Long overdue, lengthy Central Coast 1000k writeup

[Rob Hawks]

http://449km.blogspot.com/2010/07/beyond-449km.html

rob hawks

[Jack Holmgren]

Great ride!  Great story!  Onward to Paris!

Hasta la victoria siempre.

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On Jul 22, 2010 7:16 PM, Rob Hawks <rob....@gmail.com> wrote:

http://449km.blogspot.com/2010/07/beyond-449km.html

rob hawks

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[William A. Monsen]

Agreed! Rob is the Jack London of randonneurs!

[Gintautas Budvytis]

Rob writes like David Foster Wallace. Proof: http://iwl.me
:)

GB

On Jul 22, 5:58 pm, "William A. Monsen" <w...@mrwassoc.com> wrote:
> Agreed! Rob is the Jack London of randonneurs!
>
> On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Jack Holmgren wrote:
>
> > Great ride!  Great story!  Onward to Paris!
>
> > Hasta la victoria siempre.

[Rob Hawks]

What passage did you use? That website tells me Kurt Vonnegut when I paste in the first paragraph.

So it goes.

rob

[William A. Monsen]

I got David Foster Wallace when I tested my blog entries, too. However, when I test my work-related writing, I supposedly write like Arthur C. Clarke. Not sure what that tells me :-)

Bill

[Sterling Hada]

What a neat little device. But Rob, I think I prefer Kurt Vonnegut to Dan Brown, which is what I got when I copied and pasted your second paragraph.

Sterling

I've seen things you people can't imagine.
Chimneysweeps on fire over the roofs of London.
I've watched kite-strings... glitter in the sun at Hyde Park Gate.
All these... moments will be lost... in time, like chalk-paintings... in the rain.
Time... for your nap.

[Rob Hawks]

I'm puzzled at that. Maybe it's a vaguely worded error message. Why would Dan Brown be in a database of writers?

rob

[Gintautas Budvytis]

Sorry Rob for hijacking your thread.
http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/a-qa-with-the-creator-of-i-write-like-the-algorithm-is-not-a-rocket-science

GB

On Jul 23, 2:00 pm, Rob Hawks <rob.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm puzzled at that. Maybe it's a vaguely worded error message. Why would
> Dan Brown be in a database of writers?
>
> rob
>

> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Sterling Hada <sterling.h...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > What a neat little device. But Rob, I think I prefer Kurt Vonnegut to Dan
> > Brown, which is what I got when I copied and pasted your second paragraph.
>
> > Sterling
>
> > I've seen things you people can't imagine.
> > Chimneysweeps on fire over the roofs of London.
> > I've watched kite-strings... glitter in the sun at Hyde Park Gate.
> > All these... moments will be lost... in time, like chalk-paintings... in
> > the rain.
> > Time... for your nap.
>
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:28 PM, William A. Monsen <w...@mrwassoc.com>wrote:
>
> >> I got David Foster Wallace when I tested my blog entries, too. However,
> >> when I test my work-related writing, I supposedly write like Arthur C.
> >> Clarke. Not sure what that tells me :-)
>
> >> Bill
>
> >> On Jul 23, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Rob Hawks wrote:
>
> >> What passage did you use? That website tells me Kurt Vonnegut when I paste
> >> in the first paragraph.
>
> >> So it goes.
>
> >> rob
>

> >> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Gintautas Budvytis <seni...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>> Rob writes like David Foster Wallace. Proof:http://iwl.me
> >>> :)
>
> >>> GB
>
> >>> On Jul 22, 5:58 pm, "William A. Monsen" <w...@mrwassoc.com> wrote:
> >>> > Agreed! Rob is the Jack London of randonneurs!
>
> >>> > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:55 PM, Jack Holmgren wrote:
>
> >>> > > Great ride!  Great story!  Onward to Paris!
>
> >>> > > Hasta la victoria siempre.
> >>> > > On Jul 22, 2010 7:16 PM, Rob Hawks <rob.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> > >http://449km.blogspot.com/2010/07/beyond-449km.html
>
> >>> > > rob hawks
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[Sterli...@gmail.com]

LOL. No idea. I don't know how the database works. Or how large it is. Maybe it's character/keyword recognition. OTOH, I posted a direct quote from "Farewell, My Lovely" into the text box, and it gave me Raymond Chandler (whose birthday is today). On the whole, I'd be very happy to be compared to David Foster Wallace or Kurt Vonnegut and marginally happy to be likened to Dan Brown.

Nevertheless, I stand by my comment that I posted on your entry; it's always a treat to read your write-ups. They're articulate, creative and speckled with humor.

Sterling

On Jul 23, 2010 2:00pm, Rob Hawks <rob....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm puzzled at that. Maybe it's a vaguely worded error message. Why would Dan Brown be in a database of writers?
>
> rob
>

[William A. Monsen]

I think that the developer said it had 50 authors.

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[Sterling Hada]

This is a funny, intriguing little toy, but it has its limits (50
authors is too small of a database.) On a whim I entered the infamous
first line from Orwell's "1984": 'It was a bright cold day in April,
and the clocks were striking thirteen." I got back the answer that I
write like David Foster Wallace. In other words, as Margaret Atwood
found out when she was told she wrote like Stephen King, the
application is fallible. It's fun, but I don't place a lot of
credibility in it.

Sterling