Archive for November, 2006
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Canadian Cyclocross championships 2006: Women’s Elite
I was asked to drop by Nanaimo and shoot some video a few weeks ago, since the Canadian national CX championship races were being held there. Far too late, here’s the first video output. Lynne Lyne Bessette versus Wendy Simms! An epic battle for the women’s Canadian Cyclocross Championship. The two of them were within […]
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Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
So, how was your weekend?
First, I should apologize to everyone in the hotel: that was our dog who decided, against all past history, that every thump in the night needed to be barked at. Thanks, dog. Second, the weekend was off the hook. You’re going to see film of Saturday’s cyclocross nationals shortly, but I’m here to tell you […]
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Thursday, November 9th, 2006
Funniest fake cycling news ever
From The Onion: Over-Competitive Lance Armstrong Challenges Cancer To Rematch. I often think the funniest thing about Onion articles is the headline, but in this case the article strikes a perfect balance between horribly tasteless and pitch-perfect hilarity. Of course, the meta-joke is that the over-competitive Armstrong is famously Blackberry-addicted to egosurfing himself. Unless he […]
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Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Stewed Thoughts
Somehow, I want to call the Web 2.0 era the Age of Refactoring. In many ways, I think what is going on, technologically, is that this is the era of stuff that mostly works, mostly correctly, most of the time. I theorize that mash-up culture is a lot about maximizing the value of the present […]
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
Training advice for the young novelist
I’ve liberated this from its original home in the comments on this post by Wyn. Most of the inside jokes are literary-exercise jokes. The only other useful bit of background info is that Wyn just ran her first marathon this year. Remember that writing a novel, the marathon of literature, is all about the training. […]