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04.18
2006
2006
Here He Comes....
category: general
...here comes Speed Racer, he's a demon on wheels...
While Speed Racer was my favorite cartoon in the universe when I was like 5, and while the Matrix Trilogy were certainly movies I enjoyed, I haven't yet decided if I'm excited about this or not.
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While Speed Racer was my favorite cartoon in the universe when I was like 5, and while the Matrix Trilogy were certainly movies I enjoyed, I haven't yet decided if I'm excited about this or not.
permalink 0 comments 04.12
2006
2006
Vote Vegetarian
category: politics
Or at least that's Sen. McCain's answer as he gets his ass handed to him by a grandma.
Via Kos
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Via Kos
permalink 0 comments 04.11
2006
2006
Corporate Coffee, Corporate Bullshit
category: general
From DoubleShot Coffee Company
Vote with your dollar. Shop indie.
Via Stay Free!
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Could someone really trademark the word 'coffee'? That sounds ridiculous. It's a generic term. It's a common word used throughout the world and especially in the coffee industry. It would be like trademarking the word 'screwdriver.' Surely a government organization wouldn't allow someone to claim the word 'coffee' as exclusively their own... Would they?
Well, it seems that there are big organizations that think they can finagle the law enough to get a trademark on common industry terms, as associated with their company name. In our instance, Starbucks is claiming they have exclusive rights to the word 'doubleshot' because they were granted a trademark on the term 'Starbucks Doubleshot' for a canned drink sold in convenience stores. They claim that I am infringing on that trademark, and that I should destroy everything I own with the word 'doubleshot' on it, and abandon my website.
Well, it seems that there are big organizations that think they can finagle the law enough to get a trademark on common industry terms, as associated with their company name. In our instance, Starbucks is claiming they have exclusive rights to the word 'doubleshot' because they were granted a trademark on the term 'Starbucks Doubleshot' for a canned drink sold in convenience stores. They claim that I am infringing on that trademark, and that I should destroy everything I own with the word 'doubleshot' on it, and abandon my website.
Vote with your dollar. Shop indie.
Via Stay Free!
permalink 0 comments 04.10
2006
2006
Skillz
category: general
04.09
2006
2006
Hello LA, Goodbye IKE
category: general
Going to LA on Thursday to check things out and re-establish our city chops; this whole country bumpkin thing didn't work out so well. While it's certainly nice not to have an upstairs neighbor with 5 obnoxious kids that ride their bikes and play pogo stick on your ceiling (seriously, I didn't even know they still made pogo sticks) and a landlord with 6 dogs that fight outside your studio window all day, every day, trading it in for a neighbor who is literally EVERY Jeff Foxworthy joke rolled into one was maybe not the best plan.
The problem is, moving here was an IDEA. We threatened to do it many times over a 10 year period, but no one ever believed us because it was never more than an IDEA. But one evening I was sitting at my desk in front of the window when bang, bang, bang, on the other side of that window a guy was shot dead. Not 15 minutes later, the new landlord called and said this place was available. Seemed like synchronicity to me. A month later we shoved 2 cats and all our crap in a truck a headed west.
I don't dislike it here, but the idea that peaceful surroundings make for peaceful living may be true for some people, just not for us. So back to the city we go. Turns out we know more people in LA than I even knew we knew period, so we'll go visit this weekend and they can all convince us that moving to LA is the best idea we've ever had.
I will miss this neighbor just a little bit. I'll miss his daily, "Hey there neighbor-lady!" greetings, and the 8 pound zucchinis he leaves on my doorstep, and the 55 gallon drum in his yard with IKE painted on it in big drippy letters. I'm certain I'll never have another neighbor quite like him.
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The problem is, moving here was an IDEA. We threatened to do it many times over a 10 year period, but no one ever believed us because it was never more than an IDEA. But one evening I was sitting at my desk in front of the window when bang, bang, bang, on the other side of that window a guy was shot dead. Not 15 minutes later, the new landlord called and said this place was available. Seemed like synchronicity to me. A month later we shoved 2 cats and all our crap in a truck a headed west.
I don't dislike it here, but the idea that peaceful surroundings make for peaceful living may be true for some people, just not for us. So back to the city we go. Turns out we know more people in LA than I even knew we knew period, so we'll go visit this weekend and they can all convince us that moving to LA is the best idea we've ever had.
I will miss this neighbor just a little bit. I'll miss his daily, "Hey there neighbor-lady!" greetings, and the 8 pound zucchinis he leaves on my doorstep, and the 55 gallon drum in his yard with IKE painted on it in big drippy letters. I'm certain I'll never have another neighbor quite like him.
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Elle Randall is the owner of Positron! Records, an independent record label that specializes in electronic music. She is also a web geek, a cat lover, a gardener, an armchair physicist, a fairly good cook, a pretty bad photographer, a useless psychic, and a terrible, terrible knitter.You can contact her (me) .
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