I am excited to see what happens with the western site after tomorrow when (e:twisted) has the demo party. I am also pretty excited about going snowshoeing, if I can get ahold of (e:zack) . I don't have your phonenumber!

Wow, what an ordeal it was to actually make the purchase of Maya 6.5. Seeing as the department was paying for it, I had them make the purchase order, but then there was the problem of it not being a personal copy, if the school was purchasing it. So then I had to cancel the order and purchase it myself, but because it was a personal copy, I had to prove I was a professor, which involved writing a letter and faxing my faculty ID. The whole process, with several phone calls and ended up taking about 2 hours and costing $370.00 which I will luckily get back sometime in the near future. I will be nice to have my own copy to plan classes with. I have to thank Carolyn for helping me so much.

For those of you 3D junkies out there - Alias just came out with Maya 6.5. Luckily, I am getting a license from work. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. Although there arn't any major tool upgrades, supposedly it is way faster.

These are some exmaple I made for my class. I kind of like the way they look, even if they are quite primitive. I may have poste dthe candles before, but I can't remember.

Tonight I got to present my latetest edition of the poetry toolkit and the results that I got using it for the site. If you haven't seen it click on the epoetry link in the search box.

All the words in the poems now link back to the site search engine. One of the arguments against hypertext in epoetry was that it didn't really offer the reader a deeper look into the text. In this case I have overcome that by having the actual words link to searches of the journals, so that you can follow each words back to its orginal context, as well as, explore more about the author of that phrase. Not only that but, because its local you could meet the author, or at least contact them through email or IM. What would you say, "I liked the poem you wrote." They wouldn't have any idea. It really brings more meaning to the phrase, "You're a poet and you didn't know it."

I am coining this reality e-poetry in case I already havent. Jesse is in the class too which is great. My code can't write poems about him because he deleted himself everytime he wrote. He is my idol anyways - especially s ince I learned that he has his breakfast delivered!