Surf and Tech

First of July

2009-07-01T22:05:00.000-07:00

Randomness due to lack of posting:

Pickles and broccoli are just two of my favorite green things.

Save the whales, fry the fish. That's what I say to Sacramento Delta Space Cases and their politico stooges/exploiters who are stifling the flow of water in California.

I discovered that the kids like Disneyland. Who'd o' thunk?
Let's not tell them about LegoLand, okay?

Must say that the Apple AirPort is a solid wireless router. Purchased new last week (June 2009) for a premium, and very happy with it thus far. It is the first Apple product I have ever owned.
Bonjour knocked-out networking on my unattended running laptop after the battery power drained. Stopped/set to manual the bonjour service, reboot, a-ok.

Linux and VMware problem

2008-04-25T15:14:00.000-07:00

The task was to simply assign an IP address to a Linux server running under VMware. No biggy, so I access the guest o/s, discover that the distro is SuSE and launch into Yast. Upon entering the network card config room, I am presented a listing of two NICs.

In editing the first NIC, an alert pops-up with a lovely 'duplicate IP address detected' warning. Hmmm... pinging from the host o/s shows no response from that IP address that I want to use (ICMP could be filtered, but other hosts on the NAT'd LAN are responding).

Poking around shows that the eth-id for each is unique, and I'm a thinkin' that the eth-id is their MAC address (they are). More consternation. I enter the Advanced room for both NICs and find that the bus-pci strings are the same for each. A small ah-ha! occurs, and I alter the second NIC's bus-pci string, changing it from :11.0 to :12.0, and give the server the boot. (Note: the full bus-pci string is: bus-pci-0000:00:11.0, very similar to a MAC address.)

The box comes back up, and now the eth1 is showing a DHCP address, eth0 is not showing (that's okay for now), and pinging local and remote hosts now functions. Editing eth1 for a static address et. al. goes as expected, and the next reboot shows success.

Let the Summer begin!

2008-04-18T23:33:00.000-07:00

Where is this year going? I've been surfing fun waves solo, and with some ol' friends (North Side), and been busy with school and family (Lolo just visited from PI, and we all went to the Zoo). Tech work has been picking up, thanks to DC and a few others. I'll be building out an ASA this weekend for DC and his Empire. I have been trying to stay away from the politics on the air waves (Change? I want !bleeping! Dollars!).

We bought a little fire pit for the backyard patio (Target, <$150), and have used it for a couple of impromptu gatherings. The smell of burning wood on a Sunday morning, with coffee and breakfast, brings back memories of camping in Baja, except we don't need to do our business in the dunes. We may have grilled cumin flank steak and avocados the prior night, and we definitely had more than a bottle of vino. Definitely no regrets; good family, good friends.

World Surfing Finds

2008-01-22T14:55:00.000-08:00

Looking for some sites about surfing out of my comfort-zone, I found a site I would recommend called Surf Nation here: http://timesonline.typepad.com/surf_nation/, written in what appears to be proper English, with good stories and pics.

When I have the pleasure of visiting the Island, I must remember to bring my T-Cap!
Thank you, Wade. Cheers!

New Year's Eve Surf

2008-01-01T22:04:00.000-08:00

Monday morning at Mission Beach had some nice shoulder-high sets. I was expecting smaller waves, but was pleasantly suprised by zippy waves breaking left and right. The waves were holding up into the rip currents, with inside sections getting square.

Fairly Big Wednesday, 2007

2007-12-05T21:24:00.000-08:00

I surfed P.B. Point this afternoon, shortly after low tide. A fairly easy paddle out via a rip current. Parked at Tourmaline and just hit it without even looking at the water first (motivated by pal Seth who said he surfed B-Yards and Swami's).

I measured the size of one wave with my face: starting at the top of the wave, and flopping to the trough in what seemed like several seconds, smashing my left ear on the concrete liquid. Guestimated wave size: Eight feet. From the back.

The sweet spot was found, and I did regain my sea-legs and confidence.
Highlights: Two consecutive fast, 100-yard long rides gave great joy. Few people out.
Interesting occurrence: The fog rolled in thick for about 20 minutes. I was half-way between the point and Tourmaline, and could not see the point; the hookie thing was hearing the waves and not seeing them.

What is your story for this swell?

Big Rock - closed out and very consistent.
Bad video by Lance; Music by AnalogX ("Over You")

Weekend gone bye

2007-11-18T22:33:00.000-08:00

Played with the kids and did chores this weekend. Didn't surf, but it looks like the waves are picking up.

Had Mum over for dinner last night; I conjoured-up a salmon dill chowder (recipe from the 'Net),
served with fresh cornbread (Trader Joe's mix), and some decent wine. That's it, pretty simple.
And we all watched The Sound of Music with mint chocolate chip ice cream.

Waves picking up here in San Diego - 20071116

2007-11-16T11:19:00.000-08:00

I did a spot check and there seems to be a swell coming in from the North. Didn't surf today but this weekend may good.
I recently started an online study course and I'm working on my assignments this morning, also working on technicals studies.

Some good articles in eWeek recently, too. Even my two-year old is learning something...

Surfed at Windansea - 20071113

2007-11-13T22:54:00.000-08:00

After dropping off the boys at school, I made for the reefs in La Jolla. I knew there was no swell, but I had to get wet before driving from San Diego to Los Angeles. T'was a sunny, warm, calm morning as I pulled into the lot overlooking Windansea, playing a surf music disc I had aquired from Starbucks this Summer (only tune missing on the CD is 'Wipeout').

The waves were running nearly head-high and only two others were out. Good enough for me. And, you could not beat the conditions.

I hate wearing a full suit but I knew the water was cool and I do not retain heat like I did forty pounds ago, so applied my 3-2 and booties and hit it.

I had a fun session, with the waves pushing harder than they looked and no crowd to haggle with. I had a little tuber on my first wave, pictured, and fun lefts that held up for some turns.