Chinesepod mugs etc.

Maybe, someone could do the same thing in Shanghai: Visit every Starbucks outlet there - going to other baristas showing their location etc. Doing it in Chinese would also be appreciated. (Please include captions!)

If you have 10 minutes to spare, click on Joachim's photo and watch to Starbuck's video. Hilarious!

lordstanley: What kinda help is a t-shirt when drinking coffee? Is it meant to absorb the scalding liquid? How about things like these?

Never got my mug for signing up for an annual subscription a year ago. So have been forced to drink straight from the coffee pot the past year and my lips are getting scalded! Will by renewing my annual subscription this weekend, maybe better luck this time.

Or is CPod trying to dump the existing lot of t-shirts? You can't really compare the free t-shirt with the free podcast DVD.

I agree with Urbandweller way up towards the top of this thread....add some hanzi to the merchandise.

The free baseball shirt is okay, but it'd be a lot nicer if it had some low-opacity characters on it. Characters are cool man ;)

Im sure they have, but we may not want to know who.

I wonder if anyone has purchased one? hows that

joannah: "bRought one"? Where do you need to bring a Cpod thong?? ;-)

the chinesepod thong is a bit disturbing. i wonder if anyone has brought one?

I like the baseball shirts, but it's still a bit cold at the moment.

So, now there is new merchandise, but only for people subscribing for a whole year. No more saturday shows with things for grabs for answering silly questions ... Maybe, Dear Amber can step in?

jamestheron, THANK YOU for finally getting me to that episode. I probably heard that Saturday Show before but missed this famous quote. You are the first one to actually point me to it, and the exact time to boot! Looks like you guys got all your embedding questions answered, no? Oh, my mistake in my first attempt to do the logo was that I tried to put a link around the image, such as: <a href="blahblah/blah.jpg"><img src="blahblah/blah..jpg"></a> Yet that was too long so when I posted it, it became <a href="blahblah/ <br /> blah.jpg" ><img src="blahblah/ <br /> blah..jpg"></a> which just totally screwed up the link or the image or whatever. So, guess you have to keep those lines short. Oh, and if you want to write ABOUT these tags as examples like we do, you use &lt; for < (lt = less than) and &gt; for > (gt = greather than), ex: &lt;img src="blah.jpg"&gt; will show your readers: <img src="blah.jpg">

Joachim -- I got neither the mug nor the thong on my last visit, but I do have a vintage CPod mug from when I first paid for a year's subscription. I'll see if I can snap a photo of that soon.

I got it now. Thanks again Brent. Three men from Guizhou. Food was just right spicy. I had "beef on fire" - and they lit it. Very good.

Cool napkins!

RJ, it looks like you coded it correctly, but the link you inputed (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24000909@N08/2277020157/) is the actual flickr page with the photo on it. To find the exact URL where the photo is located, right-click on the photo from the above page, then click "Copy Image Location". Paste that URL into the code...it should be http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/2277020157_09f8faa7b2.jpg?v=0 Let's see if it works here...

any suggestions?

ok- Im going to try it. here is a napkin pack from a restaurant in Beijing that I liked very much. 3 guys and their hometown. Anyone know where it is? (try 1)

没问题 RJ !

Thank you Brent.

-RJ

RJ & Xiaohu, just posted this on another thread...a few html tips: Adding a URL Link

<a href="http://www.yourURL.com" target="_blank">NameYourURL</a>

Where it says http://www.yourURL.com, type in your URL (web page).

Where it says NameYourURL, you can put any name in here and you will see that name instead of the URL. This is good if you have a really long URL, or just want to name it.


Adding a Photo

<img src="http://www.yourURL.com/yourPhoto.jpg"></img>


Where it says http://www.yourURL.com/yourPhoto.jpg, type in the URL where the photo is located. Keep in mind that you must upload your photo to an online server, either your own website or something like Flickr.


Formatting Text

Bold : <strong>type the text you want bolded here</strong>

Italics : <em>type the text you want italicized here</em>

Rich:

I concur with RJBerki. A short tutorial would be very welcome.

Thanks

Hey Rich, or anybody, How is it you embed objects or images in text here? I dont know HTML so please dumb it down. Thanks.

-RJ

-RJ

Rich,

The chipmunk quote came from a Saturday Show about a year ago.

The audio is here and Jenny said it at about 6:39: http://cdn1.libsyn.com/hanyuwang1/chinesepod509_I38_20070224.mp3

@Henning,

so I should call myself 海宁.. ;-)

it would be nice to have mugs with your own favorite quote (from the lessons, the banter or some famous Jenny Zhu quote)

I love the old Chinesepod logo.

I also miss the old design of the site from when I first joined before moving to version 3.

Actually I like the new mugs. They should send us all one.

Jenny,

did Frank Fradella get a mug when visiting Cpod in the last few days? Or a thong???

RJBerki:

Those "curtains" of Henning's look like a scroll painting to me.

Maybe, Cpod could do some calligraphy scrolls as giveaways. That way, users could own an original artwork by Jenny Zhu or John Pasden. :)

I have an old mug. ;)

I do like the old logo. Henning - I assumed you were standing in front of a window curtain.

errr.... "no one would answer me[full stop]"

WHERE IS THIS "VISUALIZE MY CHIPMUNK" episode? I asked that TWICE on some other thread on best Jenny Zhu quotes and no one would ask me? Was it even a lesson, or on Saturday Show? I don't even know the context it was said in. *sniff* *sniff*

I'll take 2 palate's of those mugs :)!!!

Seeing someone drinking from a mug with only 'visualize my chipmunk' written on would definitely be like a secret handshake of the Cpod community... :-)

The old logo was the red cursive 中, framed in a red pod with the characters "pod". Close to those ones:

http://blog.praxislanguage.com/2006/11/16/we-need-a-new-logo/

There is no curtain on that picture.

dang it... how does one imbed an image? I did regular <img src="..."> tag... grr. It seems it put a <br /> right in the middle of the img tag even though I didn't wrap it. Trying again (but you can click on the above link if this doesn't succeed):

Yes, V3 killed the cool CPod logo!!! I never saw a reason why. The new logo needs to be at least wearing a shirt or somethin' with "中文" written on it or something. I would very much like old merchandise too. I have an old logo somewhere on my other computer. will upload it if I remember, but I am sure it is still out there somewhere. Oh wait, here is a screen shot of the good ol' days of V2 and de old logo: As for saying on the mugs, com'on people, it has to be Jenny quotes! Nothing else says ChinesePod as what she adds to the shows in one-liners. :)

Henning, the shirt is ok but those curtains.....

What was the old logo? (and dont tell your wife I made a crack about your curtains)

-RJ

I considered signing up for a year at one crack to get the DVD, but Lordstanley said he never got his mug in a simialr bait and switch deal, so I decided not to. I think

"Cpod really owes him a mug now, dont you think? New york Times publicity and looking good too. Maybe the C in cpod stands for "cheap". Send Mike his mug.

My avatar (which I will hopefully eventually replace some day) still proudly wears an *old* CPod T-Shirt that I won in the 2nd Saturday Show.

I will never forget that show. Jenny explained why I am most probably a *Dutch girl* - based on my Chinese name 海宁. Mpmf.

But the T-Shirt was worth it, given the collector's value of the nowadays rare V1/V2 style merchandise.

i agree with fudawei about the current merchandise looking to corporate...i think there should be more "chinese looking" stuff...maybe with characters or something

Jenny,

I think ya'll should start a thread asking poddies to come up with creative sayings/marketing slogans for merchandise. Knowing this group, you'll get some brilliant ideas.

If I found a T-Shirt or Cup with the OLD LOGO, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. That logo stood out. That logo had class. This one looks like love-child of the Cingular and "Duke", the Java mascot.

We need to revamp our merchandises and give them for free to visiting poddies.

What is your favourite Chinese mug? This one gives you something to read: (Periodic table in traditional Chinese^)