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A roto review
After running an auction-esque roto for worlds that worked decently well, I cooked up the idea of running an auction roto for this year's Nationals. Since I arrived late and everyone else seemed tired we postponed the roto until after the first day of play, which turned out not to make a huge difference to the proceedings. I polled the contestants ( Read more... ) -
Livejournal is dead. Long live the new livejournal
I suppose that I could just post my nationals recaps on facebook, but for old times' sake, I think I'll still be using livejournal for now. This is going to be a short little recap post, and then I'll try to include day-by-day material as I quackle through my games. I gave myself the day off so I could look over my games. Nice going, self ( Read more... ) -
things I think about during tournaments in no particular order
Kurt Gibson's blog on beating cancer
being loose and focused
Brandon Weeden beating Stanford in the fiesta bowl
我的地盘 - a song about doing what you do
being a good loser
I am excited for Nationals! -
Strategy!
first off, I don't think I have much to say about calpac that others haven't already said. It was an amazing event. I love the way we do scrabble out here. It was fun, comfortable and extremely high-level. Having all of the games annotated and posted online with added commentary is a big deal. It was a pleasure to be a part of it. I feel extremely ( Read more... ) -
moonrise kingdom
holy smokes, have any of you seen this movie? I was pretty impressed. especially with the two kids. -
Reno 911 - day 1
I came third! I played well except for phonying a lot and making bad challenges. also, I had mucho fun gambling/pokering. unfortunately I left my shoes in nevada, but besides that and my cold the trip went well. yay escapism!
I'm just going to throw up interesting positions that come up as they come along. day 1 had a lot of fun moments.
in game 1 I ( Read more... ) -
Xp V Jason!
I'm sitting at the xp hacienda drinking a g&t and I'll be commentating for most of the afternoon. Tune in and enjoy!
Xp goes first and exchanges. Jason immediately exchanges as well. A thrilling start.
4:08 - xp goes up by 50 but fails to block jason's bingo of diorites.
XP bingoes with predates to go up 166-92
4:19 XP has many vowels and plays for 8 ( Read more... ) -
asus rocks
I bought an ASUS laptop about a year ago after poking around online for recommendations. I'd never heard of them but they were supposed to be pretty good. Since my advisor bought me a macbook pro for work I don't need it anymore and I'm selling it to a friend, but the AC adapter died. Long story short, it took all of four days after I shipped it in ( Read more... ) -
HELL. YES.
Today has been amazing and I've only been up for two and a half. I was convinced it would start lamely since I had to do laundry. Instead I noticed a new Chinese place a few doors down from my laundromat that I figured I should try. Well, short story is, the place has been open for a week and makes totally legit northern Chinese food, which is the ( Read more... ) -
-THERY
leesa played a phony -THERY word on me the other day, so I looked up all the -THERY words out there. The pattern is interesting...
there are 3 7s.
there are 6 8s. Three of them rhyme, and the other three all start with the same letter.
finally, there is only ONE longer - THERY word, and it is an awesome four-letter extension of one of the 8s...