The Last Harvard: Saturday

The Saturday of Harvard is spent mostly standing, or walking.  The far flung nature, and size, of the tournament mean that it takes forever to get anything done, even if you don’t have anything to do.  For me, heading over to Congress tab to help Jason W with his laptops’ network connections took 2 hours.  [...]

Filed under: tournaments | Posted on February 19th, 2009 by palmer

The Last Harvard: Friday

My last Harvard tournament began with a relatively gentle Friday evening.  Harvard does not have competition on Friday night, so it’s simply registration. For those who fly to Boston and stay in hotels and thus who knew their numbers and entries months ago, registration involves sending in a check and getting an email the week [...]

Filed under: tournaments | Posted on February 18th, 2009 by palmer

Dipshits & domains, this weekend

So a domain reseller has decided to spam me daily offering me the “preferred” azuen.com domain name to complement my azuen.net domain, because it’s better for marketing.  This all for the low low early buyer’s price of $560, which could go higher, because “he expects strong interest in this domain auction.” Cha, right.  As if [...]

Filed under: coaching, loose thoughts, tournaments | Posted on February 11th, 2009 by palmer

If you tried to contact me…

…for the past two weeks, I’m sorry.  I was taking something of a sabbatical from everything except the most pressing things in my email inbox.  I used a very very conservative definition of “most pressing.”  I’m catching up to the backlog now. What’s amazing is how much just having to do my day job every [...]

Filed under: home | Posted on February 8th, 2009 by palmer

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