This came from Spencer Burke of TheOoze yesterday. It’s been almost 10 years from the first Soularize in Seattle, and we’re exciting about hosting another learning party in 2011. As usual, this event will unite both traditional and non-traditional teachers, artists, theologians, thinkers, and social activists. This year – sunny San Diego! October 12-14, 2011 [...]
TheOoze
Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?
Kyle Martin IM’d me and while we were chatting, asked me what the video was that was shown to kick of Soularize. I had no idea but after looking and looking I finally found it. So what did I find? “The slam poet/tech artist/paper sculptor Rives does eight minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into [...]
Why have Soularize in the Bahamas?
Spencer Burke sent this out as a part of TheOozeletter today. This year Soularize is a counter intuitive relational learning party There are three important reasons why we chose the Bahamas; This is the first international venue for the missional / emerging conversation. I am surprised how many people in the USA are unaware of [...]
Contextless Links
Good summary of what is happening with the sub-prime meltdown at Wikipedia. The New York Times has a good summary about how the safeguards haven’t worked and finally over in the comments of Metafilter is a comment that has almost become legendary for its description of what is going on. Church cancels service over gay [...]
Soularize 2007
I have been swamped with life lately but have finally found the time to upload my photos from California to Flickr, then I realized I had over processed them in Picassa and they looked horrible that I uploaded the raw images again. Click on the photos to take you to the different photo sets on [...]
Random thoughts
Some of you have asked me how my health has been. Two words. Autonomic Neuropathy. It hurts badly both internally and externally now. Ergo keyboards are hard to get used to. You soon discover your bad typing techniques. I am now running Windows 2000 on my notebook. I miss the old Windows 98 interface. I [...]
A Heretics Guide to Eternity
My good friend Spencer Burke of TheOoze has a new book coming out, A Heretics Guide to Eternity on June 30th. It looks good and is available for advance order from Amazon.com It all began with a conversation between Spencer Burke and his five-year-old son about a floatie, specifically, how far Spencer would go to [...]
