People are more stringent than you: Quadruple Amputee swimming bag

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Just made that up. Never get who makes all those Twitter days up. Hey, it's "Travel Tuesday" or "Retweet Thursday" or "Bring A Midget to Work Friday" or "Go Postal Monday". Anyway, two quick hits that caught our blurred eyes today, file under "pointless consumerism" and "things you don't need", but $16 for a Soma Sutro Cap isn't so bad.? The $129 Linus double canvas pannier made of 100% cotton is nice. And by nice, we mean nothing we'd buy ourselves, but we wouldn't grumble if someone gave it to us for a gift.?

File this one under the indignities of pleasing your sponsors, in this case Prana. Because seriously, on our first viewing we thought this was an SNL parody video. Particularly when Sharma introduces himself as a "professional climber" and then proceeds to bumble through a serious of vignettes at the Wanderlust yoga retreat, including trying to dance to some asian dub, Shiva Rea draped over his back correcting his technique, snakes, and acro yoga. Classic. Gotta watch it to understand the awesomeness. Via Climbing Narc.

Chris Sharma Does Wanderlust from Prana Living on Vimeo.

A new take on the water bottle cage is set to transform biking forever.? Or at least that's what the manufacturer is hoping.? Vincero Design, based in bike-crazy Boulder, CO, is using rare earth magnets and carbon fiber to create their new magnetic bicycle bottle holder.? Weighing a mere 16 grams, the bottle holder is bomber according to Gear Junkie.com reviewer Steve Hitchcock. ?

The system includes a special water bottle and a small magnet that mounts onto your bike.? The magnets are strong enough that the bottle won't come off.? Unless of course, you leave the bottle on the roof of your Suburu...

And the price?"only" $46.95.? Normally at this point in the blog, I'd rip on the price and point out that only bike dorks in someplace like Boulder, CO would ever buy something like this, but rare earth magnets are rare (it's right in the name) and I would be totally willing to pay fifty bucks to bolt some rare earth metals to my bike, because you can never have enough rare earth metals. ?

Dedicated GoBlog readers (there's got to be a few of you out there) may have noticed that I never wrote about the Gulf Oil Spill.? In fact, I did craft a couple of blogs that I never posted, mostly angry, beer-fueled rants not so much about BP and their gruesome incompetence, but more about how raw sewage, toxins from petrochemical production, and industrial farming wastes cause the closure of beaches up and down both coasts every summer and no-one reports on it.? But like I said, I never posted them.?

Now, however, I've stumbled across a great idea for old oil rigs that are no longer in production.? Turn them into fancy hotels for scuba divers.

The Seaventures Dive Resort is a hotel and diving platform created out of a small oil rig near Borneo.? Owner Suzette Harris, explains the rig isn't super luxe (no glamping here, or wait, maybe this is glamping?) but that you don't come for the accommodations, "You come to dive."

The rig got a fresh coat of paint and has 25 rooms for rent.? Diving lessons, instructor lessons, and gear is all available.? I couldn't find rates on the website, but I'm sure it's pretty damn expensive.? But if you're into diving and you live in Nebraska, you've gotta pay to play right?

So, maybe this wouldn't work in the Gulf.? First off, there's nothing left of the Deep Horizon, except maybe some twisted metal and an untold amount of chemical dispersants.? Secondly, there's not much diving in the Gulf.? But, redesigning the wreckage of our industrial habits is definitely a cool idea.?

Via the Wall Street Journal? (Yes I read the Journal, it makes my father proud!)
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Yes, while we're on the topic of people tougher than you. The amputee below, sure, but what about this gentle flower who hunts alligators by harpooning, shooting, and severing their spines. Nice family vacation. Wonder what they do at Disneyland?

A Fitchburg woman traveled to South Carolina last week and went on the hunt of a lifetime, catching a 13?-foot, 1,025-pound alligator.

Maryellen Mara-Christian, 48, was alligator hunting Wednesday on Lake Moultrie with her husband, Mark, and a friend, when they spotted the colossal animal. It took hours to subdue the alligator, said Mara-Christian. ?It wasn?t an easy feat. It?s physically challenging.? She had gone hunting for 10 hours the day before, with no luck, she said.

Mara-Christian was the first to hook the animal. She and her partners fought to reel it in, eventually harpooning it, shooting it, and then severing its spinal cord.

Mara-Christian said she had to get a permit from the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, or DNR, to hunt the alligator during a month-long hunting season.

?Some people don?t understand why we hunt,? said Mara-Christian. ?Mankind hunts to help with balance,? she said, adding that?s it?s up to agencies like the DNR to decide what can be hunted.

Via Boston.com

When I was a kid, ahem, we used to tell these jokes about a man with no arms or legs. What do you call a man with no arms and legs hanging on a wall? Art? On the front doorstep? Mat. Swimming in a pool? Bob. Terrible, terrible jokes. I realize that now in my wise old age. That doesn't mean, of course, that when I read this story I didn't think, Bob? Skip? I'm going to burn in hell.?

A Frenchman whose arms and legs were amputated swam across the English Channel this weekend using leg prostheses that have flippers attached. Philippe Croizon, 42, had expected the tough crossing to take up to 24 hours ? and instead, he finished in only 13 and a half.

Via USA Today.

How about some animal action for your Thursday GoBlog.? Animals live outdoors, humans play outdoors, humans and animals interact outdoors in a variety of ways.? Here's a couple:
Alexander Alcantare, a South Florida man, nearly lost his arm trying to save an alligator someone had shot with an arrow.? As you could imagine, things went awry for Alcantare when the alligator lost interest in the meat he and a friend were using to lure it to shore and decided to chomp down on Alcantare's hand. ?

Mr. Alcantare's own words,

I couldn't really handle him too good.? The guy I asked to help me, he got scared and let go of the rope and since I couldn't secure his mouth, he got me.
Wow.?? Even more amazing is that Alcantare lost his other arm years ago when he suffered severe burns trying to save a baby birds from a power-line and his arm was amputated.? Man, a one-armed guy trying to pull an arrow from a pissed off alligator.? Hats off to you Mr. Alcantare!? For real, nature needs some more folks like you.? Check out the story on TreeHugger

And in the marine environment, an Orca Whale near Vancouver, Canada scared and exhilarated a couple of kayakers out for some surf action.? Andy Hoppenrath and Bruce McTaggart, both experienced kayakers, were out on Saturday, September 4th, when a 20-25 feet long Orca started herding them and toying with their kayaks.? While the Orca never actually touched their kayaks, he often came within three feet of the kayakers,

It was the number of times it surfaced and blew - it was like five seconds apart?He's looking at you, then poosh!? I didn't know if he was mad or being a whale, said Hoppenrath.? I thought, 'I don't want to crash into this whale.' Then the tail comes up and splashes and I'm being hit by some orca wave.? It was all I could do to brace to avoid being knocked down.? The whale did this a couple of times, all the while I'm traveling full speed.?

Some whale watchers managed to catch the entire spectacle, about 10 minutes long, from their small boat.?

At first it seemed they were enjoying the encounter but then it looked like the whale was getting too close and was actually herding them, said Margot Williams, the boater.? As one kayaker tried to turn away from it, it circled around the kayaker and made him turn back.? This happened quite a few times? One kayaker eventually got away and the whale was working the other one when we slowly put the boat between them.? The kayaker was then able to paddle safely around the back of a small island and join his friend.

Holy s*%t.? Can you imagine being on a sit-on-top surf kayak that weighs 20 pounds with a 25 feet long Orca screwing with you?? Intense.?

Story via Seattle Post Intelligencer Blog?

So what do you do if your landscaping business is slow, you have some welding experience, and a spare flame thrower laying around?? You build the Big Dog and head to Burning Man! ?

Or that's what Tom Wilson did anyway. ?

The Big Dog is a massive 4 wheeled, pedal-powered, "bicycle" that seats four and measures 11 feet long and 8 feet tall and weighs almost 500 pounds.? You'd better have some friends 'cause pedaling a 500 pound contraption can't be easy solo. ?

Check out the video and hit up www.thirstybeachlandscaping.com to learn how to get your own.?

Via Gizmodo

Fisherman take note:? Thanks to Fishhound.com, you no longer have to show up to your favorite lake or river and group up with all the other fisherman who got there before you to try and figure out where or how to fish.?? Fishhound's Fishing Intelligence Network ? allows anglers to search and sort fishing reports and tips on the where and how to catch fish.? According to their press-release, Fishing Intelligence Network is:

Advised by an influential, and expanding, roster of more than 150 professional anglers, Fishhound's "Fishing Intelligence ? Reports" include personalized angler home pages with 7-Day Fishing Forecasts, quick links to favorite waters and hatches, My Hatch Tracker with up-to-date hatch tracking on any river in the U.S., fly suggestions driven by the most extensive entomology database and the internet, and technique and tactical advice from the best.? Fishhound reports are updated frequently, meaning subscribers get the freshest, most insightful reports available anywhere.
The Fishing Intelligence Network ? launched last week with a free 30-day trial for anglers.? Just head over to www.fishhound.com to get signed up.? After the free trial period, the price is $0.33 a day...just $10 bucks a month!!

Who knew that Web 2.0 would reach so far across the interweb?? Imagine, fishing guides and shop staff giving useful advice and tips without even having to buy a fly or some tippet.? Heaven?? Still, I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one who's snarky enough to notice the irony here?"Fishing Intelligence Network"? Ha. ?

It was hard to believe back when he broke to record in 2004 for consecutive days surfing (10,407 days-28.5 years) still hard to believe because it looks he kept going and extended his record to 35 years:

For twenty-eight years, from September 2, 1975 to February 29, 2004, Dale caught at least three waves to shore at Bodega Bay (in Northern California), though most days, he caught many more. He did this every day, despite the danger and inconvenience of hurricane-force winds, shark infestations, car breakdowns, and kidney stone complications, making him the record-setter for the "most consecutive days spent surfing", at twenty-eight years. He also set the world record for most waves caught; ten thousand, four hundred and seven confirmed waves.?At ten thousand waves, he decided to stop, but the next morning woke up and decided against it, so he continued his daily routine for another four hundred and seven waves. More recently, he made it to over twelve thousand waves.

Guy hasn't left Bodega Bay in 35 years. We can barely remember to brush our teeth daily, let alone contemplate an undertaking of this magnitude.

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