I’m gradually emerging from the intensity and focus of the Columbia Invitational.
This year’s version went very well; Matty Skillz put forth a fine showing together with his agile assistants David Yin and Caitlin Halprin. They all fundamentally got it. I like it when I can run tournaments where the folks I’m helping understand [...]
Work took me to Ithaca, NY, where I spent most of today struggling against the network setup there. I want a relatively simple thing; a network that joins up with Cambridge’s. But I don’t have quite the right mix of what I need. I have a server that should be able to operate with only [...]
It’s elections like that that make me wonder why people make political predictions. I suppose predicting the future and having others listen makes people feel smart. I never make predictions, even as extempers always ask me for them. This year is an especially good example; I can make a really compelling argument why no one [...]
So I had an utterly useless vacation between Christmas and New Year’s. It was useful in the sense that I avoided the psychic despair that comes upon everyone sitting around faking it in a non-retail job that week. Retail folks, of course, are in the middle of hell on earth, but that brand of hell [...]