So I finished up working on my instrument and went straight into coding some advertisement stuff for (e:twisted). Bascially I haven't left this clunky laptop for like 24 hours again. This is how I got "sick last tmie It's about time I got a feather light one tahat I could dance around with. One like these S series vaios Dept=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers




Those advertisements are just the fake demo ones I made. The advertising module has these rotating advertisments sorted by category, with click-thorugh statistics, views statistics, auto-scaling images, and pop up title data. It is pretty high tech, I have to say. It is so super easy to update advertisments and ad new ones with this super easy to use interface.

No fear, you will never see advertisments on elmwoodstrip.com. I would rather cut my arms off. Well, maybe you might see ads for local bands on the radio jorunal, if I ever get a disc jockey that is interested in maintaing that journal.

I kind of wish that stephanie would contact me so that I know what is up for tomorrow. I am totally ready to talk about the site but i don't even know what time. I guess I will just go over to UB at 12 and see what happens. Hpoefully, that isn't too late!!

I added a little photoresitor mini drum to my instrument. Photoresitors are so fun, now I finally understand why the sidekick backlight goes on in the dark.

It basically lights up leds and plays a random series of frequencie sif the potentiometer reading is zero. When the freq is divisable by 54 with no remainder it plays SOS, if you twist the potentiometer it leaves the programmed tune and plays your frequency and turn the red LED to solid and the green flickers with the pattern.





Now to build a circuit board for it.

I spe tthe night working on my eletcornics projects. I finally got my intrument to play a little song with the led lighting up along the way. I need more resistors and some other stuff tomorrow. I am also going to learn java so I can work a pik chip and program my cell-phone. It was actually pretty fun once I got to interface with the computer.

::DOWNLOAD SOUND::

If you play this while watching the animate dgif you get a petty good idea of how the whole night felt.

Driving home down main street today I saw this sign for the marines or the army. I had to get out and take a picture because I thought it was so totally stupid. I can't believe this is their slogan. I also can't believe that the poor people in the black neighborhood where it is located could fall for this ad. It says, "Pain is weakness leaving the body." I thinks its really ridiculous to have an ad like that. That statment is obviously not true. Especially in the context of the neighborhood, and the two hospitals, one being roswell park, that are only 5 minutes away.

Underneieth the sign was all this trash. I wonder why the army doesn't clean it up because it makes the ad look even more trashy.





While on Main Street I thought about how moving to Linwood changed my life so much. I might as well have moved out to the country as I never go to elmwood anymore and have no idea what is happening 2 blocks down. Is the coop built yet?