After months of knowing the day was coming, I broke down and wiped out my PayPal account to order a new gun. The arms race is over and there is nowhere else to go but maybe a few small upgrades. My goal was to make it to November, but it didn’t happen. This sport causes some serious addiction issues…

After watching lots of auctions on eBay, I found the one I knew was going to end up at what I wanted to pay. After 8 days of torture for the slowest UPS shipping ever, it arrived yesterday. I must have refreshed the UPS browser 200 times yesterday while tracking it, and finally at 2:30 it tells me it was shipped to the wrong address that doesn’t exist. A quick call fixed that and I was back on track picking it up at UPS. As Liam Maher felt about his old Ducati, I will describe the Ego 7 as the greatest consumer product ever made, except maybe the video iPod.

 

Alex Birch found himself on TV the other night staring at a blank screen while he talked about Griffin and the iPhone.

 

I’m sitting in our Denver office and this is the view directly out my window.

 

Get the new Tiger Army. Super so good.

 

I just got the new Surfer magazine, and it’s got a great article on Mike LaVecchia’s surfboard company Grain, accompanied by some of Nick’s photos…