For my post this week I was originally going to write about the concept of reputation, with a particular focus on Lebron James and his classless, drunk-on-ego Superfriends performance (filtered nicely through the thoughtful lens of two heroes, Alexandra Samuel and Steve Nash). And then I was going to argue that rural living is superior [...]
Who are you? I am a six foot three, competitive yet an easy going student currently attending the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. I love to express my opinion about many different topics, whether it be over the internet or a coffee. Appointed as editorial assistant for the Daily Gumboot, [...]
The world is falling apart, say the naysayers and doomsdayers.
We take more than we give and we consume more than our planet produces.
And there are too many I’s and not enough teams.
Turning the corner from me-to-we is an unovercomeable struggle, it seems.
Confusion breeds ignorance, media is negative, but change is coming and we’re out of excuses.
Who are you? I’m Godfrey von Nostitz-Tait. Throw my middle name “Marcus” into the mix and I have one of the longest, semi aristocratic-sounding names out there, coming in at 27 letters (plus a hyphen). Being double barrelled has always reminded me of my British/German roots – always a good thing. Still, I’m turning 30 [...]
Last week I printed google-map directions from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Media Centre to their National Convention Centre. I then followed these directions. At 10:23am, I left the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Media Centre/Convention Centre and using only the times and directions on the map from Beijing, I ended up at the point at [...]
During a recent trip to a bookstore I came across Michael Crichton’s newest – and posthumous – book, Pirate Latitudes. That’s right. Mr. Crichton’s legacy, in this humble editor’s opinion, will not be dinosaurs or terminal men or aliens or medical dramas or climate change. It will be pirates. But, wait a second, let’s go back to that second to last topic. The climate change one. Mr. Crichton’s controversial piece on climate change, State of Fear, combined with his newest work, Pirate Latitude, rolled into the most recent – and hilarious – prank by the mischievous The Yes Men inspired an epiphany and gave me an idea: what can the heads-of-state, protesters, businesspeople, lobbyists, scientists, fake-scientists, corrupt-scientists, students, and spectators learn about the environmental landscape as it relates to pirate communities?
Good day, good readers of The Daily Gumboot. It’s my pleasure to inform you that this modest publication – agreed upon and endorsed by Gregor Robertson, Alex Tsakumis, Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Barack Obama, Batman, and the Vancouver Canucks as “Vancouver’s coolest community-based blog” – is almost one year old. Our official birthday will [...]
So far in this series we have outlined the profound benefits of relationship-building as well as specifically outlined how it can be done by making a great first impression as well as by doing exceptional research about a contact, associate, mentor, organization, business, university, or community with which/whom you’re interested in creating and growing a [...]
Leave it to Russia. Just when you think Somalia can’t get any worse, Russia takes things to an entirely perverse and morbid new level. At least that’s what this poorly translated story about the newest craze in Russian adventuretourism outlines. The story goes like this. Tourists from The Motherland will pay thousands of dollars to [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to an ongoing segment here at The Daily Gumboot. It’s called “Get to Know Your Community” and, basically, it goes like this: each and every Sunday we will profile someone from a community somewhere. Each person is asked the same five questions (see below as well as in [...]
