http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog gnar, rubies, and sometimes dolphins Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:28:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_482" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="legged snowboarding killer whale legs that snowboard "][/caption] Meet your olympic mascots via this insane video. Miga named after sandwiches in Argentina with the crusts cut off, is a Shamu killer whale. You can tell that he is from canada because he snowboards and has legs. I suppose ... http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/483/2010-olympic-hopes/ [caption id="attachment_470" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="My new jhole"][/caption] Come winter, everyone in Seattle hibernates. I wasn't so tired, so each new year I put all my stuff in my car and work remotely from Narnia: always winter, never Christmas. And by always winter I mean pow with 5% water content; not those ... http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/462/the-j-hole-incident/ Japan is one of those places you be in forever and never really understand wtf is going on. Sort of like a weird dream where half naked body builders are chasing after football players who have run off with the creatine. Now with Panda for Wii! http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/454/nice-muscle/ Can we please have one party without someone getting teabagged. Don't you think some FoxNews intern would could have warned them about sponsoring the "grassroots" teabagging parties. I think USA is best at teabagging. When Teabagging is in the Olympics, we are so gonna win. I mean it probably has ... http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/447/teabagging-towards-the-future/ Yo Seattle! I heard you like haikus so I put a butt in your haiku so you can poo haikus. I like big butts and I cannot lie. You other brothers can't deny. - Sir Mix-A-Lot from Baby got Back http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/444/a-haiku-to-poo/ [caption id="attachment_440" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Leaving snowboard everyday, I wonder, for what can I use Wasatch?"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_437" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="april snow showers make angry may flowers"][/caption] I see this sign everyday leaving snowbird "Wasatch National Forest: Land of many uses". I don't really know what to use the Wasatch for, other than ... http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/434/use-the-wasatch/ I am packing up my bags and going on tour. Good bye Utard.  I love you for best snow season of all of USA 2009, but alas you are melting.  Anyhoo, living in Salt Lake I learned a few new things. Fortunately I was not eaten by Mormons as some ... http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/420/yet-another-utarded-list/ I am too scared to break young tech savy minds by exposing them to this well, lets say  interesting database post about cloud computing by posting highlights in my tech blog. So I'll put them here. And for those non-nerds out there, just say highly available, cloud or scalable ... http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/371/my-virtual-yet-highly-available-shoe/ [caption id="attachment_362" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="a wound so deep and huge that the top sheet shattered on the other side"][/caption] I apparently have sacrificed my snowboard to the Wasatch Cache National Forest of SL, UT. I also feel like I have been run over by a truck. Totally worth it. http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/361/12-ft-of-pow-in-12-days-busts-board-and-blythe/ Yesterday I watched Colbert interview Twitter founder Biz Stone. To my delight he said twat which I feel should be the official past tense of twit. Twittering Twats. Now that has a ring. Colbert was also telling us that Meriam Webster changed the definition of marriage to include same sex partnerships. ... http://www.snowgiraffe.com/blog/353/utarded-twats/