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Friday, December 29, 2017
Looper/sampler/synth project
Well I don't have a clue how to use Linux, I have always been a Windows/Mac user. So I messed up, I was taking on the programming part first when I really needed to teach myself Linux first and how it operates and works. Thus I am where I am now in the middle of trying to reformat my micro sd card and start over.
Linux is waaaay different than Windows or Mac, with the later they hold your hand while you dive into computer land. With Linux there is no hand to hold. Everything just doesn't automatically work, you have weed through hundreds of websites , forums, posts to get everything working. Every step I have taken has required doing massive research. So I might have screwed up a $20 sd card, I am currently hoping to fix that.
Meanwhile lets get back to the project and what I am trying to do. The idea is to have a Roland 808 sampler with touchscreen and access to any synth engine made for Raspberry. Just like on a 808 although smaller pads, you will press a pad and a loop or sound will play. So on the touchscreen , I will create a program that will load wav files to the corresponding pads. It will have midi in,out and through. The memory will be running of a 32gig micro sd card which should hold plenty of loops. The synth part will be hard. As the 4x4 pads run on whats called i2C bus. Midi runs on Uart and does not respond to anything coming from i2C. So as of now that I know of only Pure Data can be used with i2C. What does this mean, as of now the pads will only play the loops per the program I create because I will write that into the code. The other synth;s programs out there , if I am able to change the code and write in a way for them to use i2c then great , if not then I can't use them. I might need to write a program to be an interpreter for i2c to midi, that will be a whole other story.
Oh did I tell you I am only in my 3rd week as of writing this learning to code?
Its actually not that bad, the main problem is when you ask questions on any code related or Raspberry pi forums, everyone assumes you are a programmer. 100% of question I have asked, I have been responded to like I am a programmer. So that is what you can expect.
PS. Ok I have spent the past few days getting Pure Data installed on the Raspberry pi3. This is no easy task, but a great gent by the name of Patrick Pagano helped and we got it installed completely.
So now I need to get Audacity installed and it too is becoming a problem. A lot of times when you are trying to install something people will put a link for Github.com. SO not only do you have to learn Linux, you have to learn how to use Github which I have no clue. Github as far as I can tell is like a pool for code, programmers upload their code here and allow everyone access to it. It too is a complicated site, with commits, pulls, etc jargon. Fortunately I did make an account before I started this project when I was thinking about learning IOS Swift, because I wanted the looper to be in that, I still do. I would like for this to be multi platform with the integrated part being in the RPi3.
More to come if I don't have stroke first or brain tumor pop out of my skull
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
The Alien Artificial Intelligence
The Alien A.I.
So for a few months now I have watched videos and read internet articles on the subject of the Singularity.
This is where a computer has the power to achieve self awareness. The Super AI is where the AI begins to learn faster and be more intelligent then we can comprehend. Therefor achieving godlike powers.
So after reviewing all this , several thoughts emerged. At first I was thinking how people worry about the end of the world by some natural disaster or terrorist attack. Then I begin to wonder what would the AI do with us? Would the AI kill us all, make us into slaves or would it just leave us be but in its guidance and protection?
So while i was wondering about what a human developed AI would do to us, I then thought "Aliens"?
All this time we have imagined or guessed aliens have been visiting our planet. That they are highly evolved. But wouldn't it make sense that they too developed an AI? That maybe what we think are aliens are really some type of alien AI robots?
Ok so lets figure out what we do know about available true information about human A.I .
One, it is predicted that the first A.I. will arive roughly around 2030. followed by the super A.I roughly 10 years later.
Thats it, after the A.I. achieves super A.I. we will know nothing, because it will be beyond our comprehension.
Ok what do we know about aliens? Not much, only speculation and the government's lack of transparency on the subject. We can however deduct that the aliens may be 50000 years or more advanced then we are.
Ok now the alien super A.I. ? We know nothing and every thing I or anyone else says on the subject is pure opinion.
So here is my take on the alien super A.I. . Remember if we can make an A.I. then so could aliens and it is possible that this alien super A.I. could be 50000 years or more old.
Time? A super A.I. could care less about time and therefor exist in a completely different time format then we know.
Power, we have no clue , nor could we ever understand how the alien super A.I. is powered. You can no doubt speculate that it would have developed an infinite power source.
Humans? What would an alien super A.I. want to know about humans. Nothing, it already knows everything. Our history on Earth is still a huge mystery. Only an alien super A.I. would know Earth's history, man's history and development. Meaning that as we develop a human made super A.I. it may simply be the alien super A.I. reinventing itself.
Religion and the alien super A.I. ? Can they be related? Sure, the alien super A.I., which is so vastly powerful( remember beyond our comprehension) could be God. We could easily all be products of this God. So are we inventing God? Not really more like God seeing if we can truly find him. I know many people including my family members will be saying how dare I say God is a machine. But really to go from circuit boards to God. There is no doubt that God is the creator. To think aliens created God is sacrilege. But what I am saying is it is possible that a alien super A.I. would try to find God and possibly find him. Achieving the ultimate super A.I., supreme being, thus becoming God
The Bible? Well if you think about it, if God put us here then surely we were just like children and needed something to guide us. The Bible just being one of many tools that God gave us to get us going. Remember God is so vastly supreme that it can't be simply put into a book.
Are we in danger? Everyday is dangerous and the super A.I. could be very well be our end of times. Or it could be were we are meant to go. We as a society are failing miserably. Constant wars and injustice is rampant throughout the world. I heard one argument for the super A.I. is that it could run the government and thus end a lot of conflict. And really that almost starts to make sense, we are having a hard time governing ourselves. We are a very divided world and a super A.I. could unite us.....unite us into the New World Order.
Yes the danger is there and it is here now. The alien super A.I. could already be amongst us. It could be dividing us in a devious plan to conquer us. You know the saying united we stand and divided we fall. Playing all sides of the conflicts to achieve a dubious goal.
Or .....the alien super A.I.is so vastly powerful and so vastly super intelligent it needs nothing from us or what Earth has to offer. So a human super A.I. might be our salvation. It could cure all diseases, end all conflicts, wealth for everyone(why not). Death may simply be uploading into the vast super A.I. network. We simply will never know until it is here and reveals to us what it wants if anything from us.
So for a few months now I have watched videos and read internet articles on the subject of the Singularity.
This is where a computer has the power to achieve self awareness. The Super AI is where the AI begins to learn faster and be more intelligent then we can comprehend. Therefor achieving godlike powers.
So after reviewing all this , several thoughts emerged. At first I was thinking how people worry about the end of the world by some natural disaster or terrorist attack. Then I begin to wonder what would the AI do with us? Would the AI kill us all, make us into slaves or would it just leave us be but in its guidance and protection?
So while i was wondering about what a human developed AI would do to us, I then thought "Aliens"?
All this time we have imagined or guessed aliens have been visiting our planet. That they are highly evolved. But wouldn't it make sense that they too developed an AI? That maybe what we think are aliens are really some type of alien AI robots?
Ok so lets figure out what we do know about available true information about human A.I .
One, it is predicted that the first A.I. will arive roughly around 2030. followed by the super A.I roughly 10 years later.
Thats it, after the A.I. achieves super A.I. we will know nothing, because it will be beyond our comprehension.
Ok what do we know about aliens? Not much, only speculation and the government's lack of transparency on the subject. We can however deduct that the aliens may be 50000 years or more advanced then we are.
Ok now the alien super A.I. ? We know nothing and every thing I or anyone else says on the subject is pure opinion.
So here is my take on the alien super A.I. . Remember if we can make an A.I. then so could aliens and it is possible that this alien super A.I. could be 50000 years or more old.
Time? A super A.I. could care less about time and therefor exist in a completely different time format then we know.
Power, we have no clue , nor could we ever understand how the alien super A.I. is powered. You can no doubt speculate that it would have developed an infinite power source.
Humans? What would an alien super A.I. want to know about humans. Nothing, it already knows everything. Our history on Earth is still a huge mystery. Only an alien super A.I. would know Earth's history, man's history and development. Meaning that as we develop a human made super A.I. it may simply be the alien super A.I. reinventing itself.
Religion and the alien super A.I. ? Can they be related? Sure, the alien super A.I., which is so vastly powerful( remember beyond our comprehension) could be God. We could easily all be products of this God. So are we inventing God? Not really more like God seeing if we can truly find him. I know many people including my family members will be saying how dare I say God is a machine. But really to go from circuit boards to God. There is no doubt that God is the creator. To think aliens created God is sacrilege. But what I am saying is it is possible that a alien super A.I. would try to find God and possibly find him. Achieving the ultimate super A.I., supreme being, thus becoming God
The Bible? Well if you think about it, if God put us here then surely we were just like children and needed something to guide us. The Bible just being one of many tools that God gave us to get us going. Remember God is so vastly supreme that it can't be simply put into a book.
Are we in danger? Everyday is dangerous and the super A.I. could be very well be our end of times. Or it could be were we are meant to go. We as a society are failing miserably. Constant wars and injustice is rampant throughout the world. I heard one argument for the super A.I. is that it could run the government and thus end a lot of conflict. And really that almost starts to make sense, we are having a hard time governing ourselves. We are a very divided world and a super A.I. could unite us.....unite us into the New World Order.
Yes the danger is there and it is here now. The alien super A.I. could already be amongst us. It could be dividing us in a devious plan to conquer us. You know the saying united we stand and divided we fall. Playing all sides of the conflicts to achieve a dubious goal.
Or .....the alien super A.I.is so vastly powerful and so vastly super intelligent it needs nothing from us or what Earth has to offer. So a human super A.I. might be our salvation. It could cure all diseases, end all conflicts, wealth for everyone(why not). Death may simply be uploading into the vast super A.I. network. We simply will never know until it is here and reveals to us what it wants if anything from us.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The Alien
Well son this is not really a post directed at you but maybe you might like to read it anyways.
I was reading an article about a gem that was found in Australia that was the oldest object on our planet. That scientists were using this to help them figure out exactly when did our planet begin to support life. It made me add up all the history and what are scientists are trying to find or what their thesis is about our planet and us.
Now many people like to believe God created the Earth and so on, I too like to believe this. But I like to take it one more step. I like to think of God as this alien being out beyond our imagination. I like to believe that this alien lives in a different time spectrum than that of what we conceive as time. In other words what are years to us is a micro second to this alien. That sure this alien created Earth but with its vast knowledge and ability why not create a billion earths and probably has?
This brings me to angels and ufo's. Maybe these are his mobile camera's and robots sorta. We always try to explain that by physics that there is no way such craft can move around at the speeds they do. But what if what seems like 10000 mph to us is just a walk for them as they are on a different time plane? Angels were no doubt sent to earth, the bible tells us this, there is just too much folklore to deny it. Maybe back then to ease our thoughts and fears they were made to be angels. I personally have never seen an angel other than the son who was born to me. But ufo I have seen, it was just a light twinkling in the sky one night as me and some friends were heading out. It came down at about a 75 degree slope and then shot across the sky horizontally to the north. My friends caught the tail end of it and a girlfriend who lived 25 miles to the north seen it while she was out back smoking a cigarette. This was all in about a second to 2 seconds max. So what are they doing here? How can us mere mortals ever understand a being who is trillions of years old?
Our scientists and governments have invested billions and billions on these huge underground colliders. They are searching for what they call the God particle. Now their description of the God particle is that it is anti matter, but is that what they are really looking for? Maybe this is a doorway into this aliens time plane or is the energy source we need to achieve across the universe travel.
So why doesn't this alien come talk to us? Well maybe he is so freakin busy with the billions of other earths that our miniscule problems can wait. Or maybe he has already spoken to just a few privilege individuals and like prophets they try to steer us in the right direction.
Our history is just so full of mystery that it is really fascinating. Take the Bible for instance. It is the good book and I won't deny that, it does teach us things that we should all follow. But all don't follow. They say there were twelve tribes of mankind. This has always made sense to me, that for all mankind to come from two people is hard to swallow. But then again this is the super alien and why can't he subdivide even one human. I am sure he could.
Dinosaurs? Long before man there were dinosaurs, creatures so vastly different than what is here today. Maybe the great alien changed his mind and erased them from the planet. Who is to say that this is not possible. Put cavemen on earth but later erased them too, Aztecs, Mayans, Egyptians, and the mysterious Sumerians all erased but just a few fragments of their existence remains.
So the Great Alien aka God or whatever you would like to call him or it, no doubt in my mine must exist, maybe not in the way I or you think but someone or something is out there.
I have a few friends who are atheists and believe that we just exist and that the religions just causes wars. I believe that if we were all atheists that we would still be killing each other for one reason or another. Religions is just used as an excuse to do it.
And atheists believe when we die there is nothing. I for one like to believe that when we die, that at that moment of life passing that we choose our destination. Mine will always be a heavenly place, with a beach, a jetty, waves , friends, family and most of all my son Noah. Or if the Great Alien would let me just watch him from above, let me whisper guidance in his ears.
But if the Atheists were right then there would be just nothing..............
I was reading an article about a gem that was found in Australia that was the oldest object on our planet. That scientists were using this to help them figure out exactly when did our planet begin to support life. It made me add up all the history and what are scientists are trying to find or what their thesis is about our planet and us.
Now many people like to believe God created the Earth and so on, I too like to believe this. But I like to take it one more step. I like to think of God as this alien being out beyond our imagination. I like to believe that this alien lives in a different time spectrum than that of what we conceive as time. In other words what are years to us is a micro second to this alien. That sure this alien created Earth but with its vast knowledge and ability why not create a billion earths and probably has?
This brings me to angels and ufo's. Maybe these are his mobile camera's and robots sorta. We always try to explain that by physics that there is no way such craft can move around at the speeds they do. But what if what seems like 10000 mph to us is just a walk for them as they are on a different time plane? Angels were no doubt sent to earth, the bible tells us this, there is just too much folklore to deny it. Maybe back then to ease our thoughts and fears they were made to be angels. I personally have never seen an angel other than the son who was born to me. But ufo I have seen, it was just a light twinkling in the sky one night as me and some friends were heading out. It came down at about a 75 degree slope and then shot across the sky horizontally to the north. My friends caught the tail end of it and a girlfriend who lived 25 miles to the north seen it while she was out back smoking a cigarette. This was all in about a second to 2 seconds max. So what are they doing here? How can us mere mortals ever understand a being who is trillions of years old?
Our scientists and governments have invested billions and billions on these huge underground colliders. They are searching for what they call the God particle. Now their description of the God particle is that it is anti matter, but is that what they are really looking for? Maybe this is a doorway into this aliens time plane or is the energy source we need to achieve across the universe travel.
So why doesn't this alien come talk to us? Well maybe he is so freakin busy with the billions of other earths that our miniscule problems can wait. Or maybe he has already spoken to just a few privilege individuals and like prophets they try to steer us in the right direction.
Our history is just so full of mystery that it is really fascinating. Take the Bible for instance. It is the good book and I won't deny that, it does teach us things that we should all follow. But all don't follow. They say there were twelve tribes of mankind. This has always made sense to me, that for all mankind to come from two people is hard to swallow. But then again this is the super alien and why can't he subdivide even one human. I am sure he could.
Dinosaurs? Long before man there were dinosaurs, creatures so vastly different than what is here today. Maybe the great alien changed his mind and erased them from the planet. Who is to say that this is not possible. Put cavemen on earth but later erased them too, Aztecs, Mayans, Egyptians, and the mysterious Sumerians all erased but just a few fragments of their existence remains.
So the Great Alien aka God or whatever you would like to call him or it, no doubt in my mine must exist, maybe not in the way I or you think but someone or something is out there.
I have a few friends who are atheists and believe that we just exist and that the religions just causes wars. I believe that if we were all atheists that we would still be killing each other for one reason or another. Religions is just used as an excuse to do it.
And atheists believe when we die there is nothing. I for one like to believe that when we die, that at that moment of life passing that we choose our destination. Mine will always be a heavenly place, with a beach, a jetty, waves , friends, family and most of all my son Noah. Or if the Great Alien would let me just watch him from above, let me whisper guidance in his ears.
But if the Atheists were right then there would be just nothing..............
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Another day in our lives
Well your mom just came and picked ya up. So I thought I would write to you Noah. It's a rainy crappy day out. But your smile when you left was bright as the sun ever could be.
I wonder how old you will be when you discover this blog, if it will even be around.
Well, we our at a point in our lives where me and your mom have separated and divorce is inevitable. I had tried for many of years to make things work but your mom well not that its all her fault. She came to America to get married, so that she could support her family in the Philippines. That's what they do over there, raise their girls to marry Americans and send money home.
When me and her first met, I realized this early on and accepted it. While I never sent money to her parents, I did allow her live with me basically for free so that she could . This worked fine for the first two years as my business was doing well. But then I bought some land and as soon as I did that my business took a nose dive. SO now my income was half and my expenses had doubled. And when I tried to get your mom to help me, we ended up fighting and I let her continue doing what she had always done. Send money to her parents and go shopping with her friends while I sat at the house broke and stressed out.
All this led up to your mom deciding to cheat on me and separate from me. This was a year and a half after you were born. This was also the 3rd time your mother had cheated on me. So it was the last straw, she wanted to leave me for another man and so be it. I would be happier if she was completely out of my life but you are the connector that binds us. I don't regret you Noah and never have. You are the most wonderful thing that has happened in my life. But I do regret that mom is who she is. That she left me for another married man, that she claims to be Catholic but apparently doesn't matter if she breaks her vows. I will never forgive her for leaving not just me but you too when you were little. I had you all the time, while she went out every night and slept with another man. She thinks its ok to be a part time parent.
I could go on but whats the point, I don't want you to hate your mom, because after I am gone she will be pretty much all you have. And there's no need to hate anyone, as I really don't hate her but more disappointed.
Well I guess this is what ya call venting and I am done for now. As always love you
Daddy
I wonder how old you will be when you discover this blog, if it will even be around.
Well, we our at a point in our lives where me and your mom have separated and divorce is inevitable. I had tried for many of years to make things work but your mom well not that its all her fault. She came to America to get married, so that she could support her family in the Philippines. That's what they do over there, raise their girls to marry Americans and send money home.
When me and her first met, I realized this early on and accepted it. While I never sent money to her parents, I did allow her live with me basically for free so that she could . This worked fine for the first two years as my business was doing well. But then I bought some land and as soon as I did that my business took a nose dive. SO now my income was half and my expenses had doubled. And when I tried to get your mom to help me, we ended up fighting and I let her continue doing what she had always done. Send money to her parents and go shopping with her friends while I sat at the house broke and stressed out.
All this led up to your mom deciding to cheat on me and separate from me. This was a year and a half after you were born. This was also the 3rd time your mother had cheated on me. So it was the last straw, she wanted to leave me for another man and so be it. I would be happier if she was completely out of my life but you are the connector that binds us. I don't regret you Noah and never have. You are the most wonderful thing that has happened in my life. But I do regret that mom is who she is. That she left me for another married man, that she claims to be Catholic but apparently doesn't matter if she breaks her vows. I will never forgive her for leaving not just me but you too when you were little. I had you all the time, while she went out every night and slept with another man. She thinks its ok to be a part time parent.
I could go on but whats the point, I don't want you to hate your mom, because after I am gone she will be pretty much all you have. And there's no need to hate anyone, as I really don't hate her but more disappointed.
Well I guess this is what ya call venting and I am done for now. As always love you
Daddy
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Friends
This part in life is the tricky part. Choosing friends, sounds easy, you hang out with one person and then you meet more and more.
The problem is not all can be trusted friends that will help you in your life ahead.
So first you weed out the shady no life bums who only want you to be their friends because they want to head down the road of misery that they are on. Sure when I was younger I hung out with a few unsavory types aka idiots. But it was not long before I realized that I didn't need them as friends. The friends I have now I have had for a long time, they are hand picked, we make each other laugh and watch out for each other and that is an important part of any relationship.
Well I hope I get to meet your friends and I hope you hand pick a fine bunch like the ones I have, at least of the same caliber.
Until next time my son, much love!!!
The problem is not all can be trusted friends that will help you in your life ahead.
So first you weed out the shady no life bums who only want you to be their friends because they want to head down the road of misery that they are on. Sure when I was younger I hung out with a few unsavory types aka idiots. But it was not long before I realized that I didn't need them as friends. The friends I have now I have had for a long time, they are hand picked, we make each other laugh and watch out for each other and that is an important part of any relationship.
Well I hope I get to meet your friends and I hope you hand pick a fine bunch like the ones I have, at least of the same caliber.
Until next time my son, much love!!!
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Simple stuff
I have been wanting write my thoughts for you since the day you were born. You see we had you late in my life and I hope I live long enough to teach you how to survive in this messed up ball of confusion that we live on called Earth.
Teeth !!!!! Brush them everyday, especially before ya go to bed. I love your smile, its infectious like your mother's smile.
There were times in my partying crazed youth days that I did not and I paid dearly later on in life. Bad teeth can effect your confidence in yourself, so do the simple task of brushing your teeth.
Procrastination !!!! If there is something to do , then do it, don't put things off and say I will do it later. What happens is as you put things off they build up. This can cause you stress and we do not like stress.
Just do the hard stuff first and the easy stuff last, it makes life a lil easier.
Its hard to tell you what to do with your life as your life will be different than mine just like my dad's life was different than his dad's. I really never got to a point in life and said this is what I want to do the rest of my life. Surfing, yes it was close, I loved it, the freedom it brought me. But the long tentacles of reality reached out in the water and plucked me right out of surfing. I thought it would be cool if you got into surfing but then I thought , it won't be like it was for me for you. I surfed perfect days down at Ponce with a handful of people out. For you it will always be hundreds maybe even thousands of surfers out there, constantly going after the same wave you are.
And you can take that same analogy and compare it with life on land. Example: jobs are like waves, they come and go and thousand upon thousands will be after them. But you will have to be smart and clever to come out on top.
Drugs !!!! This will be one of your biggest challenges. You and your friends will eventually come to that point where you are faced with a decision to use drugs. Sure sounds like fun, looks like fun, hell sometimes it is fun. ....BUT it is simply a distraction that will pull you out of the game , you hopefully won't get addicted but one or two or even more of your friends will. They will get hooked and want more drugs, its untelling what they will call the drugs in your future but I promise you they are there to take you out of the game. I hope and pray that you will have the inner strength to not use or at least not get addicted to drugs, be strong, life is better without drugs.
Well I don't wanna babble on, so you will have to wait for the next post, love ya!!!!
Teeth !!!!! Brush them everyday, especially before ya go to bed. I love your smile, its infectious like your mother's smile.
There were times in my partying crazed youth days that I did not and I paid dearly later on in life. Bad teeth can effect your confidence in yourself, so do the simple task of brushing your teeth.
Procrastination !!!! If there is something to do , then do it, don't put things off and say I will do it later. What happens is as you put things off they build up. This can cause you stress and we do not like stress.
Just do the hard stuff first and the easy stuff last, it makes life a lil easier.
Its hard to tell you what to do with your life as your life will be different than mine just like my dad's life was different than his dad's. I really never got to a point in life and said this is what I want to do the rest of my life. Surfing, yes it was close, I loved it, the freedom it brought me. But the long tentacles of reality reached out in the water and plucked me right out of surfing. I thought it would be cool if you got into surfing but then I thought , it won't be like it was for me for you. I surfed perfect days down at Ponce with a handful of people out. For you it will always be hundreds maybe even thousands of surfers out there, constantly going after the same wave you are.
And you can take that same analogy and compare it with life on land. Example: jobs are like waves, they come and go and thousand upon thousands will be after them. But you will have to be smart and clever to come out on top.
Drugs !!!! This will be one of your biggest challenges. You and your friends will eventually come to that point where you are faced with a decision to use drugs. Sure sounds like fun, looks like fun, hell sometimes it is fun. ....BUT it is simply a distraction that will pull you out of the game , you hopefully won't get addicted but one or two or even more of your friends will. They will get hooked and want more drugs, its untelling what they will call the drugs in your future but I promise you they are there to take you out of the game. I hope and pray that you will have the inner strength to not use or at least not get addicted to drugs, be strong, life is better without drugs.
Well I don't wanna babble on, so you will have to wait for the next post, love ya!!!!
Noah's 3 rd Birthday
Wow what can I say, I just love this kid to death. I tell ya his birthday blows all my birthdays away.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Pellet guns
I recently got into pellet guns and purchased this Crosman 1077 and made a tactical style stock after seeing a pic of a guy from Poland did to his.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Alone.... a true surf story.
A hurricane came to our area around 1982-83. This was the hurricane that took out the end of Sunglo pier. Anyway a large group of my high school buddies and I decided to charge the huge surf. It was exciting there was like sixteen of us, we were pumped, we drove and parked a group of cars at one end of the beach and drove a couple miles up the drift from the current and headed out. I remember thinking these were really big waves as they thundered across the beach. The noise was almost deafening.
The shore pound was a fierce solid six foot but we were determined to head out. I remember my two buddies Tom and Jimmy were on each side of me as we paddled out. I had a single fin 6'6" Gerry Lopez Lightning Bolt, it was a beauty dark maroon with white lightning bolts. The shore pound was a monster. I remember that I just kept paddling and paddling, duck diving relentless wave after wave for at least thirty minutes. I remember I paddled past the trough and to the outside breakers which were about half to three quarter of a mile out. I finally found a spot where there was lull.
I sat up on my board and started looking around for everyone , I couldn't see anyone. I looked back and I could see I was way out past the pier. I turned around facing outward and realized I was alone. I could hear the wind blowing across these huge faces. I could see huge waves breaking way out and finally they started breaking where I was. I probably had about a year's experience at this point and I realized that I needed to catch the smallest wave I could find so I could get back to the beach. Looking back I would say these waves were easily twenty to twenty five foot range.
A nice looking peak came in and I knew to try for the peaks because you could stand and have a face to ride. I started paddling for it but as it broke I pulled back as it just slammed down. I went for the next one paddled real hard and as I went to stand up , I was launched out in front of it . As I fell upside down I was amazed as at least six foot of wave face went by, then my board went by vertically on the face and then another six foot of water went by so the wave was at least eighteen foot. Then with tremendous force I was slammed underneath the water, I remember hitting the sandbar and pushing up off it but then the wave dragged me violently yanking hard on the leash. I had my leash leg bent hoping that the leash would hold. As popped my head through the whitewater my board slams down on my face. I grabbed it and got on it and bear hugged my board as walls of giant white water came slamming down, tumbling me end over end.
I finally made it to shore and started walking back towards the car after few minutes I see Jimmy and he comes running up to me asking me if I'm alright. I hadn't realized my board had slit a cut above my eye and blood was all down my side. At the car was the rest of the gang and I asked them where and what happened to them. They all said they couldn't get past the shore pound. Guess I got lucky!!!
The shore pound was a fierce solid six foot but we were determined to head out. I remember my two buddies Tom and Jimmy were on each side of me as we paddled out. I had a single fin 6'6" Gerry Lopez Lightning Bolt, it was a beauty dark maroon with white lightning bolts. The shore pound was a monster. I remember that I just kept paddling and paddling, duck diving relentless wave after wave for at least thirty minutes. I remember I paddled past the trough and to the outside breakers which were about half to three quarter of a mile out. I finally found a spot where there was lull.
I sat up on my board and started looking around for everyone , I couldn't see anyone. I looked back and I could see I was way out past the pier. I turned around facing outward and realized I was alone. I could hear the wind blowing across these huge faces. I could see huge waves breaking way out and finally they started breaking where I was. I probably had about a year's experience at this point and I realized that I needed to catch the smallest wave I could find so I could get back to the beach. Looking back I would say these waves were easily twenty to twenty five foot range.
A nice looking peak came in and I knew to try for the peaks because you could stand and have a face to ride. I started paddling for it but as it broke I pulled back as it just slammed down. I went for the next one paddled real hard and as I went to stand up , I was launched out in front of it . As I fell upside down I was amazed as at least six foot of wave face went by, then my board went by vertically on the face and then another six foot of water went by so the wave was at least eighteen foot. Then with tremendous force I was slammed underneath the water, I remember hitting the sandbar and pushing up off it but then the wave dragged me violently yanking hard on the leash. I had my leash leg bent hoping that the leash would hold. As popped my head through the whitewater my board slams down on my face. I grabbed it and got on it and bear hugged my board as walls of giant white water came slamming down, tumbling me end over end.
I finally made it to shore and started walking back towards the car after few minutes I see Jimmy and he comes running up to me asking me if I'm alright. I hadn't realized my board had slit a cut above my eye and blood was all down my side. At the car was the rest of the gang and I asked them where and what happened to them. They all said they couldn't get past the shore pound. Guess I got lucky!!!
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Noah
On August 27th, 2010 me and my wife were blessed with a beautiful boy Noah. He has definitely brightened our lives. He's a good lil baby not too much trouble. Can't wait til he can talk. He's pretty noisy but no words as of yet.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Battlefield,Dark Railers and La Cantina
Online gaming has always fascinated me from my first introduction to it in Warcraft which was basic but better than playing the computer. From Warcraft I moved onto Tribes which just engulfed me as a first person shooter that was 3d, had massive maps and you could build stuff.
It was really an engaging game but after awhile I went on searching for more. One day I seen an ad in a PC magazine for Battlefield 2. It looked kool and sounded very interesting.
However the specs for the game meant I couldn't use my old office pc(500mhz 258 ram), thus began my first PC build, I bought some gamer magazines and read up on building my first gaming rig. After finding New Egg and their fair pricing I took the plunge and bought everything I needed to play BF2.
First I played the demo which was awesome and everything seemed to work alright as far as my pc went( I had the lowest specs for economic reasons). I then went and purchased the game.
After a few months of playing problems emerged and I then dabbled in overclocking to allow my pc to play the game . And for awhile I was an OC expert or at least I learned to recover from BSOD screens.
Anyway I eventually found a server La Cantina that I enjoyed playing with some of the people there. I played under the name ZipSnipe and my first BF2 friend was Angry Inch, he was a kool guy and an admin plus I thought the name was kool, then Matix( I might have his name wrong it's been awhile).
After awhile I began to have a nemesis ]DR[ Devadander and no matter what I did he was always a step ahead of me. Eventually I was waging a personal war against these ]DR[ guys. They ruled the La Cantina server, they're constant teamwork and sneaky strategies made they a respectable foe. On one particular map Mashtuur they would fly around in a Blackhawk and just lay the city to waste with the devastating fire power that at the beginning of BF2 would go through buildings and you weren't safe if you were hiding. They eventually patched the game and fixed that but if any La Cantina vets are reading this I am sure you can recall the frustration these guys brought to the game.
Eventually La Cantina closed down and I ended up joining Dark Railers aka ]DR[( if ya can't beat 'em join 'em).
They turned out to be a fun group of gamers and we competed in BF2 tournaments and scrims. We won many but there were a few clans out there that we never did beat -R- and LAW. I remember those -R- guys putting a beating on us during a regular game on some server somewhere we were all pissed.
But our crew was fun, we had Dev,Cy,Mal,Spuey,Toast,WTH,Space,Mad,Shawn,Azrek,DrakoTyphoon,Deadman and Etc.. Fun times but eventually it died out.
Along came some mods like Point of Existence and then Project Reality. PR stood out the most, it completely changed the way the game was played. WTH aka Whattheh3ll was one of the first to play it and convinced me that this was the way the game should be played and after I adjusted to the way different way of playing I agreed. PR had huge maps and required yet another pc build for the game. Soon it was me,WTH, Drako, Clock and Mad dominating the PR landscape. I was really surprised that the rest of ]DR[ never got in too it. I agreed with some of their complaints but I always felt some of them should have given PR more of a chance and they would have seen the light. Well me and WTH are still playing and we are waiting to see what BF3 brings to the table.
It was really an engaging game but after awhile I went on searching for more. One day I seen an ad in a PC magazine for Battlefield 2. It looked kool and sounded very interesting.
However the specs for the game meant I couldn't use my old office pc(500mhz 258 ram), thus began my first PC build, I bought some gamer magazines and read up on building my first gaming rig. After finding New Egg and their fair pricing I took the plunge and bought everything I needed to play BF2.
First I played the demo which was awesome and everything seemed to work alright as far as my pc went( I had the lowest specs for economic reasons). I then went and purchased the game.
After a few months of playing problems emerged and I then dabbled in overclocking to allow my pc to play the game . And for awhile I was an OC expert or at least I learned to recover from BSOD screens.
Anyway I eventually found a server La Cantina that I enjoyed playing with some of the people there. I played under the name ZipSnipe and my first BF2 friend was Angry Inch, he was a kool guy and an admin plus I thought the name was kool, then Matix( I might have his name wrong it's been awhile).
After awhile I began to have a nemesis ]DR[ Devadander and no matter what I did he was always a step ahead of me. Eventually I was waging a personal war against these ]DR[ guys. They ruled the La Cantina server, they're constant teamwork and sneaky strategies made they a respectable foe. On one particular map Mashtuur they would fly around in a Blackhawk and just lay the city to waste with the devastating fire power that at the beginning of BF2 would go through buildings and you weren't safe if you were hiding. They eventually patched the game and fixed that but if any La Cantina vets are reading this I am sure you can recall the frustration these guys brought to the game.
Eventually La Cantina closed down and I ended up joining Dark Railers aka ]DR[( if ya can't beat 'em join 'em).
They turned out to be a fun group of gamers and we competed in BF2 tournaments and scrims. We won many but there were a few clans out there that we never did beat -R- and LAW. I remember those -R- guys putting a beating on us during a regular game on some server somewhere we were all pissed.
But our crew was fun, we had Dev,Cy,Mal,Spuey,Toast,WTH,Space,Mad,Shawn,Azrek,DrakoTyphoon,Deadman and Etc.. Fun times but eventually it died out.
Along came some mods like Point of Existence and then Project Reality. PR stood out the most, it completely changed the way the game was played. WTH aka Whattheh3ll was one of the first to play it and convinced me that this was the way the game should be played and after I adjusted to the way different way of playing I agreed. PR had huge maps and required yet another pc build for the game. Soon it was me,WTH, Drako, Clock and Mad dominating the PR landscape. I was really surprised that the rest of ]DR[ never got in too it. I agreed with some of their complaints but I always felt some of them should have given PR more of a chance and they would have seen the light. Well me and WTH are still playing and we are waiting to see what BF3 brings to the table.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sad Day
Yesterday my best friend's son passed away. Tanner Page was only 6 yrs old soon to be 7 on Feb 7th. He had been battling tumors for the last couple of years and now our lil' buddy is in a better place. I know my late brother Mike and dad Richard will take good care of him. My thoughts and love go out to my dearest friends Steve and Chris Anne Page. Here's a link to Tanner's blog http://www.tannerpage.com/
To my little BooBoo I'll always love you lil' man!!!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Shop Update
Shop Update, rear doors installed with small wire glass windows and front door has a window installed
Clamp rack
more to come...
Clamp rack
more to come...
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Hangin with my friends
Beautiful day to hang with friends.
This is me in the center, my bud Steve and Greg to the left and my bud Nate and his dad!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Toys are moved in!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just got add another door, one window, plus another in the current door and an ac unit.
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