So later, she found a raccoon design at a popular Second Life business, Textures R Us, and infested the house, from the patio to the bedroom.
(One running joke finds Patrick being continually confused with others, despite his wealth, status and miraculous instant entree to New York's priciest restaurants.) In one hilarious early scene, he and his colleagues compare their business cards (the texture of the paper and the quality of embossing) in a competitive game of show and tell that has a murderous undertone.
Texture is big business and the science of food structure even has its own ology: food rheology.
Indeed, proper chocolate tasting is serious business, starting with examining the texture and savoring the aroma (although, Bomba notes, "Most chocolate probably doesn't get too much inspection between the wrapper and your mouth").
The in-custody death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore this month and the protests and riots that followed his funeral are reminders not just of unfinished business but of the complex texture of the issues raised over the last year in places like Ferguson, Mo.; Staten Island, N.Y.; South Carolina and Los Angeles, to name only a few.
Over the last 15 years, in fact, the attempt to make authentic buffalo mozzarella — to nail both its taste and texture — has destroyed businesses from Vermont to Los Angeles.
From a distance, it looked as if it was designed for business, but up close, it had texture, compatible with everything from sweatshirt to oxford to T-shirt.
It was the combination of new and old that made "After Nature" work, gave it a psychological unity and resistant texture, lifted it above business as usual.
More details are out this morning about Apple's plans for Texture, the digital newsstand business it acquired last month.
The business genes coat themselves with physical texture in order to become more robust, to deliver output, and to replicate.
