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PulpFiction needs a slogan. Suggest them here in the comments. If yours is the best, you get a free copy. Beta testers who would otherwise be eligible for a free copy get a free copy of Rock Star.

To help you along, here are the slogans for some of our other products:
FTPeel: Simply Powerful FTP
MailDrop: Powerful, Personalized Mass Email
Rock Star: Hey Now, You're a Rock Star, Get Your Game On

Hmm, okay, so those aren't the best slogans either. FTPeel's is nice, MailDrop re-uses "Powerful," and Rock Star's is mostly a version of a song… Anyway, phrase away. Members of FSS are the sole judges, and from past experience, slogans that tie into the product name, the whole "orange" thing we've got going, etc. do well. Good luck!

An old flame emailed me today. Can you have one-way flames? The gal responsible for my screen name (hey, I was eight!) contacted me tonight via a form on my software company's site. The last I heard, she'd married some rich guy and moved to Pittsburgh. Her last name is still different but she seems to have returned to the area in which we grew up to study some more.

It'd be great to catch up with her. Our relationship was one of the hundred standard high school varieties, but there were enough nice moments in there that I think of her every now and then. Tonight, it seems, she was thinking of me enough to type my name into Google. Actually, FSS shows up second in Yahoo's search and doesn't even appear on Google's first page. My domain (barzeski.com) forwards to FSS, currently. Anyway, who cares right? 🙂

There's something perverse about cranking up Unreal Tournament 2004 without quitting any other applications or turning off your email-checking schedules (or iChat/Adium), playing a 1920 x 1200 game with the highest settings, and wondering if there's any way to slow the framerate down so that you can see what's going on just a little better. The damn thing is just too fast!

Scott was trying out an early alpha/beta build of PulpFiction and what did he see? Funny stuff. 😀

Question: Do you use a router at home? Wireless? Wired?

My Answer: I've got both a LinkSys 10/100/1000 4-port router as well as an AirPort Base Station (Extreme). The LinkSys seems to be dying, so I may replace it soon. It randomly kicks me offline every few hours. The past few days I've had the cable modem plugged in directly to the G5.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

From MacCentral:

The computer is now too full of itself," said [Rob Schoeben, Apple's
vice president of Applications Marketing]. "It needs to be about the
end customer and the desire to make art or produce a project. We live
in that community; we've served that community for a long time and we
get it. We know that professionals want great technology, but they
don't want it to sit higher on the pedestal than them.

Says pal Scott Stevenson, "Just about says it all, doesn't it? If one ever needs to explain the difference between Windows and Mac OS X, or Cocoa and various other APIs, I think you'd be hard-pressed to do better than this."

Wowee. I've gotta get my hands on Motion sometime soon. $300? Says Apple to Adobe: screw you hippies!

Question: How often do you change your desktop picture?

My Answer: Today I set it to change every 5 minutes for the first time ever (outside of a demonstration). For the previous, oh, eight years I've changed my desktop picture about every three weeks.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

This entry led me to one on kottke.org:

PulpFiction (expect a letter from Miramax soon) looks to do everything a modern newsreader should do (Love the filters. Every single app in the world should save all data it ever sees, data about that data, and have ways to filter and search it.)

I don't think we have much to fear from Miramax. It's not like we've got a picture of Quentin Tarantino in the icon or anything. Pulp Fiction is itself a common phrase used to indicate this kind of stuff, after all.

Stay tuned for Freshly Squeezed Software's upcoming first-person shooter "Kill Bill." 😉

PulpFiction has received a largely positive response. I'm always amused by this type of thing because, well, the darn thing ain't out yet! However, not all responses are positive. Let's have a look at a skeptic's thoughts…

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For example, I have about 14 friends who, when they post on their blogs, have the same expectation that their friends will have read the post as if they had sent the post in email to the friends. While skimming through the roughly 400 posts a day, it would be nice if I had this 'must' list so I could stay in low gear in one folder, then return to 'skim' gear for the rest.

Sounds like a job for PulpFiction.

By the way, there may or may not be a slight bump in "Apple coverage" here in the coming weeks given that they're no longer my employer. 🙂 Ahhhh, the beach! How I missed thee!

My typical response to the whole "dating" thing: I haven't got time. Today I had at least enough time to take a break from editing the book to take some dating quizzes. They were an… interesting distraction. End result: I'm a smart guy who's got high standards but prefers intelligent, 25-year-old brunettes. Duh.

Question: Match.com asks you to choose among the following choices when picking your "ideal date." Which would you choose?

My Answer: I'll list the answers in the extended entry. I will say that they were missing the best choice: "Good Company: doing anything so long as it's with someone who's unique and cool." I don't care if that's a walk on the beach or a day at a baseball game. It's the company that matters.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

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Question: What monthly payment do you hate making most?

My Answer: My scooter payment. I need to sell my scooter for a small profit, pay this off, and apply the rest of the money to something else. I rarely get out on the scooter anymore. Anyone want a $2500 scooter with less than 500 km on it for $1250?

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.