The Durian Challenge
My friends Don and Dave are always trying to out-do each other in the obscure food knowledge department. One of the things they talk about with some regularity is durian fruit. They rant on and on (usually while we're eating thai food) about how durian smells like rotting flesh.About a year ago I happened to find some durian candy in Bangluck market in Thai town. Bought a couple bags of it, and passed it out to people to see what their reaction would be. Funny how curiosity always seems to get the better of you --you know you shouldn't but then you do anyway. "Want to try a piece of candy that's popular in asia?" I would tell them, "it tastes like you're sucking on a monkey's ass". What an invitation. Surprisingly most people would be up for it. I have never laughed so much as I did that day.
One of the things that came out of that experience was a desire to try and capture that fun and put it on a web site:
Get people to try the candy.
Take a picture just as they realize it tastes like something they would rather not taste.
Record their comments and make them all available multimedia style.
I just finished setting up the rough version of the site. Right now it's just for testing. I would appreciate it if people could check the functionallity of the site and give me some feedback about whether it works or not. I don't expect it to work in any browser but Internut Exploder. The site will be browsable with other browsers, you just won't be able to listen to the sound.
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I love durian so I would probably devour your whole bag. You should have them try the real stuff.
Aaron..
sunil he he, funny expressions...strange why they call it a candy.
Richard http://lubrichs.mine.nu/ eh - works great - but the volume (even turning up all the way on player) still has low gain dude - on the last pic only . . .
otherwise great +
does the player come with the gallery ? ?
never noticed that one -
The Shadow Knows
Found a good e-book site yesterday: http://www.blackmask.com/. The site has all of The Shadow novels --something like 306 books. That's a lot of books. I don't know how they are able to make them available. I don't think the copyright has expired. The books were written by Water Gibson using the pseudonym "Maxwell Grant". Gibson's daughter Sue Grafton carries on the writing tradition as a best selling author of detective stories.
When I was in high school I read several of the books. In those days (back when we walked through the snow) they took your picture for the yearbook they used that same picture for your student ID card. In order to have your picture taken you filled out a form, got in line for the photographer. I did it twice. One as myself, and once as The Shadow's alter ego: "Lamont Cranston". The photographer didn't trip to me having gone through the line twice and so I ended up with a second identity.
The weak link in my game was picking up the second id card... I couldn't exactly ask for it as I picked up my real one. Towards the end of the school year I was called down to the ID office. They had discovered my deception. It worked out cooler than it could have. A couple administrators showed me the ID card that I had never picked up: "muhuhaha... the shadow knows!" they told me, and started laughing.
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Richard http://lubrichs.mine.nu/ that's hilarious dude . . . the shadow - which reminds me . . .
i have a series of works - i think only two exist now - of shadows . . . i'd swear your pic there is identical - trick eh ??? Richard http://lubrichs.mine.nu/ almost forgot - thanks John - for the link . . .
i like the enlightened thinkers . . .
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