I’m out for the next week, starting the minute i post this. I apologize to all my Wednesday’s with Bill. Murray. fans out there.
As a consolation prize, i leave you with a video describing what i’ll be doing while gone. Pink flippy floppy’s and all.
As summer approaches I’m patiently waiting for this years new summer jam to get down to. Or I was waiting, until last night that is when I found this song. I know I’m not the first to find this song, but please enjoy…
(aka Hammer Whacking)
So when we go to the board factory in Austria, one of our favorite pastimes is a game called Hammerschlagen. Many places that you go at night will have a stump and a hammer and basically the objective is to pound your nail in first with the hammer…but there’s a catch.
In the North of Austria you play with the wedge end of a machinist hammer, where our factory is in the south the “hammer” is tougher to describe. First, it has a curved handle and instead of a traditional hammer head, the end is a cylinder and you try to whack the nail with the edge of the cylinder.
Peter from La Resistance mid-Hammerschlagen trick.
As Peter demonstrates above, you can also add spin tricks to your repertoire of how you whack the nail. Peter owns the shop “La Resistance” in Zell am See Austria. It’s a sweet shop that you should check out if you are ever in the area.
So Rome has been known to celebrate the anniversary of 050601. I decided that we needed to bring the fun of Hammerschlagen to the party.
I tasked Nate (“Number Two”) with finding a stump; which he did on one of his fishing expeditions. Nate found a section of a tree that was already laying about.
So I decided that we could do the Operations Department weekly meeting in Nate’s crew cab as we went to pick up the stump.
Here I am rolling the stump to the truck
Stump loaded and ready to go to it's new home
Here's Number Two delivering the stump...
So we need to just acquire a hammer and game on. That means you Colvin…
For more on Hammerschlagen, you can check out Wikipedia though there’s some seemingly revisionist history on there… (don’t watch the stuff on Youtube, most of the videos are of people who don’t understand the game)
Stump Acquisition Photo Cred: Warranty Ben
This guy – best chapel speaker i have ever seen.
Today marks the first day of the off season at Stowe Mountain. Making me feel a little bit bitter. Of course we had a really good last day, bluebird, warm weather, soft park and some brews and a bar-b-q going in the parking lot, so I guess I can only bitch so much, plus, I’m in heavy need of some healing since I’ve been pretty sore for the past month or so.
Anyways, here’s something funny I was thinking about. So the “Upper Decker” is a pretty traditional prank. If you don’t know what that is, google it.
The downfalls are, in the words of Brandon Dicamillo, “shit is rank”.
So here’s a more work friendly version of the upper decker.
If you fill the top tank with a bunch of red food coloring and other assorted non-crap crap, like the innards of an uncooked Italian sausage it could be pretty awesome.
Especially rad if that guy leaves without doing a glance back to make sure stuff went down ok. Then the next person will go in there, hopefully seeing the non-checker leave, and be like man, the toilets full of blood and flesh, what’s up with that guy.
Maybe it’s not that awesome, but really, what’s 2 minutes out of your day.
*Typically at the end of a Blog post, I would put a photo that would relate to what’s in the post. Instead, we’ll go with the photo of “Judgmental Cowboy Curtis”, if you think this was the wrong move, please google image “Dirty Toilet”, and you’ll know I did the right thing.
With a light rain falling outside, and the season at Stowe about 24 hours from being over, i’ve been flipping channels aggressively this afternoon. I came across a re-broadcast of the Glastonbury Music festival from 2008, and it reminded me of one of the best disses in music history, and quite possibly all time.
When Jay-Z was announced as a headliner to the all-rock festival, Oasis frontman, and half of the volatile sibling duo that makes the band so awesome, Noel Gallagher lashed out on Jay, claiming there was no room for hip-hop at Glastonbury. The following video is Jay opening his set, and lashing back at Gallagher. Prop guitar, way off-key vocals and a huge shit-eating grin. One of Brooklyn’s finest indeed.
We have a new design intern starting here in a few weeks. His name is Mike Forester, and he hails from Marquette, MI via Detroit, so the kids seen some shit, i’m sure. He’s got a semester left in art school, and has worked at the shop Casualties for several years now.
In an email he sent me today, he expressed his excitement for the position, and sent me the following video. I think he’ll fit in here just fine. Welcome aboard Mike.
The snow has melted, the rocks and gravel swept away, and most of the nails waiting to take a piece of your skin home for dinner have been removed.
Jeff gets things started with some kind of backwards 50-50 revert type thing.
