
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03/04/04 06:35 - ID#30788

There Car

This is a car I designed for a world simulation environment. When completed I was able to use it as a vehicle to get around in the virtual space.

Texturing this type of model requires a lot of patience. Each surface of the car corresponds to a map of the UV texture coordinates. The images must be layered and merged in order to fit into the proper surface construction.

Missing Image ;(



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Missing Image ;(


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03/04/04 04:49 - ID#30787

Here are the mask facial pose updates

These are the current poses for filopat.
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These are the current poses for patofil.
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Like I said before, I am having trouble with the export. I have changed plugins three times, and there were two different versions of performer and two differetn versions of maya. Not to mention that I actually built the masks in Cinema 4D - Hardcore Data Translation. Thank god for formats like FBX.

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