From the: "Umm, No Thanks" File

I remember in Austin when these things got pretty popular, like a start-up company was taking a chance--and scoring, it seemed--on this, the least-fun looking water-recreational object:

Yup. That's a famous "Stand Up Paddle-board". The name of the company in Austin was something like "SUP" or "SUP Homies".

It's like a surfboard that you can't surf with...well, somebody surely can, but they're wider and shorter because they're designed to be stood-upon.

And it looks like he's sweeping. That's the paddle. This, though, isn't a slow moving area of the Colorado River named City Lake during a bulge in downtown Austin; this is the Pacific Ocean, and this guy isn't exactly right on the shore.

In my current state standing itself is finally shedding itself of the "iffy" characteristics that it exhibited just a few weeks ago, but balancing on a thin sheet of fiberglass on the ocean doesn't appeal to me. I bet, though, you can get some good looks at things under the water. If only there was something invented that could get you just as close (and maybe even a little closer) to the water, but where you could be sitting. 

Yeah, like on the crowded A-train, sitting trumps standing everyday.