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Holiday Party 2012
Posted on 29. Nov, 2012 by webguy
Maya Claus: He brings mangos and pet monkeys to Mayan children
The White Elephant Gift Exchange: Now you can get that Chip-O-Matic you always wanted.
Once again we tempt fate by holding our annual holiday party on December 21, 2012, just in time to turn the last page on the Mayan calendar. While many organizations hold secular holiday, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Saturnalia and other celebrations at year's end, we will be celebrating Baktun, the end of the twenty katun cycles.
The proper way to celebrate Baktun is with colored lights, pine and fir trees (the Maya loved spruce and balsam), exchanging unwanted gifts and visits from Maya Claus, a dwarfish man dressed in red with white trim.
This year, we'll be holding our celebration at a long time favorite location, the retired, old traffic control tower at Peachtree DeKalb Airport, through the kindness of Chris Voith.
Details will be coming soon but count on a potluck dinner followed by the ever popular White Elephant Gift exchange. Read more »
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Win Win
Posted on 12. Nov, 2012 by webguy
Olympic Kiting Windsurfing
Before ISAF Reversal: Kiter discusses Rio Olympics with Gene. Photo: Alan Sloman
Recently, winners and losers have been in the news. Since most of us are at work trying to make amends for skipping out the week of Sandy, this may be a good time to recap. I'm not going to assume that you are actually working while at work but doing the usual, usual - managing your fantasy league team (speaking of losing... ahem).
Olympics: Fat Guys Keep Kites Out
As reported elsewhere, the ISAF reversed its decision to exclude windsurfing from the Rio 2016 Olympics. The Spanish representative, tired of having to explain his previous vote to the Spanish gal who won gold in London, was among those who voted to keep windsurfing in.
The Olympic sailing classes represent some of the most athletic and modern sailing classes - as they should. Think if the cycling competition was still done on the bicycles circa 1920. Think if track was done like it was in 350 BC - wait, other than being clothed, that hasn't changed that much. Um... sailing, where were we? Oh, the classes include the athletic and ubiquitous Laser, the high performance carnage of the 49er and outright speed of the NACRA 17 cat, catamarans having been restored as well. As well, the classes are evenly split between men and women.
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Barbarians at the Gate
Posted on 06. Nov, 2012 by webguy Orson Welles scaring the crap out of us. He didn't applaud until his movie Citizen Kane.
A guy who's just bought a new mast because of a comment a stranger made on our web site. Neil Pryde 550cm Mast: MSRP $746 18 ft of carbon fiber love.
In Woodstock, Ga., about 30 miles north of Atlanta, the president of a homeowners’ association sent an e-mail on Sunday informing residents that the entrance gates would be closed 24 hours a day beginning at 6 p.m. Tuesday, out of concern over possible civil unrest after the election.
“I feel it is better to take a position of caution to enhance controlled access to the community until we see what (if any) negative repercussions may occur because of the results of the election,” wrote Bill Stanley, the president of the homeowners’ association at the Cottages of Woodstock, a residential community for people 55 and over.
Source: ajc.com
When you connect any device to the internet, you can expect visitors. If you have a web site, especially one that's been up for years like we have been, lots of visitors stop by. Some visitors, like the folks that log in, we welcome and enjoy having. Guests like Google and Bing have open invitations as well. Not only do they help people find us but offer us a way to search our own site and produce some analytics that we use to find broken pages and what people like to view on the site.
Then, there are the other visitors. They range from the annoying, to the rude to the outright criminal. Unfortunately, in terms of knocks on the door, they are also our most numerous. If you've ever noticed the stats in our "Who's online" box on the right side of this page, you'll see maybe a couple or handful of registered users and from 20 to 60 or more guests. Of course, some of those guests are members who are dropping by without logging in. We have some pleasant foreign visitors and appreciate that they are part of our community.The rest hail from all parts of the world - Russia, the Ukraine, China, the Phillipines, Romania - places where a lot of people really give a crap about what the wind is like in Atlanta. Read more »
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Guilt
Posted on 01. Nov, 2012 by webguyIt's not nice to #$@% with Mother Nature
As windsurfers living in Atlanta, we have an odd relationship with nature. Atlanta ( cue drumroll Where Wind Goes to Die™) is not an inherently windy place. Aruba is windy. Hawaii is windy. Dahab and Pozo are windy. If you stuck a wind turbine on top of your house, the only thing it would do is mess with your neighbor's satellite dish.
On occasion we'll have a decent breeze. But for real wind, we need Mother Nature to do something quite different. And, when Mother Nature does something different, that is very often a bad thing for someone else. A cold front brings misery to the homeless and poor who can ill afford a high heating bill. A blustery day means a tree is wiping out someone's house or leaving a neighborhood in the dark.
A really windy can mean anything from wide-spread inconvenience - unless you are selling plywood or bottled water - to catastrophic and tragic destruction. This week was uncommonly windy here. This made us happy. This week was uncommonly floody in New York and New Jersey among other places. This made us very, very sad. Read more »
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Atilt
Posted on 28. Oct, 2012 by webguy These guys didn't write this article, but should have.
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Janitor's Note: We always look forward to guest submissions real or imagined. On a serious note, we all recognize that the storms that generate our wind often mean hardship or worse for others. No disrespect to them or their situations is intended.
"While there wasn't enough fireworks to knock the earth off its axis and fulfill the Mayan prophecy..."
- windsurfatlanta.org: Racing
- windsurfatlanta.org: Racing
"A fool's own words sentence him to his fate"
- A quote I made up
"For every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction"
- Newton's Third Law of Motion
Most of you don't believe that this is the End of Days or in the Prophecies. That's the way THEY want it. THEY aren't telling you the truth. But I am among the brave that are willing to break the silence. The TRUTH I'm telling you is dangerous. Others who have known the TRUTH have disappeared in the night and are imprisoned in secret facilities guarded by BLACK HELICOPTERS. I'm willing to risk this if it helps prevent the NEW WORLD ORDER which will take over after our country and freedom is destroyed.
You can't set off the amount of fireworks like at the Fall Classic without consequence. It wasn't a trivial amount as some in the MSM (MAIN STREAM MEDIA) want you to think. I was sent this photograph taken by a NASA satellite by an informant within NASA. THIS tells you the true magnitude of what happened.
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Racing
Posted on 25. Oct, 2012 by webguy Argentine soccer team, Racing, rushing for post game juice boxes and Rice Krispie treats.
Racing for local windsurfers.
Janitor's Note: Amazingly, our fertile imagination contributed very little to this article. The more improbable it sounds, the more likely it's true.
Racing. We know to most of you it brings to mind that great Buenos Aries football club - 16 time champion of Primera División as well as the first Argentine team to be world club champion. Perhaps it's because Racing was promoted back to the first division after defeating Atlanta in 1985. Of course, who wasn't beating Atlanta in any sport in 1985. But this, in fact, was an Argentine club, Atlanta, which allegedly got its name after our city of Atlanta was struck by an earthquake.
Cursory searching of the interwebs doesn't show any earthquakes hitting Georgia in 1904. There was a minor earthquake in Maine that year. Perhaps, they heard about an earthquake in Augusta (Maine) but confused it with Augusta (Georgia) and then thought, after looking at a map, that Atlanta (Georgia) would be a cooler name. Who knows...
But, the comedian Earthquake was performing in clubs around in Atlanta in the early 1990s, so there is that...
While we hate to disappoint our Hall County readers by switching the conversation away from futbol, there was a bit of racing in our little community, and, in fact, in Hall County last weekend. Timed to roughly coincide with the End of Days, our 34th Atlanta Fall Classic & End of the World Spectacular took place on the scenic grounds of and waters off of the Lake Lanier Sailing Club. Organized by the now legendary Chris Voith, it was an event blessed with wind in a place not often blessed with wind.
After all, this is Atlanta: Where Wind Goes to Die™. (Our new catchphrase) Read more »
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