In response to Robins's journal. There is no myth or mystery. In Buffalo, there exists extreme racism to the point of almost absolute segregation. I rememeber when I moved to South Carolina for College, I thought it was weird that black and white people sat on separate sides of the cafeteria in 1995! Here up North it is no different. The neighborhoods are totally divided. So much so, that in my High School there was only one Black person.

I think the idea is that after the Civil Righst movement Southern Blacks moved up north and then started to work in the factories, which made the white immigrant offspring angry. So they divided the city in half and put each one on its own side. Sadly, they are by no means equal.

What's really insane to me is that Soyeon said she has never seen racisim before, she is from Korea, and suggested she wanted to travel to the South just to see what the phenomena is all about. I told her she didn't need to go so far.

Another Google News Quote - "The French National Assembly has overwhelmingly voted a ban on "visible" religious adornments in public schools."

I am sure this makes people really angry but I say, "more power to you secular government!" I would like to see an all out ban on religion in France, as a model of social evolution for the world!!! I would like to see Buffalo follow in the model.

I find this google news report to be really amusing in an ironic way. It must make all of those poor people in Buffalo eating six pounds a bacon/day with chicken wings for desert, feel really nervous. I know lots of people that follow to this diet here in Buffalo. I think the weight ocurrs because eating only protein requires more water in the digestion process and thus you lose water weight. However, I am not a nutritionist and could be totally wrong. It just sounds disgusting and dangerous. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we find out he was being financially supported by the meat and diary industry!



The following quote is from google news in a report about the circumstances around Dr. Atkins death.

"Dr Robert Atkins, creator of the famous low-carbohydrate diet, was clinically obese at the time of his death, according to medical reports made public today.

The examiner's report said that Dr Atkins had suffered a previous heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension, all conditions that are related to obesity."

I just received my first political popUp. I wonder if this is going to be the start of a new disturbing trend in popUp windows.



It makes me sad the way that people abuse popUp windows. Its starting to ruin the internet. I know you can block them, etc but I really wish people would just stop using them maliciously, instead of us having to cut out a feature of the web to protect ourselves. I escpecially feel bad for the dial-up user who's connection can easily be overwhelmed by a barage of popUps that call for new popUps.

PopUps such as that one are particularly malicious in that when you click on them it send information (possibily a great amount) to their parent site, in this case republic-info.com.

The address it takes you to is For those of you that don't understand what this is doing, it is sending you to their site but it is also sending information about what site the popUp add came from and the particular media is in the popUp window. It is probably also recording your IP addr, MAC addr, etc.

By the way the popUp add was "Paid for by the Republican National Committe Not Authorized By Any Candidate or Candidate Committee, 310 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003

I was experimenting with some loft surface hair styling on one of the old masks. I painted the hair texture using an impasto brush in Painter and then made a bump map in Fireworks using a 1 pixel pencil and several differing shades of grey. Anyone need a digital haircut?