December 16th, 2016

My colleague who thought he held the unofficial record for consecutive months of skiing

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I’ve written about my colleague Danny before. He’s an accomplished skier, and one of the things he maintained was a tradition of going skiing at least once every month. He jokingly claimed that he held the unofficial record for consecutive months of skiing. A recent profile in the Seattle Times points out that this is a tradition he has been continuing for 23 years.

As the article notes, Danny thought he was the only person with such an unusual streak, until he discovered an entire community of like-minded skiers.

As the article notes, whether he holds the unofficial record for consecutive months of skiing is not really the point, because every skier sets their own criterion for what counts as a “day of skiing”.

As far as I’m concerned, he holds the record. Not that it really matters.

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Old New Thing
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Non-Computer

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Raymond Chen

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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