http://hoash.com homeslice or homepage? Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:38:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not a concept we really question much, there are plenty of sayings that seem to capture the concept of ‘home’ and sum it all up neatly. ‘Home is where the heart is’ is a popular one, it makes a lot of sense because ‘home’ is a feeling AND a ... http://hoash.com/?p=100 I was 8 years old when the Berlin wall came down. I remember sitting in my living room on Florence street glued to the TV, watching a crowd of people cheer for a man while he swung at the wall with a sledge hammer; I remember thinking in ... http://hoash.com/?p=99 I remember when I was in my senior year of high school and I went over to a friend’s place for the first time and found out he could play the guitar and pretty well; he was some somewhat of a hapless athlete and certainly ungifted in his studies so ... http://hoash.com/?p=98 A lot of people ask me why I moved to London after I tell them I was previously living in Los Angeles, which to them sounds like a beachfront paradise. Well, an hour and a half by plane and I had my answer: for a chance to do things ... http://hoash.com/?p=97 Here are some pictures from my Russian holiday at Aerograd Kolomna; it only took 3.5 hours to get from London to Moscow, and there I found a skydiving oasis... I ended up doing 34 jumps in 5 days, bringing my jump total to 141. [gallery=2] http://hoash.com/?p=95 As a birthday present to myself I treated me to a weekend of all-expenses-paid skydiving at Empuriabrava, a large town on the Northeast coast of Spain. While there I hired a freefly coach to help teach me to fly on my head and transition between the 4 main body ... http://hoash.com/?p=94 Skydive #93 Hinton Airfield, Northamptonshire England May 11th 2008 I guess the funny thing about this video is that I’m both proud and embarrassed about it at the same time. Proud because there are only a handful of people in the world who can do what I’m doing in this ... http://hoash.com/?p=86 [audio:LDN.mp3] I remember the first time I came to London, most of it at least. It was freshman year of college and I had taken an easy 2-credit course about English history that summated with a 10 day trip to London and the surrounding area. It was an honours ... http://hoash.com/?p=82 One of the common questions I get from the locals is “How are you finding London so far?” and they’re not asking how good my navigation skills are but rather how am I doing adapting to my new surroundings. I’ve been asked the question so many time that I’ve ... http://hoash.com/?p=80 (Listen to this while reading the below:) [audio:Sohigh.mp3] The thing that’s so unique about jumping off a helicopter is the fact that there is no ‘jumping’ involved. Jumping up could have disastrous consequences because of the spinning blades; in fact pushing off in any way is discouraged because it could shake ... http://hoash.com/?p=79