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I’ve had Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing To Our Brains on my phone for a nearly three years, but I just haven’t been able to finish it. Not because it’s bad, but because it’s longer than this video.

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I’ve been riding my bike a lot lately. While I’m not exactly calling it training the end result does end up looking very much like this classic Kids In The Hall skit.

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Mammoth Mountain just released the first in their “History of Snowboarding” video pieces. If you look carefully, you might catch me flying by on a Kemper Freestyle, doing some “reporting,” or hanging out in the background. Seems like only yesterday. Crazy.

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Still don’t have one. I’m waiting for the seven incher with a retinal display.

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And I owe it all to Nick Lipton. Crazy how these things work. [Link: Quiksilver.com]

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Scott Bass, Ty Ponder, and Troy Page have a new doco coming out. It’s called Between the Lines. Between the Lines explores the choice that most draft age surfers faced during the Vietnam War era: either go to war or evade the draft. It was one or the other. Between the Lines delves into the [...]

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The Berkela Films distributed Bra Boys film finished in the number 55 position at the US box office its first weekend of limited release (April 11-13, 2008) ringing in a total of $45,589 from 23 theatres according to Yahoo! Entertainment. The boys finished right behind Young@Heart, the charming story of a New England Senior Citizen [...]

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This morning at 10:50 AM, my wife and I found ourselves watching the last half of the Oscar nominated animated film Surf’s Up on our newly updated Apple TV 2.0. Why were we watching the film on a Thursday morning has more to do with the current Apple TV set-up than it does with our [...]

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I like to think I understand what “the kids” are into these days. And my guess was that the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards show would be the lowest rated of all time. It is now a day later. And I’m still stunned. I felt deeply sorry for the somnambulant Britney Spears with her Frankenstein [...]

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Being a fan of both Kem Nunn and Deadwood creator David Milch I awaited their new show John From Cincinnati with anticipation. The HBO series centered around a family of formerly famous surfers from Imperial Beach (some claim it was loosely based on San Clemente’s Fletcher family) who encounter a strange, seemly autistic man named [...]

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