Just fell for a trick by @topper4125 …. But it was pretty good http://bit.ly/1628nB remember this guy? I’m gonna request this song next time I’m dancin’ w/ the wife !
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Can't Believe it !
I can’t believe how much I still need to learn….. here I am 40 years old…. And still learning every day!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Talk about Pay for Performance!
It never ceases to amaze me how company CEO’s (who I’ll refer to as Quarterbacks or Pitchers) get to hold onto their jobs, make an unbelievable amount of money while there companies performance is in the toilet. Now, I understand that a lot of these CEO’s are good guys, well respected and probably terrific leaders whose company’s simply got crushed in the downturn. OK fair enough…. But how can a CEO who’s company is performing so poorly still take gobs and gobs of money. Don’t they have a conscience ? Wouldn’t you say, “Hey, we’re hurting, our shareholders are hurting, our employees are hurting so I’m gonna share the pain and not take that $10M dollar bonus, instead, I’m going to put that back into the company.” I mean really…. That’s the right thing to do, don’t you think ? If these guys were on the field at the Quarterback or Pitcher positions they woulda been canned a long time ago. It’s crazy to me how sports values performance more than business! Here’s the article : http://bit.ly/4ApEhm
Monday, September 28, 2009
It's Official
2 : 17 : 46
6th place for my age group…. Bummed, was hoping top 5. Next year stair training to get faster on those hills.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
OC TRI DONE
Did more passing than gettin' passed I think it was around 2:17 have to wait for official time. Last year was 2:38 but don't think it'll be enuf for top 5
Friday, September 25, 2009
Seesmic needs your help !
RT @loic vote for Seesmic here…. @lifehacker… make it easier for people to vote next time ! http://lifehacker.com/5367205/best-twitter-client
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
I take it back !
OK. I take it back, T.Robbins now has a room full of people jumping up in down pretending to celebrate as if they are at a championship football game. I’m over it!
@tony robbins
watching T. Robbins @ the #TC140 conf. thought the guy was hokey, but he just said “F-you” changed my opinion of him!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Chophouse ???
I'm not an intellectual, but I rarely watch TV. Most of my time is spent on the web. if I do watch TV... it's baseball, FuelTV or Entourage for me. Anyway, as I switched the channel to watch Entourage tonight I happened to come across this show "Chophouse" Really ? Really ? A reality series that has intense "Survivor" type drama about cooking. Really ? Really ? Has TV seriously been reduced to this ? Shows about who can cook the best meal ? Really ? I'm not taking anything away from the art of being a chef, but do they have to create a show with so much "superficial" drama about something as undramatic as cooking ? I'm just saying.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
TechCrunch50 Recap
Alrightly then… TC50 2009 is over. I watched nearly ever presentation. Being a “start-up stalker” I wanted to see what companies followed in principal @victor_cheng ‘s book: Extreme Growth: A guide for Silicon Valley CEO’s. In this incredible short read Victor discusses the that “extreme growth” is the result of a business being built on a foundation of 5 main principles:
1) Competitive Advantage
2) Product / Service
3) Distribution Channel
4) The Promise
5) Target Customer
Target customer of course being the base. No customer = No sale. The “promise” as he describes it is actually the “promise” that your product or service actually solves a problem you’re target customer is having. Simple, but brilliant. Yet as I viewed the last 2 days of demos, it was amazing how many companies had a product or a service that actually made the cut to TC50 that didn’t have either: A target customer that had a problem:
Example:
iMo : Cool iPhone app, gaming market is big but really, does is solve a problem ?
cocodot : a more elegant evite: Where’s the problem solving ? E-vite’s successful for a reason: people use it! This guy said it would “Help guys get lucy with their wife’s or girlfriend’s”…. ?
Theswop.com: professional bartering : As Roelof Botha put it “I don’t like it. Money was invented for a reason, we’ve seen people try to use beans etc. and it doesn’t work. I wouldn’t invest”
None of these companies solved a problem nor were their target markets large enough to scale…. Many companies however did solve a problem like:
CitySourced: Allows users to report city vandalism, repairs via iPhone app
Threadsy: web app that allows you to consolidate all webmail accounts + twitter + facebook in one very nice UI
Mota Motors: web service that takes out the “guess work” and “distrust” of the used car market.
All in all a great event with great ideas, but an even greater education on what VC’s look for in a start-up!
Check it all out here : www.techcrunch.com
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Watching TechCrunch50
Great company just presented: www.citysourced.com started out kind of lame… but is a “Change Agent” as CEO Tony Hsieh of Zappos wanted to see yesterday #tc50
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Posterous Issues... any advice ?
Hey there….
1) Anyone know how I can rid of the following text below my profile pic on Posterous:
Liquid error: private method
`gsub' called for nil:NilClass
2) Can you insert widgets on Posterous ? I’d like to add a twitter feed like you can w/ Blogger, but having a tough time finding out how to do it…
Thanks for any help ! Email me @ john@johnhaden.com
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
9.9.09 Good day !!
1) Ran 8 / Swam 2
2) Landed what will hopefully be a very successful internship!
3) Delivered Roger Skateboard tees today… check them out @ www.rogerskateboards.com
9.9.09 Good Day !
1) Started what will hopefully be a successful internship today.
2) Ran 8 / Swam 2
3) Delivered Tees to Roger Skateboards today....
file:///C:/Users/john/Desktop/beer.jpg
file:///C:/Users/john/Desktop/horny.jpg
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
My First Blog Post.... from email posterous is pretty rad !!
OK…. So pretty much geeking out at the moment…. But posterous is pretty rad…. Can’t believe it took me this long to find it which I think hints at what @glenntan and crew needs to do over @posterous (ADVERTISE) use that thing we’re all referring to as Social Media and get the word out! When you serach google for “best blog tools” a Forbes list comes up that includes:
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Posterous nowhere to be found…. Gotta change that…..
Anyway…. Here are random pics to see how they get resized using
Calancis convinced me to Switch
OK.....
So I'm really following thru so far on my quarterly goals.
1) Complete my first Ironman in under 12 hrs. : 11.26 @Vineman
2) Blogging more.... for sure on Twitter, but also on www.johnhaden.com. Part of blogging more however is finding the right blog tool. I think I've just found it. After listening to an interview with Garry Chan, founder of Posterous.... I was convinced that if I can tie my blogger, twitter, picassa and other sites into one, it would be the site for me.
Alright.... time to build this thing now, I've got to import my blogger posts now.....
Monday, September 7, 2009
Latest Forecast....
| Happy Labor Day, this is Kevin with your North Orange County Surf Forecast effective Monday afternoon. Southern California Recap: MONDAY – Small NW windswell continued today and mixed with underlying/background Southern Hemi swell. The better windswell breaks were in the waist high range, with sets to chest high at standout spots. Southern California Surf Forecast Outlook: Small NW windswell will continue through Tuesday, before dropping off for the middle to second half of the week. Small SW groundswell will also gradually build through mid week. Check the forecast below for further details and the longer range outlool. | The Surfline forecasting team consists of eight specially trained, world renowned forecasters to provide you with the best possible information for you to score great surf anywhere in the world. Meet the Forecasters |
| LOCAL NORTH ORANGE COUNTY SURF FORECAST (Surf sizes are face heights of the front of the waves) |
| Monday 09/07 | Tuesday 09/08 | Wednesday 09/09 | Thursday 09/10 | Friday 09/11 |
| POOR-FAIR SURF: 1-3 ft - ankle to waist high and poor-fair conditions. | POOR-FAIR SURF: 1-3 ft - ankle to waist high and poor-fair conditions. | FAIR SURF: 2-3 ft - knee to waist high and fair conditions. | FAIR SURF: 2-3 ft.+ - knee to chest high and fair conditions. | FAIR SURF: 1-3 ft - ankle to waist high and fair conditions. |
| Small NW windswell/groundswell mix; tiny SW swell | Small NW windswell/groundswell mix and small SW swell; weak eddy conditions possible | SSW swell mixed with fading NW energy; weak eddy conditions possible | Mainly SSW swell with minimal NW energy | Mainly SSW swell with minimal NW energy |
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(For the LOLA SURF HEIGHT MODEL, go to the LOLA Forecast Dashboard tab)
TUESDAY: Small NW windswell continues and mixes with a small, gradually building SW swell. Look for soft but peaky 1-2' occasional 3' waves at the better spots. Breaks that really favor the NW windswell are more consistent waist high and even a little better at times. Tide push through the morning may help some.
Wind: Variable S/SSE wind early between 3-8kts and some morning sickness likely. Afternoon SW to W wind builds 5-10kts, with a decent chance for an evening glass off.
Wind: Variable S/SSE wind early between 3-8kts and some morning sickness likely. Afternoon SW to W wind builds 5-10kts, with a decent chance for an evening glass off.
Extended Southern California Surf Forecast Outlook:
WIND/WEATHER SYNOPSIS: A Catalina eddy will continue on Tuesday and likely into Wednesday. That will mean variable southerly wind in the early mornings, primarily for OC, San Diego and possibly the South Bay. Light SW to W wind will develop for the afternoons along with a decent chance for an evening glass-off.
The most recent forecast charts/models indicate that we could see a weak offshore flow develop by the second half of the week with calm to light offshore wind in the mornings. Moderate westerly flow would then pick up in the afternoons. Stay tuned for updates on this possible development.
The most recent forecast charts/models indicate that we could see a weak offshore flow develop by the second half of the week with calm to light offshore wind in the mornings. Moderate westerly flow would then pick up in the afternoons. Stay tuned for updates on this possible development.
NORTH PACIFIC SWELL/SURF ACTIVITY: Thanks to continued wind in the outer coastal waters, a small NW windswell will hold through Tuesday. Look for the better NW exposed spots (mainly of San Diego, the South Bay, Ventura and even select breaks of OC) to see peaky, short period waves in the waist high range. Standout breaks even see some plus sets approaching chest high. Those windswell waves will drop sharply for the middle to second half of the week.
A storm of the Alaskan Gulf recently developed a very steep angled pulse of NW groundswell (over 300 deg+) that was showing on the buoys today, will peak through the night, then fade into the middle of the week. Due to the steep angle of approach, Pt. Conception, and the Channel Islands; this swell will only produce 1-2' occasional 3' sets late Monday and on Tuesday at the well exposed breaks of the region (again, mainly of South SD and southern Ventura). Expect this energy to mix in with the NW windswell.
Going further out, a more promising looking scenario is now developing, thanks to a storm pulling together in the West Pacific which is expected to steadily track eastward over the next few days. If this storm lives up to forecast, we’ll see a fun size NW swell (290-300) for Sunday and into early Monday the 13th-14th. We’ll have more details on this potential swell as we see the storm develop further, so look for more concrete details a little later this week.
TROPICS: Tropical Depression 15 is a small storm currently located located about 1200 miles WSW of the Baja tip. While TD 15 is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm sometime tonight, due to his limited size, location and track does not look like a swell maker for us. Stay posted on the tropics by checking out HURRICANETRAK.
SOUTH PACIFIC SWELL/SURF ACTIVITY: Throughout the work-week, we'll see a slow but gradual increase of Southern Hemi energy. Also, the swell angle will gradually shift from SW (210-230) to SSW (190-210). Monday was quite slow, with inconsistent 1-2' sets across the southerly exposures. By Tuesday, the better breaks of Orange County begin to see occasional 3' sets.
Then Wed/Thurs will offer the most size from this little swell with knee-waist high surf at the well exposed spots. Select standout spots (mainly of OC and a few locations in SD) pick up larger waves around chest high. This swell will then fade Friday and over the upcoming weekend.
Further out; a large storm recently moved out from under New Zealand and pushed out a shadowed SW groundswell (200-220) that lines up for around Sept 13th-16th. The fetch was never impressive for CA, and the swell energy that was pushed out will be filtered by the islands of the South Pacific. Therefore, we'll stay rather conservative on this one for now as its looking inconsistent and small-scale. Stay posted as we continue to track this swell. Beyond that; models indicate that a complex storm may develop deep in the SPAC and due south over Tues-Wed that may send up a better SSW pulse for around Sept 18th-20th.
Our next forecast update here will be Tuesday afternoon at 5 PM.
A storm of the Alaskan Gulf recently developed a very steep angled pulse of NW groundswell (over 300 deg+) that was showing on the buoys today, will peak through the night, then fade into the middle of the week. Due to the steep angle of approach, Pt. Conception, and the Channel Islands; this swell will only produce 1-2' occasional 3' sets late Monday and on Tuesday at the well exposed breaks of the region (again, mainly of South SD and southern Ventura). Expect this energy to mix in with the NW windswell.
Going further out, a more promising looking scenario is now developing, thanks to a storm pulling together in the West Pacific which is expected to steadily track eastward over the next few days. If this storm lives up to forecast, we’ll see a fun size NW swell (290-300) for Sunday and into early Monday the 13th-14th. We’ll have more details on this potential swell as we see the storm develop further, so look for more concrete details a little later this week.
TROPICS: Tropical Depression 15 is a small storm currently located located about 1200 miles WSW of the Baja tip. While TD 15 is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm sometime tonight, due to his limited size, location and track does not look like a swell maker for us. Stay posted on the tropics by checking out HURRICANETRAK.
SOUTH PACIFIC SWELL/SURF ACTIVITY: Throughout the work-week, we'll see a slow but gradual increase of Southern Hemi energy. Also, the swell angle will gradually shift from SW (210-230) to SSW (190-210). Monday was quite slow, with inconsistent 1-2' sets across the southerly exposures. By Tuesday, the better breaks of Orange County begin to see occasional 3' sets.
Then Wed/Thurs will offer the most size from this little swell with knee-waist high surf at the well exposed spots. Select standout spots (mainly of OC and a few locations in SD) pick up larger waves around chest high. This swell will then fade Friday and over the upcoming weekend.
Further out; a large storm recently moved out from under New Zealand and pushed out a shadowed SW groundswell (200-220) that lines up for around Sept 13th-16th. The fetch was never impressive for CA, and the swell energy that was pushed out will be filtered by the islands of the South Pacific. Therefore, we'll stay rather conservative on this one for now as its looking inconsistent and small-scale. Stay posted as we continue to track this swell. Beyond that; models indicate that a complex storm may develop deep in the SPAC and due south over Tues-Wed that may send up a better SSW pulse for around Sept 18th-20th.
Our next forecast update here will be Tuesday afternoon at 5 PM.
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