by scribe | Aug 7, 2012 | off-topic, people, tournaments
This was the title of the best talk I went to at the MathFest last week. It was given by Kathryn Leonard of California State University Channel Islands, who was one of the winners of an award for early-career mathematics teachers. Leonard’s main point was that...
by scribe | Jul 30, 2012 | off-topic
Is life all about the big things, or all about the small things?...
by scribe | Jul 18, 2012 | Chess Lecture, literature, off-topic
I think that the above question, or simply, “Where is Jesse?”, is the most common one I get when I talk with people about my gig for ChessLecture. Jesse is, of course, Jesse Kraai, the Sensei of ChessLecture, the ChessLecturer par excellence. If...
by scribe | Jul 6, 2012 | off-topic, ruminations
I always think twice before I do an off-topic post, but I decided to go ahead today. How can I resist, with a title like that? As I mentioned in an earlier post, a local bookstore called the Capitola Book Café is holding a fund drive in order to stay in business and...
by scribe | Jun 1, 2012 | current news, off-topic
Now that the world championship match is over, the confetti has been cleaned up and things are getting back to normal, I want to tell you about a non-chess topic that is close to my heart. One of Santa Cruz County’s independent booksellers, the Capitola Book...
by scribe | Apr 25, 2012 | off-topic
One of the joys of gardening is that you never know what is going to poke its head up from underground...
