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The KSD is the result of a brainstomring session with some frineds during a New Year's party for 1994/95. Some of the friends there that participated in coming up with the concept are Sara (who hosted the party), Mary, Kate, Gene and myself. It was all supposed to be a joke, and was heavy influenced by the '60s surf movies. Needless to say, I decided to take it seriously and have a lot of fun with it.

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The Kahuna is a character I created at the inseption of the KSD nearly 10 years ago. I began writing about the Kahuna's exploits a few years later, and this is now manifesting itself in the ongoing Kahuna Logs.

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Well, Kerry could be construed as a Klingon name, with that "K" sound so popular with Klingons, however, he's a Feddie sheep who thinks he can out surf anybody on the Galactic Surfing Circuit. In reality, Fliiper Kerry is a bigger poser than Capt. Gremmie.

The introduction of Flipper Kerry adds a dimension of politcal satire to the Kahuna Logs, so expect him to stick around for the rest of the election season.

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I started this site as a hobby, and it remains such to this day. It originally started out as "Sqotty MacKlingon's Engine Room" back in August of 1995. To the best of my knowledge, I was one of the first Klingon sites (though not the first) on the WEB. It was mainly oriented to the activities of the San Francisco Bay Area KAG ships. Eventually, I renamed the site to the IKV Kowabunga of the Klingon Surfer Dudes and made it more non-club affiliated, although I an active member in KAG, currently on board the IKV Rakehell out of Minneapolis.

Next the site became a news and community forum for Trek and SF fans in general, and Klingon Fandom in particular. After eliminating forums and focusing on blogging, the site became more of a place for my musings, and convention reports.

Election year 2004, the site has taken on a political slant, and yes, I am a Bush supportor today, just as I was in 2000. I am not sure if politics will continue to be a part of the blog, however, since I was recently elected to office, it could happen. I am also becoming more active in the political scene, and being informed on the issues is of great importance. As such, I am using this as a forum to exercise my First Amendment Rights.

To this day, this site remains a hobby. So if you don't see anything new on it for a few days at a time, it's probably because I am busier than all get out with work, the dogs, the house, or pursuing one other interests.

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Sure, if you provide a reciprical link on your front page, or on your blog role. Send me an email at thansen "the good ol' AT sign" kowabunga DOT org.

That being said, I won't link to sites that provide "adult content" (porn), and other sites whose content I find objectionable.

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Comments should not contain profanity, or make comparisons of American's to evil, totalitarian, mass-murdering dictators.

I've implemented the use of Haloscan for managing comments so as to eliminate the need for readers to register with (and login to) the Kowabunga site.

Comment spamming, in other words, injecting advertising into comments on Kowabunga.org is strictly forbidden.

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Trackback capability is provided by Haloscan.com. Trackback is a neat technology to extend discussions on topics around the blogosphere. Unfortunately, php-nuke doesn't have that built in, thus the need to incorporate it using a third party source.

If you want to set up a trackback link, then the you must reference back to the kowabunga.org site. Failure to do so will result in the trackback being deleted. Also, I reserve the right to delete trackback links that contain undo profanity or makes comparisons of American's to evil, totalitarian, mass-murdering dictators.

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The Klingon Cup and Daggers was designed by Chuck Elauria (K'Chuck, better known as Slimey, short for Denibian Slime Devil) for my ship, the Kahlua, back in the Bat Area. However, the ship ended up dry docked shortly after Chuck was killed in an auto accident. He was a fine illustrator, and he is greatly missed by Klingon Fandom.

Photos are predominately mine, and I have made some of the other graphics used on the site.

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There is a common misconception about the designation of the .org top level domain being only for non-profit organizations. The RFC that defined the original TLDs, including the .org designation, stated that .org was a miscellaneous TLD for any domain that does not fit into any of the other categories. Check out the original RFC-1591 document for details.

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