Bitch Fairy
April 02, 2007
March 04, 2007
SUP Session
So what do I do on the weekends to get away from the office?
Went out for a fun session yesterday with Hampig. Beautiful blue skies, clear water and just a slight sideshore breeze. We paddled down from Kaimana beach across to pops and then back along the shore. I tried to snag a wave at Canoe's but waaay too many people all over the place. I went over to Queens and quickly hopped onto a wave no one wanted. Caught a nice right, and with the paddle was able to get ahead of the section and zip along the reform inside. I realized I needed to wax the nose of my board as I tried to cross step for a hang five. We then hugged the shoreline to get out of the headwind and caught another wave at Publics. I tried to get Hampig to come out to Old Man's with me, but a decent set sent her back into the channel for turning practice. I caught a couple of waves before my feet started to cramp up. All in all, another fantastic day in the water. Saw several other SUP boards launching when we left. They are going to need traffic control soon with all these boards around ;)
Stand up paddle surfing is an aspect of surfing that has seen a recent resurgence in the Hawaiian Islands. For those that are not familiar with the sport, it entails standing on a large longboard and propelling yourself with essentially a canoe paddle. It is a sport practiced at one time by the beach boys of Waikiki with roots that likely trace back even further. Recently, it has been picked up by watermen as an alternative way to ride surf and as a means of staying in shape. The level of surfing on stand up paddle boards has sky rocketed in the last few years with feats such as Archie Kalepa's crossing between Molokai and Oahu and Laird Hamilton's recent foray out at Jaws on a stand up paddle board.
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February 14, 2007
Favorite Widgets
This is a real word of blog badge:
This is a mockup we created at Chipin for the Obama campaign.....
February 12, 2007
Fractals of Change: Web 2.0 - Greater Initial Investments Required
Tom Evslin write today about why it takes Web 2.0 companies more money to get started than the $2000 for Digg or the small initial investments to launch facebook or YouTube. Fractals of Change: Web 2.0 %u2013 Greater Initial Investments Required
So, if you’re just now starting up, don’t get blinded by the successes of the first people to realize a platform could be built and operated on the cheap. You already missed that wave. Now, unless you are extraordinarily lucky or well-connected, you aren’t going to succeed in publicizing your new service and getting up to a critical mass of content or subscribers or both unless you raise or have enough money to create initial awareness or value. There is too much clutter from which you must emerge.
Surfing Video
Ok.. sometimes I get too serious and it is all work and no play. Well it has been over two months since I surfed, but I can still dream of it. Check out this video...
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Wet T-Shirt World Cup
Something probably not appropriate for the office, but an amazing example of what can be done with time and creativity.
May 17, 2006
ChipIn.com launches
Hey.. been too busy to blog much these days, but wanted to put a little plug in for my new dotcom that launched today. Come swing by and say hi at http://www.chipin.com
April 04, 2006
The Best Numbers of the Week
The Best Numbers of the Week: "
This morning, I noticed on Will Herman’s blog that on Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (at least in the US).' I plan to be awake to see it.' After three people sent me the same fact today (thanks!) I decided my obsession with numbers is starting to infect the universe (or maybe it’s the other way around.)
(Via Feld Thoughts.)
March 22, 2006
Early Risers
Great article on how to become an early riser
I have always been pretty lucky as an early riser since childhood, thanks to my dad rushing into my room when he got up each day.
It’s very simple, and many early risers do this without even thinking about it, but it was a mental breakthrough for me nonetheless. The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time (7 days per week). So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5am), but I go to bed at different times every night.
March 20, 2006
Microsoft I-pod Pro 2005 XP
Microsoft I-pod Pro 2005 XP: "
The difference between Microsoft and Apple is clearly explained in this 2 minute and 55 second video on Google.
(Via Feld Thoughts.)
