A Cause That Rough Fractals Supports -- ECCO FARM

Rough Fractals supports the idea of small local commerce and farming including EECO farm, a public community garden in East Hampton NY. EECO Farm runs a deficit each year - it is supported by small rental fees for garden plots, revenue from its community garden vegetable stand and donations...



GREETINGS IN THE NEW YEAR!
EECO Farm is raffling off a SMART CAR this spring,
and I am sending this little reminder in hopes that you will buy a ticket and WIN!
It’s the perfect vehicle for zipping around the east end- great on gas and a dream to park!
The Ticket Price includes a one-year membership to EECO Farm
Only 500 Raffle Tickets to be Sold
Drawing to be held on April 17th, 2009
Proceeds to benefit EECO Farm
You may be aware that the Town of East Hampton will not be funding local nonprofit organization this year, so our finances will be very tight.
It is your involvement with what we do- and your belief that it is worth the effort- that allows us to keep going- and growing.

You can purchase tickets on the website, www.eecofarm.org
Or by mail: Print the attached form and mail it with a check.
Or contact me directly for personal assistance.
Hope you will be able to support this fundraising effort, and help keep this community farm going-- and growing healthy fresh produce for our local community.

The Evils of Muni Meters

I prefer jail to a fine because I believe in honor and code and doing what is right and standing up to the system and standing for justice and fairness and on the side of poor schmucks everywhere who try their best everyday in myriad petty ways to support their municipalities and obey parking regulations despite cold and rainy weather. It is for those people and that sense of honor that I prefer to stand firm on this small spot on the planet, corner of 7th avenue and 23 rd street, Manhattan, and say "ENOUGH". Enough cowering to the unthinking and unyielding technology that everyday diminishes our humanity - enough of muni meters that seem to laugh at us as we fumble in the rain with our credit cards while it takes its time, makes us wait and then taunts us with its dim LCD response, "communication error". Enough of hauling our sorry asses into traffic court where some small minded administrative judge who has "heard it all before" and is bored to tears much the same way we are as we stand there and ask for a pass on this one ticket because it wasn't our fault. Enough with a system that demands individual responsibility and accountability but accepts none for its own broken, uncaring, one size fits all parking rules and regulations. For all those reasons I say dismiss the ticket or send me to jail where I will do my time and in so doing wash away the guilt that I acknowledge - guilty as charged; guilty of being a human being, guilty of caring, guilty of wanting my children to stand up tall and proud knowing that the world is in fact not a one way street with no parking unless you ask permission, rather it is a four lane highway crossing the vastness of our lives through a landscape where men of honor are in the driver's seat. No more "system down - communication error" humiliations. I am proud to do my jail time