08/15/04 06:41 - ID#31156

Back in the day

Does anyone remember this week long site incarnation just prior to the Winter 2003 blue scheme? Looking back, I believe it was the inspiration for the current site incarnation.

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08/15/04 01:39 - ID#31155

So What Did Happen Last Night

Yesterday night I went to (e:rachel) 's party. As far as I could tell it seemed successful. I at least had fun with the regular epeeps gang. I noticed other epople seeming to have fun under the stairs too.

I also saw Dawn there who still hate me supposedly because of my anti-military stance. I think it is funny, I just decided it would be easier to ingnore her than have to engage in any conversation about it as she is not really worth it, in terms of friendship value.

Afterwards, I met this kid named James who is going to UB in the fall. The crazy part is that I think he lives in (e:soyeon) 's house. He was describing his apartment and it seemed like the exact same building.

When I got home at 5 in the morning I decided to go ahead and check the email from my site account and found that in fact I did have a ton of email I was not dealing with.

Has anyone seen Buffalo Rising Magazine. It seems pretty neat. I would like to get a review of the site in the next issue. I wonder what that would take.

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08/14/04 07:03 - ID#31154

Ferris Wheel

So here it is, maybe the worlds first moblogged ferris wheel experience, live from 125 feet up above Hamburg, NY. Amazingly from up here you can see the lake, most of downtown Buffalo, and the Central Terminal. It cost 3.75 for the 5 tickets it took to get up here.

(e:holly) and (e:matthew) were taking higher resolution pics with there camera and we commented that we spent more our our time documenting than just living our experiences.

Since developing the site, however, I definately spend more time socializing with my mobart than I did doing 3D models in the lab. It was a good example of long hours of programming paying off by making my life much easier in the long run.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/14/04 06:42 - ID#31153

The Midway

We saw the farm animals, ate some of them, then found kettle corn, the indian village and now its time for the midway. At least we are skipping all the sicky-flip rrides and moving straight on to the ferris wheel. I am going to document the whole ride.

Here is the ferris wheel as we approach it.

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08/14/04 04:42 - ID#31152

More Fair

This is the grand champion waterfowl. She is seriously beautiful. Here is also a glimpse of the midway but this photo doesn't do it justice, it is really giagantic.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/14/04 03:33 - ID#31151

On the Way To the Fair

We are stuck downtown in a maze of traffic on the way to Hamburg for the Erie County Fair. It's been a couple years since I went here. it wasjust a little while before I met (e:matthew) 3 years ago. I went with Mike Glover as (e:terry) had to work.

I remember we took the NFTA Bus to the fair. I wish I had remembered that earlier, before the traffic jam. On the bus that day the driver ran a red light and Mike Glover called the NFTA headquarters from his cell phone and demanded she be repremanded and that he receives an appology letter. I believe he actually received one.

For some reason, everything going towards the skyway is completely blocked off. I am sure it is some sort of legitimate construction endeavour but I have to say that times have changed enough that I did think maybe someone blew it up for a minute. (e:matthew) even joked that maybe we should shut the windows in case of anthrax.

The delay gave me a lot of time to look on the web for buffalo links. I found the web page for SBI,

. I never heard of them before, but it sounds interesting for UB students. Click on the about link.

. . . Finally, 20 minutes later we are on the road again. Freaky farm animals and only on TV products - here we come.

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08/14/04 03:00 - ID#31150

itunes Music Ripoff

In regards to (e:matthew) 's post [inlink]matthew,340[/inlink]

Luckily, I was actually able to recover the music drive on linux and copy the songs we wanted back over. The fact that I could recover the music was a miracle. I don't think your average joe would have been able to do it, which bring me to my point. Buying music at the iTunes music store is a ripoff unless you burn the songs to CD.

I think apple should have a database of purchases made at the apple store, and allow you re-download songs that you already purchased, at least 1 extra time!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/13/04 11:39 - ID#31149

Cinema 4D Version 9

Just as Alias

buys Kaydara and comes out with the unlimited version for Macintosh, Maxon

comes out with a new version 9 of Cinema 4D. It could be exciting. They have finally incorporated cloth into the main software. Will Canisius have enough money to go with either upgrade?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

08/13/04 08:53 - ID#31146

To stickboy, the inexperienced weenie

In response to Stickboy[inlink]stickboy,131[/inlink]. My problems with the event are really the child/minorities possiboly being exposed to toxic substances furing the the cleanup of the site [inlink]paul,1787[/inlink], an already famous artist exploiting people's bodies for money, and the control issues of surrounding thousands of naked people being herded like sheep. I think these pictures say it all.

This is my favorite quote from a webpage

of a person that participated in a previous Tunick photograph.

Then the show began. I don't know what time it was, but Spencer entered the hall to a tumultuous applause and cheering. He was greeted like a gladiator" Maximus Nudicus " the visionary chieftain who would lead the amassed clothed slaves into a joyous naked freedom. There was a cacophony of excited chatter and laughter yet in an air of anticipation. He shushed us.

Just to clear the air for anyone that thinks I am against this because I am shy and afraid to be naked, you are so wrong. I have been naked in front of thousands of people plenty of times, and any good nude beach could provide you with the same experience along with nature, water, and sun. Best of all, no one directing your experience or making money off of it.

What do you get at the central terminal? What I see is a cold floor of a contaminated building with a bunch of creepy people who are socially molded to think nudity equates sexuality.

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Category: kenmore

08/13/04 04:45 - ID#31145

Laundromat Megaparty

(e:soyeon) , (e:terry) , (e:matthew) and I went way down elmwood to do laundry in the surburbs today. We ended up at 2762 Elmwood in Kenmore. This used to be my favorite laundromat when it was Rock and Roll style with elvis heads, etc.
It is cheaper and quieter but today we are here because we have to stop at compusa. The music drive on our server tragically failed and needs to be replaced. We lost 30GB of music this morning, so the radio is having a little setback until we can re-rip all the CDs back to legal MP3 files, lol