06/05/04 03:00 - ID#30968
New peeps on the e:strip
Maidecateyes, your story sound insane. I would be so mad. Are you going to get your money back? If he fucks you over, you should publish his name company and then people won't go there.
Mike and I spent the whole day making more flyers for the pride parade on Sunday, it goes right down elmwood, and should be fun.
Giant Elmwood Banner
Then I started cutting out the letters for the mega-banner. It's is a giant twelve feet by two feet and white with black letters. It looks kind of like newspaper title.
I have wanted to make the banner since last year. I first designed the letters in 3D on the computer and then created a grid in the 3D program. Then I transfered the grid via chalk to rip stop nylon. Then I drew out the letters, matthew helped out. Which leads me to Jill. I tried for about an hour to get the bobbin wound on the sewing machine. I couldn't do it. I mean I can program any high tech computer crap but when it comes to a sewing machine, its out of my league. I got so frustrated with the bobin that I decided to try and wind it by hand, which seemed to work ok but took about 20 minutes.
So I knew Jill was out with my brother and I called her to ask for help with how to install the bobin. She could clearly hear my frustration and offered to help out. So Jill came over with Teres, MK and mike. Then southernyankee, matthew and mike went for a walk. Terry hung out with MK and talked about choir while Jill and I pinned the hell out of the letters on the banner.
Then she took it home. I hope it works out. I love you JIll, you saved my life. Check out Lafayette and Elmwood tomorrow evening and see what its all about.
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06/04/04 06:03 - ID#30967
MSN search
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06/04/04 03:28 - ID#30966
Wow this search engine thing is crazy
If your username is your name then it gets really personal because according to google, which is the defacto factualizer, you are in fact elmwood liz. So much for anonymity.
If you really want to get personal go ahead and type a journal entry with your name in it or other identifying facts. Google begins to search your journal and it adds the the persona you create online. I tested it earlier last week and already Paul Visco shows up on google as well. Luckily, the pictures do not. I have them masked simply as dated number strings. If you guys want this changed please tell me.
Try asking some other search engine about the elmwood strip. For example I asked jeeves Who is paul on the elmwood strip or What is the elmwood strip and there are lots of results.
Or at yahoo is the weirdest one. For some reason Yahoo likes to cache specific journal entries more than google. Google seems to like to cache just the username so it takes you to the latest journal. Try typing paul on the elmwood strip into yahoo or just click here
It brings you to my first audio blog. How does it choose that over every other one!!!
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06/04/04 05:18 - ID#30965
Stickboy's Pic and the Pink amd Pink
On another note, we saw everyone out at the pink tonight and I did a ton of advertising. I finally handed out the flyers that I was embarrassed to hand out. I thought they were the worst graphic design I ever made, but I only had a photocopier to work with so give me some credit. Here is the color original.
Jill, Teres, Mike, and I spent the night advertising via chalk which lead to a night of advertising with flyers and markers. I hope someone reading this decides to start a journal, chalk advertisment is now a choice for your sign up referral.
I love for mobile blogging. I wish my cell phone cam only had a flash. I guess I could carry and external one around but it seems impractical. I would be the first to buy a cell phone cam with a flash.
Southern Yankee found her hottest man in pink at the pink and he walked her home? I hope so at least. Maybe they will watch some space porn?
By the way Stickboy and Keith, I think you know each other from a weird towing experience. Maybe you can meet up and figure it out.
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06/03/04 11:12 - ID#30964
Eating at Merlins
We ordered 2 dozen steamer clams and corn on the cob. It looks tasty, as you can see below.
On the wall there is an award and article about Merlins being chosen as the Artvoice reader's choice clam bar, I agree, accept for the wait. I bet the wait would be easier if we were drinking like everybody else.
Big clams are better than little ones, they fill you up. They also have snow crab legs, a bunch of different types of oysters, shrimp, lobster
dainties, clams casino, oysters rockefeller, and dungeness crab.
As they say in Germany. "it tastes."
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06/03/04 11:36 - ID#30963
Using the Site on the Sly via Email
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06/03/04 02:40 - ID#30962
Finally Spell Checking
I was tired of waiting though, as I requested it about 3 months ago, so I went ahead and built my own spell checking class and functions. I assembled about 400,000 english words into a mysql database dictionary, and you'll can add to it, using the spell check function. For instructions see the most current news article [inlink]news,319[/inlink]
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06/02/04 04:22 - ID#30961
More on Steve Kurtz and Joi Ito
BLOG 1 front page - an email from Steve Kurtz to Joi Ito and his response. I will mirror it here because it will surely be gone someday when we try and look back on what happend. You can alos read it at Joi Ito Site
VERBATIM COPY FROM JOI ITO BLOG
Email from artist suspected by FBI of bioterrorism
08:25 JST
Art - Health and Medicine - US Policy and Politics
In the comments on an earlier post on this blog about an artist suspected by the FBI of bioterrorism, there was a great deal of speculation about the incident and the facts.
I emailed the artist, Steven Kurtz, asking him for the facts, and here is his reply.
Steve Kurtz
Hi Joi,
Its a long and complex story.
To shorten it:
I was detained for 22 hours by the FBI/
They seized my wife's body, house, cat and car. These items were released a week later. In the house they seized computers, science equipment, chunks of my library, teaching files, I-D, and all my research for a new book.
The only thing I have gotten back is my wife's birth certificate
On Sunday, two members of CAE got summons to appear before a Grand Jury. (This is bad. It means I will be charged. Grand Jury is a closed court--only the FBI gets to present its case).
The Grand Jury will meet on June 15. In all proabability, I will be arrested shortly thereafter.
Best,
Steve/CAE
ITO's RESPONSE
Many people talked to me about this incident and strongly support the FBI's position on this. I still don't know enough details on the FBI's handling of the matter, but I DO think biotech as art is a legitimate form of art. At Ars Electronica, we did a whole festival on Life Science as art. Artists, including Steve, publish their works, talk about the impact, and often teach. Terrorists do not.
One famous example of biotech art is the bioluminescent rabbit created by genetic engineering, adding genes from a jellyfish to a rabbit to make it glow in the dark. This created a great deal of controversy and debate. It was the intention of the artist to cause this debate with an extremely tangible project.
I believe this form of expression is important and mistaking artistic expression for something else is a great risk to society. However, I suppose it would be prudent for artists to be aware of the risks involved in handling the "supplies" they use for their art.
It's kind of sad that he chose to use the Glow Rabbit as his example of biogenetic art after we heard the CAE people denounce it as fetishist at the Collaborrative Networks conference.
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06/01/04 11:59 - ID#30960
Camping in Smethport
For example, do moth and butterfly pupae develop into butterflies, or do the butterflies hatch out of them. I felt that they must develop into them. We could have no answer in our information wasteland.
On another note, Holly's mom braved the campout with her new hip and brought her seriously tasty pecan pie. It was good to see her and she said that camping is the only thing that makes her happy. She also has some pretty funny stories.
Cintra came too and brought her dogs and a chainsaw. She should be on survivor.
A weekend in flames - For my personal taste we had too much fire. I grew up with the whole Low Impact camping ideals, and was taught to only
use as many resources as necessary on a camping trip. The chainsaw kind of saddened me, because I knew there was no way I needed that much fire,
let alone one that runs on iraqi blood. The chainsaw was probably brought in because Matt and I refused to saw more wood. I just felt
saturated with fire, it wasn't cause I was lazy.
If I was alone, I would eat less meat, more trailmix, some instant noodles, and a piece of chicken on a stick, some nuts, and an apple. No
grill, no mega-fire, no cooler, little work.
Matthew and I captured lots of nature pictures, which we will post tonight, including a video of the campfire. We also realized what our next big digital art project would be. I don't want to release any more details till we launch it sometime next month.
Somehow against all weather advisories, we ended up staying too long and got rained on. I am glad I went, I just wish I listened to matthew at
7am, when he said lets go, its starting to rain, instead of waiting till it poured, so I could sleep an extra hour.
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06/01/04 03:12 - ID#30959
Voyeurism on the Strip
I am going to print up some bookmark style flyers right now. Hopefully, we will be able top get some new writers. The readship has skyrocketed. But its hard to find writers. I guess that means that elmwood is a voyeruistic community. If you are reading this and thinking, does he mean me, than yes, I mean you. Go ahead and start a journal today!
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