06/03/05 12:57 - ID#32006

My MFA Degree - My Job

I finally got my letter accepting me as a graduation Candidate for 9/05. I also checked my final grades and it looks like I am going to be graduating with a 4.0. So now I am finishing a 60 credit Masters in Fine Arts, I have a huge portfolio full of great stuff , and years of experience.

It was definately worth it because I just accepted my dream job making $17,000/year at Canisius with no health benefits. It's about the same amount they paid me when I had only a undergraduate degree in German Language. Ironically, school cost more than that. They told me once again it might go full time in January. I am a sucker for stories aparently. They told me that one for four years now. I guess there is still hope the salary could go up.

It's sad because I had planned on using the money I made working full time and reinvesting it in this site. I just want it to be on a fast server so that my years of programming can be fully appreciated. I guess it will have to wait another year.

The reason this happend to me is because I don't want to work for some big corporation and I don't want to have to leave my home town. Where are all the non-profits that need designers and web techs. The going bid is $17,001, at this point, lol. Please someone rescue me before it is too late, I am truly capable of making anything happen on the web.

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06/03/05 12:12 - ID#32005

Taste of Buffalo

The taste of Buffalo is moving to Niagara Sqaure. I wonder what prompted the moving of the Taste of Buffalo?

That's right, the Taste is moving from the urban intimacy of Main Street to the wide-open plains of Niagara Square and Delaware Avenue. With City Hall as a backdrop point your compass North and you'll find restaurants, beverage tents and entertainment almost all the way to Chippewa Street! Enjoy the ample elbow room the new location provides as you sample old favorites and new tastes from many of Buffalo and Western New York's favorite restaurants!Quoted from: Taste of Buffalo

I really like their logo.

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06/03/05 12:28 - ID#32004

Total Computer Solutions

I need one of these signs for (e:strip) . I wonder if the work on commodore 64s

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Location: Buffalo, NY

06/02/05 05:02 - ID#32003

Transparent PNG Test

This is a test 24bit PNG image to make sure it works when uploaded in IE.



So today we had like 6 million guests probably from the sidewalk chalk, yet I was playing with the online guest code to make it more efficient, so nobody saw them in the number of guests. No fear, it is accurate again.

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06/02/05 09:37 - ID#32002

Calamari Fritti

(e:terry) and I collborated on the making of Calamari Fritti. They are delicioso. The recipe:

Pull the freakin brains out of the Calamari. That was my job. You can see them in the strainer. I thought it was gross, but ntohing beats (e:robin) 's blackberry story.

The next step is breading with flour, corn meal, salt, pepper, oregano and just a dash of basil. The (e:terry) fried them in canola oil. It has a higher frying temp than olive oil. Last heast up some tomato sauce and enjoy.

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06/02/05 09:40 - ID#32001

Oxytocin Trust

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06/01/05 04:33 - ID#32000

Working at the rose garden

It was so hot out today. They have already begun constructing the shakespeare in the park pavillion with a crane. The tulips loook great in the rose garden but the roses are
suffering from some sort of disease. I hope make it out.

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06/01/05 02:13 - ID#31999

Rose garden, then printing flyers

I am off to the rose garden to go help my mother volunteer. Then I am going to have more flyers printed. One set for everyday use and one for pride weekend. They are mini size bookmark flyers so that I print 14 to a page. That way I feel they are more environmentally responsible. Here is a preview, there may be more, depending how much time I have between writing letters, writing thesis. coding, and eating.

The new general use flyer with more to come.


The flyer for the pride parade and festival.

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06/01/05 11:07 - ID#31998

I hate the phone

I hate telephones. Especially, the kind that live in one place and can't move like mine. I would prefer to just use email because we have one phone, that is never charged, upstairs and away from everything. It makes it just about impossible to deal with phone calls. I am available in like 600 other ways, just not the phone anymore. Unfortunately, I have to occasionally interface with the rest of the world that still uses the telephone.

Like when our friends call to do something. there is a 99% better chance you could reach me via IM, SMS, (e:strip) or simply email. I always have it with me on my sidekick. i refuse to use the sidekick as a phone because it costs $.20/minute and I am poor. The internet features, however, are unlimited for $29/month.

Another example, my former boss has been trying to get ahold of me because I sent the chair of the department an emailrequesting my former job back. I know, I now, everyone thinks that makes me a loser (and it does) but I want to be able to have time in case that Boston non-profit job pans out but to also be able to eat.

If i got the non-profit job too(sidenote: I don't get my hopes up about jobs anymore), then I would be teaching adv web programming, doing advanced web programming and teaching graphic design on the side..

So anyways, we have been playing phone tag for three days.

In his message he said he would call back tonight around 8PM. Hopefully, it works out and I at least can make enough money to eat and live while I deal with everything else and find an appropriate job for my skill level.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

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06/01/05 12:35 - ID#31997

Business as unusual

First of all I have to say (e:jason) made my day by offering to hang the (e:strip) banner on his house on elmwood, directly across the street from Spot coffee.

I spent so much time working on the site that I forgot Wednesday is the day I offcially begin working on my thesis. It will be done soon enough and then I can move on to the next thing. Which at this point is about 5,000,000 things. I really just want the Boston job more than anything in the world. I hope they wern't looking at the site during the upgrades today because that would really suck!

I love web programming so much (DHTML, PHP, MySQL) and I hope that it can just become a full-time job for me. The job has all the possibilty of making me happy because it is a group I like and it not some corporate sell out job.

Speeking of working, I also need to get started on Gamesfirst GF! (e:shawnr) owns that site with his wife and some friends. I am thinking about becomming a partner and doing the programming. Seems like a good project, I just wish it had more immediate results in terms of money. We are so poor now that i am not allowed to spend any money until next week. Unless I get a job I like, we are only going to get poorer and poorer until I starve to death or get some lame job, or move.

I guess I can't complain too much. I have a nice apartment, a car, two lovers and a tortoise but I just don't want to have to leave Buffalo right now. I really enjoy it here, we have a great apartment, we are getting a house and I like the people. Unfortunely, it is hard to find work that I enjoy and I don't feel guilty about (e.g. some corporate sellout job.) I just don't want to be working for evil, unless it is the mafia and then in that case, I AM HERE HIRE ME NOW!!!

I also really want to start this delivery business thing and do a matchmaking site/game but first I need to get started on that thesis.

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