First and foremost, lets get the niceties out of the way:

I effing love your coffee! Even though you’re one smart cookie, you’ve been oblivious to the fact that your products are preferred by the masses over that of Starbucks, at least in Hawaii.

Orders at CBTL are done in one and and a quarter minutes TOPS and your workers can handle any rush of any size. Your Baristas are trained to do that. Good luck being one of ten people in line at Starbucks. The Baristas there become flustered, drop drinks, mix up orders….its a mess. The syrup is gross, and they (to my knowledge) don’t offer sugar-free flavoring. And worst of all, they always put the spout of the lid along the seam of the cup!

As the provider of what I would consider a vastly superior cup o’ joe, I’d expect that the CBTL marketing crew at CBTL HQ would need to be two steps ahead of their conglomerate competition in order to continue chipping away at Starbuck’s market share. But what to do? Advertising is expensive and its hard to be on every street corner and in every airport. So maybe, CBTL, you’ll have to start getting creative. Read more…

I’ve long been quite the fan of the “Open-Source” concept outside of the computing world.

Open-source gaming, Open-source gardening, Open-source cuisine….you get the picture.

I’ve long dreamed of (but never really made public) my idea for a restaurant that rewards its most loyal customers with the opportunity to create their own dish and a spot on the menu for a month. Why would someone want to create their own dish at their favorite diner? Cause the creator of that dish gets a 10% commission off of every dish of his/her’s that is sold. The creator goes home, tells his friends about this dish he’s made at the diner, and that brings more customers to the restaurant and rakes in more cash for him.

With this restaurant in mind, I’ve fantasized about the Triple Loco Moco: Three over-easy eggs over two hand-formed hamburger patties, sitting on a bed of white rice slathered with Home-style brown gravy dotted with bacon bits; macaroni salad and the optional side bit of Kim Chee. *drools*

But I digress. This posting is about The Counter and their burgers. Read more…

The answer: probably not.

Of course, every editor has his/her preference and every edit suite lives in its own kingdom; But there are little tricks to getting around the restriction of editing projects in just one suite.

I don’t think any of these methods are revolutionary, nor will they change the way we cut video. But other micro-budget editors like myself will find that when working with other editors who are more fortunate than us (…and I mean “fortunate” editors being the ones with Final Cut Studio), keeping a consistant record of clips within a project will cut down on time being confused and keep everyone in sync when working on the final product. So may I present: The TC (Timecode) Multi-Platorm Editing Hack. Read more…

As much as I would love Xzibit to come to my house, take away my Chevy Tracker, take it to an auto-body shop and replace every vertical surface with an LCD monitor,(</sarcasm>) I have not officially been pimped that way.

Instead, I’ve been pimped on the beer review show TwoBeerQueers.

Russel Kealoha and Bully O’Sullivan host a weekly video podcast reviewing beers that are a break from the typical green-bottle variety often found at tailgate parties and ohana get-togethers around Hawai`i. They encourage viewers to leave Heineken and Moosehead at the store, and indulge in the more expensive, specialty beers. Read more…

I was introduced to Mint.com through a TechCrunch article about how Intuit’s Quicken-Online has become very jealous of Mint’s success. Intuit sent Mint a mean letter, demanding Mint show their real numbers to back up a claim made on Mint.com’s website concerning their userbase. Basically the story goes:

Quicken: “Stop being awesome! You can’t have that many people signing up…I demand to see proof!”

Mint: “Um, actually, we do have as many users as we said we did. Here are the numbers.”

Quicken: “Oh.”

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