02/05/05 02:22 - ID#31640

Waffles are tasty

(e:terry) decided to make waffles for all of us this morning. It was very nice of him. They are even gluten free so (e:matthew) can eat them but its 1:19 and he is still not up yet.

Zack if you see this sign on or call me, I don't have you number but still want to go.

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Words: 60
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/05/05 02:51 - ID#31639

My epoetry

Wow, if you type in dynamically written epoetry (GOOGLE - dynamically written epoetry) into google, my poems are the first thing that come up!!

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Words: 22
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/05/05 01:32 - ID#31638

Stars for everyone

I am still working on the stars for the grading system. Unlike (e:maidencateyes) who surely has a full supply of these babies, I didn't have nay for my students so i had to make some. Here are the stars that will someday be used as stars in the system. You can see them both as original 3d full size image and the icons that resulted from them.

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Words: 77
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/04/05 06:40 - ID#31637

Demos and Snowshoeing

I am excited to see what happens with the western site after tomorrow when (e:twisted) has the demo party. I am also pretty excited about going snowshoeing, if I can get ahold of (e:zack) . I don't have your phonenumber!

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Words: 41
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/04/05 04:44 - ID#31636

Maya 6.5 Purchase

Wow, what an ordeal it was to actually make the purchase of Maya 6.5. Seeing as the department was paying for it, I had them make the purchase order, but then there was the problem of it not being a personal copy, if the school was purchasing it. So then I had to cancel the order and purchase it myself, but because it was a personal copy, I had to prove I was a professor, which involved writing a letter and faxing my faculty ID. The whole process, with several phone calls and ended up taking about 2 hours and costing $370.00 which I will luckily get back sometime in the near future. I will be nice to have my own copy to plan classes with. I have to thank Carolyn for helping me so much.

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Words: 133
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/03/05 10:28 - ID#31635

Maya 6.5

For those of you 3D junkies out there - Alias

just came out with Maya 6.5. Luckily, I am getting a license from work. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. Although there arn't any major tool upgrades, supposedly it is way faster.

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Words: 48
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/03/05 03:35 - ID#31634

Simple Poly Model

These are some exmaple I made for my class. I kind of like the way they look, even if they are quite primitive. I may have poste dthe candles before, but I can't remember.

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Words: 43
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/03/05 01:47 - ID#31633

e:poetry was great

Tonight I got to present my latetest edition of the poetry toolkit and the results that I got using it for the site. If you haven't seen it click on the epoetry link in the search box.

All the words in the poems now link back to the site search engine. One of the arguments against hypertext in epoetry was that it didn't really offer the reader a deeper look into the text. In this case I have overcome that by having the actual words link to searches of the journals, so that you can follow each words back to its orginal context, as well as, explore more about the author of that phrase. Not only that but, because its local you could meet the author, or at least contact them through email or IM. What would you say, "I liked the poem you wrote." They wouldn't have any idea. It really brings more meaning to the phrase, "You're a poet and you didn't know it."

I am coining this reality e-poetry in case I already havent. Jesse is in the class too which is great. My code can't write poems about him because he deleted himself everytime he wrote. He is my idol anyways - especially s ince I learned that he has his breakfast delivered!

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Words: 217
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/02/05 12:53 - ID#31632

Wednesday

Time for a day filled with meetings and chair shopping. Does anyone know where to buy those funky chairs you kind of lean foward and kneel on. I want to buy one but Office Max only had a crappy one and after my [search]"butterfly conservatory"[/search] butterfly conservatory drama, I am not planning on going to Canada to check out ikea. Then off to digital poetics class where I can demonstrate my newest poems.

I am almost about done with the grading module for the teaching sites. If you see the may grades link in your user link list - don't ' freak out. It is just a test of the emergency grading system.

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Words: 113
Location: Buffalo, NY

02/02/05 01:08 - ID#31631

My Bath Tub

The new mansion has the best sitting style bathtub ever. Unfortunately, there was not enough hot water to fill it so I had to carry a pot of boiling water up the staircase.