More homes destroyed last night in Kelowna. It seems this summer like the whole province is on fire. The Red Cross is looking for donations, so read this story and follow the links to give.
Good luck to my friends in Kelowna and Naramata.
Folks have been asking, but I’m here to tell you that there is no news on the HaidaBucks Cafe situation. Last time we looked at this story, HaidaBucks had asked Starbucks to basically stop lying to its customers.
I sent a note to Starbucks about that debacle, and haven’t heard anything back from them. Customer Relations suddenly disappears when your company starts lying to people.
HaidaBucks wants an apology, which seems reasonable, and Starbucks has not been forthcoming with that.
So the absolute latest on this situation is, in the words of one of the HaidaBucks guys, “Starbucks is still trying to wish the whole thing away. Should have news soon.”
Anyway, I’m still forgoing Seattle based lattes in favour of independant coffee shops, and I haven’t been disappointed yet.
Why does it take me so long to stumble over websites like U B U W E B? In the ethnopoetics section lives some translations of Vietnamese folk poems, including this one:
Leaving the Village
Even when cross planks are nailed down,
bamboo bridges are shaky, unsound. Hard going.
Hard going, so push on home to tidal flats to catch crab,
to the river for fish, to our sandy patch for melons.
You won’t believe this, but I just signed up as a Bush Team Leader for the Bush/Cheny ’04 campaign.
Apparently, they don’t care whether or not you are an American, or whether you even live in the USA.
Am I the first left-wing Canadian Bush Team Leader? I guess that fills a niche in the “coalition groups” section of the website. I’ve always prided myself on being a party of one.
Thanks to John Dumbrille for putting me on to this site that led me to signing up. May I should join him in the zendo to clear a bit of the insanity from my monkey mind.
I have been tripping on these amazing images at Fractal Recursions all evening. There are dozens of images here plus some fascinating animations. They remind me of the hologrpahic experience of meditation, peering into a clear blue sky and seeing more blue nothingness reflected deeper and deeper.
Enjoy.