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i just can't help it… whatever i do i always wind up having fun with it.
i'll just playfully throw this new cover design which i know no one in publishing will dare to use. it's just a satire on what sells things in our sex-crazed society.
fun with art
20 Friday Jun 2008
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podloonaroon 
@fox eunuchs excepted.
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"don't laugh"I don't laugh I feel you need a hug !now I do smile when I see the "word origins dictionary " on the floor , since your knowledge is amazing!!!! I kiss you with a lot of "meli":heart:
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Asexuals? 😛
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lol, you're right. missing you too :heart: it hasn't helped to have my nose to the grindstone. the more i do it seems the more obstacles crop up. so i'm going to just cool it a little and have fun once in a while in opera and 'secondlife'.this morning was the last straw… stumbling to the stove this morning to get the coffee going i leaned on a shelf i use to hold books and videos etc.. it was way overloaded anyway and just a touch seemed to bring it crashing down from the wall all scraping my bare legs and ankles until i was buried up to my shins.don't laugh.i just left it. i don't know where to start. if only i had a real bookcase.then i tried for two hours to get my computer to admit that it has a dvd writer and a cd writer so i could work on collecting clips from movies for this website i'm working on. still no dice. i really really really don't want to do a full system recovery. so i'm stalling.
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I think Mitch won't mind to have a personal copy of his book with this cover !as for the sex selling concept, find me one that doesn't feel good after sex and I will be the first to reject the idea :up:Missing you!
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Scott-Thank you for sharing your crappy day with me; it's making me feel marginally better about the crappy day I've had. 😆 That woman is in great shape, by the way!Naomi
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Naomi,sorry you had a bad day you deserve a hug as for the woman,she is 20!!!!let her be 40 plus and then tell me about her! ha! I had to take this off my chest! :p
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thanks my meli… you have good eyes. well, after writing about it, i faced it. it wasn't so bad. i used the same holes but filled them with glue and sent fatter longer screws in. now i'm waiting for the glue to dry.to make things even more distracting the electricity went off becsuse it'ss over a hundred degrees outside. am i the only one who won't use the air conditioner so the black out won't happen? it's not that bad. the shower works.there could be a good side to it. the shock to my computer from electrical outage might just jump start the dvd and cd drives? yeah, sure… dream on mcduff.naomi,we're all in the same boat aren't we.i was walking in the theatre district in north hollywood and reading the reviews posted in windows and came across this great line from the play. "aren't we all just like trees in the forest waiting for lightning to strike?" love that. but let's not get cynical it's still better to be alive than dead.no matter what happens almost.like the mulla said "if i survive this life, i'll be surprised."
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ahh, that would have been nice. good mulla quote… adding it to my collection. it's all in my head which is made of super glue when it comes to the incomparable wisdom of mulla nasr eddin.i guess i'll just have to settle for a ham sandwich. :happy:
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the mulla also said, "as long as I live I am immortal!" the God in you will find the solutions!I hope the glue works!I wish you were closer!I was going to help you with that book case! or at least make a Greek 'spanakopita" for you!
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Sorry about your shelf. I've had things like that happen numerous times. In fact, my whole studio looked like that before I got someone to build me some custom shelves. What a lifesaver that was. Eventually, I'll get some pics of it to post. So, it's hot there too! The last few days has been 111, 112, 113, and today it hit 114 here in Phoenix. I put bowls of water out for the birds in my yard because they kept coming up on my patio and drinking out of the dogs' water bowl. Even the water in the bowl is hot. I've got one inside too for the dogs because they won't touch the one outside. At 10 pm it is still 101 to 105.:faint: My brother and his wife took me for a drive up to Prescott where it's about ten to 15 degrees cooler. It really makes a difference. They bought me a birthday lunch at The Peacock Lounge. Then we drove around and looked at older homes for sale. Who knows, I still might move.
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PainterWoman,I hope you get some relief soon!In NYC last week it was really bad. The 100F felt even more in the city with the high rise bldgs. Today it is in the 80's and it feels so great!I hope you get a little rain. That will help.Listening that Missouri will get more rain tomorrow it makes one thing how unbalanced our climate in the US turned to be…Stay safe.
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Scott Enjoy your ham sandwich,as for mulla nasr eddin , I was tempted often to start reactivating your post….I might do that.Any news from your cyber twin??
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I was just reading some Art News at my friends YooperProf post,I thought you might enjoy them too 🙂http://my.opera.com/yooperprof/blog/he-who-laughs-last?cid=5523631#comment5523631
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well, i could fry an egg on the hood of my car but i can't compete with you tripple digits painterwoman. it was only 106 here today. so glad you are thinking of the animals.angeliki, those cybertwin people are too embarassed to even talk to me now. they can't fix it and i'm not about to invest those hours to get him to speak with a civil tongue. so the worst thing is still having a computer so stupid that when i ask it to read a drive or save to a drive it keeps idiotically telling me put a disc in drive e, put a disc in drive f and try again. so you do it again and get the same flying inanity.well, i goofed off today so now i'm going to have to work all night until i get this fixed. i printed out all the instructions. my 500 gigabite storage is disconnected so it won't be disturbed by the cutting and pounding i'm about to do. maybe if i mmersed the whole pavilion 764c in the bathtub it will get hip.so here's the state of the shelves now… brackets propped and glue drying.and here's the sandwichand i know meli's sharp eyes will want to see this happenstance baseball card of caitlin.and finally, at 4:45 today it was possible to stand an egg up (summer solstice event. so i did.
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yes, the carrots are waiting for the experience of their lifetime. the juicer. that's how i stay healthy… i can drink that whole package… good with an apple, fresh ginger, for the heart also, and don't forget a bunch of juicy celery. :happy: :heart:
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speaking of celery,that's my bkfst choice.1 apple, 3stacks of celery, 1 lime all juiced . Not only refreshing and healthy but delicious too!I am a proud friend! :yes:stay healthy ,with Gods help ,we will have fun for at least another 20 years :DP>S> Thank you for the amazing car art!!!! AMAZING!!! I love it ! :yes:
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exactly!my sweet Caitlin ! :heart:This is a nice book end! precious for many reasons!!!!!I love a man that eats fresh onions with his sandwich! thats shows a healthy heart and a fantastic blood flow!! :devil:Yes, "meli" gets fresh and she will stop right now! :lol:The book case looks to hold and with the hot weather I am sure it will dry over night!Don't be frustrated with the computer…Think positive. At least you are not in India with 10288476575 F heat helping customers fixing their computers all day long!see you feel better already!we have finally a rain storm…I am glad I didn't let my house help clean any windows.They would have been the same after this storm! :heart:P.S. Aren't those too many and too big of carrots over there?? :lol:I am letting you work , hugs!
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Angeliki gave me the word up on the photo. So you know me — so to speak — I just had to visit and check it out. Definitely a girl for those "androgynous" moments. Have to put her in a Boy Scout uniform or something. I'm sorry! Strange echos of F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Great Gatsby here. And then I noticed the pickle. And unfortunately I'm all out of pickles right now, which I love. Damn! I think the pickle and the Reisling I'm drinking would have been damn good together.
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I wish I live closer to you Scott. I could build a good solid book shelf for you in no time. 😀 Then you could pay me with a good dinner and a small painting :up:
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yeah right nic… that would be a good deal for me. i would do it myself but i sold all my tools.ed, tit for tat. my pickle got you going but your reisling made me jealous. great gatsby… story of my life. early life anyway. there has to be some reason why pickles are so apetizing. i'll just bet that they help with digestion. i'm gonna go get one right now. and a little brie and crackers but no riesling arrggh.meli,pass the car art around… everyone will dig it.
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I sure will,"meli" likes a sweet thing to be known! and that is as sweet as a honey comb in a fasting day!
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awww thanks. you are great. i'll check it right now.
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:heart:thanks…This is anabsolutely lovely poem,Pls check your email for "dirty cars art #2""meli" happens to like things you do…
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honey comb in a fasting day…. i love it.i just love being alivebeing a love in the hivesure i'm a grand idiotas genuine as the sunrisemy folly is my strengththe wise men sayit goes to any lengthto keep my piece in playas sure as night follows daymy work will be my playand who dares gainsaythe wisdom of the way
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mom,thanks for the tip but that's not it. i just spent two ten hour days at hewlett packard and microsoft downloading patches and programs and reaching into the very depths of the iceberg… a great exercise in attention but i am afraid i have a problem tha may not be fixable. like the drives are worn out or there is a built in obsolesence feature that cannot be circumvented.
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When my cd/DVD drive doesn't work, it is often because the blank is defective! I have found that blanks tend to be now more so than when blanks first started being sold. So, then, I have to put another blank in and throw out the one that doesn't register. Sorry about your bad day. Things can only get better.Take care.
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Too bad Scott, but I know the feeling…being poor that is :(Had to sell my piano in order to get a bike 😥 I still have my tools though. Saved me a lot of money, they have. How´s your painting coming on?
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Our main drive wore out! It was terrible!!!! Got a new one, and am happy now, though.
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no paintying right now nic, trying to make some money. that must have been hard, selling your piano.oh mom, that was terrible. at least this time i had enough money to get a 500 gigabite external drive. so even if i do recover back to factory settings it won't be the ordeal it was the last time.
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Oh…hope you get back behind the canvas, where you belong, soon :)Selling the piano was terrible. I´ll never do a thing like that again. Have got another one now. Not even near the same quality, but it´ll do. It needs tuning badly 😀
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Hi! Nice and cool on this side of the pond, but we didn't need the rain now that the hay was dry. I am trying to avoid my book shelf ending up like yours, so I've started to give away books to anyone who can find a book of interest. Of course some of my books are holy and will never leave the house. About that egg; I didn't know that it could stand like that on one certain day. There is always something to learn from your blog. 🙂
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nic,that's too bad. well, tune the new one and enjoy it. don look back.norfrid,yes, it's true. summer solstice at the exact time of equilibrium. this was just because someone reminded me of it. i had seen it before when i was a kid.
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I will (tuning) and I won´t (look back) 😀
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hello again Scott,i don't have a lot to add to all of this.there are greater minds than mine here, and they have already said what i would have said, if i had got here earlier and had i the wit or imagination to say such things.i nodded when i read :but let's not get cynical it's still better to be alive than dead.no matter what happens almost.
like the mulla said "if i survive this life, i'll be surprised." :up:
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always a pleasure to see your name in my comments loku, english brother.nic,i had a piano once. i built a chimney for someone who had no money but traded his piano for my work. it was a player piano. but i had a friend tune it for me. i did replace some of the pneumatic tubes myself though. the kids used to love to put a roll in and pump the pedals. it came with a box of 'rolls' pianola they call it.
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i remember pianolas. i had piano lessons as a kid and there were times when i wished the upright we had in my home was a pianola 😀
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rhapsody in blue… i remember. after i didn't have the rolls any more i suddenly find out that someone would have give $10,000 for that one roll. lol a day late and a dollar short.
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now we know where to see for hidden treasures :yes:
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I love my upright. I have paintings stored behind it 😆
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Scott-Sorry I've been away for a while. I've been working like crazy. Your quote:"aren't we all just like trees in the forest waiting for lightning to strike?" 😆 !!!!!!!!!!!!!I think someone must have put a "kick me" sign on my back last week. I am happy to say that it seems to have been removed this week. :happy:
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@Scott,I hope you are well and the book case is holding!missing you!
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Naomi I hope the sign this week says "kiss me "
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nic, save them all. but our best work is yet to come. no?meli, bookcase is holding with less weight. so happy to have you in my corner.naomi, i know how that 'kick me' sign feels. and yet we go on courageously, not because of some blind expectation but from a true aim. (not always known). understanding is to trust the force which supports our clean aim. this may seem too mystical. but it's very practical. there is a higher aim than mine. when i correspond in kind, i am helped. when i resist and wish only for glory or peace or whatever is easiest, i wear a kick me sign. it's the grandest mystery.i may be a little quick in these responses because… all hell may break loose in this computer as i go around and exorcise the errors. also, tomorrow,i'm installing two new disc drives, thanks to my friend, mitch. we went together to frys and gathered the hardware.after i get the new drives connected and software installed. i am going to run the eight recovery discs from hewlett packard.if it doesn't work… you won't hear from me for a while. i have to because i can tell that it's all gummed up. the best thing is to go back to factory settings. then when this poor four year old computer wakes up from it's bad dream. it will be happy because it will be free.to be continued….
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" then when this poor four year old computer wakes up from it's bad dream. it will be happy because it will be free."Unlock the mystery withinwhile holding on to cheerful grin.Hard the way and tough the taskin recovering what ye ask.Speed on, good friend, speed on I say, for Victoryis on the way.:up:
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gald to be in your corner too,good luck with all the operations!Mitch is the man!:heart:
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thanks for the poem lokutus, big bro. i appreciate the paen to the gods. support helps.meli,i put a vase of flowers in your corner, just for you. haven't done it yet. just backing up stuff still. but after lunch… here goes.
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You´re right. Our best work is always yet to come. That fact keeps you going. My latest painting is really giving me a hard time. But I´ve managed not to spoil it yet 😀 , but it has taken ower the proces completely….I just have to follow :left:
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Just had another "kick me" moment. The universe is trying to teach me to stop being so damned hypersensitive. 😆
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I love my corner, I love my corner! and I :love: meli!
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Miaaaaaaaaw…nice back.
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Just passing by to say Bonjour… Good to see everything goes well in Scott's world.;)
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o h god that's a beautiful rose… so perfect. :heart: i'm going to steal it. 😎
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it's yours , and don't have me started.. I have another from my Greek house and I think I feel like giving you that too !I will be back 🙂
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thank you meli,this is from my Pennsylvania garden and it is also my desk top background, I wanted you to enjoy it too :heart:
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angeliki,fresh flowers everyday.pfelelep,i have to agree with a french connoiseur.ahhh, bonjour liu, je vous en remercie par visite' mon maison.
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here meli,a Greek Rosefrom my garden .. enjoy!
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it's a sign of an expert gardener… healthy roses.
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BEZAUTIFUL rose pics!I love peach-colored roses, my favorite of all of the colors-we had them at our wedding.
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:up:I might have the thump for roses but my favorite flower is a very humble one…I am glad you like them. The first was planted in my property in Pennsylvania back in 1925…The second is in our garden in Greece..You can tell the Mediterranean sun does miracles in color that can make any butterfly fall in love………
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naomi,thanks for dropping in and for your comment… i knew you had a refined good taste. i think the rose is the goddess of all flowers.meli,you continue to tickle my fancy.
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meli you tickle my fancy big time too :)humble enough ?? I think so 🙂
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very high sentiments. i have always loved donne. first my mother introduced me then my english teacher reminded me. always so pure an ideal. really, one must at least try to have some higher sense of love."Such is already my self-want of sight, Did not the fire within me force a light.and …"Was't not enough that thou didst dart thy fires Into our bloods, inflaming our desires, And madest us sigh, and blow, and pant, and burn, And then thyself into our flames didst turn ? Was't not enough that thou didst hazard us To paths in love so dark and dangerous, And those so ambush'd round with household spies,and,"Of becks, winks, looks, and often under boards Spoke dialogues with our feet far from our words ?so true…"O Fortune, thou'rt not worth my least exclaim, And plague enough thou hast in thy own name. Do thy great worst ; my friend and I have charms, Though not against thy strokes, against thy harms.so good…"And dearest friend, since we must part, drown night With hope of day—burdens well borne are light— ;and this finale' so pure…."Take therefore all in this ; I love so true, As I will never look for less in you.where would e all be without passion? but where would we all be if we were slaves to it? :a blooming red red rose: (i know it won't generate an image…. but in your mind…. that's another story.
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ahhh, yes, the inimitable daisy? great macro. :heart:
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yes just a daisy 🙂http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_7UgKot5PA&feature=related
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there are no tears in heaven. but it is a lovely song. :heart:
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yes it is, I was reading this http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/elegy13.phpwhile I was listening to it ,and I just had to share
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donne again and well said. :a giant bouquet of roses appears magically:
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yes, a red rose accompanied by Burns :):heart:
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"Take therefore all in this ; I love so true,As I will never look for less in you.I would better be a slave than never feel the passion,yes my mind does generate the red rose and I think the color is very much like this
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not donne but burns… errata… but i am off to check my email.
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yes meli,and if you see your email you will get a special G/Night…:heart:
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oh blazing red red ruby rosevermillion cast our passion showsoh, symbol of love as primal saluteto hera's wisdom so resolute.
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O my Luve's like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;O my Luve's like the melodieThat's sweetly played in tune.
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you should have someone to tuck you in.
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I do in my mind and it feels magical G/night meli
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Hey Scott, just thought I'd drop by to say I'm still alive.
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naomi,i am sure happy to hear that. :happy: working hard? have you found flv producer? i know that 'brightcove' costs a fortune. i'm working on a player menu right now.
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Scott, I am so burned out after having worked way, way too hard for too long! I'm taking as much as a breather as possible while keeping the site going. Hanging with Jeff until he has to go back to teach & spending our time watches movies & purging junk out of the house.What's flv producer? I'm still using Brightcove (still have it for free, not paying a dime but they advertise after each video).If fortune miraculously shines upon me, someone somewhere may give me the $8500 I need to have a web guy redesign the site, which would include my very own video players, all integrated with each other so the whole site will basically run like YouTube. So tell me what you will be using a video player for, if it's public information.
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you can get flv producer and it's partner media menu for $100 one time expense. it is so easy and looks good. my website will be launched this coming week. i'll let you know and you can see how the flash video player looks. no commercials. :up:
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i will
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Cool. Can't wait to see your site. Send me a message since Opera's gone wiggy again on subsriptions.
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