Theoretically Rad

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On HelmetCast 24
The plan is to flimsily finish filming footage for my fantastic freeriding edit this weekend. Expect food theft, tram lines, nose picking and gangster rap with just the slightest amount of skiing-

On Being Super Rad & Famous 4EVA
From the University of Utah Ski Blog

Jake Kirshner, editor-in-chief, publisher and founder of the world-renowned blog JakeCast, has been electrifying Internet audiences with his powder-packed POV video romps down the gnarliest of Wasatch descents since 2007. That’s the year Jake made his way from the Bay area of California to the towering mountain peaks of Utah and began his college career at the University of Utah.

While Jake is not quite as well known as his U of U classmates Tom Wallisch and Grete Eliassen, he does flat-out rip it on the hill, as evinced by not only his JakeCast episodes but also his participation in big mountain comps such as the Freeskiing World Tour and the U.S. Freeskiing Championships.

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Pictures from P. Buddy:

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Video soon. Maybe?
Jake

On Being Underground

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If you’re reading this (hi grandma) it means you’ve probably already seen countless other websites publish trip report after trip report showcasing Utah’s unbelievable early season snowpack.
“Oh my lord, more snow has fallen in the last week in Little Cottonwood than every year since Dinosaurs roamed the earth combined.” (or if you’re LDS, since Joseph Smith hid Dinosaur bones here 6,000 years, I guess)
“It is so deep the Snowbird tram had to have a trench dug underneath it to make it up hidden peak.”
and blah, blah, blah.

Tough day to keep studying.

At this point you’re probably thinking I’d some rad video footage of the mayhem that has occurred over November or at least some pictures, right? WRONG.

I’m here to tell you that I’ve finally seen the light. Skiing is immature, sucks and is generally self-indulgent. You know what is better than skiing? Assembly code programming. You know what feels better than a powder day? x86 jump-and-link statements.

JakeCast. Now with more censorship than WikiLeaks.

Ya, that’s right. After being rejected by Microsoft, Ski Utah and just about every other company that has failed to recognize pure awesomeness I’ve decided to revamp the JCDC as an all programmer’s code reference blog.
This site will stand the test of time in every nerd’s favorite folder next to sites like StackOverflow, cpluplus and CodingHorror.
Ski HelmetCasts will be replaced by time lapse footage of adderall-assisted 13 hour marathon coding sessions in the Cade lab set to the audio recordings of my melodious voice reciting the latest phrack magazine articles.
I’ve got my fingers crossed for a Cheetos sponsorship.

Fear not this change, but embrace it. It’s a brave new world out there and my code will get you more stoked than any flat light helmet-cam hucking ever could.

My bad recursion written in assembly code.  Good way to put me in a crazy home.

sub $sp, $sp, 12
sw $ra, 0($sp)

lw $t1, 0($s3)
add $t1, $t1, 1
sw $t1, 0($s3)

#print recursion depth string
li $v0, 4 #Print string
la $a0, NewLineString
syscall

li $v0, 4
la $a0, RecursionDepthString
syscall

lw $t1, 0($s2)
li $v0, 1 # Print out N
la $a0, 0($t1)
syscall

li $v0, 4
la $a0, ColonString
syscall

#print ‘n’ number of ‘x’s
li $t7, 0

PrintLoopOne:
bge $t7, $t1, SetValues

li $v0, 4 #Print string
la $a0, XString
syscall

add $t7, $t7, 1

j PrintLoopOne

#print new line
li $v0, 4 #Print string
la $a0, NewLineString
syscall

SetValues:

#set value statements
lw $t1, 0($s2)

#set i
li $t2, 0
add $t2, $t1, 5
sw $t2, 0($s0)
sw $t2, 4($s6)

#set k
li $t0, 0
sub $t0, $t1, 6
sw $t0, 8($s6)

#set j
li $t5, 0
add $t5, $t1, 1
sw $t5, 0($s1)

…Ah, I’m just kidding. Don’t get so bent out of shape.

Truth is due to school and surgery (mostly school) I’ve only managed to ski 3 times this year (vs. the 20+ days I’ve had by this time in years past). I made some poor choices in regards to my class schedule this fall and it has seriously hindered my JCDC-related shenanigans. This spring should not be so bad so hopefully I’ll be able to actually do something fun again.

Screw skiing, now I plead to Ullr to bring in a storm to let me breathe.

On the positive note, the air in Salt Lake positively sucks right now, which makes being stuck in the library at 8:30p on a Sunday slightly more bearable. I’m helping the situation by not driving my car up LCC this weekend. All you selfish skiers are part of the problem, driving your gas-guzzling Subarus up and down Highway 210 in pursuit of powder.
Join me in making patchouli oil and playing hackey sack here at the U and I can share some of the knowledge I gained by growing up in the suburbs of San Francisco. I’m in my early 20s so I know, like a lot, about stuff and things.

Easy day to keep studying and never go outside or breathe.
Just like being back in San Francisco. Except the fog is poison.

Fondly missing the days in third grade when all I’d do is sniff glue through a tube and play rubik’s cube.*
Jake

*stolen. i’ll be back soon with some ski footage in addition to these eminem lyrics soon enough.

Always Wax Your Skis With Real Butter

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I do not know how much red bull it takes to cure knee swelling from a two week old surgery scar, but I’m damn sure going to find out. I feel I must, in the name of science.

The best guidebook.

It is starting to feel like the right time of year to arrive at the lab in all your ski gear and try and convince your TA that you are, in fact, really serious about coding and that you only own bright ski pants because you get extremely cold even in the WEB and are afraid of the the UofU campus officers on segways hitting you if you only wear jeans.

Whatever. Skiing is for dorks.