01/18/05 10:13 - ID#31580
Forrest Mimms
Anyways, that isn't the funny part. What is funny is that while searching for the book I found a link to a site that mentions the book and is called the best online buys or something. Look how this conversation degenerates. It is the most outrageous online discussion gone bad example I have even seen.
I think we should start a web site called web sites gone wild. Like girl's gone wild but about community based web sites that get out of control.
What science teacher has the url ilovejesus.com, NMr. Denn does
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01/18/05 04:36 - ID#31579
Cold days good food
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01/18/05 01:22 - ID#31578
I am walking and it's freezing
I have to officially decide on my thesis today I guess. It's all part of the beaurocracy here. I need to get my form signed to take thesis supervision, but in order to do that I need to have defined my thesis.
I probably fucked everything up by not forming my committee early enough but I kept hoping faculty would come along who were more in my field and were socially acceptable to me. I just know their are some people I couldn't get along with because I don't like the way they work. That has inhibited me for so long.
I am so glad it's almost over, I may have to turn down another job offer today.
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01/18/05 03:48 - ID#31577
School
Tomorrow is my first real-time electronic art class. It sounds promising. Then I teaching "3D modeling for 2D Imagery". On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I am taking "Cyberporn and Society" and then on Thursday "teaching intro to digital media arts." It is a seriously full schedule and at some point I also have to begin reading lots of books and writing my thesis. I am also thinking about taking on another job as I love coding so much!
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01/16/05 02:36 - ID#31576
Why disrepect free things?
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Why are some people so stupid? I truly believe the internet is the capitalist mega superstore it is because people would will not respect what is free. It is really hard in our ultra price and status concscious country to not equate free with "not worth anything". If you don't have to login you can forget about respect. But by making a login system you are cutting off lots of people who are afraid to register for stuff because they think its dangerous or costs money.
I have been looking into topic ideas for journals as (e:twisted) requested and its kills me to look at these forums on the web because people just flame each other instead of talking about any topic. The journals here are separated enough and there is enough personal responsibilty that it doesn't really matter if some comments on your writing on their journal.
And if it is someone just making a one day post to annoy people , they quickly dissapear. If we have a pet journal that anyone can write on, and someone things you are wrong about you pet annecdote or pet car etip, etc. They will simply rip you apart in the next entry. Which slowly then turns it into an argument about some meaningless side topic instead of the intended topic and worse yet, it will always be on top as more people get nvolved in the argument pushing other poele out of the last 12.
This is really a problem. I mean most people probably think this is just funny and I am too serious, but I think that it is really a serious problem on the net. One solution is to appoint an admin who oversees the exchange of ideas and elliminates this type of chatter but in reality this could easily become a type of censorship and takes a lot of time.
I am thinking for here topic jorunals can be created sort of liek smart playlist on itunes. I have to think about it a lot. Right now I should return to 3D for a couple more days. Then I can work on it.
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01/16/05 04:20 - ID#31575
Getting the Maya groove on /Cyberporn
The advance of NURBS is that they are more fun and faster to build with, in my opinion. I usually start of with NURBS surfaces or SubDs and tehn convert to polygons somewhere before texturing or export. Tonight I just used the polygon tools to build some books. I am thinking about making it into a lesson plan and having students t o make different books, etc.
For those of you that don't udnerstand what polygons are, here is a picture of what they look like, they are basically the building blocks of many 3D models.
Here is what happend when you set up lights, scan in some textures, draw out a bump map, and put it all togther into one image.
Is anyone taking the "Cyberporn and Society" class at UB. I decided to take it because my thesis advisor is teaching it and I would like to see what he is liek in the classroom but I need a ride on fridays.
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01/15/05 09:58 - ID#31574
Iraq
I found a nother war blog. I have to say that I love the idea that soldiers are actually reporting on the war. I wish they could all do it. I am sure american ones are censored. This is the journal of a british troop but its a little old now. February to May 2003
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01/15/05 03:34 - ID#31573
This is so disgusting
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01/15/05 02:08 - ID#31572
Livejournal is still down
Temporarily Unavailable
LiveJournal is currently down due to a massive power failure at our data center. We'll provide updates at /powerloss/ as they're available.
Our data center (Internap, the same one we've been at for many years) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to us, at least) We're currently dealing with verifying the correct operation of our 100+ servers. Not fun. We're not happy about this. Sorry... :-/ More details later.
Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we have power again, and we're working to assess the state of the databases. The worst thing we could do right now is rush the site up in an unreliable state. We're checking all the hardware and data, making sure everything's consistent. Where it's not, we'll be restoring from recent backups and replaying all the changes since that time, to get to the current point in time, but in good shape. We'll be providing more technical details later, for those curious, on the power failure (when we learn more), the database details, and the recovery process. For now, please be patient. We'll be working all weekend on this if we have to.
Update #2, 10:11 pm: So far so good. Things are checking out, but we're being paranoid. A few annoying issues, but nothing that's not fixable. We're going to be buying a bunch of rack-mount UPS units on Monday so this doesn't happen again. In the past we've always trusted Internap's insanely redundant power and UPS systems, but now that this has happened to us twice, we realize the first time wasn't a total freak coincidence. C'est la vie.
Update #3: 2:42 am: We're starting to get tired, but all the hard stuff is done at least. Unfortunately a couple machines had lying hardware that didn't commit to disk when asked, so InnoDB's durability wasn't so durable (though no fault of InnoDB). We restored those machines from a recent backup and are replaying the binlogs (database changes) from the point of backup to present. That will take a couple hours to run. We'll also be replacing that hardware very shortly, or at least seeing if we can find/fix the reason it misbehaved. The four of us have been at this almost 12 hours, so we're going to take a bit of a break while the binlogs replay... Again, our apologies for the downtime. This has definitely been an experience.
Update #4: 9:12 am: We're back at it. We'll have the site up soon in some sort of crippled state while the clusters with the oldest backups continue to catch up.
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01/15/05 02:00 - ID#31571
We finally met our neighbors
Believe it or not, they do not have the internet at their house. I can't even imagine what that is like. One of their friends had a celphone that can email pics. I told him about the site, so maybe we will see a new jorunal soon.
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