Posting this plan here. Hopefully I will therefore feel compelled to stick to it.

Week of Jan. 5: 25 miles
Jan. 12: 26.4
Jan. 19: 27.8
Jan. 26: 29.3
Feb. 2: 30.9
Feb. 9: 32.6
Feb. 16: 34.4
Feb. 23: 36.3
March 2: 38.3
March 9: 40.4
March 16: 42.6
March 23: 44.9
March 30: 47.4
April 6: 50
Final week: taper down, rest, go for a short jog or two, get ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: I am very bad at programming. I lack formal training except for a couple of high school classes 10 years ago.

The code below represents one way to answer the question: "What are all the pairs of seven-letter TWL Scrabble words that can stack, one atop the other, to form seven valid two-letter words?" It is by no means the most ( Read more... )

As for the Scrabble aspect of the trip, meh#. I played fairly crappy and went 10-10 for the second year in a row. I was pretty happy with my knowing and finding of the words (including some cool CSW-only stuff like HEXENES# and HARDOKE# and DINNERED# and MOOLVIE#), but a few tactical errors did me in. I blew one game because I was supposed to pass ( Read more... )

chaithedog wrote an awesome post recently, quizzing peeps on movie quotes... so I'm gonna totally gank his idea and do something extremely similar. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing... the TV Quote Quiz!

Pretty simple... I post 10 quotes, you name the shows. A few guidelines:

-Pilots only. That's right, all of these quotes are from season 1, episode 1 of their ( Read more... )

I accepted COM* in Oregon back in May. I've been meaning to learn this list ever since. I think I've got it down now!

ARIS#    (Cockney slang) arse [n -ES]
CEAS#    urging flight, also SESSA, CAESE [interj]
CENS#    a type of payment (something that is paid) [n -ES]
COMS#    short for combinations [n]
DEUS#    god [n DEI or DI]
EMYS#    a freshwater ( Read more... )

Everyone come! (OK, not everyone, I can only fit 24 in this particular playing room. But hey -- 24 of you come!)

Watertown, Mass.
One-Day SCRABBLE® Tournament

8 fully-rated NASPA games
Saturday, December 1, 2012

Schedule:
9:00 a.m.: Registration
9:30 a.m.: Games 1-3
12:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:30 p.m.: Games 4-8
6:30 p.m. Awards

Due to the limited size of the playing ( Read more... )

Oh, hey, I won. I suppose I should write something about it.

This totally came out of nowhere. I went in expecting to be mediocre (and knowing that there was nothing wrong with mediocrity in a field this ridiculously dense with talented players). In the beginning, I was indeed mediocre. In the middle, I was still mediocre. Then at the end, I just ( Read more... )

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Needed to win all four of these to break 2000. Would I fail? Or would I get terribly terribly lucky?

Round 13 against key_lime_guy
Round 14 against dugy1001
Round 15 against Jan Cardia
Round 16 against Brian Galebach

Wherein I start playing a bunch of people with LJ usernames (and one of them beats me):

Round 9 against dugy1001
Round 10 against spherulitic
Round 11 against key_lime_guy
Round 12 against dugy1001