And the Canadian woman skater has bruises on her back. Maybe that's why they normally wear backs.

I just want to say, I say, out loud, usually just to myself, "I have both been there and ate the t-shirt. Let me hold your hand," which I think is from an Angel recap from here from maybe 16 years ago, all the time. (Nobody gets it, which is why I say it only to myself. But out loud!)

flea, I have a similar feeling when I hear K-pop. Much of which is aggressively cheerful music performed by young people chosen mainly for their ability to dance.

Oh, flea knows K-pop. I can't wait for her response.

I'm no expert on the subject. But much of what I've heard reminds me of the boy bands of the late '90s. So Giles' view of Dawn's musical tastes came to mind.

K-pop IS, in fact, aggressively cheerful music performed by young people chosen mainly for their ability to dance. (And for their good looks. Singing is actually low on the list of things needed to be a successful k-pop performer.) I myself have been known to say, "chosen mainly for their ability to dance" out loud to people when discussing k-pop.

The dancing is really good, though, and is half the point of k-pop IMO. I mean, don't you think this is really pretty amazing? [link]

Agreed, both the dancing and the choreography.

I love K-Pop.

Who is your favorite group, ND?

So it's been super busy for my work project leading up to Toy Fair - which is the huge annual convention where the big toy companies and media conglomerates get together and make deals.

We've made a technological breakthrough on on our patent (related to the Giapetta thing I wrote) that could be a game changer. And at the same time we developed a new item to sell that takes advantage of stochastic printing and magnification. The first thing is called MPT, the second is Nanex.

Of course after weeks of work we get to the final prototype image for Nanex and it doesn't work. Even at the highest DPI resolution we can't get all our embedded imagery to function.

So scramble scramble scramble, find a better printing place with super high rez and get it fixed.

And then, our new prototype for MPT started crapping out. 20 minutes before meeting with our main contact at the Major Media Empire. We were on the point of canceling which would have been disastrous because they're such a megalith that it takes months and months to reschedule anything.

But we winged it and my partners Fred and (especially) Ellen made it work. So we got sent to a toymaker licensor the next day and they look like they want to buy Nanex. Which would be great. No contract or even a firm commitment, but definitely more than "interested." They said they wanted it. That's further than we've gotten before through all of this.

And then, we pitched at Major Media Headquarters today with ten people in the room that each run big megadivisions. And it went over very well. But only so far as generating new meetings and not an immediate buy.

And the reason I have been working on this thing for a couple years with only a percentage and tearing my hair out every time we have to generate pitch materials is because this is the guy that's in the room with us and likes our work and wants to find a place to make a deal: [link]

But after the many ups and downs on this project so far I'm sticking to my one bit of hard-won wisdom from all this: Nothing Means Nothing Until The Check Clears.