Well after like 48 hours of no sleep I am here to tell the story of day one. It was generally a success for my part. The internet seemed to hold up accept for our lunch break from 2-3 and from 4-6 during a battery crisis, for which t-mobile could not help us.

Oh and the microphone mixup. We wanted a data card GPRS style ASAP but the shortest turn around on activation that they could promise us was 3-4day. I wish I had $1000, just to see what they would do for that.

I felt really weird today, partly because of the fact that i haven't selpt since thursday and partly because of the situation. I have been driving the route so long that I think people are beginning to take notice of me. i think they think I am some sort of cyborg cop. I can't blame them as i actually had a web cam wired to my head, a laptop displaying my location constantly on the internet, a big white van, and lots of microphones, and other technology.

I felt like such an outside peering in at a science experiment. It made me so uncomfortable. I loved the project at first because it gave mne a change to hold surveillance technology really close and then it freaked me out. I started feeling like I was on some weird cultural safari. Nothing can make me more uncomfortable than that. It is preceisely why I am done traveling to poor places. The feeling was akin to some feelings I had spending time in Morocco back in my early twenties.

(e:rzoo) did a fantastic job pulling it all together. The issues I was having were mostly with me and my feelings about me as the outsider. She is such a kind woman and I know her heart is good. I am excited to see what tomorrow brings.

Here we are live on the route at allen and north.

I can't believe after this work and science, we are crippled by an 800 byte per second, dead battery piece of crap cell phone. Why didn't we get the card!?! What a waste of my life.

It has to end, please god let it end

We need a solution now. They have a wireless network here that costs money but someone named sparky amde a freee one.!!

Well, it's two hours or so before the official start of public transphere and Jesse and I are still up. We spent the whole night driving in circles, testing the system. I think it work now but (e:rzoo) , your cell phone sucks. I will never work with such primitive technology in my life. We manage an astounding 800bytes/second. No not KB just bytes. I could type letters on paper and send them as paper airplanes faster. Seeing a we don't expect to sleep as it is 8:00am, we are going to try and get a network card at tmboile and see how long it take for it to connect.

I was looking for that one flash based 911 memorial web site we looked at in Loss's class when I found this information

Plenty of other people took deliberate steps that could lead to profit from the attacks.

People like Moti Shniberg, chief executive officer of a multinational corporation called ImageID Ltd. On the very day of the attacks, Shniberg was filing paperwork seeking a U.S. trademark on the date "September 11, 2001." His application is still pending.

Quoted from: 911: When tragedy meets capitalism

I decided I had to know more about that so I looked up Moti Shniberg and found this site Artist Pension trust.

    
Moti Shniberg
Chairman of the Board
Mr. Shniberg is the founder and creative force behind ImageID, having invented the concept of automatic identification based on sophisticated optical pattern recognition techniques. Mr. Shniberg is a self-taught innovator and entrepreneur, and has filed patent applications in the areas of pattern recognition and identification as well as telecommunications, drug detection and analytical chemistry.Quotes from the ImageID site

One of my students IMed me about some DVD stuff and (e:shawnr) helped me give him the solution to his problem. Then about 10 minutes later I get this

Student: the setup file is .exe....wat would i use to open a file like that

That is totally why Canisius needs to incorporate more PCs into the program, lol. It is such a maccentric place.

Buffalo is officially the smallest city in the world. It seems like everyday I am some re-exposed to people that I met in the past. Today I was speaking with one of my co-workers about some web deisgn stuff when he said, hey I am having this guy named Adrian Roselli in to teach my class on Monday. You should talk with him about the public transphere project. I said, "We both went to kenmore west."

I wonder if he is my competition for the job. He has a nice website with lots of information about web design. You should check it out . SOrry Adrian if you see this and hate this picture, it is what google brought me.



On another note, (e:robin) did you video tape the whole accident [inlink]robin,383[/inlink]

Well, I got to get going, jesse and (e:rzoo) are coming over so we can test out the public transphere engine

Well at least I made it so far as getting a job interview for the position I desire. I hope that it leads to the job. Sounds like it is time to start shopping for new clothing. Of course, the interview was scheduled for the same day as the fiveV show, which I have to participate in. Hopefully everything can be rescheduled and still work out.

The public-transphere [search]transphere[/search] project starts tomorrow. I bet it will be a crazy night of getting ready. It was featured in the gusto today. Congratulations (e:rzoo)

The reporter Anne Neville, was one of the nicest people I ever met. Below is the text from the article because I know the Buffalo News removes everything from the site after a couple days. Can you believe that a professional photographer took this picture? I mean he put us in the wind on a cold morning and expected all smiles. It was really a bad choice. You think being a pro he could have gotten a better shot. I could have gotten a better shot with the sidekick. My hair looks so messed up, I guess it is the time of year when I have to cut it all off again. I wish it would just remain sunny first. WHo am I kidding.

By ANNE NEVILLE
News Staff Reporter
4/22/2005
    
Bill Wippert/Buffalo News
From left, Arzu Ozkal Telhan, Paul Visco and Jesse F. Fabian have worked together on "Public Transphere."

all names are CQ

Need a free ride?
How about a chance to discuss your experience of Buffalo life?

You're in luck. This weekend's "Public Transphere," the master's thesis project of Arzu Ozkal Telhan, a student in the University at Buffalo's Art Department, will provide both.

The white, 12-passenger van marked with the words "Public Transphere - travel around - talk about - Buffalo," will run on a 30-minute loop starting at Main and North streets and proceeding east across the Medical Campus area, north through the Fruit Belt and back. Passengers can get on and off at any stop.

James Holland, an adjunct instructor of art at UB, will drive the van, which will operate from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

On the van, "I'm like a tour guide," said Ozkal Telhan, as she looked forward to the two-day project she has worked on for almost a year. "I'll talk a little about the history of Buffalo, and then I'm hoping my announcements will trigger some discussion among the passengers."

Ozkal Telhan's project statement says: "Riders are encouraged to discuss their everyday realities, share opinions and exchange concerns about their communities."

Along with Ozkal Telhan, a native of Turkey, other UB grad students working on the project are Paul Visco, a Kenmore native and adjunct professor at Canisius College, and Jesse F. Fabian, who was born in East Otto and is a lecturer in the department of media study. Minoo Amini, a professor in UB's School of Architecture and Planning, also worked on the project.

Ozkal Telhan views the van as an "itinerant free-speech platform," much like the free-speech corners in other cities. By moving among communities divided by race and economic status, the Transphere van "directly physically integrates people from different neighborhoods," said Fabian. "This is an interesting thing - there are a lot of people who won't take public transportation because of the cultural barriers. This allows an integrative space for people from different cultures and physical areas, and maybe goes a little toward repairing the rift between the areas."

Visco is the designer of elmwoodstrip.com, a three-year-old "local journaling and social networking site." He has developed software that allows visitors to the project's Web site www.public-transphere.info) to t
rack the van. Fabian's data links will record the discussion on board and transmit it to the Web site, where it can be heard as streaming audio. Visitors to the Web site may also ask questions and make comments that will be communicated to riders.

The east-west route was chosen to link city neighborhoods that have few points of intersection. Fabian said, "Logistically, (the route) looked very simple, but culturally and politically, it was designed so there are obstacles," including the Kensington.

This weekend, look for Public Transphere, driving through those obstacles. For group reservations, call 400-6728.