May 18, 2004 | Personal, Recreational
From The Quotation Page‘s Quote of the Day for the last week. Ponder and enjoy them.
Cecil Baxter. “You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.”
John A. Wheeler. “If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.”
Alan Kay. “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Unknown. “Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.”
Paul Harvey. “In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
May 9, 2004 | Recreational
When I was a young’un teaching myself the game of chess, I remember coming across a chess dictionary that mentioned something called postal or correspondence chess. (Trivia: the first postal chess match was played in 1824.) What struck me about postal chess was that you could play with anyone, no matter how far away they lived.
This was before the Internet had entered my consciousness. Since then, I’ve used the ‘net as a conduit to play turn-based games that lasted from half a year (Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri) to real time games that have lasted, well, nearly five years and counting (EverQuest). The games I’ve chosen are themselves fun, but interacting with old college friends and relatives who live far away is the real excitement.
Now, it seems to me I’ve gone full circle. Am I playing the latest, greatest new multiplayer game out there? No, I’ve just started playing chess by email with my grad school chum. Wish me luck!
T. S. Eliot. “Humor is also a way of saying something serious.” [Quotes of the Day]
