After snowing this morning it is now sunny and beautiful out although only about 25 degrees not celsius.

So today is the big day where I talkk about the haikus . Here are some rules about them and some example ones.

Yes i am still up working on haikus and snowflakes.

The snow flakes are an experiment in alternative menus. They aree just in their infant phase. Being simple ASCII text they are very low impact. You can "shovel" the whites up by clicking them. The red ones turn them off for that session. The orange one produces haiku's using an eleborate formula. The green one animates them which is autpaused while you are typing a journal entry to make it less distracting. Full winter effects for the site will be avaiable soon, flakes willl only come out when it is snowing after I get some time to fnd a better weatehr feed. I previously using the NOAA feed at but it only reported overcast for today, even though it definately snowed.

It seemsunreal at this point. What else seems unreal is The Swan. (e:holly) knows more about this show than anyone. She presented about it at a conference in Montreal. It is a reality TV show for plasric surgery . (e:terry) said he thinks that this is a worse indictation of what our society has turned into than the election of George Bush. Personally, I would love to see a presidential makeover reality show, where the president gets a political makover.

This is what erica went through.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

This is what I am suggetsing for Mr. Bush: To start out with we need a social welfare understanding booster. We would have to take some of the fat away from oil industry and add it back to the poor. Then maybe a reduction in the sagging defense buget proposals followed by aggresive, radical braiin augmentation.

PS (e:twisted) is the best beta tester in the world.

I was working a a translatorclass for my poetry projects when I stumbled upon this error at a site.

It was not entered a phrase to let you remind your password

I found it a perfectly ironic end to my search for help with translation.

I have seriously been working all day on my haiku project. It is now like 500 lines of code and insanely complicated but they are starting to sound better.

everybody(5) (5) , increasingly(4) rummaging(3) (12) , doleful(2) believing(3) (17) .

procrastinator(5) (5) , sometimes(4) excited(3) (12) , scarred(2) probably(3) (17) .

I like this one but it is a failure cause homogenized only has 4 syllables.
homogenized(5) (5) , elementary(5) scraping(2) (12) , frozen(2) working(2) few(1) (17) .

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I met (e:twisted) in Second Life tonight . She signed in as (e:estrip) who now has a makeover.

The good news I got to hang out with (e:twisted) who is otherwise separated from me by about 3,000 miles. Maybe she will get a job out of it and everything will be good - go QA!



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On the downside, check this out (e:chris), I found out that someone stole my latest greatest idea. I have been thinkng about this for months and kept sitting on it without moving, as it is with every idea except this site, argh! Someone has opened ATM machines in secondlife where you can take out real money and a site where you can trade money to match

Why am I such an anti-magnet for anything profitable. Please somebody find me a job that involves web rogramming and porblem solving but makes money and is part of a fn team. Better yet find me an investor for my site.

100 million? 880 million? More?

Ok, the market in Simoleans, Linden Dollars, Hammers of Kick Ass, and whatnot are big -- we knew that -- but just how big. Just a couple days ago The New Scientist ran an article quoting Ted Castronova as putting the world wide sales of game currency etc. at 100 million (and also quoting some guy named Ludlow about this being a glimpse into the future -- whatever that means). Now, in his talk at State of Play, IGE President Stephen Sayler put the number at 880 million -- and he is certainly in a position to know. We are rapidly approaching a billion dollar market.

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I sold 1/2 of my second life fortune for $121.00 in real life at 4:00am. What a thrill. It made me so happy to have real money from a fake world. Now it seems profitable but I could just kill myself for the thousands of Linden dollars I gave away because I thought they were totally worthless at the time.

If you join secondlife, please go through this as I some get credit.

I know it's hard to see in this pic but Buffalobarfly.com has a banner just like the estrip banner on a house across from cozumel. I think we started a trend. Thanks again (e:jill) for the sewing.

The 'kick battery died during the trip because I forgot to charge it last night. These were the remaining pics from the journey to Hunter's creek in East Aurora.

Here is a great website for "christians"

Here is their film

"JESUS" is a remarkable film, full of drama. The attention to biblical accuracy catapults you back into the life and time of Jesus Christ. You walk the same historical streets, you experience the same wonderful miracles, and you are touched by the power of God as you relive the most important events in the history of mankind.

Gov. Gary Locke’s proposal to close the Washington State Library in Olympia as part of an effort to fix a shortfall of $1.2 billion in the state’s biennial budget has public librarians worried. The suggested closure in October would make Washington the only state without a library agency and could forfeit the $3 million in federal LSTA funds the library receives annually for the development and support of public libraries.

Faced with a projected $9.2-million deficit, the Salinas, California, council voted 6–1 September 21 to close all three of the city’s public library branches in the first half of 2005. Officials also plan to close six recreation centers and reduce the city payroll by 71 full-time positions—nearly half of them library staff.

A reduction of more than $19 million in county funding to the Buffalo and Erie County (N.Y.) Public Library will force its central library and all 51 branches to close their doors in January, library officials have announced. The proposed 2005 county operating budget, released November 5, reduces funding from $24.2 million in 2004 to $5.2 million in 2005, triggering an additional loss of $2.8 million in state library aid.

Richmond, California, to Close Branches, Halve Library Staff (25%) - 04/02/2004
The city council of Richmond, California, voted March 30 to close the city s two branch libraries as part of a budget cut of $9.2 million in response to a projected $35 million shortfall.