05/25/05 03:58 - ID#31984

Relaxing programming

In order to de-stress from the day I reprogrammed the epoetry engine for the site. Now each of the sentences in the poem link directly back to the original journals they came from. I think this make sit more useful. I also made some adjustments that should speed stuff up a bunch, even though we are not on the fastest server.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/24/05 12:59 - ID#31983

Nonna Died Today

I am sad that she is gone, but I am glad that she doesn't have to suffer in that hospital anymore. She past away at 9:30am. Here [inlink]paul,2499[/inlink] she is teaching (e:terry) to knit.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

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05/24/05 12:30 - ID#31982

Totse.com

You guys have to check out this web site.

This web site is about INFORMATION. All sorts and all viewpoints. Some of the information you will agree with, some you will find shocking, and some you will probably disagree with violently. That is the whole point. In this society we go to schools where there is one right answer: The Teacher's. There is one acceptable version of events: The Television's. There is only one acceptable occupation: The pursuit of money. There is only one political choice to make: The Status Quo.Quoted from: totse.com | FAQ

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Category: design

05/23/05 10:53 - ID#31981

Josephine Triangle Reductions

I spent the remaining part of the day working on Josephine's triangle reductions for her show. I got the models to be very low polygon. I hate 3D. Well, I enjoy doing it and I am pretty damn good at using the tools, the problem is I feel like such an empty loser, everytime I am done. It just has no relevance to anything. It is like entertainment pure.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/23/05 07:05 - ID#31980

Nonna Throughout Time

I just can't believe she is dying right now. It seems so crazy, like I knew it would happen sometime. It just kills me that the last semester I didn't spend more time with her and that the last conversation I got to have with her was about me not getting the job. I thought school was so important last semester that I pretty much turned everything else off. What a stupid idiot I was, especially seeing as nothing paid off and now I don't get another chance at seeing my nonna.

In our last phonecall, last week all we talked about was Canisius and how she was so sad for me. I said I would see her when I got back from vacation but by the time I had the internet again she was gone.

Here she is as a baby

Nonna 1922

Nonna 1922

Nonna 1933

Nonno and Nonna on a bike before they came to america

Nonna 1950

Here she is arriving in America.

Our Family in the 80s

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/23/05 06:39 - ID#31979

The Nonna's House

This is where she lived for 40 years.

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05/23/05 06:10 - ID#31978

An era change is approaching

I think I just started to realize today that everything is going to change right now. When Nonna dies I will no longer be little Paolo and it's time to get serious about my future. Like when do I start making the virtual Paul database so trhat I can preserve myself in digital format. I want to be able to exist in an iPod and to be shared on the internet.

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05/23/05 05:02 - ID#31977

Waiting While Nonna is dying

I am sitting here. She keeps holding on but she doesn't move anymore.

It looks like I might the landlord of a house in Buffalo from Nonna. It will be interesting to be a landlord. Maybe I will enjoy it and buy a hundred houses as part of my consume Buffalo before it consumes me plan.

My mother just said that she wants me to be her health care proxy because my brother would keep her hooked to a machine in closet for eternity.

To pass the time I was reading about housing costs to pass the time and San Francisco doesn't have the largest rate of housing cost growth but it does have the highest housing costs in the entire county. There is no city even close.

The only city even remotely close was honalulu

2004q1 2005q1 (thousands)
Honalulu $420.0 $529.1 + 26.0%
Phoenix $155.8 $193.8 +24.4%
San francisco $600.5 $689.2 +14.8%
Buffalo $86.2 $93.9 +8.9%

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05/23/05 09:57 - ID#31976

Gamesfirst Moblogfrom E3

(e:shawnr) kept a moblog of images from the E3 games expo. I know he talked about it before but just in case anyone hadn't seen it, I thought I would mention it. GamesFirst! E3 2005 Moblog

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Location: Buffalo, NY

05/22/05 09:56 - ID#31975

Everything is Crazy Right Now

I got an emergency message to get home ASAP. T-mobiles internet has been down so it was really hard for me to get messages. Turns out Nonna [search]nonna[/search] is in the hospital and is very at the end. I hope they can ease the suffering at this point. She is supposed to get a morphine drip for the pain she is having breating.

She had a massive stroke and is pretty much not there. She moves one arm every once in a while, but only to reach up to nothing in front of her. Sometimes she tries to pull the tubes out.

I hope I never get to that point in life. I want to die of a sudden heart attack. I feel bad for (e:mike) He was going to pick her up for his graduation dinner and she was passed out on her kitchen chair, writing his graduation card. I guess they have been at the hospital ever since. I will update my vacation info later.

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