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...
by scribe | Mar 28, 2011 | chess clubs, people, ruminations
Anyone who can teach chess to kids has my utter, undivided admiration. This year, for the second time, I am teaching a chess class for five weeks at a local kindergarten-through-fifth-grade school. I was pretty disappointed with how the class went last year, and...
by scribe | Mar 25, 2011 | literature, ruminations
When I was writing my most recent post, I learned a few things about Wikipedia. First of all, I was unaware that Wikipedia has a Featured Article every day, probably because I never actually enter Wikipedia through the “front door.” I always end up there...
by scribe | Mar 24, 2011 | literature, people, tournaments
As long-time fans of the Peanuts comic strip know, Charlie Brown’s favorite baseball player is one Joe Shlabotnik, whose claim to fame is that he gets sent down to the minor leagues and bats .143 (which is really bad). He epitomizes the same sort of lovable...
by scribe | Mar 22, 2011 | current news, people, ruminations
Seriously, why? It makes life so much more miserable for those of us who don’t. If this were a baseball blog, I would be writing now about the Barry Bonds trial. But I don’t have to dive into that cesspit. The chess world now has a scandal of its own. As...
