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Friends Only
I've decided to make my journal Friends Only for the foreseeable future. Don't worry; nothing cataclysmic happened. It's just that sometimes I feel I can't share a whole heck of a lot with the public at large, and I hate censoring myself too much. We'll see how this goes. If you want in, feel free to leave a comment here ( Read more... ) -
Boosting the Signal
'Tis the season of people needing help! I guess we all need a hand at one point or another.
First, amberite has found herself in a bit of a pickle, but she's rather talented and is hoping to leverage that to get herself out. Some details ( Read more... ) -
Fools and Little Children
Over the weekend I played three micro-tournament sessions at BridgeBaseOnline, 12 boards apiece, where each player gets his/her own table along with three robots; such an arrangement is typically known as a Robot Tournament. Each robot plays a variant of 2/1, though you don't need to know the particulars of 2/1 to join in this complete misadventure ( Read more... ) -
Shaking the Rust Off
It's been well over half a year since I last picked up a Bridge hand, and I desperately want to play in this year's 4th of July Regional, so I decided to shake the rust off by playing on BridgeBase Online, figuring the "Relaxed" tables should be good enough to ease back into the swing of things ( Read more... ) -
Boosting the Signal: Help Save Oliver
girlpirate's cat Oliver is in serious need and needs a trip to a vet ASAP, but she can't afford it on her own. Please look here for details.
As a bonus, bronxelf_ag001 has offered to make one of her awesome egg sculptures if you donate $50 or more to help Oliver. Please, anything will help. -
Boosting the Signal
Apparently someone applied for a grant to get materials to teach D&D in the classroom here.
It needs votes, votes like yours! Support your creative gamer educators! :) -
A Fun Application of Snapdragon
Pickup Partner and I were at it again, hoping to get some more silver, when along came this deal (South dealt, E-W vulnerable):
Me
♠ 9 6
♥ 4 2
♦ J 4
♣ A K Q J 7 5 2
West
♠ A K 10 5 4
♥ J 9 3
♦ A K Q
♣ 10 8
East
♠ 8 7 3
♥ K Q 10 7 6 5
♦ 9 6 3
♣ 4
Pickup Partner
♠ Q J 2
♥ A 8
♦ 10 8 7 5 2
♣ 9 6 3
Now, the bidding normally proceeds something like ( Read more... ) -
An Interesting Hand
So, my pickup partner from the 4th of July Regional wanted to get in on some other local tournaments, so I agreed to join in some pairs events. In the first such event, we ran into a very interesting situation.
( What the heck do you do with this? ) -
219-212
...and that is how comprehensive health reform has passed in the House. For awhile, it wasn't clear to me that it would pass, but then I heard the representatives start chanting "one more vote" with 215 Yeas and 4 Dems left, and all of them came on board ( Read more... ) -
Boosting the Signal
My friend roadriverrail will undertake a charity ride to help the victims of AIDS and to aid in AIDS research. Please help him on this most noble of journeys! His full post on the topic is here. It begins thus:
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Hi there. In the event any new strangers happen to read this, my name is Rhett Aultman (lj: roadriverrail). I'm a 30 year-old computer engineer and ( Read more... )