Punching Code
Just released a new version of TinyChat, a freeware point-to-point chat program.
Why use TinyChat instead of AOL Instant Messenger or MSN Messenger or something like that? Because it’s point-to-point. You don’t need to be a registered user of any service; you can use it in a local area network; and since you don’t go through a server, you don’t have to worry about someone recording your chat.
I think it’s cool.
Fun for Valentine’s Day Weekend
kellyv, Shelly, myself, and possibly M will be heading into Ft. Myers on Saturday for a big BDSM party…that should be a LOT of fun!
And speaking of Valentine’s Day…
It costs about six cents to print a greeting card. Greeting cards sell for about three dollars and fifty cents. That’s a profit margin of roughly five thousand, eight hundred and thirty-three percent…a margin that’s enviable even in the sex toy industry, much less any other retail industry.
It doesn’t take long for a greeting card company to recoup its investment in printing a greeting card design. So you’d think that Hallmark would’ve figured out by now that not everybody lives the same way.
I mean, c’mon, goddamnit, do they really have to make every card say “To the one I love” or “To the one important person in my life”? Shopping for Valentine’s is getting downright frustrating, I swear. I mean, if they’re really afraid of upsetting the conservatives, they could always foist the job off on Shoebox Greetings or one of their other subsidiaries…
One lousy friggin’ card that acknowledges non-monogamous relationships. There’s money in them. Let’s get with the program here…
And just for the record:
kellyv makes the best damn made-from-scratch homemade chicken soup in the entire world. So there. 🙂
On greeting cards…
Their loss is your gain, Franklin.
Time to create greeting cards “to the ones I love.”
On greeting cards…
Their loss is your gain, Franklin.
Time to create greeting cards “to the ones I love.”
Cards
That’s why I don’t generally send cards on “card holidays.” I send a few e-cards for friends’ birthdays – they pollute less and mean as much. For Valentine’s, Mother’s Day, etc. I skip the card thing all together.
This year I gave Kele a little inexpensive gift that has some meaning: a silver locket in amber. Joe and Jeannie just want to see me, so their real present is that Tim & I are going up to New Orleans for a weekend with them (also my 7th anniversary with them, justifies the expense). And Tim & I celebrate every year the same way: we don’t spend a lot of money on gifts, we just spend a day together on a picnic in the park, kites and all. Best gift I ever got (or gave)!
I’m rejecting the commercialization of romance. As for the commercialization of sex, on the other hand, you know I’m all for it!
Love you!
-Suzie
Re: Cards
“For Valentine’s, Mother’s Day, etc. I skip the card thing all together.”
That’s a good approach, except for one tiny niggling little detail: If I forget Valentine’s Day, it usually means I get torn to little pieces and fed to the dogs. 🙂
“I’m rejecting the commercialization of romance. As for the commercialization of sex, on the other hand, you know I’m all for it!”
Well, hey, I’m a capitalist; I believe in the commercialization of everything. Give me a dollar and I’ll do anything you want…
Re: Cards
Give me a dollar and I’ll do anything you want…
Talk about an offer you can’t refuse…
Love you! Happy V-Day!
-Suzie
Re: Cards
Right on. The best gift is someone’s time and company, I’ve always felt.
Cards
That’s why I don’t generally send cards on “card holidays.” I send a few e-cards for friends’ birthdays – they pollute less and mean as much. For Valentine’s, Mother’s Day, etc. I skip the card thing all together.
This year I gave Kele a little inexpensive gift that has some meaning: a silver locket in amber. Joe and Jeannie just want to see me, so their real present is that Tim & I are going up to New Orleans for a weekend with them (also my 7th anniversary with them, justifies the expense). And Tim & I celebrate every year the same way: we don’t spend a lot of money on gifts, we just spend a day together on a picnic in the park, kites and all. Best gift I ever got (or gave)!
I’m rejecting the commercialization of romance. As for the commercialization of sex, on the other hand, you know I’m all for it!
Love you!
-Suzie
I stopped buying or giving cards a long time ago, whatever the occassion may be.
Now, for valentine’s I have a idea. Home-made coupons which allow time-limited sessions of hot-tubbing in chocolate, followed up with fervent licking and fucking sessions. Very messy and I like it. What do you think? =)
I also think you would have a good market for non-monogamous cards and stuff, now that you are thinking of getting into the sex business. You already probably have the material for them, photos, words/sayings, etc. You could make posters, cards, calenders, etc.
-Vijay
“I also think you would have a good market for non-monogamous cards and stuff, now that you are thinking of getting into the sex business. You already probably have the material for them, photos, words/sayings, etc. You could make posters, cards, calenders, etc.”
Yeah, but then I’d have to front the money for printing, and establish distribution channels…the last thing I need is yet another business!
I stopped buying or giving cards a long time ago, whatever the occassion may be.
Now, for valentine’s I have a idea. Home-made coupons which allow time-limited sessions of hot-tubbing in chocolate, followed up with fervent licking and fucking sessions. Very messy and I like it. What do you think? =)
I also think you would have a good market for non-monogamous cards and stuff, now that you are thinking of getting into the sex business. You already probably have the material for them, photos, words/sayings, etc. You could make posters, cards, calenders, etc.
-Vijay
Re: Cards
“For Valentine’s, Mother’s Day, etc. I skip the card thing all together.”
That’s a good approach, except for one tiny niggling little detail: If I forget Valentine’s Day, it usually means I get torn to little pieces and fed to the dogs. 🙂
“I’m rejecting the commercialization of romance. As for the commercialization of sex, on the other hand, you know I’m all for it!”
Well, hey, I’m a capitalist; I believe in the commercialization of everything. Give me a dollar and I’ll do anything you want…
“I also think you would have a good market for non-monogamous cards and stuff, now that you are thinking of getting into the sex business. You already probably have the material for them, photos, words/sayings, etc. You could make posters, cards, calenders, etc.”
Yeah, but then I’d have to front the money for printing, and establish distribution channels…the last thing I need is yet another business!
Re: Cards
Give me a dollar and I’ll do anything you want…
Talk about an offer you can’t refuse…
Love you! Happy V-Day!
-Suzie
Re: Cards
Right on. The best gift is someone’s time and company, I’ve always felt.