ClickCaster Development Team

The ClickCaster development team. From left to right... Shaun... Brandt... Matt... Tony. A very talented and creative group of guys.

Macon Cowles for City Council!

My buddy Macon Cowles, in the act, running for City Council here in Boulder, Colorado.

Macon's one of those lawyers who actually makes a difference, does the right thing and has the right motivations. I wish him loads of luck (and plan on helping him get elected). We need more people like this involved in politics, be it local, state or national.

Me? I'm hoping this is just the first step in a long political career for Macon. He's already, in my book, got more class, better ideas and a smarter approach to how you go about making society a better place than the folks we have in the senate today. But, one step at a time. I'm sure, if he reads this, he'll laugh at the thought. Hopefully, with time, he'll see he's the kind of guy we want (hell, that we NEED) in real positions of influence in American government.

www.miniusa.com's car builder

So, Just for fun, I went onto the MiniCooper site (can you tell I'm in a Car mood lately?) and built my car using their flash based car builder. Worked beautifully.. except for the roof. My Mini's roof is shiny black, body, electric blue (like the one here). So, they've 'sort' of got the technology down for doing this design it yourself on a website, but not quite.

Andrew's (in Palo Alto, CA) Mini Cooper S

A friends tweaked Mini Cooper. a hot box indeed!

eyes

The EYES have it!

Ma and Pa

Here's a better picture of Ma and pa. Taken a week or two ago. Two of my favorite people!

Penny Lane- gone!

Penny Lane. Dead and gone. One of Boulders most unique coffee houses.. Around for decades. Home of poets and musicians. Hang out for the weird of Boulder.

There are a few communities in the country that attract 'interesting' people. Boulder is one of those towns. These folks tend to be creative and non traditional thinkers. Sometimes they look like your next door neighbor, sometimes they look like their homeless (and sometimes, they are) but they ARE interesting and unique people.

Penny Lane was one of the places that people like this in Boulder congregated. Go there for a cup of coffee and you were bound to run into an old friend, or a local university prof, an author of a book you'd just read or a musican in a band you might have seen at one of the local venues during the past weekend. It was a meeting place and a small community all onto itself.

And it's gone. The landlord didn't like the 'element' (people) that the place attracted. And that reflects back to what's happening to Boulder (and to many 'weird' places in the US): Gentrification. The rich. Average income of a Boulderite is $150K a year. Average age: 29.

Think about that.

Lot's of youth, lots of healthy people (Boulder has the lowest BMI/body fat index, per capita, in the USA), lots of money.

Oddly, that combination tends to push out the different, the unique and the slightly mad. What, you're not a marathon running, rich beautiful person?? Well then, get the hell out of town.

I've seen some bumper stickers around town lately that say "Keep Boulder Weird". Amen, but good luck. It's hard to fight the economics.