by scribe | Dec 25, 2016 | off-topic
Hi everybody! My chess blog is not really back yet — I’m still working on my book — but I thought that on Christmas I could take a little time out for a Kitten Awards Show. As long-time readers of this blog know, my wife and I take care of foster...
by scribe | Aug 2, 2016 | off-topic, people, ruminations, tournaments
Although I seldom mention it, my wife writes a blog on quilting (which she started a year before I started this one). Last week she wrote a hilarious post on buttons. You would think that of all the topics in the world, the least likely one to be funny is buttons. If...
by scribe | Jul 21, 2016 | current news, off-topic, ruminations, Uncategorized
Yesterday, just for fun, I read a bunch of articles online about whether blogging is dead. I guess my interest was provoked by this article, already two years old, about the end of Technorati’s blog-rating directory. The article explained Technorati’s...
by scribe | May 27, 2016 | current news, off-topic, ruminations
Two years ago I went to Atlanta to attend the “Gathering for Gardner,” a biennial conference on math, magic, games, and puzzles in honor of the late Martin Gardner. I gave an 8-minute talk at the meeting, and the video of my talk has just been posted...
by scribe | May 14, 2016 | chess clubs, current news, off-topic, people, ruminations, tournaments
First, apologies for my long silence… more than two weeks! I know that there isn’t anything else worth reading on the Internet except for my blog, so I know you guys were suffering. 😉 This morning I had an interesting experience, being interviewed by a...
by scribe | Apr 5, 2016 | current news, games, off-topic
This will be a mostly off-topic post, for which I apologize, but I’ll bring it back to chess at the end. If you’re a college basketball fan in the U.S., you know what the title is about. Every year, at the end of the NCAA men’s basketball...
