Snowboarding Videos

I have some amazing snowboarding videos that I've been keeping in Chrome tabs for months at this point because I've been wanting to post them to this blog.  Figure I may as well actually post them.  That sounds like a good idea.

Here is the first one, which is a mesmerizing video of a snowboarder lit up with LEDs, boarding through some deep powder in the dark.  It is more awesome than I make it sound.

Next up, someone boarding down a very steep descent!

And finally, there is this opossum who will now snowboard for you:

Hope these were worth the many months of keeping them around in my browser tabs!  Get psyched for winter, it's coming up!

How to Spoil Your Hamster

Hello all,

It's been a long hiatus, but I'm back on Talus Slopes to tell you about hamsters.  I have a hamster named Hurley, who I posted about 2 years ago!  Here is the original post.

Since then, I have had a couple of epic hamster birthdays, each of which consisted of cooking Hurley an entire apple pie, inviting my friends over to sing the happy birthday song, and cutting out a very small slice of pie for Hurley.

(photos courtesy of ternus)

Those are photos of his first birthday.  For is second birthday, last month, he got another pie, this time with a small scoop of ice cream that he mostly ignored.  Here's this year's pie:

Video!

Now, we shall fast-forward through time, because today, I made homemade shortcake with homemade whipped cream and strawberries.

I stacked a small piece of shortcake with a small amount of whipped cream, then cut off a tiny tip of strawberry...

...and I made a tiny tiny dessert for Hurley!

Hurley hamster gets a snack.

And that is how you spoil a cute hamster.