21 July 2011
Designing a House in Which Every Surface Is Skateable
This place is pretty cool! An architect designed a house for a former professional skateboarder in which every surface is skateable. Not a bad idea for those flat days… The full article, written by Steven Kurutz of at the New York Times, can be found through the link below.
Designing a House in Which Every Surface Is Skateable
This place is pretty cool! An architect designed a house for a former professional skateboarder in which every surface is skateable. Not a bad idea for those flat days… The full article, written by Steven Kurutz of at the New York Times, can be found through the link below.
18 July 2011
Very VERY Big Cloudbreak
The surf in New Jersey this summer has been consistent – consistently flat… While I have had the opportunity to sit on the beach very often, the surf has just not cooperated. Last weekend I was sitting in my beach chair watching clean little 2-foot barrels peel away in the shore break and wishing I was in it.
Later that afternoon, I was in my grandparent’s shed dropping of some bird seed I had picked up and I found an old bodyboard from back in my pre stand-up days. Then a lightbulb went off. I went out and bought a pair of Churchhill fins started playing around in the shorebreak, trying to fill the void created by the lack of surf this summer.
The reason I bring this up is this… while messing around in the shorebreak, I wiped out a few times. While the waves were pretty small, some of the wipeouts tossed me around and even made me kick the back of my head with my new flippers. This reminded me of a very important lesson – the ocean can kick my ass whenever it wants to.
This is why I am so impressed when I see things like the video below. Not only is this wave HUGE, it’s breaking over razor sharp coral (as opposed to the pretty blunt, NJ sandbars). I couldn’t image wiping out on something like this…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDqU_m1G7aE]
Very VERY Big Cloudbreak
The surf in New Jersey this summer has been consistent – consistently flat… While I have had the opportunity to sit on the beach very often, the surf has just not cooperated. Last weekend I was sitting in my beach chair watching clean little 2-foot barrels peel away in the shore break and wishing I was in it.
Later that afternoon, I was in my grandparent’s shed dropping of some bird seed I had picked up and I found an old bodyboard from back in my pre stand-up days. Then a lightbulb went off. I went out and bought a pair of Churchhill fins started playing around in the shorebreak, trying to fill the void created by the lack of surf this summer.
The reason I bring this up is this… while messing around in the shorebreak, I wiped out a few times. While the waves were pretty small, some of the wipeouts tossed me around and even made me kick the back of my head with my new flippers. This reminded me of a very important lesson – the ocean can kick my ass whenever it wants to.
This is why I am so impressed when I see things like the video below. Not only is this wave HUGE, it’s breaking over razor sharp coral (as opposed to the pretty blunt, NJ sandbars). I couldn’t image wiping out on something like this…
21 June 2011
Kelly's Quote of the Day: Running from Cops
It's no secret... between my wife and I, she's the funny one. This is something I understand and I live with. Every now and then, she'll say something when no one else is around, that I wish everyone could hear. This has happened a few times recently and I said to myself, "Now thats worthy of a Facebook status update." Well, the other night, she said something that made me decide to start a new feature called "Kelly's Quote of the Day."
For those of you who don't know my wife, she is very well mannered, often quiet, and always has the best of intentions. Most of the time, she'll put the well being of a stranger before her own, that's just the type of person she is. That's why when she says something worthy of a KQotD, it's so special. For those of you who do know Kelly, no context is really needed understand why things like this are funny.
Last weekend, standing in her parent's back yard after letting their dog in (they were on vacation), not understanding why I didn't want her to knock a bee's nest off the door with just a rolled up newspaper, Kelly turned to me and said:
"If I can outrun the cops, I can outrun a couple bees."
Enough said. Stay tuned for future posts.
For those of you who don't know my wife, she is very well mannered, often quiet, and always has the best of intentions. Most of the time, she'll put the well being of a stranger before her own, that's just the type of person she is. That's why when she says something worthy of a KQotD, it's so special. For those of you who do know Kelly, no context is really needed understand why things like this are funny.
Last weekend, standing in her parent's back yard after letting their dog in (they were on vacation), not understanding why I didn't want her to knock a bee's nest off the door with just a rolled up newspaper, Kelly turned to me and said:
"If I can outrun the cops, I can outrun a couple bees."
Enough said. Stay tuned for future posts.
20 June 2011
Kelly's Quote of the Day: Running from Cops
It's no secret... between my wife and I, she's the funny one. This is something I understand and I live with. Every now and then, she'll say something when no one else is around, that I wish everyone could hear. This has happened a few times recently and I said to myself, "Now thats worthy of a Facebook status update." Well, the other night, she said something that made me decide to start a new feature called "Kelly's Quote of the Day."
For those of you who don't know my wife, she is very well mannered, often quiet, and always has the best of intentions. Most of the time, she'll put the well being of a stranger before her own, that's just the type of person she is. That's why when she says something worthy of a KQotD, it's so special. For those of you who do know Kelly, no context is really needed understand why things like this are funny.
Last weekend, standing in her parent's back yard after letting their dog in (they were on vacation), not understanding why I didn't want her to knock a bee's nest off the door with just a rolled up newspaper, Kelly turned to me and said:
"If I can outrun the cops, I can outrun a couple bees."
Enough said. Stay tuned for future posts.
For those of you who don't know my wife, she is very well mannered, often quiet, and always has the best of intentions. Most of the time, she'll put the well being of a stranger before her own, that's just the type of person she is. That's why when she says something worthy of a KQotD, it's so special. For those of you who do know Kelly, no context is really needed understand why things like this are funny.
Last weekend, standing in her parent's back yard after letting their dog in (they were on vacation), not understanding why I didn't want her to knock a bee's nest off the door with just a rolled up newspaper, Kelly turned to me and said:
"If I can outrun the cops, I can outrun a couple bees."
Enough said. Stay tuned for future posts.
05 May 2011
Guess the Building
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Guess the Building
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