1080° Snowboarding is a 1998 Nintendo 64 game developed by Nintendo EAD. The game helped define extreme sports games by focusing on realistic physics, momentum, and trick execution rather than arcade style physics and button mashing. The title “1080°” refers to completing three full rotations in midair, a trick considered almost mythical at the time….
Things I Like: Wuthering Heights (2026 Film)
Wuthering Heights is a classic 19th century British novel by Emily Brontë. I had vaguely heard of it, but it’s definitely a story written more with a female audience in mind. My wife read the book in high school and automatically signed us up for tickets on Valentine’s Day. I was a little surprised I…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Snowboarding
Snowboarding’s modern form began in the 1960s. The sport grew from roots in skiing, surfing, and skateboarding. The very first snowboard precursor was called the Snurfer, combining the words snow and surfer. It was invented in 1965 by Sherman Poppen. The Snurfer was not originally a sporting tool but a backyard toy Poppen made for…
Our Foster Puppy Leo
Very recently, we decided to get a puppy for our family. A recent snowstorm sparked the idea because shelters were asking for foster families. The response was so successful that they actually ran out of dogs and puppies to foster. After that is when we came across Leo at the Greenville Humane Society. He was…
Fun Facts and Trivia About Meat
Humans have been eating meat for at least two million years, and early meat consumption is linked to brain growth in hominins. Cooking meat was a major evolutionary breakthrough because it made calories easier to digest and nutrients more available. Red meat is not red because of blood but because of myoglobin, a protein that…