Actually, after looking at the photos and reading the article "Crushing Your Boat", I was thinking of how we did stuff like that when I was a kid, only we did it to our bikes. Maybe it was around 1967-68?? We were all ripping the fenders off our bikes, replacing the seats with banana seats, and the handlebars with the bent up ones, and taking the day-glo paint spray bombs to them. Then you went out and set up boards and bricks on the road to make ramps to jump your bike over. Everyone was doing wheelies and back tire stands..bouncing the front tires of their bikes off the pavement, etc.. I guess it was the beginning of the BMX craze. (I'm sure that most of our parents were going "&$%^$@$!! Look what that &@%$$?% kid has done to his/her new bike!!!!!" (o:
I would say that, of the kayaks that I looked at yesterday, about half of them (at least) were really wild looking little craft.. short as anything. I was watching people "try them on" on the floor. In most cases, the nose area is *just* long enough to get your legs inside of. I guess kayaking is just becoming a new outlet for the snowboarding crowd. A lot of the articles in the kayaking mag that I picked up emphasize extreme stuff to do to your kayak,like the best moves to "get vertical". Hmm... seems to me that when I've been out paddling, the idea was to NOT get vertical.. but then, I'm getting up to the "old fart" stage of life and when I see freestyle kayak film footage, I think, "YEP!! That looks like FUN..but if I did that, I'd wake up looking like a pretzel the next morning!" Still, it's neat to see people taking paddling into a new direction. If I were about 30 years younger, no doubt, I'd be out in the yard with my propane torch too!
RE: The camera. Sometimes the *best* thing to do is to put the thing away and leave it for a day or two, or for when you are feeling patient. There are times when I can mess around with computers, cameras, etc.. for hours on end, but other times when I can feel myself getting grouchy after less than 5 minutes. I don't even try to work when I'm in that kind of mood. Seems to lead to bad-electronics-karma. (-:
It's snowing here this morning...boo hiss.... |
