Wingsuit flyer Jeb Corliss crashed after jumping off Table Mountain, Cape Town on Monday. It appears he broke both legs/ankles depending on where the info is coming from. Predictably, the hate has begun to spew forth from various uninformed commentators. Um, let's hold up a second here. He was trying to fly! That is right, Jeb has pretty much devoted his life to the art of human flight. Being the first to jump and land without a chute is one of his chief aims. That is awesome!

My boys over at CERN running the LHC (Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator for all you still struggling with the rudiments of particle physics) are hunting for something nicknamed the "God particle". Um, yeh, also awesome.

What am I doing? While not anywhere near as rad as Jeb or as gnarly as chasing a phantom particle, having a crack at paddling the longest river on each continent is my little bit of awesome.

What are you doing to be awesome? Anything? Something, that might just make people say, "Duuuude!". If not, why not? Of course you don't have to fling yourself off of mountains or get a Ph.D in high energy physics from MIT. You just have to do something with passion! Do something that you love with every ounce of power at your disposal. Do this and no matter what, soon enough, the awesomeness will come.

If you think you might need help you can contact The Awesome Foundation who give out $1000 grants for awesomeness. No, I am not kidding!

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