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Local Content is Golden

Submitted by Guglielmo on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 5:49pm.

But I don’t have much today. Other than I just walked over to Café Vita’s for a cup of their most excellent drip and ran in to Janet preparing for her interview with Susan Wicklund. Noticed some wicked-sweet shadows from the February sun and watched a mustachioed man in black doing bicep curls with a 12 pound dumbbell on the junction box at the corner of 4th and Washington. That’s my report.

On another note, I was chatting with Meta last night about things philosophical and managed to bring up Camus’s fine essay, The Myth of Sisyphus. It’s one of my favorites. I discovered it during my own clichéd existentialist period in college. It’s still a favorite read.

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dumbbell

Submitted by einmaleins on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 6:14pm.

yeah, I saw him too, that was funny...

Early this morning I went to a ODA meeting and we discussed the membership trends in this organisation.

Last night was the Food Co-op Co-location meeting at the Olympia Center and we discussed future plans for a Co-op location in downtown.

There's alot going on in this great city, it's just a matter of finding the beauty within.

mathias

einmaleins

Indeed. It's a town full of pearls.

Submitted by Guglielmo on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 6:16pm.

Any updates on possible Co-op locations?

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.! --John Maynard Keynes

in the early stages...

Submitted by einmaleins on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 9:48pm.

... of an very ambitous plan to possible build a whole new structure, that might include lots of different services that are somewhat aligned along the mission statement of the Food Co-op. Right now, it's about finding the right partnerships that can carry such a huge endeavor. My personal recommodation would be to move somewhere really close to the Farmer's Market. Since the Market is already a draw for shoppers and provides parking, the Food Co-Op could extend the Market's operation hours for shoppers. And down there at the port is the most space to build a new building too. mathias

Hyperhyperlocal

Submitted by jlw on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 7:32pm.

My interview this afternoon was originally scheduled for Otto's. Ack. Reliable old Otto's, which has just been sitting there without doing anything unpredictable since I moved to Oly eight years ago, picked TODAY to shut its doors.

Dr. Wicklund was down in Portland at another interview, and we had one of those fractured conversations as she drove North on I5 through southern Washington, trying to decide where to meet instead, as she went in and out of cell phone service range. Nightmarish!

When I got to Cafe Vita, the windows seemed to be held together with black duct tape, and the music was REALLY LOUD. The kindly barista turned it down for me, though, and things went smoothly once we got started. I will post the article I write based on the interview here on Olyblog in early March.

This world's crazy, give me the gun. -- P.J. Harvey

The city

Submitted by security_six on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 7:57pm.

Cleared out the ditches on the end of West Bay Drive near the marina. Too little, too late if you ask me, but I'm not sure they could have handled the flooding earlier this year anyhow...

Will help a lot in regular rains though.

The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people mad and been widely regarded as a bad idea. -The Restaurant at the end of the Universe

Post to the front page

Submitted by emmettoconnell on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 7:04am.

All of this stuff, from talking about the ODA, Co-op, even the west side ditches, would make great front page posts. Well, maybe I'd suggest a picture with the ditch post.

I'd love to read regular updates of the ODA if someone was going to their meetings.

you're right!

Submitted by einmaleins on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 10:45am.

I'm still feeling things out with the different organisation bodies and the different media outlets. And I'm trying to find my voice in that. I don't just want to create content that turns into fodder for someones cannon and everybody ends up yapping about it, using "insider" content to make themselves feel superior.

How transparency begins

Submitted by emmettoconnell on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 11:15am.

One of the things that annoys me about local organizations (my organization included), is that they don't blog, by and large. They have newsletters, but they don't have an informal discussion area on the web.

I'm trying to get past that by blogging more often over here, but if you attend a ODA meeting, or anything else where you hear somethign bloggable, my first inclination would be to blog it.

If people have a problem with your voice or perspective, well, they can blog or comment as well, can't they?

and how transparancy continues is....

Submitted by einmaleins on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 2:47pm.

If the blogging community continues to hide behind screen names and posts anonymously, than it creates a seperate community that allows for people to behave in a way they wouldn't in the "real" world. That is not a critism about Olyblog but about the internet as a whole. If you want to participate in the real world and want transparancy than you have to see yourself as a extension of the real world community and be respectful as such. Newsletters are created because they go into the hands of people it's supposed to. If you blog information it's everyones game.

Pics of ditches

Submitted by security_six on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 12:09pm.

Require a digital camera, and right now my budget won't even bear the $20 cheepies at Wal Mart...

The story so far: In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people mad and been widely regarded as a bad idea. -The Restaurant at the end of the Universe

Imagine Sisyphus Happy!

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 7:04am.

Thanks for linking to the Camus material.

Big Al Camus' Essay

Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 7:38am.

has come before in OlyBlog. In a thread about Mrs. Butterworth, of all things.

walk on the wild wild west side

Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 1:25pm.

I was up on the west side for errands around 10 am today and I think the universe conspired to provide me all sorts of interesting events:

a ballet of wonderful smelling taco truck, a city street sweeper, transit buses, and a church van all moving through the intersection
good coffee at Vic's while being benevolently watched by picture of JP Patches and Gertrude
wondering for the millionth time where the lady at Good Life Health Foods gets all her energy
noting old guys hanging out happily on the bench inside Grocery Outlet and deciding that means the store has passed the "old guy test"

Olympia, City of Love

Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 2:37pm.

Where?

Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 2:41pm.

Where did you find this? Reminds me of seeing "I love you" written in red cursive on the side of the Bank o' America downtown.

Next to the flooring store around the corner from Hannah's

Submitted by Guglielmo on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 2:53pm.

...and not very far from the Bank of America!

Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.! --John Maynard Keynes

I bet

Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 02/15/2008 - 3:01pm.

I bet it is the same person, same color choice/theme/style of cursive. Very cool.

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