tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post7312017152623459497..comments2024-02-05T19:38:05.808-05:00Comments on Vita Brevis: Something Seldom SeenMJenkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761003604210840898noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-69323490410360695712008-08-09T23:27:00.000-04:002008-08-09T23:27:00.000-04:00hee hee hee... boobieshee hee hee... boobiesChemgeekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07803297898913358147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-54923630628104776472008-08-10T09:11:00.000-04:002008-08-10T09:11:00.000-04:00If one of the chess players had said to you, "...If one of the chess players had said to you, "Out for some dextral lucubrations?" would you have smacked his head the way I want to smack you for using that phrase?Riderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04961607486578877586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-41573673469961530022008-08-10T11:29:00.000-04:002008-08-10T11:29:00.000-04:00I learned chess once, just long enough to beat my ...I learned chess once, just long enough to beat my brother in 3 games. Then I never played again. That was almost 10 years ago. True story.Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14790581079702348943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-87940274027722925242008-08-10T22:21:00.000-04:002008-08-10T22:21:00.000-04:00Just thought I'd pop over and say I'm putt...Just thought I'd pop over and say I'm putting a blog link to you. Feel honored. I would. I don't link just anyone.Alainahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155540225515457507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-63622201160227081292008-08-11T07:24:00.000-04:002008-08-11T07:24:00.000-04:00A little while ago, for a short period, my boss br...A little while ago, for a short period, my boss brought his chess set to work and some of us would sit playing during our lunch break.<br><br>Apart from the chance to look all cerebral-like, it was actually a pretty cool thing to do (even if I never won a game).<br><br>Your blog post reminds me that I should really play again some time... maybe a challenging of the bf is in order :)Pfangirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04881211213654928985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-25083120036835803662008-08-11T19:30:00.000-04:002008-08-11T19:30:00.000-04:00This would be so much better if Morgan Freedman wa...This would be so much better if Morgan Freedman was reading it..... <br>:-)Lisa-tastrophieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04087582850469993109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-30112361003440305132008-08-12T09:40:00.000-04:002008-08-12T09:40:00.000-04:00@ chemgeek: heh heh...I know.@ rider: Don't ...<b>@ chemgeek:</b> heh heh...I know.<br><br><b>@ rider:</b> Don't hate me because I'm verbose. <br><br><b>@ frank:</b> I love the game, but I've always had an issue of not being able to see it when someone says "Oh, you have checkmate in six moves". I'm always like "Yeah, but see, he has five moves to counter that."<br><br><b>@ Alaina:</b> I'm highly honored! Thank you!<br><br><b>@ Pfangirl:</b> Some folks around here play games during lunch. I don't think anyone plays chess. Maybe I should just take a chess board down there and set it up, see what happens.<br><br><b>@ Lisa's chest:</b> EVERYTHING would sound better being read by Morgan Freeman. The contents on a can of Campbell's chicken and stars would sound better. No one can roll "sodium benzoate" off their tongues like Morgan Freeman.the iNDefatigable mjenkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761003604210840898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-14152193455874786932008-08-13T19:39:00.000-04:002008-08-13T19:39:00.000-04:00Young people played chess at the coffee shop I hun...Young people played chess at the coffee shop I hung out at, but they were a poor argument for chess - they acted like dorks, and one of them made trying to give massages to sixteen-year-old girls a hobby while another kept tongue-kissing his twelve-year-old daughter (oh, and he looked like the bastard child of Geddy Lee and Mastermind). I have to figure that most chess people aren't like that though.<br><br>We played bridge there, and we had younger people (like me and my wife) who learned to play. (We didn't help the face of American bridge much, either.) At work, though, I'm the youngest player - there are two or three others below sixty, but that's it. Some of the older people are good, but some are sort of clueless. We have more people in the bridge club than for cribbage, though.<br><br>There's a funny scene in Another Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace) where he gets beaten down by a seven-year-old on a cruise ship playing chess. <br><br>P.S. Oh, I hate my father's keyboard.Hapnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6457515953341334959.post-4919601635125875982008-08-20T16:42:00.000-04:002008-08-20T16:42:00.000-04:00Good picture, but you should have creepily taken a...Good picture, but you should have creepily taken a cell phone picture of them when they weren't looking instead.Willhttp://www.willandbeyond.com/noreply@blogger.com