Wednesday, June 21, 2006

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Monday, June 19, 2006

ChrisWiki


ChrisWiki

I thought a wiki might be a cool way to put down things like memories and such. Plus if somebody else wants to add something they can create an entry...

Whats a wiki? Check out wikipedia or Wookieepedia.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

YouTube - Rodney Mullen

YouTube - Rodney Mullen

ROdney Mullen montage, past and present...

YouTube - skate film

YouTube - skate film

Skate photographer talks about the lifestyle of skating wiht and taking pictures of skaters pro and otherwise... Very nice.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Tim Hildebrandt 1939-2006

Tim Hildebrandt, one of the brothers that painted the original Star Wars movie poster died.... He also did many of the paintings that were done on glass (before computers played a major part in special effects) panes for backdrops in the movies and many of the other art work.

www.brothershildebrandt.com

Monday, June 12, 2006

183 | Return to Encke

Sarah wanted to go to the flower communion at Fellowship. The first plan was for me to go to oaks, we'll call it BlackRock now since it is on BlackRock road, while she went to fellowship. I knew this would not work, so since we had to go to Davids bridal later we settle on all of us going to fellwoship and then heading to the Encke skatepark in Radnor :) and then to DB.

While at fellwoship I got word that Lee was back for the summer and was ithing to skate. His mom called him at home and then I gave him the directions for the Encke park.

After changing Ruby in the toddlar room she was none to eager to sit back in the sactuary with all the allure of the toys in the toddlar room. So I took her and hid in the toddlar room with her until service was over and the brunch started.

After lunch we scooted out and got to Encke about 2pm. Lee was already there as were a bunch of good skaters. This was my frist time back since October. This park is in better shape than Black Rock (not that black rock is falling apart) the ground hads that nice fast green coating and the ramps dont have the kinks that Black Rocks seems to have.

It was a good time I got to hit the little fly ramp that BR (BR = Black Rock) does not have. It was so easy to keep the speed up which made trasfers over the spine easier too.

Sarah, Gryphon, and Ruby had fun at the playground there. I guess being on the mail line they spring for the extra nice playgrounds...

... afterthat we popped into Ikea for lunch and then to Davids Bridal for the dress...kohls and then home...

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

184lb | 060606 | Curious Emails

Starting today I will post everyday with at least my weight to start the heading...



Another reason to post today 666,060606,6/6/6. It is June 6th, 2006. Number of the beast and all that stuff... >8o)



I had a call at work last week. The client said she got and email from herself to herself with just some numbers in the subject and body. I asked the floor lead about it and we chalked it up to a mistaken email sent by the clien... more later

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Some pictures from todays skateing

I got out for some skateing today. I'll have to coach my photographer on when to take the pics but, we still got some shots I liked.

Another thing I see from these pics is that I need to hit the diet again. A year or so ago I had gotten down to 170, which was almost what I was at most of my teenage years as well. I was never a skinny guy either. Right now I am pushing 185 or so...

I'l have to cut the cheese and bread down again. Knock off the snacks and slow down on the beer..."damn you $10 cases of Lions Head Pilsner".

Anyway, I am starting tomorrow... it would be nice to get to skate everyday again but for now Ill just keep my 2 big laps at work going along with my weekend skateing.

Joe called again to skate so I am hopeing to get to a cool park again soon as well.

I had one bad bail today. I was just turning into the ramp from a truck stall and next thing I knew I was falling and wham, straight to the flat bottem with my knees and crash my hat went flying... When I got up I forgot what I did to make myself fall. i looked up at the kid and had to ask him...

Anyway enjoy my heavy skating pictures....

 
 
 
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Saturday, May 27, 2006

www.andrewpommier.com

This guys art is pretty cool. I think My stuff would look somewhat like his if I followed through with it....
www.andrewpommier.com

Friday, May 26, 2006

Ruby and Gryphon pics...from the iPaq

The iPaq can take some nice pictures outside in the sun...


This is a cool one of Gryphon. Ruby was hidingin the bushs and just as I snapped the shot she came bursting out of the trees. It was a nice thoughtful looing picture of Gryphon...and look at that crazey hapy face of Ruby :o)


This one is a awsome shot of Ruby, probably my favorite picture of her so far...

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Sayersville Skatepark

An emial from Skater Joe, and this place could be in my sights at some point this summer...

Sayreville's Free skatepark

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

More Skateing and books I finished...

Saturday skateing went well, of course. I did however fall three times ( didnt hit the ground once last week). I paid with some elbow skin. But I get to here ruby say "Boo boo?" :o) So it is doubley worth it...

There was a kid there olliing off one of the ramps over the picnic table...longways. And he wasnt just making it he was going way over it in full control...wow he was just flying... and then he did a backside 180 over it too...nice.

Again Burt has gone missing!



I finnally finished my books I got for Christmas. Harry Potter and the something somthing, Star Wars- Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, Survivor's Quest and Outbound Flight. I have also been listen to the Yuuzhan Vong story arc every day to and from work. It was a 22 book story, it was on going for 3 years. I am up to the audio book 17.



I feel a need to change the look of the blog again...hmmm.



Google is really filling out its services... They now offer: A Starting Page, gMail, Blogger, a calander, a notebook, a homepage, an RSS Reader. I am still waiting to be able to sync the calander and notes right to my iPaq. It kind of odd since I did that with Yahoo and my old Palm in 2000 but they havent done anything like that since...

Sunday, May 07, 2006

Skating again... I could get used to this..

Wahoo...again I get to skate. I am feeling realy good about how long I will be able to keep this up. The only thing that really holds me back when skating is the same thing that has always held me back..fear. But I am even overcoming that to do things I was never able to do or attempt even in my teenage years...weird.


Burt didnt show this time..I can t remember if he said he was going to a comic convention this weekend or what...


It's nice going at 10 or 11 because the really good people havent gotten tothe park yet and I can feel good about what I am doing...even when they do show I still have a great time. With everything going on in my life any second of skating I get in is wonderful. I doubt Ill get back to every day skating again but once a week would be great.


I got my confidence up on the mini again and disasters and going over the spine feel easy like they did at the Radnor park. the one thing that is odd is that Radnor had this supper smooth coating over the blacktop so you really didnt have to worry about losing speed.


Radnor also had a nice little curved jump ramp that was so much fon to ollie off. Oaks has big straight rams that put you really high to start off and no little curve that I was use to. Its still fun to do Old School method airs off of.


I did a couple "to-tail" spine transfers and maybe next time Ill get the board slide transfers going again. The one thing Radnor didnt have was the cool little fun box that you can ollie over. It is really easy to ollie over these I just havent yet done it again... man I have to get Burt down to FDR its something that any skater in the area should not miss...


Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Skateing with Burt at Oaks Park.

Ahhhh...It fills the soul, rejuvinates, refreshes, and feels like home.
 
Me in front and Burt getting to the top of the mini.
 
Me dropping in... If you click the pic, you can see the kids watching. That's because I am older and hitting wicked smith grinds!! hmm...I look fat..ok well I am pushing 180 since I dont skate everyday anymore and i have found a really good $10 beer(yep, 10$...9.99 if you will, Lions Head check it! and thats 10$ a case mind you...like 25 cents a bottle...).

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Well, so I need some better pics. This is after not skating these kind of ramps since last october.... a very week looking ollie.


What a great day. Sarah Took the kids over to the playground and Burt( with a mohawk) and I got to catch up and skate...


I was a little sketchy and just went with my basics but happily I was able to do them all. I managed to go over the spine to tail once and could skate the mini better then last time I was at this park...

Friday, April 28, 2006

...it calls, I answer..

This time skateboarding calls to me by way of an old friend. Burt! From out of the blue the magical message appears on my answering machine... " blah, blah do you want to meet me at the skatepark on Saturday morning blah blah..."

Sarah: Do you want to do that?

8o/

There
is
only
one
answer....

Soon I will update my last skated entry...

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Portable GIMP

Checking out PortableApps.com i see that GIMP is now portable.

GIMP is a free PhotoShop like application. I'll slide it onto my thumb drive along with Portable FireFox.

I dont know that I'll use the GIMP to much but I use Portable FireFox everyday at work for my personal browsing, I even use it when I go to SChool...

http://portableapps.com/support/portable_gimp#installing

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Something to possible sink my iPaq with my Google Calander

This would be cool... and very useful

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70976

Friday, April 14, 2006

Sat, Feb 3 1996 12:00 am, possibly my first presence on the internet





From: chris faulkner & sarah washington - view profile
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i dont understand . help me please what did i just download??

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