Archive for July, 2005
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
Numbers game: Ten Thousand Hours
How long does it take to get good? To maximize your potential in an endeavour? ten thousand hours. If you’re going to be world-class, you’ll be world-class after that much practice. And if not? Well, you’ll be as good as you can be.
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
Self-Transformation and You
I suspect I’ve made it clear at one point or another on Wired Cola, but I’m a reasonably fit, pretty serious competitive cyclist. That was not true as recently as 2002, when I was no more than a guy who rode a bike to work sometimes. More notably, until the Fall of 2001 I was […]
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Fun with Primes
Holy moly. I won the prime sprint in last night’s Tuesday Night training crit, which means I have won prime sprints in each of the last three crits I have entered. And adding glory to glory, I managed to pick up third place in the finish, too, and teammate John, after doing colossal amounts of […]
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Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Danica McKellar, Paul Erdös, and a twist ending
Viva Forteanism! Danica McKellar, most famous as Winnie from The Wonder Years, is more than just a pretty face. It turns out she studied mathematics in university, and even published a pretty serious mathematical paper. I won’t examine the details (because I can’t), but here’s the best question from her Stuff Magazine interview: After the […]
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Cycling: Lance and I are on fire
Well, let’s be clear: he is cruising to victory in the greatest bike race in the world, I’m showing remarkable power and ability in local low-category racing. But qualifiers aside, let’s talk about Lance Armstrong first: He’s a machine. Having simply done enough to devastate his rivals by having only good days in the mountains […]
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Friday, July 15th, 2005
It’s The Lovely One’s birthday
Happy Birthday to The Lovely One! Birthday wishes to rsaloust at hotmail dotcom. Hopefully, the deck box waiting for her on the back patio will be exactly what she wanted. Tonight we go out to Wild Rice, and then for a little light Shakespeare.
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
Tour de France: Get ready for Saturday
Okay, the big guns have been quiet since Tuesday, if you’re interested in the GC. Friday isn’t much more important, and should be another day where Discovery just holds down the fort while GC no-hopers (is that too technical? What I mean is a rider who has lost so much time on earlier stages that […]
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Waterbug?
DSCN2720.JPG Originally uploaded by rcousine. This is The Lovely One’s favourite shot. It’s the same bug, on the same Bug (The Good Thing).
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
Does this bug you?
DSCN2732.JPG Originally uploaded by rcousine. A beetle (a ladybug, really) on the New Beetle.
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Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
DSCN2713.JPG
DSCN2713.JPG Originally uploaded by rcousine. This is our new dog, in an unusually big-nosed mood.