What happens when you take a bunch of ultimate players, and put them in New England in the winter? Sushi. Lots and lots of sushi. 24.77 pounds of sushi eaten by 10 people, to be precise. Slightly more than a kilogram each of rice and fish. In retrospect, it was both a very fun, and [...]
There’s something to be said for school spirit. The University of Chicago, god love it, had none. At least none in the traditional sense. Our school spirit mostly revolved around the Reg, Soc, and bragging about how late we stayed up to write our papers the night before. (Bragging about how much whiskey you added [...]
…haven’t posted in a long, long time. This post isn’t going to go into depth on anything, just a quick catch-up. I’ve spent most of the past three weeks preparing to move a data center from Watertown, MA to North Andover, MA. The tricky part, of course, is that there’s a live website on the [...]
Off to Chicago tomorrow, for the weekend. My old co-editor from the UofC Free Press (RIP) is getting married. Crashing with some Tea and Strumpets/ex-UofC folks, and looking forward to catching up…maybe I can find time to take advantage of one of the recommendations on Scrumptulescence while I’m there, too…hmmm… Life has been crazy busy, [...]
Ultimate players are a little bit obsessed with Roshambo, known to most in the US as Rock, Paper, Scissors. Many of them study the strategy guides published by the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Society. They waste their time at work playing the Roshambot. And, most of all, they turn to Roshambo to avoid any kind [...]
Off to Middlebury in a few minutes, for Get Ho, Get L’eid. Every year, it’s a very fun tournament, and here’s hoping that this year will be more of the same. Regardless, some Otter Creek can’t hurt. (Especially if I manage to get my hands on some Stovepipe Porter…oh! Or maybe some of the Wolvaer’s [...]