Light and Blues
Friday, March 20, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Our Boatel
Interesting concept: Rent out space in a boat that's in a marina. It's not a hotel, it's a boatel! Well, that's what a few of us did for the long beach regatta. We used this boat, owned by the United States Sailing Center (yes, the people who organize the US olympic sailing trials), as our hotel while in Long Beach. It worked out pretty well, plus it put us right in the heart of the action when the event got underway.
Bird
So I'm back in Tempe after a long regatta in Alamitos Bay, just inside of Long Beach. So, I was wondering if anyone could tell me what kind of falcon this is? It perched itself upon the spreaders of the 40 ft boat we spent our nights on.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Jeep Noises Update
Well, for the past few months my jeep's been making noises beyond the normal. I've know about the CV joint in the rear drive shaft for a while now. It makes the "thk-thk-thk-thk..." noise that increases with speed and becomes quieter when coasting. So, it looks like I'll be taking the shaft off next soon and ship it back to the manufacturer to have it rebuilt. The other thing is of course to get to put on my new Rock Krawler control arms. The broken one sometimes clunks around down below, scaring first time passengers. Sometimes the whole vehicle scares first time passengers.
So that's the update.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Validation
Well, I was drifting through the youtube-o-sphere when I found this short. It gets the point across.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, February 20, 2009
Streaming thoughts, disorganized, filtered towared mastery and enjoyment of life
RE: "Look folks... I don't know much..."; Đ–olossal: The Lunatic
I live for the good little bits. I like looking forward to them, and looking back at them when i have to remember why I do what I do. However, I think that if a person really, truly believes and is passionate about what they live for, ten it would make NO sense for them to keep doing something that they do not feel passion for. If I didn't have the choice to channel my loves into school, I would leave. Hell, it'd even save me some money, maybe enough to get a boat down in, say the Yucatan and live and a sailing bum. But I don't have to resort to that because I can use my passions to do things better.
I've found that my passions are sailing and photography. I'm in school for landscape architecture, which gets me to where I can examine the details of a space. I take pictures of details. I take pictures of the whole scheme and i look to see how the individual elements come together. I use my passion for photography to further how I interpert space and how I understand the elemental relationships between earth, air, light and nature.
To further my passion of sailing, I started teaching. I was humbled because in one class I found dozens of things I thought I knew that I didn't know. It was time for hot-shot to come back down to earth. On the other hand, when I teach, I find that I can understand what I learned before much better. Things I breezed through to learn took a while to teach, because I skipped the details and I had to go back and re-learn. Things that took me time to master have been the most rewarding.
Also, when I took pictures of people learning to sail, I could see mistakes they made that also showed up in pictures of me sailing. I was schooled by my own students.
When I accomplish a small improvement, it makes me happy. But, even when I practice and get the same results as last time, I can be happy. i have learned that improvement isn't a static line, but jumps and plateaus. I like the plateau because I can look forward to the next jump.
Well, my suitemates are calling for me, so i have to wrap this up and go next door. I hope this'll actually get read by somebody, and I also'd like to get some feedback, some discussion.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
And a comparison to a time not too long ago...
So, last month saw the rise of the 4-4-4-4-4-4... meme, with bloggers posting the fourth photo in the fourth album/folder of the fourth month of the year 2004 (hopefully, it was taken on the fourth day of the fourth week at four a.m.). Well, I don't have the hard-drive with the 2004 photos on it here, so I went with the fourth album I uploaded to facebook. The fourth photo was this. It's been a while since I last cut my hair, but when i did, that's what it looked like.
ASU Sailing Team
Well, I'm back from Santa Barbara. Of course, as far as any occasional reader knew I never left because I haven't posted in a while. Sorry about the slow upload schedule. The good news is that I've put the trip photos online. Flickr will get a sample of the better shots, and I've got everything online at picasa. In the back row, left to right, are: Zack, Ywann, Anna, Michael, and Nathaniel. In the front are: Gerald (me), Brigita, Brian, Andrè, and "Motorcycle" Michael.
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| Sailing in Santa Barbara South 3 & 4 |
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
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