This pic is straight out of the feed from the Surf Music blog.
“Dynamic equilibrium is Nature’s favored state. This unknown rider doesn’t mind it either, now that the fabled sandbar at Mundaka [Spain] seems to have returned. “
Staring at that pic – from a boogers perspective – Im thinking.. yeah, take a big breath, look the guy on the shoulder in the eye, make one of those half-turns to set up the section.. and bring it on! yeah!
Most of the entries over there stoke me out. Rad!
Anyone remember Altavista..
the search engine noone uses anymore..
Turns out they’ve implemented an mp3 search.
Right from their front page.
Since I own most of their material, I plugged in “Social Distortion”,
to see how good it was.
Five minutes later I had found and downloaded
an early demo tape I didnt know existed.
Rad!
made with flash I guess..
It’s pretty simple but I like it..
top score so far 110,000.. woohoo
play here..
the podsurf ‘cast is sick too..
Te Arai is a beautiful beach about halfway between Auckland and Whangarei.
There are a couple of houses and a small camp ground along the road there, but the nearest shops are miles away.
A land developer is planning to put in a large scale development:
“1,400-2,000 houses on 620 hectares from Mangawhai Sand Dune along to Eyres Point (Te Arai Point) in the forestry area, 200-400m from the high tide mark”
That sucks. Especially for the acutely endangered native birds that nest there.
The Te Arai Beach Preservation Society believe the Beach and its surrounds should be conserved for our enjoyment and for the enjoyment of future generations..
It took a surprising amount of time to find decent info online about the proper way to wax a surf board. Heres the best of what I found.
This guy takes the pedantic approach, going into great detail.
Mr Zog himself demonstrates in this short video.
Yeh Boi..
sick dropknee action on google video.
Yeah the reports were spot on and I had some sick waves last week Tues – Thurs. Peaking out on Wed. When not surfing I took some video..
Righto, so this is straight out of the science-fiction fantasy nutjob realm, but some company is giving it a punt.. I reckon its truly ridiculous, but the idea is fascinating, and in any case its great to think about the physics ivolved..
In this little diagram I’ve drawn, its roughly to scale, if you consider Earth’s circumference is 40,000km.
edit: actually if it were to scale the tether would be longer, or the earth smaller.
For perspective, the distance to the moon is between about 350,000 and 400,000km away (its on an eliptical orbit)
The climbing vehicle will climb against gravity for a time, then after reaching zero gravity, will be ‘flung’ towards its destination..
My questions:
Apparently they will use an offshore ‘anchor’ to secure it at the earth end, and it will be mobile so they can shift the entire thing to avoid obstacles such as space debris and asteroids.. how do they plan to achieve this?
SO, if the ribbon is only a few cms wide and tiny and therefore extremely strong, have they calculated the effect of the wear and tear on the ribbon from the shuttle? e.g. can you imagine a dump-truck climbing up what looks like a computer ribbon cable – for 100,000kms??
Some Russian?? geezer posted these pics on his website from when we carted some snow up Mt Eden so Norty could do some jibbing into the crater a couple of years back..
Check this even better pic and his comments.. hehehe..
