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ParkZone Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180
|17.0 in.
|2.15 oz. w/o battery, 2.55 oz. w/battery
|10.8 in.
|(4) Spektrum AS2000L long throw servo
|JR X9303 2.4 GHz
|Spektrum AR6400NBL DSM2 6ch. Ultra Micro
|E-flite 7.4V 2s 200mah (25C) lipo
|E-flite BL180 3000Kv brushless outrunner
|E-flite 3.75 in. x 3 in.
|Spektrum AR6400NBL DSM2 6ch. Ultra Micro
|Available From:
|Horizon Hobby
|Retail Price:
Just three short months after the successful release of the completely reengineered ParkZone F-27Q Stryker BNF, ParkZone has once again sent the ultra-micro scene stirring with the introduction of the ParkZone Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 BNF. The ParkZone Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is a scaled down version of its big brother, but delivers all the same breath-taking speed, climb performance, and off the charts maneuverability of the larger F-27Q Stryker.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 BNF, designed by world-renowned Quique Somenzini, sports an all new trim scheme and features new functional twin rudders, a powerful new E-flite 3000Kv 180 brushless outrunner motor, a built-in Spektrum AR6400NBL DSM2 receiver/ESC unit with AS2000L servos and a power packed E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) lipo battery and balancing charger. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 also features a convenient briefcase size traveling box which makes transporting this airplane to any of your favorite flying sites super easy.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180's insane performance capabilities are unlike anything else you have seen. Here is the video which really caught my attention!!
Click Here!!
Much like many of the other Ultra Micro series airplanes, the ParkZone Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is shipped in a very conveniently sized storage/traveling box which iss nicely lined with molded foam which custom fits the airplane, charger and battery. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 box resembles (and is sized very much like) a briefcase, which makes transporting and taking this airplane wherever you fly extremely easy no matter what size vehicle you have. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is held in the box with two foam pieces which are molded to fit perfectly around the airplane and prevent it from damage during transport. After gently removing the two foam pieces from the box I was able to inspect the airplane for any damage and take a closer look at some of the details on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180.
After verifying there was no damage (no surprise there) to the airplane I was immediately impressed by the level of details on this little airplane. The six-color covering scheme really POPS, and I knew that would be very helpful with keeping good orientation on this fast little bird. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is constructed almost exclusively out of durable EPS foam and comes with a damage-resistant rubber nose cone which will not compress or lose shape like a lot of foam nose cones will over time. Needless to say I was pretty excited to get this little hot rod in the air to see what it (and myself) was capable of!
The ParkZone Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 contains:
The ParkZone Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 requires:
Item used to complete the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180:
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 comes with a basic yet very informative manual which walks you through everything from how to properly charge the battery, binding your transmitter, adjusting control linkages, CG settings, flying tips and even how to safely repair your airplane if damaged. The photo-illustrations and well written text left little question as to how everything needed to be setup and properly moving before my first flight with the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180.
As with most ParkZone products you can find the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 manual conveniently on the Horizon Hobby website. I think this is a great idea as many airplanes are purchased second or even third hand and many times the included manuals are long gone. Having the manual available online allows the new owner to correctly setup the control surfaces and CG before their first flight.
As mentioned above the Ultra-Micro F-27Q Stryker requires a DSM2 or DSMX compatible transmitter in order to bind to the 6 channel AR6400NBL DSM2 receiver/ESC unit. Here is a list of the transmitters which are DSM2 compatible:
Unlike most binding practices with Spektrum receivers, the AR6400NBL does not require the use of any type of binding plug or even any type of contact with the receiver unit. Here are the simple steps needed to bind to the AR6400NBL receiver unit (using a JR X9303 tx):
That is all you need to do in order to bind the Spektrum AR6400NBL receiver unit to your DSM2/DSMX transmitter. Pretty easy!!
|6-channel ultra-micro receiver
|1.48 in. (37.6mm)
|1.12 in. (28.6mm)
|0.32 in. (8.0mm)
|0.28 oz. (7.8g)
|Voltage Range:
|6.4V-8.4V (2-cell LiPo)
|Antenna Length:
The great thing about BNF (bind-and-fly) airplanes is that there is absolutely no building or assembly required!! This is normally the section in my reviews where I would talk about how the assembly went on an airplane. However, since there is no assembly required on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 I thought I would instead focus on some of the really cool details and features that ParkZone incorporated into the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 comes with an E-flite 3000Kv 180 sized brushless motor which is pre-installed on a very robust plastic motor mount assembly. The plastic assembly actually extends down to the holding slots on the bottom of the wings and also extends almost the entire length between the twin rudders (see picture above). This makes for a very solid and robust setup for the motor. The motor wires are nicely concealed through a small hole in the back of the turtle deck area.
The 3.75 in. x 3 in. prop fits nicely between the twin rudders, and when spooled up, provides a tremendous amount of thrust for the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180. The prop is held to the motor shaft using a small screw.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 makes use of a very nice magnetic canopy hatch system which conceals a very generous battery compartment area. The canopy hatch also has a built-in ram air style cooling slot located in the front which aids in cooling the flight pack. There are additional cooling/venting slots located right above the Spektrum AR6400NBL receiver unit which ensure the receiver unit remains as cool as possible during those insane high speed runs down the field.
|Wire Gauge:
|Max. Continuous Discharge:
|Max. Continuous Current
|0.40 oz.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker's battery compartment is large enough to allow the stock E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) battery pack to be shifted giving each pilot the ability to fine tune the CG (center of gravity) based on their own personal preference. I can attest the CG can be dramatically altered by shifting the pack forward and aft in the battery tray compartment so only small changes should be made at a time. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 makes use of the same style battery connector as the rest of the Ultra Micro series airplanes. The E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) battery is held firmly in place in the battery compartment cavity by the use of velcro which is found on the bottom of the battery compartment cavity and the battery pack. The foam which surrounds the battery compartment cavity also helps to provide a nice snug fit for the E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) flight pack.
The fully functional twin rudders on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 are operated by two Spektrum AS2000L long throw servos which allow for plenty of deflection (and authority) in both directions. The rudder pushrods are protected from damage during landings thanks to plastic caps which enclose each of the Spektrum AS2000L servo rudder servos. The twin rudders really allow the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 to perform some absolutely CRAZY maneuvers (more on these later)!!
Another unique item on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is actually found on the wing itself. The airplane uses a much thinner airfoil then the first generation Strykers had, and the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 also makes use of items on the wings known as strakes. In the full scale world, strakes are commonly used as aerodynamic devices used to improve airflow and stall characteristics on the surface to which they are applied. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 has strakes on both wings close to the wing tips. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 also has a cut back leading edge section on each wing just forward of each twin rudder. Both of these items aid in the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180's outstanding flight characteristics (see video below).
Much like the rudder setup, the elevon setup on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 uses two Spektrum AS2000L long throw servos which were nicely protected through the use of a couple of plastic caps. The elevon pushrods are much shorter than the rudder pushrods which I knew would translate into an immediate response from the elevons whenever stick inputs were given. If any adjustments are needed to center either of the rudder or elevon control surfaces mechanically there is a U shaped section on each pushrod which can be contracted or expanded using a small pair of pliers. No pushrod adjustments were required on my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 as all my control surfaces centered perfectly right out of the box.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180's unique features just keep on coming!! For those pilots who might need to land on hard surfaces the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is equipped with a small nose wheel landing gear and hard plastic fin skids just below the twin rudders. The nose wheel and fins skids allow the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 to safely land on hard surfaces without damaging the airframe.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 also features a rubber nose cone instead of the usual foam one which was found on the original Strykers. The nice thing about the rudder nose cone on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is that it will not compress like other foam nose cones and is much more resilient during those less than perfect landings. The rubber nose cone can also be easily replaced or repaired by using foam compatible CA glue (as can the rest of the airframe). One word of caution: If you do need to do any repairs using foam compatible CA glue be sure to go lightly on the accelerator (kicker). The paint on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 can be removed should you happen to touch it when it is wet from the accelerator. Just be sure the accelerator has dried before touching any painted surface on the airplane.
|Ultra Micro Aircraft
|2.8oz. of force
|.14 sec
|.66 in. (16.9mm)
|.87 in. (22.0mm)
|.33 in. (8.2mm)
|Gear Type:
The recommended starting CG called out in the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 manual is 67mm (2.6 in.) forward from the firewall at the back of the fuselage. What is nice is the manual actually tells you this CG is attained by placing the E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) pack in the center of the battery compartment cavity. This is definitely a great starting point while learning the flight characteristics of the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180. However, for my personal flying style I have placed my E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) battery pack as far aft in the battery cavity as possible.
Dual rates were setup per the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 instruction manual.
|6mm (U/D)
|12mm (U/D)
|5mm (U/D)
|12mm (U/D)
|Max. Travel
|Max. Travel
|Expo. Settings
After flying my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 for several flights I discovered the recommended expo. settings were just a bit low for my liking, especially on the ailerons and elevator. I have since increased my expo. settings slightly on the ailerons and elevator to those listed below. My new expo. settings have really allowed me to feel more connected with my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180, and I now find myself more comfortable in exploring the full flight envelope of this great flying little airplane.
Celectra LED functions under normal operation.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 comes with an E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) lipo battery. The battery is charged with the included Celectra 2s 7.4V DC charger. The only thing you need to provide is a power supply unit or lead acid battery to power the Celectra DC charger. The Celectra charger is very easy to operate and does a great job of charging AND balancing the E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) battery pack. Flight times on the E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) pack will vary depending on your flying style and throttle management (or lack of), but I have been seeing between 7-9 minutes of flight time with my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180.
If you happen to forget to set your timer when flying the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 the motor will actually start to pulsate once the battery is nearing LVC (low voltage cutoff). If you start to hear the motor pulsate that is a sure indication it is time to land.
|My personal expo. settings
I have to admit I was a little hesitant about hand launching my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 for the first time and then being able to get my hand back on the transmitter to fly it. So for the first couple of launches I enlisted the support of my friend James Hugg to hand launch it for me until I was comfortable with the flight characteristics of the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180. The airplane has built-in finger grips molded into the bottom of the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 which give you a convenient place to hold the airplane during the launch sequence.
To launch the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 all you need to do is hold the airplane by the finger grips, point the nose into the wind with a slight nose up attitude (5-10 degrees), and then give a nice firm throw. The throttle should be off until the airplane has safely left your hand. This is to avoid the spinning propeller from possibly cutting your hand.
After nearly 45 flights on my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 I am now more than comfortable hand launching the airplane myself. One item I have added to assist me during my launches is that I have programmed in a small amount of up elevator which helps keep the nose pointed up after it has left my hands. I put this program on a switch on my JR X9303 transmitter so that once the airplane is launched I can easily flip the switch to remove the up elevator. This setup has really worked out well for me!!
Once the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 has left your hand all you need to do is throttle up and this little airplane produces all kinds of power on its quest to go skyward. The throttle response on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is nearly instantaneous and some diligence is needed to prevent the airplane from becoming a speck in the sky (which can happen quickly). I was pleasantly surprised to see how stable the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 was in the air and how it was easily able to penetrate through a small amount of wind (5-7mph).
Using low rate elevon settings the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 tracks quite well and offers a very LARGE speed envelope from which to explore. At high speeds the airplane is very maneuverable even on low rates and racing from one end of my flying field to the other seemed to happen in only a few short seconds. The low rate elevon setting produces a fairly active but not overly aggressive roll rate and definitely one I felt comfortable with right away.
The twin rudders are really what make this delta wing airplane stand out!! The twin rudders have tons of authority and easily allow for wing over/hammerheads as well as very fast snapping maneuvers. My increased rudder expo. definitely helping tame the twin rudders down to my personal liking. Rolling the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 inverted revealed the airplane required a slight push of down elevator to maintain level flight. The power to weight ratio on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is nothing less than impressive!! On a fresh E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) battery pack the airplanes rate of climb is off the charts and the only limiting factor will be your ability to still see the airplane. While the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 has no problem burning up the sky all day long I was also very impressed by its ability to fly stable at slow speeds, in particular when it comes to landing.
The easiest way to land the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is to take the airplane up high, point the airplane into the wind, and then switch over to and apply high rate up elevator. What you end up getting is the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 descending in a super stable elevator maneuver which you can fly all the way down to the ground (if flown over grass). I was simply amazed at how stable the elevator maneuver could be performed on an airplane that only weighs 2.55 oz. RTF!!!
The twin rudders and ailerons remain quite effective during this kind of landing sequence and can be used to keep the nose of the airplane in the wind as well as remove any kind of wind induced wing rock if needed. Of course the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 can also be landed in a more conventional style which simply requires partial power (1/3 to 1/4) and enough energy to maintain a proper flair once in ground effects. It is EXTEMELY important with every landing style you use that the throttle is reduced to idle PRIOR to the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 touching down. If the throttle is still on during the landing you risk permanently damaging the motor, ESC, and propeller.
While the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is equipped with a nose wheel landing gear and bottom fin skids I have not had the need to land the airplane on a hard surface to test how these items work. For me it is just not worth the risk damaging the propeller when I have just miles of grass around me here in Ohio. It is nice knowing though that the option is there should I happen to fly the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 in an area which does not offer a grassy landing area.
To me this is where the fun really begins with the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180. To say I am having a blast with my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 would be a complete understatement. Just flip the dual rates up to high and stand back and enjoy the show! This airplane really sets itself apart from the rest when it comes to flying some really cool maneuvers. The old term, "Turn and burn" can be easily applied to the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 as it can bank and change directions faster than you can blink an eye when on high rates. The airplane has a very fast yet controllable roll rate when the dual rates are flipped up and I can honestly say I was very thankful Quique Somenzini took the time to ensure there was plenty of color trim distinctions between the top and the bottom of the airplane to aid in keeping orientation of my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180.
O.K. I will be the first to admit I had no idea what my buddy was talking about when he asked me the following question, "So can the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 fly a boomerang?" I was like a deer being caught in the headlights of an oncoming car. I guess I had never heard the term boomerang when it came to flying airplanes. As I later came to find out it refers to some delta wing airplanes ability to spin at excessive rate. The boomerang can be performed either upright or inverted and is equivalent to what most of us would call a flat spin. I think the boomerang is about a step or two above the normal flat spin especially when it comes to the aggressive spin that can be produced.
After doing some research on the boomerang maneuver and incorporating some of the techniques I learned I can safely say the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 can not only perform both upright and inverted boomerangs but it can fly them extremely well!! The key to flying the boomerang is all in the entry. The entry really helps to determine how successful you will be able to fly the boomerang. I personally find I can consistently put my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 into a crazy gyrating inverted boomerang much easier than I can an upright. Both require some practice and technique in order to fly consistently all the time and I am just having so much fun doing so. What is interesting to note is that neither the upright nor the inverted spin require power to be on in order to tighten the spin. It really all comes down to technique!
For those of you looking for some good advice on how to fly an upright boomerang, David Eichstedt, a Horizon Hobby employee, posted this in the ParkZone's Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 thread here on RCGroups. I have been using this technique myself and find my upright boomerangs are becoming much easier and consistent to fly.
David Eichstedt quote (August 13, 2011)
"Yes! We can even get the Ultra-micro to Boomerang upright.
Low-rate elevator, high-rate aileron Enter a normal spin, full up, full aileron & rudder same direction; Next, rapidly reverse the aileron & elevator to full down & opposite aileron. This has to be timed properly with a flipping motion you'll see in the snap. Last, smoothly reverse the rudder to full opposite (aileron & rudder are now both opposite the way you started) and she'll wind up into an upright boomerang."
I highly recommend you have plenty of altitude (2 to 3 mistakes high) before performing any kind of boomerang maneuver with the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 as you will need extra time just for recovery (if not flown all the way to the ground). Recovery from either the upright or inverted boomerang usually involves neutralizing or possibly applying opposite control input to reduce the spin rate to regain directional heading and then applying throttle to fly out.
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is also capable of performing blenders. Yep, that's right, blenders! The best way to fly these is to take the airplane way up and then close the throttle while pointing the nose straight to the ground while applying full aileron. When you want the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 to blender simply feed in full opposite rudder and down elevator simultaneously and the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 will transition into a nice inverted flat spin which could ultimately result in a - you guessed it - boomerang, really fun maneuver to fly!!
The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 also has no problem performing parachute maneuvers. This maneuver once again will require some altitude. To enter from upright simply reduce the throttle, push the nose to a vertical downline, and then apply full up elevator to immediately stop the descent. What is cool about this maneuver is you can actually continue flying the airplane all the way down to the ground in an elevator style maneuver. SWEET!!
While the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is surprisingly robust for its size and can be flown with great precision on low rates I would not recommend it for the beginner pilot. The Horizon Hobby website clearly recommends the airplane for intermediate skill level pilots. This would make for a great 3rd airplane for someone who has mastered the basics of r/c flight.
The ParkZone Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 BNF is an absolute blast to fly, and thanks to the convenient travel/storage box you can take it with you wherever you go. The airplane has proven to me that good things do come in small packages. The Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 offers a vast flight envelope that is sure to please everyone from the Sunday flyer to the speed junkies and even the thrill seeking pilots among us. The airplanes unique ability to perform such maneuvers as blenders, parachutes, elevators, and those crazy boomerang maneuvers makes it a very versatile and extremely fun airplane to fly.
I have been very impressed with the durability of the airframe and its ability to withstand some serious G forces. The unique thin wing airfoil really allows the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 to penetrate the air and doesn't seem to be bothered much by light winds. The included power package truly delivers awesome performance and provides the perfect combination of power and reliability.
The ultra-micro scene is rapidly expanding and growing every day and ParkZone/Horizon Hobby has become the leader in providing these innovative models to the r/c community. I look forward to seeing what ParkZone/Horizon Hobby has to offer in the future with the ever growing interest in the ultra-micro flyer. Until that time comes I will happily enjoy flying my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 at my r/c field and at my local soccer fields. Now the only thing I need is to buy are some more E-flite 2s 200mah (25C) battery packs so I can fly my Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 all day long!!
For those of you looking to gain additional insight as well see some other member videos and flight reports on the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 here is a great thread you can use to follow all the action:
|ParkZone's Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 BNF
Special Note: I would especially like to thank my good friend, photo and video guy, Jim Hugg for helping me out with this review. I'm pretty sure I had the easy part when it came to flying the airplane for the photo and video shoots. It is not easy trying to take quality photos and video of an airplane with a 17 in. wingspan that can cover a lot of ground in a small amount of time like the Ultra Micro F-27Q Stryker 180 is capable of. Jim did a terrific job behind the lenses and I am truly grateful for his support and the desire he has to capture quality media.Last edited by Angela H; Sep 07, 2011 at 12:24 PM..
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Pretty hard to resist this one! Has anyone done a radar or doppler pass to measure top speed? It sure looks fast, but small planes are hard to estimate because they seem to be flying faster than they really are.
I found what I wanted. 51 mph is smokin' fast for something this small and maneuverable. It will be interesting to see how fast we can get these to go.
Last edited by minirips2; Sep 08, 2011 at 08:10 AM.
Nice review and I agree with everything you say about the fun factor.
My only gripe is with the charger (another charger..) and the lack of wall adapter and even basic info on required voltage supply, which is not in the manual, I've checked.
I assumed it had to be 12V, the banana clips suggested as much but for those of us who are city dwellers and don't have a car battery lying about in the apartment it's a bit of a head scratcher: I mean, are we supposed to rig 8 alkalines?
I eventually found a external disk drive wall adapter that supplies 12V and fits so problem solved but some info would've been nice, maybe even parts number for a HH wall adapter assuming they have it?
Cool review.
Here's my cons which btw are very largely overtaken by all the pros (i love this plane):
- could be slightly more crash resistant "stock"
- edges and elevon edges aren't taped, should be
- on frontal impact the nose doesn't not necessarily pop, it often just break the plastic retainer and the "fuselage" at the finger launch area. glued nose seems to fix that interestingly
- canopy with air intake can fly off during flight on windy days when you go real fast (i lost mine that way). Note that its still rare enough.
-stupid charger/plugs. standards please.
This UMX 180 is highly interesting (I fly a home brew version of the F-27C).
Thanks for an informative review! Might just be THE plane I've been looking for.
This is the equivalent of the full size Stryker not the ultra-micro. And if you fly both together, the Jumpjet is not even getting close to the full size Stryker. (Plus you get only 5 minutes of flight on a 2200mah battery....) Still a fun airplane to own, but in my book, not half as fun to fly as a Stryker (small or big). Only good point is the fact that it does track like it's on rails. Better be, nose is rather fragile!
Sorry we did not get the optional power supply and ratings to you where you expected it, will try to do better. Please note the rating and an optional supply for each region of the world is found on page 67 of the manual (optional items).
We certainly don't want customers who already own 12V power supplies to have to by 'another power supply'. (We sometimes take a different approach with beginner product.)
Best Regards,
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Everyone's favorite thing to do, right? Trying to brand themselves. I havn't done that yet, and thought "I seriously need to do this." I decided I would drop my last name, since, well, eventually I will get married and my name will change. So I chose to go with my middle name instead.
In designing, I wanted people to recognize me based on my personality. I chose to make a map of the many different sides to me and go with the one most people noticed about me. Which is also where my inspiration for my branding came from.
I was inspired by the crystal from the chandelier to be the shape to keep my name in. I feel like other brands keep theirs in a circle, which I did not want to do. I also wanted it so I could use just the shape and people would know who it went to.
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25 years ago:
Ballet Lubbock and the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra will join forces for a performance Sept. 3 at the Civic Center Theater, the event serving as the opening of the 1987 Lubbock Music Festival.
50 years ago:
Snowhite Bakery at 34th and College Avenue offers a special of fresh rum cake at 89 cents and wedding cakes for $12.
75 years ago:
The problem of men taking off their hats when they enter elevators and tipping them when their arms are of full of bundles, or even when the wind is blowing "has got to be revolutionized," a Lubbock businessman said. In like manner, girl elevator operators in Lubbock think that they "had just as soon that men keep their hats on when entering my elevator."
100 years ago:
Gaines County — The Gaines County Commissioners have appropriated $500 as bounty money for rabbit scalps to be paid out at the rate of four cents per pair of ears. If the Gaines County people get after the rabbits like the boys around Lubbock did when a similar inducement was held out, the court might as well make additional appropriation to begin with if they expect to pay for all that come in.


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First of all, one of our relatives gave my mom a Samsung Galaxy tab 7.0 Korean clone tablet, but the real device name is Softwinners V706, which runs on android 4.0.4. and has 5.05gb of sd or internal storage. First it was very descent, easy to use. But then, When I install apps on google play like Hungry Shark Evo, Dead Trigger, apps with very large files, an error pop up and said "Couldn't install on USB storage or SD card". The solution was unmount the External memory card then mount it back again. But the tablet we were using didn't have an External memory card yet. And here's another problem. I tried to move apps to INTERNAL memory of the tablet, an example was the game "pou", It won't save. what I mean about it wont save, it becomes some thing like this, "me.pou.app", and becomes missing on the app drawer. another is the pictures and even screenshots, it won't save on the Internal memory of the tablet. We are new to this android thing. Please help us! I used the camera of my phone because the tablet won't save pictures for the screenshots.
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The idea for a not-too-serious poetry competition seemed somehow seasonal, chiming with 21st century nostalgia for lamp-lit holly on Victorian front doors and merry parlour-games inside. The perfect festive subject, Fruit, was proposed by top-doggerelist and New Fruitalist cynicalsteve.
Then rules were added. Poems were to be titled Sole Fruit or Soul Fruit. The poem had to be between four and 14 lines long, contain one archaic word, one word beginning "Cy..." or ending " ...ade", one rhetorical figure and one proverb. Oh, and the word "last" should appear in the first line. Simple!
The last-first device produced a variety of opening flourishes: "James Last and his orchestra", (LaxativeFunction), "And in my last dream" (Parisa), "Last winter it was Roses's Lime Cordial" (nayfnu), "In your last despatch to Tanzania you said" (Ishouldapologise), "On the last occasion my transformation remained incomplete" (Obooki) - all strong first lines that invite the reader into the poem.
"At last it's come, that time of year/ to raise a glass and give good cheer/ for all to sup on festive elixir/ with lemonade as the mixer" began 'annfranksdrumkit', who also added a neat twist to the rhetorical figure rule: "So crates of ale are bought and drunk" ("So crates", of course, being the rhetorical figure). Archaic words included grice, zounds, betwixt, medlar, thole, thee, cymar and cyan (the entrants, as you'll have realised by now, were often rather deft at killing two rule-birds with one stone).
The proverb rule was the one most often shelved (a lapse generally forgiven by the voters). There were aphorisms in plenty, and some of the short poems were almost proverbs in themselves. Anarchyrises deftly turned a commonplace maxim and a cliché into mysterious foody metaphor: "'The proof of the pudding is in the eating'/ She said and vanished/ In the world -her oyster-" and there were variations such as "He who laughs first laughs last" (AncientMisanthrope) and "does absinthe make the heart grow fonder?" (annfranksdrumkit). Parisa gave us a Japanese saying ("Ingwa na ko" meaning "a Karma child") and, generously, a link to an excellent site, packed with Japanese proverbs.
Entries, which can be read here and here, included pithy miniatures (Sunman, AncientMisanthrope) and sturdily-branched sonnets (CJUnderwood, ProfessionalPirate). Limitations of topic did not militate against range of theme - from the secrets of porn movie sound-effects to the Crusades. Oranges featured heavily, less often in the poems than in the lavishly wide-ranging conversation that surrounded them - "Orangium ad absurdum" as someone put it. Even Gerard Manley Hopkins acquired a fruitonym, "Gerard Manly Pippins". Wit and verbal sparkle were abundant. It was a season of slightly wild, mostly mellow, sometimes hilarious verbal fruitfulness.
Lust and love were unsurprisingly popular subjects ... And what was in the mind of MeltonMowbray, whose poem began: "I hope it's the phrase you pick up last/ when spilling sauce on your Prada suit/ There's more than enough fustian and bombast/ and no need for declaiming 'Ah! Sole Fruit!'?"
The competition produced a pleasurable focus on language itself. I rather liked the way JonCG took a media-blunted phrase to indicate the "turn" in his poem: "Last time round/ we ate the figs, drank the wine and sweltered under covers.// Climates change.// Wind now slicks the gaps between us,/ ice cracks the glue of our façade." There were some marvellous colours, sounds, tastes and textures, as in sylvianew's account of the Agenais plum-prune harvest, a sensuous piece of writing that found a successfully low-key ending: ("Soul fruit, life blood of these villages/ perched on hill tops in their ancient walls.") and PractisingArtist's exotic, mouth-watering name-listing: "Fade last Manila tamarind, Arecaceae/ opiuma, Monkeypod, Madras thorn/ plum feast, vanilla, Jungle jalebi..."
"At last! A task I'm worthy of,/ A poem about fruit/ Just a niggling question, though/ What about the loot?" misharialadwani wrote, not strictly an entry (though it won a vote for wit), but a well-put question. I am afraid the loot for the fruit is a matter of soul not flesh. One of the contributors, 'dropinbucket', said something very pleasing: "I already won my prize: I wrote something that means something in my world." If a competition provokes you to write something that is significant for you and perhaps your readers, it's served the best purpose possible.
I thoroughly approve the choice of winning poem. I'd have liked a longer list of runners-up, perhaps. Good poems were nominated, yes: but some striking poems got ignored. This happens in every competition. At least the readers here can remedy it. Take a look back at the December 17 and Christmas Eve entries, and you'll see that the winning poems here are the tip of a many-coloured iceberg.
Congratulations to Billy Mills for a well-deserved win by three votes for a beautifully poised and focused short poem, in which every word earns its place. His Soul Fruit thus becomes our new Poem of the Week.
Mills's poem is an elegy, one dominated by a last day and last words, and by that ominous image of the "bitter crab" (cancer?) which "tholes" (endures) the different weathers and is visible, symbolically, even in the burning winter sunset. There is a casual throw-away quality in the opening parenthesis: "(last day)" appears to be added as an afterthought (though in fact it is made more visible by the same device) and, later, the use of ampersands increases that sense of life flowing carelessly on. But the strong images and densely meaningful single words like "cyaneous" (with hints at cyanide as well as deep blue sky) fight back and seem to fix the death, emblazon it as something more timeless and powerful. The very brevity of the poem adds to its impact. It is a distillation.
Soul Fruit by Billy Mills
on that cyaneous day (her last) she turned & said "a tree is known by its fruit"
hers was the bitter crab that tholes all frost & city smog & glows in deepest winter gold
Freepoland, Nihualahain and Lantern are the runners-up, with two votes each. One vote each went to anarchyrisis, misharialadwani, annfranksdrumkit, PractsingArtist, JonCG, and Obooki. Many more were mentioned favourably in the course of the post: ProfessionalPirate, nayfnu, Parisa, sylvianew, CJUnderwood, Ishouldapologise, to name a few. Though it is a commonplace of competition reports, I have to be honest and say that I found things to admire in all the fruits of your labours. Many thanks to the writers, voters, critics and conversationalists who took part and made it such a vibrant, enjoyable exercise.


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This was the subject line for some spam I got today:
You are in a maze twisty little passages, all alike
A reference to Colossal Cave Adventure, commonly seen as one of the first mass-marketed computer games. How likely are serious computer geeks to fall for spam? (It was porn spam, so maybe the spammers figure once they got their intended audience to open the message, they'd turn into link-clicking zombies.)
Down in Woodstock, NY, after we finished filming some pickup footage for the documentary we're doing on Juma Sultan, Steve Doheny-Farina and I decided to drive around on the backroads looking for Big Pink, the house where The Band [wikipedia link] recorded their famous album [another wikipedia link; if you don't own it, you should—hit any used record store or amazon].
It took a lot of map-reading, guessing, and driving, but we found it. Steve initially wanted to run up to the house and pose in front of it, but it looked like it was currently occupied, and it was 8 am, so we settled for a drive-by shot out the van window.
During the last class I taught at Purdue, I went to the whiteboard at the front of the lab and wrote down some notes. Then I tried to erase them—no go. Some witty person had put a big, black El Marko permanent marker in the tray of the whiteboard in the lab. Very funny. The maintenance crew for the building had some sort of super-special spray that took it off, but here's a simpler solution from LifeHacker that involves a regular dry erase marker and an eraser.
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There's nothing more pathetic (and therefore, funny) than geeks attempting to be hip. (I know because I keep trying it, and I sound stupid. Hip is contextual, so pretty much anything I can get away with—long hair, painted fingernails, dreads—becomes evacuated of any real social resistance or hip-ossitude. Word up.) From the intentionally self-ironic Defective Yeti:
Me: Look, gmail now has built-in chat functionality. After years of avoiding the siren song of Instant Messaging it has now been unwillingly foisted upon me, and I therefore have no choice but to use my newly acquired powers to pester you at work. I shall do so every half an hour from this day forward.
L: You're bluffing.
M: Is that a challenge? OH IT'S ON!
M: I'm going to invent a light switch that shouts "OH, IT'S ON!" whenever you flip it up.
M: You know, for the blind.
M: Then I'll create a knockoff for kids that says "OH, IT'S ON ... BIATCH!"
L: I don't think kids have been saying "biatch" since 1998.
M: No way. If I'm still saying a catchphrase it is hip by definition.
L: And I'm pretty sure it's spelled "biotch." It's so played that it's probably in the MS Word spellchecker by now. I'll verify.
M: You'll start typing it and clippy will pop up and say: "It looks like you are trying to 'give mad props' to your 'peeps' ..."
L: Word actually says that it's "biotech."
L: (Feel free to make something funny out of that for your blog)
M: Um, thanks
L: It could be funny!
M: Yeah, but if I have to work to make it funny, it's not much of a gift. That's all I'm saying.
L: It's the seed of inspiration.
M: You people. You're always, like, "Hey, I ate a tuna sandwich yesterday. Feel free to couch that in the context of a some wacky and completely fictitious events, invent a bunch of humorous dialog to accompany it, and use it on your blog!!"
L: Whatever. Someday you'll be hard up for material and just cut and paste this conversation into a post, I'm sure.
M: Is that a challenge? OH IT'S ON ... BIOTECH!
L: And curtain.
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Collin Brooke offers some useful advice to people working on dissertations, particularly his comments about thinking that anyone's dissertation is going to effect a tectonic change in their field.
And really, none of these things speak to the quality of a given dissertation (or lack thereof). It's tempting, I think, to go into the process thinking that this is your great contribution, and that by now, you've acquired the skills you need to in order to "join the profession." For me, this attitude resulted in a vast overestimation of what I needed to accomplish in my dissertation--the fact of the matter was and is that my dissertation did not "change the discipline," except in very indirect ways (and then only probably once my first book is finished).
When I was working on my dissertation, I thought the fields of rhet/comp and tech comm would suddenly sit up and say, "Damn, we've just been stooopid all this time. I'm glad Johndan showed us the light. Now we shall make him our King."
Sadly, I was wrong, both in terms of the results I expected and the profundity of my thoughts. Dissertations are a bizarre genre, and many things in that bizarre nature work against any lone grad student effecting real change. Notice that I'm not saying that grad students can't have paradigm shifting ideas, only that a dissertation is the completely wrong form for them to have any effect on the field. The whole lit review section is way messed up, designed more to display your knowledge than inform the reader. The artificial timeframe they're completed under doesn't allow you to pause for six months or a year if you need to (I think I can speak from experience in saying that completing book-length projects sometimes requires you to do nothing but just sit and think--and produce nothing that looks useful--for six months or a year or more sometimes). And committees frequently include members in areas outside of your specific interest, let alone your discipline. Face it: The dissertation, at best, is the zero draft of a book or handful of articles. In most cases, it's a learning experience, and something you might have to just file and move on from.
About a decade ago, at a rhet/comp party at Purdue just after I moved there, a couple of grad students gathered around the keg were sharing stories about how traumatic their dissertating experiences were. During a pause in the conversation, I stopped pumping the tap and said, "You don't ever get over it, either. I'm still recovering from my dissertation." Janice Lauer, in the middle of a different conversation about five feet away and about two years from retirement, wheeled around and said, "I'm still recovering from my dissertation."
So basically, I guess I'm saying there's not end in sight, and don't try to solve the world's problems in 300 double-spaced pages. Just get your degree (and "Pass Without Embarrassment"), then get on with the real work of solving the world's problems.
While I'm acting old and wise, I'll pass on some other bits of wisdom I've received:
1. In graduate school, Steve Loughrin-Sacco, the prof I was relying on to teach me enough French to pass my exams, said, "Keep your dissertation limited. I felt like I needed to do my whole life's work in that thing. Keep it simple. Find a tiny, but slightly important to deal with." He was right.
2. [And even more off-topic, but still related to grad students] Back in the 1990s, when I interviewed at Purdue for a Asst. Prof. job, after a long dinner in which Jim Berlin explained theories and experiences about gas station demographics and publicity (this conversation lasted more than an hour), in the parking lot he shook my hand, wished me luck, and said, "Always ask for more money. All they can do is say no." Words to live by when you're trapped in a capitalist society.
[via Collin vs. Blog]
Update: Jonathan Bailey sent me a note with some additional rationale behind his piece, as well as some plans for revision based on comments he's received. I offered him some additional constructive feedback; I'll post a link to the new piece he said he's working on when it's posted.
In a somewhat odd piece at Plagiarism Today, Jonathan Bailey takes weblogs to task for failing to add enough "original" content to material they quote from other sites. The piece begins (in both title and initial paragraph) by labeling the practice "the new plagiarism" (and cites a few sources that agree with him), a move that he later admits was a mistake (in an update at the end of the article) because plagiarism and fair use of intellectual property are different issues—he's apparently more interested in the latter. (He also sounds a little resentful and places the blame for this miscommunication on the reader, and so far has failed to update the incendiary title and opening paragraph. I guess he's enjoying the notoriety.)
But aside from that issue, there are some fundamental problems with Bailey's attempt at linking intellectual property theft to weblogs that are primarily attributed quotes and links:
These sites, which for this article I'll simply call "gray", are generally identified by a large number of very short posts, with much of it in block quotes or otherwise directly lifted content. Though they meticulously credit their sources, bowing to more traditional rules for blog attribution, and work to add at least some original content, usually over half of their material comes from other sources.[...]
While certainly grey blogs don't pose the same threat or raise the same concerns as spam blogs and other content scrapers, the cause for concern is clear. Even though blogging is about sharing and reusing information, excessive sharing threatens the authors penning the original content. The tale of the goose laying the golden egg springs to mind as, quite simply, greed can be the blogging world's biggest enemy.
Here's a parallel, more traditional situation that might clarify things. Compiling resources from very scattered bits of information is a relatively old, accepted method of authorship. Documentaries, for example, are frequently composed of pieces of information that a documentary filmmaker has gathered from original sources by archival research and interview, often with only a very small amount of "original" narration and titling to provide some sort of narrative cohesion. The creative work in such objects comes from the activity of locating those bits of useful information and bringing them together into a single place. The "gray area" weblogs that Bailey critiques are much like that: collections of disparate information from a wide variety of sources. So Datacloud, for example, attempts (in general) to provide an ongoing set of links to conceptual and practical work that demonstrates the trends that I talked about in the printed book. I spend an embarrassingly large amount of time in NetNewsWatcher reading RSS feeds (I think I subscribe to something around 200 feeds) under the assumption that the small number of people who read Datacloud don't also read those same 200 feeds. I'd feel differently about this if I was, say, doing nothing but subscribing to an RSS feed of Boing Boing, putting the material in blockquote tags, and republishing that as my own Weblog. But I'm not.
So I guess the crux of the issue is both in how Bailey understands creative work—for him, the use of "original" words is paramount, and in how he tries to link other sorts of work to the ethical and legal issue of intellectual property theft. (I do agree somewhat with Bailey's comments about blogs that quote full articles, given that it discourages readers from visiting the source site. He should have left his critique at that (which has nothing to do with proportions of original and quoted text) and not tossed in the inaccurate "plagiarism" tag in an attempt to generate controversy.
Oddly, most of what I do post at Datacloud typically includes very little of my own text. I guess that's because I usually agree with things I'm linking to. I almost deleted much of my own text above because I didn't want it to look like I was agreeing with Bailey's proposed restrictions, but I guess I'll leave it sit.
There's also an animated /. discussion of the article you can read/participate in, which is where the inaccuracies of Bailey's terms was originally identified.
10 Ways from Getty Images has an experiential, conceptual site on photography that you should look at. Below is from the Information section (each image, when you zoom down into it, is composed of other, radically different images which you perceive only as pixels in the higher-up views). Other concepts covered include Light, Space, Memory, Color, Truth, Time, Transformation, and more. (Heavy-duty Flash and Shockwave use, but it's worth it to wait for the pieces to load.)
[via basement.org]
Underdog, Spork, and I went to the Birchbark Bookstore yesterday—50,000+ used books in a restored barn on a back road about fifteen minutes from our house. We go there about twice a month, because the selection is so good and the prices are extremely low ($1 - $2 for paperbacks). I'm not much of a browser—at those prices, if something looks potentially interesting, I just grab it.
After about twenty minutes, I tracked down Spork to see if she was ready to leave. She looked at the thirty books I had jammed into my canvas carrying bag and said, "Dude, you're like Katamari. You pick up everything you roll over. Slow down."
There's an mp3 of Bruce Sterling's talk on the future of media arts posted. You might want to take a detour through Worldchanging's post on Sterling's talk (they label him "Ally #1"), which includes some extremely useful background links.
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Norm Chomsky's first gig went ok—when Selber and I were in grad school, we ignored all that overwrought focus on "pass with honor" and "pass with high honor" for our exams and maintained a strict policy of "pass without embarrassment."
Norm Chomsky passed without embarrassment (although I had to explain that the real Noam Chomsky wasn't there to a couple of people). We spent most of yesterday and today rehearsing, setting up on a porch to play out to an audience on the lawn and near a bonfire. We set up a JBL PA system, several monitors, several amps, three mics, and two mixers. Then we tested an infinite number of variations of mixes among the amps, drums, and PA system to get all the wrinkles ironed out.
On the way to the party, Underdog said, "I can't believe you didn't set rain date."
So today, it rained. The Weather Channel actually predicted hail, so I guess we got off easy. It was only in the low 40s. (Welcome to late May in the North Country.) Several dozen people actually stood out on the lawn, in the near-freezing rain, for the whole show, and clapped and yelled.
I think they were holding up lighters, but the rain was snuffing them out. (The rest of our audience gathered in the house and gave out muffled claps occasionally, and later told us they'd like our muffled sounds.)
But mainly I posted this pic to show the new "Hello, Kitty" guitar strap I bought last week. ($13.99 from Musician's Friend.)
(I'm not sure what song I'm singing here, but it's either the Woody Guthrie/Billy Bragg/Wilco "All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose" or Camper Van Beethoven's "Take the Skinheads Bowling".) There are a couple more pics at my Flickr site; I'll post some more later after I get OKs from my bandmates.
Web Zen this week covers Error 404 messages (including several archives of Error 404 messages, as well as some individually outstanding ones). Scintilla's seems to scroll on, dirgelike, forever, with the server becoming, by turns, apologetic, depressed, angry, and apologetic again about the situation. Here's the first few of several dozen lines:
No /404 here.
Even tried multi.
Nothing helped.
I'm really depressed about this.
You see, I'm just a web server...
-- here I am, brain the size of the universe,
trying to serve you a simple web page,
and then it doesn't even exist!_
It's not clear that LeapFish's analysis is accurate, but according to them I could sell johndan.com for more than $18k. Damn, I wish that was true, because it'd be the most valuable thing I own outside of my house, and it'd put Spork nearly 40% of the way through her first year at Skidmore. Let me know if you want to make a bid.
Here's LeapFish's rationale for pricing:
The .com top level domain is the most valuable extension because of it's long history. It has also been advertised in every form so when people think of a domain name, they instantly add .com to the end of it when typing it in. This TLD alone makes your domain name valuable.
As any good domain should, this name does not contain numbers, hyphens, or unicode characters. This is a desirable effect and may not increase the value of your domain name, but it definitly won't decrease it.
Your domain name contains two Dictionary.com entries. There are names like this that are more valuable than a single dictionary word and when paired correctly, these words can be much easier to remember than a single dictionary word. An example would be, LeapFish.com is much easier to remember than Imprescriptible.com .
This domain name contains 7 or more characters. These names are not valued for there length as much as they are for their lexical context. If your domain name contains say 9 characters randomly like jyuxbeplz.com then you have no inherent value contextually or lengthwise. It is nearly impossible to design an AI system to see how a human will react and memorize a domain name, that said, you should use your own judgement to see if the length of this name is suitable.
Maybe they're right. I've noticed, over the last three or four years, that it's become more difficult for me to register "johndan" as a userid on services. When I registered my IM account at AOL, I tried "johndan" and quickly found out that had been taken years ago; so I decided to just start appending various numbers, and ran through "2000", "zero", "beta", and then "1" counting up. I gave that last one up after, like, "9" and switched to spelling out numbers (under the assumption that new users would want shorter usernames, so spelled out version would be less deleted). I got to "johndanseven" before I hit an opening.
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HowStuffWorks has a retrospective of 1980s tech, including PCs, camcorders, cellphones, and more (along with plain-language technical explanations). Most of the technology appears outsized and cartoonish compared to today's incarnations (like the early cellphone above—not something you're going to stick in your front pocket).
I can remember driving with a realtor in the early 1980s. He had the predecessor of the cell phone -- an in-car radio phone. The way this worked was simple. There was a big radio tower in the middle of the city. The car had a big radio in the trunk -- This was a huge 25 watt radio transmitter/receiver. Inside the car was a handset and a button panel that let you choose between one of four different channels. Yes, in the early 1980s, the entire city of Raleigh, NC was served by four radio telephone channels. That's how rare car radio phones were at that time. They were incredibly expensive.
Several decades from now, our grandchildren will be saying, "You mean you had to carry your cellphone around? They weren't implants?" But they'll still be asking, "Where's my flying car?"
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Architecture for Humanity has a new book on sustainable design called Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises [amazon link]. Here's a clip from Worldchanging's mini-reviews:
Many of the ideas here will be familiar to WC readers. Barefoot solar engineers, land mine detecting flowers, Hexayurt, Roundabout's PlayPump, the Mine Wolf, Watercone, Anti-Malarial Bednets. But there's plenty of material I'd never before encountered here, and, as an overall resource, it's indespensible.
When I occasionally feel liberal and donate money, I almost always end up routing my donations through Architecture for Humanity. Click here for more links about the organization. (Damn, I don't think I've ever put that many links in a post.)
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Someone on the Interaction Designers email list noted the divergence in pronunciation of RFIDs, which industry people tend to pronounce as an acronym (pronouncing each letter) and the parallel-universe term "Arphids" (sort of like running the pronunciation of the letters together to form a word)—this pronunciation is primarily being spread by Bruce Sterling in his extensive (and great) work on the social and cultural implications of the technology. (For the record, I was in the latter camp until I watched a video of Sterling riffing on Arphids, linked in this earlier post on Datacloud.)
Seems like a trivial issue, but (as the poster on the ID list noted) when you Google the two terms, it's like you're entering two different worlds: one filled with tech industry reps and manufacturers (the RFID cloud) and one filled with designers, writers, and social theorists. Specialized fields frequently construct articulations of terms that vary (sometimes wildly) with popular articulations of the same term—think "rhetoric," or "discourse," or, for that matter, "articulation"—but it's interesting to watch the emergence of differing articulations in two, slightly overlapping communities. And in this case, the worldviews and foundational assumptions in each group vary in significant ways that are actively competing over different versions of the future—in essentially different languages.
Google search on "RFIDs"
Google search on "arphids"
Sort of like people with different dialects of the same language: as the dialects diverge, communication among the dialects becomes more and more difficult.
[via Interaction Design list]
Trying to debug an issue with em-dashes, I came across this relatively old (2001) but extremely useful article at A List Apart on em dashes, en dashes, and other typographic issues in Web design (which could be subtitled "The Web is Not a Typewriter") that's probably useful reading for anyone attempting to do good Web design.
Other Punctuation
Many people (most, from what I've observed) believe that curly single opening and double opening quotes are the correct symbols for feet and inches. If you are one of these people, put out your hand so I can slap it with a ruler.
The correct symbols to use are prime and double prime. They look similar to curly quotes in a few fonts, but are usually much more distinct. They never, ever look like commas. They are usually set at a slight angle of 75—80 degrees, and are also usually tapered from the top to the bottom.
A single prime is used to represent feet or minutes (′ not in HTML 4.01), while a double prime is used to indicate inches or seconds (″ not in HTML 4.01). (I won't make you learn about the triple prime and the three reversed versions of these characters.)
Also has useful info about changes in typography in HTML 4 and problems in common guides to HTML regarding typography.
CS Monitor has a piece today on consumers returning high-tech gadgets because they can't figure out how to operate them. Apparently the rate of returns for gadgets that are in perfect working order but overwhelming to users approaches fifty percent. (Although I guess "perfect working order" should probably also include the ease of use, in which case they're not.)
According to this design consultant, it's not a bug, it's a feature:
But instead of being frustrated, people ought to look at the positive side of new technologies, he says. "Every generation is going to be presented with a whole new set of opportunities and challenges as we make leaps forward in what the technology can deliver," Oppenheimer says. "It's part of the fun of being alive [today]. Every week some new feature you never thought possible comes out, and you get to learn it."
[via Christian Science Monitor]
Due to network upgrades at Clarkson, Datacloud will be down this evening for several hours—probably from 7 pm until around midnight,
And in another completely off-topic post, here's a flyer for my band's gig next Friday. You're welcome to come if you're in the far reaches of upstate NY.
For Mother's Day, Spork bought Underdog this set of Therapy Flash Cards from KnockKnock. Underdog is now (predictably) using them to lecture me and Spork, who (despite her occupation as a social worker) still eat up most of her therapy work.
Lifehacker is running a cool series of short interviews with technorati about their working environments and habits (and a few pics). Included so far are Merlin Mann (productivity guru), Phillip Torrone (MAKE Magazine Senior Editor), and Matt Haughey (Metafilter founder).
Phillip Torrone's workspace
Also see the recently completed Lifehacker Coolest Workspace contest.
[via Lifehacker]
Boxes and Arrows has a great article on the use of narrative to guide clients through the discussion and approval of wireframes for a Rich Internet Apps (RIA--deeply interactive websites with Ajax, Flex, etc.).
Business Problem:
The client, an industry leader in commercial and residential fencing and related products, wanted to update their web-based application used to perform key operational tasks. It was a big project, and as with all big projects, business and technical requirements were abundant. The client was also adamantly committed to and expected the highest levels of usability and user experience possible, under the ever-so-typical time and cost constraints.
Non-RIAs could satisfactorily accomplish most of the application's requirements. However, we realized that building a rich internet application was the only way to reach the expected level of usability and user experience. The strategy to enhance usability and experience was twofold: improving feedback and response time, and contextually guiding users through tasks – perfect for RIAs.
Extensive discussion, strategic analysis, PowerPoint client slides, and other examples included.
[via Boxes and Arrows]
Michael Moore (not that one, the one I know) tipped me to this amusing time-lapse radar of FedEx aircraft coming into Memphis during a thunderstorm. Complete with loopy 1960s movie soundtrack. (I keep waiting for either Peter Sellers or Mike Myers to dance into the frame.)
The Morning News has a quote- and link-filled piece about circuit bending, an activity that involves hacking cheap consumer electronics devices like Furby's and Speak 'n' Spells to make them do things their designers never intended.
Quite simply, the modern practice of "bending" involves shorting out points on the exposed circuit board of a device (using something like a screwdriver) while said device is playing one of its tinny notes. This is done in the hope that some spontaneous and aleatory sound will erupt (as far as something can "erupt" from an eight-centimeter foam speaker) as the result of a crashed microchip or the torturous electrical manipulation of some other unfortunate component.
When an interesting short-circuit is discovered, a switch is then installed to bridge the two points involved and mounted on the external case—hence my little Casio's "num lock" key. As a reassuring bonus, practitioners needn't worry about the risk of brain-frying voltages, as this techno-surgery is performed almost exclusively on victims of the battery-powered variety. Some instruments are even kitted out with "body contacts," metal pads designed to be bridged by a performer with a body part of their choice, effectively rendering themselves a part of the circuit. Talk about an affinity with your equipment!
The 1-Second Film project is raising funds to produce "the world's biggest shortest film." A documentary about the fundraising process (estimated at 90 minutes) will run under credits listing all "producers" who contributed funds to the film. A short segment on YouTube shot at Sundance follows financing pitches made on the street and at restaurants to Stephen Colbert ("It's as valid as any of my credits"), Steve Buscemi (who seems like he's being stalked), and Kevin Bacon (who spells his name for the director). Profits go to charity.
David Byrne and Brian Eno have released the component tracks from two songs off My Life in the Bush of Ghosts for CC-licensed remixing and sampling ("A Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody"). You can download the individual 24-track recordings or zip files of the sets for each song in either mp3 or wav format. You can also upload your work to the site and vote on other remixes. (As you might guess, it's a pretty Flash-heavy site.)
[via Boing Boing]
NYT has a nice piece (with some great quotes) about children learning how to be good parents by playing The Sims [reg req'd].
Some video games let players battle aliens or quarterback a pro football team; The Sims drops the player into an even more fantastic environment: suburban family life. Each Sim, as the characters are known, is different — one might be an old man, one might be a young girl; one is motivated primarily by money, for instance, while another may want popularity — and it's up to the player to tend to those needs. As in real life, there are no points in The Sims and you can't "win." You just try to find happiness as best you can.
And though video game players are often stereotyped as grunged-out, desensitized slackers, it is the nation's middle-class schoolchildren, particularly girls, who have helped make The Sims one of the world's premier game franchises, selling more than 60 million copies globally since its introduction in 2000.
They don't touch much on the apparently universal impulse to also use The Sims as a way to explore the more sadistic side of domestic life. I'm thinking here of Spork walling off all the exits of a Sims kitchen inhabited by a character with extremely disorganized and careless traits in an attempt to get him to start a kitchen fire. (It eventually worked.) Not that The Sims is unique in its availability as a way of working out issues with your dark side (a link that's one of my most-viewed images on Flickr).
[via slashdot]
Designer Observer has a (predictably) depressing piece on the effects of intellectual property rights costs and art, including discussions of how documentary movie makers and hip-hop artists are increasingly restricted in their work:
An example of how this pattern of creative outburst, followed by rapid litigation, impacts an emerging medium can be found in the history of hip-hop. When hip-hop first emerged there were few laws regulating the use of samples, and artists like De La Soul, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys made free use of the collective musical memory in their work. But as the genre became more profitable, record companies started asserting more control over their back catalogs. In the magazine Stay Free (Issue 20), Hank Shocklee, who produced It Takes a Nation of Millions... described why it would be impossible to produce such an album today: "By the late 1980s…you could have a buyout — meaning you could purchase the rights to sample a sound — for around $1500. Then it started creeping up to $3000, $3,500, $5,000, $7,500. Then they threw in this thing called rollover rates. If your rollover rate is every 100,000 units, then for every 100,000 units you sell, you pay an additional $7500. A record that sells two million copies would kick that cost up twenty times. Now you're looking at one song costing you more than half of what you would make on your album." These financial and legal hurdles altered the creative process behind hip-hop.
[via The Morning News]
The "Centennial Light Bulb," which has been burning continuously for more than 100 years, has a webcam. I was thinking they could switch it on and off every six months so it can act as a strobe light for the Clock of the Long Now. A rave for plate tectonics.
They don't make 'em like they used to:
Unlike the bulb, the first camera had a limited life of about 3 years. We are hoping this one will give the bulb a run for it's money.
[via metafilter.com]
Deke McClelland talks five hundred kilometers an hour and shows you how to beat Photoshop's block on printing scans of $20 bills. And discusses postmodernism, capitalism, fair use, counterfeiting, stupidity, workarounds, Photoshop, small monkeys, ImageReady, The Batphone, drugs, and more. You sort of have to watch it to understand.
I'm linking to this for the frenetic delivery of the podcast, not the advice on how to counterfeit money. If you're dumb enough to try to pass off $20 bills you scanned and printed out onto the paper you stole from the campus computer lab on your inkjet, you're on your own.
[via Boing Boing]
if:book (Institute for the Future of the Book) has info on a call for eight postdocs and a visiting scholar positions at the Anneberg Center for Communication at USC. I was out at the Center last week for a seminar, and think it'd be a great place to spend a semester (I'd consider it for my sabbatical next fall, but I'm not sure I could deal with Los Angeles—but I'm more big city-phobic than most people I know). More info and a link to the official call for applications at the link above.
I hate using Excel, but since I've been teaching a large, lecture class for the last couple of semesters, I've been forced to use it to calculate grades. And to deal with that mass of data, I've been formatting the rows in the 90x60ish cell spreadsheet with alternating shaded rows, so I can read them across. Excel doesn't offer a simple way to do this common method of formatting, and I only do this about once a semester, so I usually just manually click the alternating rows and then shade them.
But I figured someone must have hacked this by now, so I googled it and (among many hits) found the answer at the website of the American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (who, I suppose, must work with Excel a lot more than me). You have to use Excel's conditional formatting to apply a formula to a selected range of cells. See the link above for specific instructions.
The larger question, though, is why isn't there a simpler way to do this in Excel? Seems like a common enough activity for someone using spreadsheets. Perhaps they want you to use one of the canned formats they offer under the Autoformat option. Some of the canned formats use alternating shaded rows, but are so contextually blind and a-rhetorical that they're (often worse than) useless. Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day; give a man a box of processed, preformed, breaded, frozen fish fillets, he'll forget what real food tastes like, have to buy a freezer, and get a job so he can buy more frozen fish in a week. Or something like that.
After 60,000 miles, I finally replaced the tires on my truck. I briefly thought about putting Super Swamper monster tires on it (I guess I'm a redneck at heart), but decided to go with something more reasonable.
There was no one around to appreciate how cool they looked, so I emailed Underdog a picture of the new tires. She looked at the picture, then looked up at her co-workers and said, "Johndan just emailed me a picture of the new tires he put on the truck.... There's no punchline to that; he just emailed me pictures of his new tires. I can't even figure out how to respond to that. I have nothing to say."
Well, I thought they were cool.
Advertising Age reports that Accenture and interactive media agency Schematic have launched a largescale, interactive media installation at O'Hare Airport (apparently also coming soon to JFK in NYC):
Starting today air travelers passing through Chicago's O'Hare Airport terminal 3 will be able to impersonate Tom Cruise's character from "Minority Report" and use their hands to manipulate content -- weather, news, Tiger Woods' greatest putts -- on a giant 10-by-7-foot screen.
The interactive news screen, which will soon be unveiled at New York's Kennedy airport as well, comes via Accenture (hence, the Tiger Woods connection) and the company is lauding it not only as revolutionary for out-of-home advertising, but also for in-office collaboration.
[via Huffington Post]
In honor of Kaavya Viswanathan's rapid rise and meteoric fall, The Morning News is running a plagiarism contest:
The Rules:
—You are limited to 750 of somebody else's words; none of those words may be your own.
—All material must be cited (author, work, page number). This is the only part where you have to be honest; unlike professional publishers, we're actually going to check.
—You must plagiarize from a minimum of five different books by as many authors as you wish. The only demand we make is that those books were published at some point, somewhere.
—You must lift only phrases, whole sentences, or passages. No single-word citations allowed.
Entries due by May 12. Remix away.


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Why is this ignore list homo replying after me? Stay out of my thread fatass, I'm not reading your post.
Anyway, Tito fought a great fight he was just out classed. But he still a champ in my eyes. Who in boxing history has fought better opponents ? No body got a better resume then Tito Trinidad! Every other boxer is a *****. Tito fights the best not matter size difference. He is the best win or lose. I don't know of any boxer who goes after the best fighters in the world. They avoid each other. Tito fought the best in our era! Win or lose ! He gave the fans what they wanted to see.
Tito represented us so hard and at the end of this fight I was happy for Tito. Former welterweight fighting with a former heavyweight.... Obviously the situation is different at 170 but still, I only wanted to see him not getting hurt and he didn't. I gave him 5 rounds easily with the rest CLEARLY to Roy Jones. IMO Tito did what he had to do, win at least a few rounds...survive and then make it to the final bell. Roy IMO lost credibility completely because he couldn't KO Tito. If Roy Jones finally dares to step into a ring to fight Joe Calzaghe he will receive ****in brain damage to the greatest extent. Roy Jones had respect for Tito's power, and yea u can think Tito hits harder than Joe all you want, fact is Joe will throw like 1200 punches and if 900 of them land he will absolutely kill Jones mentally physically and everything else that comes along with it.
We honestly should all be happy, good that Tito showed up in ok health and made the final bell than somehow KO Jones win..then get a shot with Calzaghe and get absolutely obliterated.
It's been a fun fun ride with Tito knocking welterweights senseless out of their freakin minds. His resume is proof to his absolute guts. There isn't a fighter of the past decade and a half with a resume as stacked as Trinidad's...Not one at all, he lost 3 of them and all 3 of those fights were completely out of his element at a much higher weight class than he should have ever been fighting.
Que viva Tito puneta!!!!


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HornsNation is breaking down Texas' 2013 football schedule every Monday this summer. This week: The Longhorns' second game of the season vs. the Brigham Young Cougars on Sept. 7.
BYU record in 2012: 8-5
Last meeting against Texas: The Longhorns won 17-16 in DKR in 2011.
Record against Texas: 2-1
Top returners: RB Jamaal Williams, TE Kaneaku Fields, OL Houston Reynolds, OL Manaaki Vaitai, WR Cody Hoffman, DL Eathyn Manumaleuna, WR Ross Apo, LB Kyle Van Noy, LB Spencer Hadley
Key losses: QB Riley Nelson, DE Ziggy Ansah, LB Brandon Ogletree, P Riley Stephenson
Statistical leaders
Rushing: Jamaal Williams (775 yards)
Passing: Taysom Hill (425 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions)
Receiving: Cody Hoffman (1,248 yards)
Tackles: Sorenson (68)
Sacks: Kyle Van Noy (13)
Interceptions: Daniel Sorenson (three)
Did you know: Senior linebacker Kyle Van Noy was the only FBS player to record a stat in every defensive category -- tackles, tackles for loss, sacks, interceptions, pass breakups, quarterback hurries, fumble recoveries, forced fumbles, blocked kicks and touchdowns. Not only that, but Van Noy has recorded a stat in each category for two straight years.
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Astounding. Via TPM:
This was just painful to watch. Chris Matthews skewered a hapless state senator from Texas during last night's primary election coverage. I don't think we'll be seeing this guy trotted out as an Obama surrogate again any time soon:
There's varying opinions on whether or not Watson falling flat on his face is a reflection on Obama. Clearly from the video above via TPM, Watson preferred to talk the hope line than policy. All well and good, but some folks still want more substance:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un5RK8GhdPg
Here't the bottomline for me… I understand that Barack Obama is inspiring to many people. He doesn't strike me in that way. At this point in time what inspires me is too hear a candidate talking about the issues. In '04 I knew John Kerry's stance on the issues, inside and out. When I hear people say well it's all on Obama's website, I know that the average Joe isn't going to go looking for them. They just won't and Obama supporters and Obama surrogates should know this stuff, in my opionion and not be caught fumbling in a national interview.
Watson got caught fumbling. Hilzoy thinks Chris Matthews didn't do his job. On the contrary he asked what should have been a relatively easy question and the surrogate failed the test. Imagine… just imagine if that happens in the general election.


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Applied Economics, 2001, vol. 33, issue 3, 407-416
It is common practice to summarize the macroeconomic performance of countries in terms of the four well-known dimensions captured by the magic diamond of the OECD. This study provides a comparison of several synthetic indicators that merge the four separate indicators into one single statistic. These indicators are inspired by Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)-based models, which allow for unequal weighting of the different economic objectives. The calculated weights then act as proxies for the true policy priorities. Comparison of the models focuses on the underlying assumptions as well as on the empirical results they generate.
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Prometheus/I, Robot/Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter Blu-ray
Starring Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Dominic Cooper, Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie, Rufus Sewell, Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Benjamin Walker
Directed by Ridley Scott
A triple bill of sci-fi films. In director Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' (2012), after finding fragments of Alien DNA, a team of scientists known as The Company travels into space aboard the state-of-the-art Prometheus spacecraft to investigate the origins of human life on Earth.
Their journey takes them into the darkest corners of the universe - but, to their horror, their very inquisitiveness ends up posing a threat to the future existence of humankind.
Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender and Charlize Theron star. 'I, Robot' (2004), is set in a near-future in which robots have become a vital component of human beings' everyday lives.
Although the technology of the robots has become more and more advanced, they are pre-programmed to always obey humans and under no circumstances to harm them.
So when robot scientist Dr Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell) is murdered and a humanoid robot is implicated, the authorities are extremely worried: if the robots can overcome the basic moral principle of their existence, what's to stop them taking over the world?
Robot-hating Chicago Police Detective John Spooner (Will Smith) is assigned to investigate this alarming case...Finally, in 'Abraham Lincoln - Vampire Hunter' (2012), Benjamin Walker stars as Abraham Lincoln, the 19th-century United States president, who is fictionally portrayed in the film as having a secret identity as a vampire hunter.
After Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, he makes it his life's mission to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
Dominic Cooper and Rufus Sewell co-star.
- Format: Blu-ray
- Region: B
- Certification: (15)
- Catalogue number: 5666315044
- Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Ent.
- Release date: 02/09/2013
- Genre: Science Fiction
- Colour: Colour
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Focal, painless discoloration of the
left thumbnail (A) developed several
years earlier in this 46-year-old man.
Oral antifungal therapy had no effect
on the lesion.
Examination reveals yellowish
brown spots under the nail. No signs
of onychomycosis are seen on other
fingers or toes. The presence of
plaques with silvery white scale on
both elbows corroborates the diagnosis
of nail psoriasis.
(Case and photographs courtesy of Joe Monroe, PA-C.)
Would you prescribe a different
antifungal-or consider another
Psoriasis of the nails may be either
an isolated finding or one of several
manifestations of the disease.
The clinical changes in affected nails
include pitting, which occurs most
commonly; oil spots; onycholysis; and/or thickened nail plates with subungual
hyperkeratosis. Occasionally,
very severe disease may cause the
nails to crumble (B).
Pitting can affect several or all
nails; it is characterized by depressions
in the nail that are usually
smaller than 1 mm in diameter. Oil
spots resemble a drop of oil on the
surface of the nail plate. Onycholysis
presents as a separation of the nail
plate from the nail bed. The thickened
dystrophic nails with subungual hyperkeratosis that are seen in psoriasis
are similar to nails with onychomycosis,
a fungal infection.
Management of psoriatic nails is
extremely difficult and rarely results
in complete improvement. Injection
of intralesional corticosteroids into the
proximal and lateral nail folds is effective;
however, this treatment is quite
painful and should be considered
only for highly motivated patients. Although
less effective, a high-potency
topical corticosteroid applied to the
proximal nail fold may be tried. Psoralen-
UV-A (PUVA) therapy or systemic
agents, such as methotrexate or
cyclosporine, can be beneficial for psoriatic
nails; reserve these modalities
for patients with extensive disease that
requires more aggressive treatment.
(Photograph B courtesy of Drs Sonia Arunabh and
K. Rauhila.)
Reassured and relieved that he
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News from the Mathematics Department
Charlie Conley speaks in Department 's Colloquium SeriesNov. 7, 2010
Charlie Conley (Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas) delivered his lecture "f(x) = x^x^x...^x..." to a full audience of students and faculty on November 4. The problem of determining the domain of this function was first considered, and solved, by Leonhard Euler (1707-1783).
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OverviewThis is the fourth highest mountain in California. None of the routes are easy - the easiest is class 4. The most popular routes are the U-Notch + Clyde variation, a 4/5th class route, and the 4th class route from the West (South). This is quite a popular mountain and the goal of many a Californian mountaineer.
Getting ThereDrive to Big Pine in Owens Valley and then drive to Glacier Lodge. Hike the North Fork of Big Pine Creek for approaches to North-East facing routes.
Alternatively, drive to Bishop and then to South Lake; hike over Bishop Pass and into Dusy Basin. Cross either Thunderbolt Pass or Knapsack Pass (both cross-country) into the Palisade Basin. This is the approach for South-West facing routes.
Red TapeOvernight wilderness permits are required at all times, and both both Bishop Pass and the North Fork of Big Pine Creek have use quotas in effect from May 1 to November 1. Permits can be obtained from the ranger stations in Lee Vining, Bishop or Lone Pine. If under quotas, make reservations is advance. More information can be found at the Inyo National Forest Visitor Center.
When To ClimbMay to October. Few winter climbs (none entered in the summit log for the winter of 2000-2001 for example).
CampingWilderness camping allowed with a permit.
HistorySee Stephen F. Porcella & Cameron M. Burns, Climbing California's Fourteeners.
Mountain ConditionsCheck www.395.com for current conditions, or call the Inyo National Forest Rangers at (760) 873-2400 for conditions. Daily report are available at the ranger station.
Another nice source for weather data is Howard Sheckter's webpage out of Mammoth Lakes.
External Links
- Romain Wacziarg's climbing photos
- Romain Wacziarg's North Palisade photos
- Permit info
- U-Notch - Aug 4, 2000
- Dale Stuart's Palisade Mountaineering
Women mountaineers group conquer North Palisade and Thunderbolt Peak.
- Romain's North Pal page
- Chimney Variation from Palisade Basin
- Panorama from the summit of North Pal
360 degree, interactive panorama from the summit of North Pal.
- Sierra Descents - U-Notch page
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Nutritional Info
serving size 8 fl oz;
servings per container 2, calories 110;
total fat 0g;
sodium 25mg;
protein 0g;
total carbohydrates 30g;
sugars 30g;
10% pear and apple juice
water, high fructose corn syrup, apple and pear juice concentrates, citric acid, grape juice concentrate (color), natural flavor
Review: Strawberry Kiwi
Posted: Nov 23, 2003 at 2:14 PM (Last Updated: Apr 02, 2003 at 6:12 PM)Strawberry Kiwi is your basic HFCS sweetened 10% juice beverage. It really has very little fruit taste and instead tastes more like sugar and flavorings. The juices used are apple and pear -- nothing too special here. In addition, since this product is being marketed at kids, we must point out that the closure on this package appears to be under high pressure. It was, in fact, very hard to reseal this product as well. Overall, this product needs a lot of work to be a high quality product.


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you going to Lawler this Friday mate?
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you going to Lawler this Friday mate?
nah, prolly not mate... would love to but trying to have a few quiet weekends before i go mad again in september...
you going?
I hope to get there later on after seeing Infusion @ FabricLIVE (on doorlist so why not) who should be on early.
I should be able to get me + a couple on door for The End too....if ur keen?? email me on email@example.com
cheers for the offer mate... why is it every time i decide to have a quiet one people make it hard for me!?! but i better say no
Will those quiet weekends be legendary Xeb?
as always mate
He's coming to Brighton for a quiet one Xeb you'd best check with Paolo for some advice mate
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