I first played Go in Chicago ~1985ish; helped found Tacoma Go Club in 2003 (Tacoma, WA, US). As of Aug. 2006, I'm 6k in the AGA.
Interests:
Baduk of course; snowboarding; kayaking; graphic design.
2008 will be great - posted on Fri Dec 14 06:39:29 EST 2007
Great Blue's back from the shop. Tranny should be good for a few years now. Yay! Biking to work and borrowing cars had become tiresome.
V. Castanza Memorial Tournament is scheduled, sort of, for January -- finding a venue with adequate seating and heating is proving a challenge. Gordon thought we had PLU lined up, but they want us to have a million-dollar insurance policy -- in case a player slams down a stone too hard, and sprains a finger, I suppose. So, PLU may be out (or we may be able to get an exemption, not sure); meanwhile, the new kids at TCC may come up with a room. Commencement Bay Coffee Co. is possible, but we fear the room will be chilly, as it was last year. (From what the owner says, how cold it is there on a given day depends on whether the wind is out of the north or south.)
Looming on the horizon -- children's championship qualifiers. Also, Roy Hayashi Memorial aka Spring tournament.
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Testing... - posted on Tue Oct 23 02:45:29 EDT 2007
Hey, there's a blog feature at GD now? Cool.
Ran the tournament Saturday on paper -- too lazy to figure out how to install ross's pairpro jar on Ubuntu. Fairly painless, with only 8 players to pair. Solomon squeaked a half-point win vs. Andrew, with nine stones... but then he flubbed one of the mid-terms he didn't study enough for. A lapsed AGA member who now lives in Federal Way came in and rejoined, which was great. (He pointed out the lack of contact info on the announcements webpage... D'oh!)
In other news, the Great Blue Wagon is in the shop. Something called a "flex plate" has some of its teeth chewed up, apparently, which is a Bad Thing. So, I'm scratching my head about how to get down to the PDX tournament in a few weeks.
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