Comments | tsuki_no_bara: a psa, a couple links, an oncoming hurricane...

tsuki_no_bara

a psa, a couple links, an oncoming hurricane...

Aug 25, 2011 14:12

today is elvis costello's birthday. which of course explains why i have foster the people's pumped up kicks stuck in my head.... >.< (i blame wendy.)

agatha christie and her surfboard - yes, agatha christie knew how to surf. apparently she learned in hawaii in 1922. how cool is that? (also i love that her surfboard seems to be named fred. heh ( Read more... )

retronaut, mother nature is a crazy bitch, leverage, psa, earworm

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apiphile August 25 2011, 18:28:59 UTC

CORNWALL. Watch "Blue Juice", bro. It has Sean Pertwee in it. We have our own surf movies and everything.

tsuki_no_bara August 25 2011, 18:33:21 UTC

how cool! i guess it's possible that any island country could produce surf worth surfing on. but isn't the water off the cornish coast really cold?

(is sean pertwee the one who played the doctor, or his son?)

apiphile August 25 2011, 18:41:21 UTC

Any island near a large ocean. ;) It is indeed facking freezin', which is why UK surfing has a lot to do with your stamina and resistance to cold water and FREEZING WINDS than to do with your ability to tame huge wave (our waves: smaller! But more eagerly anticipated).

His son. Jon is alas long-dead... Sean is the blue-eyed fella from Dog Soldiers.

dietcokebreak August 25 2011, 19:34:14 UTC

I was going to suggest Blue Juice too, but I watched it because Ewan McGregor is in it. Catherine Zeta-Jones is the girl.

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gnomi August 25 2011, 18:32:03 UTC

I think the formula is that east of the eye is more rain and west of the eye is more wind, but I may have that backwards. I'm going to lay in more batteries and perhaps an additional flashlight or two, but that's about it. It's supposed to sock the Berkshires at this point, I think

tsuki_no_bara August 25 2011, 18:36:23 UTC

i unearthed a couple flashlights in my packing, altho only one of them actually works. i don't care what it does as long as it doesn't rain next tuesday when i have to move. or when the folks who bought my furniture come to get it....

wrenlet August 25 2011, 20:56:06 UTC

It's backwards, 'cause hurricanes spin counterclockwise. For a strike from the south on a east-west oriented coast, there's more wind to the east because you have spin + forward momentum.

firinel August 25 2011, 18:49:50 UTC

my brother-in-law, Simon, surfs. I'm told that yes, it's quite bracing.

tsuki_no_bara August 26 2011, 00:31:45 UTC

crazy! but also pretty nifty.