These are the Daves I know I know...these are the Daves I know.

95% of the people you meet in life can be likened to day old pizza in the fridge...you could take them or leave them. If they are around, fine, but if not, it doesn't matter, you're no worse off. Then there's the other five percent...the people you fall in love with, or the people you admire, or the people who give off such positive energy, you WANT to be around them, cause nothing will ever be really bad...call them dreamers, call them eccentric, call them zealous. Meet Kyle MacDonald. I did, in Portugal, 2 years ago. Kyle is a writer, and more importantly, a doer. I say a doer, because I admire that. Kyle gets things done, and usually in an odd, charismatic kind of way. If you live in Canada, you may have seen Kyle recently on THE HOUR with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC, and if you live in VANCOUVER, you may recognize Kyle from THE FOX, who took his idea and used it for their station. His idea consisted of starting off with one red paper clip, and trading up in value or size until he gets a house. He is currently about to receive a SNOWMOBILE. I'm not exactly sure how the FOX idea went, but I think they started off with a rock, and the last I heard, had a carved moose antler worth over a grand. Anyway, so needless to say, Kyle is getting a lot of airtime on the radio lately, and the exposure he deserves. He has a publisher for his short stories through Kinkos, and more are interested in publishing a book about oneredpaperclip.Apart from one red paperclip, kyle also came to visit me a few months ago while he was in south america to start another project call Message in a Barrel. You see, there is a mail box barrel on the galapagos islands that people put post cards into. Visitors to the island can search through the barrel and, if they find a postcard addressed to a place they will be visiting, they can take it with them and deliver it in person. Kyle chose ten, and is hand delivering them all over the world. Like I said, he's a doer. So, he's publishing short stories, receiving a house from a paperclip bid, and he's travelling the globe delivering postcards. Not bad. Not bad at all.

ps. on a side note, kyle's dad is the inventor of table shox. don't know what that is? next time you are in Subway, look at the bottom of the tables...or glance. there is a shock system there that keeps the table level...ALWAYS. No more screw systems. Subway has installed them all over the world...even here in BS. AS. Kyle has a creative family. Anway, drop by his site, and feel free to offer him something cool for his new snowmobile. He'll come to your door for the trade. Anyway, to sum it up, if you get a chance to meet kyle, do it. It's a guaranteed adventure.