The iPad was unveiled today and as I was anxiously anticipating details of the eReader functionality my excitement quickly turned to disappointment when I realized they went for a “Book” looking UI. I personally don’t understand why they felt the need to use the turning page graphic and the remaining side of the book pages for the iBook app. I mean that’s nifty and all but I know I’m not holding a real book it’s not making it a better user experience for me. In fact I might rather that space to the right (where you can see the remaining pages) be used for the controls, where I can adjust brightness text size and maybe even flip the page with the flick of my thumb. Although as I stated before I could do with out the the turning page graphic. Maybe I’m being a little hard on this on aspect of the iPad but this [eReader] is the part I’ve been anticipating most and I was prepared to have my mind blown with the genius of Apple. All said, I still plan on getting one. Maybe using one “in my hands” will change my mind.

Check out the Mag+ concept below. Yes I understand it’s called “Mag” and not Book+ but it’s extremely inovative and honestly gets me super geeked about hand held reader / eReader formats.

Tom Watson also discusses “A New Canvas“

(via @nickf)

It should be Nate Marquardts turn again and I think he might be up for it.

Anyway I’ve heard about this crazy “flying scissor heel hook” shit for a while and just happened to come across it yesterday.

Photo: Me


Skills D.J. Love

A lot of people don’t think of MMA fighter like people but rather as beasts enamored by violence, desperately striving to draw blood. However Evan Tanner was one of the most inspirational fighters in the UFC. He lived for adventure, life experience and seemed to have a great appreciation and overall love for living.

“About ten years ago, on my travels, I passed though my hometown of Amarillo, Texas. I found out there was a promoter in town putting on shootfighting shows. I was out adventuring at the time, collecting stories that I would be able to tell to my future children and grand children. I thought being in a shootfighting event would be a really interesting story, and it would be one more adventure under my belt. I didn’t really have anything to prove, I was on a more peaceful path. I just wanted the adventure and the story. I signed up for the next show. I planned on fighting just once. I had no desire to continue beyond that. I ended up winning a heavyweight tournament. Got invited back to fight for a title. Another chance at an interesting story I couldn’t pass up. I fought again and won the USWF Heavyweight Title. I kept getting offered fights in bigger and bigger shows so I kept fighting. I’ve been fighting ever since.”

“Before I started fighting I was traveling around the country seeking out adventure. I dropped out of college when I was 19 and took off. I worked as a bouncer in some of the roughest bars I could find. I worked as a contractor doing cable TV work all over the country (Wisconsin, Illinois, Connecticut, Colorado, South Dakota, California, Texas), I worked as a framer building beach houses in North Carolina. I worked concrete in Montana. I helped build a grain processing plant in Illinois. I’ve washed dishes, I’ve been a baker, I’ve dug ditches, I’ve been a salad prep, I’ve mowed lawns. I’ve worked at a slaughterhouse, was night security at Big Sky of Montana Ski Resort, worked the ski rental shop for Mammoth Mountain in California. I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few. And right now, I’m a fighter. In the future, a husband, a father, a lover, a writer, a poet, a philosopher, a teacher, and definitely a surfer again. The best is yet to come.”

- Evan Tanner