Tuesday, 11. July 2006, 04:14:59
An interesting story you may have heard of a while back... For the price of a paper clip, Kyle MacDonald has hooked a new home. The 26-year-old University of B.C. geography graduate posted his first message at
http://oneredpaperclip.com on July 12, 2005. He's now a couple of days away from completing his quest to trade one red paper clip for a house thanks to the city of Kipling, Saskatchewan
Everything started with the following blog post...
"Below is a picture of a paper clip," he wrote. "It is red . . . I
want to trade this paper clip with you for something bigger or better,
maybe a pen, a spoon, or perhaps a boot. If you promise to make the
trade I will come and visit you, wherever you are, to trade."
Two Vancouver girls swapped a fish-shaped pen for the paper clip. The pen was then exchanged for a doorknob. By Christmas he had a snowmobile. In the spring, he traded an afternoon with rock star Alice Cooper for a unique KISS snow globe. The ornament caught the eye of actor Corbin Bernsen, a snow-globe collector, who offered him a minor role in an upcoming movie. A few weeks ago, the town of Kipling upped the ante with the offer of a house. Says the mayor...
"We plan to hold an audition to determine who gets the role, and we
expect there will be a lot of people coming to town, spending money at
local businesses," she said.
See more about this interesting story at
http://www.oneredpaperclip.comSo... you GIS dudes out there... I have a cool, never been used Garmin etrex GPS... care to make a trade?? Seriously... post an offer and I'll gladly cut a deal and so on and so on... maybe I can parlay this puppy into some spanky new office space in Denver, CO for GISuser.com! ;0)
Above is a picture of a garmin etrex GPS. It is yellow. . . I want to trade it for something bigger... maybe a PDA, some GIS data, a printer, a baseball card, a vacuum, or ???
WIDGETIZE