Hydrofoil Hilarity

Well it's about time for another post!

One of the things I've been doing a lot of this summer is boating. My friend Gavin happens to own an incredible wakeboarding boat, along with innumerable toys upon which one can get unceremoniously dragged behind it.

The coolest toy by far is the hydrofoil (officially called a "Sky Ski"). It's looks like a wakeboard with a seat when it's riding the surface of the water, but underneath the board is an appendage that delves down approximately 3 feet and ends in a wing (aka foil). When going fast enough one can lean back and suddenly the board lifts out of the water and you're now being supported by the foil! To the right is a picture of Darren doing a wake jump on it.

Gavin also has a pretty fancy wakeboard, which is also a lot of fun. Here's me riding the wave, presumably just before I do a faceplant. I'd never ridden a wakeboard before this summer, so I'm pretty stoked about being able to jump (poorly) and go switchfoot.


And of course, the chicken costume. Brought in as an encouragement tool for Darren to do a backflip, who could resist taking it out for a spin on the water?

Though the season is running out for this year, hopefully there will be plenty more boating action to come!

Wikipedia

So while watching the Colbert report a few nights ago, he did a segment on Wikipedia. For those of you out of the loop, Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, that can be edited by ANYONE. This means that if Roy Boy (i.e. John Candy) wants to go onto the site and change the capital of Canada to Toronto ("Yeah, right. Do we look that stupid? Ottawa!"), he has that power.

The principle of the site is that other people can correct any erroneous additions to the encyclopedia. So an RCMP Officer (i.e. Steven Wright) also happens upon the site, notices John Candy's addendum and says "What's this all aboot?" (Roy Boy: "We have ways of making you pronounce the letter 'O' pal") He quickly types a few words and presto! The Canadian capital is once again Ottawa.

Apparently this system has worked well since the site's inception. I want to change all that.

Evil Plan #1: we can start coining phrases which previously had no use outside of Ottawa, giving them international exposure. The colloquial term "Turkey Bacon", recently coined by Mr Jeff comes to mind. Who are we to withhold this quaint expression from the greater populace? Moreover, who can disprove our usage of this lexicon?

Evil Plan #2: we can simply start adding things into existing entries, purely for our own amusement. Is maple syrup the national beverage of Canada? It is now! Kermit the Frog got herpes from Miss Piggy? You don't say!

Bonus points for anyone who knows what movie I'm talking aboot... and I wanna hear what kind of dastardly plans we can come up with for Wikipedia!

For all you Simpsons fans out there!

Here I was thinking that James was far and away the most avid Simpsons fan out there, until I came upon this:

A new beginning...

So I have no idea what this is doing, but I figure it's about time to join the blogging cicle. Soon will come posts about my new bike, my current plans to alter the course of history as we know if, and of course the Rock Steady Crew!