I am sure someday I will say the same thing about my ten newest projects, like top secret movie pic sticker maker.

ElmwoodStrip.com
02/28/05

Two or three years ago, or even perhaps longer, I registered the domain name ElmwoodStrip.com. I envisioned a community site with news, perhaps personals and classifieds, forums for people to interact, etc. (This was before blogging really took off and entered my consciousness.)

Of course I never did anything with it and after a couple years I let the domain name lapse - just one of many that I've had over the years.

Well, about a year ago I discovered that someone else had registered the domain and now has created essentially what I imagined, only they have done a far better job with it than I ever could have. It seems to cater to the college-aged crowd, offering personal journals, etc. (Incidentally, I have been thinking about letting people set up their own blogs on Buffalog.com - their own Buffalogs - if anyone expresses interest...)

Seeing an idea I originally had get done, and done better by someone else is an experience I've had many times. It always feels like the universe telling my how much I suck. Oh well.
Posted by Craig at 12:24:04 am into the following categories: Craig
Quoted from: Personal and Frivolous Crud - February 2005

It was so horrible experience the day at 800 bytes/sec. I don't think I ever want that to happen to me again

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.