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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: Any thoughts on this Death?
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> > Oh my poor skewered heart. For you, yes he says in a slow ponderous
> superior
> > style. Ah, such a precise angle of the nose and head. he he he
>
> Internal projection.
I have a big movie projecter in my heart that plays tragedies and comedies, of
which you co-star in both.
> Never wondered if you had such, I take fun where I find it big brain.
>
> Er--you're the one with the big brain. I've made no such claims, love.
> Or used it more than is necessary--and that's not toooften.
Puddly poo, I love you.
>
> > So far, have seen neither, nor know of the latter. How do you measure the
> > coast of Britain?
>
> Precision is not a matter of measurements.
> Your pseudo-illiteracy is not convincing--you're jerking back
> to pseudo-literate cardboard cutouts.
I use them for target practice.
>
> I am not 'worried' 'babe'. Don't ascribe your inner wishful thinking
> to me. And be careful with your verbiage around me.
Are you the nanny who scolds people for using bad words? Do you wear a sexy
dress?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
> > Oh my poor skewered heart. For you, yes he says in a slow ponderous
> superior
> > style. Ah, such a precise angle of the nose and head. he he he
>
> Internal projection.
I have a big movie projecter in my heart that plays tragedies and comedies, of
which you co-star in both.
> Never wondered if you had such, I take fun where I find it big brain.
>
> Er--you're the one with the big brain. I've made no such claims, love.
> Or used it more than is necessary--and that's not toooften.
Puddly poo, I love you.
>
> > So far, have seen neither, nor know of the latter. How do you measure the
> > coast of Britain?
>
> Precision is not a matter of measurements.
> Your pseudo-illiteracy is not convincing--you're jerking back
> to pseudo-literate cardboard cutouts.
I use them for target practice.
>
> I am not 'worried' 'babe'. Don't ascribe your inner wishful thinking
> to me. And be careful with your verbiage around me.
Are you the nanny who scolds people for using bad words? Do you wear a sexy
dress?
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: For Kandinskij
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
> > Jesus, somebody can finally tell me what evil and vulgar mean. I hear them
> all
> > the time.
>
> Doubtful that. But I'm sure you shift lexicalities about.
> Is illiteracy a bit like quitting winning cold turkey?
I won at bingo once.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
> > Jesus, somebody can finally tell me what evil and vulgar mean. I hear them
> all
> > the time.
>
> Doubtful that. But I'm sure you shift lexicalities about.
> Is illiteracy a bit like quitting winning cold turkey?
I won at bingo once.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: For Kandinskij
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
>
> And there's not much to spell. And that's fine, except for it's
> irrelevant to my conversation with Mr. G2K.
>
>
Conversation? Max talks, you call him a pimp and an idiot. Consistent
formula, for all emails from you so far. Anything you don't understand (which
is quite a bit) you call idiocy. You are a slave to your own hard-coded
opinions. Listen sometimes. That is how conversations work.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
>
> And there's not much to spell. And that's fine, except for it's
> irrelevant to my conversation with Mr. G2K.
>
>
Conversation? Max talks, you call him a pimp and an idiot. Consistent
formula, for all emails from you so far. Anything you don't understand (which
is quite a bit) you call idiocy. You are a slave to your own hard-coded
opinions. Listen sometimes. That is how conversations work.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: Max Herman & Writing comment
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
>
> Dear--if you want to be illiterate stick to your guns.
> Don't try to pass judgement on literate comments.
Mommy, I don't care, but Daddy said I could judge literate comments because he
passed me strong literate genes.
>
> > Doesn't this imply an operation to help people vis-a-vis teaching,
>
> No, it doesn't. Not automatically.
Well, I say it is so, so it is so.
>
> > Thus inherently idiotic?
>
> Nothing is 'inherently idiotic'.
Can I quote you on that?
> For an illiterate one, logic sure seems to have
> a cracking whip over your brain 'Fido'.
Logic is a tool to play with once and a while. It has its useful moments.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
>
> Dear--if you want to be illiterate stick to your guns.
> Don't try to pass judgement on literate comments.
Mommy, I don't care, but Daddy said I could judge literate comments because he
passed me strong literate genes.
>
> > Doesn't this imply an operation to help people vis-a-vis teaching,
>
> No, it doesn't. Not automatically.
Well, I say it is so, so it is so.
>
> > Thus inherently idiotic?
>
> Nothing is 'inherently idiotic'.
Can I quote you on that?
> For an illiterate one, logic sure seems to have
> a cracking whip over your brain 'Fido'.
Logic is a tool to play with once and a while. It has its useful moments.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
Re: [thingist] Eryk + Max [G2K] + AskRom [their idiotic condescension]
Quoting "-IID42 Kandinskij @27+" <death@zaphod.terminal.org>:
>
> No, dear. Nor are you qualified to judge ego.
Oh yes I am, the Green Fairy came to me one night a hit me on the head with her
wand and said "Joseph Franklyn McElroy, you are now the authorized judge of
egos everywhere."
>
> Dunno. I am not 'teaching'. Nor do I care to 'teach'.
Ha Ha Ha, I just saw a helicoptor land on a lily pad.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]
>
> No, dear. Nor are you qualified to judge ego.
Oh yes I am, the Green Fairy came to me one night a hit me on the head with her
wand and said "Joseph Franklyn McElroy, you are now the authorized judge of
egos everywhere."
>
> Dunno. I am not 'teaching'. Nor do I care to 'teach'.
Ha Ha Ha, I just saw a helicoptor land on a lily pad.
--
Joseph Franklyn McElroy
Cor[porat]e [Per]form[ance] Art[ist]