Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
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Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
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Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
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Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
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Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
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The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
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Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
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Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
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Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More

Thank You Google!

It's become pretty clear that if you want to know anything, there is only one place to turn in this day and age: Google! Well ok, Yahoo, Ask.com and any of the other search engines also work, but I like Google because their name has become a verb and it sounds cool when you say is. For the past three days I have been asking my trusty friend Google a lot of questions as I tried to take a crash course on PHP and Wordpress plugins. The goal was to set up a YoBeat store and a better way to display our links section. The store was actually pretty easy,…
Read More

Photo Battle/Shoot Off/Firing Squad

I know people claim to like snowboarding and skateboarding because they are individual activities, blah, blah, but let's face it: we humans love to compete. The reason I bring this is up is because of YoBeat's weekly photo face off, which I thought we were calling Firing Squad but this week ended up being "photo battle." I can't take credit for this idea, in fact, Adryan was nice enough to suggest it, and Nick in turn, ran with it. But I told Nick and gave him the go ahead, so I will at least take a little credit. As it turns out, it's getting quite popular. We are in day…
Read More

The Future is Now

I am a big fan of making web videos. Not so much of watching them, but I love to make them and post them and then watch the traffic add up. But my issue with Youtube is that whole 100 mb limit. Unless your video is 30 seconds long, it's near impossible to make it look like anything other than crap when you compress it to under 100 mb. And never fail I would export my finished video to find it was 101 mb, meaning I would have to lower the quality even more to get it to load. It was a travesty really. But everything has changed now that…
Read More

Trifecta, Trifecta and more Trifecta

This whole YoBeat thing is sort of inconvenient, since I now have ANOTHER website to update.  But I just trained intern to update, since I am leaving for Canada tomorrow and will be in wakeskate world for the whole week. Hopefully he doesn't blow it and I will be able to delegate more of the updates to him. Either way, I actually put some effort into today's post, about the Oregon Trifecta. Meaning I edited a video. It's not my best work, but it has it's moments. You can check out the whole YoBeat post here. I also did a blog for Fuel.tv which is a lot wordier. You can…
Read More

Bad Internet Day

I was an early adopter of the internet, and like any one who's been around something for awhile, I think it's crazy how much it's changed. But one thing hasn't changed, and that's how much fun it is for some people to be anonymous assholes. I'll admit, I used to try and stir shit up in the Snowboarding Online chat rooms when I was a teen, so I understand exactly what is going through people's heads. For the most part it's harmless, but after all the intern drama on Alliancewakeskate.com, one of my contribs sent me this article and I got a little scared. I mean, I like my identity…
Read More

Yobeat is Back!

What big news I mentioned? here is the official release: Snowboarding’s original blog, Yobeat.com, relaunched on August 8, 2008 in celebration of its 11th anniversary. Actually the relaunch had nothing to do with the date or the anniversary. That’s just when it was done. Yobeat.com started in 1997, the brainchild of Brooke Geery and Rachel Cotton. Over the past eleven years it has gone through many incarnations, ruffled feathers, been banned from major events and of course, entertained anyone doing a google search for Macho Man Randy Savage or snowboard parks. The original philosophy of Yobeat was to tell it like it is, and that remains unchanged. Sure, not everyone…
Read More

Act Like You Know

My friend Sarah Morrison is funny. We went to college together but we were informed we "would not get along" so I don't think we ever spoke. Then one fateful day we were both visiting the same mutual friends in Portland, she had nothing to do and I was going up to Mt. Hood. I asked her if she'd like to come. Our friends all gasped as if the car might explode should we drive in it together. But as it turned out, Sarah and I got along swimmingly. We have since been BFF's over a short stint in Burlington, VT, driven cross country together 3 times, and she's lived…
Read More

Food and internets

The big news of the day is I updated Yobeat.com. If you don't know, Yobeat is the site I have been doing with my friend Rachel for more than 10 years. I update it about once a month, and usually it just includes a photo that has already been published somewhere else and some random ramblings in our analog so i can justify putting today's date on it. Other than that I have been cooking a lot lately. I get out of the habit of making my own food when I am traveling a lot, and I always get psyched when I get to be home for long enough to…
Read More