So I said I’d post about the extemp final, but that’s been taking work and source-checks and the like, so it’s slow going. Also, I’m sick; I have this cold thing happening, which knocked me into bed all day yesterday. Today, not much better. It’s a strange cold; the congestion and coughing are present but [...]
The process of releasing changes to a piece of software got a lot easier with the advent of the web-driven application. Time was, you had to build a new version of an application, and then go through a tortured rigamarole process of releasing a new version and watching as lots of old dinosaurs ignored the [...]
This year I ran the UPenn Liberty Bell Classic for the third time, and the tournament has really turned the corner. First, it’s just a nice campus, and a nice place to be in October. The weather was stunningly perfect, and we eat very well; we have Barb G’s amazing french-toast bagels, we eat in [...]
So I’m sitting here in my room at the Marriot Courtyard, preparing a tournament again. This is the first time I’ve done so in quite some months; not since Appleton NCFL Nationals, in fact, which is the longest such stretch I get all year. In three weeks I’ll be doing the same at the UPenn [...]
A few words about Las Vegas:
It’s a strange town. There’s the sudden and overwhelming artificiality of The Strip, but if you go more than a quarter mile beyond it in any direction, you find yourself in the most banal and faceless suburb known to man. It’s a rather strange contrast between the aggressively over the [...]