it's.......Paul's page

go to Paul Dent, Architect

hey, thanks for visiting! pardon the primitive design...i don't have that much free time. take a look, or go Google somewhere else:

my etc.:

bikes & cars

architecture page

housemate alpine

get yr endbush gear here

internet Radio page (and five star)

my photos (& europe '01)

costa rica, spring 2005 (and finca la colina)

party playlist, summer 2000

new! paul's surf photos

i use this as my personal portal, but you may find some of these sites interesting.

• listen to my launchcast station (IE only)
• surfpulse's free ocean beach cam view 1 view 2
• another free ob cam! from wavewatch
• surfline's ob cam
• ob tides
• yahoo! norcalsurfing
• bay area waverider
• blakestah's ob forecast
• stormsurf's nocal quickcast
• wetsand.com's quite awesome nocal multicast
• surf pedro point
• bay area wind speeds
• the tico times
• shark attacks international
• the west coast, from outer space
• recent earthquakes in california
• what time is it really?
• death by architecture
• ultimate band list
• metacritic
• trouser press record guide
• wikipedia
• the smoking gun
• urban legends
• famous quotations
• alternet
• craigslist
• best of craigslist
• my myspace
• ebay
• sodaconstructor
• the oakland athletics
• athleticsnation

boards are my favorite recreational vehicles. this is the new quiver (with the old retained for historic purposes). the 'new' longboard is a 9'6"stewart tri-fin. the semi-shortboard is a 7'8" pearson arrow. the snowboard is the lone holdover from the east bay days. it's a 163cm nitro storm. all deserve to be ridden with greater frequency...

if interested you can download

virtual tour of my former house in oakland *

* in its staged (i.e. inhabitable) condition. this is a ~400kb executable, for windows users only.

someday my site might look as good as these:

• dave quillin's page
• doug rowitch's page
• dan and andrea hoy's page
• rob devine's page

current weather in san francisco is

stop by again sometime--modifications appear occasionally.

you can email me at phd(AT)phdarch.net

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Albert Einstein

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
Samuel Butler

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.
George W. Bush, October 3, 2003

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