Somewhat old news, but since 2000 the World Bridge Federation drug tests players and will strip them of their medals if they refuse the test.
Archive for the ‘Gaming’ Category
A warning to UniSFAns
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008WoW!
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008MMOGChart charts active subscriptions to MMOGs (massively multiplayer online games). Impressive graph of WoW v everthing else here.
BBQ for Adrian
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008For those of you who know him, Adrian Smith is in town (ex UK and China) and is having a BBQ at his parents’ place on this Saturday 9th February at 5pm. He says to bring something to BBQ, salads are provided.
Mail me direct/comment if you need his folks’ address, and feel free to invite anyone he might know.
Scrabble videos
Friday, February 1st, 2008As I’ve recently fallen in with the rest of you lot and started playing Scrabulous on Facebook (no doubt sealing its doom at the hands of Mattel, and thence Facebook’s), I thought I’d share some amusing Scrabble videos, namely Triple Word War and the much more risque Scrabble Rousers (love the Louis Armstrong provided soundtrack, “Skokiaan”).
R.I.P. Bobby Fischer
Sunday, January 20th, 2008I saw in the paper that Bobby Fischer died the other day, still the holder of many chess records.
In May 1949, the six-year-old Fischer learned how to play chess from instructions found in a chess set that his sister bought at a candy store below their Brooklyn apartment.
The Works of Tim Powers
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Fans of the strange and wonderful works of author Tim Powers might like to check out the revamped The Works of Tim Powers site, now running under Wordpress.
Practice safe WoW
Sunday, August 26th, 2007I hadn’t realised there’d been a plague in the World of Warcraft back in 2005. Probably better to die of that than the ignominity of a dirty guinea pig.
The weekend
Monday, August 13th, 2007- Work bits
- The all important drinks.
- Nachos
- Movies
- Printer unbreaking
- Grocery shopping
- Outlook
- Poker (Lost. Gotta work on that know when to hold ‘em/fold ‘em thing)
- Sleep
- Going home
- Random office tidyup
- Router configuration
- Boy time
- Girl time
- Dinner
King of Kong
Friday, July 20th, 2007Follows a middle school science teacher as he battles a hot sauce mogul for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic Donkey Kong.
Need I say more? Oh, check out the haircuts.
