- barcode
- A printed symbol intended to be read by a computer, used for a variety
of purposes, such as product identification at a point-of-sale and tracking
items in a warehouse. (More info)
- Brandon Smith
- An erstwhile hanger-outer on
#dnalounge. He has a spigot
and knows how to use it. (More
info)
- Bünny
- Bünny is a very patient and thoughtful Bünny.
- chick pea flour
- Flour made by grinding up dried chick peas. Also known as "garbanzo
flour." (More
info)
- Chlöe O'Blivion Bornstein
- The name of Danfuzz's cat, if he ever gets one.
- chocolate in-betweens
- A bar-type cookie consisting of bottom and top layers of buttery
oatmeal cookie surrounding a layer of chewy oozy chocolate. This is
Danfuzz's favorite baked dessert. (More
info)
- chocolate milk
- A tasty beverage made by mixing milk with sugar and cocoa.
- coffee milk
- A tasty beverage made by mixing milk with sugar and coffee.
Higher quality coffee milk is made from coffee concentrate (as opposed
to simply from normal strength coffee).
- comfortron
- The general name for a fold-out chair-bed thing or a combination of
several such things. Comfortrons usually exist in one of three
configurations: chair, bed, or comfort (the last also called "the full-on
comfortron configuration").
- Comfortron 2000
- A comfortron consisting of a single chair-bed unit. Danfuzz
has owned and operated a Comfortron 2000 since about 1980, although it
was not named as such until about 1992.
- Comfortron 4000
- A comfortron consisting of two chair-bed units. With the addition
of a new comfortron unit to his household in 1996, Danfuzz became
the proud operator of a Comfortron 4000.
- Comfortron 10000
- A comfortron consisting of five chair-bed units. A Comfortron 10000
has never been observed in the wild.
- Dan Bornstein
- Born and raised on the east coast, he left for the San Francisco Bay
Area in 1992 and never looked back. (More info)
- Danfuzz
- Dan Bornstein's nickname, for somewhat obscure reasons. There are
or have been other "Danfuzz"es on the net / in the world, but Dan Bornstein
was the first one, having acquired his nickname in 1988.
- DJ Danfuzz
- The slightly-augmented nickname Dan Bornstein uses when acting in the
capacity of disc jockey or creator of music/audio mixes that consist
primarily of source material produced by other people. (More info)
- E
- A programming language intended for secure distributed computation.
The original version was developed by a company called Electric Communities
(later, Communitites.com). A new version of the language began development
at the company, but later got open sourced and developed independently by
Mark Miller. (More info)
- Fuzzboy
- The nickname Dan Bornstein uses when acting in the capacity of
original music composer/performer/producer. There is (or was) also a
dj that goes (or went) by the name "Fuzzboy" as well; this is
not Dan Bornstein. Dan used the name first (he first used the name
in 1991), but he isn't too concerned since the uses do not strictly
conflict. (More info)
- garbanzo flour
- Another term for chick pea flour. (More info)
- Gordie Freedman
- The original gloog. (More
info)
- GreatDomains.com
- One of the original domain name brokers. They eventually got bought
by VeriSign as part of a massive rollup of net-centric companies.
Their domain name valuation guidelines provided a rationale for why
the asking price of
milk.com is so high.
(More info)
- Guyver3
- Self-styled God of Cookery, but he really does make a mean curry.
(More info)
- Jeremy Bornstein
- Brother of Danfuzz, collector of many artifacts
and hobbies. (More
info)
- John Lockhart
- Once threw up on Danfuzz, while taking the bus to high school.
This did not put a permanent schism in their friendship, though.
(More info)
- Ken Tidwell
- Worked at a bunch of Silicon Valley startups, including Kaleida, which
is where he met Danfuzz. He is fascinated with board games.
(More info)
- Kokopelli
- A figure from Native American mythology, known as "the hunchback
flute player" and also as a trickster-type character. He is depicted as
part of the site icon for
milk.com.
(More info)
- Lenny Raymond
- Lenny and Danfuzz met in 1992 by virtue of the fact that
Dan moved into a house where Lenny was subletting a room for the summer.
They have been friends ever since, even managing to found a company together
(along with Dan's brother Jeremy)—and have it fail—without
it ruining their rapport. Lenny has a really neat barbeque grill.
(More info)
- milk
- A naturally-produced opaque and light-colored low-viscosity liquid,
produced by or derived from either animals or plants. "Milk" includes,
but is not limited to, capybara milk, coconut milk, cow's milk, monkey
milk, rice milk, soy milk, and yak's milk. While not all forms of milk
are commonly consumed by humans, many people find milk to be a tasty part
of their regular caloric intake. While this website does not require you
to do so, it (hereby) heartily encourages you to enjoy milk's many
splendors.
milk.com- The Internet domain owned and operated by Danfuzz. (More info)
- National
Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program
- The United States government program responsible for advocating
milk consumption. They get their money by taxing milk sales, and they use
this $110 million or so per year for such things as the "milk moustache"
ad campaign. (More
info)
- pure gluten flour
- Another term for vital wheat gluten. (More info)
- Schizopolis
- Movie written, directed by, and starring Steven Soderbergh, released
in 1996. It is Danfuzz's favorite movie. (More info)
- ScriptX
- A programming language, class library, and runtime environment
developed by Kaleida Labs from 1992 to 1995. The language was a
garbage-collected typesafe language, and it compiled into a bytecode
form. The system was geared towards making it easier to develop
media-rich CD-ROM based products. (More
info)
- Smartacus
- Maker of groovy outerwear, has a penchant for mistaking panties for
underpants. (More info)
- SomaFM
- Nifty independent set of net "radio" stations which very occasionally
does actual FM broadcasts. SomaFM is run by Rusty Hodge, who is one of
the most articulate advocates for net-based broadcasting. (More info)
- Steven Soderbergh
- Danfuzz's favorite director. He first became known for Sex, Lies,
and Videotape, then went on to make somewhat out-there vaguely artsy
films, such as Kafka, Schizopolis, and Gray's
Anatomy, and then took a turn back toward mainstream with Out of
Sight and subsequent releases. (More info)
- strawberry milk
- A tasty beverage made by mixing milk with sugar and strawberry
flavoring. A powdered mix consisting of the latter two ingredients may be
found at many grocery stores. At an early age, Danfuzz once threw
up a stomachful of this stuff after his brother ran him over with a
tricycle, leaving said brother believing, momentarily, that Dan had
literally spewed his guts out.
- vital wheat gluten
- A wheat flour made by processing high gluten flour to remove the
starch and bran, yielding a product that is mostly gluten. Also known as
"pure gluten flour." (More info)
- Xigo
- Alas, poor Xigo. (More info)
- YMMV
- Your Mileage May Vary.
