So I spilled over a little in frustration the other day. I stand by that; I for one don’t believe that the Internet is Different and a little spilled-over truth and honestly is a bad thing. Some flinch from it instinctively but I don’t see demons behind every byte online. Well, demons any different than [...]
So I’m no longer the MFL president, hallelujah hallelujah. After NCFLs, I was totally wiped; the week prior work — largely, me — had organized a two day workshop and symposium that required my full attention, and then immediately afterward (during, in fact) I ran off to Albany, for another five days requiring my full [...]
So the debate coach blogosphere (all four of us) has been atwitter about increasing the size of said blogosphere, or at least the capacity of online communication among forensics coaches in general. Admiral Menick’s latest idea is a common RSS feed which aggregates all the various debaterly content out there into a coherent, one-stop-shopping location [...]
Menick urged me to blog quickly; by my standards, six days later is pretty quick, unfortunately. I’ve been swamped at the $dayjob, which has thrown together a conference for the two days before I depart for Albany and NCFL Nats. Wondrous timing, but it’s coming together. And I just now in my post-Mother’s Day-feast induced [...]
So I spent last weekend at the TOC, as a judge/scout/driver/EMT for Scarsdale. My qualifying team, perhaps wisely, didn’t want to attend, but I’m a sucker for punishment that way. We had a fun time all around, and there were stories of course. Scarsdale did well; no one finished worse than 3-4, two made elims, [...]