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Interesting story - Miami-Dade community college’s chess team in the Final Four of collegiate chess - having already beaten Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, etc… Cool. Actually, I had no idea that there was a Final Four for chess. Man, talk about March Madness there.
As for NCAA March Madness - three of my Final [...]

What is up with the City this week? Last week, I was in DC, and yes, there were a lot of panhandlers, but they were relatively non-violent, and crime actually seems to be under control. I was able to walk around Dupont Circle, the monuments, and around Arlington without fear of my life.
Here in NYC, [...]

It’s Brooklyn Restaurant Week, March 19-30, 2007.
Ah, got to love these obnoxious free speech cases that somehow make it to the US Supreme Court; they kind of make you shake your head and sigh. Only these kinds of cases give you headlines like “Supreme Court hears ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ case.” [...]

Well, there goes one of my Final Four: Louisville’s out.
NY Times reading -
training and directing workers to skilled work: as a mechanic. Apparently, our increasingly computerized world means we need car mechanics who can diagnose car illnesses with computers and with other mechanics retiring, there’s a real need. I liked [...]

Get your NCAA brackets ready… let’s see what will happen… (ok, pointless confession: I didn’t pick UPenn, but I am rooting for them. Really. Can you imagine what kind of upset it’d be if the Ivy League at least get to the second round?).
Associated Press has an article on how the [...]