Thursday, July 10, 2008

chocolate donuts

Has Google jumped the shark? Search results don't seem as good as they used to be. Likely the business model is affecting results, among other party manipulations. We think the space is ripe for a new comer. Here is one that has a great design, familiar to ipod/mac people, even though the search algorithm is not as good as google:

http://www.searchme.com/

Idea. Poor Mans Roomba: a onesie for Ad made out of swiffer cloth. As she crawls around she cleans the floor!

As we tooled around the OC we noticed a few things. One is the Southern Orange County Donut Cartel, a string of donut shops in all the beach towns. OC now has a donut mogul. Another thing is the whacky business names we saw. Here are the ones we remember.

Things and Carats
Massage Envy
Break of Dawn
Just Looking
Chakra Shack
Bon a Pita

The Car D'jour is the black Range Rover Sport. This smallish and sporty SUV only gets 12mpg in the city; yikes! Driving through Laguna and Newport you literally see one of these every minute. I think we counted 5 in Javiers' parking lot alone.

We walked down to Abalone Point.

Linda

Jamie got this photo.

Tam made soup.

Our rig.

The vic in action. Pam got this one.

Still photography might be squeezed out soon. This is a grab from video. Why take all those pics when you can just roll and frame grab... everyone will be a Bresson, the decisive moment available to all.