Attention Social Internet Tycoons! Giving it Up!
So some years ago I squatted these:
GiftingPriveleges.com/org/net
GivPriv.com/org/net
The idea was that a guy or gal could give away some cool stuff...either with a giveaway intent or just cleaning out the garage...and a grateful recipient would write a nice note and rate the gift conferring "gifting privileges."
Those "givprivs" would become a de-facto currency. A currency created from surplus instead of debt. A step toward a culture of gratitude and away from servitude. Would function a little like e-bay and better than FreeCycle because there would be time to look around and throw your GivPrivs down: GIVERS get "dibs." Verses Freecycle where it all happens so fast.
There are details I could chat with anyone about anytime e.g.-- decreasing graft.
Anyway it was time to renew domain names and I am not moving on it so I offer it up. I did not renew and the domains are available at godaddy.com
Social internet tycoons scoop this up. It is yours for the giving!
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
April 15: I LOVE AMERICA!
I just want to say that I love America.
Especially today.
The sentiment of the founding Fathers that we can live together, respect each-other and the God of Nature's creation without tyrannical control is beautiful.
That so many people love America SO much to give 30 to 40 percent of their earnings is beautiful. Admit it.
I am not sure this tax is always appropriate given the various state sanctioned oligarchies/monopolies of oil (e.g. Exxon pays no U.S. taxes despite record earnings), insurance/healthcare, finance (Federal reserve is private and pays no taxes) and a defense industry that on inspection display a moral turpitude beyond the founders nightmares. I don't believe personal residences or individual's labor should be taxed...only corporations and maybe capital gains and consumption. I don't believe a pax americana should or even could be funded by pizza delivery guys and service employees. The thought of a portion of the fruits of my labor funding the killing of children across the globe sickens me.
But the dream is still alive. And I am grateful and hope it springs anew. People making sane laws that respect the individual and fuel the common prosperity.
God bless America today and always.
Especially today.
The sentiment of the founding Fathers that we can live together, respect each-other and the God of Nature's creation without tyrannical control is beautiful.
That so many people love America SO much to give 30 to 40 percent of their earnings is beautiful. Admit it.
I am not sure this tax is always appropriate given the various state sanctioned oligarchies/monopolies of oil (e.g. Exxon pays no U.S. taxes despite record earnings), insurance/healthcare, finance (Federal reserve is private and pays no taxes) and a defense industry that on inspection display a moral turpitude beyond the founders nightmares. I don't believe personal residences or individual's labor should be taxed...only corporations and maybe capital gains and consumption. I don't believe a pax americana should or even could be funded by pizza delivery guys and service employees. The thought of a portion of the fruits of my labor funding the killing of children across the globe sickens me.
But the dream is still alive. And I am grateful and hope it springs anew. People making sane laws that respect the individual and fuel the common prosperity.
God bless America today and always.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Inspiring Friends. Thank you!
One friend wrote an article about the healthful benefits of saur-kraut.
Another friend gave me a flip cam to learn gonzo-film nature journalism.
So I had a fantastic day of Whole Foods shopping and then cooking at home while filming 12 short segments.
On review I learned that I am fun and informative on camera. Gave me confidence and the slaw is fermenting- oh-yeah.
Different experience from the college radio show where I couldn't stand the sound of my own voice on air.
Somehow on uploading to the editor I erased it all. Shux!
But I learned stuff and now know I will benefit from an editing class!
Carin McKay is a Chef and Wellness Coach.
Leah Lamb was Online Producer for Current TV's Green Channel until today. Now she is a novelist.
Another friend gave me a flip cam to learn gonzo-film nature journalism.
So I had a fantastic day of Whole Foods shopping and then cooking at home while filming 12 short segments.
On review I learned that I am fun and informative on camera. Gave me confidence and the slaw is fermenting- oh-yeah.
Different experience from the college radio show where I couldn't stand the sound of my own voice on air.
Somehow on uploading to the editor I erased it all. Shux!
But I learned stuff and now know I will benefit from an editing class!
Carin McKay is a Chef and Wellness Coach.
Leah Lamb was Online Producer for Current TV's Green Channel until today. Now she is a novelist.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Complicated post.
Some friends who know I am all about co-creating a culture of caring for each other and for life don't get why I support the Second Amendment.
Without a review of the history of mankind I can quote John F. Kennedy at the American University in 1963:
"...But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. "
Now how to do that....
This story demonstrates that while an open heart can do a lot to bring an unbalanced person back to community-- it's good to have back-up.
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2010/02/21/ignatius-piazza-heres-to-the-coffee-girl/#video
Some friends who know I am all about co-creating a culture of caring for each other and for life don't get why I support the Second Amendment.
Without a review of the history of mankind I can quote John F. Kennedy at the American University in 1963:
"...But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. "
Now how to do that....
This story demonstrates that while an open heart can do a lot to bring an unbalanced person back to community-- it's good to have back-up.
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2010/02/21/ignatius-piazza-heres-to-the-coffee-girl/#video
Friday, February 19, 2010
Let's Get One Thing Straight....
SO much Buzz about same sex marriage and homosexuals in the military on FaceBook and main stream media.
I am always in awe that this is an issue in America.
Marriage may have been a sacred contract between a man and a woman and God to live a life of love.
It has nothing to do with money. It has nothing to do with the state. I am not sure it has much to do with spirituality at this point. Same sex unions were not illegal until 324 B.C.E about the time authentic Christian sects started being annihilated (Gnostics) and marriage was not a Roman Catholic sacrament until 1200s about the time they killed the good Christians in France (Cathars).
I have to disclose my own superstition and fascination with the idea that the word "Marriage" derives from the commitment of "Mary Magdelaine" to Jesus of Nazareth. That there is a fascinating spiritual alchemy that occurs between a man an woman partnered and dedicated to Love. That there were really 24 apostles not 12- the guys and their spouses. And that this was common knowledge in early christianity hence the term to "get MARRIed" is totally different from Roman legal terms for matrimony e.g. conventio in manum or sine manu or all the world's names for state sponsored and various church dictated non common law control mechanisms to limit and manipulate the distribution of wealth and sex.
America achieved greatness by protecting the right of individuals from the tyrannical superstitions ("morals") of competing colonial religious sects. Why just a generation or two before the Bill of Rights people in London were executed for eating meat on Fridays. Hasn't humanity fought this battle against superstitious misguided control mechanisms enough times?
Why any so called conservative in America would want to pollute a perfectly good republican democracy with superstitious regulations is unfathomable.
That one person can make another his attorney, give durable power of attorney for medical matters, designate a trusted person to inherit wealth is simple government. Simple: Civil matrimony. What is the problem?
That any so called Christian would want to sully the beautiful concept of marriage with the state's extraction of wealth (taxes) from citizens is an abandonment of core principles. If there is a sectarian religious dimension to it please please demonstrate it.
That any thoughtful person would want to restrict the ability of others to love and make commitments and manage affairs legally is hubris. "Mind your own business" should be the response of the 10 per cent of God's children that have to endure the bullying of self-rightious lost souls trying to regulate "marriage."
With regard to the military all I have to say is that honorable conduct should be rewarded and anything less not tolerated. Nothing to do with creed, race or sexuality is a barrier to honorable service. Regarding performance? The Roman army brutally conquered the known world and were primarily vegetarian bisexuals with swords. No playstation controlled drones. Just man on man.
For Levity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotlEpmAFVQ
I am always in awe that this is an issue in America.
Marriage may have been a sacred contract between a man and a woman and God to live a life of love.
It has nothing to do with money. It has nothing to do with the state. I am not sure it has much to do with spirituality at this point. Same sex unions were not illegal until 324 B.C.E about the time authentic Christian sects started being annihilated (Gnostics) and marriage was not a Roman Catholic sacrament until 1200s about the time they killed the good Christians in France (Cathars).
I have to disclose my own superstition and fascination with the idea that the word "Marriage" derives from the commitment of "Mary Magdelaine" to Jesus of Nazareth. That there is a fascinating spiritual alchemy that occurs between a man an woman partnered and dedicated to Love. That there were really 24 apostles not 12- the guys and their spouses. And that this was common knowledge in early christianity hence the term to "get MARRIed" is totally different from Roman legal terms for matrimony e.g. conventio in manum or sine manu or all the world's names for state sponsored and various church dictated non common law control mechanisms to limit and manipulate the distribution of wealth and sex.
America achieved greatness by protecting the right of individuals from the tyrannical superstitions ("morals") of competing colonial religious sects. Why just a generation or two before the Bill of Rights people in London were executed for eating meat on Fridays. Hasn't humanity fought this battle against superstitious misguided control mechanisms enough times?
Why any so called conservative in America would want to pollute a perfectly good republican democracy with superstitious regulations is unfathomable.
That one person can make another his attorney, give durable power of attorney for medical matters, designate a trusted person to inherit wealth is simple government. Simple: Civil matrimony. What is the problem?
That any so called Christian would want to sully the beautiful concept of marriage with the state's extraction of wealth (taxes) from citizens is an abandonment of core principles. If there is a sectarian religious dimension to it please please demonstrate it.
That any thoughtful person would want to restrict the ability of others to love and make commitments and manage affairs legally is hubris. "Mind your own business" should be the response of the 10 per cent of God's children that have to endure the bullying of self-rightious lost souls trying to regulate "marriage."
With regard to the military all I have to say is that honorable conduct should be rewarded and anything less not tolerated. Nothing to do with creed, race or sexuality is a barrier to honorable service. Regarding performance? The Roman army brutally conquered the known world and were primarily vegetarian bisexuals with swords. No playstation controlled drones. Just man on man.
For Levity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aotlEpmAFVQ
Monday, February 15, 2010
Haiti Materialism and
Last post was the day before the Haiti earthquake over a month ago.
For about a week I was in an odd funk.
I was not depressed but very insular. Almost suspended.
I put out some feelers to volunteer as a pharmacist in Haiti but nothing took.
No work at home either.
That morphed into some weeks of hyper materialism particularly related to emergency preparedness and self defense. I got online and shopped for things I was curious about for years. I spent more time and money in a couple weeks than I did all last year.
Everything tactical. Black. A windproof black "tacti-cool" fleece with hood and 11 pockets for concealment. Tactical compression T-shirt with pocket for I-pod/handgun. Tactical black blindingly bright flashlight. A tactical lightweight massage table and carry cover...tactical black of course.
A mentor pharmacist with a secret government past calls this kind of emergency preparedness a disease.
I cannot ague. Balance is everything. And yet the Haiti event set off some primal fears and obligations.
I turned to a spiritual advisor who introduced me to the Archangel Michael. A post in itself I began processing a vast past. Looking at roles and goals to protect self, family, community and Humanity in disaster.
Interestingly AA Michael was depicted in the recent horror film LEGION. I went to see it and also The Book of Eli. I wrote a bit on the role of faith as a source of personal strength but also as a moral blindfold and mass control tool. AA Michael is the patron saint of the police and the warrior. In the Tarantiono-esque film Legion he "falls" from God and is insubordinate in order to save humanity to be reunited later.
Memes of honor and the compassionate warrior and the masculine role swirled dark. I thought about the difference between Wovoka and Geronimo. Contemporaries regarded in degrees as Holy men and warriors. The decendents of the Sioux killed in the Dakota's for doing Wovoka's Ghost Dance live in worse circumstance today than the Apache in Northern Arizona. Was it better to be a flat out warrior than a spiritual dancer? Geronimo's skull was supposedly taken by Skull and Bones (Yale Fraternity of Kerry and Bush). Wovoka died working in a carnival.
Ambivalent about posting dark introspection with violent and religious themes I stopped writing.
I am back.
For about a week I was in an odd funk.
I was not depressed but very insular. Almost suspended.
I put out some feelers to volunteer as a pharmacist in Haiti but nothing took.
No work at home either.
That morphed into some weeks of hyper materialism particularly related to emergency preparedness and self defense. I got online and shopped for things I was curious about for years. I spent more time and money in a couple weeks than I did all last year.
Everything tactical. Black. A windproof black "tacti-cool" fleece with hood and 11 pockets for concealment. Tactical compression T-shirt with pocket for I-pod/handgun. Tactical black blindingly bright flashlight. A tactical lightweight massage table and carry cover...tactical black of course.
A mentor pharmacist with a secret government past calls this kind of emergency preparedness a disease.
I cannot ague. Balance is everything. And yet the Haiti event set off some primal fears and obligations.
I turned to a spiritual advisor who introduced me to the Archangel Michael. A post in itself I began processing a vast past. Looking at roles and goals to protect self, family, community and Humanity in disaster.
Interestingly AA Michael was depicted in the recent horror film LEGION. I went to see it and also The Book of Eli. I wrote a bit on the role of faith as a source of personal strength but also as a moral blindfold and mass control tool. AA Michael is the patron saint of the police and the warrior. In the Tarantiono-esque film Legion he "falls" from God and is insubordinate in order to save humanity to be reunited later.
Memes of honor and the compassionate warrior and the masculine role swirled dark. I thought about the difference between Wovoka and Geronimo. Contemporaries regarded in degrees as Holy men and warriors. The decendents of the Sioux killed in the Dakota's for doing Wovoka's Ghost Dance live in worse circumstance today than the Apache in Northern Arizona. Was it better to be a flat out warrior than a spiritual dancer? Geronimo's skull was supposedly taken by Skull and Bones (Yale Fraternity of Kerry and Bush). Wovoka died working in a carnival.
Ambivalent about posting dark introspection with violent and religious themes I stopped writing.
I am back.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Short Documentary
I took a permaculture design course at Esalen last year. Loved it.
Most of our population has no idea what permaculture means-- even the Blogger spell check cannot identify the word.
I cannot explain it as well as this 48 minute film by an English gal who puts it all into current context.
The film is not exactly Avatar in effects or pacing-- the word permaculture is not even used until 30 minutes in. But Rebecca does a good job sharing her journey in perspective from film maker to bewildered farm heiress to farmer of the future.
The film introduces concepts of food forests, ordered chaos and using protracted and thoughtful observation (PATO) to design less labor and fuel intensive systems that can yield more produce than conventional farming.
Watch this short film and see --remember if you are a permie-- the joy of discovering the crazy abundance that working with nature yields. While people critical of the environmental and energy state of the world can paint a pretty bleak picture permaculturists in contrast show another way that leaves people not just hopeful but excited.
Check it out and share it.
( Credit: I got the link form Mike Ruppert's Facebook page.)
Some other Permaculture info links:
http://permacultureprinciples.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/perma.html
The Film http://www.viddler.com/explore/PermaScience/videos/4/
Most of our population has no idea what permaculture means-- even the Blogger spell check cannot identify the word.
I cannot explain it as well as this 48 minute film by an English gal who puts it all into current context.
The film is not exactly Avatar in effects or pacing-- the word permaculture is not even used until 30 minutes in. But Rebecca does a good job sharing her journey in perspective from film maker to bewildered farm heiress to farmer of the future.
The film introduces concepts of food forests, ordered chaos and using protracted and thoughtful observation (PATO) to design less labor and fuel intensive systems that can yield more produce than conventional farming.
Watch this short film and see --remember if you are a permie-- the joy of discovering the crazy abundance that working with nature yields. While people critical of the environmental and energy state of the world can paint a pretty bleak picture permaculturists in contrast show another way that leaves people not just hopeful but excited.
Check it out and share it.
( Credit: I got the link form Mike Ruppert's Facebook page.)
Some other Permaculture info links:
http://permacultureprinciples.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/perma.html
The Film http://www.viddler.com/explore/PermaScience/videos/4/
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Santa knows best after all these years.
Weeks after Christmas I am still stoked about about a toy Santa gave me.
In fact I don't remember having been this excited about a gift since I got the Beatle's Red Album-- a 2 record compilation that was actually red!
That was the 5th grade and Michael Jackson had not yet released Off the Wall, and I had not yet heard of the Police, the Clash, Prince, U2 or any of the other bands I would play too loudly in my room ad nauseum. I suppose a Beatle's record was the perfect gift a parent could give at that age... it kept me out of the way and they knew where I was and the music was pleasant. This year's gift was also perfect.
This year it was a French Chess set with legs and drawers that hold the heavy wooden pieces. I can only describe it as SEXY.
Each move feels so decisive as the hardwood knight clip-clops down or the deeply carved rook or bishop slides with gravitas across the wooden veneer.
It sits just over a foot high-- perfect view when played from the floor with a pillow, preferred beverage and tasty morsels within reach. Family time is good time.
I've played some amazing white knuckled games cleaning house versus my Dad and pal Chris. (To be fair Chris wooped my hyde the first game and there was a stalemate with Dad).
I so prefer the classic quiet games to the frenetic and strobed computer games available now. Chess on the floor by the fire having selected sublime background music, pausing for conversation and stories if not strategy is so nice. In contrast the action film Avatar which I enjoyed despite a 3D induced headache has a matching video game. I can only imagine the migrainic and seizure inducing effects of the technicolor gun battles in flight and through forrest. Chess can't be beat in my book.
Except by Backgammon and as it turns out the chess board flips over to reveal my other favorite classic game. Looking forward to dominating over good music, conversation and food when friends come over to play.
What a good boy I must have been.
In fact I don't remember having been this excited about a gift since I got the Beatle's Red Album-- a 2 record compilation that was actually red!
That was the 5th grade and Michael Jackson had not yet released Off the Wall, and I had not yet heard of the Police, the Clash, Prince, U2 or any of the other bands I would play too loudly in my room ad nauseum. I suppose a Beatle's record was the perfect gift a parent could give at that age... it kept me out of the way and they knew where I was and the music was pleasant. This year's gift was also perfect.
This year it was a French Chess set with legs and drawers that hold the heavy wooden pieces. I can only describe it as SEXY.
Each move feels so decisive as the hardwood knight clip-clops down or the deeply carved rook or bishop slides with gravitas across the wooden veneer.
It sits just over a foot high-- perfect view when played from the floor with a pillow, preferred beverage and tasty morsels within reach. Family time is good time.
I've played some amazing white knuckled games cleaning house versus my Dad and pal Chris. (To be fair Chris wooped my hyde the first game and there was a stalemate with Dad).
I so prefer the classic quiet games to the frenetic and strobed computer games available now. Chess on the floor by the fire having selected sublime background music, pausing for conversation and stories if not strategy is so nice. In contrast the action film Avatar which I enjoyed despite a 3D induced headache has a matching video game. I can only imagine the migrainic and seizure inducing effects of the technicolor gun battles in flight and through forrest. Chess can't be beat in my book.
Except by Backgammon and as it turns out the chess board flips over to reveal my other favorite classic game. Looking forward to dominating over good music, conversation and food when friends come over to play.
What a good boy I must have been.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
I went back tonight just to be sure it was real...
I went back tonight just to be sure it was real...
Walking on the beach these last evenings. A few circuits and into the darkness of my favorite stretch of coastline.
I saw a glimmer of light at my heel. Then again. The glint of the moon on my ocean kissed boots?
Nope. The moon was not up yet.
Every step a glint or two. Now sometimes in front or adjacent my feet.
"Now this is interesting" I thought.
A Micheal Jackson moment? The beach lighting up with my feet as if I was in a nature lovers version of the 1980's "Billie Jean" video.
A quick moon walk and yes the sand was lighting up under my feet.
Bioluminescence baby. "Sorry dudes!" I kept walking.
Imagine walking on crystal sands under the stars. Now reach up, grab some sky and flip up so that you are walking upside-down watching your feet obscure the heavens. As you walk the stars around each foot begin to scintilate a bright green blue a few inches (light years?) surrounding your foot as you put your weight on it. Then they go back to normal.
That's what it looked like.
You can come down now.
So there is some kind of dinoflagellate bloom of my little pyrrophytic friends going on in the sand at my favorite beach.
Is there an up-welling of cold Monterey trench waters chock full of nutrients? Perhaps in Winter due to global warming?
Are the bioluminescent dinos here to meet and procreate?
Tomorrow night I will bring my fire poi and burn green (ETOH and MgSO4) to signal a welcome from the two legeds and give a thanks for the last few nights display.
I might hum along to the old Michael Jackson song while moon-walking and spinning fire.
P.S. Let me know if you want to check it out with me.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Let's Get it Started...Let's Get it Started.. with Guy's definition.
Blogger n. Someone with nothing to say writing for people with nothing to do.
--Guy Kawasaki
Guy is a big shot entrepreneur technorati and of course he does not believe his own quote.
Here's his blog.
In his hardcore start up guide Reality Check he writes that --aside from business applications-- blogging is creative expression that builds community.
And that is my intention for JunaiEricFinckeBlogs.
I plan to have fun expressing ideas that create community.
More specifically: to delve deep into the human experience, our spiritual nature, our economical and ecological struggles to survive as a species and our need for creativity in both problem solving and just the joy of wacky art projects.
I hope friends from my dance community, Esalen community, pharmacy and health communities, plus my radical and mellow political acquaintances, Men's work, healers, hard core entrepreneurs and nature worshippers all meet me here.
IT WILL BE FUN.
Blog Topics to include:
Health and Wellness
Health Care- the machine
Politics and Economics
Food
Love
Music and Art
Ecology/Survival
Spiritual Longing
The Human Experience and
Sex
Check in often.
This Blog is up and runnin' runnin' and runnin' ruinnin'...
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