The first week surfing has been super fun. Took a good 3 days to get some of the kooky-ness worked out. Board survived the plane ride in the new bag. Solid hot hot days and not too much wind. Still very dry here and not a drop of rain had fallen.

We’ve been surfing at Sayulita town break; which is great, due to it’s drive up access and we can see the waves through binoculars from our porch. but always too many people. Without a longboard i’ve had to battle like crazy for anything resembling a wave which means sitting on the point a bit inside. Got raked over the reef once for my efforts. Nothing to bad — more that I don’t trust the water in this bay.

The swell has been up and down; most days have seen at least minimal waves. The lowest we’ve seen is about 2 feet but mostly it’s been between 3 and 4. Today’s been the best so far with head high sets and 4-5 foot in-between’s.

The two better spots we’ve hit numerous times are Burros and La Lancha.

Burros — which is Ed’s favorite spot - has been the most consistent and not to packed all week (due to the swell being low and the wait time between sets pretty long). It finally lit up this mornin’ (Sunday) with some solid 6′+ sets for about an hour.

La Lancha - isn’t quite so consistent but it makes up for that with fewer peeps and it’s harder to find. Also the shear beauty of the place makes it easy on the eyes between sets. There’s a great “take off” rock right at the top of the reef that folds over the wave face but it’s not always the best ride.

The line-ups and locals have been cool for the most part ; only a couple ex-pats who exhibit a lack of etiquette. Sad.

We’ve seen some sea life; a couple seals that always stay 100+ feet away and a giant turtle or two that don”t mind swimming really close. One popped up beside this lady from Florida this morning about 3 feet behind her and freaked her out for a sec. Lastly lots of flying fish that skim across the water trying to evade being dinner — little silver wings buzzing - like the humming birds of the sea. They don’t have a whole lot of directional control and Marc almost got smacked by one last night.

I’ve been getting on average 1 or 2 sick rides per session - with a bunch more that I wouldn’t write home about. The yoga seems to have worked out; with much less pain between sessions and and overall a better burst paddle speed.

Jesse, Marc (who extended his plane ticket by 3 days and scored for his efforts) and Benny have been killing it. Jesse hit some of the bigger set waves this morning with some screamer rights. Ben has improved 10 fold and Marc has battled his way into some of the best rights of his life.

Still 5 1/2 days of surfing left. That “it’s almost over so start pushing yourself hard” feeling is beginning to kick in. It’s go time — thankfully I’m growing a mustache to help wick away water ;-)

That’s it for now — more coming end of the week. Hasta luego.

Decided to stay offline ;-) Mexico is rocking though - tons of surfing and swell supposed to pick up. Hasta Luego.

Board Packed
My surfboard packed and ready to fly in a new FCS travel bag.

There’s a whole ‘lotta foam, towels, bubble wrap and one yoga mat surrounding my board. Let’s hope it makes it alive !!

Some links for April 28th through April 30th…

• CHAMPIONS: Remembering the New Wold Order
  “Excellent video piece.” — from QP’s
• The 10 Worst HDTV Scams, Lies and Video Ripoffs
  “This is the HD Guru’s™ 2008 list of ripoffs a prospective buyer needs to be aware of before choosing an HDTV.”
• Public Domain
  “Public Domain is the fourth in the Bones Brigade video series.”
• Ban This
  “Bones Brigade Video Six”
• All Streets
  “All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image,”
• Twistori
  “This is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter.”

Is this our “Welcome to Mexico”? Overhead+ @ 15 seconds. Damn !!

You can now follow along with Jenny’s ’statements’ on twitter.

“jenny holzer is famous for her short statements, formally called ‘truisms’. some are common myths while others are just phrases on random subjects in the form of slogans. ” — http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/holzer.html

http://twitter.com/jennyholzer | Jenny on Wikipedia

Linda karting
New purchase — Grand Theft Karto. So fun!

Twistori pulls in 6 x “I ___”’s from the twitter-verse in stream across your screen. Visit and watch for a bit.

Some links for April 18th through April 28th…

• » CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin > FiddyP
  “Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, adding the dofollow plugin is one way to reward but why not place a link to their last post under their comment, with CommentLuv, you can do that automatically!”
• » This is How You Get sIFR to Work | Design Intellection
  “The goal of this tutorial is to distill the information at the official site for sIFR into a simple step-by-step process of how to implement sIFR on your site.”
• TiVo Superstore
  “Welcome to WeaKnees.com! We specialize in TiVo DVRs and TiVo upgrade products and have been doing so since 2000.”
• Simon Heys » Word Clock
  “Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence.”
• Tivo Series 2 to HD TV set? - TiVo Community
  “Set the recording quality on the S2 to best and use the S-Video cable. This will get you the best picture possible from your TiVo to your HD TV. You still need to use the red/white audio cables for sound.”
• iMedia Law Blog — Using TiVo Series 3 in Canada
  “Not yet. Maybe one day.”
• Language Switcher WordPress Plugin
  “Trying to find better ways to do 2 languages with Wordpress.”
• Flickr Tools on Flickrbits » The definitive collection of Flickr tools, plugins and API applications
  “I now have a total of 153 applications and plugins in the database, all of which utilise the Flickr API in some way.”
• Version Control with Subversion
  “This is the online home of Version Control with Subversion, a free book about Subversion.”
• Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software
  “Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time.”
• NEAT Receipts Scanner - Manage Receipts Organizer for Mac
  “NEAT Receipts for Mac helps you to get rid of receipts and documents by scanning and organizing that paperwork on your computer.”

Excellent and entertaining presentation from Clay Shirky (thanks Johan !).

I’ve bought a lot of skateboard magazines over the years. As I’ve mentioned before; these magazines provided an escape from the rural area that I started skating in — they connected me with so many other likewise people and opened my mind to a lot of culture I might have never seen.

Luckily I still have a few left; although they’re in far from perfect shape as they’d been snipped apart for various scrapbook type projects while in high school

While cleaning up our apartment; I decided to take some photos of the ones I have left. One thing lead to another and I ended up with 100+ photos of about 15 mag’s from 1989-1991.

While flipping through, I was amazed to how some of the photos and spreads were still 100% burned into my memory. Here’s just a couple which really affected me;

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Great rare photo. Click here for the larger version.

The Patagonia blog always has these stories of great outdoor adventure; this one struck me due to it being in Canada and the difficulty of the route; Really living what they preach and what their business is; inspiring.

“In March I went up to the Canadian Rockies, one of my favorite mountain ranges, and spent a few weeks doing some winter climbing. What was most exciting about this season was that there was so much climbing activity. Lots of locals doing lots of cool new routes and new variations. But what was missing from the season was a big ascent of one of the big alpine prizes.”

http://www.thecleanestline.com/2008/04/photos-from-the.html | More @ the Alpinist

High Res Super Mario 3
Nothing beats getting a new super hi-res TV; then playing an emulated 1998 video game as your first test of how fun it is !!

Due to posting to multiple accounts (personal and being part of our work account) in Twitter; it’s extremely handy to know the available Twitter shortcuts…

• ON: turns phone notifications on
• OFF: turns phone notifications off
• FOLLOW username: turns on notifications for a specific individual
• LEAVE username: turns off notifications for a specific individual
• D username: sends a private message to a specific individual
• @username: sends a public message to a specific individual; this message will archive in their replies tab, and be visible on your profile page
• WHOIS username: returns bio info for a Twitter member
• GET username: returns the last update from a specific individual
• FAVE username: marks the last update of a user as a favorite
• TRACK word: returns updates from the Twitter community containing the tracked word
• TRACKING: returns a list of words you’re tracking
• UNTRACK word: stops tracking a word
• UNTRACK all: stops tracking all words
• INVITE 4155225678: invites a friend via SMS/text message to join Twitter
• STATS: returns statistics

Feel free to add anymore in the comments below.

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