The Simpsons Movie

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Before your spend your $9, I should tell you that her scene was cut.

San-O Surfing Tip No. 85: Rain & Sewage

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Experts recommend that you do not surf for a full 72 hours after rainfall, longer if it hasn't rained in some time.

See No, Hear No, Speak No, Do No

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You Got To Admire The Direct Approach

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San-O Surfing Tip No. 84: Approaching Locals

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When you paddle out into a new lineup for the first time, chances are good that you are paddling out into a group of people that have known each other for years. They will generally not be particularly happy to see a new face. They will have no idea if you have any manners or not, if you will be a wave hog, if you will go out of turn, etc. If you show up full of attitude, you can expect to be received as poorly as if you had just burst into a stranger's living room uninvited.
This is Joseph. He's a local I met at San-O. He's worked at the SONGS nuclear power plant for 12 years. He surfs straight out from the power plant's water outfall. At first he gave me the 1000 yard stare, but in time he came to accept me.

San-O Surfing Tip No. 83: Sunglasses

In 1998, a group of eye care professionals studied 438 San Onofre and Trestles surfers who had spent years in the water. The surfers who wore no eye protection while on the beach had three times as many cataracts - a clouding of the eye's natural lens - as those who wore sunglasses. Based on this study and others, eye care professionals recommend that surfers wear UV-absorbent sunglasses while on the beach, and many recommend sports sunglasses be worn in the water as well.

You should always buy sunglasses with 99% or 100% UV protection. Long-term exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation in sunlight is linked to eye disease. Both plastic and glass lenses absorb some UV light, but UV absorption can be improved by adding chemicals to the lens material during manufacturing or by applying special lens coatings. Some manufacturers' labels say "UV absorption up to 400nm." This is the same thing as 100% UV absorption.

San-O Surfing Tip No. 82: Preparing For The Walk To Trestles

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Plan ahead.
There are no
food or drink
concession stands
at San-O or Trestles.
It's best to eat
something before
you take the long
walk to Trestles
to surf. The surf
at Trestles may
be to die for,
but you don't
want to die
of starvation
before you finish
the walk back.

Interesting pattern

Thank you Keep.

Speeders beware!

Speed bumps are next at Sano.

Hot 4 Hillary

Lei -Z Days

I like this idea Unt.

Real Girls Keeping It Real At The Real Sandbar

There really wasn't much surf.

Beach Volleyball Spams The Globe

Looks like a volleyball game at San-O, except it's a Chinese player in the four day long Asian Beach Volleyball Tournament in Hyderabad, India. Hyderabad is located hundreds of miles from the ocean at more than seventeen hundred feet elevation. It has a fascinating history. It's sister city is Riverside, California.

Surf Session

Just after 6 am. I paddled out today.
Soon to follow were several other players.
I really had a great session, I'm glad I did so.
The back is good.

Nazi U-Boat Photo Copyright?

It was one year ago today that I posted a picture of a Nazi U-Boat washed up at San-O to this blog. This morning I get an email from someone claiming to own the copyright to the photo. It’s unclear from the email if the guy in this photo is the writer or merely someone holding the framed photo for a picture. I don’t know whether to take the email seriously or if it’s intended as humor. The writer claims that he licences the photo out, but never sells it. He says that my posting it here a year ago violated his copyright. He includes a long explanation of the Copyright Act, Trademark laws, foreign treaties as concern copyrights (in case I am a foreigner, I guess - or maybe he is, I don’t know) and a formal demand for compensation. Any suggestions?

Former Dogpatch Regular Divorces

Salman Rushdie, 60, best known for his novel "The Satanic Verses," which outraged many Muslims and sparked death threats that forced him to live in hiding for nine years, is divorcing his model/actress wife, shown here and with Salman. Many regulars from the late 80s through the late 90s will remember Salman, though by a different name.

STATE PARKS TO BAN ALCOHOL AT SAN ONOFRE STARTING THIS WEEKEND!

Life Imitates Art: Happy Gilmore's Chubbs Peterson and the One-Eyed Alligator

Golfer Survives One-Eyed Gator Attack in Florida
The Associated Press
VENICE, Fla. Jun 26, 2007 (AP) A man who lost his ball in a golf course pond nearly lost a limb when a nearly 11 foot alligator latched on to his arm and pulled him in the water, authorities said.
Bruce Burger, 50, was trying to retrieve his ball Monday from a pond on the sixth hole at the Lake Venice Golf Club.
The alligator latched on to Burger's right forearm and pulled him in the pond, said Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Burger used his left arm to beat the reptile until it freed him.
"I saw him reach down to get his ball and he yelled" for help, said Janet Pallo, who was playing the fifth hole and ran over to drive the man to the clubhouse.
Burger, from Lenoir City, Tenn., was taken to a hospital but was not seriously injured, Morse said Tuesday.
It took seven Fish and Wildlife officers an hour to trap the one-eyed alligator, which measured 10 feet, 11 inches, Morse said.

note: Chubbs Peterson was Gilmore's golf instructor. He had a wooden hand because he lost his hand to a one-eyed alligator during a golf game.

A doggie thumb drive that gyrates to simulate sex when accessed

Sydney Carton, Esq. sued a dry cleaner.

Plaintiff won't pocket $54 million after losing lawsuit over pants
By The Associated Press

SAN CLEMENTE— A judge ruled Monday that no pair of pants is worth $54 million, rejecting a lawsuit that took a dry cleaner's promise of "Satisfaction Guaranteed" to its most litigious extreme. Sydney Carton’s lawsuit grew out of a simple complaint — that a San Clemente neighborhood dry cleaners lost the pants from a suit and tried to give him a pair that were not his — but came to illustrate, for many, serious flaws in the legal system. His claim, reduced from $67 million, was based on a strict interpretation of the city's consumer-protection law, which imposes fines of $1,500 per violation, as well as damages for inconvenience, mental anguish and attorney's fees for representing himself. But Orange County Judge Murphy ruled that the owners of Custom Cleaners did not violate the consumer-protection law by failing to live up to Carton's expectations of the "Satisfaction Guaranteed" sign once displayed in the store.
"A reasonable consumer would not interpret 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' to mean that a merchant is required to satisfy a customer's unreasonable demands," the judge wrote.