Check out this video of what is now being called one of the great goals in the history of ice hockey, courtesy of our long-time Ann Arbor hockey and sailing bud Paul Helber. It was scored by Russian rookie Alexander Ovechkin during the Washington-Phoenix NHL game the other night....
May take some seconds to buffer depending on the speed of your
connection.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Public Servants
One of our search engines returned this tidbit to my email this morning, from an article that appeared in the Ann Arbor News last month (Thursday, 22 December):
Both Thomas Ehman and David Moody were reappointed to the Portage-Base Lakes Sewer Board, with terms ending Dec. 31. 2009.
That, of course, is Grandpa Tom, a.k.a. Tom Sr., and long-time family friend Dave Moody, both PYC racers and, for that matter, past commodores and current members of the Race Committee.
While we are at it, we recently learned that Tom Sr. was awarded the club's Thomas Lott Trophy, which recognizes outstanding service to the club. It was not the first time he received the award, but an unprecedented third time. The first was in 1971, then 1988 and now for the 2005 season -- or every seventeen years. Age 72 and still going strong, perhaps we can expect another win at age 89 in 2022? (but only if he lets Ruth choose the background music in the club's restaurant!) Nice going, Dad.
Congratulations, too, to Dr. Moody, recipient of the Club's 2005 "Sportsperson of the Year" award.
Portage (center) and Base (top) Lakes. Top of the photo is northeasterly.
Not the first time we've run this photo, a favourite, here on the EFB. The 18' Interlake (above) along with the 19' Flying Scot are the two most popular classes racing on Portage Lake. Commodores Ehman, Sr. and Moody are both long time and successful Interlake-class racers.
Both Thomas Ehman and David Moody were reappointed to the Portage-Base Lakes Sewer Board, with terms ending Dec. 31. 2009.
That, of course, is Grandpa Tom, a.k.a. Tom Sr., and long-time family friend Dave Moody, both PYC racers and, for that matter, past commodores and current members of the Race Committee.
While we are at it, we recently learned that Tom Sr. was awarded the club's Thomas Lott Trophy, which recognizes outstanding service to the club. It was not the first time he received the award, but an unprecedented third time. The first was in 1971, then 1988 and now for the 2005 season -- or every seventeen years. Age 72 and still going strong, perhaps we can expect another win at age 89 in 2022? (but only if he lets Ruth choose the background music in the club's restaurant!) Nice going, Dad.
Congratulations, too, to Dr. Moody, recipient of the Club's 2005 "Sportsperson of the Year" award.
Portage (center) and Base (top) Lakes. Top of the photo is northeasterly.
Not the first time we've run this photo, a favourite, here on the EFB. The 18' Interlake (above) along with the 19' Flying Scot are the two most popular classes racing on Portage Lake. Commodores Ehman, Sr. and Moody are both long time and successful Interlake-class racers.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Coin of Life
Nice quote offered up by Scuttlebutt Europe this morning, which is equally true for an America's Cup team:
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -- Carl Sandburg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -- Carl Sandburg
Monday, January 9, 2006
Cornering the Market
"Mom bought a surprise for you, Dad," Meg said as they walked into the house this evening with a plastic bag from the local supermercado. "She bought out the entire store."
As you will have guessed, cottage cheese is a bit difficult to find in Spain, at least in our little pueblo called Puzol ("poo THOL"). Even more so this evening, after Leslie literally cornered the local cottage cheese market.
Now for a nice, yummy (hey, good Scrabble word!) cottage cheese and tomato salad just prepared by Leslie....
LOL, obviously too much time on our hands if we are blogging about cottage cheese! Truth is, we needed to check an improved audio technique for posting with video. Seems to be much better now, compared to the clicking and clacking we had with the basketball video.
As you will have guessed, cottage cheese is a bit difficult to find in Spain, at least in our little pueblo called Puzol ("poo THOL"). Even more so this evening, after Leslie literally cornered the local cottage cheese market.
Now for a nice, yummy (hey, good Scrabble word!) cottage cheese and tomato salad just prepared by Leslie....
LOL, obviously too much time on our hands if we are blogging about cottage cheese! Truth is, we needed to check an improved audio technique for posting with video. Seems to be much better now, compared to the clicking and clacking we had with the basketball video.
Friday, January 6, 2006
Hoops
Last year in 7th grade my best friend got me to try out for the U14 (under fourteen) Girls' Basketball Team. I had never played basketball let alone been on a team, and didn't think I would get in. The tryouts were tough. The girls in my class were really good.Very, very fortunately there were 12 places on the team and 13 girls tried out and the 13th wasn't interested in being on the team. She just wanted to participate and learn
to play "B-ball". This meant that everyone who wanted to get in, got on the team. I was really happy. I wasn't very good until the end of the season. Then our coach said that, if we wanted to, we could continue playing basketball, not as a team, but as an afterschool activity. So we did, and I think that's when I started to get pretty good, and to really enjoy it.
Unfortunately, there aren't any teams for girls here in Puzol. Strangely, my art teacher at Caxton asked if anyone was interested in playing basketball, but he hasn't said anything since. I asked if he had a place to play, but he said he would tell us when he knew more. That was two or three months ago, and nothing more to report. :(
In the meantime I will play one-on-one with my dad and my my favorite Christmas present -- our new backyard b-ball net. It's not as fun as with a team but I'm just glad he has time to do it. Its hard to concentrate when I'm dribbling, though, because he makes me laugh! I don't want to lose whatever basketball skills I have left from my old school, so I'm glad I have the net to practice with every other day or so!
-- Meg
Tuesday, January 3, 2006
Video Comes to the EFB
[Revised - Wed 4 Jan 06]
We have seen the future and it is...video.
My Nokia N70-1 phone has a 2 megapixel camera and a VGA video cam built in. It is also one of the first 3G (wireless broadband connection) phones, and does video calls as well. It was some surprise when a month or so ago the phone rang and it was an incoming (first-ever) video call, from BMWOR teammate Bertrand Pace (FRA). He, too, has a Nokia N70. Was driving when the call came in, and upon seeing Bert's face live on the phone screen I, no joke, about drove off the road.
Leslie and Meg both received new phones for Christmas. Meg's, while not quite as advanced as the N70, also has a decent cam (1.3mp) and so-so video capability.
Yesterday I began to research video blogging. After "googling out" how to do it, we shot a video of Meg acting, I guess, like the lion in the Wizard Oz -- ferocious one moment, playing dead the next. It was surprisingly easy to post on here, but almost immediately took it down in deference to Meg's not wanting to look silly online. However, it is saved as a draft; so, Meg, you'd better be extra nice to me as it is only a few clicks away from re-appearing on the EFB!
To get even Meg took a quick vid of me, in my bathrobe, unkempt, and looking and sounding equally silly. For a while yesterday that video was up on here but now has been deleted for the sake of decorum.
This morning we shot a rather more dignified video -- Meg using her favorite Christmas present -- which we now present as the first official (really!) video post on the EFB....
The technology is very cool and remarkably simple. The video above was shot then edited -- merged two clips, shortened one of them, inserted the transitions -- all on the N70! The whole process took only a few clicks and a couple minutes on the phone.
With three more clicks on the phone the edited video was sent wirelessly (via bluetooth) to the laptop, again taking only a few seconds despite being a nearly 1mb file. From there it took only a few moments to upload to the new free video-sharing service, You Tube, which automatically generates cut-and-paste HTML code for embedding a viewer, and the video, into the blog as above.
All in all, easy peasy. Writing blog text is more difficult, and takes a lot longer.
No doubt this will lead to more video posts here on the EFB, as well as on the BMW ORACLE Blog and the CCB.
Indeed, what hath God wrought?
We have seen the future and it is...video.
My Nokia N70-1 phone has a 2 megapixel camera and a VGA video cam built in. It is also one of the first 3G (wireless broadband connection) phones, and does video calls as well. It was some surprise when a month or so ago the phone rang and it was an incoming (first-ever) video call, from BMWOR teammate Bertrand Pace (FRA). He, too, has a Nokia N70. Was driving when the call came in, and upon seeing Bert's face live on the phone screen I, no joke, about drove off the road.
Leslie and Meg both received new phones for Christmas. Meg's, while not quite as advanced as the N70, also has a decent cam (1.3mp) and so-so video capability.
Yesterday I began to research video blogging. After "googling out" how to do it, we shot a video of Meg acting, I guess, like the lion in the Wizard Oz -- ferocious one moment, playing dead the next. It was surprisingly easy to post on here, but almost immediately took it down in deference to Meg's not wanting to look silly online. However, it is saved as a draft; so, Meg, you'd better be extra nice to me as it is only a few clicks away from re-appearing on the EFB!
To get even Meg took a quick vid of me, in my bathrobe, unkempt, and looking and sounding equally silly. For a while yesterday that video was up on here but now has been deleted for the sake of decorum.
This morning we shot a rather more dignified video -- Meg using her favorite Christmas present -- which we now present as the first official (really!) video post on the EFB....
The technology is very cool and remarkably simple. The video above was shot then edited -- merged two clips, shortened one of them, inserted the transitions -- all on the N70! The whole process took only a few clicks and a couple minutes on the phone.
With three more clicks on the phone the edited video was sent wirelessly (via bluetooth) to the laptop, again taking only a few seconds despite being a nearly 1mb file. From there it took only a few moments to upload to the new free video-sharing service, You Tube, which automatically generates cut-and-paste HTML code for embedding a viewer, and the video, into the blog as above.
All in all, easy peasy. Writing blog text is more difficult, and takes a lot longer.
No doubt this will lead to more video posts here on the EFB, as well as on the BMW ORACLE Blog and the CCB.
Indeed, what hath God wrought?
Sunday, January 1, 2006
Party Animals
It was so noisy here last night at midnight and beyond, every man, woman, child, dog and cat in the neighboghood must have been partying -- to say nothing of setting off fireworks and firecrackers.
Pleased to say that our two cats were not involved. They invited a few friends over and had a quiet night at home....
Photo courtesy of Peter Huston.
Pleased to say that our two cats were not involved. They invited a few friends over and had a quiet night at home....
Photo courtesy of Peter Huston.
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