chess à trois

There is a rule sheet ( next page ), but you can start playing without it and refer to it as needed.  Basically, three sets of pieces (the...

wow

The mail has just come.  Envelope from Harvard University Press.  HUP is celebrating 100 years of the Loeb Classical Library - which they no...

NEXT time, I want a tattoo artist

Of course, tattoo artists come from a different world, one where people come in, request a drawing, the artist does the work and gets paid,...

Lunch with my mother and sister. My sister says at some point: "Sometimes I wonder, where did we COME from?" She enlarges.  The Ve...

christmas is coming . . .

My ex-father-in-law, Eric Levene, is a GP. A GP with an exceptionally well-stocked liquor cabinet. Christmas comes but once a year, and when...

disgusted in topeka

pp has not had much to say about statistics lately.  So. Data. Cussedness thereof. Lighting Rods took a long time to get published.  It was ...

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