July 20th, 2007

Apparently some people consider this a vacation; I consider it insane

One of the little cards that came in the STP information packet is an advertisement postcard for Epic Cycling Climbs of France. For $3299 (+airfare) you receive the “privilege” of cycling up the Alpe d’Huez and other notorious mountains. I’m sorry. If I’m going to go up l’Alpe D’Huez you’re going to have to pay me, not the other way around.

(Then again, I paid to ride my bicycle from Seattle to Portland, so obviously I’m a little insane already. I’ve already taken the first steps in progressive insanity; maybe they were just showing me where I was headed if I didn’t watch my step. Sort of like those anti-smoking ads.)

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Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.

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