| Author | Message | ||
     spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1711 Registered: 05-2005 |
Not magazines, but I thought as a little somethin different, we could pose the question of what website floats your boat? I often find inspiration from someone else's recommendations of other sites...unless you're stuck on Myspace all day!! At the moment my fave website is a blog on Factory Records. This guy always seems to get the Factory news first. http://www.cerysmaticfactory.info/ | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 242 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nothing...it's as flat as a tack and has been for the last 3 weeks..that's REAL surfing by the way! | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1712 Registered: 05-2005 |
You a real surfer Geoff? Where d you live? Always wanted to surf, any chance of a free lesson? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 688 Registered: 08-2004 |
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ This is a free fantasy league. The only prize is a shred of dignity. It's a little lat but does anyone fancy a Go-B based mini league. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1639 Registered: 05-2005 |
Build it Jerry, and they will come. Or at least I will. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 90 Registered: 02-2007 |
Padriag and Jerry, I have a team registered all we have to do is set up a league. Only have less than a day to do it. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 690 Registered: 08-2004 |
Excellent. David, Padraig & anyone else create your teams & join the On My Block league. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 691 Registered: 08-2004 |
Sorry I should have left a code: 677750-148283 | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2153 Registered: 03-2006 |
I've been surfing a new-fangled site called YouTube. It is still relentless fascinating for me and I truly think it is one of those world-changing phenomena... And, my brother turned me on to some of the clips that aren't music-related. They actually have some that aren't - who'd a thunk it? He likes some of the ones pertaining to wild animals, usually wherein some poor, hapless critter gets et. Sometimes humans get et, too. I guess they really mean it when they tell you to stay in the car on those Safaris! But anyway, he turned me on to this clip, which is one of the most fascinating and engrossing things I've seen. Seriously, it's just incredible. And, though there's rough going for a little while, there's a happy ending for everybody (except, maybe the lions, who go hungry. aww...) and nobody gets et: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68 kM | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 492 Registered: 04-2006 |
great stuff, hardin. thanks a lot. youTube is full of strange and wonderful things, but i didn't have the time to search there a lot. still recommend this page: http://www.ubu.com/film/index.html | ||
| Jonathan Evans Member Username: Jon Post Number: 105 Registered: 04-2005 |
I've just joined the fantasy football league..I'm already in the work one on that site so it was easy. Come on String Bean Jean.... Cheers Jon | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 91 Registered: 02-2007 |
Just joined, thanks Jerry | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1648 Registered: 05-2005 |
I've joined too Jerry! Thanks. | ||
| TROU Member Username: Trou Post Number: 109 Registered: 05-2005 |
Very impressive LK. I'm going to make some wildlife photography in Kenya next month. Hope I'll have such footages to load on YouTube..  | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 244 Registered: 05-2005 |
Spence, this surfing site that I surf is of the nearest surfing site to me! http://www.nio.net.au/surf/ | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 832 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, TROU, I'm heading to Kenya next year for a wedding. I want a full report on your trip! The video of that wildlife mashup IS impressive, isn't it? A friend sent it to me a while back and at first I though it was a hoax or something. I've always wondered why, in all those nature films, large heards of animals don't gang up on lions and other predators when one of their own is attacked. I guess, from time to time, they do. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2156 Registered: 03-2006 |
It's a little like that childhood fantasy game, isn't it? Coming up with weird animal pairings, theorizing who would win: "who would win if a elephant fought a octupus?"... Liking cats, I typically root for the big cats, but not this time. What touching and noble behavior by the water buffaloes. Surprisingly sophisticated and organized. If only we could airlift them en masse to save their brethren in Pamplona. Geoff, what's the water like there? Can you surf year round, or do you have to wear a wet suit at points in the year? This is the only time of the year in So Cal where, for a brief 2 month or so window, you can surf sans wet suit. By the way, you're invited, man. The waves are supposed to be so great this weekend that it'll be almost impossible NOT to get up on 'em. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 245 Registered: 05-2005 |
Little Keith, the water's generally about 22C in summer(your winter), and even a tropical 25C (rare) although some upwelling gave us a chilly sub 18C week last summer which I was NOT prepared for! This winter it's been hovering around 17C so far, so I've invested in the latest hi-tech Rip Curl steamer and went the whole hog and got booties and gloves when my extremities nearly broke off. Trouble is, it's either been HUGE(>8 foot) or NOTHING .. DEAD flat this winter!! I've only been out twice in the last 4 weeks compared to every other day in summer. Mid summer you could wear just boardies but the wind always gets me so I usually wear a rashy at least. Hope you get some good ones. By the way, in Australia, "rooting" is a term for f-YOU-cking, which can sometimes make watching American tv unintentionally hilarious! | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2160 Registered: 03-2006 |
Do you use a longboard or a short, Geoff? If that's not too insulting a question. Opinion is quite divided here...No idea what the actual temp is here, just know that, in October, it'll be painful to go in without wetsuit. Hmm, that's very funny. There's a plumbing company in America called "Roto-Rooter", which takes on a very different meaning, given your alternate definition of that word! Glad you told me that before I ended up meeting Forster or some other Australian and saying, "I'm rooting for ya, mate". | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 248 Registered: 05-2005 |
Little Keith, there's actually a soft porn mens magazine called "Ralf"(?) here that had a sticker advertising campaign "Ralf: we're rooting for Australia!" which I thought was quite amusing. I refuse to admit I'm an ol' fart and so consequently I still ride a short (6 foot) thruster after riding my Cheyne Horan Keel fin to the brink of death and destruction. I have been toying with the idea of getting one of those really thick Fish boards just to see what they are like although my teal terror that I got last year is 80's style and quite thick and bouyant. I have enough trouble with white water on a short board in bigger surf to even really contemplate getting a big board through the white wash. Have you succumbed to peer pressure to admit that you are old with a Mal? And what are the crowds like at all of those famous spots? | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 741 Registered: 01-2005 |
>Watcha Surfin? Pipeline! http://www.surfline.com/reports/report.c fm?id=4750 | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2164 Registered: 03-2006 |
Geoff, it's confession time (usually when you hear those words, the girl you're dating is about to tell you she has a nasty "social disease") - I haven't actually surfed. I'm strictly a wannabe at this point. Not quite sure how to get into it - I've thought about taking lessons someplace. Though I've watched people do it enough to the point where I think I ought to just buy a board and go give it a whirl. And, that's the other hurdle - getting a board: even used, they're 4 or 5 hundred bucks. Not insurmountable of course, but pricey enough to make me careful about what I buy. And, I would be faced with the dilemma of long versus short. Out here, longboards are a little oldschool, a little oldfarty, it's the short boards that you see all the dewey faced punks on. And, of course, the short boards go like rockets, while the longboards are like battleships - once they set a course, good luck trying to turn them around. The longboards (typically 8, 9, even 10 feet) do, however, have the advantage of being easy to get up on, so I'll probably be learning on one. The other big thing out here is what I call, for lack of a better term, "kite surfing". People have a smallish surfboard that looks like a snowboard that their feet are attached to, and are pulled by a big kite, parasail-type thing. Looks like a friggin' blast and it's fascinating to watch. I have to admit that the crowds are pretty bad at a lot of the spots. Yesterday, the girlfriend and I were swimming in the ocean at Newport Beach, close to "the Wedge", a pretty famous spot, and it was just thick with people in the water, we almost literally had people surfing over our heads. All of this abates a lot when the water starts getting colder, though. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 743 Registered: 01-2005 |
My cousin Vicky who lives in the San Diego area still surfs, and she is in her early 40's. Twenty years ago she could have been a stand in for Jennifer Grey when Dirty Dancing was being filmed, except Vicky was prettier. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2168 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hey man, if you ever visit her, you'll have to venture up the coast and have a beer with me. Jennifer Grey, before or after her nose job? If your cousin surfs, she's probably in great shape, and ergo, probably looks great. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 744 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, sounds great. I owe them a visit. Jennifer Grey before. I haven't seen a photo of JG in quiet a while. Vicky visted for a family reunion two years ago. Her younger sister Linny also visited. Linny lives in San Jose. Her father, my uncle Frank, is stuck in Lodi. I lived with them many moons ago when I went to JC in Stockton. |