The Croquet Manifesto
The future of the croquet portion of TPoP is to continue t'have an indivuduäl page for each game, but for that page t'include just the final photo and one other that captures the spirit of the game. As I hope to begin taking photos of more types of events, this will increasingly be just a sexion of a larger page. It is silly, for example, that on the Chicagoland page, there are more pictures of a scenic but more or less standard croquet game than of the zoo or the art museum. As should be obviöus, I will no more be converting these archival pages to the modern standard than did I convert any instance of the now-atrocious-looking* "relaçionneschyppe" to "relationship." If I were to recreäte that page today, I would still prolly include more than one non-final photo, as it was such an interesting locale, but such exceptions will always linger.
The current archive ventures no further than Memoriäl Day '07, and according to my detailed count from jesterday, that makes me 26 games behind. Of these I haven't, and may never have, access to photos of five, including four our of the seven games from my summer in Somerville. It is my intention t'include those on th'archive and the maps some day, but don't count on any of them before all the results are in.
Anyöne who's paying attention† knows that there've been a lot of croquet-related pages added recently, and here's another one, from this past Autumn's New Yorker Festival. That makes for eight recent ones spanning 9/06-2/07‡, almost a third of my backlog, tho of the ten that would take us to last weekend's game¤, only one is online, and th'others exist only as high-resolution digital photos. In recognition of my landmark, I took the time t'update the long-ignored Croquet page with photos and summaries of those same eight games.
These will dissapear once there's progress on the next ten, at which point I do hope t'have played a few more games. For now tho, will turn my attention to making pages of all pre-England activities, then England itself (including both croquet games), and then looking into documenting my last season as an Outdoor Education Instructor.
*Always atrocious looking, to most of my readers. I wonder if the eccentric spellings that remain, such as notiçable and pholiäge, will ever look so wrong to me...
†Admittedly a small group, after the fall of LiveJournal and my recent and protracted delinquency
‡I have played every calendar month synce April Fools' Day '06, but photos from November '06 are among those held by other parties.
¤That from Montreäl for Carl's bachelor party
The current archive ventures no further than Memoriäl Day '07, and according to my detailed count from jesterday, that makes me 26 games behind. Of these I haven't, and may never have, access to photos of five, including four our of the seven games from my summer in Somerville. It is my intention t'include those on th'archive and the maps some day, but don't count on any of them before all the results are in.
Anyöne who's paying attention† knows that there've been a lot of croquet-related pages added recently, and here's another one, from this past Autumn's New Yorker Festival. That makes for eight recent ones spanning 9/06-2/07‡, almost a third of my backlog, tho of the ten that would take us to last weekend's game¤, only one is online, and th'others exist only as high-resolution digital photos. In recognition of my landmark, I took the time t'update the long-ignored Croquet page with photos and summaries of those same eight games.
These will dissapear once there's progress on the next ten, at which point I do hope t'have played a few more games. For now tho, will turn my attention to making pages of all pre-England activities, then England itself (including both croquet games), and then looking into documenting my last season as an Outdoor Education Instructor.
*Always atrocious looking, to most of my readers. I wonder if the eccentric spellings that remain, such as notiçable and pholiäge, will ever look so wrong to me...
†Admittedly a small group, after the fall of LiveJournal and my recent and protracted delinquency
‡I have played every calendar month synce April Fools' Day '06, but photos from November '06 are among those held by other parties.
¤That from Montreäl for Carl's bachelor party