I seriously spent the whole day working on the site, accept the downtime this afternoon, when the globat server went down again. During that time I 3D modeled.

I added so many new things but I also reprogrammed a lot of old code to make it more efficient or easier to understand.

Finally the rss works again. (e:achel), you can now use "quotes" till your heart's content. I also posted a link to an rss feed reader for java based cell phones on the (e:info) journal.

I completed the mailing list stuff, thanks to serious beta testing on the part of (e:chris). I guess that way he got it exactly how he wanted it.

I finished writing the function to quickly check for ports and was thus able to better integrate the radio and flash chat/profiler.

I really had fun during my downtime break, 3D modeling the little radio and rendering it out for the radio box.

Here I am looking tired.



I also shuffled the boxes around a little bit to put the stuff we use most on top. I know there is more but I have forgotten and I need to go to sleep now.

Oh ya, (e:haikuster) will be in town tommorrow. She is my ex-girlfriend from my younger, less crooked years. It will be nice to visit with her.

I really need to get a job doing this. I spend all my time working on it with no real return accept that I enjoy helping other people meet and type journals. I think I am going to work it into my thesis too.

We went camping in the adirondacks at a nudist camp. Not many other people were naked but everybody was drunk for sure.

While at camp we stopped at walmart to pick up some stuff for a potluck dinner. I would normally never shop there but we had no other real options. I am sure that this is the plight of many places in small town America.

This walmart was not a regular walmart. It was the most intense super-mega walmart I have ever seen, complete with grocery store. However, it was not red, white, and blue like other walmarts, it was a green and yellow theme which made the whole shopping experience seem highly unpatriotic, hahaha.

Everything was beyond big size and ultra cheap, I can see the appeal for poorer americans with no options. Surprisingly, the quality of food, although surely all genetically engineered and sprayed with chemicals, seemed at par with any main stream grocery store. They even had the same main stream brands, as well as, products like tofu and get this meltable, shredded, vegan mozarella substitute. I would have killed for that ten years ago.

For example you could get a gallon of heinz ketchup for 1.66 or check out the giant mayonaisse containers below. Matt said we should have bought them as weights to work out with.



Too bad all of the price reduction comes at the expense of child labor and sweat shops in asia. Remember, 10% of China's exports go directly to Walmart. It's also at the expense of nearly every other store in the surrounding town shutting down.
While at the liquor store, the man in front of me bought a bottle of wine and a cork screw. When he got up to the cashier he asked how much the cork screw was. She said something like 3.50 and he said he'l just pick one up at the walmart then. I think that's how everything eventually shuts down around the walmart.

Not to mention the other super-sized product of walmart, the regular customers. It may be that some ofthem had medical disorders, blah blah but not as many as I saw. I think they themselves had simply become the product of Walmart's food deals like the by one get one gallon of mayonaise. I mean we no longer have to expend any energy in the hunt or farming of food production. So when you couple that with cheap prices and mega sized stuff, you get mega super fat assess, a la walmart style.

My favorite part of all, was that in the jewlery department they has a machine (see picture, if it works) where you could send messages to the troops. Unfortunately, the messages we pre-programmed and and you had like 60 choices. That is so fake.

I bet the troops really bothered reading the form letters with repetitive messages they receive in the end. Maybe they just get a pie chart, lol with 20% said good job, 30% said kill more children.
Oh wait, that one was not an option.

Check out this poster about joining the army. I found this propaganda at the local laundromat in Middleboro.



I like how it looks like an Abercrombie and Fitch ad or some ski resort ad. I mean they have style, attitude, smiles, snow, sun, sex appeal (check out how they highlight the guy on the right's package) but even more fun (and more phalic) they have giant machine guns. Is this an army ad or gay porn?

The most confusing part is that the campaign to get new recruits is called "army of one" but then the slogan at the top says "Being a Soldier Means Somebody's Always Got Your Back" and there are two of them in the picture.

You could even interpret the slogan in a homo-erotic way. I think it's funny. Someone must have intended that way or they had really bad censors.

We drove from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic Coast. It was a pretty fun weekend. We will post some pictures from camp when I get a chance to get my hands on a computer.

Nick and other Safari users. sorry about the random blog button covering over the drop down list. I didn't know before I left and might not get to a computer till the 12th. Try another browser for now. The best one is mozilla firefox. See my recent blog about firefox, or just type it into the search.

(e:mike) and (e:jill) seem to be having fun at the estrip headquarters. Thanks for taking care of it for us.



So, I am sitting in the laundromat and reading the local paper here. Somehow,the department of homeland security has convinced four little towns around here (Lakeville, Raynham, Taunton, and Fall River, MA" to allow a test for a new type of multilevel surveillance system.

It involves a huge amount of video cameras that record what's going on around town. It extends the network of video cameras already in stores and allows the police to have access to it.

What makes it more fucked up is the way they justify it. First they say the average American is captured on video tape an average of 200 times per day, so we shouldn't think this is new and/or intrusive. They also wrote that

"You might think that information on the local level wouldn't be that important, but tiny pieces of information shared between the small police departments of the local level can make a differnce", Mr. Pacheco said."

He explained that on the day the Twin Towers were struck, people watched as firefighters were going up into the towers and police officers were coming down out of the towers. The two departments could not communicate with one another because their radios operated at different frequencies." - Middleboro/Lakeville Gazette July 1, 2004

This is so disturbing. How can they really relate these two things. Invading the privacy of individuals in the name of police communication error reduction. This is spying and it conveniently started at the same time the Department of Defense is asking for an exemption from the Privacy Act, which outlaws secret databases on American's.

In the article, Representative James Fagan (Taunton, MA) commented that he "would rather have my own gun and sit in my yard than have the government watching everything I do." Where is it going to stop!

Furthermore, it is not secure and I can't even believe this poor country schmucks believe it is. I guarantee with the right software and a laptop anyone could hook-in.



(e:matthew) and (e:terry) peed here after the laundromat at the strip mall.