(e:terry), (e:lilho) and I went out to vote at 8:30PM. I got out of work then and she graduated! Now granted that is late but it was the only chance we got to schedule it together. When we got to the Lafayette High School they told (e:lilho) she couldn't vote there because she wasn't a resident of their district. She asked them for a paper ballot and they told her it wasn't allowed and that she would have to call the hotline to find out where to vote. If she was someone without a cell phone or car, she would have been denied her right to vote. The nice lady at the Larken house said the people at Lafayette were just too lazy. I think the woman in red is a fucking bitch. I remember her having an attitude at the presidential election too.

So after (e:terry) and I voted we had to ship her off to her voting station at the Larken house. It is so much crappier inside than I expected. Apparently, it is some sort of school now. Anyhow, they let her vote as the last person in Buffalo I think, but they told her that the Lafayette people should have just given her a paper ballot which she had asked for, it was her right. That makes me totally crazy.

Poor judy, all by herself way in the right bottom corner.


The light fixture was nice. It made a great light painting.






When we dropped (e:lilho) off I told a picture of the Nails sign under her apartment to make a light painting with, but the real thing was just as cool, so here it is.

[size=m]not myspace[/size]
Okay this may read as rant like because I am really annoyed right now. I went to myspace to read their privacy policy after reading (e:alison)'s myspace excitement [inlink]alison,99[/inlink] and "Robby" some random guy's profile located in the "cool new people" section crashed my browser in the middle of this entry. It hung for about 30 minutes after which I gave me control back. But not before I had completely re-written this text. I don't know if I hate the Mac or the myspace of both.

[size=m]elmwoodstrip.org[/size]
So now how is this related? Finally, I will have the funds, what the hell should I do with the site. Part of me is pro-expansion. The side of me that wants to add more features (mobile especially) and get a lot more Buffalonians in here talking about life in Buffalo, to try and work with other groups like Artvoice and Buffalo Rising, and to generally advertise and reach out to a larger audience. The other side of me that asks at what point does it become something anonymous like friendster, and myspace. Basically a tool that is used to get a date or to shop around the sex circuit. Does it happen at 500 or 1500 or 3000?

I was speaking to (e:shawnr) the other day and he helped me realize that the reason I am uninterested in those communities is because of the fact that they are all centered around hooking up and I am already taken -twice over. He has the same issue as he is married. Like how many people do you know that are dating seriously but are really into craig's list friends, myspace or friendster. It just loses it's draw.

Not to mention that it drives me crazy that all of those type of communities are like a front end for data mining and selling that data to marketers. How does everyone forget that. I mean it isn't like I am selling people's personal data to marketers and I am not looking for a date, so there is no advantage to the creation of that type of community.

Won't it be weird when we start having MyBabies (coined by Paul Visco 11/2005), children born out of a myspace hookups. The implications of all of this online social networking is overwhelming. Maybe I am just bitter because I lost my best online friend to craig's list and myspace. I can't wait until she gets a partner and settles down.

I guess I am just afraid (e:strip) will turn into the online old pink and that was never my intention. So where was I going with this. What should I do with the site? What is (e:strip) v4? Maybe it will just stay like this forever.

[size=m]Voting for Judy[/size]
I am going to vote for Judy tonight. As always I am going to vote for who I believe in rather than against the person I want least. I remember when I was a kid that my parents would never tell me who they voted for. Somehow that confused me and lead me to become a staunch republican as a child. I had no idea what it meant. I just liked the elephant tie clip someone got me and I was mesmerized by Ronald Reagan. As an adult, I know my parents were/are not republicans.

I was checking out an Indian site refering to the release of the new Microsoft Products today when I saw this advertisement.

I spent the day as a Taxi for (e:lilho) and and (e:terry). It gave me an excuse to spend the day borders surfing through math and computer books. I ended up spending another $90 on computer books. Some more javascript - I think I may know it all now, a ruby on rails book, and a trigonometry book just for fun.

I felt like sucj an idiot in the math section because before I found the remedial books I was in the math theory section and I could not understand anything. Math is my weak point. Not because I am not capable but because I never tried.

I drove a lot, the clouds were beautiful














(e:lilho) goes to school


(e:terry) gets his dinner


Today's Light paintings