"Sucessful Gardening and Parties" written by Paul on estrip.org

04/18/04 02:44 - ID#30868

Sucessful Gardening and Parties

We managed to plant 7 rose bushes in my mother's rose bed at Deleware Park. It's kind of sad they she has this giant rose bed and no helpers. My mother started working on it with my dad, my aunt, and my uncle. Unfortunately, the other three quit so my mom is left alone to work on it. Luckily, she was able to rope her sons in. So Mike, Terry, Matthew, and I arrived a little late but stuff got done.

Then we went back to the 309 to move some furniture and eat clams. They were $1.44/dozen at Tops on elmwood. WHat a freakin' deal. I would really like to shop there because it is so much cheaper than Wegman's and the coop, but the later are both local business, although differing degrees of local.)

I also decided to start the site newspaper by letting users click on news icons in their journal to add the story to the site newsletter. After a couple months issues, I assume the computer can "learn" enough to write it by itself. We will have to see.

Well, we (southern yankee, lisa, holly, terry, mike, and I) are off to the party at the Rachel 23. Hope to see some of you there. Maybe we will go to the 1940s party at the coop house too, although, I think I will be too alergic.

If I don't see you tonight emily, get well soon. You looked so sad/sick yesterday.

Permalink: Sucessful_Gardening_and_Parties.html
Words: 244
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/18/04 02:44

04/17/04 10:15 - ID#30867

City Hall Show and Marriage

We went to see the installations last night. It was great. Soyeon had built this crazy maze in an all black, darkened room in order to demonstrate the maze and hurtles that she goes through as a foreigner in the states. She compared it to her experience with parking tickets at City Hall.

Robin had two tubes with video in the broom closet. If you looked down the top tube you would see a video of her being really upset about her friend dying. In the bottom tube at about children's height you could see danicng, singing vaginas - a reference to a particular godess. Check out her journal to see more info [inlink]robin,11[/inlink].

Julie married people in performance 70's retro style udner the churchofjulie. Here is a pic with emilybob and us during our ceremony.

Permalink: City_Hall_Show_and_Marriage.html
Words: 137
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/17/04 10:15

04/16/04 07:51 - ID#30864

Lake Shore Diner

We left our neighborhood in order to escape the exploitive high prices of the Pano's night tim emenu. We decided to head out to the Access Community neighborhood. I was astounded at how many young, preppy, suburbanites were there. I am glad I live in this neighborhood. It was like being at school on Long Island or on MTV.

The food was pretty tasty and very pricewrothy. However, the corwd was too much for my personal dining pleasure. Every two minutes some drunk person came in to try and pee. You would never see that at Pano's.

Now, I really don't believe Lauren when he says our neighborhood is pretentious and yuppified. But i prefer that to glamour style prep students any day. Call me a sellout.

Permalink: Lake_Shore_Diner.html
Words: 127
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/16/04 07:51

04/15/04 07:35 - ID#30865

Search Function

So I spent a lot of time building the search box, as people were not sure how to find information. However, nobody has used it yet!! Any questions, email me.

Permalink: Search_Function.html
Words: 30
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/15/04 07:35

04/15/04 08:07 - ID#30866

Work Period Renders

I gave the stuednts time in class today in order to work on a project. I decided to use the time to work on a project for myself. I decided that an alien, cyborg, rabbit, television would be nice to have. here are some renders. Work time 45 minutes.

>>update new renders with more to come

Permalink: Work_Period_Renders.html
Words: 68
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/15/04 08:07

04/14/04 09:35 - ID#30863

New Render from Josephines Project

I almost forgot to post this. I hope everything went well when she met Sara Diamond today. I know the computer was giving her a hard time.

Permalink: New_Render_from_Josephines_Project.html
Words: 28
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/14/04 09:35

04/14/04 10:44 - ID#30853

Advertisements and More Updates

It is really late but I just realized I could use the sound system in order to advertise for everyone's show at City Hall. Good luck everyone

I added the ability to easily link to a journla by clicking on the link icon at the bottom of each journal entry. I also added a favorite five list, where you can make bookmarks to your favorite five entries that you wrote. Its a great way to keep important issues and/or writing current, even as time ticks away and your journals go into the archives.

To add journal entires to your fav five list you can either use your control panel or simply click on the thumbtack icon on any of your journals. If you use the thumbtack icon it will take you to your fiv fav control panel and input the journal ID right into the box so you can copy it. Simply try it out and you will see. If you have any questions, email me.

Permalink: Advertisements_and_More_Updates.html
Words: 167
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/14/04 10:44

04/14/04 02:38 - ID#30862

Trebor's New Site

This is Trebor's newest work - a database driven site about manhattan.

I realy like the concept. I have been working on similar code for the Elmwood site. You can expect something similar in the near future.

24dollarisland.com -

Permalink: Trebor_s_New_Site.html
Words: 45
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/14/04 02:38

04/14/04 02:32 - ID#30861

Sara Diamond and Banff

Today, I went to go see Sara Diamond, the director of the Banff New Media Institute speak at UB. She was pretty fantastic. I really wanted to scehdule a meeting with her but i felt like I had nothing to offer. I mean she is so pro globalization and I am so focused on localization.

During the speach she was talking about students texting during classes, and being able to think on multiple levels and multitask. I was actually recording the whole speach in little notes to post to the site. There was a lot of great information about merging scientists and artists in collaboration. Unfortunaelt, when I went to send the journal to the site, my phone lost service for some reaosn and it got deleted mid-way. That was the first time the technology really failed me. I mean I had an hours worth of great insite nd lost it all in a click.

Here are some sites that se mentioned.

Banff new media center

- The art center she directs

Horizonzero -

Digital Art Culture Online Magazine. Some of the issues are insane.

Codezebra -

Her perosnal site/program that organizes data visualization and communication between groups of people.

Sharemyworld -

Site about the situation of the black male.

Note to self - please learn java immediately.

Permalink: Sara_Diamond_and_Banff.html
Words: 236
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/14/04 02:32

04/14/04 02:22 - ID#30860

Dingus Day

Last night we attended two Dingus Day celebrations thanks to emily's party tip. Matthew is Polish and so he was excited to see his people en masse. Who would have ever thought that Polish people were such serious partiers? Who would have ever thought that Matthew was allergic to pussy willow. I guess its appropriate.

There were so many people out at the Hearth Stone Manor. All three banquet rooms were connected together and it was more packed than any wedding I have ever seen. At first I figured it would be all old people but it wasn't.

Aftewards we went down to some Polish club on the east side. I think it may have been a Polish Falkon club or something. A man there had a giant Polish historical collection. It was neat to see. I guess there is a museum upstairs that is open on weekdays. Unfortunately, we missed the Polish music and traditional dancing. I ended up getting really drunk because the guy at the bar was not really a bar tender. I asked for Gin and he asked me what it was, and then asked if Vodka was ok. I said sure and he gave me a glass of vodka dn acted as if it was really normal. So I drank it. Whoa, thankfully there was food - Polish sausage to be exact.

To add the recent unconfortable social moments that make me never want to go out in Buffalo. I ended up seeing some people from high school who I did not expect made it very far in life, so to play it safe, I played down my life. Then it turned out they were sucessful and I just looked like an idiot.

Permalink: Dingus_Day.html
Words: 289
Location: Buffalo, NY
Published: 04/14/04 02:22