I was a body surfer and I thought, Wow, that was an incredible wave!

And then we went to a fish restaurant, and we had Chad, the surfer dude, serving us, and he came up and my mother said, Do you have any specials, young man?

Great design is a never ending journey of discovery for which it helps to pack a healthy sense of humor. Sociologist and surfer turned designer David Carson walks through a gorgeous slide deck of his work and found images.

Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that just maybe answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8 dimensional model of elementary particles and forces you've ever seen.

At the beach where I surfed today, I heard about a ceremony that had taken place there earlier in the season a farewell to a local surfer who had died at a ripe old age. His fellow surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.