Watch this San Francisco Police officer (Schwab #2099) act like “a fucking dick,” with Zack Snow on the final day of shooting Baysick.
Now I’m gonna act like a fucking dick. . . Resist again and I’m going to break your arm like a twig. And then you can treat me like the asshole you think I am
And to think, these are the kind of people our tax dollars go to support. It is ridiculous. Click here to file a complaint against the officer.
[Link: Emerica]
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Philippine actor Jericho Rosales, of Manila has been surfing since 1999. So when Tropical Storm Ketsana caused flood waters to rise in his Quezon City tneighborhood he took action, according to a story on ABS-CBNnews.com.
“On my way back to my house, I saw my friend, asked me if I had transport and then he said they needed help because some kids were stuck in their houses,” he said. . . Rosales . . . rushed home to get his surfboards and some basketballs, then donned his vest, board shorts, and a rash guard. . . Lying flat on his surfboard and paddling over the flood waters, he and his friends were able to help some villagers and neighborhood dogs get to higher ground. . . In all, he said, he was able to rescue 2 dogs, an old woman, a lady, and a child. Rescued villagers, he said, were brought to higher ground within the village.
[Link: ABS-CBN News]
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Don’t try and say that Dave “Rasta” Rastovich isn’t doing anything for the environment. On Thursday, October 1, 2009 the recent recipient of the 2009 SIMA Environmentalist of the Year Award is heading off on a 700k ocean paddle from Byron Bay to Sydney to “raise awareness of whaling in the Southern Ocean,” according to a story in The Australian.
He will embark on his ambitious Transparentsea journey on Thursday, tracking the annual migration south of humpback whales over a gruelling 36 days. . . Rastovich, 29, an environmental activist and surfing champion out of Brunswick Heads, aims to paddle the entire distance in his single-seat kayak. . . If all goes to plan, he will hit Bondi Beach on November 5. . . “What excites me the most is being able to combine the high-risk elements of surfing and sailing and the notion of endurance and pushing your body,” Rastovich says. . . “I’m eager to bring those elements together with environmental awareness initiatives.”
Well, at least he’s not pushing a longboard skateboard through the outback.
[Link: Transparent Sea Voyage via The Australian]
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Most everyone is flying to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico today to party with the surf industry at the 12th Annual SIMA Surf Summit which runs September 30 through October 3, 2009. Speakers this fall reportedly include VF Corp’s Steve Murray, Volcom’s Richard Woolcott, Andrew Zolli of Pop!Tech, and The Intelligence Group’s Jane Buckingham.
We’re just hoping there is some good surf, because it makes all the nob polishing so much more palatable.
[Link: SIMA]
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Hey, computer nerds. Check out this big news from Burton. The company has reduced server costs by over 80 percent according to Novell.
Burton migrated all of its mission-critical systems to Dell* servers running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, including SAP* ERP, Business Intelligence, CRM, Enterprise Portal, as well as its Oracle* applications. The company plans to use the built-in Xen* virtualization to reduce its number of physical servers and adapt quickly to changing workloads. The ability to quickly deploy virtual servers will greatly improve the IT staff’s ability to add new applications as needed. Virtual servers will also help the team create better development and testing environments on existing hardware.
Take that AT&T. For more of this scintillating info, follow the jump.
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San Antonio, Texas’ Evolution Skateboard Shop was robbed early this morning (Tuesday, September 29, 2009) according to a story on My San Antonio News.
Upon arrival, authorities discovered someone had thrown a rock through the front door of the store to get inside. . . A manager told police thieves stole nearly $5,000 in merchandise including skateboards, wheels and trucks, which connect wheels to the actual boards.
This is apparently the second time in a week that the shop has been hit.
[Link: My San Antonio News]
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Apparently, when Todd Richards isn’t out trying to learn new tricks, he’s out promoting the “extremely fascinating sport of Parkour.” Yes, the same “sport” clowned in the opening segment of this fall’s The Office premiere.
The World Freerunning & Parkour Federation website reports that TR will be hosting a special MTV show on October 22, 2009 titled Ultimate Parkour Challenge.
If you loved the opening chase in CASINO ROYALE, then this show, hosted by Todd Richards, will blow your mind. . . Born in the suburbs of Paris, Parkour/Freerunning turns an urban jungle into an action-packed playground. Moving quickly, efficiently or just plain creatively, Freerunners re-imagine the world as they cruise over, under, around and through whatever is in their way. . . Join 8 of the WFPF Founding Athletes as they live up to their motto, “Know Obstacles. Know Freedom”!
Apparently, the show was originally scheduled to air in April, but got pushed off until October. Oddly, members of the hardcore Parkour community are not happy about the show nor the organization promoting it. Which is kind of funny in itself.
For his part Todd says the show is basically, “Me talking about ninjas getting paid.” And as we all know, Todd has been a ninja supporter since way back in the day.
[Link: World Freerunning & Parkour Federation]
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Fifty-mile-an-hour winds are pushing waves up to 18 feet on Lake Michigan thanks to the area’s first fall storm, according to a story on Michigan Radio.
In Grand Haven, the high winds brought out massive waves, and that caught the attention of 25-year-old Dustin Mason, a surfer. . . . “This is definitely one of the bigger days that I’ve ever seen out here,” he says. “We were looking online and saw that the waves were supposed to be like 14 to 18 feet, we were kinda freaking out.”
In the Midwest, surfers take it when it comes.
[Link: Michigan Radio]
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Each fall members of the US Snowboard Team (and former medalists) attend regional balls to raise money for the US Ski Team organization. Apparently, these parties held in Boston, New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and the Bay Area bring in millions of dollars.
“It’s a good way to meet existing U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding supporters face-to-face and try to generate new supporters as well,” said snowboardcross great Nate Holland.
Gold medalist Ross Powers will be at the Langham Hotel in the heard of Boston’s financial district for the New England Ski and Snowboard Ball this Wednesday, September 30, 2009. For all the details on the team’s big balls, follow the jump.
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The bargain lift-ticket seller Liftopia.com has added Whistler/Blackcomb, Killington, Mammoth Mountain, Winter Park, Copper Mountain, and Stowe, to its list of discounter resorts this season, and rounded up $1 million more in funding, according to a story on TechCrunch.
Liftopia allows ski resorts to offer variable pricing for tickets based on much how traffic they anticipate seeing on the slopes — in other words, resorts can lower their prices if they think they’re going to have a slow day the same way an airline does if a flight might not fill up. Some resorts have been able to do this to a limited extent with ‘peak season’ tickets (a ticket for Christmas time would cost more than one a month or two later), but up until now they haven’t had a good way to adjust their pricing on a daily basis. Liftopia gives them this option.
Definitely something worth checking out this season. . .
[Link: TechCrunch]
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