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Thanks to a friend of mine, I can add this link to my page. He has said that it is a good techno site. I checked it out briefly and I liked what I saw. It is a good starting point. I don't suggest basing your life on trying to learn this stuff by heart, there's just too much of it. Just surf on All @bout Techno and enjoy what you can.
And they keep saying that techno is dead... I just don't understand these people,
they must be on drugs...
- Christopher J. Bradley March 31, 1998 11:58 PM
As you will notice. I have made some long overdue adjustments to the page. These adjustments will provide for future growth and expansion of the page. They are minor ones, but as you look through the page you will most likely notice them.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any concerns regarding the adjustments.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 28, 1998, 2:53 PM
I have to apologize. The file which is listed below titled APEX will not download properly from Geocities. They have some type of time limit on File Transfers. I am working to correct the problem but it could take a couple of weeks to sort it out. I am going to write an e-mail to the administrators at Geocities to see if we can figure out whether or not the problem is fixable.
Please do not waste your time downloading only part of the file. I will do my best to let you know when it is finished.
Next, check this out. I talked to my uncle via the America On-Line instant messenger and he told me about this page called Gamecenter.
It looks like a cool place to check out if you really want to get the scoop on all of the latest video games for both the PC and the playstation. Take a look if you like.
Who ever said Operation Desert Storm was over? This picture came from Dune 2000.
- Chris Bradley - March 26, 1998 11:54 PM
Strangely enough, things do not end where they end. Today an even stranger twist of reality than I ever would have expected occurred. Geocities offered every subscribing homesteader 6 megs of space. ABSOLUTELY FREE SPACE. So I uploaded my MP3 file to my Geocities account and it can now be accessed at:
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/2830/APEX.mp3
This means that you can now download my music from the web for free and check it out. All you have to do is click on the above file (4.2 Megs). The song is titled APEX. I wrote it in 1993. If you are running Win95 it should just ask you if you want to download it to your hard drive. Next you should download the WinAmp player (1.5 Megs) from the following site:
http://www.nullsoft.com/amp/
Actually, if you have problems with software, etc. You might want to download the player first. The player is smaller and takes up less disk space. Then, if you think you can get the player to operate without errors, (you won't be able to play anything until you actually have an MP3 file), you should download the APEX file.
Many thanks to Shortwave for getting me inspired to do this tonight.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 26, 1998, 1:08 AM
My friend Mikus sent me this message in e-mail today: Check it out, he says there's a movie called Niagara Niagara based in Niagara Falls that is going to be released soon.
Sarge,
did you know there is a movie based in
Niagara Falls that's out? I don't know if it's out around here yet, but
I found out about it on the internet...I think you'll get a real kick
out of the review...it sounds like a realistic portrayal of life
here...check it out at-
http://www.tvgen.com/movies/mopic/pictures/40/40164.htm
Drop him a line at:
- Mikus March 25, 9:55 PM
I just got an e-mail from a cool electronic musician named Shortwave. Apparently she is writing stuff in MP3 format too. I look forward to checking out a copy of her stuff. I am going to see what I can find right now. Her web page is located at:
http://www.shortwave.net
The world is getting smaller and smaller, my fellow humans.
Trust me on this one.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 25, 9:55 PM
Public Enemy's new album comes out Next Month!
Here's a picture I hijacked from a legit news source and converted to black and white. Say hello to Flavor Flav the man.
You can't keep him down cause he's mad, cause he's the enemy.
The new album is titled Resurection and it's release date is this week. April 28th.
I am taking a look on the different television listings available on the web now and it looks like there are quite a few. Here's a listing for VH1:
http://www.vh1.com/insidevh1/schedule/
There are also other listings. I have also found one for HBO and Cinnemax in the past located at:
http://www.hbo.com/bin/supersched.cgi
And here's one for TV Guide on-line:
http://www.tvgen.com/tv/listings/
Have fun surfing.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 25, 1998, 3:35 AM
I am currently embarking on a project that I should complete by about 3am tonight. It is fortunate that I will be able to complete it given the complexity of it. I have to write a summary of a literary journal entry from a journal called American Literature titled Vanishing Americans, Gender, Empire, and New Historicism. The article makes very little sense to me, as I am not famillar with Gender issues as she brings them up, and I am also not familliar with New Historicism, whatever that is. I have read the 20 page article twice, and I have still only been able to mark off small points as understandable after having referred to my dictionary about 100 times.
With that project underway, let's get aboriginal. I have a couple of interesting things to share with you.
First, the Chips and Salsa party on Friday was cool, there were 6 people (beside myself) in attendance.
We had one shirker who claimed that she might be there but then cancelled.
We had fun, we watched "Shaft" and "In The Name of The Father." Shaft was free, courtesy the Niagara Falls Public Library.
Don't forget about the BIG Chips and Salsa party that you should be getting electronic mail about. The Big Chips and Salsa party should be radical. There are about 12 people already planning to show up.
Second, there is a new Western New York E-Mail magazine that I will be e-mailing you. It is supposed to contain a review of my website this week. I have only been receiving a copy of the magazine for a couple of weeks. I sent them a note saying, why don't you review this website, and they said expect it next week, so I'll send it out to you if I get it.
Finally, as soon as I am done here, I will have the updates to Black Operations done for you for this week. I hope you enjoy them. I also have a new poem to post about Corn that I have started. That will appear on the poetry page.
Have a safe week, month, and year, and keep "gettin' jiggy wit' it."
- Chris Bradley March 22, 1998 5:04 PM
(They never told you I was a Will Smith fan did they? Someday we'll watch Independence Day)
One of my new friends at my school asked me to give her a copy of my paper about Jonathan Edwards. Rather than work with giving her a copy of a paper and having to worry about making copies for more than one person at a later date, I have decided to post it on the Web. The title of the paper is "A Response to Sinners in The Hands of An Angry God." You can get to it by clicking here. Hopefully you will enjoy the paper if you look at it, and will have an opportunity to write some of your own about historically important Americans.
Take into account if you are considering copying this paper that it is only a B- paper, so if you are into mediocrity and the possibility of getting nailed for plaigiarism, go for it, I really don't care. If you can figure out how to copy it, you deserve what you get. Remember this though, you can't get Freedom for Free. I think Rush stated this best on an album called 2112.
You'll have to excuse me for being overly concerned about copying. I have been aquainted with quite a few distastefully dishonest people in my time. I am hoping that in the future I will have to deal with fewer of them.
Today I did some interesting things. I made it to my doctors appointment, all of my classes, and I did some research on a paper for my end of term philosophy paper at University at Buffalo. Things have changed a lot since I was last there. They have gone from old fashioned dumb terminals for the Bison system, to fully Web Browser capable Sparcstations in the libraries.
So you can look up all kinds of books using their indexes and research things. You can also do this from your home if you want to. I think that in the future, due to the large amount of demand for these terminals (people appeared to absolutely need to do their Computer Science homework on them, and look up pictures of Busta Rhymes) that I will definitely do my research ay home.
Their terminals were also kind of dumb in the sense that you couldn't easily cut or paste anything into a document, so in order to make a list of books and call numbers you had to take the data and waste 2 sheets of paper to print it out. Here at home I will be able to tailor my research data and only print what I need to.
PRESIDENT BLASTS GOP BUDGET FOR IGNORING EDUCATION
Yesterday, President Clinton criticized the Senate Republicans' budget plan,
saying that it undermines the nation's commitment to education and
"shortchanges our nation's future." The GOP budget does not include most
of the new spending and tax relief initiatives for education, child care,
and health care included in the President's budget plan. "There are some
troubling signals coming out of Washington that the Republican commitment
may not embody [a] commitment to education and our future .... From Head
Start for young children to Pell Grants, from job training for older
workers, our commitment to education is under fire," said the President.
[Washington Post, 3/19/98]
It's about time someone said something about education isn't it? I wouldn't be able to be here with you now if it weren't for the educational system in this country. They say Japan is winning, I argue that Americans still have the upper hand as far as ingenuity is concerned. Introduce me to a person in any other country that has the ability to dynamically develop and aquire talents like we do here. I would like to meet him.
We are only able to maintain our levels of flexibility and ingenuity because of our educational system, and people that are looking to take away from education may as well be shooting themselves in the foot. What are they afraid of? Creating a nation of children that are smarter than they are? That will always be the case, because knowlege is inherited. Get ready mom and dad, we're getting ready to put dinner on the table. And you might not like our menu!
-Christopher J. Bradley March 20, 1998, 12:04 AM
I think that you will find it interesting to know that I am now officially 100% telepresent. This is largely due to one of my friend's consumer awareness. He called me tonight and asked me to go with him to CompUSA to get photos taken using the new Sony Mavica camera, so that we could both get ourselves officially up and running on the web. Because I perceive my art to be more interesting than my own picture, in terms of what the world will have access to, I have decided to put my picture on my Autobiography page at the top. So, if you are interested in seeing a current picture of me, click on the Autobiography link, or click here.
And there you have it, Chris Bradley is a name you can put a face to.
- Chris Bradley March 19, 1998, 12:05 AM
Those of you who check this page with regularity will have noticed a definite change. I have obtained some new artwork for the opening page. The artwork is a digital Sony Mavica rendering of a collage that I made in late November of 1996. The image was taken at Office Max by a sales associate named Kurt. I have just recently also made color photocopies of this piece of work and the original has been laminated for future framing and display. The Sony Mavica is an impressive camera, and I would recommend that everyone have one. There are so many things in life to document, it seems almost a crime not to own this amazing tool at only $699.00.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 15, 1998 3:12 PM
Here is an interesting Link. It is to one of my instructor's (advisor's) newly established web pages. I have moved it to my own webspace for the sake of making it easy to access next year. It was only 11k.
Brian Oliver
Thank you for taking the time to take a look at one of my pet projects.
I am going to work to set this advisor of mine up with his own Geocities account.
Talk to you soon.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 15, 1998, 8:24 AM
PS: The Chips and Salsa party this past week went great, and we are on again for next week, with hopefully, an even more extended array of characters.
"We do not need science and philosophy to know what we should do to be honest and good, yea, even wise and virtuous."
- Immanuel Kant
I have just started reading about a philosopher that apparently my brother, my American Lit. instructor, and my philosophy instructor are all familliar with. Immanuel Kant was his name. He was from a part of the world that we consider to be the former Soviet Union now.
There are quite a few details about him in my philosophy text. Finding these details has helped me to get a start on what looks like a very large project. My American Lit. instructor suggested I try to do a paper linking Immanuel Kant and American Romanticism.
I think that this paper will be outside the scope of the course that I am taking in that American Romanticism in itself is a huge topic to discuss. So, what I am going to do I think, is turn him down on the paper and look for something else to work on. Something that has a more refined scope, something that might link one of the writers that we read in the class directly to him or something.
I had this thought the other day, that William Gibson might be able to be considered a "Romantic" author, because of some of the character types he creates. The Romantics created a lifestyle called the Bohemian lifestyle in their work, they also created character type for a Historian, and a character type called the Dandy. These characters do appear in a couple of his books.
I am going to have to spend the weekend working on Chemistry Labs. I might get out to go to a bookstore and look at some books with some friends, and maybe pick up a padlock at the store. While these things aren't exciting to most, they might be to some.
I remember the days of Warehouses and Rave Chicks and Chemicals and Beer and Night Clubs and Virtual Reality. And these days all seemed so different than those that I live in today. But I am constantly reminded of them in that I see college students all around me as I walk down the halls of a complex devoted to teaching. I am one of them, but somehow I am not. I have a different set of goals in mind.
My interests are in making my life work in a manner that is appropriate to the conditions necessary to keep in touch with the people that have brought me to my current levels of understanding about the nature of things, especially those understandings that lead to the light (Plato).
Once I begin to understand where the stars are (some would just say, look up, they are in the sky), then I can begin to try to understand other even more complex subjects, like Love.
Love in the form that goes back to Ancient Greece with Empedocles definition as a unifying force that brings things together with one another, is rather complex. I would like to begin to understand some of the other facets of the word.
I would also like to understand some of the other positive forms of living. I would like to understand how to go about the business of finding a suitable job (in the long term future), that will help me to be able to take care of myself and my parents as my parents get older.
I would not be telling you anything true at all if I did not tell you that there is always much more that I can tell you than I have told you here. You can always ask, and I can always try to answer.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 13, 1998, 5:30 AM
Tonight we had 5 people at the Chips and Salsa party. It was considerably tamer than last week. I hope that next week will be a little busier, for the feel of things, but if it is not, I will not have lost anything. I am enjoying being able to get any friends at all together for some good positive discussion.
We had Oreos, Cheesedip, Salsa, Chips, PEPSI, and Tootsie Rolls at this most recent event. In the future, I am trying to convince people to organically construct a more lively menu.
We also watched a strange motion picture that one of us aquired from a store called Mondo Video in Buffalo. I would like to have had the opportunity to watch the film several times for a more careful analysis of the actual ideas represented, However, I do need to focus on my primary concerns, which are the eventual completions of my assigned readings and Chemistry Labs this weekend.
I received the following article in the Democratic News. This is a good move as far as I am concerned. It means that people will have to think a little bit more before they act. While many people are opposed to having their freedoms checked, I think that careful reading of any Economic text will reveal that a move like this will save a SIGNIFIGANT number of lives. If even one more person survives as a result of this legislation, the maneuver to get it into enforcement has been worthwhile.
PRESIDENT SUPPORTS SAFE AND SOBER STREETS LEGISLATION
President Clinton called on Congress to pass Safe and Sober Streets
legislation as soon as possible; the legislation would set uniform blood
alcohol limits to .08 percent and deny federal highway funds to states that
refused to enact this limit. The President also signed an executive order
asking the Secretary of Transportation to develop a plan to lower the limit
to .08 percent on all federal property, including national parks and
military bases. "Our nation will not tolerate irresponsible acts which
endanger the lives of our children. Lowering the limit will make
responsible Americans take even greater care when they drink alcohol in any
amounts if they intend to drive," the President said. 15 states have
already adopted the .08 percent limit, and many states have similar
legislation pending. [Washington Post, 3/4/98]
I hope that you all have a safe March, and continue to enjoy the year, our next major holiday is St. Patrick's Day, and I hope that we will be able to acknowlege this holiday in style. Don't forget to send those requests for "Imagine" out to your favorite radio stations. I will be.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 7, 1998 4:50 AM
There is an interesting thing happening. I am starting to find that life is too dynamic to fully document, even with the most advanced cameras and tools for communication. So what we have to do to go about getting through it, is develop our own forms of constancy. I hope that you all are having a good 1998 and I hope that you will make time for yourselves to enjoy the things that are happening.
Monday night I got 4 free bottles of Starbuck's Frappachino by buying 2 hot dogs at school. This deal was incredible. I recommend anyone get involved in finding stuff that comes for free. I was going to eat something anyway.
Today I saw Helen Thomas and got a chance to talk with her very briefly at NCCC during a meeting. She is a famous Journalist, that is currently involved with United Press International and works in some capacities with the people in the White House. (I learned some of this from a friend) I thought that it would be very interesting to see what she would say about an article that appeared in the Wall St. Journal yesterday, but she didn't say much about it.
However, she did say that there is a possibility that if I have learned my lessons about money, that I might become a gazillionaire someday. Who knows? You never can tell. Money is a strange thing. One day you have it, and the next day you don't. And the next day, you might just have it again, but then you have to give it away or somebody gets angry that you have too much. There are all kinds of issues related to money that I think people need to discuss in the open, so that they don't keep their deep dark secrets about it to themselves.
I watched Air Force One on videocassette with my Father this morning. He has decided to take some time off of work to relax after a minor injury on the job. I think it is one of the best decisions that he has made in a long time. Everybody needs rest and relaxation sometime. He works very hard.
That's about all that I can manage to boil down for you for now.
We are learning how not to be overly sophisticated right now in one of my classes. This concept might not work for everyone. But it will work for some. If you don't understand what I am talking about, read my first Philosophy paper when I put it on line. It should be an interesting one.
-Christopher J. Bradley March 4, 1998, 3:07 AM
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Thanks to a friend of mine, I can add this link to my page. He has said that it is a good techno site. I checked it out briefly and I liked what I saw. It is a good starting point. I don't suggest basing your life on trying to learn this stuff by heart, there's just too much of it. Just surf on All @bout Techno and enjoy what you can.
And they keep saying that techno is dead... I just don't understand these people,
they must be on drugs...
- Christopher J. Bradley March 31, 1998 11:58 PM
As you will notice. I have made some long overdue adjustments to the page. These adjustments will provide for future growth and expansion of the page. They are minor ones, but as you look through the page you will most likely notice them.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any concerns regarding the adjustments.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 28, 1998, 2:53 PM
I have to apologize. The file which is listed below titled APEX will not download properly from Geocities. They have some type of time limit on File Transfers. I am working to correct the problem but it could take a couple of weeks to sort it out. I am going to write an e-mail to the administrators at Geocities to see if we can figure out whether or not the problem is fixable.
Please do not waste your time downloading only part of the file. I will do my best to let you know when it is finished.
Next, check this out. I talked to my uncle via the America On-Line instant messenger and he told me about this page called Gamecenter.
It looks like a cool place to check out if you really want to get the scoop on all of the latest video games for both the PC and the playstation. Take a look if you like.
Who ever said Operation Desert Storm was over? This picture came from Dune 2000.
- Chris Bradley - March 26, 1998 11:54 PM
Strangely enough, things do not end where they end. Today an even stranger twist of reality than I ever would have expected occurred. Geocities offered every subscribing homesteader 6 megs of space. ABSOLUTELY FREE SPACE. So I uploaded my MP3 file to my Geocities account and it can now be accessed at:
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/2830/APEX.mp3
This means that you can now download my music from the web for free and check it out. All you have to do is click on the above file (4.2 Megs). The song is titled APEX. I wrote it in 1993. If you are running Win95 it should just ask you if you want to download it to your hard drive. Next you should download the WinAmp player (1.5 Megs) from the following site:
http://www.nullsoft.com/amp/
Actually, if you have problems with software, etc. You might want to download the player first. The player is smaller and takes up less disk space. Then, if you think you can get the player to operate without errors, (you won't be able to play anything until you actually have an MP3 file), you should download the APEX file.
Many thanks to Shortwave for getting me inspired to do this tonight.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 26, 1998, 1:08 AM
My friend Mikus sent me this message in e-mail today: Check it out, he says there's a movie called Niagara Niagara based in Niagara Falls that is going to be released soon.
Sarge,
did you know there is a movie based in
Niagara Falls that's out? I don't know if it's out around here yet, but
I found out about it on the internet...I think you'll get a real kick
out of the review...it sounds like a realistic portrayal of life
here...check it out at-
http://www.tvgen.com/movies/mopic/pictures/40/40164.htm
Drop him a line at:
- Mikus March 25, 9:55 PM
I just got an e-mail from a cool electronic musician named Shortwave. Apparently she is writing stuff in MP3 format too. I look forward to checking out a copy of her stuff. I am going to see what I can find right now. Her web page is located at:
http://www.shortwave.net
The world is getting smaller and smaller, my fellow humans.
Trust me on this one.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 25, 9:55 PM
Public Enemy's new album comes out Next Month!
Here's a picture I hijacked from a legit news source and converted to black and white. Say hello to Flavor Flav the man.
You can't keep him down cause he's mad, cause he's the enemy.
The new album is titled Resurection and it's release date is this week. April 28th.
I am taking a look on the different television listings available on the web now and it looks like there are quite a few. Here's a listing for VH1:
http://www.vh1.com/insidevh1/schedule/
There are also other listings. I have also found one for HBO and Cinnemax in the past located at:
http://www.hbo.com/bin/supersched.cgi
And here's one for TV Guide on-line:
http://www.tvgen.com/tv/listings/
Have fun surfing.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 25, 1998, 3:35 AM
I am currently embarking on a project that I should complete by about 3am tonight. It is fortunate that I will be able to complete it given the complexity of it. I have to write a summary of a literary journal entry from a journal called American Literature titled Vanishing Americans, Gender, Empire, and New Historicism. The article makes very little sense to me, as I am not famillar with Gender issues as she brings them up, and I am also not familliar with New Historicism, whatever that is. I have read the 20 page article twice, and I have still only been able to mark off small points as understandable after having referred to my dictionary about 100 times.
With that project underway, let's get aboriginal. I have a couple of interesting things to share with you.
First, the Chips and Salsa party on Friday was cool, there were 6 people (beside myself) in attendance.
We had one shirker who claimed that she might be there but then cancelled.
We had fun, we watched "Shaft" and "In The Name of The Father." Shaft was free, courtesy the Niagara Falls Public Library.
Don't forget about the BIG Chips and Salsa party that you should be getting electronic mail about. The Big Chips and Salsa party should be radical. There are about 12 people already planning to show up.
Second, there is a new Western New York E-Mail magazine that I will be e-mailing you. It is supposed to contain a review of my website this week. I have only been receiving a copy of the magazine for a couple of weeks. I sent them a note saying, why don't you review this website, and they said expect it next week, so I'll send it out to you if I get it.
Finally, as soon as I am done here, I will have the updates to Black Operations done for you for this week. I hope you enjoy them. I also have a new poem to post about Corn that I have started. That will appear on the poetry page.
Have a safe week, month, and year, and keep "gettin' jiggy wit' it."
- Chris Bradley March 22, 1998 5:04 PM
(They never told you I was a Will Smith fan did they? Someday we'll watch Independence Day)
One of my new friends at my school asked me to give her a copy of my paper about Jonathan Edwards. Rather than work with giving her a copy of a paper and having to worry about making copies for more than one person at a later date, I have decided to post it on the Web. The title of the paper is "A Response to Sinners in The Hands of An Angry God." You can get to it by clicking here. Hopefully you will enjoy the paper if you look at it, and will have an opportunity to write some of your own about historically important Americans.
Take into account if you are considering copying this paper that it is only a B- paper, so if you are into mediocrity and the possibility of getting nailed for plaigiarism, go for it, I really don't care. If you can figure out how to copy it, you deserve what you get. Remember this though, you can't get Freedom for Free. I think Rush stated this best on an album called 2112.
You'll have to excuse me for being overly concerned about copying. I have been aquainted with quite a few distastefully dishonest people in my time. I am hoping that in the future I will have to deal with fewer of them.
Today I did some interesting things. I made it to my doctors appointment, all of my classes, and I did some research on a paper for my end of term philosophy paper at University at Buffalo. Things have changed a lot since I was last there. They have gone from old fashioned dumb terminals for the Bison system, to fully Web Browser capable Sparcstations in the libraries.
So you can look up all kinds of books using their indexes and research things. You can also do this from your home if you want to. I think that in the future, due to the large amount of demand for these terminals (people appeared to absolutely need to do their Computer Science homework on them, and look up pictures of Busta Rhymes) that I will definitely do my research ay home.
Their terminals were also kind of dumb in the sense that you couldn't easily cut or paste anything into a document, so in order to make a list of books and call numbers you had to take the data and waste 2 sheets of paper to print it out. Here at home I will be able to tailor my research data and only print what I need to.
PRESIDENT BLASTS GOP BUDGET FOR IGNORING EDUCATION
Yesterday, President Clinton criticized the Senate Republicans' budget plan,
saying that it undermines the nation's commitment to education and
"shortchanges our nation's future." The GOP budget does not include most
of the new spending and tax relief initiatives for education, child care,
and health care included in the President's budget plan. "There are some
troubling signals coming out of Washington that the Republican commitment
may not embody [a] commitment to education and our future .... From Head
Start for young children to Pell Grants, from job training for older
workers, our commitment to education is under fire," said the President.
[Washington Post, 3/19/98]
It's about time someone said something about education isn't it? I wouldn't be able to be here with you now if it weren't for the educational system in this country. They say Japan is winning, I argue that Americans still have the upper hand as far as ingenuity is concerned. Introduce me to a person in any other country that has the ability to dynamically develop and aquire talents like we do here. I would like to meet him.
We are only able to maintain our levels of flexibility and ingenuity because of our educational system, and people that are looking to take away from education may as well be shooting themselves in the foot. What are they afraid of? Creating a nation of children that are smarter than they are? That will always be the case, because knowlege is inherited. Get ready mom and dad, we're getting ready to put dinner on the table. And you might not like our menu!
-Christopher J. Bradley March 20, 1998, 12:04 AM
I think that you will find it interesting to know that I am now officially 100% telepresent. This is largely due to one of my friend's consumer awareness. He called me tonight and asked me to go with him to CompUSA to get photos taken using the new Sony Mavica camera, so that we could both get ourselves officially up and running on the web. Because I perceive my art to be more interesting than my own picture, in terms of what the world will have access to, I have decided to put my picture on my Autobiography page at the top. So, if you are interested in seeing a current picture of me, click on the Autobiography link, or click here.
And there you have it, Chris Bradley is a name you can put a face to.
- Chris Bradley March 19, 1998, 12:05 AM
Those of you who check this page with regularity will have noticed a definite change. I have obtained some new artwork for the opening page. The artwork is a digital Sony Mavica rendering of a collage that I made in late November of 1996. The image was taken at Office Max by a sales associate named Kurt. I have just recently also made color photocopies of this piece of work and the original has been laminated for future framing and display. The Sony Mavica is an impressive camera, and I would recommend that everyone have one. There are so many things in life to document, it seems almost a crime not to own this amazing tool at only $699.00.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 15, 1998 3:12 PM
Here is an interesting Link. It is to one of my instructor's (advisor's) newly established web pages. I have moved it to my own webspace for the sake of making it easy to access next year. It was only 11k.
Brian Oliver
Thank you for taking the time to take a look at one of my pet projects.
I am going to work to set this advisor of mine up with his own Geocities account.
Talk to you soon.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 15, 1998, 8:24 AM
PS: The Chips and Salsa party this past week went great, and we are on again for next week, with hopefully, an even more extended array of characters.
"We do not need science and philosophy to know what we should do to be honest and good, yea, even wise and virtuous."
- Immanuel Kant
I have just started reading about a philosopher that apparently my brother, my American Lit. instructor, and my philosophy instructor are all familliar with. Immanuel Kant was his name. He was from a part of the world that we consider to be the former Soviet Union now.
There are quite a few details about him in my philosophy text. Finding these details has helped me to get a start on what looks like a very large project. My American Lit. instructor suggested I try to do a paper linking Immanuel Kant and American Romanticism.
I think that this paper will be outside the scope of the course that I am taking in that American Romanticism in itself is a huge topic to discuss. So, what I am going to do I think, is turn him down on the paper and look for something else to work on. Something that has a more refined scope, something that might link one of the writers that we read in the class directly to him or something.
I had this thought the other day, that William Gibson might be able to be considered a "Romantic" author, because of some of the character types he creates. The Romantics created a lifestyle called the Bohemian lifestyle in their work, they also created character type for a Historian, and a character type called the Dandy. These characters do appear in a couple of his books.
I am going to have to spend the weekend working on Chemistry Labs. I might get out to go to a bookstore and look at some books with some friends, and maybe pick up a padlock at the store. While these things aren't exciting to most, they might be to some.
I remember the days of Warehouses and Rave Chicks and Chemicals and Beer and Night Clubs and Virtual Reality. And these days all seemed so different than those that I live in today. But I am constantly reminded of them in that I see college students all around me as I walk down the halls of a complex devoted to teaching. I am one of them, but somehow I am not. I have a different set of goals in mind.
My interests are in making my life work in a manner that is appropriate to the conditions necessary to keep in touch with the people that have brought me to my current levels of understanding about the nature of things, especially those understandings that lead to the light (Plato).
Once I begin to understand where the stars are (some would just say, look up, they are in the sky), then I can begin to try to understand other even more complex subjects, like Love.
Love in the form that goes back to Ancient Greece with Empedocles definition as a unifying force that brings things together with one another, is rather complex. I would like to begin to understand some of the other facets of the word.
I would also like to understand some of the other positive forms of living. I would like to understand how to go about the business of finding a suitable job (in the long term future), that will help me to be able to take care of myself and my parents as my parents get older.
I would not be telling you anything true at all if I did not tell you that there is always much more that I can tell you than I have told you here. You can always ask, and I can always try to answer.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 13, 1998, 5:30 AM
Tonight we had 5 people at the Chips and Salsa party. It was considerably tamer than last week. I hope that next week will be a little busier, for the feel of things, but if it is not, I will not have lost anything. I am enjoying being able to get any friends at all together for some good positive discussion.
We had Oreos, Cheesedip, Salsa, Chips, PEPSI, and Tootsie Rolls at this most recent event. In the future, I am trying to convince people to organically construct a more lively menu.
We also watched a strange motion picture that one of us aquired from a store called Mondo Video in Buffalo. I would like to have had the opportunity to watch the film several times for a more careful analysis of the actual ideas represented, However, I do need to focus on my primary concerns, which are the eventual completions of my assigned readings and Chemistry Labs this weekend.
I received the following article in the Democratic News. This is a good move as far as I am concerned. It means that people will have to think a little bit more before they act. While many people are opposed to having their freedoms checked, I think that careful reading of any Economic text will reveal that a move like this will save a SIGNIFIGANT number of lives. If even one more person survives as a result of this legislation, the maneuver to get it into enforcement has been worthwhile.
PRESIDENT SUPPORTS SAFE AND SOBER STREETS LEGISLATION
President Clinton called on Congress to pass Safe and Sober Streets
legislation as soon as possible; the legislation would set uniform blood
alcohol limits to .08 percent and deny federal highway funds to states that
refused to enact this limit. The President also signed an executive order
asking the Secretary of Transportation to develop a plan to lower the limit
to .08 percent on all federal property, including national parks and
military bases. "Our nation will not tolerate irresponsible acts which
endanger the lives of our children. Lowering the limit will make
responsible Americans take even greater care when they drink alcohol in any
amounts if they intend to drive," the President said. 15 states have
already adopted the .08 percent limit, and many states have similar
legislation pending. [Washington Post, 3/4/98]
I hope that you all have a safe March, and continue to enjoy the year, our next major holiday is St. Patrick's Day, and I hope that we will be able to acknowlege this holiday in style. Don't forget to send those requests for "Imagine" out to your favorite radio stations. I will be.
- Christopher J. Bradley March 7, 1998 4:50 AM
There is an interesting thing happening. I am starting to find that life is too dynamic to fully document, even with the most advanced cameras and tools for communication. So what we have to do to go about getting through it, is develop our own forms of constancy. I hope that you all are having a good 1998 and I hope that you will make time for yourselves to enjoy the things that are happening.
Monday night I got 4 free bottles of Starbuck's Frappachino by buying 2 hot dogs at school. This deal was incredible. I recommend anyone get involved in finding stuff that comes for free. I was going to eat something anyway.
Today I saw Helen Thomas and got a chance to talk with her very briefly at NCCC during a meeting. She is a famous Journalist, that is currently involved with United Press International and works in some capacities with the people in the White House. (I learned some of this from a friend) I thought that it would be very interesting to see what she would say about an article that appeared in the Wall St. Journal yesterday, but she didn't say much about it.
However, she did say that there is a possibility that if I have learned my lessons about money, that I might become a gazillionaire someday. Who knows? You never can tell. Money is a strange thing. One day you have it, and the next day you don't. And the next day, you might just have it again, but then you have to give it away or somebody gets angry that you have too much. There are all kinds of issues related to money that I think people need to discuss in the open, so that they don't keep their deep dark secrets about it to themselves.
I watched Air Force One on videocassette with my Father this morning. He has decided to take some time off of work to relax after a minor injury on the job. I think it is one of the best decisions that he has made in a long time. Everybody needs rest and relaxation sometime. He works very hard.
That's about all that I can manage to boil down for you for now.
We are learning how not to be overly sophisticated right now in one of my classes. This concept might not work for everyone. But it will work for some. If you don't understand what I am talking about, read my first Philosophy paper when I put it on line. It should be an interesting one.
-Christopher J. Bradley March 4, 1998, 3:07 AM
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