The Fukuro-sage’s urine has a powerful smell that can disorient humans and render insects and small animals unconscious http://english.mashkulture.net/2009/10/20/the-anatomy-of-japanese-folk-monsters/
“Our packaging is made of molded paper pulp and a bio plastic made primarily of corn. We use these materials because they are interesting to look at, and they are compostable—which means one day, they might become part of a large tree. Maybe you can cut down that tree and make it into a speedboat.
The packaging for Help Remedies is beautiful and biodegradable. Their copywriting is smart and funny. Their website shows you one of their packages biodegrading, or offers help if you are bored.
“I know I’m late to this, but hey, I’m a professional amateur. May I be that for the rest of my days.” -TaNehisi Coates
Amen.
Kip Frey was one of my favorite professors at Fuqua. He was smart, savvy and very practical. He has been involved in fascinating stuff like Turner purchasing Castle Rock, professional wrestling during the NWO years, and the early days of online auctions. And I just found out that it was announced Friday that he’s leaving Intersouth Partners to become CEO of Zenph.
The name was familiar, and a quick search of my Gmail shows that I saw an announcement about the company on a local listserv over a year ago. I sent a copy of this announcement to a friend, suggesting we go on a tour. I never got a response, and forgot about it until now…
TOPIC: I got the tour & demonstration at this place yesterday…
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.chapel-hill/browse_thread/thread/c8e360f18cf439bc?hl=en
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Date: Wed, Apr 9 2008 7:24 pm
From: DJ Golf
www.zenph.com
Big house in north Raleigh with a mini-concert hall containing 4
concert grand pianos rigged with their hardware & connected to laptops
- I got to basically sit in a room and hear Rachmaninoff, Glenn Gould
and Art Tatum play piano live. Read this review for a better
explanation of what they do than I can give…
http://www.zenph.com/pdf/Zenph%20-%20The%20Audiophile%20Voice%20Oct%202007.pdf
What really made my jaw drop to the floor was the demo of their new
“upright bass” - a thing that looks like “V…GER” from the first Star
Trek movie (geek check) and was made by somebody in Germany. They
played me an old Oscar Peterson recording with the piano & drums in a
pair of Magnepans and the bass separately reproduced on the gadget -
if you didn’t look you’d bet money that Ray Brown was standing there
playing bass.
Fun stuff. They told me sax & drums are next. When they figure out
how to do this with acoustic guitar, I want to hear Robert Johnson.
Here’s another funny explanation of a trending twitter topic by a brizzly.com user:
#ondefoisearchMeans “where was it” in Portuguese, in this case short for “Where Was It I Went Wrong?,” webseries or something by São Paulo boy band Replace. (Also confirms that forcing hashtags onto Trending Topics has replaced soccer/football as Brazilian national sport.)
Brizzly.com is a web service that allows you to view Twitter and Facebook feeds from the same page, even if you have multiple accounts. So I can toggle between my personal twitter feed and the TEDxRDU feed with ease, and Brizzly does some nice common-sense things like highlighting all of the messages I haven’t seen yet.
The reason I’m writing about Brizzly right now, though, is the way that it allows users to explain Twitter’s trending topics. People are generally pretty straightforward in their explanations, but occasionally gems like this explanation of #WeCoolAndAllBut come through:
This type of tweet strongly implies that the subject is viewed as a close acquaintance or friend, but despite this favored status, certain behaviors will always remain taboo.
E.g. “We cool and all, but I ain’t letting you in my apartment while I’m at work.”
In this context, “we” is an American way of saying “we’re”.
^Not “American”, but “Ghetto”. “We” Americans generally hate that speak.
In this context, “speak” is an American way of saying “way of speaking”, provided you ignore Orwell’s contributions to the English language, e.g. “newspeak” etc (Orwell was British)
^ Orwell was also an author of several novels. He was known to enjoy a pipe.
^ Pipes are conveyances for tobacco consumption.
^ ‘Conveyances’ has four syllables.
^ I’ll four syllable your mom.
^ Mom is a palindrome.
^ Mom is spelt Mum in the UK
Profit was the rule behind every choice we made. Although the end goal was always acquisition, my attitude was (and still is) that the best way to get yourself acquired is to be profitable. Profits prove the business is operating well. Profits validate the market. Profits make minimum valuation easy. Profits mean the buyer converts balance-sheet money into bottom-line profit-and-loss money — a trade every large company wants to make.
Most of all, profits mean you don’t need to sell, which gives you the ability to walk away from a deal. You have little negotiating power in any deal unless you can happily walk away.
On the other hand, I knew I would only be happy building a genuine, great company, where the product solves a real pain, where customers are given white-glove service, where “tech support” is the only sales force, where we leave the world a little better than we found it, and where every employee is smart and gets things done and is trusted with any decision.
” Jason Cohen, again from his excellent Rich vs. King in the Real World post, which you really should read in its entirety. There’s a simple graph in there that’s extremely powerful. Great stuff. Via @ruby, who is Jason’s cousin and a non-profit tech rockstar.