01/24/05 10:17 - ID#31598
My Dinner
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/24/05 08:33 - ID#31597
The television ate you public sphere
"What will on-line interactive communities be like?" Licklider and Taylor wrote in 1968: "In most fields they will consist of geographically separated members, sometimes grouped in small clusters and sometimes working individually. They will be communities not of common location, but of common interest. . . ."
I repsonse I would like to say there exists no reason why computer mediated communication will turn into ."communities not of common location, but of common interest."
In its essense, the web can be regarded as a cyborgian extension of the human psyche. By harnessing the power of this tool, people can and do rebuild local communities. Communities that are barley existant in a world where people have replaced their human interactions with their television and their local public sphere/marketplace with carefully constructed global supermarketplaces such as walmart that we arrive at in our very solitary SUVs.
While the television, film, and video have created a society that shuns community interaction, the computer, and specifically the internet, can act as a tool to bring local community back together.
I am not just saying this to promote my own site. Computers bring people together locally on so many levels. Just look at IM, email and chat rooms. I would argue that with the advent of IM, especially portable IM, that people will actually end up spending more time of the day involved in human to human communication than they do know, and definately more than they did 10 years ago. I can persoanlly attest to the fact that portable CMC eventually starts to feel like a psychic connection.
And do people really suppose that most time spent communciating online is really only with far away strangers. I know so many people that spend hundred of hours communicating with people online locally, especially those in search of the perfect mate. They are using tools like friendster, date.com(this one is funy ) , yahoo chat, aol, craig's list, gay.com, etc
The reality is that people will never find local community through film and video, unless the local community is based on a love for film and video. So put down your television and contribute your local online community, you never know where it will take you.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/24/05 06:44 - ID#31596
These are the greatest Readings
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/23/05 04:08 - ID#31595
Serial Cable Price
This better be fun to program. I already have some plans but I need the digital color meter module and the bluetooth module. I can already see hardware costing too much. I should just stick with software development, where the development costs are relatively low when you know what you are doing. There is such a huge difference in the problems cause by errors in development with hardware.
Losing a chip is way more "expensive" than losing a file and you can't physically die from software development the way you can with hardware. I found myself deciding to touch the electricity yesterday, just so I wouldn't have to fear it anymore. Wish me luck.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/23/05 12:47 - ID#31594
Birthday and Usage Statistics
I started keeping more complicated usage statistics on the site. Since last night at 11PM there have been 92 non-bot / non-user guests with unique IP addresses who have visited the site. 6 Users have signed on since then.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/22/05 11:54 - ID#31593
Goldschlaeger Collection
Just to get an idea the large size bottle is 1 liter. I am aiming for a gallon.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/22/05 08:37 - ID#31592
My biography, haha
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/22/05 06:21 - ID#31591
Birthday Day
Thank you (e:twisted) for the new scarf. It is very warm. Here is a pic of me wearing it. I decided to morph my face into a jackson face. I was totally inspirered by Latoya's emotional appeal to buy her new CD last night on 20/20.
I finally got my Basic Stamp II to get power from an adaptor I pulled apart.
Here is proof that it is now getting the needed 5v.
It is snowing so much today. I heard it won't stop till tomorrow, and until we have another foot of snow.
I guess it makes sense seeing as I was born in the blizzard of 77 . HEre are some pics from that year. These are houses. It was the only snowstorm declared a national emergency.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/22/05 01:57 - ID#31590
I am 28 now
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/21/05 04:35 - ID#31589
I have learned my lesson
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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