Here’s my disclaimer again: Anyone taking financial advice from me without checking every concept for themselves is simply nuts. So please, consider what I say here to be at the very most an index for your own investigations. If you take my “advice” as some kind of intelligent and actionable wisdom, then you are making […]
I’m a self-confessed financial moron. Well, I’ve been working hard on that, so I’m all the way up to idiot. Anyone taking advice from me without checking every concept for themselves is simply nuts. So please, consider what I say here to be at the very most an index for your own investigations. If you
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I got an Amazon Echo–I didn’t learn my lesson with Google Glass so I signed up for early release when they first announced it. But unlike Google Glass this was a cheap foray into the leading edge–$99 if you have Amazon Prime. You have to request an invitation to buy, and you can only buy
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I’ve got a nice shop. I used to have a great one under my house in Portland, but when we moved our new home only had a one car garage with what looks like a bomb shelter under it–concrete ceiling seven feet high. I rented warehouse space for my tools and toys but there was
I’m biased against production boards. Ever since I got my first custom board–which was a Bill Foote 10’10 X 29″–I’ve been a custom board snob. But I’ve been looking at the board Bill himself rides most of the time, and it has really nice exposed carbon on the rails of the last foot of tail.
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I’m playing with several projects at once right now, mostly to increase my abilities to make metal behave. So far the score is Metal 4, Pono 1. And that 1 was probably a tie at best. What I’m up to is updating and upgrading Nero, my Airstream toyhauler. When I built Nero I cut a
Most times when someone get a shacked, tubed, covered, ducks into the green room–AKA gets a tube ride–it’s for a few seconds. Then the wave closes and they either get out, or don’t. This video, from the talented loons at LastNameFirst.TV, is the ultimate tube. A magnificent sandbar break on the cost of africa, where
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A few years ago, after a downwinder on the south side of Maui, Dave Kalama showed me his rope system for tying down boards. He had small boat-mooring cleats attached to his rack to tie the rope off to. I didn’t see the point of his system–why not just use straps? But when my new
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As ubiquitous as Standup Paddle boards are today, it’s hard to believe that the sport is more or less only six or seven years old. Yeah, Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama were doing it earlier, and so were a bunch of guys in California. And lets not forget Pops Ah Choy, John Zabotocky, lots of
I like these two girls, great faces, fantastic attitude. And I love this video. Pop it up to full screen though, that’s a must.
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This important and educational article was written by Mario Vittone and should be shared globally. The Incident – The new captain jumped from the cockpit, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the owners who were swimming between their anchored
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Swimming is a GREAT geezer exercise. It’s low impact, easy on the joints, and it’s generally concentrated on the upper body. It’s relatively easy to exercise major parts of your lower body–walking, running, riding a bike will all do–but upper body exercise is a little harder to come by. It’s also very important if you’re
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