The Discovery crew have reported seeing widespread environmental destruction on Earth.

They warned that greater care was needed to protect natural resources.Quoted from: No second repair job for Discovery

I also found a preying mantis on elmwood and bidwell, who would thing it's a jungle out there.




Out at Roxy's for Karoki I met these people who have livejournal's but also know about Buffalo Taxi. Apparently some service that picks people up in rickshaws and takes them around town. Matt Mendo is coolest son of bitch, he is going to join the site. UPDATE: Matt Mendo is a loser and he is ugly. lol. I guess I will say anything to get people to start a journal.

I don't think anyone has inlinked gohelp:inlinks since the advent of comments and it is quite sad. It is amazing how many things get unused and how fast things change. Has anyone used their epad ever?

I knew that this would happen when we added comments after years of avoiding them. On one hand, the comments allow people to receive the direct public gratification that someone is in fact reading what they write, which encourages publication but on the other hand the information doesn't necessarily flow between journals as much as before. Imagine if the entire (e:soyeon) art controversy had played out as comments. Maybe it would have never made it into such a big deal! Maybe (e:soyeon) would be here today!

Just to bring inlinks back to life, I will add one here [inlink]paul,731[/inlink]. Wow I can't believe how wrong I was asking for 80 degree weather, now I want the 40 degree weather!

After I saw (e:joshua)'s to buffaloflickr I wrote to Buffaloflickr to see if they would be interested in moving their blog over to elmwoodstrip.org. I think that our site missions are very similar and it would be great to have someone collecting image sof buffalo on the site. I figure we could move their archives over.

I sent them this email:

Hey,
I saw your buffaloflickr blog online and wanted to see if you would be interested in hosting it at elmwoodstrip.org instead of blogger, as our missions of talking about and showing buffalo are very similar. I don't know if you have seen elmwoodstrip.org, but we are a free buffalo based blogging community that has been around for about 3 years now.

We could easily port your previous content to elmwoodstrip.org.

Here is a quote from their mission statement, seems like a good fit.

I'll be trolling Flickr.com on daily basis looking for pics - people, places and things - tagged with something to do with Buffalo, NY. Got something you think I should know about, it's a blog so you know what to do.

The idea of course is to gather a growing collection of pics and images that represent something about who we are and what we think is important. Feel free to comment below on any of the pics if you think something needs a heads-up, a little clarification or just a few thoughts of your own.

Flickr.com is free and so easy to use. Occasionally, I'll share a post about how other people in far off places and close to home are using Flickr.com to share, connect and build bridges of understanding between people all over the world. Amazing stuff, really.Quoted from: Buffalo Flickr: About This Blog

So after turning down teaching Realspace Electronics at UB and 3D Modeling at Medaille , today I turned down teaching a course on Digital Culture because it just wouldn't fit in my schedule and it was way to demanding of material to start preparing for only a couple weeks before the semester began. I think teaching isn't really a good deal, especially when I have to pay $706/month in student loans. The course subject actually appeals to me but not so much in the format it is presented, as it is a lecture course. I can do it this year, but I really need a better solution fo rthe future. One that at least includes health insurance before I turn 30.

In this case, it's also about the commute. Once again I need to commute back and forth from UB North to Canisius and I refuse to do it more than one time per day, especially in the winter semester. It is such hell in the winter, waiting for that bus after the subway or worse yet waiting for the bus at UB to take me back to the subway to Canisius to teach. I can never rely on it being on time!

After weighing it out, teaching this class was really not profitable for me as my salary and contract wasn't even going to change much, they offered me 10 hours in the lab instead of 12 per week, yet I would pick up a demanding lecture course of 25 students, the month before school starts. Maybe I will teach it some day in the future. There is always next year.

PS. If someone were to offer me a position teaching more web deisgn, programming, data management, web interactivity type of a class, I would definately say yes.