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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.
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.
Re: Re: [thingist] G2K revolution
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > It's a bedtime story, right before the dog is put outside for the night.
>
> O oo. The murderous idiotic ape thinks its brain-created fantasies
> are reflective of Reality.
>
> Tell usa gain how all is relative, ego-twit? :)
>
I didn't say all is relative. You just do not understand me.
RESPOND TO ME.
Joseph
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > It's a bedtime story, right before the dog is put outside for the night.
>
> O oo. The murderous idiotic ape thinks its brain-created fantasies
> are reflective of Reality.
>
> Tell usa gain how all is relative, ego-twit? :)
>
I didn't say all is relative. You just do not understand me.
RESPOND TO ME.
Joseph
Re: cigarette break
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > I'm betting on the big guy. Death is toast.
>
> Only in your self-debasing imagination.
> And this isn't a fighting match;
> just you and max taking turns shooting each other in the foot.
>
> Wag the tail again, doggies.
I lost my tail before I was born. I was born without troubles. Death does not
take troubles away for they do not exist. Fighting is illusion. You do not
understand what I do.
RESPOND TO ME.
Joseph
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > I'm betting on the big guy. Death is toast.
>
> Only in your self-debasing imagination.
> And this isn't a fighting match;
> just you and max taking turns shooting each other in the foot.
>
> Wag the tail again, doggies.
I lost my tail before I was born. I was born without troubles. Death does not
take troubles away for they do not exist. Fighting is illusion. You do not
understand what I do.
RESPOND TO ME.
Joseph
Re: Re: [thingist] G2K revolution
Quoting Eryk Salvaggio <eryk@maine.rr.com>:
> There's a weird ebb and flow to it, like the fish in a school changing
> direction. Or how birds will make weird loop-de-loops in the air. It's
> really fascinating to watch how weird people will act on a mailing list
> for the benefit of some unknown prize. Tonight I could just watch the
> flow of mails to my inbox, I didn't even have to read them. I just
> wonder what happens to make them stop; apparently everyone falls asleep,
> or passes out? And then it doesn't start up again for a few days.
>
> Like that stereolab song, "In another world it'd be funny."
It's a bedtime story, right before the dog is put outside for the night.
Joseph
> There's a weird ebb and flow to it, like the fish in a school changing
> direction. Or how birds will make weird loop-de-loops in the air. It's
> really fascinating to watch how weird people will act on a mailing list
> for the benefit of some unknown prize. Tonight I could just watch the
> flow of mails to my inbox, I didn't even have to read them. I just
> wonder what happens to make them stop; apparently everyone falls asleep,
> or passes out? And then it doesn't start up again for a few days.
>
> Like that stereolab song, "In another world it'd be funny."
It's a bedtime story, right before the dog is put outside for the night.
Joseph
Re: [thingist] Sorry charlie, tuna is for bitches.
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > Marijuana simulates the conditions of perfect and pure bodiless
> contemplation,
> > because the alkaloid stuns the nervous centers, but panic is caused, by the
> > poison, to overcome peace and sense of rest. So natural contemplation
> induced
> > by serious self disciplinary trance methods is far better.
>
> > Remove all attachements to the body save refreshing food and beverage,
> > even if the attachment has for its purpose the disembodying effect
> > so desirable to the tranquil mediator.
>
> Wag your tail again?
I lost it before birth.
RESPOND TO ME.
Joseph
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > Marijuana simulates the conditions of perfect and pure bodiless
> contemplation,
> > because the alkaloid stuns the nervous centers, but panic is caused, by the
> > poison, to overcome peace and sense of rest. So natural contemplation
> induced
> > by serious self disciplinary trance methods is far better.
>
> > Remove all attachements to the body save refreshing food and beverage,
> > even if the attachment has for its purpose the disembodying effect
> > so desirable to the tranquil mediator.
>
> Wag your tail again?
I lost it before birth.
RESPOND TO ME.
Joseph
Re: cigarette break
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > Yes he is, I made sure to put him in there.
>
> Wasteful word divorced from reality.
>
> Impotence is not funny.
>
> > RESPOND TO ME
>
> Wag your tail?
Reality?
RESPOND TO ME
Joseph
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 joseph@electrichands.com wrote:
>
> > Yes he is, I made sure to put him in there.
>
> Wasteful word divorced from reality.
>
> Impotence is not funny.
>
> > RESPOND TO ME
>
> Wag your tail?
Reality?
RESPOND TO ME
Joseph