“Not that the good guys are much better. Their leader, Churchill, appeared in a grand total of one episode before, where he was a bumbling general who suffered an embarrassing defeat to the Ottomans of all people in the Battle of Gallipoli. Now, all of a sudden, he’s not only Prime Minister, he’s not only a brilliant military commander, he’s not only the greatest orator of the twentieth century who can convince the British to keep going against all odds, he’s also a natural wit who is able to pull out hilarious one-liners practically on demand. I know he’s supposed to be the hero, but it’s not realistic unless you keep the guy at least vaguely human.” (squid314, reviewing the old-school television series, World War II)
“We need to give this effect a name. I suggest ‘Idiot Storm’.” (BabylonDrifter at comment 283 on the great Facebook login tarpit of 2010)
“It feels good to be playing again. Who needs a life anyway?” (NannyOgg, on resuming the one true board game)
“Urgent before big.” (rule 16 of kyu go, according to Vultur)
“Conservation of outrage is the wrong answer.” (Clay Shirky, on making up reasons to give Amazon.com a kick)
“The result is a state of still restlessness; of calm excitement. I laugh out loud simply because I can.” (kifudancer, doing it correctly)
This is at the 2009 linux.conf.au..
“Remember, most women would rather chew off a leg than be rude to a man to his face, so it may be difficult to get an honest answer.” (Val Henson, on the scarcity of women in most Linux communities)
“Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of the prophecy, and blessed are those who hear and who keep what is written in it; for the time is near.” (John 1:3)
“So, here I am.” (Hye Yeon)
That is all.
I played a game with ~kifudancer the other evening at the club:
Around move 110 you can see the signature knife-fight for a large group of stones in order to clear a moyo by brute force; this is a common feature of my games against club opponents when I have sleepwalked through the opening. My osimato was weak, and the fight petered out in ignominy around move 162 with the connection to the lower-right group. Usually with these I lose the attacking forces and thence the game, but this time I managed to pull out at least the upper half.
In the end, white has a really large top-right corner and bottom territory, plus a chunky piece of the centre-left. The monkey-jump at move 184 was large, but not as large I think as the death of the top-right corner and the reduction of the bottom-left corner down to temporary seki. White by 41.
“Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are.” (Cornelius Krasel)
Here’s a game I played recently by correspondence:
As you can see, I managed a corner invasion in the top-left quite early. Both players left it alone, black assuming it could be killed easily, white assuming the unusual distance to the principal wall below meant it would live easily. In the end, it was a knife-fight for seki, which I lost due to the aji of the black triangle at the bottom centre.
“Console yourself with the knowledge that it was only your lover of the last six months who dumped you, not your best friend of the last fifteen years.” (Justine Larbalestier, advice for a sudden relationship deficit)
Testing this goban written in ECMAscript.
Cool, huh?
“I could give excuses, but the truth works much better.” (kifudancer, explaining herself)
1001 Life and Death Problems, by Bozulich, a few pages at a time, in preparation for the Australian Open. Naturally, a helpful correspondent has pointed out the errata.
The two references I’ve found to Australian sign language are:
This afternoon I made some zucchini slice for dinner with my family. It was delicious…
I ended up putting three cups of grated zucchini and a full cup of corn, which probably explains why it was so squishy. But still good to eat.
You have been invited into a special relationship with your godchild, a relationship of support and encouragement. Are you ready to accept the responsibilities this relationship brings?
“We are.”
Will you encourage your godchild, support your godchild’s parents, and give assistance as you are able, that Maia will grow in faith, hope, and love?
“With God’s help, we will.”
(nine o’clock service, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest)
“What defines the Christian community is not primarily ideology, or common feeling, or polity, or even agreement on points of theology and ethics; but engagement with God.” (Working Group on Doctrine, the Uniting Church in Australia)
