skurfer.com

I'm Rob. I believe tubing is a rough water sport and it's possible that I'm down with P.E..

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A house full of stomach virus. Just in time for all of our friends to come visit. :( • 2009-Jul-3 07:44:38 via TwitterFon

I'm sorry, Schumer? Wanting to review someone's record before we put them on the Supreme Court for life is a "fishing expedition"? • 2009-Jul-2 11:48:48 via TwitterFon

I've just about had it with Dell. • 2009-Jul-2 10:39:54 via Tweetie

I actually tried to feed my baby a cookie for dinner. She hasn't been too keen on eating since her vomiting spell. (It didn't work.) #fb • 2009-Jul-1 22:22:27 via TwitterFon

gorram, liberty, cromulent, biggity b*, lawyered!, pants #favoritewords • 2009-Jul-1 21:15:50 via TwitterFon

This is how you go to the food court… with ruthless efficiency! • 2009-Jul-1 18:03:46 via TwitterFon

Ignorance and good intentions have never created or improved anything. Greed on the other hand… • 2009-Jul-1 09:15:06 via Tweetie

Wow. How does that much puke come out of such a tiny person? #fb • 2009-Jun-30 23:58:45 via TwitterFon

Headed to Bub's for tasty meat and Fat Tire. #fb • 2009-Jun-30 17:27:17 via TwitterFon

@kpereira "Sat through that entire movie to see the alien and it was her goddamned father!" • 2009-Jun-30 13:27:34 via Tweetie

I have reason to beleive "the naked man" is in my future. #himym #fb • 2009-Jun-30 11:53:02 via TwitterFon

@mmcbroom "Getting rid of free puppies"? If you're selling weed, just say so. • 2009-Jun-29 23:12:54 via TwitterFon

Just watching Cops and it occurred to me: I don't think I've ever seen footage on Cops that takes place in the rain. Could that be true? • 2009-Jun-29 22:53:29 via TwitterFon

@wdx No wonder I couldn't find you on here, guy with no last name. :) • 2009-Jun-29 14:56:56 via Tweetie

I'm thinking about buying a Handy Switch or some OxiClean… for Billy! I'm open to the possibility that this is retarded. • 2009-Jun-29 13:52:01 via Tweetie

It's not "self" check-out. It's a stupid toaster, and it hates us. The feeling is mutual. • 2009-Jun-29 12:38:44 via Tweetie

I should go to bed, but True Blood ain't gonna watch itself. • 2009-Jun-28 22:59:57 via Twitterrific

Number of shirts I own with the word "frak" on them: 0. Gonna fix that. • 2009-Jun-27 20:37:43 via TwitterFon

Brew Ha Ha full of beer. Who knew? • 2009-Jun-27 16:17:16 via TwitterFon

Frak this heat. How did I live in Florida and Georgia for so long? • 2009-Jun-27 09:04:20 via TweetDeck

About this site…

Let's start with my domain name, skurfer.com, in case you came here via some search and you're thinking "'the heck is this? Some guy's personal web site?" I learned how to skurf in 1988. Ever since then skurfing has been my favorite recreational activity and when I discovered the Internet, I always thought it would be a cool name to have. When I got around to registering a domain in 1999, it was still available, so… there you go. For those interested in skurfing, I do eventually plan to have some information here. I own 6 boards that show the evolution from the original Skurfer, to the modern twin-tip compression molded wakeboards. Now, about that word, "wakeboard". You may have heard this sport more commonly referred to as "wakeboarding" (as in by every single person since 1993). I don't participate in that crap. When my friends and I got into this sport, the Skurfer was the only board in existence, and so it was called skurfing. I see no reason to change that. Call it giving credit where credit is due, or nostalgia, or whatever. The other word is perfectly acceptable as a noun, but not as a verb. By the way, I'm stubborn.

I'm a computer nerd. This nerdhood pays the bills, but I also enjoy it on my own time. There's always room for improvement with computers. Always some new shortcut or cool setting to discover. In fact, when everything is stable and working great with my computer, I often feel like "Well, now what am I supposed to do with it?" I've used all sorts of operating systems, and if you really wanna know, the best by far is one called NeXTstep. NeXTstep supported more than one mouse button, had a graphical web browser (and the first ever web browser), an e-mail client that let you send pictures and even record a voice message, it let you drag-and-drop just about anything to just about anywhere, and it was very stable. Sounds like Windows, right? Well, Microsoft is getting close, but I'd like to point out that these features were being enjoyed by NeXT users while the rest of the world was getting excited about Windows 3.0 - at least 10 years before Windows XP. These screenshots should give you some perspective as to what the competition was like in the late 80s. In 1997, Apple bought what was left of NeXT and adopted the greatest OS ever for their next-generation system and renamed it Mac OS X (although, if you ask me, it was NeXT that took over Apple). I primarily use a Mac now, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, but... much like my refusal to accept the term "wakeboarding", I refuse to think of myself as a Mac user. I mean, I can accept that it's now called Mac OS X and that it's now owned by Apple. Apple took something great and has, for the most part, only made it better. I take issue with some of the changes, but there are no deal-breakers. But considering how absolutely God-awful the previous Mac OS was, I'm hesitant to tell people that I'm a Mac user, because almost no one understands the difference between switching now and switching in 1999. Being a Mac user in the 1990s had nothing to do with making an informed choice. You just had to drive a Volkswagen, vote for Democrats, bathe whenever you got around to it, and pass your time by thinking about how superior you are to everyone else (and have an inexplicable tolerance for a mouse with only one button and a computer that locked up every 20 minutes). I guess the best way to sum it up is this: I didn't "switch" to Apple… My OS did.

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