This photo brought back memories of the one time moiself and the Shews rented kayaks at Deep Cove near Vancouver.
I assisted Marceline at the Cirque du Soleil auditions in Kamloops recently. She and I were together at the NCAA Women’s Collegiate Gymnastics Championships in Florida this Spring, too.
My brother feels his friend Robert J. Sawyer from Toronto could win another Nebula or Hugo for his WWW trilogy: Wake, Watch, Wonder.
SUPERB.
Thought provoking. Smart. Yet accessible to all ages.
The protagonist is a believable teen girl.
REVIEW by C. Baker:
… WWW: Watch is the second novel of a trilogy about an artificial intelligence, or consciousness that emerges from the World Wide Web.
In the previous novel , WWW: Wake, Catlin Decter, a brilliant 15 year old blind girl is given sight through experimental technology in the form of an implant that interprets visual signals correctly and allows her to see (in her left eye at least). Through this device she discovers a presence in the Web that starts to gain greater and greater cognitive abilities, which grows as the second novel progresses. She dubs it Webmind.
In Watch, we watch as Webmind not only develops cognitive abilities exponentially, but through the help of Catlin begins to develop its sense of ethics and, without being too maudlin, an understanding of “the meaning of life.” This novel is primarily about this development, along with government agencies trying to figure out how to shut Webmind down, fearing it will become so powerful it will destroy mankind. …
The “story” of this book is that the author feels it’s the strongest of the three. The middle book of trilogy is normally the weakest.
read my review of Book 1 in the trilogy – Wake.
Doncha think?
For Christmas he gave his girlfriend Val the gift of “… doing anything you want with my hair“.
I’m going to complete the Triple Crown myself and get my name on the Glory Board.
3 hikes
up to 55km
2650m elevation gain
I can’t resist. Waterton is the best kept secret in Canadian hiking. Tourists flock to Banff in the Rockies, leaving Waterton National Park to us local insiders.
… Crypt Lake (9km), Akamina Ridge (20km) and the Alderson-Carthew Summit (16km) in one summer.
I’ll do the 3 during one trip, I think. Either end of June. … Or in August.
I’ve done Crypt and Alderson-Carthew in the past. But never Akamina. It looks great.
Details on ExperienceWaterton.com.
Leave a comment if you want to use the Triple Crown challenge as an excuse to get your butt to Waterton.
Shout out for our accommodation at Thompson Rivers University.
Not only is the best University residence I’ve ever seen, it’s one of the best University hotels.
I score it 10 / 10.
Yesterday I rode up the elevator chatting with coach Wally Buono. The B.C. Lions football team has just arrived for Training Camp.
… I’m loving the University, too.
Ha, Global Snowing deniers. Take this.
May 29th, 2010. Bragg Creek, Alberta.
This was the most snow on that date for that location for 6000 years!
If it continues at this rate, the town will be buried 700 feet deep in snow by 2012.
Thanks Jude.
Rick McCharles 