The Power of the Consumer: Carrot Mob

This is a great demonstration of how we can put our over-used power of the consumer to good use.

Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.

Wall-e

Come on people...really...you can't in the first 2 minutes of the movie get the theme of the movie?? I saw Wall-e the other day and was struck by the strong message in the movie that was for me blatant in the first 2 minutes. What has baffled me is how no one (in the mass media) is talking about this and how the message seems to escape a lot of people. So, I write this post so that anyone planning to go see Wall-e will know to look for a message about our current path on Earth in the first 2 minutes. If you are not sure what it is by the end of the movie, please contact me and I'll explain then.

In-room coffee at Carmel River Inn

Now I have to admit one thing that I didn't like about Italy (and a few other countries in Europe) was no coffee maker in the room. It is a standard that I had become accustom to in the US and England (well...there it was water boilers for tea) and it is nice to enjoy your morning cup in the privacy of your own room. But let me say that no place has lived up to the coffee luxury of Carmel River Inn in California. A coffee machine with a built-in coffee bean grinder....in your room...I'm loving it!!

Peace

Ha...Enough said.

A new phase

Alright, while I had mostly been a tourist in the places I had been living, I have now returned back to the US and Austin where I lived previously and so am quite familiar with it. That being said, Austin has changed a lot in the past couple of years, so now the blog is going to focus on exploring these new things of Austin and also information worth sharing as I prepare for my year off, volunteer, and travel around the world.