suzyamis.com and janhooks.com ... but what next?

You mean, babes-in-waiting?

isa.com elza.com My babes sure as hell are going to be babes someday. They are just beautiful - thank God they both look like their father!!!

nt: Integrated Systems Analysts, Inc (ISA-DOM) 2800 Shirlington Road Suite 1100 Arlington, VA 22206 USA Domain Name: ISA.COM

Ok: !whois elza.com Registrant: ASUSA Corporation (ELZA-DOM) 530 Center St. NE, Suite 390 Salem, OR 97301 US Domain Name: ELZA.COM

ok, try sophia.com (my baby girl is a babe and looks nothing like me, thank goodness)

Was that a question, Terry? Who is Elza.com? She is my youngest girlie. Two years old, and Isa is three. Just in case that WAS a question. Sophia is my granny's name too, Wolf, and I was always a little annoyed with mum for not giving me that name too - it's one of my favourites.

No, Riette...he was telling you both of those names are already registered to someone...

Who do you all think is a star of the future? Someone on the horizon of greatness in movies and tv?

Ooh, good question! Steve Buscemi and Andre Braugher both send chills up my spine. When I'm watching Jimmy Smits I'm aware that I'm holding my breath. Such presence...

Hi, Autumn!! You haven't been for a while! HAve you been well?

What about females actresses? Any ideas?

that gal from i know what you did last summer (the brunette)...

You mean Jennifer Love Hewitt? Jennifer Love Hewitt (Julie James) Jennifer Love Hewitt is currently most widely-known as Sarah Reeves on the series "Party of Five." In the past, she has been seen in such short-lived shows such as "Byrds of Paradise" and "McKenna." It is rumored that she is to star in the sequel, "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" with Freddie Prinze Jr., which supposedly begins taping in mid-98.

But... It's too late. bash$ whois jenniferlovehewitt.com Registrant: JenniferLoveHewitt.Com (JENNIFERLOVEHEWITT4-DOM) 311 N. Robertson Blvd. #360 Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Domain Name: JENNIFERLOVEHEWITT.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: The Contact (TC314-ORG) music7@YAHOO.COM 310-281-8520

I hear she's also starring in "I Know What Jane Austen Did Last Summer" (OK, that is the last one!) Riette, my husband took a lot of time off lately so we could finish revamping my kitchen. By evening I'm too tired and sore to sit here and think! You'll be seeing me more now. How was the Lakes District?

Well, it's nice to have you back, Autumn - wish my kitchen could get a revamp, but I believe practical kitchens are against the law in Switzerland. The Lakes District was stunning - England at its best; plus the baths all had two taps (and somehow the water always managed to come out cold in the end!!), the toilets were VERY noisy as only english toilets can be, and the weather was miserable. But I loved it!

Sounds like the quintessential English vacation! How wonderful. Now about those kitchens--the Swiss have such terrific little kitchen-y gadgets, why aren't they designing efficient kitchens??

To keep foreigners out.

More names. More names. Please.

davidduchovny.com gilliananderson.com xfiles.com notice any pattern here? medieval.com amateurpoet.com screwed.com

cheesehole.com cowspot.com pest.com

riette.com *grin*

All the Xfiles names are taken. To check to see if a name is available go to http://www.internic.net and go to the 'whois' link. A lady in a news story on NPR this morning made $2 million recently by registering syndicatednews.com and a few other names. She's good at it. She also got inspired by the overhead signs at her local supermarket and made quite a bit by registering these.

I am not good at this game.

Ooops, it was syndiacatednews.com.

Jeez, one can make MONEY doing this? How weird. And why? How can registering syndiacatednews.com make money for you?

Actually, syndicatednews.com got 6 figures from the news media. I think she made about $2 mil in 4 months being imaginative in thinking up domain names and registereing them. We could actually support the Spring this way if y'all came upwith some really cool names of the future that I could register and build websites around. Example: silkclothes.com, silkclothing.com, silkcloth.com which I just registered. Also, colinfirth.com was registered last night.

Oh, right, now I understand. Sorry I've only been thinking up crap names - I didn't realize how important this is. I'll think of better ones, and post them here.

orchid.com africanviolet.com wolf.com louisiana.com texas.com maybe i just don't get it. how does one sell their domain name? i mean, doesn't it cost to register?

These are all taken already. Too generic. It costs $70 to register a name. You can see if it's taken at http://www.internic.net I will co-register all suggestions and split the sale price with you. I'll make up an instructional webpage.

cool, thanks! so the domain names perhaps should be more specific?

Yeah, they should be as generic as possible but not obviously generic. Which is why we couldn't register silk.com but we were easily able to get silkcloth, silkclothes, silkclothing, etc. and these are commercially viable names. I mean, the market for silk clothes is huge, isn't it? There must be other obvious opportunites. It would be a good exercise to scroll through a mall with a notepad. I bet you would come home with a winner!

grumphead.com birdsofprey.com austringer.com travel2germany.com (these are names that aren't taken!)

lostpeople.com latestobituaries.com petcare.com littletikes.com europahof.com continental.com latestbirths.com dune7.com angrapequena.com newndbeleart.com wardance.com

mardisgras.com

turkishkebab.com turkishdelight.com turkishcoffee.com parsival.com afroday.com afrohairdo.com afromusic.com chinesepanda.com yinyang.com biltong.com capegrape.com ostrichfarm.com kuduleather.com namibguestfarm.com bushman.com snakepoison.com kokerboom.com ekipa.com

mardisgras.com talktous.com instinctual.com ridethesky.com seasurfer.com skyglider.com ebbingtide.com ridethetide.com whaletail.com blueberrypie.com mayhaw.com scarebear.com dujours.com shadowlite.com stellarbeam.com deadcalm.com

mardigras.com is taken.

not when i checked (didja spell it right?)

just checked again, terry, and mardisgras.com is still open!

carpetweaver.com bestparkett.com babypowder.com unisexpamper.com newdenner.com arielfutur.com duplodino.com

Registrant: Johnson & Johnson (BABYPOWDER-DOM) One Johnson & Johnson Plaza New Brunswick, NJ 08933 USA Domain Name: BABYPOWDER.COM

Registrant: MidnightSun Productions (MARDIGRAS2-DOM) 421 Hillary Street New Orleans, LA 70118 US Domain Name: MARDIGRAS.COM

visionguide.com treatyoak.com

egistrant: TreatyOak (TREATYOAK2-DOM) PO Box 50295 Austin, TX 78763-0295 Domain Name: TREATYOAK.COM

Ok: !whois visionguide.com No match for "VISIONGUIDE.COM". What is your concept behind this, if any? What could this become?

you're right, my oops, shoulda been treatyoak.net No concept, pulled it off a book title, actually... the name has several possible interpretations/connotations, however...

sixth-street.com

world-domination.net

Registrant: Cox Interactive Media (SIXTHSTREET5-DOM) 530 Means Street Atlanta, GA 30318 US Domain Name: SIXTHSTREET.COM Administrative Contact: Cox Interactive Media, DNS Admin (CIM4-ORG) dns-admin@CIMEDIA.COM 404.572.1800 Fax- 404.572.1801 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Cox Interactive Media, DNS Tech (CIM2-ORG) dns-tech@CIMEDIA.COM 404.572.1800Fax- 404.572.1801 Fax- - 404.572.1801 Billing Contact: Cox Interactive Media, DNS Billing (CIM3-ORG) dns-billing@CIMEDIA.COM 404.572.1800 Fax- 404.572.1801 Record last updated on 14-May-98. Record created on 14-May-98. Database last updated on 19-Aug-98 04:28:03 EDT. Domain servers in listed order: NS1.ISI.NET 205.216.163.20 NS1.CIMEDIA.NET 206.251.18.2 [26/28] Respond, forget, or pass? !whois congressavenue.com No match for "CONGRESSAVENUE.COM".

hyphenate sixth-street (fyi, 6thstreet.com is taken, also...) untilforever.com gentlerogue.com

7veils.com virtualsecretary.com

for everyone's amusement and information, the following is not taken... anal-big-league.com

neither are animality.com animalism.com ventage.com varoom.com hands-off.com

varoom.com is now registered to the Spring. It may have potential. Can anye think of who might want it? What does this word mean to you?

A speeding car.

yeah, me too!

Sounds like a florist's to me.

Or a decorating business.

sure, why not? why not designing perhaps? can you see that as a name for a line of clothing? riette, whadaya say?

Let's see what an http://www.inference.com search turns up: 194. Q: What is happening when you hear varoom...screech, varoom...screech, varoom...screech..... ? A: A blonde trying to drive through an intersection with a flashing red light. The astro-electric instrumental "Deja Varoom" will also flirt your mortal coil with BEACH BLANKET BINGO-on acid, peppermint-twistin' fuzzy-bass death, but never fear -- the safety of the line-dancin' rockabilly "Country Funk" will uncurl your white knuckles from their nail-digging vinyl armrest grip as it serenades you with its trailer-trash honky-tonk sound. How about an alternative! Every time you whisk up the Thruway you drive right past it. Without even thinking about it you drive right by one of the most spectacular winter sports areas in the Northeast, varoom. Must hear this one: http://www.digiville.com/webmagic/hiBut/var1.htm CarTalk Postcard Center ...varoom! http://www.umr.edu/~marcys/cards.html Geoffrey could do naught but stare in shock. Of all the things he had expected to see in his life, this was by far the least. Suddenly, the hum turned into a monsterous VAROOM! A spear of light shot out from under the craft, towards a building a few blocks from Geoffrey. The beam lasted a hundredth of a second, and yet it seemed to hang in the air as if it were solid. from http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~fpiringe/AR/geoff.txt

�rolling on the floor laughing myself into a coma!!� IT'S ALIVE!!!!

Shim-shammidy Va-va-varoom Shroom!!! Make room for this 'lil Mushroom

Varoom, Varoom Danny Drotos Acrylic, charcoal, pencil and collage on plywood; 45 x 42 inches

And to get serious (picks Riette up from the floor) here's who we need to contact about putting up a the actual http://www.varoom.com website: http://www.inch.net/spence.tag/students/theme8.htm It's Varoom, home of the world's most exotic cars and this little student project is pretty awesome for it's collection of brands.

"Oh. I knew the minute you sat down and started to move that mouse around like a race car--varoom! I was sure of it when you double-clicked the way that you do, with your trigger finger. I knew that you were a man who would never resist a challenge." - Mary Willis Walker http://www.texasmonthly.com/twm/twm02.html

Didn't Speed Buggy used to say stuff like that as well?

�drying my eyes� littleboxes.com and goreforpresident.com would not be appropriate, I guess?

inter-exchange.com virtual-connection.com global-demographics.com nextperience.com cyborganica.net hemp-clothing.com secureworkshop.com secutrade.com

learnlearnlearn.net buybuybuy.net sellsellsell.net planetscope.com dependability.net foreshadowing.com

There are good. They are available?

catmandu.com buginarug.com piesafe.com redhotstuff.com awardseek.com holdtheonions.com poeticmusings.com good and available!

yep, all the ones I put in were available at the time of the posts...

how do you look again whether names are available or not? And where do you guys come up with such cool names?!?!?!

http://www.internic.net and click on whois or if you're in our shell: !whois name.com

it's a brainstorm thing for me. i'll get to looking for one thing then a whole bunch of other stuff pops into my head. terry: thanks for taking varoom.com!

Oh! Afraid my brain is quite stormless!

not so sure about that...

No? Why's that?

What names stand out among all the suggestions (I can't afford to register 'em all)? It's time to get selective. Which ones have the most commercial potential for the Spring?

virtual-connection.com planetscope.com Those are my favourites.

planetscope.net is registered. What does this bring to mind?

virtual-connection.com then

I meant, I registered it to the Spring. planetscope is ours.

Uh? Oh! That's good, right? GREAT!

as per discussion in art, artcentaur.com is not taken... didn't check artcentaur.net...

.com is the way to go.

artcentaur.com was just submitted with Riette as teh Organization Using Domain Name. I should get confirmation in a few hours.

cool...

I registered IH35.com along with burnetroad.com, lamarblvd.com, researchblvd.com, etc. for our local electronic commerce sites. Any other street names come to mind where there are a lot of businesses?

That sounds great, Terry! I'm so excited about this!!! Are we going to have fun, or what?? Wer, I thought we could advertise ourselves as logo designers as well?? What do ya think? bahnhofstrassez�rich.com!!!

I'm still at your command, Mistress...

utspeedway.com? benwhite.com? guadalupe.com? thedrag.com? congressavenue.com ??

i think that's great-y'all should be graphics artists! LineAvenue.com AirlineDrive.com BertKouns.com YoureeDrive.com Well, these are streets here that are heavy with businesses... oh, hey, did i tell you guys that a co-worker and i designed our office logo? well, we did and it was accepted and is now going through the proper approval channels. WOOHOO!!!!! it's, like, way cooooooool.

scan it and post it!!!

yeah, right, it's all that government stuff, real boring...

That's GREAT, Wolf, congratulations! And I'd also love to see it. Could you scan it through, pleeeeeeze? As far as our virtual gallery is concerned - don't you think it would be fun if we all shared in the whole thing? Like if we set up a sort of board, with you, Wolf, as the mega creative business woman around here, heading it. We create a conference similar to the inner sanctum thing that Wer is working on, but a conference where we all work together closely. We share ideas, whatever art gets exhibited in the gallery should be approved by the boar to ensure good quality, whoever wants to join the board ust be approved by everyone, the board should decide on things like how much to ask for each picture, etc. etc., as well as approve the layout of the web page. I mean, Wer, Wolf and I can combine our practical talents, but it is always a good thing to have extra, objective eyes to guide one. I'm probably being over ambitious again, and I know it's going to be a slow, small start, but I don't want it to be just another boring gallery page on the web. I feel that together we might just turn it into some hing that people will enjoy coming to - not only that, but if we should make a few dollars on it here and there, we can give the Spring fund a 10% cut. Please tell me if I'm being ridiculous - I'm just always a bit weary of doing things all by myself, since my taste isn't necessarily going to be that of the people who will visit the gallery, and then it'll stand no chance of doing well.

Terry?

sounds cool, and how will us non art people know how much a picture is worth? (in dollars, not words)...i mean, is there a guide?

I say GREEN LIGHT!

does anyone know anything about international import/export laws, tariffs, or taxes?

Oh, that crap will work itself out - we'll find out about that when the time comes. First we have to design the page TOGETHER, design it in such a way that people won't possibly be able to pass it by. In the meantime I will have all my paintings photographed professionally. As far as prices are concerned - I thought you guys could keep an eye out, get a rough idea in your local art shops/galleries of how much materials and actual paintings cost. I know about the prices over here, and we'll come up wi h something REASONABLE inbetween. Shipping costs will vary with each country, so we include, not the highest, but among the highest of tarrifs. When I shop over the internet, I prefer having everything included.way. So, where do we go from here?

ok, so now we're talking, what, small business? terry, we will need your help in that aspect because i know that i haven't a clue. and yes, i think we need to open our own topic to discuss this whole thing and have it like wer's sanctum where only a selected few get in. also, i think it would be a good idea to do some conferencing so we can brainstorm at one time. i know msn has a conferencing deal. any ideas?

yeah, I'll be back later...

OOh, that commanding tone!!! Music to the ears! I'll open a topic in Arts for us to discuss it in until we can get into sanctum mode! Wer, Terry, any way in which we can make that specific topic just for those who want to take part?

nope, can't have a "private" topic in a non-private conf... Riette, are you using your "web space" on here? If not, I think that's where I'm gonna set up the stuff to work on...

Excellent idea!

I've got WEB SPACE on here????? Where???? But if I do, that's a great idea - how will we get to see it though, because I don't know what this web space is called or anything!

your site here is http://www.spring.net/~riette wolf's is http://www.spring.net/~bayou stacey's is http://www.spring.net/~stacey ratthing's (I think) is http://www.spring.net/~ratboy mine is http://www.spring.net/~spew etcetera...

Oh, cool!! And this is where we're going to do the design work for the gallery - a sort of test site for the real thing?

um, as far as I know...is that okay?

Yep, that sounds great! AT least my 'web space' will be used!

wer, do you know how to set up a dedicated web site?

nope...but, I am willing to learn...

A dedicated web site! What could that be?

A website with its own domain name, like the one you're about to embark upon.

Oh! Cool! Right?

Have you been well, Terry? Probably, hey? You don't really seem to go through the ups and downs the rest of us experience - or perhaps you're just less dramatic about it than I am.

I'm well. Just been wrapped up in a time consuming work project. And managing three houes.

Good. I thought you've been a bit quiet recently - now I know why.