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> Bob, this site is too unbelievably funny!!!!!
> It had me laughing out loud!!
>>
Thanks for the kind words. It all started as
a goof on
Paul
to show him how he shouldn’t worry too much about what
people say about him online, given how quickly something can be
put together (by
anyone) which looks like something it is not. The first page
had only Paul’s picture as a wanted poster, which is now at the
bottom of an archived home page:
http://www.americanroadcycling.org/indexArchive.htm
I set up the ARC site (in a few hours), then
sent Paul e-mail saying, “Have you ever seen
www.americanroadcycling.com?”
Within a week ARC was a functioning web site,
so it also illustrated how to put together a web site using “light
structures,” which is my term for very fast, very flexible, and
very basic html, mostly using MS FrontPage. All content and
function, nothing
fancy. It was sure to be another useless web site on my part, but
ironically it turned out to be an actual success, because three
people have seen it. Otherwise, Paul never really "got it," because
his
new site is still way too slow and cumbersome. Kind of pretty,
though.
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> P.S., I did not realize I was already in the membership
> lists (hysterical)
>>
I had put together a database of Paul’s
clients for him, so I just dumped his list into the
ARC membership database. Then, each day, I started pasting new
names from another one of my databases (not
Mary's); so, in case they took a look at the site, the
Taliban would see the membership
growing by leaps and bounds. Then I started calling the Taliban
“merely a local club.”
So that's another cautionary tale in how easy it is to
make something on the Internet appear to be something that it is
not, but it is not much fun anymore, because the local club has
had a regime change and things are being handled reasonably, plus
my
tracking shows most of them now read and enjoy American
Road Cycling anyway.
<<
> - how did I get the nickname "Angel"?
> ~Lauren
>>
Ask Michelle about the Angel name. She can explain it better,
but…
From our side, it happened when Mary was
trying to describe you as the new, very fast rider (Empire Games
Gold Medalist) who had shown
up at the first ride you guy’s did with us from Paul’s. I think it
was Liz to whom she was saying, “…she's tiny, very strong,
fast, big mane of hair, she looks like, like a...well, like…”
“AN ANGEL!” I sputtered, and it stuck like
a lugie. Paul would always call Mary and say, “I heard from The
Angel,” or “The Angel is supposed to come for a ride.” Or he’d
harass me with, “Needer, needer, needer...I got to see The Angel today.”
Of course that was all before Michelle became
a contender, so now there’s not much difference between the two of
you. However, it is still a really good thing that you have been
upgraded to Lugie, because if Paul or I ever called you The Angel
just one more time, Mary was going to tack both our hides up in her
museum room.
Like I said, Michelle will be able to explain
it better. Even without being previously privy, she understands innately, at least for as long as you
two remain newlyweds…which looks
like forever, in light of the 10 years and counting.
Say hi to Schmoopie for me, and ask how her book is
coming along. -b