Show Me Yours!
Published April 1, 2011 | 
What’s more fun than finding naked people on Google Street View? Well finding sea kayaks on Google Earth of course. The spy satellite happened to be flying over my house in the middle of nowhere last September just after I had unloaded my white Romany which you can see to the right of my roof. Have you found any kayaks on Google Earth? OK, I’ve shown you mine, now show me yours!
Kayaks on the water at Devil's Lake State Park
One Small Step…
Published April 1, 2011 | 
Wow! Technology sure has come a long way. This fancy new biometric shirt by Under Armour is made of a wicking material & contains electronic sensors to measure heart and breathing rates as well as skin-surface temperature. It also has a triaxial accelerometer to measure force and direction. The little yellow button called the ‘bug’ stores up to 2 gigs of information that can be transmitted and downloaded to a computer for analysis. Cool. The only thing paddlers want to know is.. is it waterproof. Oh, and then there’s this…
As you know, while we’re out there staying fit, be it paddling, running or whatever, we love listening to our music. Now ear bud maker ZippearZ promises “they won’t fall out.” No matter what. Hmmm. After watching this video, (Some repeatedly I might add…) the only thing paddlers want to know is…
JB? Comments?
On The Ground
Published April 1, 2011 | 
Every Night I Just Wanna Go / Out, Get Out Of My Head
Every Day I Don’t Want To Get / Up, Get Out Of My Bed
Every Night I Want To Play Out / And Every Day I Want To Do ooh ooh oh oh
But Tonight I Just Want To Stay In /And Be With You – mccartney
Years ago I was having problems drawing still life images. Luckily I had a great instructor with some good ideas. Once, when I was having trouble sketching a tree from a photograph that he had placed on my desk, he told me to turn the photo upside-down. Silly idea. But from that day onward I became better at seeing the world around me. You see, by turning the image upside down, it stopped being a “tree” in my mind and became a series of lines, shapes and contrasts. I couldn’t draw the tree in the photograph because my brain was full of preconceived notions about what a “tree” is. I had created a sort of mental caricature that made it impossible for me to actually see the real image. Turning the photo over, freed my mind from prejudice. (I can’t tell you how much that lesson effected my coaching style.) Suffice to say, I am much better at drawing still life images these days. Not THAT good however, that’s why I carry a camera. Continue reading
it should be obvious, but it’s not
- radiohead