Brooke Geery

General

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More

Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
Read More

A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
Read More

Icing Bros!

Every once in awhile, a phenomenon occurs that I can really get behind. Usually, it involves drinking, so this whole "icing" thing is right up my alley. Inspired but the guys at Dude Barn, I decided to Ice both Party Time Nate and Timbro yesterday. Nate exercised proper form and after putting it down lamented he was surprised no one had iced him sooner. Tim took advantage of "physics" and used a straw for ventilation to aid in his icing. Now the bad news about this is I now have to carry around an ice for blocking, which seems really inconvenient. But it was worth it, watching your friends suffer…
Read More

Confessions of a Blogger

I used to not check any of the "major" snowboard sites. Frankly I didn't care or even want to know what they posted. For me, the only thing that mattered is that I was happy with what I was posting on YoBeat. But once I started selling ads, it became pretty apparent, those other sites were competition, and I'd better know what they were doing if I was going to convince people to give us money rather than them. So I set up a Google reader and started paying attention. More often than not, the other feeds looked similar to, if not exactly the same as, each other (of course…
Read More

An Average Night in Portland

June 19, 2010. Portland, Ore. A fairly typical Saturday night. Temperatures were hovering in the low 60s and the moon was peaking through the clouds. Perfect weather for an estimated 10,000 people (or more) to strip off their clothes and ride bikes in a giant pack through the city. It was my first naked bike ride (and if you know me you know I'm not big on bikes) so I took pictures. The onslaught of the Burnside Bridge. The intersection of 2nd and Burnside, and a bunch of naked people. What, you don't want to get naked and ride your tall bike through the city sometimes? Another night on the…
Read More

Texas, Before the Flood

Believe it or not, I didn't just travel down to Texas to check out my first flash flood. I was actually already there and the flood just happened! Why, you might ask, would anyone be in Texas already? On this occasion it was in fact a cable wakeboarding contest that Alliance was sponsoring. I took pictures, got a sunburn, and generally killed it, as usual. Here are a few pictures that were taken during my moments of artiness, and not really appropriate for the wakeboard website. If you want to see all the hot action shots, check out the posts here and here. Rupert!
Read More

Flash Flood!

It seems every time I go to Texas I manage to bring some sort of weather-related disaster. On my last trip to Dallas, the Cowboys practice stadium collapsed a mile away from me, and this time, it was a flood. The rain had kept me up all night, pounding so hard on the roof along with frequent thunder and lighting. I went back to sleep in the morning after it somewhat subsided, only to be woken up by a wailing siren. I immediately thought tornado, but this time the siren meant they were opening the flood gates, literally. Once the first siren sounds, you have about ten minutes before hell…
Read More

Bathroom Before and After

Bathrooms and kitchens sell houses, or so they say. I'm not really in the market to sell my house actually, but the peeling linoleum floor, industrial plastic trim, half-working toilet and press board vanity in my bathroom needed to go anyway. I happen to have a resident handy man, so when Obama hooked me up with a decent tax return this year, it was on. Over the past four years we've almost redone every thing in my house, inside and out, but I was in no way prepared for the joy of ripping out and redoing the house's main bathroom. Luckily we have a sort of workshop half bath in…
Read More

State # 1: Wyoming

Circa 1981 If you were wondering what state would be number one, wonder no longer! According to my passport, I was born in Jackson, WY, so the Cowboy State wins by default! I never actually lived there though, Jackson was just the closest hospital to my new home in rural Idaho. Since then I’ve driven across Wyoming more times than I can count, but it was in 2007 I made it a point to visit Yellowstone national park. We sat in the pouring rain waiting for the stupid geyser to explode, only to be totally under whelmed. Ironically, on the way back from Old Faithful, we stopped at another spot…
Read More