Archive for August, 2007
Sunday, August 26th, 2007
“I Roll Twenties.”
So, Terry and I arrived at the PAX, and I told him that the best time to get his Frontalot CD and have it signed would be before things got too hectic, at the start of the expo. We were walking towards the main theater and I could see that Frontalot was in his [...]
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
going to the penny arcade expo downtown
I’m taking a personal day off of work today to attend the PAX 2007, an annual event I proposed to my wife at a few years ago. On stage. In front of like a thousand screaming nerds. It was awesome.
This year, she and Aiden are on a mini-vacation of sorts, and I’m going to be [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
win some, lose some
I had the good fortune to play two games in the last two nights, both of them excellent opponents and teachers (/smile). I will write about the second when I get a chance later on. My friend Matt was visiting for a few days as I mentioned earlier and the night before he left, [...]
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
matt is here
My very good friend and ex-housemate Matt is in town visiting briefly before continuing a tour down the coast of Oregon with his fiance’, Jeanna, who I am meeting for the first time. Haven’t had much time to play, but have been reviewing some of my latest games in my few spare moments, laying [...]
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
second 2-stone game with Bob
Here is the board at the final position, which with the prisoners shown to the left indicates that I won by 26 to his -1. In fact, there were even more changes, as neither of us had noticed some other group of stones that would have tilted the score more in both directions, [...]
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
beautiful language
“Otake seemed cautious of challenging the Master at his own game. His initial object to limit the Master’s freedom of motion and avoid difficult entanglements over a broad front, he set about shaping his ranks after patterns he had made peculiarly his own. Allowing the Master a strategic point, he was all the [...]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Aiden’s talking, teaching game
Aiden said “Da Da” this morning, clear as day to me! WOW!
I managed to get myself to the SGC Tuesday night for a game, and although I didn’t get a chance to take any pictures of the game since Jon was playing with my phone, it was just as well since it was a [...]
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Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Studying Go with Alejo
Studying Go with Alejo :pictures by David Whitlock
I was reading around the net about all the Go-related happenings going on right now or being reported on, and one item in particular prompted me to dig out the board and lay out the setup (and then snap a few shots).
Alejo’s Tenuki’s most recent post is [...]
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
announcing iShudan
I am proud to announce that today is the initial release of my new project, iShudan. This combines my love of two different areas together into something that I feel has immense potential for growth and utility by others.
It is an open source project currently being hosted by Google which will allow people to install [...]
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
the 13th move
The 13th Move:
Tonights match was at the SGC on Beginners Night, an auspicious event marked by the complete lack of any vehicles at all in the parking lot that appeared to belong to owners inside the same building. See, tonight the USGO Congress ‘07 is in full swing, so many of the regulars [...]
