joseph mcelroy
Since 2002
Works in New York United States of America

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BIO
The McElroys are a husband and wife collaborative artist, technology, and business team who bring significant artistic, technology and community development skills to Corporate Performance Artists. Joseph, is a graduate of Computer Science from Duke University and a former team leader at IBM. He has been a CEO of several companies, and has been responsible for raising $2 million to fund a startup company called EveryDayPrint.com, which while part of the dot-com boom and bust, he managed to bring to profitability and which still survives to this day.

Donna was an operations manager and PR specialist in the firms they have started together. She has recently been credited by several business leaders in the Bronx as being "top spokesperson for the Bronx." She is active in many community development projects, such as participating on the Board of the Bruckner Arts and Antique District, and working to promote many Bronx activities through an online newsletter called Cupcake Kaleidoscope.

Joseph was the leader of the Open Source Sig for the New York Software Industry Association. And was track co-chair for Open Source at the 2001 New York Software Industry Summit. He was on the advisory board for PostgreSql, Inc - the leading Open Source Database and has had articles published by Lutris Technologies and Open Magazine on Open Source business models and technology solutions. He is a database expert with extensive Fortune 500 experience. Among other awards, he won an IBM Division Award for Technical Excellence.

From magazine "Open" issue September 2001 - "The McElroys kick open the doors of old business models and capitalize on what they believe." The McElroys have achieved re-known as Open Source visionaries with interviews by Interactive Week, Infoworld, Fortune Technology, Open magazine, and others. Joseph and Donna make no claims of divine insight, but in review by Lewis Lacock, it is said, "that this dynamic duo of art are the closest things we have to true shamans today". They are doing their best to pursue the knowledge to support such claims someday.

HIGHLIGHTS

* Achieved reputation as Open Source visionarys with interviews by Interactive Week, Infoworld, Fortune Technology, Open magazine among others.
* National Columnist on Money Matters for Gather.com.
* Judge for the Advanced Technical Categories of the Emmys.
* Successfully raised $2 million funding for startup.
* Successfully built and sold two technology businesses.
* First Entry into the Multimedia wing of the Museum of Computer Art.
* Artwork collected by the Library at Cornell University.
* Artwork in the collection of Rhizome.org.
* Developed first ever Exhibition Catalog completely on CD Rom. Done for Alternative Museum. Reviewed by New York Times.
* Selected to attend first ever Summer Institute for Performance Art at The Kitchen in NYC.
* IBM Division Award for Technical Excellence.
* Various academic, mathematic and scholarship awards. Attended Duke University on a full scholarship in mathematics.
* Poetry published in various journals. Art exhibited in museum shows.
* Certificate of Artistic Excellence from Congressman Jose Serrano.
* Recognized by Bronx Borough President Aldofo Carrion for contributions to the community.
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DISCUSSION

Re: Ten Million Hits


Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:

> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Joseph Franklyn McElroy Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance]
> Art[ist] wrote:
>
> > You inaccurate in your expression for your statement is inclusive of
> yourself,
> > though the content of your expression implies exclusion of yourself due to
> its
> > authoritative stance.
>
> Drivel. What I wrote was precis + to the point + yes, excludes me.
> not because of authoritative stance--there is no 'stance'. I am.
> Your idiotic word 'mindfuck games' are only in your brain.

I did not claim that I did not understand you. Nor am I playing 'mindfuck
games', though external appearances may decieve you. You do not yet understand
what I am doing.

>
> > And you are incorrect in stating that all are not awake.
>
> No, I am not. Every single person who has posted is un-awake.
> Asleep. Zzz. 100% correct.

You are incorrect, and there is no "single person" who has posted to this list.

>
> > Your statement is taken as racist in that you chose a particular racial
> group
>
> Drivel. My statement is taken as racist due to his own internal
> projections.

Racist is a politically defined word, not of the self - for we are part and
parcel togethor, so how to segregate?

>
> I have done nothing of the sort. You're simply projecting wishful
> derogatory internal knee-jerks onto my words--which are reflective of
> you + you only and have nada to do with the content of my words.
>

No. I am feeling kindly and "teaching" you on the brain-thought level why these
words are politically insensitive to non-awake, brain-thinking people.

>
> > You could have chosen,
>
> No I couldn't. Avoid dictating me how I should phrase myself, you
> superficial, flat + surface-stuck illiterate ape. I_ and I_ am the only
> authority on WHICH WORDS I_ will use.

You again do not understand, "could" is not "should". You should be aware that
an offer of options is not a dictation of terms.

>
> False. Avoid dictating me how I should phrase myself, you
> superficial, flat + surface-stuck illiterate ape. Nor are you qualified
> to make such jdgements.

Your knee-jerk reactions to dicussions of alternative word selections indicates
a emotional response to questions upon your perfection. Stomping up and down,
and throwing sticks is a very ape-like behavior.

>
> There WAS NO RACIAL PROFILING. Idiotic monkey.
>

Again, an emphasis on labeling indicates a defensive emotional reaction.

>
> > a statement like "you're more asleep than a bunch of illiterate
> > farmers"
>
> No, it is not at all 'like'. It's only 'like' if you
> function on the level of a two year old ape.

A two year old ape could not differentiate illiterate for the literate, nor
mexicans from farmers. So a two-year-old ape could not make a judgement on
"like" in this scenereo - you are incorrect.

Joseph

DISCUSSION

Re: Ten Million Hits


Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:

>
> > Where to draw the line in defense of others? Do I stand
> > aside as an unaware old lady falls victim to an unaware busdriver?
>
> The statement is too general + removed from life to be meaningful.
> Brain-chimera of arrangement of words.

I expressed exactly what I intended, it is you who fail to understand it
because of a lack of state. All thought is chimera, understanding is that which
is not thought (as in brain).

> Yes. Humor is no excuse for putting oneself to sleep.

You do not understand Humor.

>
> You make the grand mistake of Her david Goldschmidt + many others
> to make the assumption that because I do notplay along + acknowledge
> your delluded 'thoughts' 'nuances' 'humors' etc. I am not picking them
> up. They are NOT THERE, though it's fairly observable how one emptily
> spins around in those particular circles.

It is obvious that your understanding of Humor is limited and myopic. Again,
demonstrating your partially awake status.

>
> This kind of humor is a coping mechanism to soften reality.

I don't need to soften reality.

> Pad oneself. Wrap people with sleepy-blankets with a smile
> while finding their inability to cope 'amusing'. I choose to
> find it reprehensible (and not with my brain).

You responsibility is for your self, you should not be assigning blame. You
misunderstand what responsibility for your self means.

>
> > What if I mix sadness in as well? Can you laugh at situations that
> > make you sad?
>
> No. This kind of laughter is the laughte of impotence.

Strength and weakness conflict, are false dualities, are opposing and therefore
false notions placing a constraint upon the Self, which is contamination
causing the perception of strength (which has no substantiality of existence)
to perceive.

> >
> > And I am pompous also, or so I have been told. Are you perfect?
>
> Yes.

As we all.

>
> That doesn't excuse the 'victimizers'--as they are the double-victims
> + not everyone is born 'discerning'. In fact most aren't. I already
> wrote to Max--your mentality about this amounts to teaching children
> that peeing in their pants is OK and then laughing at them because
> they don't know it's not okay.

You do not understand my mentality about this. You are not yet capable of
understanding. I will try to explain - teaching children to not pee in their
pants, watching them do so anyway, then feeling amusement at the process of
teaching (for they will eventually learn - all travel the spokes of a wheel,
some longer than others, towards center - as a teacher you try to make the
direction inward). It is better for the self than a whip or rod.

> >
> > What is this care for the strength of a sex?
>
> There is no such one. And it's not about SEX (you mean gender by the
> way) luv. Females are not their GENDER.

I meant what I said, you have an unnecessary concern for sexual impulses in
others and yourself. A concern for Female/Male strength is mundane and sexual.

Joseph

DISCUSSION

Re: Ten Million Hits


Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:

>
>
> > Death is like a character from an Ann Rynd novel -
>
> Nothing to do with Ayn rand--your own myopic misinterpretations
> of things have got nothing to do with Reality. Ayn Rand is a cheap
> con-man rip off.

I didn't say you were a character IN an Ayn Rand novel...I said you were LIKE a
character in an Ayn Rand novel. She attempted to demonstrate her "cheap"
philosophy via characters that never showed any character development...ie
they acted consistently within their beliefs (or her beliefs of them) without
evolution throughout the entire novel.

So far, I haven't seen you deviate from your beliefs and you act consistent
within that belief system.

> the imbecillic instinctual + brain-centered 'feelings' that
> most humans experience are absolute nonsense + vampiric imbecility
>
> ARt operates on level of emotions--which belong to
> beings evolved to the extent necessary to comprehend art--
> at that point there is NO misunderstanding.

Did you see the movie White Oleander - Michelle Pfieffer plays an artist who
murders her lover and dominates her daughter. She talks about the cattle-like
quality of most of humanity, their un-evolved state. At one point her daughter
says to her... "Mom - people like them don't hurt us, we hurt them"

>
> Nobody cares about your daily 'pseudo-emotional' kitsch drivel,
> and it is NOT art.

You would not know. You are only partially awake and that has been corrupted.

>
> > > and who is he going to "awaken" if people are too afraid to speak up and
> > > engage in conversation.
>
> I am not here to 'awaken anyone luv.

Yes, you are - only you don't know how to do it, so you are forced to use the
impatient tactics of a child.

>
> > the "awakening" process requires an open mind,
>
> No, it doesn't. Nor are you in ANY way qualified to speak of the
> 'awakemin process'--nor do you have a clue about it.

The clues are everywhere, just look for them and you will finish your
awakening.

>
> I recommend all students to jump from a cliff. Life is not a school.
>

But we should all have a beginners mind.

>
> What I write are not rants--your myopic projection due to personal
> problems are your OWN responsibility.

It is obvious that you have knee-jerk reactions to anyone questioning the
perfection of what you write. These are rants.

>
> > Well, I don't think he is going to "awaken" anyone.
>
> Nobody has demonstrated worth of being awakened.

You have. Max, others.

>
> You wouldn't KNOW Joseph. Your opinion is worth nada.
>

It is not an opinion. It is knowledge.

> > than some harsh emails to open someone's eyes.
>
> You are not qualified to judge.

Yes I am.

Joseph

DISCUSSION

Re: cigarette break


Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:

>>
> Actually you don't. Nor are you capable of understanding the
> 'idea' nor are you capable of unpacking--you are only familiar
> with a flat + kitsch memetic substitute in the form of brain
> garbage load. Reading about these things, and reading in itself
> will never give one knowledge on such matters.

Are you saying the capacity doesn't exist in him ever or just currently? At
another time, could he be capable of understanding the 'idea'?

>
> > > you're attempting to replace what I say with something
> > > that 'seems' more familiar--and this is one of the largest crimes
> > > of 'contemporary culture'--to displace actual content
> > > with empty kitsch cliches--thusly perpetuating
> > > the leading of humans to exactly nowhere
> >

Does it really matter? Since English is a dualistic language, you could never
communicate "exactly" what you wish to express...perhaps you have gotten as
close as you can to what you want to say - but then you are assuming the
listener has the same understanding of language as you - which is (most
likely) not going to be true (unless the other person is "enlightened" like
you). So the question is this: Are you writing so that only another
"enlightened" being can comprehend "exactly" what you are saying? And if so,
and since none here are awake as you have claimed, why are you trying to insist
upon exact replication of your words when the intended audience cannot
understand them anyhow? Drivel that is heard, replaced with drivel that is
said, still means drivel.

>
> > > hence one runs around inside one's brains like a rat
> > >
> >
> > I had a nice talk about the torso-area chakra today.
>
> And what is a torso chakra?

I thought you were perfect?

Joseph

DISCUSSION

Re: If You Are Bored, The Terrorists Win


Quoting Max Herman <maxnmherman@hotmail.com>:

>
>
> I been thinkin' this one over--I mean not the post, but the "war"--and I'm
> still thinking Starship Troopers, General Howser, Johnny, Zim. The military
> genius is off the hook goin' hogwild glassing the planet and we artists are
> mobile infantry genii who have to mop up. Planet P. We have find a brain
> bug (our own brain of course) and figure it out.
>

I've been thinking, maybe I'll talk to these chaps and con[vince] them we are
friends.

> So take me with a shaker of salt--I'm arrested!

That's more liked stopped, as in stopped by a cop, not like put in jail, but
like forward motion (or any motion) now gone.

>
> Bon chance,
>
> Skip Herman
> afterburnin.co.uk
>
> ++
>
> ps--why are the posts so delayed and scrambled, here, showing up like a week
> late? It's irritating.
>
> ++
> >From: Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com>
> >Reply-To: Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com>
> >To: list@rhizome.org
> >Subject: RHIZOME\_RAW: If You Are Bored, The Terrorists Win
> >Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 02:25:31 -0400
> >
> >
> >
> >Elixirbirchin@aol.com wrote:
> >
> >>I am SO SORRY for those that suffer so for the politics that are IGNORING
> >>the Al Quaeda nest that has been stirred up in favour of a war with Iraq
> >>only for THESE are apparently; these innocent elitist disco revellers our
> >>"frontline army" and THAT is NOT FAIR!!
> >>
> >
> >Right, you know John Walker Lindh told the FBI that most of the Terrorists
> >went to Yemen, and that he suspected that was where Bin Laden was. So the
> >dominos fall- first Iraq, then Yemen. Why Iraq is still anyones guess, if
> >the terrorists - uhm, "The Terrorists", sorry- are hq'd in Yemen and we
> >have evidence of their existence in Yemen and we know Yemen is big on the
> >terror, why are we not going after Yemen? [Of course I don't see why we'd
> >"go after" anyone war wise- but if Bush is itchy for another war you'd
> >think Yemen. I'd really rather be asking "why aren't we heavily policing
> >and investigating Yemen?" ] The war on afghanistan was deemed a failure by
> >some dudes at the CIA or something, anyone remember that link?
> >
> >
> >>These civilian casualities are far from the first or last victims of this
> >>ongoing worldwide war cry which may jeopardize more lives as time passes.
> >>
> >
> >World Wide? You mean American / British. WASP-Wide war cry. [Excepting the
> >tiny percentage of militant Islamists who insist on giving Bush something
> >to fight.]
> >
> >> That said, let's please think of those in Australia, England, Germany
> >>and the other countries (Sweden) and nationalities "Indonesian"
> >>experiencing a sad taste of what we in New York had an overabundant supply
> >>of just over a year ago today.
> >>
> >
> >I'm at a loss for why Australians are being targeted. What's next, Iceland?
> >What the hell does Australia have to do with anything? Scratch that
> >actually, I guess killing hundreds of Icelanders makes as much sense as
> >killing Americans or Sudanese or Kurds or Australians.
> >
> >
> >>Yes, it only just happened but how many government agencies must CLEAR the
> >>fact that the Al Quaeda are already being blamed by the BBC while CNN
> >>avoids a) personifying the dead
> >>b) personifying the living
> >>c) personifying at all!
> >>d) personifying the organization (responsible) and naming them or
> >>offering, least, educated guesses...
> >>
> >
> >I dunno, what's so great about conjecture in news reporting? What if this
> >isn't Al Qaieda and is some other terrorist organization? Why does it
> >matter really, I guess, I mean it reminds me of when some crazy guy
> >hijacked a Bus in georgia pretty soon after 9/11 and killed 7 people or so,
> >and the police were like "Oh it's not a big deal, this guy wasn't a
> >terrorist." Oh and what do you mean by personifying? Because that isn't so
> >great either really.
> >
> >
> >>Instead we have a CNN News Source that speaks in terms of building damages
> >>and the explosive devices used in the mission....in other words the THINGS
> >>AROUND the "human stories." God forbid we should stop worrying about our
> >>"domestic welfare" via the Sniper I suppose.
> >>
> >
> >Oh, I heard something ridiculous today; a poll that says Johnny and Jane
> >America are now more afraid of being killed by a sniper than they are by
> >terrorist attacks. I had to wonder if Bush would find some Iraqi link to
> >Snipers; declare war on snipers, that sort of thing. The sniper doesn't
> >worry me really. Six billion people on the planet and only one of them is
> >going around shooting people randomly? I like those odds, you know? How
> >many flowers bloom in a single season compared to how many humans are
> >running around randomly with a rifle? Like people are so weird with numbers
> >and perception; car crashes and cancer are the more likely cause of death
> >but everyone only worries about the dramatic stuff. If only we were half as
> >worried about heart disease than we are about terrorism. Is it just a
> >control issue? "I can always watch my diet and even if I never do and die
> >of a heart attack; at least it was me who killed myself, and not some guy
> >who wants to kill me for a country I didn't even know existed?" But we're
> >still not in control of dying from McNuggets, Ronald McDonald is. Maybe the
> >futility of terrorist deaths is what scares me so much about it. Violent,
> >futile and stupid deaths are what scare me, not "terrorism" per se. But why
> >is it preferable to die in a car crash? Why does political violence
> >fascinate us so much more than other kinds of deaths? Is there really such
> >thing as a "humdrum" way to die?
> >
> >>We NEED a more WORDLY and INTERNATIONAL face on an INTERNATIONAL problem
> >>which is why I am so troubled by US unilateralism (personally) when we
> >>HAVE a UN (really)!
> >>
> >
> >The US is acting in a scary manner, certainly. I saw some military big wigs
> >on frontline from 1999, talking about how America had a responsibility to
> >be the best military in the world because it functioned in a way that no
> >other country in the world does. It goes into small scale conflicts and
> >determines the winner; and this is designed to avoid full fledged wars like
> >we saw in WWI and WW2. The "problem" seems to be that the UN is getting
> >wary of this; doesn't want change but containment, and the US "wants change
> >now." Interesting thing on Frontline, it was about "The Future of War" and
> >focused on heavy machinery, had Dick Cheney talking about how we can't get
> >involved in over seas skirmishes any more, an Isolationist America stance,
> >now flipped completely. Quite telling was that they showed a war game
> >taking place; it was the US and Nato against a new Middle Eastern Alliance,
> >and the Alliance attacked us domestically and NATO and the US wrote it off
> >as a loss from the war and focused on getting the the heart of the
> >fictitious Middle Eastern Alliance. [The NRI they called it, "New Republic
> >of Islam," but maybe I'm messing this up with some horrible dream I had.]
> >
> >
> >>CNN is most hopped up on the front page on sniper details and our own
> >>media chose not to display this disaster front and center and I for one am
> >>outraged! How much more do we need to go through to support "red dragon"
> >>at the box office?? I mean, a serial killer has apparently become the
> >>national anti-hero displacing Osama while the "terrorism" goes on playing
> >>in the background like a musical score.
> >>
> >
> >Oh yeah but we love the violence don't we? Have some more hot dogs and eat
> >a whole chicken while you watch some football and you'll feel better,
> >America! God, we sell BUCKETS OF DEAD CHICKENS for people to EAT and we
> >wonder why people have a violence fetish? Not to mention that the
> >inevitable result most people have towards boredom is to break something or
> >hurt themselves...
> >
> >Let me put in the obligatory "America is a great place to be", but we have
> >huge gaping holes where our culture is supposed to be, particularly when it
> >comes to being a fifteen year old kid in the suburbs. It's really
> >interesting that our two biggest random-violence generators are tortured
> >and bored adolescents and passionately hopeless religious fundamentalists;
> >although I'm not sure how far a thriving indie rock scene in Palestine
> >would be helping us these days. But hell, why not?
> >
> >-e.
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> >By the way, I hate this sig
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