Well, I just got back from my weekend in Houston. As I a result, I am somewhat screwed workwise. Some brief notes follow ( Read more... )

The bridge club today hosted a junior fund game, meaning that everyone pays an extra dollar to help pay my way at bridge camp this summer. To make this promotion more palatable to the old folks, the ACBL offers extra masterpoints to the winners of the game. To add insult to injury, jeffford and I took all of those, too. After we finished, I demonstrated ( Read more... )

I should have known from the beginning that the bridge gods had it in for me. For most of the session I thought jeffford and I were playing pretty well, but I only declared three hands, all on seven card fits. Then, towards the end of the session, I inexplicably just fell apart. On the second to last table, the auction starts 2♦ - 3♣ - P to me, holding ( Read more... )

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Last night I reluctantly agreed to play yet more bridge this weekend with Jeff. This week's Sunday afternoon game turned out to be a club championship. Today also marks the day when Jeff and I started playing transfer after no trump openings. (I think he got tired of people wondering why he didn't play them.) Completely coincidentally, we ( Read more... )

Games Domain's review of Master of Orion III painted a somewhat negative picture. However, I remember the reviewer, Brett Todd, from reading Computer Gaming World back in the day, and I'm not sure I trust him. Back then he was best known for an oafish column in the back of the magazine and the occasional sports or action review. Maybe this is ( Read more... )

Today was a fairly crappy day, literally. Every time I get in my car in the morning, the birds have abused my poor Emily some more. I need to stop parking beneath that fucking tree. I hate that tree. Stupid tree ( Read more... )

I don't know why I ever stopped watching Futurama. That's not exactly true. I remember that I stopped watching when Fox moved the show from its time slot right after Simpsons. I don't know why I didn't follow it. I think the middle of the week just didn't jive with my CMU workload. Anyway, the show is so funny. It makes me absurdly happy ( Read more... )

Those of you keeping score at home already know that I have been delinquent about updating my journal. Sure, you say, no one says you have to write in your journal every day, right? Well, you're too kind, but as we all know the word "journal" comes from "jour", meaning "day", and "nal", which maybe has something to do with annals or being anal or ( Read more... )

With all due respect to the Superbowl, my highlight for the day was getting a +250 at the Dell Center. Sitting third seat with none vul., I held ♠AKJ9xx and the club ace. Jeff opened 2♦; RHO overcalled 3♣; I passed; LHO won the contract with 3♥. The board came down with something like ♣KQJ10x ♠Q10 and some other cards. The declarer drew trumps ( Read more... )