I write... occasionally

Here's a collection of 643 pieces of nonsense that I've felt the need to journal about over the past 22.72 years.

Premier Snowskates

Snowskates? They're not skiboards like you might think... they're basically skateboards that you take in the snow. I have been talking to Premier lately and they're letting me demo their product. They sent me JP Walker's model, which is pimp. It's 38 inches long and 8 inches wide, a little longer than a skateboard but a lot shorter than a snowboard. Your feet also don't clip into it in any way, which allows you to do kickflips, shove its and all that. They're not really for going down steep slopes at resorts. More for messing around in your backyard (jibbing), which all of us like to do! heh.

I'm kinda mad cause we don't have any snow, but i've played around with it in my room, it ollies a lot better than i thought, and manual's …

New Design

What up. If you haven't already noticed, I've redesigned the site. But since it's completely different... you probably noticed. I changed the color scheme from blue, red, and grey to green and grey. Also, the logo at the top loads random pictures... On the home page, it's all pictures of me, and other pages have other random pictures. cool eh? :) Anyway, let me know what you think!

Updates

I added some pictures to the people section, so feel free to check those out. And if you noticed that there has been an error when trying to post comments lately... It's fixed now.

Also look out for a video coming soon. My roommate (Kevin Switzer) made his first music video, and I got to help out with the production of it. It's pretty cool, I'll feature it on here when it's complete.

It has been unveiled

What is it? If you haven't heard, IT has been talked about since january 10, 2001. No one knew what it was except for a select few, who were sworn to secrecy. All anyone knew is that it was supposed to be some sort of revolution in personal transportation. It was unveiled this morning on "Good Morning America." It is a two wheeled "scooter type" vehicle, but the wheels are on the sides, rather than on the front and rear. The rider also does not need to push off in any way. Just step on, and lean the direction you want to go. It speeds up and slows down the more you lean. What keeps it from tipping over? It contains gyros on the inside that spin around so rapidly, it cannot tip over. It can even stand upright without the rider …

microsoft's x-box

playStation2, GameCube, and X-box.... you know what I think? I think Microsoft can leave this market alone. Why do they need to take over something else? I mean sure, the graphics and things are incredible... but what happens if everyone buys the x-box? There won't be any more diversity or choice, you will have to buy microsoft games and have to play them on a microsoft system. This means all the classics will die.

I think that sony and nintendo should keep things going. Nintendo has been around since the beginning, NES, SuperNES, N64, and now GameCube. They are all excellent systems, and there are SO many classical games for these systems. Sony came into the picture a little late, but came out with some killer games. They have …

frowny face to the max...

My car got put into the garage for the winter :-(. i took my system out and it's setting in my room, not getting used, poor thing. i guess it's better though because it can't get stolen, and i won't risk ruining my car in the snow.

One good thing... I got a new snowboard this weekend and I'm ready for the season! I just bought a 99 salomon 154, it came with some really nice salomon freestyle bindings... but I don't have freestyle boots so I stuck my switch bindings on it for now. I can't wait to bust it out this winter! so, I guess it sucks that I have to put my car away... but at the same time, I get to pull out my board. eh, lose one thing and gain another.

my board n boots

I'm a cop

Ok, so I've come to the conclusion that the little LED lights on my hood are not legal. Pictured here.

Here's the story... Tonight I was driving out of Subway with my buddy Jeff with my LEDs on. There was a car in front of me who slowed way down, signaled, and pulled off the side of the road... My buddy Jeff starts crackin up and yells Dude! You just pulled someone over!, and then i shut my lights off and drove away...

Broox Extreme is up!

I have my newest site, Broox Extreme up. It is now broox.com (which bumped this to derek.broox.com). I've added it to my portfolio section and gave a breif description of it. Be sure to check it out.

Other than that, life is going pretty good. I've almost got my car paid for, I'm learning spanish, and i'm single.... sweeeet.

Updates!

There have been quite a few changes to this site. First of all the URL has changed... kinda. To get to this site you have to go to derek.broox.com instead of just broox.com. broox.com is a new project of mine, basically it's going to be a huge extreme sports website. On top of that, I've done some more work to my car and put pictures of it up here. Some pretty big changes actually... And I've also added pictures to the People section. So be sure to check that out as well.

Car pictures

Alright, I updated the Cars section of my website. It now has some decent pictures of the car and a few mods I've made. You might notice that my sub box is a little rustic looking... but that's because i am in the process of building a box for 2 - 12" JLs. Pictures of that will be up as soon as I'm done.

EXTREME SPORTS

Do you skateboard, snowboard, inline skate, ride bmx, soap, or ride scooters? If you do any of these things and love doing it... let me know. Comment on this section along with what sport you're part of, and include your email address. This could be huge.
Peace.

NYC - world trade center tragedy

"HEY. Im still ok. And I will be because Im going to Long Island today to stay there until I can leave. Its weird here....nobody is out on the streets, and this morning we couldnt get to this one building we needed to go to because there were men with machine guns surrounding it. Cops on every corner....but no people on the street. I hate this place and need to get out of here....I'll talk to you tonight. And I miss you."

As of yesterday, the World Trade center is gone... both buildings. Whoever did this is going down. watership.org for more info.



go-peds... so much fun

Hey all, I just got a new toy yesterday. You probably know I'm into the extreme sport scene, and like to have all the toys. Well, I just ordered a Know-ped which is a scooter made by go-ped. It's not like those piddly little Razor scooters you all see. This is some heavy duty stuff! They don't flip over when you hit a rock, you dont have to stay on pavement, they have front brakes, etc. I suggest you all check them out, it's one of the cooler things I've ever bought. They even make motorized scooters! I watched the pro team in Milwaukee, and they pull some pretty hardcore stuff on these bad boys. Check out www.goped.com, also check out www.knowped.com to see some tricks n stuff.

Class

So, classes start at Cornell today, yes on labor day. I have a pretty cool class too, Writing for Television. It doesn't start until 1:00 pm... which means, I have all morning to work on websites (if i wake up early). Anyway, my full time job got cut back to like 1.5 hours a day because of classes, which is very cool. Hopefully there will be lots of progress on all my sites now.

chickety china

jill - "what did you guys do for lunch?
kevin - "chickety china the chinese chicken, grab a drum stick and your brain starts tickin"
jill - "we dont have drum sticks here, do we?"

Porfolio... updated again

I've been real busy lately, hence the lack of updates on this site, and on brooksfsw.com. But I haven't been just sitting around doing nothing. I've got 1 new website and 2 new databases done, and I just added them to the portfolio. So check them out, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

confused?

hey guys... i'm kinda confused about something. this is my website right? i mean, my name is in the upper left hand corner and all... sure it's spelled wrong, but that is my last name, right? and we're sure this is my website? oh, that's a picture of me on the front page too... it's gotta be my site. ok, just makin sure.

Fart

Today while kevin and I were working... we walked into the campus library to work on a computer. As soon as we walk in the door, kevin just tears this huge fart out... and the librarian turned around and started staring at us. So i just turned at him and yelled "DUDE!"... but he didn't care, we both just laughed and couldnt stop. We walked the entire way accross the 3rd floor, while I was embarrassed as all heck... and the librarian was just staring at us as we were laughing real loud.

...I guess the moral of the story is... people that fart, suck.