Category: artvoice
01/18/06 12:23 - 44ºF - ID#32457
Artvoice Calendar
1. Focus more on the day/moment. If people wanted to plan two weeks from now they would read artvoice or visit the site on a computer. Most people want to look up stuff they foprgot to wriet down on the way there. e.g lcoation, cost, times. First, make a plain online calendar that is easily searchable from the phone to satisfy users who want the functionality of option 1.
2. Make it so they can schedule SMS alerts and make it intelligent
Create an online interface where people can sign up and give us their cell number to recieve a text message alerts of events based on data they provide us with. With SMS message alerts they can get messages "pushed" to the phone without having to actually initate anything like looking it up. When they sign up they will fill out information such as types of music they like, bands they like, nights they tend to go, bars they prefer, and lots of social networking questions etc.
I will make a program that compares what is coming up that evening with what the robot thinks about them. The robot then can feed them entertainment options from artvoice. As the robot begins to form an opinion of what they like to do, they will be prompted with more questions and for feedback.
I think I can start by interviewing lots of people about this, and taking pictures of them to set up profiles for the robot to learn from. I can also tap into lots of online resources that help compare things someone might like. Say amazon.com.
Questions could be posed in fun ways and even answered from the phone. It could say something like.
It's thursday night - you find your self at
1. chippewa
2. elmwood
3. allen
4. university heights
Hair gel
1. Style me up
2. Yuck
I need coffee, I am off to
1. Star Bucks
2. Spot Coffee
There is a stage
1. You are on it
1. You are clapping
Today's Lunch
1. brought my own
2. drive through
3. way to expensive
4. wasn't up yet
On another note, (e:jesse) sent me this. It is his first file sent across GPRS with the cell phone he is building. He said it is a flyer for a party for my birthday.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: weekend
01/16/06 11:08 - 20ºF - ID#32456
Catch Up Time
I took a lot of random pictures of my life along the way but had no time to post. (e:lilho) provided me with food. One day lobster and steak the day before rack of lamb - it was so yummy. She is a hard worker.
At some point I went to my parents house to pick up my dad to go take care of some tenant business. Everyone has paid their rent now. Somehow they got us to hand up a shelf for them. I always end up doing something weird liek that. My dad says it brings respect to a landlord/tenant relationship. I think it wastes my time but I am still learning.
There are almost no tomotoes left at Nonna's [inlink]matthew,564[/inlink]. I brought a buschel to my mother the other day. The end of the tomatoes is going to be really sad. In a weird way it is almost like the end of Nonna's cooking forever ;(
Tremont, where I grew up is on the other side of elmwood, north of the city. This is across elmwood from where I grew up.
This dairy queen was also across elmwood, which meant as a kid I had to cross a big street to get there. I remember wanting to cross so bad. Eventually I just did.
I spent a lot of night hanging around here with my friend Heather Killian. She has moved back to buffalo and we never see each other.
The coop has Quorn on sale for $2.99 /per box. I bought four boxes. I really love this stuff even if some people think it is made out of humans.
They also had red pepper for the not so sale price of $5.99/pound. By the way (e:joshua), they had fuji apples - even organic ones.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
01/14/06 07:46 - 24ºF - ID#32455
Starbucks
I thought the carboard and rope bag was over the top but there was another cardboard box inside. Never again.
The cake looked good
The bag was a little over the top
Especially seeing as it had rope handles and a heavy cardboard box inside
At least it tasted good. I don't think I would eat there again unless it was free.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
01/14/06 07:42 - 24ºF - ID#32454
Wegmans' Shopping
I really think it is way cheaper to buy expensive fancy food at the grocery store than to go out even occasionally. Like when we went to Betty's last week I got two mini lamb chops for like $25, It's not like that kind of meat is hard to cook. But today I got a whole rack of lamb for for 3 for $15 at wegmans.
They aso have garbage pail kids now. This packs claims to have one unopened pack from the original series.
I think I still have almost all of the originals.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: work
01/14/06 03:20 - 28ºF - ID#32453
So much work, so much cleaning
I mentioned to (e:terry) that I thought we should pay someone to clean our house. I would be willing to pay someone like $50 for three hours of laundry and dishes. He thinks that makes me a classist asshole.
I think it's way above minimum wage and not everyone wants full timework, say students, so why not contribute to the trickle down effect.
When I was in high school I was a butler for this guy. He paid us around $8/hour to prepare and present his dinner in the evening and wash the dishes. For me it presented an opportunity to make more money than I was making as a cashier at Vicks and frankly, it was much nicer not having to deal with retails and the low level chain of command politics.
I just don't see anything wrong with it.
Recycling was so out of control this time because I found lots of stuff that had to go when I was cleaning the frigerator. There must have been 4 pickle jars and 4 speghetti jars. My hands smell sour in such a gross way now. Next time I am wearing gloves.
Wish me luck with the server. It is going to be so much work. I wish I had another server, database person to work with.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: allen
01/13/06 07:33 - 56ºF - ID#32452
The Pink
Has anyone notices this graffitti in the oarking lot at the pink.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: vacation
01/11/06 11:57 - 40ºF - ID#32451
parc de l'espanya industrial
Luckily someone else went on vacation there are took lots of pictures . Moreover, they left their pictures directory open on the web and it got indexed. If you search throught the pics enough you will find not only great pics of Barcelona but really cute finnish? girls, most likely the ones on vacation that took the pics.
At Parc de L'Espanya Industrial I got really high on mushrooms and watched a man get beaten with a baseball bat from across the water. I remember wanting to help but I was on the other side of the water and I was trashed. I think the man was really critically injured. I learned to not hang out in sketchy palces at night time after that.
I guess I am not really missing anything other than pictures of the people I met along the way.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: buffalo
01/11/06 07:54 - 40ºF - ID#32450
Around the Warmth
This entire winter has been so warm. Here is the Anchor bar on a nice warm January afternoon in Buffalo. Someone told me it will be in the high 50s on Friday.
It was even sunny on my lunch break.
[size=m]It's Official[/size]
The other night I met with Jamie Moses at Artvoice. The server is officially moving there on Monday. I am also going to make Artvoice a mobile calendar site.
I ate chicken Ambrosia at Ambrosia. If you have never tried this and you are a meat eater, you have to try it. It is reminiscent of Chicken Soulvlaki but it has a mustard sauce instead of the vinigar oil dressing you typically get with a souvlaki.
On the way home I foudn this sign on a linwood lawn of the house I want to own but which is not for sale. I want it so bad. They apparently said no to the Casino which angered some people.
Then other people tacked up this boycott delta sonic sign on the say no to the casino sign. It's like a whole protest on their lawn - my lawn that should be.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: computer
01/10/06 11:33 - 33ºF - ID#32449
The Commodore 64
This site has so much info about the commodore 64
Here are about as many game and applicatrion roms as you could ever desire
There are emualtors for every system including your phone. Here is one for the PC Just try google if you need another flavor.
When The Pawn came out in 1986, it was so amazing. I got so lost in this text based adventure you can't even imagine. Did anyone else play it?
You should try it in an emulator.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: computers
01/10/06 12:20 - 35ºF - ID#32448
My first computer
I rememeber my first program Basic went something like this
1 print "I love my vic20"
2 goto 1
and I was instantly addicted and saved it all to tape. Tapes were kind of fun. I can't tell you how much music got sacrificed to "save data".
The vic 20 had some really excellent text based RPGs. I loved them all. But it definately was not a gaming machine. In fact I don't think it had any graphics outside of text.
Then I saw Jason Fahmer's commodore 64 .
He was always the kid that had eveything first. Luckily, he was also my best friend at the time. I got one right after that. My mom said just about after they came out, which was 1982, so lets say 1983 when (e:mike) was born.
Many of my other friends had a tandy or an Apple II. I remember wanting an apple II GS, whatever the gs stood for.
I never got a modem because my dad was an insurance salesman and he couldn't have the business line tied up with me using the computer. I wonder what would have happend to me during the dot.com boom if I had had a modem before that. Luckily, the mail man [inlink]paul,2626[/inlink] would bring around programs and I quickly got my hands on GEOS, the first graphics operating system I had ever seen. The commodore 64 was truly a viable home computer for the time.
At school we played Oregon Trail ont eha Apple IIs (WIKIPEDIA - The_Oregon_Trail_%28computer_game%29)
I remember using logo (WIKIPEDIA - logo programming language) by third grade. PENDOWN FD 90 RT
We played some otehr game about mixing chemical on other planets to make compounds. Taht was fun too.
Nearly everyone I knew had a home computer. A lot of my good friends at the time. Jason Fahmer, Angela Vacanti, Kelly LeVan, Heather Killian , Chris Watson, Chris Parada. Seems like most of the people I hung out with in the early to mid 80s.
Then the macs came out in 1984. Those macs were pretty advanced machines that could do a lot of home computing tasks. Heather got one and so did Chris Watson. I remember distinctly that Heather always had some really cool computers.
I am sure everyone remembers the first computer based encyclopedia they saw. Mine was at Heather's house. Or maybe not because I lived in such an isoloted weird place like Kenmore.
I remember the crazy advertsiement with tthe woman running and smashing the computers or something . I wanted one so bad, but we didn't get one or an amiga.
(WIKIPEDIA - home computer)
I lifted this list from wikipedia.
* Apple II (June 1977, North America) (color graphics, eight expansion slots)
* Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 (August 1977, N. Am.) (first home computer for less than US$600)
* Commodore PET (December 1977, N. Am.) (first all-in-one computer: keyboard/screen/tape storage)
* Atari 400/800 (1979, N. Am.) (first computer with custom chip set)
* Commodore VIC-20 (1980, N. Am.) (under US$300; first computer in the world to pass the one million sold mark)
* TRS-80 Color Computer (1980, N. Am.) (Motorola 6809, OS-9 multi-user multi-tasking)
* Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (June 1981, N. Am.) (16-bit CPU)
* Sinclair ZX81 (1981, Europe) (£49.95 in kit form; £69.95 pre-built)
* BBC Micro (1981, Europe) (premier educational computer in the UK for a decade; advanced BASIC)
* ZX Spectrum (April 1982, Europe) (best-selling British home computer; "made" the UK software industry)
* Commodore 64 (August 1982, N. Am.) (best-selling computer model of all time: > 20 million sold)
* MSX (late 1983, Japan) (a computer 'reference design' by ASCII and Microsoft, manufactured by several companies)
* Apple Macintosh (1984, N. Am.) (first fully GUI-based home/personal computer; first 16/32-bit)
* Amstrad/Schneider CPC & PCW ranges (198?, Europe) (British std. prior to IBM PC; German sales next to C64)
* Atari ST (1985, N. Am.) (first with built-in MIDI interface; also 1MB RAM for less than US$1000)
* Commodore Amiga (July 1985, N. Am.) (custom chip set for graphics and sound; multitasking OS)
I think then there was a huge lapse before we got another computer when I was in my late high shcool years. That actaully worked out good for me because I was not at all into computers in high school. Liek I would use it sometimes to type a paper, but it was deifnately not my passtime. I was much more into doing outdoors stuff and exploring sex and drugs.
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