09/24/04 03:07 - ID#31251

Paypal alternative?

[inlink]sqb,150[/inlink] I would like to continue having a donation button on the the site so that people can donate but I am a little leary about dealing with paypal since reading this

from (e:sqb) 's journal. Does anyone know of a good alternative. I have no problem switching.

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Words: 55
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: religion

09/24/04 01:00 - ID#31250

The Cat Stevens Drama

Cat Stevens, whose name is now Yusuf Islam showed up on some US terror list which resulted in the forced landing of a plane he was on and his denial of entry into the US. I totally understand why people are outraged that some innocent person could show up on a list and cause such drama in our present terror state of alert. And I realize this is just another part of Big Brother getting bigger but I have to question what makes us assume that because someone wrote music in the 70s that they couldn't be a terrorist now.

I am not suggesting that Cat Stevens is a terrorist, I am just saying that because someone was famous at one point in American pop culture doesn't make them innocent.

Cat Stevens himself is a little too weird for me. I guess I really don't understand people that are so commited to any religion that they feel it appropriate to change their name. Esther(madonna) is at the top of that list. He started out as Stephen Georgiou, then changed his name to Cat Stevens, and is now Yusuf Islam. People that do that weird me out. What are they so unconfortable with that they radically change their name. Its not like changing from Bryan to Brian. It's like name plastic surgery.

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He abandoned his music career in the late 1970s and changed his name after being persuaded by orthodox Muslim teachers that his lifestyle was forbidden by Islamic law. He later became a teacher and an advocate for his religion, founding a Muslim school in London in 1983.

So my question is really why can't Yosuf Islam be a terrorist?

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Words: 293
Location: Buffalo, NY

09/23/04 06:32 - ID#31249

Spectropolis - I am so isolated

I want to go to the spectropolis 2004

in NYC on Oct 2. Spectropolis workshops offer an up-close look at wireless communication technologies and opportunity for hands-on play and participation. Anyone want to travel to NY with me for this one?

Wait, I changed my mind. I don't want to particpate, I want to host my own event here. Who is in for this, ajay? Why don't we push wireless art/communication events in Buffalo. i mean after all it's a much smaller city that would be way easier to unwire than NYC, right?

(e:rachel) , you would really like the GPS drawings

. They are the most fantasic idea.

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Words: 119
Location: Buffalo, NY

09/23/04 01:27 - ID#31248

Mike in Action

I noticed that (e:mike) sent me a message. He is gone now but his away message reads.

Finally after bringing two tvs/two vcrs/two computers/and a camcorder into my living room I am finally able to almost do what I've been trying to do for weeks...and it will be glorious

I am so curious what it is gonna be.

Permalink: Mike_in_Action.html
Words: 63
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: kenmore

09/23/04 12:24 - ID#31247

Kenmore Middle School

[inlink]maidencateyes,154[/inlink]
(e:maidencateyes) , lots of us went to kenmore middle:
(e:rachel) , (e:paul) , (e:lilho) , (e:iriesara) , (e:hodown)
(e:haikuster) , (e:mike) and prob a bunch I am forgetting. I would say it is a nice school. Definately nicer than anything in Niagara Falls but really it's een so long anything could change. I mean Kenmore just had a driveby [inlink]mike,249[/inlink], right?

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Words: 64
Location: Buffalo, NY

09/23/04 01:51 - ID#31246

Chicken Wings and Lost Dogs

I found a new sign on the verzion phone near our house, apparently someone lost their dog. Does anyone knwo about it?

After seeing the chicken wing ad for anchor bar and making fun of it, i decided I needed to eat chicken wings I guess their advertising worked very well. Well, not good enough that I ate at anchor bar, but enough that I ate chicken wings. I know these are disgusting.

Permalink: Chicken_Wings_and_Lost_Dogs.html
Words: 75
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: artvoice

09/22/04 01:21 - ID#31245

Good Health

This is really ironic. I love this full page advertisment in the artvoice for Anchor Bar. As the title states, "Good health is everyone's business!" Then it goes into this explaination about how have smoke free bars makes everyone healthier and it is much cheeper on the establishment not having to have a filtration system, etc. I totally agree with this but does anyone see the irony in the picture which highlights a giant plate of fried chicken wings with a side of blue cheese!

They really should have used a different title.

Permalink: Good_Health.html
Words: 94
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: poetry

09/22/04 04:08 - ID#31244

Semantics Comming Soon

I thought very intensively about meaning in computer generated text. I like how my haikus and weatherkus have no meaning right now but are awaiting the "brains" to make themselves intelligible. This one almost did it by itself. I defintely conjurs up a mental imagine.

operator drive ,
roar her or blows west few blocks ,
me which hit jaw grab .

Permalink: Semantics_Comming_Soon.html
Words: 61
Location: Buffalo, NY

09/21/04 07:21 - ID#31243

Posting while driving

This is going to kill me eventually. - don't suggest trying this at home. I just saw one of those double sun phenomena like in Bagdad Cafe by Wim Wender, so I had to capture and send it tto you'll because I don't think I will ever see it again.

Unfortunately, I am driving at 65 while it happend. If I die at least I can still write haikus, hahaha!

Permalink: Posting_while_driving.html
Words: 70
Location: Buffalo, NY

09/21/04 02:45 - ID#31242

One last sunny day

Here I am enjoying one last sunny day while the computer continues to write poetry for me under my command.

My favorite 4 year old boots

Here is the newest one, the seed for it must come from (e:flacidness) 's journal.

simulated his,
of do eve just he way him,
gets things my the in.

A different one. I can't stand it I am addicted to seeing what they say and its with me one my phone.

collectivity,
colonie every new,
went thing is car bed.

Sitting here on the cell phone in a sunny field having the site recite poetry for me, rocks. I will definately continue to develop this.

I keep wondering, by creating the alogorhythm for the poem, am I creating the poem. Is my poem the script or the final product? Is it both? Does the person who wrote the original content or the person who type haiku have a role in the process? When the user types haiku they are selecting a particular point in time that seeds the whole process. Without that click the poem doesn't exist. But typing haiku doesn't make poems in itself. You can obviosuly type haiku in many places and not produce anything.

Here is the whole process: User types haiku:
[list]
~Random number is seeded by time of request
script selects a random user and counts entries.
script then selects a random entries from all of the user entries
words are counted for syllables
syllable list and word list are combined
list is sorted
words are selected to fill the syllable requirement for each row without going over, if the word fits within the rows required syllable requirement it is added to the poem otherwise, the next word is selected
when the syllable requirement is fullfilled punctuation is added and the next line begins. repeat process untill ssyllable reaches 17 then exit loop
[/list]

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