I don't play very many tournaments, so this should be pretty short.

Chicago IL - 03/22/08
5-9 +253 (18 of 24 - Div.1)
1504 -> 1428

Started as 12th seed, and finished 18th. Of all of my career tournaments, this was definitely the one I tanked. I couldn't do anything at this tournament, which is no good for an open. People I should have been ( Read more... )

One of the items on my 101 things in a 1001 days was to drink at least 300 beers. So, needless to say, I've had to both branch out a lot, look hard, and be willing to drop some cash on something rare or interesting looking. Here are some of my faves so far ( Read more... )

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"The Nohari Window is a challenging inversion of the Johari Window, using antonyms of the original words. By describing your failings from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of perceived and unrecognised weaknesses can be explored."

http://kevan.org/nohari?name=aibretty

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Even if you don't know me very well, take a second and give me your impression of me.

The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid ( Read more... )

Started playing on or about October 13th, 2007 ( Read more... )

KFC's answers are very similar to mine in this arena.  Here goes.

1. Are you a vegetarian? Vegan?
No, but I eat quite a lot of vegetarian meals since meat makes me feel gross a lot of the time.

2. What's your favorite food?
Depends on the mood and the season.  Recently, I've been craving cold peanut noodle salad with cucumbers.  Also fresh in season ( Read more... )

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Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search ( Read more... )

So I think I'm going to pop on here every few weeks to respond to a meme (which I never ever used to do) and give random bits of life data and maybe a word or two.

First off, the only Scrabble I've played in the past few weeks was 3 games against Dave Turissini on Saturday. The first game was probably the mpst lopsided game I have been a part of ( Read more... )