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10:36 AM - Left the house in the Green Dragon Wagon, rocking out to Matt Pond PA's Nature of Maps. We are currently set to meager rations and a grueling pace. 10:42 - Dogs were waiting for their owners outside... Keep reading this entry »
It's hot. It's 100 or 200 degrees or so. It cooks your brain. The locals are cranky because all the windsurfers are wandering around town and taking up space. The windsurfers are cranky because there's no wind and they're all... Keep reading this entry »
Welcome to Brainside Out, Cowboy Edition. Kindly refresh if you feel it necessary.... Keep reading this entry »
We are close. We are so close it is frightening. We stand before an orchestra that plays the music holding up the great crystal dome of the heavens. A few more pages recoded, a few minor tweaks to our stylesheet,... Keep reading this entry »
Tova: Fancy pants! Sun Ra: schmantzy rants! Tova: Prancy cads! Sun Ra: Nancy Caddish Tova: Trance-filled raddish Sun Ra: Psychedelic trilling catfish Tova: Like a melon? Silly prat, dish! Sun Ra: Thrice times a yellin', willy-nilly English. Tova: Nice pines... Keep reading this entry »
So. I've been here over a month, already. The skunk that usually goes off right outside my window at this time of night has become old-hat. I've grown accustomed to Hood River; to Oregon; to the Wild Wild West; to... Keep reading this entry »
www.danesbored.com is officially gone. I unparked and deleted the domain about ten minutes ago. Long live www.brainsideout.com. As I've been saying for months, "Update your links, foo." We're still chugging through our HTML, making it all nice and pretty for... Keep reading this entry »
I had a killer windsurfing sesh off the Event Site, tonight. Got totally dialed into my waterstarts and didn't even touch my uphaul once. The Mistral Classic 295 (cm) is going into the garage, to be replaced by the Mistral... Keep reading this entry »
Welcome to Brainside Out - Transitional Edition. The 90's never looked this good. A few notes for nerds: We are now using PHP for navigational server-side includes. Our index pages all validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional code. Our CSS? It... Keep reading this entry »
Observations from the Jesus Presley concert last night at Hood River's River City Saloon: People in Hood River know how to drink. People in Hood River know how to party. People in Hood River do not know how to dance.... Keep reading this entry »
Work is crazy. Flat out, hands down, rockin' and knockin' crazy. We're trying to set up our online shop with a leading e-commerce site, and just about nothing is going right. The products won't upload. Now the products will upload... Keep reading this entry »
I think we're gonna gut this baby and start from scratch. Don't panic; all content will remain, and all cowboy-esque entries will continue to be written, but pretty soon we're gonna look like the Internet circa 1995. And when we... Keep reading this entry »
Out here there are landscapes that can swallow a man, whole. If I drive a mere twenty minutes out of Hood River I can be on deserted logging trails; single lane paved (or gravel) roads that coil through the mountains.... Keep reading this entry »
Been working hard. Real hard. I turned in my timecard yesterday, and was chatting with Coach about the sheer amount of work being spilled into the website. He asked if they could start calling me Da Man around the shop... Keep reading this entry »
My new roommate's name is Motoshi. He's from Japan, and has taken the next couple months off from his job at Toyota to travel the world and kiteboard. He came to Hood River through Maui, and once he's served his... Keep reading this entry »
Things have been a bit crazy around here, lately. I've been working on updating the shop's website, and whoo-whee, there's a mess of code if I've ever seen one. All the HTML was brutally wrangled in Dreamweaver, locked away in... Keep reading this entry »
Strange things I have spoken to myself, lately: "Nope, it's still outside the body." "Do you like puzzles? This is ridiculous." "Go, Jon." "Landscapes that can swallow a man whole." "Monkeys are swinging through the trees." "Waffles! Waffles!" "That has... Keep reading this entry »
Judging by the rolicking success of our last list of definitions (Here at BSOD we use a complicated algorithmic process to determine success) we thought it would be helpful to run another one of a different order. Here in the... Keep reading this entry »
A few new photos are up at the Photolog, documenting my journeys. Lots and lots of things have been happening the last couple days. A trip to Portland to hang with the Habitat crew, my first First Friday in Hood... Keep reading this entry »
The last few days have been busy, busy, busy. On Tuesday (my Sunday) I went to the shop to get dialed into some new, hardcore windsurfing gear. My co-workers (who variously call me the Scribe, Arthur, and most recently and... Keep reading this entry »
On Monday afternoon I had an absolutely killer session out in the Hook. The wind was inconsistent but it was really gusty, so I grabbed a Mistral N. Trance learner board (think of your kitchen table), popped on a 3.3... Keep reading this entry »
I have realized that my life and blog have acquired a number of 'The' terms that I find to be descriptive. I have realized, as of late, that other people may not share my causal history with these terms, and... Keep reading this entry »
Another week of work under my belt. I've got Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday off, a weekend during which I have no idea what I'll do. In assessing my current finances (or lack thereof) I realize things could get real bad... Keep reading this entry »