Category: work

08/03/05 01:05 - 79ºF - ID#32144

Turning Down Teaching

So after turning down teaching Realspace Electronics at UB and 3D Modeling at Medaille , today I turned down teaching a course on Digital Culture because it just wouldn't fit in my schedule and it was way to demanding of material to start preparing for only a couple weeks before the semester began. I think teaching isn't really a good deal, especially when I have to pay $706/month in student loans. The course subject actually appeals to me but not so much in the format it is presented, as it is a lecture course. I can do it this year, but I really need a better solution fo rthe future. One that at least includes health insurance before I turn 30.

In this case, it's also about the commute. Once again I need to commute back and forth from UB North to Canisius and I refuse to do it more than one time per day, especially in the winter semester. It is such hell in the winter, waiting for that bus after the subway or worse yet waiting for the bus at UB to take me back to the subway to Canisius to teach. I can never rely on it being on time!

After weighing it out, teaching this class was really not profitable for me as my salary and contract wasn't even going to change much, they offered me 10 hours in the lab instead of 12 per week, yet I would pick up a demanding lecture course of 25 students, the month before school starts. Maybe I will teach it some day in the future. There is always next year.

PS. If someone were to offer me a position teaching more web deisgn, programming, data management, web interactivity type of a class, I would definately say yes.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

08/02/05 07:09 - 83ºF - ID#32143

Living on Elmwood

Who here has lived on elmwood previously but moved off because it was getting too expenisve. Moreover, who had wanted to live on elmwood but couldn't afford the rising cost of living on the strip?

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: web

08/02/05 12:31 - 80ºF - ID#32142

Drunk Polish People

I found this crazy site

with lots of drunken polish people while searching for pictures of capibara

. Google made the connection. A lot of them are funny, some of them are sick

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: memories

08/01/05 01:16 - ID#32141

Niagara Falls

(e:terry) and I went with (e:iriesara) and Elijah to go
see Niagara Falls. We took the lovely toxic trail to get there. You
know Praxair Nuclear Waste dump then the Noco sponsored grand island
bridge oil spill zone. Finally a run down factory lane and into the
Falls. Note: Parking is only $5 at the Rainbow Center, $5 cheaper than
across the street.

Once we arrived, we headed out to goat island. It is quite nice. Has
anyone else seen the great lakes gardens, each plot is the shape of a
great lake.

Too bad (e:matthew) couldn't come, now the pictures will be low res and
crappy.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: events

08/01/05 12:24 - ID#32140

The 10,000 Party

American theme worked. The 10,000 party was fantastic. Just about everybody brought a bottle of something, quickly transformiing our house into a bar. I was fine until pat suggested we do several shots of goldschlager, my favorite drink. I don't drink very often or very much, so the multiple shot policy reduced me to on the floor only mode by 2am, shortly after showering (e:mike) with the bus tokens that were slotted for our "charity run."

We met a lot of new people and it was great on all accounts. I missed the video game part but I hear (e:ladycroft) plays a mean mariocart. She also makes delicious vegatarian zuchini squares. To bad you missed that (e:leetee) !!

For the record both (e:jason) and (e:joshua) do exist and they are both pretty cool guys.

Now onto the crazy part geoffrey was insane. He spilled his drinks everywhere including on his ride, stomped all around like royalty,and finally, while being escorted out by (e:hodown) said -who is that bitch throwing me off my stage, referring to the porch. He truly topped his already over the top self. The poor girl he was with had only been friends with him for a month.

Also both Sara Ross (e:iriesara) and Emily Keating (e:emilyjane) showed up but Emily had no idea Sara would be there. It was a fun surprise.

Okay, time to right 10,000 more entries!!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: peeptalk

07/30/05 06:53 - ID#32139

pre-party dance off

(E:lilho) and (e:hodown) are having a pre-party DDR dance
off. We set the room up for competition.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

07/30/05 12:43 - 72ºF - ID#32138

Mini Updates

I redid the amerika theme in honor of the big 10,000 party tonight. All you partriots can switch to that theme by clicking on the american flasg icon on the front page. It is under the browser war stats.

I also redid all the journal icons as png so that they didn't look so crappy when people used dark backgrounds.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: friends

07/29/05 10:48 - 72ºF - ID#32137

Wo bist du?

Such a crazy day of spam. I cannot believe how much crazy spam is finding me. On eof my best friends from germany has been replaced by a spam bot. This is the third time it has contacted me out of the blue.

paulSideKick: hallo
paulSideKick: wie geht's
paulSideKick: emilie hammel?
Emilie: sorry.
Emilie: I invited people to drive these losers out because they were mean to me.
Emilie: And it worked.
Emilie: So eh.
paulSideKick: so is it really you
Emilie: ja
paulSideKick: wo bist du?
paulSideKick: einen Freund von dir, hat mir gesagt, dass du in den usa studiert
Emilie: in meinem Haus
Emilie: yeah bin ich, ich bin mit ihr im Augenblick, sie bin maura
Emilie: ?
paulSideKick: wo bist du jetzt?
Emilie: florida
paulSideKick: florida
paulSideKick: was machst du da
Emilie: ja
Emilie: ist es dort nett?
-- AT this point I realize that it is not really emilie again!!!

paulSideKick: wie heisst unser Lehrer
paulSideKick: der alter mann, der hat uns geschchte unterrichtet
paulSideKick: emilie
paulSideKick: erinnerest du seine Name
emilie signs off

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: events

07/29/05 09:09 - ID#32136

$20 sneakers and america theme

(e:mike) drove (e:hodown) and I down to party city to get decorations for the estrip 10,000 party.

The made in china, oil based, sweat shop enhanced america theme was 50% off, so like any good event organizer we had our venture capitalist suppport manager by it all up. They even had fake ants for your picnic needs.

On the way we saw a portable sneaker shop at elmwood and hertel hocking sneaker for $20 a pair and this flagtasttic house.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: programming

07/29/05 11:20 - 73ºF - ID#32135

Eating Web Sites

I have become obsessed with eating and recreating data so when (e:shawnr) asked me to rescue his data fromt he evil overlords that had stolen it I was more than excited. I didn't think I would have a chance till sunday but I got the stomach flu last night which gave me some time to think about it. I basically programmed it in my halucinitary dream last night and then woke up this morning to type it out in about five minutes.

I love programming dreams.