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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
9:42PM
I have not been this excited about Customer Relationship Management since....... oops, I never knew what CRM was before Monica Version 2009.
5:09PM
I click 1 Button to send this message to ALL of my social networks at once, with Ping.fm
Thursday, August 28, 2008
8:11PM
just finished the downstairs faux finish on the walls. I could do that for a living, all day long every day
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
9:25AM
this is my test message from ping.fm
Thursday, February 22, 2007
a sample fast chat that you can have on your mobile device or cell phone ::::
http://www.monicalamb.com/mohawktextpass/index.html
username: mohawk word for 'real or original people' = onkwehonwe
password: mohawk word 'thank you' = nia:wen
user> 4 seasons
MohawkBot> kaie:ri niwakenhnhake
user> fall season
MohawkBot> kannenna'kène a Kanienkehaka word or phrase meaning- Fall Season
user> winter season
MohawkBot> akohsera:ke
user> spring season
MohawkBot> kakwite:ne
user> summer season
MohawkBot> akenhnha:ke
user> its a nice day
MohawkBot> CONNECT is a day. I suppose that makes sense.
user> MONICA FIX 'ITS A NICE DAY!'
MohawkBot> I have lost my train of thought
To:ka is a Kanienkehaka word or phrase meaning- I Do Not Know
user> its foggy
MohawkBot> teiotsha:taien
user> its snowing
MohawkBot> teionien'kwata:se
user> its storming
MohawkBot> teionien'kwata:se
user> its thundering
MohawkBot> iowehronhaties
user> its lightening
MohawkBot> tewani'nehkara'wanions
user> how is it outside?
MohawkBot> oh ni:ioht natste - how is it outside
user> what kind of day is it?
MohawkBot> oh niwenhnisero:ten - what kind of day is it
user> its a bad day
MohawkBot> MONICA FIX ITS A NICE DAY is a bad day. I suppose that makes sense.
user> its warm outside
MohawkBot> io'tarihen natste
user> its cold outside
MohawkBot> iotho:re natste
user> its hailing
MohawkBot> iowisontion
user> snow drifts
MohawkBot> ioniehtarorokhon
This chat brought to you by Monigarr.com
( Onkwehonwehneha A.I. )
Current mood:  jubilant
I hooked an animatronic deer head into my mohawk talking chatbot. It is so So Sweeet!!!
I have to learn how to make a video of me talking with it now, argggh. Usually I have no trouble with this. However, my old web cams' drivers are no longer compatible with my current windows xp pro and the manufacturers do not offer any updates.
I have a normal video camera, but no room to send the video to my pc. I dont want to risk crashing it.
So, perhaps I will shoot the video tomorrow, then bring it to an internet cafe, where my huge video should not crash their computers.
You can view the instructions and pictures online, to run your own Animatronics Robot at: http://www.monigarr.com/projectanima
You will have to ask me for password access though.
Current mood:  creative
saturday, october 15, 2005
Rakhsotha Jake Shohahisen Jock. My grandfather, Red Jock, passed away this friday night around 11 pm.
A few weeks ago, I asked him what his age was. He told me he was around 35. I tried to remain calm and asked him what he thought my age was. He said, 'You, you look like you are getting older. You look older than me'.
I had to try not to laugh out loud, as I wondered how frightening that might be for him, if he saw his image in a mirror at that moment. I am not sure what his age was, that's why I asked him. I would guess he was close to 100 years old.
I never got to spend ALOT of time with my grandfather, but every visit was memorable.
My grandfather, Red Jock made a big impression on me as a young girl too. His stories about the circle shaped my beleif system and how I view the world and life processes. My grandfather's turtle rattle, sweet grass baskets, and voice were so differant than my father's strict born-again christian lifestyle.
Hearing my grandfather's songs early in the morning; he would make the song up telling a fun story about how his day was going to go. His songs usually had something to do with cooking apples and going hunting.
I hear his parents passed away at young ages tragically, then his guardian (an aunt) passed away when my grandfather was still a very young boy. He was forced away from his family's home in Akwesasne, and survived a residential school as an orphan with his sister. He went on to a logging camp, then on to serve in two wars. He even survived world war 2.
He once told me an amazing story about a wild boar that attacked him overseas and how he defended himself when he was younger.
As an adult, he raised 12 children in a VERY TINY house in the middle of the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. (We called it the village of St Regis when I was young). I can not even imagine how difficult it must be to raise so many children with one income from the local power plant.
My grandfather's tiny house was the only safe house I knew as a very young girl. When ever I would run away from my father's house, my grandfather would welcome me and jokingly call me a 'Refuge'. He laughed when I asked him what a Refuge was.
Akwesasne did not always have all the luxuries we enjoy today. I still have dreams of my youth, in the 70s when Akwesasne was still full of colorful tiny shacks and outhouses. My little sister and I were happy building mudpies and rolling around in the clover and grass in our grandfather's back yard.
I see my grandfather and grandmother in their childrens' (my aunt and uncles) eyes and mannerisms. I wonder how much of my grandparents show through my existance.
I am going to miss my grandfather's joking with me, as I try to learn the Mohawk language and practice with him.
The first few times I said 'She:kon' to him and he would reply 'O:nen ki:wahi ' to me and he would keep a straight face. It took me a little while before I realized what he was saying to me.
Finally, one day, when he replied to me 'O:nen ki:wahi', I thought about it, and told him 'But, wait a minute... I just got here!' He had a good laugh that day. He must have had some patience and hope, that one day I would catch on to his ' O:nen ki:wahi '
O:nen ki:wahi Rahksotha Red Jock and I am glad to know that you are on your way to your Happy Hunting Grounds
Current mood:  depressed
As of February 2007, the border patrol has not harassed me as much as they have in the past. The following was originally written in November 2005 and is typical of the years of racist comments (from the border guards) I had to endure each time I left our house to go anywhere.
Here is an example of what it is like, to be a Mohawk person that lives in Akwesasne. Akwesasne is LITERALLY ON the borders of New York state, Quebec, and Ontario.
To leave our house to go anywhere, we have to go through usa and canadian border patrol. (both or one depending on if we take a right or a left off our main road). Onkwehonwe around kanatakon, cornwall island, akwesasne have to go through interrogations, searches, and rude comments every day, many times each day.
These fiascos cause me and many others to be late for work, doctors appointments, and anything else that we dare leave the house to attend. Funny thing though, when I'm with my husband or other people the asshole border cops barely say anything to me.
Border: Where ya from?
Me: akwesasne i wish i said: my mother duh
Border: where were you born????
Me: **** hospital (town outside of akwesanse) i wish i said: my mother duh
Border: are you a native????
Me: yes i wish i said: why are you talking down to me like my existance is so insulting to you?
Border: where are you going???
Me: to the grocery store. i wish i said: that way ~pointing~
Border: where do you live????
Me: akwesasne i wish i said: ~pointing~ over their
Border: what did you marry an indian or something?????
Me: excuse me?? i wish i said: wtf?? people magically become mohawk by marrying mohawks??? Where do you get your education???? this is usually the point where they bring me in for more interogations, search my car, take my purse and ids away to some back room, while someone else asks me more dumb rude questions.
Border: pull your car over to the side and come inside.
more border fun
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going through the 'indian' lane can be fun sometimes too.
MONDAY
border: you dont look indian, you look irish!!
me: oh ya, it must be monday, I look irish on mondays. and they pull me over
TUESDAY
border: you dont look indian, you look german!!
me: oh ya, it must be tuesday, I look german on tuesdays. and they pull me over
WEDNESDAY
border: you dont look indian, you look white!!
me: ya? get used to my amazing looks, it dont get any better than today. and they pull me over
THURSDAY
border: you dont look indian, you look russian!!
me: really? you must need glasses, I have a spaniard in my family tree somewhere. and they pull me over
FRIDAY
border: you dont look indian, you look white!!
me: wow, thats an amazing observation, and you look like an.... oh never mind. and they pull me over, put their dog with muddy paws in my car, and it claws the shit out of my seats because I left a taco bellwrapper under the seat.
SATURDAY
border: you dont look indian, you look irish!!
me: pretty f-in amazing that people like me have the nerve to even exist eh??
border: what did you just say?
me: you look like a *cough*cough* and they pull me over
SUNDAY
I try to take a day off, and just not go anywhere once a week. It seems to help my mood a little to just avoid the confrontations.
Current mood:  blah
I am learning more about cryptology and its history this week, with plans to integrate the technologies with my little army of robots soon.
I created a simple pigpen cipher of my email address here I think my life needs an animated flash decoder and cryptology key for a new mohawk dialect encrypted language. That will be something fun to do while I am searching for my next big career opportunity.
I think I am addicted to computational linguistics and coding. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with a new code or program I must start writing at that moment because of something I saw in my dreams.
I would love to create a new hieroglyph language based on cryptology, an endangered language dialect, and the history that goes with the endangered language. I will probably continue focusing on Mohawk or at least one of the Iroquoian dialects, since that is where much of my own family tree and passion comes from. Not too many petroglyphs exist today, to give me much to work with though. I will have to do more research into private collections that might have some examples of petroglyphs and early writing.
Current mood:  energetic
TTS refers to Text to Speech. TTS allows a computer to dynamically convert text to spoken words, using default 'voices' or speech engines, that are allready hidden inside a computer. Windows 98 and higher, has a wide variety of speech engines, allready installed as default.
As a programmer, I am able to write applications and create animated lip syncing characters that speak with what ever default voice is found in your computer, as you view my programs. Activex objects, such as microsoft agent, will also automatically lip-sync correctly in TTS applications.
I prefer to create technology solutions with TTS, because it is much more efficient (than calling to seperate sound files) in regards to time and financial resources that are required to allow an end-user to hear spoken text.
Using seperate sound files that are stored seperately and then called to a program, need much more resources than TTS solutions, and still tend to be choppy, slow, and no one wants to wait more than 3 minutes to hear a web character say 'hello'.
Non-TTS tactics, can also cost much more in regards to time spent coding, creating audio, extra server space that is required, and other issues. It is not possible to create a seperate sound file for every spoken word that could ever possibly need to be spoken.
TTS allows any output to be spoken on the fly, even fantasy science fiction languages, or brand new cryptic languages that are created on the fly by artificial intelligence.
TTS allows me to code any possible output and the spoken voice will automatically read aloud what I send it, while my graphics will automatically lip-sync the text I send to an activex object, or flash interface, or web interface. Of course a voice xml interface for telephone applications is another outcome of TTS solutions.
More info about TTS solutions can be found online at:
http://www.microsoft.com/speech
http://www.bell-labs.com/project/tts/
TTS Voices (Speech Engines) http://www.bytecool.com/voices.htm
Current mood:  contemplative
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence and linguistics. NLP is devoted to making computers understand statements that humans state, when they are communicating naturally.
When I create new chatbot personalities, I put them out with new targetted audiences, so they can freely communicate. This allows me to gather the most natural language information, in regards to a new target audience.
Event though my bots did not always speak naturally at first, in my early years of this work, my chatlogs showed me exactly what I needed to code into my chatbots next, in regards to natural communication skills.
Now, after ten years of collecting and reviewing the information my chatbots gather, I have very effective chatbot templates that are able to naturally and effectively communicate with most any general audience internationally.
Machine Learning and Data Mining technologies also help to develop Statistical Natural Language Processing.
More information about NLP can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
Current mood: energetic
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212...ce_human_brains
Mice embryos were injected with human brain cells. Cool ! Just what this world needs !
I would like to donate some of my ( | ) parts so they can create some smart ass rodents with human characteristics.
I knew it all along!! I'm not paranoid. Their really is a herd of tiny humans trapped in mice bodies, lurking around in my walls, sneaking peaks over my shoulder and trying to steal my paypal passwords. Lol.
"It's true that there is a huge amount of similarity, but the difference are huge," Snyder said. "You will never ever have a little human trapped inside a mouse or monkey's body."
ha, speak fer yerselves. Im going on an ebay shopping spree and buying me a mouse human transformation splicin kit.
Current mood: thoughtful
Oh man, I've been busy learning how to be a 'software engineer' since last December. Apache, MySQL, Php, oh My! It's certainly more challenging and intense than my usual 'web developer' role.
For the past two weeks, I've been going through all of the tutorials for Ruby on Rails. What can I say, I'm in love. I've tried introducing my husband (construction worker) to Ruby, but he wants nothing to do with it.
I'm excited and feel like I've accomplished much more in a very short time with Ruby on Rails (compared to my recent php fiascos). Object Oriented Programming design with Ruby on Rails can be seen instantly.
Current mood: content
I take the train into san francisco every day, so have alot of time for reading. In the past few weeks I've been filling my brain with more 'philosophy' and development styles of software engineering.
If you are like me and need to actually hard-code (rather than copy/paste code) to learn new technologies, I highly recomend the book 'Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails'. The tutorials were an excellant base for me to quickly start developing a brand new web application that I completed recently. converted a php message board to ruby on rails, using 'napkin driven development' ~yawn~
The next book, about XP, Extreme Programming is a good read for reminding one about the values of team work, respect, and agile web development.
Of course the Ruby on Rails PickAxe book is a staple for looking up syntax and such too. This upcoming week, I will be practicing the tutorials from the Ruby on Rails Quiz book. I beleive this book will be helpful for remembering more about what features are available and solidifying syntax knowledge.
I am really enjoying the framework and code generators of Ruby on Rails and Ruby Gems so far.
Current mood: thirsty
Test Driven Development versus Behavior Driven Development versus Napkin Driven Development.
It's that time of the year again, when I look back, evaluate my career progress and decide on actions I need to practice for the upcoming year to move forward.
Ok, enough of the bullshit, here's the truth. I was sitting at a recent technology conferance and buzzwords like TDD, BDD, and NDD were flying around so much, that I actually started thinking about my own approach to web development.
My own style and philosophy for the past ten years has been NDD and BDD. I don't know why I have resisted TDD for so long, but I have. I used to secretly wish that magical QA fairies would sneak around and do their 'magic' as I would grudgingly resist testing and just make stuff work exactly the way a client requested.
My days of resisting TDD are over though. I had a wonderful AHa! moment as my brain soaked up some new books about 'agile web development' and 'test driven development', and 'extreme programming'.
I've read everything I can and look forward to a year of the excitement of practicing Test Driven Development.
Current mood: curious
I did it, I've taken my endangered language translating robots and made something even more amazing. Yes, I said 'even more amazing'!
I just started building a brand new Bot Builder with Ruby on Rails. It's lean, mean, and powerful. It can leap over 50 ft tall robots. uh-huh whatever.
Anyway, regarding the behavior driven development aspect, I am building a web tool that allows teachers to quickly and easily create their own virtual humans to practice any endangered or dead language with their students at any location.
Since my chatbots aka imbots aka webbots aka nlp bots aka software agents are allready able to talk with students from any computer, mobile device, and standard talking toys... I know the icing on the cake will be to give language teachers the ability to customize my bots for their own requirements.
It's time to bridge the scary gap between fluent speakers of endangered languages and my talking robots.
Why? Well, because my chatbots give instant translations and pronunciations of endangered and dead languages to any computer device. Now, it is time to let fluent speakers and teachers teach my little gang of chatbots how to share their knowledge with students too.
As a student learning to speak an endangered language, I really do need to hear those translations every where I may travel and at the speed of thought. I would like those translations to be customized to my language teacher's plans and ideas.
Current mood: creative
The picture for this blog post is one I shot last year from cornwall island. Speaking of back home, here are some more websites that you might enjoy.
If you want to see and hear mohawk language, you will enjoy the Shekon.blogspot.com from Owennatekha. His blog is called Kanyen'kehá:ka raotirihwà:ke ..... Mohawk news and views and he puts new entries and audio up just about every day.
http://www.nativevillage.org/Libraries/Language%20Libraries.htm
The Native Village Language Library is a good place to find information about endangered and dead languages. I have used some of the information while developing chatbots that translate.
http://wampumchronicles.com/
The Wampum Chronicles has some great information about history and local events regarding Onkwehonwe. I highly recomend the Great Epic stories on wampum chronicles website.
Tuscaroras.com has tons of information regarding news, local businesses, Tuscarora, and Six nations.
Current mood: content
It seems that many (not all though) social networking apps will allow me to embed my chatbots within my profile and blog posts. Yay! Now, let's see if I can embed my Monica Chatbot in a yahoo blog post:
Ok, this is just weird. I can iframe embed my bot into my post in the 'admin' screen and the iframe shows correctly. However, once I hit save, the embedded chatbot no longer shows up on the public view of my blog. Sigh, well I tried dang it.
More Info: http://monicalamb.com/projectanima/add_bot_to_myspace.html
Current mood: creative
According to many mainstream media resources, our First Nations youth are choosing to promote illegal survival tactics.
The stories I see in mainstream media, make me beleive that our First Nations Youth are choosing to promote illegal activities for the hopes of being able to obtain expensive cars, rims, and beer money.
I beleive that we've lost the ability to value each other. Perhaps our youth are so desperate to be valued, that they will settle for the false admiration that expensive rims and beer will get them. Of course, we all know that this social illness is usually a direct result from the Residential School process that our own grandparents and friends survived.
Our fast-easy-get-out-of-my-way-save-me-a-dollar-this-second lifestyles can also be a root cause of the epidemic drugs and suicide within our communities.
We know what causes healthy good people to become so desperate for survival, that they feel tricked or cornered into a position where they must choose to do ugly things or live a horrible shameful life with a broken spirit.
Do we know how to break ourselves and others out of the victim cycle, on a community level?
How do we teach people to value each other and themselves, when they are still asleep and dreaming that metal rims, machines, money, and mind-altering drugs are to be valued more than fellow people and family values?
How do we teach ourselves healthier ways to exist with mutual earned respect?
When I reach the lowest points in my own life, I often note how I would even settle for my own weakened support network, to even just pretend that they value me for a little while. Just so I can get a reminder of how it feels to be appreciated as a fellow human being.
Is it possible to wake ourselves up from this dream I call Chaos?
Current mood: touched
As I comb the
snakes from your hair
I realize that you
comb snakes from
my own hair too.
I am honored
to know the love
of our creator
gives us strength
enough to make
warm friends with
cold enemies.
If my snakes
lash out
bite you
harm you
in any way...
I will ask creator
to give me enough
strength to help us
with such a burden.
Photo is from here: http://www.rmsc.org/museum/exhibits/online/lhm/IAPpaintings.htm
Current mood: peaceful
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