Sunday Diversion
Yesterday, I headed over to the First Lutheran Church here in Richmond for the second annual Alternative Gift Fair, put on by Cope Environmental Center and many others (Including the Richmond Friends School, for complete list, check Pal-Item story: Alternative gift fair hopes to boost non-profits).
That place was hopping, so hopefully it went well. The basic premise is givers “buy” items for the non-profits and the recipients of these “gifts’ get a card saying that the giver has given to the non-profit in their name. Not exactly a classic Christmas moment, but maybe if you could put in on the seat of the new Lexus in the driveway. All joking aside, I see that more and more folks are moving to this type of gift giving as the boom in the availability of cheap consumer grade products means that most of us don’t have a lot of room in our lives for extra junk.
Anyway, while there, I ran into a bunch of interesting folks, including Mark Stosberg, a principle at Summersault web consulting. Mark has a host of interesting hobbies and features, including his commitment to the biking lifestyle. Yesterday, he was on his way to an associates’ home with a broken old bike. His friend has a welder, and has been building recumbent bikes out of old bike parts on the cheap. See more on that over at his Flickr page.
This morning I find that Mark has posted a video of one of his more amazing talents: Juggling in the Kitchen A quick YouTube video of a little kitchen juggling.
