Modern Olive is the first “pay whatever you want” Adventure in the Youkipedia family. There are a lot of Christian job posting boards, but they are too expensive and poorly designed. Would love to hear your feedback!
PS - We made it to Florida! I’ll post some pics of the trip shortly!
In the words of the Governator “Hasta la vista baby”. After a long weekend of finalizing the packing, having a huge yard sale and packing the 16 foot moving truck we are officially ready to hit the road! The plan is to go Dallas to Mobile to Tampa. My iPhone is fully charged so hopefully I’ll have tons of fun photos to snap on the 1803 miles trek. Talk to you soon!
Bear in mind this is a professional golfer who has won two majors (the ‘91 PGA and the ‘95 British). Hahahahahahahahaha! Too funny!
There is a very interesting article in the May - June 2008 edition of AdBusters Magazine entitled “A New Kind of Capitalism”. The article features former Harvard Law School professor Roberto Mangabeira Unger. Unger, now the Minister of Strategic Affairs, is known for his (sometimes radical) leftist leanings and is now pushing what he calls “radical pragmatism”.
What piqued my curiosity is Adbusters’ summary of his view to stimulate the economy in Brazil: “Instead of a tiny business elite dropping crumbs for the country’s poor, a broad middle class of small business entrepreneurs would form Brazil’s engine of growth. These small enterprises would get access to the credit and tax benefits that big businesses more typically enjoy. The benefits of the market should be shared broadly, not monopolized by big business”.
Adbusters, admittedly, concludes “In a way, the idea is very much free-market orthodoxy”. So how does a man known for his leftist leanings come to promote a decidedly free-market (i.e. right leaning) idea? I’ve got a few thoughts, namely, that perhaps what the right has promoted as free-market is, in essence, not truly free-market, but big business communism; and, secondly, that Unger may be right (as in correct).
Especially, when you consider that famed international financier, George Soros, said at the recent World Economic Forum, “central banks have lost control” and that the global economy as we know it is heading for “systemic failure”. For additional food for thought on global economics I recommend reading Revolution Wealth by Alvin and Heidi Toffler.
Interesting attempt to go against mainstream media channels pushing their values on consumers. From the site:
“How often have you gone to the store, and found yourself looking at a magazine cover that is designed to manipulate you by trying to make you feel like you’re not pretty enough, thin enough, sexy enough, smart enough, rich enough, or just not ______________ enough?”
From the lack of entries on their blog it appears that either 1) no one knows about it or 2) no one cares. What do you think?
Some people expressed confusion regarding what Doctor Div is so it’s undergoing a makeover to clarify. Here’s a sneak peak. Should be live on the DoctorDiv url within the next few days.
Anyone know of any good WiFi joints in or around downtown Tampa?
In the process of packing this week, of which, my wife has been doing the VAST majority of, I came across a brochure that my grandfather designed for a nursing home in California back in the 50’s. For those of you who don’t know my grandfather was a very talented artist and served as an Art Director in Portland for several years. When I found the brochure I remembered the afternoon he walked me through the process of how he created it with a combination of typesetting, screen printing and illustrating to which I replied “Wow, I can’t believe you did all that without a computer or layout programs”. (Haha, to which he probably thought, “Dumb kid”.)
Anyway, I’ll snap a photo of it and upload it later. If you’re interested, here’s some links to other stuff my grandpa did:
- Elijah: The Man Who Went To Heaven - lots of cool pen illustrations in here.
- Various paintings my grandfather did.
