Floozy Speak!

Good Dog.

Ok so what's happening.  Lots happening, lets see.... oh this and that and the other thing I guess.  Dang what the hell is happening.  Well I added some video links to the side bar there.  Trying to reorg things a bit.  I really really REALLY need to crack the mystery behind getting comments to work without the mass spam the site gets.  I don't know how to do that just yet so hang in there.  I've been working on the company website lately, gah learning CSS etc etc, I dunno, I think all future sites should be either be blogs or just coded in flash for nice effect.  Oh ya and nice clothing there eh Rockwell?

Cuddle Parties and Conversational Topics

So the other day after getting my 90mins of bliss in a wonderful massage which i dunno.. i didn't really need but I'll take it, anyways during that massage my gal, Barb tells me all about the big rage on the west coast - Cuddle Parties.  She's always got some crazy info in her.  She's an extreme envriomentalist, extreme karma, all natural body, etc etc kinda gal.  Some of the info she has is down right hilarious, other things well.. kinda curious, that is these cuddle parties.  So what are they?  Well no dry humping folks, thats rule #7.. its cuddling only.  No HUMPING!  Can't wait for google to align that word with floozyspeak.  There shall be no dry humping here on floozyspeak folks.  Apparently these cuddle parties have hit ohio now, so we can all get our groove on - except for rule #7, and do the cuddle party locally.  I guess we all just get together and cuddle.. cuddling is good, I vote yes for a good cuddle.  Of course trying to explain cuddle parties to some of the gals at work lead us into a conversation, or better yet, the proper defination of "dry humping" which btw turned out: 5 to 1 that its "sex with clothes on", sorry Miss Bar Wench, you were overruled by the masses.  Too funny.  Oh ya and you too can get a bag from Cuddle Parties with rule #7 on the side, nice.  Urban Dictionary added some unquie clarity to the issue.  Thats another buzz word at work, not dry humping, but clarity, we all need clarity.  Get some clarity will ya. 

Chaos and the happiness within.

Last night I played dad for a bit with my nephews and helped my sister in law and her mother take my 3 nephews around the neighborhood for trick or treating.  It was alot of fun.  Kids are great, they are ages 3, 2 and barely 1 heh.  Christopher the oldest was dressed up as a bumble bee, his outfit was soo cuddly it was great.  He'd rush up to the door and go "buzzzzzz, happy halloween!!" heh.  Aharon in the middle at 2 was dressed up as Blue from BluesClues, and he's quite the talker, he babbles on and on and on about things, we had a "wow" contest, who can say wow better.  Wow.. Woooow.... wowwwoowowow... Anyways that was fun.  Afterwards we had dinner with the folks.  I always think its funny watching my mother put together this organized and elegant dinners admist the chaos of childern.  I figure everyone does that really.  You try to hold on to sanity and make elegant conversation, oh yes, and indeed - all the while the kids are playing in the jungle of their minds, racing cars up and down yer legs, running fast forward into any sharp object they can find, pinching their fingers between door cracks and applying mashed potatos to their hair as if it was moouse. 

Random Linkage.

Somethingsomethingtv

Posted by dan at 06:58 PM | Permalink

I wish I could not be so emotionally tied to my video codec.  What to render how to render how to get the best of what who them us those other things.  Its all so daunting, x codec, y codec, z codec, d codec, this compression that compression that other compression, those frame rates his frame rates my prefered frame rates blah.  Everything is tweakable and theres no easy "go render this 10sec clip in the 10,000 possible combos of settings and tell me which one is best" ability.  That would make me happier.

I was in a happy place this morning, i was fresh, happy smiling even, I was so happy to be happy.  I had gotten my massage the night before, 90mins of bliss, I even finished a cool music video last night at 4am cause i couldnt sleep.

Take Me Away From Here - check that out, Yukakize anime meets Drum & Bass goodness.

But nooooooo I had to come in and defend my codecs, defend my honor, defend the notion of garbage in garbge out, the idea of it all just gets me down.  I dont want to be down, damn it!! 

I wish good video was always possible, I wish people could realize that rendering a dvd takes a little time, that theres any understanding as to what really is possible before you tell the client the impossible. 

I need sun.  I need to get outa this place for 30mins.  I have to let go my foolish codec wishes.  I am not my video codec.  I am not yer captured video.  I am not yer garbage in or out. 

I am not your video.

Posted by dan at 10:46 AM | Permalink

Every once in a while an artist, a song, a lyrical passage comes along and just hits home for me.  Typically I'm not really a lyrical guy, my musical selection tends to be void of lyrics usually.  That's not by choice really, they just don't put alot in lyrics in beat grooves etc, the sounds I tend to feel at ease to, jump to, swing to, scream to, etc in my collection rarely have lyrics. 

Sunday I came across the new Faithless CD - No Roots.  I had pondered buying it on Amazon months ago as an import.  But I usually have bad luck with amazon and import cds, its always sketchy when they'll actually arrive.  So I passed.  Seeing it at Borders on Sunday was a pleasant suprise.  I really really REALLY love Mass Desctruction, groove wise and more lyrically - its just an excellent piece of writing.  After listening to the CD, and I'm not all the way thru it, I've found another great piece of music - I want more.  I love a song that just hits it home on what really matters, a good lesson, a pleasant reminder, a great track. 

 "I Want More Part 1"

[LSK]
Hey friend your misery bewilders me
How come you're never satisfied or gratified
Four walls n' a roof, electricity,
Stable mind, wife and child,
Hot and cold water to run anytime.
But still you, whine.

I want more

A bum could rummage through ya bin
And live like a king
On just one crumb o'ya cake
N'ya say ya life needs fulfilling
Some would give anything to live like you
Shame your mind, don't shine
Like your possessions do.
Whining, complaining all the time,
Don't see no rain on you
What side your bread is buttered on
If only you knew

What d'ya mean
I want more

Yep

I was told as a child,
I want more never gets
Learned to count my blessings
Long before I saw an abacus
So what ya family don't speak
At least they're alive
Show me a man without guilt
Or a soul that ain't lied
You don't know what ya got
Open your eyes, look around
Really, hear me you,
Ain't got no reason to be down

What d'ya mean
I want more

Friend what is it that you seek
What is it that you try to find
Someday I hope you realized
It shined in you all the time.
Hills to climb, sights to see, seas to cross,
Friends to make, hands to shake, the world is yours,
Foods to taste, sounds to hear, love to feel,
Seeds to sew, things to know, fish to reel,
Space to quiz, stones to lift, life's a gift

What d'ya mean
I want more

Yep

What d'ya mean
I want more

Yep

Good stuff.  Course while I was at Borders I couldn't help but pick up the latest mixmag, I'm a sucker for mags, especially with ones that come with cd's attached.  Mixmag in general isn't a bad mag for dance tunes, DJ, Jockey Slut are much better but I rarely seem them.  BTW, nice listing of dance sites here. 

Posted by dan at 05:27 AM | Permalink

Check out this video from Lazy Boy, excellent! 

Another great video fer yer bum here.

Heh, another nice video here.

Ahh nice one, be sure to catch the Jon Stewart on Crossfire video here.

This is a kickass website, art gallery, prints for sale, and more, slick visual, love it.

Cool concept.

Posted by dan at 10:37 PM | Permalink

cd cover art for trinity's cd, which ended up being a "memory" of feeling alive and well again after being in a funk for a bit.  its mostly a beat mix scramble of nuskool breaks with some tasty tracks here and there, i feel a second cd coming on here in a bit as well, something that will reflect the other, really other.. far side of what i like - this cd however represents the now groove in my mind.  as for 86 always, i've always loved that word "86 always", its on my list of terms or words i've created over time names like:

paltacaster

apirls monday

claris newlife

pope digiscope

bedroom various ( remember? ) heh

kultizagraph

last 18 days of mystery

the book, the hand, the father

and then of course.. the crazy character creations

dark kitty

mad lion

bitches and steaks

guss and kiwi gang

thatsmadu

fish and hami

mister fluffers

spine when ready

and then we have cd covers like 86 always here.. other ones like

maxamillion straights

gondola falls

glacier 88

kittenfunk

250present, 250future

belladanathem

grooveaxe

andro cosmetic

bond over october

fred massive

samantha mine

soul fiber

when harry met hawaii

soulthumper

one day nitrogen

Where do they come from?  I don't know.  Oh ya, and about the art.  I've always been a hack when it comes to creating art, I dont really create originals other than say painter, or more so in xfrog and poser realms where things come together easier for me to leap off of, this piece however started with an artists rendition and then i fool around on top of it, thats cheating right? perhaps, its more like collaging things together to find what you want, for me i can give the original artist no better flattery than to choose to create with it as base in my mind, yes yes i know thats horrible right? but what good is art if it serves no one, inspires no one, the image inspired me, i turned it into a cd cover, i married it to a word, something totally unexpected, fresh, odd, strange, impromptu etc.. the list goes on and on,

Posted by dan at 10:54 PM | Permalink

Here's a topic that i've been pondering for awhile.  How many different identities do you think you have on the net?  Logins, email accounts, irc and instant message handles, online dating personas, forum message boards, i mean the range of creating you over and over and over is really endless.. how do you keep up with them all?  On amazon I'm this, on that other commerce site im that, son on and so on.  How many different passwords do you try to keep track of, or do you use an app to remind you?  Who was I last night on that one site.. was i joe, fred, hami, spock.. etc.  I'm getting lost in all my indentites and the idea of needing an app to track and tell me who i am to them and those other folks really bums me out.  Pretty soon will I need an app to remind me who I am in real life?  Will I need software to tell i'm off line, i'm awakeware? 

I think of all identity crime happening out there.  And we ourselves are encourged to create multiple identites to continually keep the masters off our fence.  Thats a weird one, the masters on the fence.  I like it.  Typically we in the social reality space are encouraged to be just us, in person i'm dan, hello.  Faking who i am in reality doesnt fly well, i can get arrested easily.  Yet you can do it in one place, at least conversationally you are encouraged to lie about who you are as a person.  Not bars, nope.. telemarketers, sure ok maybe there, those bible thumpin door knockin peeps perhaps but they are on to ya if ya do, no i'm talkin about car salesmen. 

This past weekend my brothe Paul and I test drove the Chrysler 300C Hemi.  Beautiful car but we had no, thats right, no intention of ever buying it.  We just wanna drive it.  We have to go thru the dance of disbelief with them however, otherwise you can't drive the car.  You have to lie.  Its sublimminaly encouraged.  Least by my mind set.  My brother is far better at the game than I.  He talks the talk well.  He loves test driving cars.  Lately we've been enjoying tossing eachother statements in front of salesmen to keep our story evolving.  Sure the ID's we pass to get into the cars are real but nothing else is.  We just moved here, visiting a friend, just bought a house, need to a car, a truck whatever.  The talkin game does get old though.  I have no patience for cars salesmen.  Not when I just wanna drive a car.  I want, you give me.  Thats what I want.  Nope car salesmen dance all day long with people, maybe half, hell maybe a third are really real.  So the 300C Hemi was good, big car, nice feel, super cheap for what ya get.  34k loaded is nice, and the price is goin up 1k next year they tell me.  Demand on those critters is crazy.  Fun car.  Whats really nice is the space for tall folks, there is a ton of room in that car, that alone is like 70% of the sale to me really.  Funny how that car has a ton of room and you look at it and go.. "ok ya.." and then the mini has equally as much room (for the driver) and you look at it and go..."umm no.. no tall person could get in that thing". 

The second car.. well truck we looked at was the Dodge SRT10 truck.. a small little truck with a dodge viper engine in it.  Hilarious, 500 horsepower.  Thats crazy.  We had to drive it.  The story changed a bit, we knew we couldnt take it out together, thats ok, Paul is driver really, I'm the admiring white cloud of smoke tire burning brother.  Heh.  I love seeing my brother behind the wheel of a car, truck etc.  So the results?  The truck is damn fast.. a different kind of speed compared to the Ford F150 Lightning we drove this past spring.  The story on this SRT10 was 41k out the door, it was used.. hardly a break I say but the 500horsepower beast is.. well a beast.  The story goes a man with a viper traded his viper in and bought the truck new for 45k, and then ten days later returned it and got his viper back.  When you look inside the hood of an SRT10 and see this massive viper motor you cant help but smile.  It rests easily inside the body, in fact it looks like its got room to spare and this isnt a big truck.  It roars nicely as well, though it didnt have the cool windup whine of the Lightning kickin on the turbo.  Still 500 horsepower in a small truck like that.. like why.  Heh.  Lotta fun. 

Posted by dan at 06:16 PM | Permalink

Ok so what do i call it, in the sake of correct searchness, i should call it sidekick ii, yet i want to type sidekick2, or better yet, call it by its proper name, hiptop2.  Ahh well regardless its here and its the new gadget of the moment.  Ya ever do that?  Have things like the "current crap I just bought look at me" awards.  What have you just bought reccently?  Eh?  Anything special? 

So anyways the sidekick2, ya its groovy.  But..

this pic does not work, using your thumb to flip this device open does not work, heh.  Nice one, nice one.  Ok so they really screwed this part up basically.  It does not flip.  Not a big deal, other fingers fly just fine.  Still kinda funny really. 

The new keypad is deeper than before, not so bad really.  Sok.  I love having the camera built in, that is really awesome.  Flickr and postin pics back on hiptop nation as well has floozyspeak will now come in droves.  BTW, the latest playboy ( november ) has a nice review of it.. not to mention an excellent viewing of Brooke Burke. 

Posted by dan at 10:57 AM | Permalink

I like how one thing leads to another on the net.  First it started in flickr, I was reading the group listing, looking for threads i've missed.  I caught my eye on electronic music, the "what i'm listening to now" topic, that launches me off to find the name of that band I had heard recently, Magnus, so i find his site post that info and now I'm on that music site.  Hey cool images on there, download a pic, looks interesting, labeled "lesbos", didnt think that initially, I thought it was just a cool pic.  At the same time I was doing a search for Magnus I also was doing a search for booty breaks volume 1, the other cd I had been listening to lately.  I found a good link it on tunes.co.uk, a decent site, had samples, thats good.  Now I'm, on that site checking out other new cds.  I come across hexstatic's new cd, masterview - its really really good.  I listen to a few tracks of that.  Very nice sound.  I check amazon, its not in yet, can I wait?  All the while I've got three other apps hanging back waiting for me to finish them off, winamp ( for sorting thru tunes to put on trinity's cd ( a gal from flickr ), nero whos hangin wait to burn, and blogjet which is waiting on me to post something about finally getting the sidekick II.  Then it dawns on me, what topic?  I need a subject heading.  I think of the music i'm listening too, the hexstatic groovness, then think of that pic i downloaded from magnus, and words appear in my head.  Bedroom Various  I like the sound of it, could be cd title,  I open up fireworks and go thru a few dozen fonts, which btw, i desperately need new fonts.  I end up picking something fairly basic, classic even.  Slap words next to image and pause... should I do anything else?  nope.  it looks good as is.

Take a moment and pause.  Tell yer brother chris that he can sync now with sidekick II or 2 is it.. anyways with this.

As for the sidekick ii, its good - me like lots.  Dang I'm really diggin this new Hexstatic CD.  Ok so ya on the sidekick ii, its better than I expected.  I'll run it thru the paces tomorrow. 

Posted by dan at 12:18 AM | Permalink

Well i'm back.  Feeling better, much better, in fact the minute i start listening to music again I know i'm back.  Sitting here in the office listening to music, just returned from chicago and JooYoung looks over at me and says "louder.. i want to hear that LOUDER!!" so we crank it up!!  Booty Breaks take on Morcheba, its a cool nuskool remix of one of thier tracks, very dirty beat basic goodness.  So ya the cold is fading, feeling better and the trendwatching.com seminar?  It was awesome, very good.  Filled with ideas, potential and more its like theres alot going on here, very excitied.  A little traveling is always good for the soul I think. 

Special thanks to the Trendwatching crew btw as well. 

So in that regard, I've added some new blogs to read here as well, a few new items on the list for the blog roll.  Check it.  More on whats happening with me later.  Otay, now go be good! 

Posted by dan at 05:58 PM | Permalink

Shocking news definitely not worthy of the flooz network.  Spears no more??!  She's droppin her last name?!  What gives!  Oh the drama.  I hope yer coping Dave. 

Well its a dark and depressing day in downtown Columbus Ohio.  Rain, rain and more rain they say.  Big puffs of steam come outa the back of the convention center.. what a sight.. ya right.

Ok so the state of the flooz.. Hmmmmm not much happening.  I'm on the downward spin of a funk lately I think.  Almost outa it.  Today will conclude my eternal funkness and I will be reborn.  Which basically means I'll get all the crap i need to do done today and tomorrow I will carry on!  I've gone 3 days without a workout.. i can feel it.  Its like tellin me.. go.. go the gym dan.  The voice says. I'm in the kitchen this morning making my smoothie and i overhear some guy talkin about his co-worker who failed his stress test.  A stress test isnt so bad really, a few electrodes, here get on this treadmill, walk a little.  But this guy failed it, they ran his bloodwork and he was nearly dead or something.  High everything.  See the body is just one big chemistry set, and the mind is like a piss poor regulator of emotional drains.  Sadly yer intelligence doesnt do much for ya really.  In the end yer body and mind will work against you.. or maybe... you can trick it! 

I had a refreshing conversation the other day with a gal about RFID.  She was on the security aspect of it, theft pervention etc but what about all the other data I said.. "oh we have no idea what to do with all the other data..".  Theres some market there ya know.  I want to find a local store and team up with this RFID gal and do some studies like the ones Wired mentioned awhile back where you can get all kinds of data on how people shop via RFID, now granted its only the what and not much the whys.  Anyways it was a good talk.  This past weekend I met another gal in retail design, had another discussion on the future of visual displays in retail stores.  Very cool stuff.  I especially like all the development surrounding holograms.  Oh I forgot, I can buy that one machine, the something something projector for a mere 14k.  I dunno I think i'd put them in clubs or something, retail stores.. nah.. its perfect for a club though.  And ya put it there for the hell of it, not to make any money. 

Last week we used Visual Thesaurus to help us out on some naming sessions.  It was damn spiffy.  Fun tool.  I reccomend all of yee all to mess with that more often. 

Ok so Sidekick2.  I went to look at one last night.  Yes its thinner, yes its..... hmmm ok its thinner.  The build quality feels really lacking compared to the famed color sidekick "brick".  I dunno the and screen wobbles, making it easier to.. i dunno, debate ripping it off maybe?  It feels cheap to the touch compared to the "brick".

So I dunno. To sidekick2 or not to sidekick2.  Its $300 bucks.  Thats 3, maybe 4 massages, a few good dvds, heck a box set of dvds and some other dvds, its a few new games even, its bonnet stripes for the mini, or a wild nite of red stripe goodness, its probably at least a good hour on a 900 line, or fresh mags for the month, its new blank dvdrs, its...

its...

I dunno. Bite the bullet? 

Posted by dan at 10:28 AM | Permalink

You can tell alot about a person listening to them.  Especially when they are on the phone talking to someone about their phone bill.  Lets talk about phone bills.  They are insane.  A charge here, a charge there, a little there and this and what.  I need to do what this person is doing, take that and that and that you overpaid jackasses.  Whatever happened to just simple phone charges.  Now everything is broken down.  Data is this, phone is that, oh you want yer phone to work in yer town, and not in Italy?  Ok thats a charge.  Anyways you can tell alot about someone in how debate with a rep.  This particular person is good at getting what he/she wants.  They argue so well, and loud, they express the full measure of hey what the fuck are you trying to do me biotch, take those charges off homey... NOW!  I wish i could that.  Ya know my combined phone charges currently are more costly than my car payment?  Ok so lets take this head on this week dan. 

Now tempers are up, and the conversation takes a turn to.. the manager.  Let me speak to the manager! 

So this is the challenge this week, take yer 2 phones and make one phone!  Problem is, it'll be costly.  You have to break yer deal on ATT which roped ya into getting on a new contract which totally sucks cause i wanted this cool nokia phone that was web only yet wouldnt carry my old number over to it.  Anyways its all fucked up and messy.  I hate it.  Ok so lets bite the bullet.  Kill ATT, then take yer number over to tmobile, get the new sidekick2 and if all fails you can always go to nokia on their side if need be, but yer basically ending the endless bleeding that you've been stricken with lately and in the end have yer all in one phone.  Now I'll miss the battery life and smallness of my old beat to hell about to die nokia phone.  Granted I'll miss that.  In the end this total adventure will cost me dearly.  About $500.. yep, is that insane or what.  Most of that expense is the sidekick2, which well, might as well. 

Once its over however, its just one expense thats not mine to pay.  So it makes sense in the long run.  Hopefully the sidekick2 will rock as a phone.  And i could sell off my sidekick color i suppose, or give it to someone at work.  The thing is i love the nimble nokia while at home, but in the field the sidekick just rocks, i mean its saved me more than twice easy, and its nice to have that email in the field without luggin a pc around with ya.  Oh the drama, what to do. 

BTW, she's still on the phone and goin for the manager. 

Posted by dan at 11:02 AM | Permalink

So it's sunday, what happened today.  Worked out, snagged some coffee ( yes i rare cup of chance ), and participated in a road rally of mini cooper madness.  About dozen minis today met in the Mejer parking lot in at powel road and 23 and went on to donate 10 bucks to charity and participate in a 3hr road rally thru delware and sunbary.  It was fun, its was a totally gorgeous day.  And btw, Bug juice is a buck.  Anyways it was a good run, lotta fun.  I'll post some pics and video later.  Dave, that gator man gets an A+ for excellent navigation. 

In other strange news, check out CRAZIEST if yer into scrabble.  An excellent little flick there.  While yer at it, check out the tron beatbox, thats trippy.  Nik go play with that.

Hmmmmm pic of the mini picnic set.  Nice!  LOL ok they keep making little oddities.  Personally I'd get the portable chillout room first even though its not mini related persay, it just looks like an excellent add on for a mini owner.

Last year I found flowers in a can, a cool concept of incasing wonderful flowers in a pretty tin can, it was clever, smart, kinda fun etc, ya know I like that thing.  Now I see we can get "plant me pets!"  LOL thats hilarious, another great gag gift.  Speaking of flowers, there seems to be new glow in the dark flowers only available in japan.. that'd be fun to have around the house some evening.  Probably great for a club atmosphere.  Interesting links for groovy women and their gadgets.  

The purselipsquarejaw blog has been a really good read lately.  Lotta great "open yer brain" reads on there.  Especially for yee research types.  Interesting potential dangers in usability culutre.  Another expectional read tonight is Roland Piquepaille's tech trends blog, Roland doesn't disapoint, he's always got something waaaaay out there, yet seemily right next door. 

Do we need pluck?

Ok remember commets are broken but they'll be fixed this week.. really, I promise.  Fixed or removed.. hah!  I kinda miss a tagboard, maybe I'll bring that back or maybe even add my own forums. 

Posted by dan at 09:35 PM | Permalink

So later in the week I once again saw my favorite film of all time, that's right folks, this is the movie for me, its my movie, its a flick i've always enjoyed and looked back on and remembered, damn i really like that movie.  And that movie is?  The Hudsucker Proxy, a rather unknown flick really, not many folks seem to know about it.  Its right up there with Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, another classic.  But back to the HUD!  Long live the Hud, just a great flick.  Especially as the seasons change, I see the Hudsucker and I think fall changing to winter.  And then I think, I should learn how to ice sculpt.  Didn't I ramble about that earlier? 

Comments.  Sara has complained that my comments dont work.  Thats true and this weekend I'm gonna tackle the issue.  I need to get comments working.  I know you all want to comment, especially Sara who has a beef with me on everything I say and if you are reading this Sara see me and say "plento likes many". 

Posted by dan at 11:37 AM | Permalink

In other news... DESTROY THE EVIL BEAR + SHATNER HAS BEEN

Meanwhile on the motion graphic front, tonight..er this morning I tapped into a little goodness called XoFX, very cool vids in there, also stepped into some xplsv.tv (need to register to view) but again more motion vid goodness.  Ok now this is a bit of a trip, check this out, its an ad sure but its all so grooovy baby, like someone hate me and hug me please! - Honda & the voice of that One Guy.

Virtual Worlds are scary!  Check out this Akira motorcyle race thru the virtual reality lens.  This is pretty cool stuff.  One thing hits me right away, man I love the Akira soundtrack, so many great tunes on that disc.  Ok screw that, get the mp3s here.

Ok so I've seen it over and over now, I still love Barry.  BlogsNOW clips, is a site that links to the lastest vids from blogs.  Kinda handy if yer curious about what clips people are chattin about.  Here's a particularly tasty clip from moveon.org regarding FOX.

Posted by dan at 07:39 AM | Permalink

i need to learn how to ice sculpt

Posted by dan at 04:27 PM | Permalink

Today is... wednesday, I think. 

Posted by dan at 02:45 PM | Permalink

I figure Starbucks and the 11 cents increase today made roughly 220K.  Thats basically my estimate that an average store doing $1500 a day sellin on average a drink thats $3 bucks x 4000 stores and I know they have more is basically 220k.  Thats a nice prize.  Will 11 cents matter?  It sure as hell will matter on a tall white chocolate mocha is already a stupidly expensive 3 bucks or something, for a tall.. what the hell!  3 Bucks, thats lunch baby.  Ahhh well.  I do miss the white mochas, the carmel mchiatos, etc but overall I love that i'm off coffee, it bothers my stomach.  Least in the portions i used to consume it in.  Gimme a little tea and i'm peachy. 

Now don't get me wrong I did enjoy the book Pour Yer Heart Into It, the story of how Starbucks came to be.  Those inital early years, and the momentum they achieved etc, great story, great success, but now I expect allot more from them. 

Other ramblings, the Hollywood Reporter.  Ok I used to get this mag when I worked at ADV, now the other day I saw an offer, get a free issue!  And so I said ok sure, send me an issue, now I get it like 3 times a week.  I have stacks of them.  And I stopped reading them after the first 10 or so.  I gave some to a friend going to Hollywood to do her thing in the biz but now I have a bunch more again. 

Drink more water, clean up yer own dishes, never leave the frisky side of floozy. 

Posted by dan at 02:14 PM | Permalink

Ok you know I love lights right?  Check these out lightpots.  Perfect!  Use them for wine bottles or plants, or whatever.. I love them.  I need more groovy lights at home.  Which reminds me, ok yesterday after church I cruise on down to the short north to take a peek at some art.  I came across some exceptional glass vases, gorgeous cant sum them up really, they were amazing.. but then it got me thinking, my apartment is full of crap!  Heh, its like i'd love to get those vases but what to do with them.. i need some real shelves in my apartment or something.  Still they were cheap I may have to go back for them.  These pots are a mere $325 bucks, but still, they look awesome. 

The space projector is something i've been eyeing for awhile now.  I need to release my inner child!  Actually my inner child has been here the whole time really.  He's standing here right now chattin up a storm.   Hey now heres a coolio link on hybrids, ok probably nuff said info for anyone in tune.  I'd really like 70 MPG. 

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Dave's been pestering me about using that subject line.. so there!  Are you happy?!!

So the state of the flooz.  What is happening on this planet called floozyspeak.  Hmmm well first off, I want to link this: Theatre Roulette 2005, for Dave and I to explore later.  He's getting close to doing an open mic some night, maybe myself as well, in the meantime I say we take one of the few hundred ideas we seem to come up with all the time and crank out a script for the MadLab.  Other happenings coming up in the Short North.

This past weekend I attended the 20th Anniversy of the Gallery Hop here in downtown Columbus Ohio's Short North area.  I wasn't alone, I had my special someone with me.  As some of you may have known I've been doing the dating thing lately.  Its all so new and so nice I must say.  I haven't really been with anyone for a long time and with all goodness thats be afoot in the world of dan as of late, I figure its high time I date again.  Lola if yer reading this, meet me behind school! 

So the Buckeye's lost.. oooooo, ouch!  Dave probably cried that night.  However the gator has moved to a new campground.  I tell ya, the gator man moves every six months to hide his real idenity.  And those of you concerned about the subject heading.. i blame dave!  Ha.. actually ok it was my idea to see Sky Captain, and I dont know why they had to have that line in the movie.. you'll have to see the flick to understand... or maybe not.  Ha!  That whole flick, the script especially has some major problems, and while I love flicks like the Rocketter and what not.. outa the blue when a line comes across the screen - hey btw, when cold nipples hard... yer left wondering, wtf, was that just placed in there to get the flick a little edgyness!  Sad sad.. And gwenth does nothing for me btw.  And what happened to the 900+ staff at the base camp, were they just all blown away? 

"Big second album by Vienna`s outstanding recording duo dZihan + Kamien! This excellent work is a generation conjoining album, a bridge built on Jazz connecting past and present. The creative process for this full length album began as they discovered some original tapes recorded by their fathers, both professional Jazz musicians in the 50s and 60s. The two creative sons sampled some of these, organized recording sessions together with musicians from the Istanbul music scene, invited the legendary percussionist Sammy Figueroa, gave space for the vocalists General Santana, Ma.Dita and Daniela and summarized all this for some inspirational listening delight."

I'd like to thank Dzihan & Kamien for thier muscial goodness as well.  I think we all need to stand up and thank a artist now and then, their grooves inspire our grooves and those grooves go on to do great things.  Ya know I did a quick search for Dzihan & Kamien and came across this interesting site: gnod - what do people who like dzihan & kamien listen to?

So ya the Hop!  It was nice.  Saturday started looking pretty gloomy but after two red stripes and plate full of nachos.. the sun appeared and the blue sky shined upon me.  Actually I didn't know it was the 20th anniversity, that was a nice little bonus.  Fireworks as well even.  We pulled into the Smith Bro's parking lot and there were fireworks.. nice.  Extra added polish to a great evening. The hop was jumping, musical street groupies, folks russlin about hand in hand, it was brisky but warm, the buckeyes roared on the screen, macs piano goodness had the gang singing aloud.  It as a very nice evening... I'd love to take credit for the whole plan, but honestly Lola, I can't.  Except for that one part. 

......lunch time

Today's lunch was brought to you by Kooma in the north market area.  I had a korean dish called bibimbap, veggies, egg, pork, rice, spicey sauce served in a very hot stone pot, that and weeee bit of sushi! 

Hmmm in other news, we've been working our new brand idenity at work lately and somehow we stumbled into words, images, and ice cream that represents us individually. While I fought to be known as Coffee Heath Bar Crunch, I didn't get the title.  Instead I was Karmal Sutra has been named as the ice cream to represent me.  I found some last night shopping.  Thats a deadly ice cream.  Bits of chocolate, a huge dab of karmel and then sweeet vanilla.  I've never seen karmel, er carmel in its purest of carmel like form, all nesstled between ice cream.  Makes ya wanna go straight to the karmel, forget about the ice cream. 

Let see what else is happening.  I've been listening to the Dungeon Masters Guide alot lately.  Some really good tracks in there, its sent me to the avid editing the other day.  I keep seeing videos in my mind i need to edit to this music.  Especially for track 16 and 17. 

Well I guess this is enough for now.  Stay Frisky Floozies.

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