by scribe | Nov 7, 2008 | off-topic
This entry is going to be dreadfully off-topic, but there’s nothing I can do about it… Tuesday was my fiftieth birthday, and it was a day that went down in history. Not, of course, because of my birthday. As some of you may have heard, we had an election...
by scribe | Oct 15, 2008 | literature, off-topic, people
Recently I found a Web page with some marvelous pictures of whimsical chess pieces brought to life as fantasy characters. They reminded me of Carina Jørgensen’s work, which I wrote about in this entry from October 2007. The person who posted the pictures...
by scribe | Sep 3, 2008 | off-topic
I normally avoid politics in my blog, but this is just too funny. I hope you won’t mind the off-topic post. If you do mind, blame it on Elizabeth Vicary. She started it. So I was watching the Republican convention tonight because, like many other Americans, I...
by scribe | Jul 28, 2008 | off-topic, people, ruminations
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but this blog has had a lull for the last week because I was out of town. I was helping my wife, Kay, sell her quilt books and patterns at the International Quilt Fair in Long Beach, California. The world did not stop in my...
by scribe | Jun 6, 2008 | off-topic, people, tournaments
In a recent post I wrote about chess in the Triangle area (Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina) in the 1980s. That inevitably leads to my next topic, which is the two state championships that I managed to win while I lived in Durham. I’ve been...
by scribe | Jun 2, 2008 | off-topic, people, ruminations
Over there at Elizabeth Vicary’s chess blog, they’re having a great time as always. Tom Panelas wants Barack Obama to pick Elizabeth as his vice-presidential candidate. Hear, hear! We definitely need a chess coach in the White House, particularly because...
