will now commence in the WFC6 article currently on the front page.

The deadline for WFC6 is fast approaching. The upload site (both stories and covers) is now fully functional. Will your story be uploaded on time?

If not, reprisal will be swift, harsh and imprecise. Collateral damage will be high.

VOTING COMMENCES NOW, SEE INSIDE

so here's the thing: aside from our mutual love of pornography and whiskey, there's really just one thing that connects us all. hmmm... well maybe not one thing, because it's a plural and--if i had just blurted it out a sentence ago--it would sound weird, but one collection of things: roads.

i can walk out my door, turn my heel to Hoge Naarderweg, and follow the roads all the way to your house (unless you live in australia or north america or on an island or zeppelin or something, but you get the idea).

when i sit and think about how amazing is the world we have created for ourselves, it is the incredible network of roads that awes me the most.
EXTENSION UPDATE: apparently, the upload site has not been working properly. i've been in ireland, so i was not aware. the original deadline was arbitrarily set to coincide with my return to Canada. that date has now been pushed back by two weeks, so it seems fair to arbitrarily push back the WFC deadline by the same margin. i will try and fix whatever is wrong with the WFC site in the next day or two. silly me for not testing it after doing the server re-install. cheers.

went to the Fields of Rock metal festival in 't Harde on the weekend with E and Mx.

two sentence per band rundown inside.

now with poll

i love to drive. i've always considered it my only guilty pleasure.

i mean, i do a great many pleasurable things that other people might feel guilty about (or might think i should feel guilty about), but driving fast and unnecessarily is the only one that i actually feel bad about.

spent the weekend in Munich with e.

it was my first opportunity to meet the german side of her family. they spent much of the time sprechening sie deutsch, so i mostly just smiled, laughed when they laughed, and drinkenend sie weissbier.

apparrently i made a good impression.

last week i played in a freeroll tournament on party poker and came in 27th out of ten thousand. thus i won real money. by "real" i mean "legal tender" not "a significant amount of". still...

books, booze, health, pornography.

on day four, i sat in the sun in the grand duchy of luxembourg, ate sandwiches and ice cream, read pornographic literature, and listened to eminem.

i had to climb for another 10km or so out of saint hubert; but long climbs are not nearly so disheartening in the morning as they are in the evening. at about ten a.m. i reached what will likely be the high altitude point of my ride¹ and from there on out day three was a day of glorious downhills that i only partially had to earn back. also, if my computer is to be believed, i set a new personal non-motorised land-speed record at 84.1 km/h².