These days, I am trying to
play Go. After a year (February 2004)
I have reached an "intermediate" level.
Speaking of Go books, I wrote a
review of the novel
La Joueuse de Go.
William Shubert's reference to nabbing
troublemakers led me to suspect that he is actually
an impostor and that his
real name is
Armin Tamzarian due to his obsession with
enforcing silly discipline.
But that is nothing compared to
Go Hell (click at your own risk!!).
I have since taken a break from Go and am now playing
the Korean game of Baduk.
On January 4, 2005, I finally reached 1 dan on the Korean server
Dashn .
Here is a Cyberoro game which was played on June 18, 2006.
I've heard that Linux is the best operating system and so the
best platform for playing Go. I've looked into this question,
see my Linux and Go page.
All of this inspired Catherine to write
The Mathta Rap and Linux to record
his
deep thoughts, where you can
hear him speak!!
Apart from that, my main interest for the last few decades has
been cycling, with some
very weird side effects (view at your own risk).
Last year, I had some experiences
trying to see the
arrival of the Tour de France. I also checked out the
arrival of the Grande Boucle Internationale, AKA
the Women's Tour de France.
Cycling in Paris pretty much sucks, so I have taken up
roller skating.
At my advanced age, it took me a long
time to
teach myself how to skate. You can also read about
my skates
Actually, I had to stop using those skates, because they didn't
give me enough support. I just got a new set of skates which are
much better and I've been enjoying skating again. You can
read about this skate
here.
Here I am with them in Hermosa Beach, California, September 2004.
Once, I tried out a Parisian group skate,
check out my story
Skates and Snails.
Watch out for those cobbles though! They are omnipresent
when you
learn to skate in Paris.
I like to hang out in Parisian cafes like the
Cafe de Flore. Here
is my buddy Bruno about to exercise his style on the nearest babes.
Otherwise you can find out more than you
would ever want to know about it on my
other web site
with its list of my deep thoughts on all types of topics.
For everything else see
foxycath.
Yes, Catherine is my wife of almost four years now, and we live in perfect
marital bliss in Paris with our virtual family,
Linux, Hedwig, Chilly Willy, and Jeanne.
On November 27, 2004, we adopted
Hedwige
a West Highland White Terrier. Read all about
her here. Here is Catherine holding her
for the first time
Catherine and I travel a lot. For example, we just took a trip to
Malta
I found "Little Wizard" in a discount shop in Valletta.
You may note the vague resemblance to Harry Potter, like the
glasses, robes, wand, and broom. But that's a complete
coincidence, the Harry Potter name
doesn't appear anywhere on the box. Speaking of which,
I later found myself in a recreation of Diagon Alley
That was on a recent trip to London, check
out the
pictures. Oh, and I am Canadian.
I have had some deep thoughts about the game of go, including how to
to deal with dirty books.
Amazingly, my
KGS rating has gone down since last February, but this consistent
with the
idiosyncratic nature of this server. I have now started playing
on the best server yet,
Cyberoro , which is also
based in Korea, but has 7 servers: 3 in Korea, 2 in China, 1 in Japan,
and 1 in Thailand.
Our latest adventure answers the question:
Is Paris nice? and will reveal who
is that
mysterious person
on his mobile phone talking behind that car. In 2005 returned
to the race with Hedwige
In 2005, we came back to the race, under much colder conditions
and with our dog Hedwige. See
this report.
