Off to Toronto

I’m leaving for Toronto today for two weeks. I hope to have lots of bloggable experiences while I’m there.

Read Full Post »

Computer mind at work

Thanks to Helion for pointing out this site, which has a chess-playing Java applet. The program allows you to see the moves the that it’s considering. The green lines represent White’s possible moves, and orange Black’s.

The program is not particularly strong. I played it and won. The pieces are not represented conventionally, which makes it [...]

Read Full Post »

Palace in a Pup Tent

I was already twenty or twenty-one when I began learning chess, which was far too late for me to get really good at it, but old enough to approach the game with a more well-rounded intelligence than I would have had if I’d taken it up at the age of five or six. I passed [...]

Read Full Post »

Of philology, bisexuals and camels

A lot has been said, at least in these parts, about some dumbass lawyers' threat to sue Warner Bros for implying that Alexander was bisexual, but I want to touch on a broader issue, and in a rather circuitous way.
In my second year at university, at a dinner party held at my Medieval Literature professor's [...]

Read Full Post »

How much disappointment can one man bear?

How bleak and lifeless everything seems! How miserable and bereft I feel! All is emptiness. In this pitiful excuse for a life I lead, there is no comfort, no hope, no relief from pain and loneliness.

I followed the instructions, but after more than 24 hours since I dropped the Sea-Monkey “Instant Live Eggs” into the [...]

Read Full Post »

Instant Pet

My sister mailed me a Sea Monkeys set. You get an aquarium with them. I always thought you put them in a glass of water and watched them for about five minutes.
I’ve filled it up and added the water purifier. In 24 hours I will drop the little critters in.
Meanwhile:
The Bad Fads Museum
Sea Monkey Worship [...]

Read Full Post »