David Beavers

Welcome to the world of Dave Beavers, rock star, beat poet, hang-glider, archeologist, killer of thieves, liberator of peoples, adventurer extraordinaire. I have traveled the world and seen it all. Now, those of you lucky enough to find this site are welcome to join me in an introspective exploration of the trials and tribulations of my favorite subject...me.

How will history judge me? When I meet the big guy in the sky, will those speaking so fondly of me prefer to tell the wild tales of my travels into areas undiscovered, or will they tearfully reminisce about the countless hours of dangerous work done to better the lives of poor, cripple, sick children and puppies?

It is with this site that I plan to discount or affirm the greatest of myths around me. Contained within this website is the volumes of writings I have compiled over the years. I have spent hours searching for old journals written years ago and transferred it to this amazing technological medium. I’m telling you, this is the wave of the future.

Did I really kill that leopard after it ate the woman I loved? Did I really scale the K2 with little more than Windbreaker and a Powerbar©? Who was Delilah, and what role did she play in this fantastic story? You’ll have to read on to find the answers to these questions and more.

The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: During my more impressionable years, I worked as an intern at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. In the communications department, I was given free reign to work on whatever projects I was interested in. Naturally, I picked nothing but the best. Here are some of my more prestigious assignments:

• Bedtime Tips: You’re having trouble getting your children to bed at night and those sleeping pills you purchased at a Mexican pharmacy are making you think twice. Here are some more natural solutions.

• Playing Games: Not one of my better works, this story served merely as a vehicle to advertise the Lab’s new website, Library in the Sky. We all have to start somewhere.

• By Request...: Three times a year, the Lab publishes a comprehensive study focused on various educational issues. This installment looks at successful title I schools in areas with high poverty rates. While generally helping with the entire publication, my biggest contributions were in writing the Idaho and Montana school profiles.

The Portland Challenge: Three years ago, Jay Boss Rubin founded the Portland Challenge after a night of debauchery led to a race from Portland’s Council Crest park to the top of Mt. Tabor. The catch: you were forbidden to use money, motors or bridges. The four contestants were forced to swim the Willamette river, giving birth to a fundraiser to benefit the House of Peace and Love in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. I was fortunate enough to edit, and help design the website.

Dave's Mixed Tapes: Among the younger generation I’m known to be a bit of a rock ‘n’ roller. I played a wicked guitar in the early days, but gave it up when a nice man at the bus stop let me know that indulging in music filled with lust and other earthly temptations meant a one-way ticket to hell. But I like to partake in the occasional vice as much as the next guy, so I’ve been making mixed tapes, complete with information that they won’t tell you in the trade mags.

Useless Crap: While I remain busy with my travels and various enterprises like feeding hungry children in Africa, I don’t let it keep me from playing my role as a moral leader. In “Useless Crap” I take on the big guns in Washington, tell it how it is in America, and never waver from the belief that I have the ability and the means to make the world a better place. Warning: This website is not for the faint of heart.

Throughout the years, I have made many friends with my disarming personality, and endearing sense of humor. Some of these friends are in the internet business as well. Here are some of their sites.

• Justin Montgomery: Justin is a whiz with the computer, and played a leading role in creating the Portland Challenge website. His page is filled with interesting links, humorous tidbits, and other trivial information.

• Portland to Taiwan: Mosha Foster and Nathan Javens embarked on a pilgrimage to Taiwan a couple of years ago. They have been keeping us Portlanders up to date on their day-to-day activities, and exploits. There are also some beautiful pictures of a country I probably couldn’t find on a map.

• House of Peace and Love: The House of Peace and Love is run by Elvis Kimisha in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Its original intent was to act simply as an orphanage, taking in eight orphans last year. But the project has grown in scope over that past months, and now acts as a community and learning center. This site is currently under construction, but will be up and running within a few weeks.

Here are some sites that I like to visit, but can’t remember the URL for. You may enjoy them as well.

• Yale Law's Avalon Project

• American Rhetoric

• MIT Internet Classics Archive

• The Library of Congress

• Bartleby

Resumè: This page can be a lot to ingest all at once. You may want a quick sheet of all that I’ve done over the years, and who can blame you. Here is my professional resumè. It doesn’t give you a great idea of what the “Dave” experience is like, but it makes a convenient reference source.

Contact Me: As you can imagine, I have many adoring fans trying to get in touch with me. I gave out my address a few years ago, and I had to move within a week. But technology has allowed me to communicate with the masses, while avoiding physical contact with any of them. Feel free to drop me a line at any time.

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