I am 100% Italian and I think I must have inherited my morals and manners from the mafia. Okay that's not all true but, I am very vendictive, which is both a character flaw and advantage for me sometimes.

In this case it was mostly a problem with her not being local. My inital intention was to have a local forum with people who were in some ways affected by (e:Strip). Everyone here has either lived off Elmwood, lived in Buffalo, or is closely related to someone or something that does reside here.

I never wanted to start a live journal site. I agree that there could be better approaches but when someone messes with my friends its makes me really angry. Sometimes I get crazy. One time I threatend to burn down a hotel and the police had to come.

So now it leaves me with so many issues. Not sure if you saw post 590, it was a couple down. [inlink]userName=paul,blogID=590[/inlink]

On another note, did you ever want to do anything with Second Life cartoons. I remembered we had talked about it in class but didn't know if you were still interested. It would be great to do a commercial/cartoon for the site. Maybe we could re-inact this drama and have multiple endings that the user can pick.

So after finishing the cam I decided to continue cutting out ransom note letters for my automated ransom note writer. Here is the

Simply type the note and print. No finger prints added. I figured this oculd be necessary at some point.

None of the wirefusion stuff made it to the site. I had prised him a class of 14's worth and then only about 5 turned out good. I will make a place to post them here soon.

As for the 64 bit processor. As far as I know none of the software you use has been upgraded to take advantage of those processors.

Here is a to the benchmark pages for the opteron from AMD. If you get one go with the AMD opeteron. You can find such things here at zipzoomfly

I would stick with a dual xeon P4 for now. Or maybe go for the 64bit and hope the software take advantage of it. I think you would be best putting the additional money into ram.

The candle and dish was made using Cinema 4D. I have the file still if you want to check it out sometime. It seems to take forever to render.

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.

Nick,
VRML is dead, let it rest in peace. Try another format like Java3D via wirefusion/UZR or viewpoint models or Shockwave 3D. VRML will always look old and tired.

If you are tsill interested in the format. I have some great books on VRML. You should really read them to understand how it works. They were written about 10 or more years ago.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.



Notice the two characters are wearing the Soviet Star.



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.