I apologize for lack of updates, especially for the tournament. I’ve been busy with other things.
The next step for the tournament is the final match between the winners of the two divisions…except until all the games are finished, we won’t know who those are.
In the meantime, you can visit The Picture is Unrelated to get your kicks…disappointingly tiny, but should provide 2 or maybe 3 minutes of quality entertainment.
Hey, I’ve been working out recently, and I look even more manly than ever. Let me know how good you think my rock-hard abs look.
I have no clue whether this will be entertaining in the long term. At myminicity.com, you can create a city, and each time someone visits (up to once per day per person), a citizen is added.
So visit my lonely mini-city. I will warn you ahead of time, there is basically nothing to do there.
With the Olympic games in Beijing next month, the Brits are pondering 4 years down the line when they hold the 2012 games. The BBC asked their readers to submit ideas for their own mascots–and considering the number of readers, you’d think someone could come up with something that’s not either ridiculous or mundane. Frighteningly, if you threw the LEP Mascot into the mix, it might not be the worst one.
The one featured in the picture to the right is an aerosol can wearing a Burberry hat named Charlie Chav. Now this is something I wish I’d thought of. Maybe if the Olympic committee decides an aerosol can mascot is not the direction they want to go in, I’ll hire him myself.
Now this is the kind of spark the chess world could use (NSFW): Shaq vs Kobe is not over
Topalov burning Kramnik in a freestyle rap…that would be cool.
This next video is not something the chess world needs, but it’s related to the first. Its quality is 100% worthy of this website, though…
The strangely addicting Desktop Tower Defense has provided us with several hours of distraction, strategy pondering, and joy. The egg and I have been fiercely battling for the highest score. While I was the first to beat normal difficulty, the Mascot’s edged me out in score…but he hasn’t had the GUTS to try Hard!
If you want to boast of your ability, submit your score and enter “Liquid Egg” (without quotes) for the group name when it asks.
I was showing the Mascot this video and we agreed that it would be awesome to make a game as good as this.
Thanks to one of my good college friends (who occasionally uses the moniker “Construction Bob”) for introducing me to this fine game.
“Remember kids, don’t try this at home even if you have a bottomless pit in your backyard”!
Never mind the garbage that comes out of American radio. The North Koreans have cooked up some serious hit songs recently (iTunes doesn’t seem to have them yet for some reason). The only thing is that’s it’s tough deciding which one’s the best…
Loading …The Mascot has gone over to BDK. Or taken him hostage. Or something. Guess I should have given him that raise.
Good riddance; I don’t need him.
The legendary Blue Devil Knight is leaving the blogosphere really soon, at least for now. (”Legendary” should be understood in context, in as much as it is possible to call a personal chess blog a legend.) I was unfortunate to have caught him only during the last third of his time on the net. He held the reins of the Secretary Knight for some time and turned his site into a nexus of chess information and improvement for the Knights Errant and passing patzers alike.
The website wasn’t without controversy. Critics universally panned his decision to get rid of his spinning head.
BDK, we at LEP wish you the best in your future endeavors.
And the black glove was a nice touch.
