( some game summaries... )

Just got word that I've been accepted to grad school at the College of St. Rose in Albany, for a degree in high school mathematics education. Sort of a change of pace, but lately I've been getting more enjoyment out of quasi-teaching jobs than from quasi-programming jobs ( Read more... )

Ding Life Master.

Farvel Strat C, we hardly knew ye.

But also, an excuse to post ( more baby pics )

I am now an uncle.

Genevieve Garner was born at 8:36 this evening.

Various cool things, in no particular order:

- The MIT puzzlehunt folks took a mere ~2.5 months to get off their asses and post the solutions to their massive set of puzzles from the January hunt. Overall, happy to see them, but I call bullshit on some of their cluing methodology. "You want me to what? Identify an obscure fictional character by a ( Read more... )

Interesting events going on in Boston last weekend and next weekend.

Last weekend was an individual bridge tournament, which is something of a dying breed, so I was intrigued enough to head over for the day. The only previous individual I did was at the bridge camp in Maryland, some 7-ish years ago, which was pretty crazy. The movement here, for ( Read more... )

Tis the season for family activities. One of our perennial favorites is ( decorating cookies (with pics) )

My mother has had knee replacement surgery this past weekend ( Read more... )

My 6-week summer class wrapped up yesterday.

Today the Albany newspaper had a pretty large story they wrote after talking to the kids and watching our closing ceremony. The story was on the front page of the second section of the paper.

Next week I'm headed out to Cooperstown, NY, to be a summer camp counselor for a week.

I have a job for the summer ( Read more... )