The Wisconsin Skier

You may have heard of the Dancing Bears aniconic set of bears associated with the Grateful Dead. Well, I am working on putting them into ski gear!

It is a fair amount of drudgery, but it is funny how labors of love (an oxymoron) do not seem like drudgery but you keep pushing on and driving on till you reach your goal. I want to add boots and perhaps actual skis rather than the black lines I drew. Still I like it! Also, I am using images I captured and modified for a java applet I wrote around 15 or so years ago!

I took a scan of the bumper sticker, isolated each bear, and smoothed out the edges (in some cases pixel by pixel), and then cloned and colored the bears. So, each color set had one bear in each dance step. I then coded up a java applet to put the bears through their dance steps.

As you can see, I have other plans for the Dancing Bears. What I really need is larger images, the one above is 55 pixels square and a lot of detail gets lost when ski gear gets scaled down from let us say 200×250 to 20×25!

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Another version of the Olympic Theme Song (aka Bugler’s Dream) by MasterSchema:

Thank you MasterSchema for allowing me to use the video!

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More old material from the old site. I heard of a “grass skiing” competition and developed a top ten list for comments heard at that. Enjoy.

Here are the top ten comments heard at the International Grass Skiing Competition recently held in Iran.
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Are you obsessed with skiing? Read the top signs and see how many of them apply to you!
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Obviously, I strongly discourage you from doing this. Similarly, I would not suggest jumping into shark infested waters with a giant hook stuck through your mouth, nor would I suggest sitting in a limo full of angry bees and surrounded by marbles, etc. Still it is funny!

Hat tip to Gadling and to @SkiingExaminer via Twitter.

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If you have spent any time on any ski hill you will come to understand there is a set role of characters on the hill.

Here is a not quite comprehensive listing of the characters we find on a typical ski hill.
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With one exception our ski team did not do too well at the Turin Olympics. Here were some of the excuses heard. (more…)

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Here are the top ten reasons we ski in the Upper Midwest. Some may call them rationalizations, you be the judge!
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Here I will write posts with an attempt to be humorous. Some of them will be fictional and some will be based on reality.

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