Survival

Yale survived and even flourished without me, which is good for both its future and my own.  I got September back this year, and it turns out to be a lovely month, with all kinds of nice cooling weather.  Though today it’s raining like hell, but ah well.  They even refrained from doing anything embarrassing [...]

Filed under: loose thoughts, tournaments | Posted on September 29th, 2011 by palmer

Civility

You know, there’s nothing like a summer night in New England.  We don’t get too many scorching ones, and at night it’s even more rare to feel the heat.  Tonight I’m just sitting on the deck of the Sapphire, writing the EXL camp book by the light of a citronella torch.  There aren’t many bugs, [...]

Filed under: home, loose thoughts | Posted on July 13th, 2009 by palmer

Menick strikes again

I disagree with everything Menick says in his last post.  Since his last post was agreeing with what I say, we have a neat Godelian moment there, eh?  But at any rate, Jim’s right, the community really doesn’t talk a whole lot for a bunch of talkers.  I’ve always wondered why that is.  Perhaps because it’s [...]

Filed under: leagues, loose thoughts | Posted on April 21st, 2009 by palmer

Brief observation

Folks in the forensics world should be able to imagine leaving it, or they shouldn’t be involved.

Filed under: loose thoughts | Posted on March 23rd, 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

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