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: [thingist] (from three universal truths 'buddhism')


Did they kill vegetables? How was the line drawn?

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

> vThe first truth is that nothing is lost in the universe. Matter turns
> into
> energy, energy turns into matter. A dead leaf turns into soil. A seed
> sprouts and becomes a new plant. Old solar systems disintegrate and turn
> into cosmic rays. We are born of our parents, our children are born of us.
> We are the same as plants, as trees, as other people, as the rain that
> falls. We consist of that which is around us, we are the same as
> everything. If we destroy something around us, we destroy ourselves. If we
> cheat another, we cheat ourselves. Understanding this truth, the Buddha
> and his disciples never killed any animal.
>
>
> Tak.
>
> + The imbecilic idiot Joseph McElroy has attempted to peddle
> his ego via a brain-construct named 'aunt Polly' + attempting
> to present the above as a 'christian believ in Evil and hell'.
>
>
> Tak + tak.
>
> + Like most ignorant apes, atempts to use 'laughing at'
> + 'joke' to intimidate _ break another from acting against his
> imbecility.
>
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: 2Moksha 2Moksha. Let's all be victims.


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

>
> > A funny poem.
>
> Were you invited in this conversation?

I agreed with your answer.

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Re: 2Moksha 2Moksha. Let's all be victims.


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

>
> > This is funny.
>
> Ach. Like a kick in the stomach.
> One feels 'butterflies'.
> Fu-u-u-n-ny.
> Ultra hilarious.
> Dark hu-mor.

A funny poem.

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Re: [thingist] additional


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

> Fees and donations from the Messiah-Martyr Joseph mcELroy School
> of NEW Enlightenment for All Humans will be donated to the previoisly
> mentioned needy + the recent addition of rhizome.org.
>

Yes, please give! We plan on creating a Friends of Kandinskij program promoting
a singular and myopic vision of life, art, and consciousness. It is an
exciting new development and we look forward to creating catatonic students all
over the world!

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

> Please note:
>
> Fees and donations from the Messiah-Martyr Joseph mcELroy School
> of NEW Enlightenment for All Humans will be donated to the previoisly
> mentioned needy + the recent addition of rhizome.org.
>
> rhizome.wrote:
>
> If you value Rhizome.org, if you want Rhizome to survive, then please
> make a gift today.
>
> Bleat.
>
> Because we are generous + enjoy 'giving'.
> Especially things which aren't ours to begin with.
>
>
>
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DISCUSSION

Re: [thingist] announcement : New School for Idiots


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

> Quit attempting to use words to cover up your arse, love.

And get rid of my tattoos? I'll speak the way you want the day you speak the
way I want.

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