by scribe | Oct 12, 2012 | chess clubs, current news, literature, people, US Chess League
I’ve posted about this before, but I think it’s worth another mention. Next week, on October 19, the documentary Brooklyn Castle will open in two theaters in New York: Lincoln Center and the Landmark Sunshine. (I’m not a New Yorker, but even I have...
by scribe | Oct 9, 2012 | current news, tournaments
For fun, I just did something I never do: Look at the pre-registered entries for the next tournament I’m playing in, the Western States Open in Reno. It’s still ten days away, so there will surely be more entries, but here is how it looks so far in the...
by scribe | Oct 6, 2012 | current news, literature, off-topic, ruminations
Announcement! On Monday, October 8, the Numberplay blog in the New York Times will feature a problem based on my book, The Universe in Zero Words, and it will also have excerpts from my book. (In fact, it may have a whole chapter; I’m not really sure.)...
by scribe | Oct 1, 2012 | literature, off-topic, ruminations
Of course everybody on the Internet uses Google for search. But I like some of the parts of the Google site that you might not visit as often. I did a blog post earlier about the Ngram viewer, which shows you the frequency of various words and word combinations over...
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