Bam and Kerry did a bunch of skating tutorials for HowCast, here they are.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL81EAAE12CB0AD49C

Here's one of them

How to Skateboard with Bam Margera: Easy Tricks / How to Kickflip

(inb4 someone comments about Bam is fat)

you are a lazy fudge packer.

click the link

Most trick tips are vague and unhelpful, but that kickflip one was easily the most useless trick tip I've ever seen.

They tried to be cool, but really it was awkward. Like John Cardiel said " Sometimes you have to do stuff you don't want to do"
especially when your skateboarding profession is behind you. That being said I hope they got paid well for this.
They were once young living in a shoebox, dazed, eating pizza and smoking pot fellas.

http://youtu.be/c_MGLtTf_d0

Damn, no freak outs or board throwing from Kerry Getz. Was expecting one at least.

sup dave.

That photograph was taken in the fall of 2001, I believe the the photographer was an Albert Henken?
I can't be too sure, these years were turbulent and I was filming for Band of Brothers as you've heard of course,
the television miniseries is based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose.
It was a success but my performance was criticized by many top figures. This is all the past and have made remarkable
progression towards my fate and my existence. I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in
another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.
Let's not get too serious though fellas.


-Dave

I really appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule to talk to me Hercules.
As you know Ross was a geeky, fun loving guy, which really resembles who I am in person.
When I was growing up I also loved dinosaurs, so it was awesome to see Ross Gellar as a
Paleontologist. It really gave me the green light to become a diamond on screen.
My father used to tell me a story, one that I tell my daughter every night also. I'm gonna share
it with you all so you can too, pass it on to your children.
A long long time ago..
In a galaxy far far away..


When times were a splinter in thy toe. When the Athenians learned what happened at Thermopylae, they knew the road to Athens would be open to Persian invaders. Nearly everyone fled the city before Xerxes arrived.

Some years before, silver had been discovered near Athens. How would this new-found wealth be spent? Themistocles, the Athenian leader, insisted that his city-state must build-up its navy.  On the day Xerxes sacked their city, Athenians must have been greatly relieved at that decision. Most fled to the sea where, sitting in Athenian triremes, evacuees watched smoke rise from the acropolis.

Trusting their oracle, and their leader, Athenians gave up their city. Xerxes ordered Athens destroyed and burnt.  In their lighter and faster ships (this is a virtual battle scene) Athenians, fighting with others at the Straits of Salamis, had a chance to defeat the Persian navy.

Wishing to draw the Persians into a sea battle, Themistocles (it is said by Aeschylus and others) sent an ersatz messenger to tell Xerxes a tall tale. If he wanted to enjoy an easy victory, Xerxes should attack immediately since the Athenians were planning to leave Salamis by dawn. The Greeks, in other words, were reportedly running away.

Taking the bait, Xerxes and his fleet of slower ships sailed into the bay during the dark of night. By dawn the next morning, the Athenians had not left. Instead, they attacked. The Persian ships were trapped, thereby losing the naval battle in September of 480 BC. Thermopylae may have been a Spartan defeat, but it directly led to victory at Salamis. Soon thereafter, the Great King left Greece.

Although he was gone, Xerxes left behind an enormous amount of infantry. The Greeks wanted all-things Persian out of the country. On a plain at Plataea, where Persians could use their cavalry, Sparta took command of a huge, combined Greek army determined to force the invaders to leave Greece, once and for all.

Faking a retreat, Spartans - again - lured the Persians where they did not want to be. Then, using the phalanx - a large group of men tied together in a synchronized line - the Greeks fought mercilessly. It is difficult, from a distance, to comprehend the battle. Their shields were unbelievably heavy. Greeks fought until they were sixty years old, but it became difficult for some to hold their equipment. Heavy helmets would block the soldier's ears, making it difficult to hear.

In this Thermopylae-inspired stand, in 479 BCE, Greek forces stopped Xerxes (this is an animated battlefield) and his millions of troops from conquering, and subjecting, Greece. To the Persians, the loss was not that significant. What was Greece, given the size of Xerxes' empire? But to the Greeks, the victory at Plataea was huge. The Athenians marked that victory by creating the Parthenon, which remains one of the wonders of the ancient Greek world.

Wanting to rule themselves, most Greeks scorned Persian rule. Attempting to create equality of rights under the law, they did not want those rights stripped away. To be sure, not everyone was equal, and at least fifty percent of the people living in Athens were enslaved. But Greeks liked competition. They liked to argue. They liked competitive athletics.

Persians had a different way. They wanted a calm social order. They appreciated strength through solidarity. Each side condemned each other for their own ideals. But something significant was happening in Greece and, with the defeat of the Persians, a kind of Greek enlightenment could begin to flourish.

Greek thinkers were beginning to develop ideas. There had always been "medicine," but now we see a theory of medicine. There had always been politics, but now we see a philosophy of politics. Competition allows that type of explicit theory to take place. And while the theory of democracy develops against a background of slavery, at least those who are free begin to understand how important liberty is to one's life. As a stele called the "Daiva Inscription" - found at Persepolis - makes clear, democracy and Persian rule were incompatible:




Thanks for your time

-Dave

Dear Dave,

Minor correction here for you. NASA have in fact hatched birds in space, and they did not die.

Have a nice day

Hi again Dave,

Im sorry to hear about you unfortunate tanning experience. I am myself somewhat of an addict when it comes to artificial tans, and have found that a good dark spray tan compliments my silvery locks the best.

I was actually watching a documentary on the International Space Station when some footage from an earlier space flight revealed an astronaut petting a newly hatched chick. Although I was unsuccessful in relocating this clip, I have found some other sources documenting birds in space in various stages. Wikipedia tells of chicken embryos onboard the space shuttle Discovery during the mission STS-29(1) but no actual hatching. NASA themselves on the other hand, reports of Japanese quail birds hatched during space flights to the Russian space station MIR(2). I am no expert in neither fields, but it might just be another one of those avian myths that birds cannot survive in a microgravitational environment.

Good night!

1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space
2)http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/background/facts/adf.html