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This is is awesome!

 

Anyone recall Felix in 95.  My memory might be wrong, but I remember that swell being huge (I was in Montauk for Felix and LB for 3/11, so I might be comparing apples and oranges).

 
oh yeah - Felix was great!  I surfed just E of LB proper and scored some awesome ones.  Especially this one which just sticks out in my mind.  I was kinda overgunned on my 6'2" swallow (magic board though, rip), but it was nice and clean, a handful of guys out where i was, despite an easy paddle .  Really only me and this one other guy trading set waves at the peak (a guy who apparently has a somewhat aggro rep i found out later).
 
I remember one killer set breaking way outside and had to scratch hard to get over it, probably wouldn't have gone, but that guy was screaming at me to go! go! go!  So i spun and barely scratched under the lip.  could only manage a super high line.  don't know how i didn't get pitched (notable on a late-drop right).  then i just remember the backlit green wall and a floater-like sensation.  that guy was a stoked as i was.  so much fun.

But you don't live in a very small commune or clan.  You live in the largest metropolitan region in the US.  And if you do not vaccinate your kids, you expose potentially millions of others to illness.  If my kids got measles because the parents of one of their friends decided not to vaccinate them because, in their view, the size of our community predisposed them to think it unnecessary, I'd flip my frigging lid.  I think I've already posted on this issue in this thread.

With respect to money, I typically expect deeper analysis from you than the lyrics of a Horace Andy song.  (Per FDA regulations, the preceding sentence was a joke.  The joke employed sarcasm, a comic device that can lead to, among other things, hurt feelings, eruptions of unwarranted rage, feelings of inadequacy and/or insufficient intellectual capacity, diarrhea, shortness of breath, obesity and death). 

Also, I think you're wrong in your overall analysis of the CDC, its function and the role it plays in this debate. 

 
Yea, I think that was part of my point.  I don’t live in a small community which makes it more difficult and more important that I have an advocate or someone representing my interests – in this case my pediatrician.
 
I think you really have to make a distinction between measles and some of the other vaccines in the battery of shots.  I think that’s a big part of what I said before.  That there a weighing of social good vs. individual risk.  I would think that the measles shot leans farther toward the former.  Same with polio and tb, for example.  Some of the others, not so much.  And I don’t like how quickly they’ve been added, nor the extent of clinical trials conducted for some.  Personally, I have no idea how that list of shots came together from a historical/political perspective.  And yes, maybe I give the CDC a harder time than they perhaps deserve – I have an old bad taste in my mouth – but that list gives me a lot of pause.  Because, if you look at the science, it doesn’t make sense to me, which leads me to believe there’s something else going on.  I don’t know what or how, but I do trust my instincts about such things.
 
But I’m curious.  Have many (any) vaccines been removed from the pediatricians list over the years?  And my concern would be this.  Now that there is a lot of pushback on the number of vaccines, there may be a bit of an artificial (political) cap on the number on the recommended (required) list.  Then what happens when something new with a great potential for societal/human good?  Let’s say a shot for malaria – or maybe not something quite that good.  Are they just going to add it or eliminate something whose social good vs. individual risk quotient is less or has fallen significantly?  Or are they going to maintain the status quo for political reasons, and not adopt the new one at all or much delayed.
 
Horace Andy – interesting, thanks for making me look him up – I would’ve only known him from Massive Attack.
 

we've hit the 10,250 mark


might need to start stage II....Seacliff?

not many people out on 3/11 but it was strangely easier to surf than days that have been smaller, a lot more organized once the period came up more, but initially when those new swells start there's absolutely no lulls at all


Felix was insane too but I didn't have my board with me, must say I wasn't bummed

But you don't live in a very small commune or clan.  You live in the largest metropolitan region in the US.  And if you do not vaccinate your kids, you expose potentially millions of others to illness.  If my kids got measles because the parents of one of their friends decided not to vaccinate them because, in their view, the size of our community predisposed them to think it unnecessary, I'd flip my frigging lid.  I think I've already posted on this issue in this thread.

With respect to money, I typically expect deeper analysis from you than the lyrics of a Horace Andy song.  (Per FDA regulations, the preceding sentence was a joke.  The joke employed sarcasm, a comic device that can lead to, among other things, hurt feelings, eruptions of unwarranted rage, feelings of inadequacy and/or insufficient intellectual capacity, diarrhea, shortness of breath, obesity and death). 

Also, I think you're wrong in your overall analysis of the CDC, its function and the role it plays in this debate. 

I always liked the INT blackball beater - 4'11", thruster set-up - but was dubious of the actual blackball beating claim for here in NYC. I was asked to leave the water for riding a mat last year.

That said, these boards still look fun, especially for taking chances on airs and closeout laybacks.

Anyone recall Felix in 95.  My memory might be wrong, but I remember that swell being huge (I was in Montauk for Felix and LB for 3/11, so I might be comparing apples and oranges).

I think this was Nov 2006...it was big but not March 11 big...