New Beginnings

I Went to Costa Rica. I cut off all my hair. I surfed. Now I am back. Check out my daily pictures or some new Costa Rica Pics i've posted to see with your own eyes as i freed my scalp of many lbs worth of knotted weight. I got some video of the process but dont think im going to release it until i can find something interesting to do with it.

CR Ready

In preparation for a much needed Central American get-a-way, its time to get the mind and body in shape for another run down to Costa Rica. I decided to pick up a hobby that a 4th grade teacher put to rest years ago, a little thing called reading. As it would be a fib for me to say this was the first time i have picked up a book (out of pleasure) since, i have not done so since last year and i think my 4th grade experience would be the last time before that. Recently, I have picked up a couple of books to get me in the mood for a surf trip. The first being "In Search of Captain Zero," to get me in the Costa Rica mood and the second "Pipe Dreams," the auto/bio of Kelly Slater to make me feel better about my inadequacies in the water when the waves get a bit larger than i am comfortable with (i have not got to the part where he inevitably gets comfortable in big surf yet). As reading has not been my idea of a super fun time in the past 20 or so years, im glad i have finally got in the mood to put my nose in a couple books. Now that the mind is happy, hopefully i can get the body in shape for a couple hands full of two-a-day sessions. To try and accomplish this in the next month i just got a Stand up Paddleboard that i have put in the water every day since it was delivered at the end of last week. If, I can keep that streak going until i get out of town, the body's delight will rival the mind.

Starting Fresh

As rough as the previous week was, This week has turned into a spring cleaning in so many ways. Broke macBook Pro Turned into Fixed and cleaned off macBook Pro. Lost Phone turned into New faster 3G Phone. Now all i need is a way to be in the water more.

A Long Week

Recovery is the key word for this week. Last week brought a computer and a cousin crashing at the same time. My cousin Nellie was on spring break and decided to make a trip down to KW for and extended St. Paddys Day, as my macBook Pro's video card wanted to join in the festivities so it decided to go out as well. As my radio show is pretty dependent on the machine, lets just say that trying to do it without, and on an old PowerBook G4 is like trying to sprint with bad knees. You get a few yards down the line and then the issues begin. So while we are at it, why not throw a wedding of a good friend a mere 8 - 9 hour drive away, up in Jacksonville, and a couple nights of too many drinks while staying up a couple of hours too late into the night to catch up with some old cronies. It not being good enough to almost loose my phone after an intoxicatingly fun night of rehearsal dinnering, to finally sealing my old friends fate as i left him in a cab after wedding standing and receptioning only for my friends to continually get called by my old phone as a cabbie tries to figure out how the contraption works and then after countless times trying to call and text my old buddy, to ransom a possible return, im guessing the cabbie got tired of all the beeping and vibrating so he chucked it into what ever river he was passing over at the time. So to make a long story end, the recovery begins.

Doritos Crash The Super Bowl Loser

For the Super Bowl (that just past) Doritos was putting on a commercial contest where you do a 30 second spot, if its good and gets to the finals you win 25Gs and the Grand Prize winner get a cool $Million. So Aileen and myself decided to put something together and submit. I found out about the contest with only a few days left to get it in so our attempt was thought up, written, directed, edited and uploaded in less than 24 hours. We started at 9AM and uploaded our final product at 11PM the same day and i think we gave a good go at it. Although we did not get into the contest's final round (probably because is was too much of a thinking piece), im just glad we were able to produce in such a short time period. Click the above video to hear a little conversation about it we had on my key west radio show and then see the video we submitted.

ChrisHiggins.Net Web Revamp

For the past couple of years i have been trying to come up with new and creative ways to design websites that make it simple for who ever owns it to update themselves. Basically, i would like to be able to update stuff easily from anywhere with any device and i believe i have gotten on step closer. The New ChrisHiggins.Net may not look much different to the untrained eye, but, it has been seriously overhauled from the ground up. The main part that you will see considerable change on, in this update, was the Photos and Video Sections. They now are about as easy to update as my main news page. I found a way to pull photos into my site from my google picasa account and they update when ever i add or change photos in my picasa account. And for the video, i have found a kick ass player that wizzard media has as a beta test right now but it is quite solid and once i get a video produced and it goes up on my server it goes directly into the first position in the video section as well. So take a look around and i think 2009 will be the year of the update, because now it is just too easy.

Day After B-Day

Happy New Year to All and thanks to everyone for the good birthday wishes. And for 2009 i decided to do a picture a day so check out the top picture to the right over there and i think i will try to stick to updating every day of 2009 and do something with the pics at the end of the year maybe-

chris