Category: estrip

03/17/04 02:49 - ID#30814

Email Server Seems Down ARGH!

I filed a trouble ticket with the ISP about the email server and we can hope it's all resolved by the morning.

Other than that I have completed so much back end programming, it seems unreal. Soon you will have many new features. One that I worked a while today is the documented upload system. As our first example, I would like to allow people to upload new startup sound files and site banners.

You may ask what is a startup sound file. It is the sound that plays when you go to the site for the first time before closing the browser. If you quit the browser and start it again, the sound would occur again but it does not play more than once per browser session.

Currenlty we have 4 sounds that Terry recorded. I would like to encourage other people to contribute sounds.

Some constraints are: They must be <15k, related to (e:strip) or sounds from (e:strip), and should be in mp3 format. If you have wav format it will accept those also, but a 15k wav file is really small.

Later this week I will also add a section where people can upload new banners to be added to the random que at the top. That file must be <20k, .jpg or .gif and 750px by 8-px. So start planning. I am excited to see what turns out.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/14/04 07:10 - ID#30813

Patrick 's Parade

It was crazy, there were so many 12-15 year olds drinking the street. We had beer in the car and I asumed it was not cool to have it in the street. We were so wrong people, from 12-80 were openly drinnking everywhere. It was a good time all and all. We ended up meeting holly, trish and paul. I think they are coming to dinner at the 567, where we can discuss the future.

There were about 10,000 people. When we first got, there were about 2 blocks of school busses lined up.

We also saw the iron worker's float where there was only one worker. I guess are not many iron workers left in Buffalo, RIP Bethlemehem Steel.

I also learned that the Irish American population is extremely patriotic and seriously associated with civic sevice. I have never seen so many police, fireman and oher service workers in a parade. They even had part of the parade with armoured swat team tanks. It was kind of scary because I was not sure what the message was upposed to be. All I know is that the Irish is the most drunken group of celebraters I have ever seen.

The craziest thing was that there are boys that do that irish little girl dance. they wear all black and don't have skirts.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/16/04 05:32 - ID#30812

Scud Cinema 4d file

Zack, I am also up for a beer.

As for the wirefusion, there is not standard set up for this yet. However, you can post a movie using flash video exporter. That is one of the main reasons I added flash. Audio and video. It compresses it really small. If you need help with this, just stop by next Monday and we can work it out. It should be really easy.

As for your hero character's cinema 4d file. I was able to remodel him. I can't send you the file caus eI am using c4d 8.5 and it won't work. I could have sent you a VRML file but then you would lose all the textures because they were done with set selection instead of UV mapping(definately something to consider in the future!). I think that the problem was somehow the points there still believed they were in a symmetry object. Here is what I did to solve it. Email me if you need anyhing.

1. Go into polygon mode and select the polygons I higlighted above in orange. Make sure to delete all the way around the back side of the character and both rows.

2. Go into points mode and right click a point. Then select optimize and check unused points and click ok. The middle row of point should disappear.

3. Switch back to polygon mode, then using the bridge tool connect each section.

4. Finally using the knife tool add the middle row of point sback, by going into front mode and making a cut right down the middle of the newly created polygon strip.

5. In the end it should be perfectly normal.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/15/04 03:24 - ID#30811

There is starting to be so much new code

There is starting to be so many new things. I hope you guys enjoy them even if you don't know exactly what has changed yet. I have the week off so expect lots more.

The newest one as of right now is the new "email a journal" function. SImply click on the little envelope in each journal entry to have it mailed to an email address.

This is a great way to copy a journal to a friend, or to share the site with someone. In the email it also send a direct link to the author's journal so that the user can see it in full-color with media if desired.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/14/04 06:26 - ID#30810

Nakedness

So I took matthew's example and uncensored my old journals that had non-secual nakedness that I censored. I guess I feel freed from self censorship now? It feels kind of like sahving your head in the winter.

[inlink]paul,568[/inlink]
[inlink]paul,115[/inlink]

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: holiday

03/14/04 02:08 - ID#30809

St Patrick's Day

I don't know who he is, except for that people worship him by drinking beer on Sunday's instead of going to church - or something that like. Anyways, we will be at his parade. Maybe we'll see you there.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/14/04 06:14 - ID#30808

Virtual Ducky

Matthew,
Here is a virtual Ducky for you.

::Download Flash SWF::

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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03/13/04 08:33 - ID#30807

New Day, New Updates

So I have been mega busy trying to get the site into some new more manageable order. The idea with the new update is that once its done, updating the site in the future will be extremely easy and we will see new looks and banners biweekly. This times nicely with the new Camera that Matthew and I got.

I am so sorry for all the messed up stuff, but I have some other stuff to do for a while.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

03/12/04 10:56 - ID#30806

New Flash Demo for PSP

I made this new flash demo to inspire people with what we can do now using less than 100k with flash.

::Download Flash SWF::

This flash file was made to alert users about the dangers associated with eating raw shellfish, especially oysters. The syndrome is called PSP. It renders you paralyzed and you end up dying from not being able to move your lungs. If you click on the Oyster Shell he will come out and tell you about it. Once he's out, if you click on him you will be able to visit a page about the syndrome.

It is just another example of me reformatting my previous work for something new.

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Location: Buffalo, NY
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03/12/04 03:28 - ID#30805

visiting robin

I'm at robin's house. Its been a crazy night of meeting pre-elmwoodstripper's. See you soon stickboy.

I also saw Liz and Sara(h), both of whom I hadn't seen in a while.

Here is a pic of Terry, it is the only one that worked out before I "fell asleep" in the bathtub. Robin had a cat before, and I was scared to find cat hair, as I am mega allergic, so at 3:00am the bathtub seemed like reasonable place to hang out that would be cat-hair free.

I probably seemed like such a freak.