04/23/05 08:46 - ID#31874

It feel s so good when info flows

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04/23/05 08:24 - ID#31873

Public Transphere Part 1

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.

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04/23/05 11:17 - ID#31872

we are live

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

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04/23/05 10:02 - ID#31871

Crazy Morning

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.

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04/23/05 08:58 - ID#31870

Today

It has to end, please god let it end

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04/23/05 08:52 - ID#31869

Now we are at Tmobile

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04/23/05 08:05 - ID#31868

Jesse and I

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.

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04/23/05 01:13 - ID#31867

Sept 11th

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

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04/22/05 08:33 - ID#31866

One of my students

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04/22/05 05:33 - ID#31865

Adrian Roselli

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

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