August 10, 2007

Surfboard Warehouse

The Surfboard Warehouse is an Orlando company that was founded to cater to the custom surfboard market. The maker of about 90% of foam blanks used in custom surfboards used to be a company named Clarke Foam. The closed for business in 2005, which seriously hurt the custom surfboard business.

The Surfboard Warehouse carries surfboards such as Lost, Cordell, Linden, Cannibal and Lucas in addition to others and also has plenty of surf gear and accessories from all the major names. They are able to ship completely shaped surf boards to customers in four to six weeks and will deliver anywhere, even if you are traveling.

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They also carry every fin from the best fin companies in the world including FCS fins and Future Fins. Shipping is free on any fin that you order as well. The Surfboard Warehouse was also featured in ESM – Eastern Surf Magazine in October 2006. If you need a custom surfboard or gear and accessories, go check out the Surfboard Warehouse.

No Sound From Utah Mine

They’ve lowered a microphone into the Utah mine and are not hearing any kind of noise from the men trapped inside since Monday.


I got a text message earlier but haven’t had the chance to look and see what happened but apparently three coal miners were killed somewhere else in the Midwest today. Off the top of my head I want to say it was in Indiana. Once I get time I will head over to CNN and see if I can find any reports.

I Just Thought It Was Hot Yesterday

Today was a pretty easy day at work. All of my managers were in, so I spent a little while at each store, did the banking for a couple of them, checked some tickets for pricing and them went to Wal-Mart to get something for supper tonight. Like I said, easy day.

The ride home wasn’t quite as nice. It’s hot as blazes out there. Somewhere between 100 and 105 and humid as hell. I pulled my little fan out of the Dodge Van that plugs into the lighter socket, but all it does is blow hot air on me. At least it was moving it around I guess. I was pouring sweat by the time I got inside.

The wife and girls still aren’t home yet, so I figured that would give me time to get a little posting finished. She should be leaving at some point shortly to get the girls. No cooking tonight. It’s going to have to be sandwich night or something.

One other purchase I made while I was there was this nifty little remote controlled dragonfly. It’s cool. The girls will love it, right up until they destroy it. I will try to get some pictures up tonight.

Redneck Air Conditioning

Laura posted the link to this video in the comments last night and I just thought I would share it. This guy has a busted air conditioning unit in his car so he rigged one up. It was immediately obvious that he was either a redneck from around these parts, or an engineer. Turns out he’s a recent graduate with a BA in civil engineering. I’m only surprised that it’s not bigger.

Now that I think about it, I have one of those fans that you plug into your lighter sitting in the back of my van. I think I will pull it out of there this morning and put it in my car.

Judge Roy Pearson May Lose His Job

Remember Judge Roy Pearson? That’s the fool that sued for $54 million over the loss of his pants.

Well, he may now lose his job. It’s hard to be humble when you’re so darn stupid.

Updated 1-16-2008. I have done a bit of reading on the lawsuit against the dry cleaners. While Pearson may have had a small claim against them and a valid complaint, it certainly wasn’t worth the frivolous lawsuit. Here’s what Wiki has to say about it:

Pearson sued a D.C. dry cleaning establishment, Custom Cleaners, for over $67 million for the loss of a pair of pants. The pants were from one of several suits that Pearson had brought to Custom Cleaners to be cleaned in May 2005. When Pearson requested the suit two days later, the pants were missing. Pearson then asked to be refunded for the full price of the suit, $1,000. The cleaners refused and later asserted that they had found the pants a week later. Pearson claimed the pants were not his, stating “I haven’t worn pants with cuffs since the 1970s”, providing a photograph of all his (cuffless) pairs of pants as evidence.
Pearson rejected a later offer to settle the case for $12,000. D.C. Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz stated that “the court has significant concerns that the plaintiff is acting in bad faith.” However, because there was no motion to dismiss filed, the judge could not dismiss the case. He did, however, resolve some of the issues in the Chungs’ favor in response to their motion for summary judgment, which was filed at the close of discovery.
The owners of the business, South Korean immigrants Jin Nam Chung, Soo Chung and their son, Ki Chung, are reportedly considering moving back to South Korea. After an outpouring of support for the Chungs from members of the public, a website was set up to accept donations for the Chungs’ legal defense.
On May 30, 2007, Pearson reduced his demands to $54 million in damages rather than $67 million. Among his requests were $500,000 in attorney’s fees, $2 million for “discomfort, inconvenience, and mental distress”, and $15,000, which he claimed would be the cost to rent a car every weekend to drive to another dry cleaning service. The remaining $51.5 million would be used to help similarly dissatisfied D.C. consumers sue businesses. Pearson also re-focused his lawsuit from the missing pants to the removal of window signs for “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Same Day Service”. Pearson claimed the signs represented fraud on the part of the Chungs. The Chungs’ lawyer, Christopher Manning, alleged that the signs could only be considered fraud if a reasonable person would be misled by them, and that a reasonable person would not see the signs as an unconditional promise. The Chungs’ lawyer portrayed Pearson as a bitter, financially insolvent man; under questioning, Pearson admitted that, at the start of the court case, he had only $1000-2000 in the bank due to divorce proceedings, and was collecting unemployment.

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