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crossposted from my LJ:http://zaxec.livejournal.com/45134.html I wish I had accomplished more this year. Here's what I did. In the last couple days I received this in the mail. I am typing this entry on it. I have been cubing a lot more and got my best time ever the other night: 30.19 seconds. I won one … Continue reading »

I wish I had accomplished more this year. Here’s what I did.

What follows is our (long) conversation.

This will be short. I just want to get this down for posterity. A couple hours ago, I made the finals of a tournament where first prize was an Ancestral Recall. I wound up getting the Recall. It was a Grand Prix Trial, for a GP I don't plan on going to, and second place … Continue reading »

This will be short. I just want to get this down for posterity. A couple hours ago, I made the finals of a tournament where first prize was an Ancestral Recall. I wound up getting the Recall. It was a Grand Prix Trial, for a GP I don’t plan on going to, and second place … Continue reading »

At 6am on Sunday, Vroman, Josh Lalo and I departed from Vroman’s apartment in the U-city loop to drive 5+hours to a Vintage tournament a little ways north of Chicago to compete for a Mox Pearl. The night before the event, I went to a birthday party for a friend of my girlfriend’s. It was … Continue reading »

[This post was originally written for my employer’s blog, Show-Me Daily.] There’s been a lot of talk lately about health care, especially at the suddenly very popular town hall–style meetings, which have seen both violence and passionate debate. As both David Stokes and I have argued, we are better off remaining civil. And, because health … Continue reading »

Here's the good news: I will commit to making something for you and four other people. Several friends of mine on FB have sent out a similar note and, as a soon-to-be recipient of “something” from at least one of them, I agreed to pay it forward. The first five (5) people to respond by … Continue reading »

Vroman wrote this, it's great. http://zaxec.livejournal.com/44147.html For the record, I'm pretty sure I am not facebook friends with anyone who could benefit from this advice in anything but entertainment value. Do share this with any loser acquaintances, however.

My friend Vroman wrote this: How To Not Fail