01/27/05 05:56 - ID#31613
On Collecting
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/27/05 01:24 - ID#31612
At least there is sun
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01/27/05 04:10 - ID#31611
This is why people hate modern art
For my electronics class I had to respond to a reading about early robotic art and telepresence art. One of the pieces involved two human being able to arm wrestle over a network using a robotic arm that they each wrestled independently and which sent data about angle, arm strength etc over the network to the othe player. Sometimes it did not work and it would report both people as winning. The really came up the lamest pseudo-inetellecttual theory for this.
Here is my response with an excerpt below.
I find it hard to believe that the issue of agency raised by telephonic Arm Wrestling, upon it technological failure, were but mere afterthoughts to fill the intellectual void surrounding the project. Especially this quote, "under certain circumstances, both sides could win simultaneously, fundamentally undermining the bipolar competitive model of win-lose . . . a telling commentary on the arms race and the opposition of capitalism and communism."
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01/27/05 02:46 - ID#31610
In 1996 the telegarden sprouted
In response to (e:metalpeter) 's collection question[inlink]metalpeter,251[/inlink]l, (e:twisted) wrote me an IM saying
lwist: now you can say you collect internet friends.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/27/05 12:45 - ID#31609
The mailman and filesharing
Our version of filesharing was the mailman. He would bring a round a list of all of the software other people on the route had for tehir commodore 64, which was pretty pervasive back then. Then we would offere trades and he would copy and drop off disks. It was very similar to kazaa or emule just really manual.
I even rememeber copying programs on audio tape during that time. Does anyone have any early days on the net stories they can share. Or other experience with other net communities on a local level.
' {$STAMP BS2}
DEBUG "code start", CR
INPUT 12
INPUT 13
INPUT 14
INPUT 15
dir VAR Word 'current direction
old_dir VAR Word ' last direction
north VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times up was pressed
south VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times down was pressed
west VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times left was pressed
east VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times right was pressed
Index VAR Nib ' Define normal nibble variable.
test:
'reset dir for next test loop
old_dir = dir
dir = 0
nloop:
IF IN12 <> 1 THEN sloop
dir = 1
north = north + 1
sloop:
IF IN13 <> 1 THEN wloop
dir = dir + 10
south = south + 1
wloop:
IF IN14 <> 1 THEN eloop
dir = dir + 100
west = west + 1
eloop:
IF IN15 <> 1 THEN printloop
dir = dir + 1000
east = east + 1
printloop:
IF dir = 0 THEN nothing_pressed 'don't print anything because nothing is being pressed
DEBUG CLS 'clear the screen
'determine the direction
IF dir = 1 THEN goNorth
IF dir = 100 THEN goSouth
IF dir = 10 THEN goEast
IF dir = 1000 THEN goWest
'angled directions
IF dir = 11 THEN goNorthEast
IF dir = 1001 THEN goNorthWest
IF dir = 110 THEN goSouthEast
IF dir = 1100 THEN goSouthWest
totals:
DEBUG ? north
DEBUG ? south
DEBUG ? west
DEBUG ? east
PAUSE 200 'pause before next pole
IF north > 15 THEN winloop 'if the user pressed up 15 times then go to the winning loop
GOTO test
goNorth:
DEBUG "you are going north", CR
GOTO totals
goSouth:
DEBUG "you are going south", CR
GOTO totals
goEast:
DEBUG "you are going east", CR
GOTO totals
goWest:
DEBUG "you are going west", CR
GOTO totals
goNorthEast:
DEBUG "you are going northeast", CR
GOTO totals
goNorthWest:
DEBUG "you are going northwest", CR
GOTO totals
goSouthEast:
DEBUG "you are going southeast", CR
GOTO totals
goSouthWest:
DEBUG "you are going southwest", CR
GOTO totals
nothing_pressed: 'nothing is pressed try again, don't bother pausing
GOTO test
winloop:
DEBUG "You won by pressing the north button 15 times"
END
END
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/26/05 11:01 - ID#31608
My advisor worries
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01/26/05 06:57 - ID#31607
This is the stupidest language ever
Yes that is a Virgin Mary candle in on my computer desk. (e:matthew) just got it for me. I think it is helping my basic stamp.
The simple serial joystick code I wrote
' {$STAMP BS2}
DEBUG "code start", CR
INPUT 12
INPUT 13
INPUT 14
INPUT 15
up VAR Bit
down VAR Bit
left VAR Bit
right VAR Bit
upcount VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times up was pressed
downcount VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times down was pressed
leftcount VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times left was pressed
rightcount VAR Byte 'keep tabs on # of times right was pressed
Index VAR Nib ' Define normal nibble variable.
test:
'reset values for next test loop
up = 0
down = 0
left = 0
right = 0
uploop:
IF IN12 <> 1 THEN downloop
up = 1
upcount = upcount + 1
downloop:
IF IN13 <> 1 THEN leftloop
down = 1
downcount = downcount + 1
leftloop:
IF IN14 <> 1 THEN rightloop
left = 1
leftcount = leftcount + 1
rightloop:
IF IN15 <> 1 THEN printloop
right = 1
rightcount = rightcount + 1
printloop:
IF up + down + left + right = 0 THEN nothing_pressed 'don't print anything because nothing is being pressed
DEBUG "total ", ? upcount
DEBUG "total ", ? downcount
DEBUG "total ", ? leftcount
DEBUG "total ", ? rightcount
PAUSE 200 'pause before next pole
IF upcount > 15 THEN winloop 'if the user pressed up 15 times then go to the winning loop
GOTO test
nothing_pressed: 'nothing is pressed try again, don't bother pausing
GOTO test
winloop:
DEBUG "You won by pressing the up button 15 times"
END
END
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01/26/05 04:29 - ID#31606
School is Really Tedious
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Location: Buffalo, NY
01/26/05 02:34 - ID#31605
Thanks for making me feel good
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Words: 27
Location: Buffalo, NY
01/26/05 01:49 - ID#31604
Old journal Entry from me
NASA seems to follow the saying, "if first you don't success try again, again,again, and again. So, Columbia will try again tomorrow. Let's hope!
President reagan has asked for economic sanctions against libya, and has told americans in Libya to come home soon as possible.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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