by scribe | Aug 3, 2011 | current news, off-topic, people, tournaments
Of course, chess groupies knew that this day would come, but it is still a sad day for all single male chess players (i.e., all male chess players under the age of 30): Elizabeth Vicary has gone and gotten herself married. She is no longer the Elizabeth Vicary that we...
by scribe | Aug 3, 2011 | current news, off-topic
In a recent post, I mentioned that October 9 is National Chess Day in the U.S. Alas, in my never-ending quest to provide you accurate and timely information in this blog, I now have to correct myself. According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Senate voted...
by scribe | Jul 8, 2011 | current news, off-topic
Going off-topic again today… I have been a sports fan for my whole life, but I have only ever had one conversation with a professional athlete. It happened when I was at a meeting in Baltimore in 2003. I didn’t have anyone to eat dinner with, so I went to...
by scribe | May 23, 2011 | literature, off-topic
I’m going to go off-topic for just a second here to do a tiny bit of self-promotion. That’s permissible in a blog, isn’t it? My vast underground network has informed me that my first book, The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be, was recently named...
by scribe | Apr 29, 2011 | off-topic, people
The Internet is the world’s greatest monument to free association. I love to hop on board now and then, start with a search and just go wherever the links and my own warped sense of curiosity takes me. But strangely, I have never actually written down a record...
by scribe | Mar 30, 2011 | games, off-topic, ruminations
Last night I decided to give a new sport a whirl … sorry, a curl. The San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club was having an introductory clinic at Sharks Ice in San Jose. Curling is the only Winter Olympic sport that I find remotely interesting, because to me...
