Ryan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Laid-back guy in South Beach with a comfortable lifestyle and a lot of free time.
I spent a decade running as fast as I could in the computer nerd hamster wheel to get myself and my girl set up in a nice situation, and now I'm taking some time to enjoy life. I traded my keyboard for a kayak paddle and now I spend my afternoons on a twenty foot long carbon fiber toothpick imported from South Africa, riding ocean swells off of Miami Beach for miles at a time. You haven't surfed a wave until you've surfed a twenty-foot groundswell for two or three straight miles. Or a cruise ship wake.
I used to run a big nightlife web site until we sold it to a faceless corporation and now it's not my problem any more. Now going out is fun again just in time for season, wuhoo! You might run into me at the Marlin (Monday, Wednesday), the Victor, Opium (weekends), Noir Bar @ the Conrad (Friday), Doraku (every damned Friday for happy hour), skating down Lincoln, or on the weekends at Skin, Bliss or Velvet with my girl. Always looking for cool new people.

My Interests

Ocean surfski kayaking. Photography. Friendly women.

I'd like to meet:

Friendly women. Other chill guys who also love friendly women. People who throw parties for a living. People who emit music for a living. People who make porn for a living. Professional computer nerds. Hot female intellectual property attorneys. ... Did I already mention "friendly women"?

Music:

Deep house, Reggaeton, Florida breaks, 80's big-hair rock, dancehall, blues rock, urban, nujazz, crunk, zydeco. (read: "anything good") Andy Caldwell (bow), Miguel Migs, Marques Wyatt, Layo and Bushwacka!, Sasha, J.S. Bach, Massive Attack, Groove Armada, Daft Punk, Thievery Corporation, Air, Tosca, Cibo Matto, Krueder and Dorfmeister, Blue 6, Zero 7, RJD2, NiN, Kasabian, Goldfrapp, Hooverphonic, Orbital, Front 242, Rabbit In the Moon, Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, RHCP, Maroon 5, Federico Aubele, Les Claypool, Jaco Pastorius, Joss Stone, Mos Def, Will.I.Am, Kinky, Tego Calderone, Pitbull, Lil Jon, Motley Crue, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Linkin Park, Juanes, Angel Y Kriz, Maria Rita, Bebel Gilberto, DJ Patife, DJ Marky, Traktor, Ableton Live

Movies:

Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Napoleon Dynamite, Wild Orchid, Sex And Lucia, Y Tu Mama Tambien, ¡Atame!, El Mariachi, Amores Perros, Lost in Translation, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Run Lola Run, the Anamatrix, the City of Lost Children, Osama, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the Virgin Suicides, Garden State, the Graduate, Eon McKai, Evil Angel, Jules Jordan, Citizen Kane

Television:

Nip/Tuck, Entourage, The Office (UK and US), The Daily Show, Mun2, a3tv, 60 Minutes

Books:

The Rum Diary, Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Hyperion, Endymion, Exit To Eden, Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil, Time Enough for Love, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Player Piano, Skinny Dip, A Clockwork Orange, Illuminatus!, The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Bukowski, Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX (second edition), Freakonomics

Heroes:

My powerful, intelligent and sexy wife. For becoming her own boss and for appreciating my appreciation for affectionate women.

My Blog

Somebody please give that woman a cookie

Tuesday morning, I'm crunched in the fetal position, on my knees, with my face planted firmly into an emergency room examining table. That position doesn't help or anything, but every other position ...
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:25:00 PST

Gold medal: 2006 Sunshine State Games kayak marathon

Posted by Ryan on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:19:00 PST

Who writes those Wikipedia articles, anyway?

Floating around in the waters of the incomplete Isola di Lolando made me wonder what could have led to some real estate development company leaving such a huge and embarrassing failure just sitting th...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 07:01:00 PST

Unfinished Island; Miami Beach, FL

Between the Julia Tuttle Causeway and the Venetian Causeway near Miami Beach, there is a giant unfinished Venetian Island that's as big as Palm Island. The island was part of a project in the 1920's ...
Posted by Ryan on Wed, 31 May 2006 11:28:00 PST

Making new friends

I have some new friends. I spent most of the weekend out surfing boat wakes around Biscayne Bay near Miami beach on my surfski. I don't know any other people who are into surfing yacht wakes like I ...
Posted by Ryan on Mon, 15 May 2006 11:32:00 PST

Jogging On Water

Some of my friends who live near me in tall buildings see me working out on my surfski every day. I've been getting a lot of questions about what's going on. The most common question that I get is '...
Posted by Ryan on Sat, 06 May 2006 01:37:00 PST

You know you're in a red state when...

I was in a men's room by the highway in Mississippi last night and there was a vending machine on the wall that was selling "Freedom Ticklers".
Posted by Ryan on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:02:00 PST

Way too close to home

My favorite place on Earth right now is a shallow ledge on the North side of Government Cut, a hundred yards East of the pier at the South end of South Beach. Huge ground swell waves roll in from the...
Posted by Ryan on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 04:39:00 PST

Melancholy Elephants

When I was a nerdy little boy, I read a short story by Spider Robinson called "Melancholy Elephants" that stuck with me. A premonition of my appreciation for powerful, sexy, female intellectual prope...
Posted by Ryan on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:04:00 PST

Kiko & Ryan's 6th Annual Pumpkin-Carving Party!

Posted by Ryan on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 06:48:00 PST