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Movie Night
One of these nights when I have a night to myself I’m going to make some popcorn and curl up to watch the Vimeo Festival Award winning movies, back to back!!
Roust about
I need a jolt from a lightning bolt!
So an invite from Dragon arrived just in time. Time to let my hair tumble down, let off loads of pent up steam. Run around in the desert sun in flip flops, dance every bit of energy out of this frantic, aching, loving body all through the days and nights. We have only this one wild and precious life. There are beautiful people to meet and inspiring sights to see.
I’m pretty much out of cash but could work the site breakdown, be a rousty in exchange for entrance and camping. Would be the SWEETEST after-party!!! Hitting the hot springs before and after. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! Sleeping in hammocks, under the desert stars again. The desert, where I love to breathe, swim and heal.
Crap, ALL my summer clothes are in Marathon. Seriously, living out of a small suitcase is starting to lose its appeal when all I have is reminders of dreary crappy winter packed into it. I cant afford to jet set around the country to get my clothes before the festival. I can’t afford new clothes. I have flipflops, jeans, a bikini, and will have to hit the thrift stores in preparation. Fortunately you don’t need to wear much in the desert sun.
Oh this has to happen. I have to make it happen.
Charadium
I’m addicted to this free iPhone app. Play Charades/Pictionary with other live players around the world.
In Transition
This year I plan to roadtrip as much as possible via CraigsList Ride Shares. All the pleasure of a roadtrip with none of the footprint guilt – that vehicle was going anyway, with my butt in it or not. Plus Id get to meet new people along the way and get hooked up with randomly awesome, unforseen scenarios that make a trip unforgettable. So when I found this guys site I was enthralled! He’s taking it the max. Well, max in that its a non-stop roadtrip. This is so easily doable, and so I am rubbing where my beardy beard would be and thinking about it…
LivingCraigslist
One mans mission to live in 3 cities for 3 months, using only craigslist.
Date: 2009-12-27, 6:30PM
America/Los_Angeles
“I am very much in a transitional stage. But then, my whole life is in limbo. Aside from living out of a suitcase and sleeping in three towns in four days, I have racked up 730-miles, stopping for bathrooms, of sort, food, coffee and sleep. Life is very much on the road.”
Living In A Space Shuttle!
So tonight I had drinks at the Gage Bar with the head of a certain pivotal division of NASA who I think it would be stupid to name for security reasons. We had conversations about all sorts of silly things like the the moon possibly being hollow, the crazy fish tongue eating parasite, hopi candles and other things he didn’t quite believe in. He told me stories about a South African relative of his who rode her bicycle through India, South East Asia, South West China and Tibet, then wrote a book about it. Good times!
He mentioned he’d be retiring in 2012, the same year all 3 space shuttles would be retired. So of COURSE my head started making loud computational sounds internally with the full orchestra of beeps and bops, and I naturally enquired without any hesitation as to what they were planning to do with these space shuttles after they are retired! He must have received the raw data dump via telepathy or perhaps my bulging eyeballs as he noted that there is clearly plenty of space out here in the barren desert of Marathon TX, and I pointed out that if I was lucky enough to get hold of one of the only 3 shuttles to actually LIVE IN, I’d give up my dream of a treehouse. Jeez, I’d throw in a few other dreams too. But also that if the suction toilet ever failed it might be a problem finding a space toilet mechanic, however I am happy to overlook such a minor detail to realise the dream of actually getting to live in a space shuttle.
Out here in the remote Chihuahuan Desert where there is no light pollution at all, the black night sky is treacle thick with stars and the milky way. I can imagine looking out of my portals and feeling like I am up in space, floating around somewhere out there. And without any of the risks of being penetrated by radiation from the sun, or being hit with space junk. I could rest easy at night.
Ahh… I’m going to have such great dreams tonight! Even if it doesn’t ever happen I can live my whole life knowing that this is possible. It could actually happen if nobody else wants one, right?! Just living with the possibility is more than good enough for me.
WHEN ALL SIGNS POINT TO YES! FREAKING YES!!!
Seriously, if there had to be any more signs that the direction I am forging towards with all my strength and heart is the right one for me, and that no matter what, I will always be alright, there will always be more than enough to keep me safe to keep me happy… well a grand piano would have to drop on my head. Wait, let me rephrase that – I DO NOT want a grand piano to fall on my head, because I am starting to see, very clearly, that every single thing I want with all my heart and that I have asked for lately, ever since I started living in harmony with my inner course, I am receiving. In uncanny timing and with abundance. No pianos please!!
I probably wouldn’t have written this to get it out of my system if I could have got hold of her tonight — freaking Angela. (more…)
8 Tips for Scoring Free Airline Travel Vouchers
Airlines like money and it turns out that the best way for airlines to make money is to ensure that there are as few empty seats on a plane as possible. When a person doesn’t show up for a flight, the seat is left empty and an empty seat is a lost opportunity for revenue. As a result of this conundrum, airlines employ fancy statisticians to figure out how many seats the airline needs to overbook just to make up for the no-shows.
Unfortunately, those statisticians aren’t fortune tellers and sometimes (okay, a lot of times), their figures are off. When the figures are off, it’s still a better deal for the airline to give you a $300 travel voucher than it is to risk letting a seat fly empty.
So, how can you cash in on all of this free travel? Here are tips to releasing your inner free-travel royalty:
La Vida de Vagabundos Americanos
I have a bit of an obsession with The Dead Man Street Orchestra – a close group of hobos / musical gypsy’s who catch rides on freight trains across the country and play their hearts out on the streets for fun. If you’re living in the warm South this winter you might be lucky enough to stumble on them.
I don’t think I could just go travelling with these guys for a few months and ever be the same again. The photos promise that.
This lifestyle is contagious – check out this amazing gallery I found of other kids travelling by train. When I first came across these pics I thought they were the Deadman Street Orchestra but an anonymous commenter helped me out.
Musical influences:
“Beans, Rum, home made instruments, trash percussion, gypsy fiddle, sing a longs, old folks, trampin folks, young folks, workin folks, bums who ride for free, free time, free music, free morning coffee, rollin cigerettes, tuning A quarter 1/2 step sharp, loveable black and red dogs, back porches, sushi, and beans, a cold beer in a hot boxcar, and a tune ya just wanta play all day…”
The entire Dead Man Street Orchestra album is available in mp3′s and won’t cost you a single bean of course! Recorded in the woods at Mutant Fest this year.
see also an older post about:
The Dead Man’s Street Orchestra
and another gallery post about them I cant find right now but plan to put here later. (Let me know if you know where it is!!)
Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop this Christmas
The one laptop per child project has now officially launched and for $399 you’ll send a laptop to a needy child as well as to your own less-needy child! The laptops are pretty cool, have everything from a web browser to an RSS reader and they run on Linux. The project has to be one of the most innovative charities I’ve seen in a long time.
Via Freelance Switch
Leaf
If you ever need to grab files off your home computer or set up file sharing on a friends computer, you need Leaf.
It’s a small and simple peer-to-peer app that creates simple VPN connections between machines, and its FREE. It doesn’t encrypt the stream so its not suitable for sharing sensitive information, but its a quick and easy way to share files, printers and network drives.
All you need is Windows XP or Vista and the Microsoft .NET framework. Leaf for Linux is coming soon!
via LifeHacker
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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