New for the well-groomed surfer ...

Shaving cream cans are environmentally unsound. If you surf, care about the environment and shave, this is for you. Oil based, in a tiny bottle that lasts six months. Reduce your footprint, increase your tip time

Mid-simmons at 8'10" ...

Not yet polished, but, I had to try it out last week. Glass on Hobie keels. Despite being 8'10", it paddles like a much longer boards. I had no trouble outpaddling the 9'4" popout/import crowd. It seems fast and it can be noseride. More as things evolve ...

2009 South End Open Studios, 9/20/2009 ...

Clay & mixed media-based installation

Studio 305, 551 Tremont Street, Boston

Sunday, 9/20

Glass from an old Weber ...

I've never owned more than 2/3 of a Weber surfboard. I'd like to have a Performer, one of the old ones at 23" to 24" wide, maybe 9' or 8'8"

The Interlift

Back in '79 (until maybe '83? and before the internet), NY and SF had these hydraulic Interlift access points around town. You'd go up there with a floppy, transfer your LMail, then go back to your Wang Office workstation or whatever you had at the office. I had a summer job checking the floppies before they were walked over to the Interlift ... making sure everything was properly formatted, etc ... The big thing was sending an LMail and having it show up on someone's Telex 45 minutes later. I saw this rusting hulk at a tech flea market last weekend.