There's definitely good surfing in the SD area, but you might want to wait until the waters warming up again to go out. Plus the great whites are in your area during the winter. On the bright side, you can probably pick a board and wetsuit cheap at Costco. If you aren't familiar with Costco, go ther...

Now all you have to do is eat some bbq at Phil's, get some beer at Alesmith, buy a surfboard (maybe a wetsuit), and you're officially a local.

Three hours is a crazy long class, but why did you sign up for a class you didn't care about? If its for your major I would hope that you'd be interested in it. If its general breadth requirements, there had to be a class in the category you would find more interesting. Its hard to do well in a clas...

This post with the resulting responses got me to think about the best fight scenes in movies. My personal favorites have to be: The final scene in Last of the Mohicans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tiKM4fxY1U Magua gets his shit royally fucked up. That movie is just filled to the brim with aweso...

I did read it. Horses can sweat btw, humans are not the only ones. The article simply states a human could outrun a horse in a 26.2 mile marathon but it does not say if they tested it, nor does it say if the horse is attempting to sprint the entire way or take it at a pace. For example, there is th...

First you disagree, then you point out that we use our brains to catch our prey and to survive, totally backing up exactly what I've been saying. Using a stick to beat a bear to death is using a "tool", which is something attributed to higher intelligence. That is the reason we survived. ...

For sure they didn't run around chasing shit. They tracked their prey and hid in the bushes with spears, maybe even using bait to lure prey nearby. Lots of traveling no doubt, but little to no "chasing". Its not easy to kill large food animals with a spear, much less get kill shots. The r...

Zamph, I'm absolutely not convinced we outran or outlasted anything. As a species, humans are the weakest, slowest and least fit on the planet. And that's not considering how lazy modern man is, that's just the way we are, even as far back as the neanderthal . You can be the strongest man in the wo...

There aren't any definitive studies that say barefoot running (a more important distinction is landing on the forefoot rather than heel) is healthier, but there is some promising stuff coming out of Harvard study. From a purely logical reasoning point of view, one would think that we evolved able to...

The conditions of various meat processing facilities should be assessed and made public often. Most people, even rabidly pro-meat advocates, would call for stricter requirements and controls of these places. I used to be an outspoken fan of kosher beef (religion aside) because of the ridiculously st...