tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post6082974385743875743..comments2024-03-28T14:07:21.692-07:00Comments on Diary of a Fat Slob: Old Asian ladiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-58206295935204590212022-09-29T07:29:06.750-07:002022-09-29T07:29:06.750-07:00Are they rosary beads, I wonder?Are they rosary beads, I wonder?Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-6115677466993058932022-09-28T20:53:28.840-07:002022-09-28T20:53:28.840-07:00I understand that anal beads will send you right o...I understand that anal beads will send you right off to slumberland, but I might have misread the instructions.<br /><br />JohnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-76696514949136335922022-09-28T20:52:11.258-07:002022-09-28T20:52:11.258-07:00Well I'm quainter and older and I was unaware ...Well I'm quainter and older and I was unaware of the existence of anal beads, vibrating or not. Obviously I chose the wrong women for date night.<br /><br />jibAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-81469213665169000092022-09-28T12:05:27.471-07:002022-09-28T12:05:27.471-07:00My main interest is in knowing the details of the ...My main interest is in knowing the details of the cheating, and whether vibrating anal beads were involved.<br /><br />I'm so quaint and old, I didn't know vibrating was an option in anal beads.Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-37652868864526339082022-09-27T16:45:42.470-07:002022-09-27T16:45:42.470-07:00Thanks for the link. That sounds like the Magnus I...Thanks for the link. That sounds like the Magnus I've been following for the last 15 years. I have no idea why he can't or won't say more, but clearly he was told something in confidence, and Magnus would respect a confidence. Some of the World Chess Champions (a title not universally recognized until 2006 but informally used since the mid-19th century) have included some, um, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-46028897115553417782022-09-27T15:44:59.134-07:002022-09-27T15:44:59.134-07:00Magnus Carlsen has now spoken his mind, and quite ...<a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FdmvqW6WIAMTdPL?format=jpg&name=900x900" rel="nofollow">Magnus Carlsen has now spoken his mind</a>, and quite well, in my first reading. <br /><br />I'm unsure what he means at the end, when he says he's limited in what he can say without the cheater's permission. Maybe there's some rule against badmouthing other players?<br /><br />Chess Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-42686547517156221502022-09-26T15:06:08.298-07:002022-09-26T15:06:08.298-07:00Well, everybody has his own idea of a good time.
...Well, everybody has his own idea of a good time. <br /><br />jtbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-87284571487712149532022-09-24T13:03:05.300-07:002022-09-24T13:03:05.300-07:00That's the best explanation of it all that I&#...That's the best explanation of it all that I've seen.<br /><br />> GM Carlsen was simply dealing out frontier justice because this guy had cheated before.<br /><br />To the point, this guy is at least *suspected* of cheating <i>against Carlsen</i> before, and recently.<br /><br />I'd hold a grudge too.<br /><br />You might be right that walking out after one move was chickenshit, Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-43573947029106640832022-09-24T00:31:48.264-07:002022-09-24T00:31:48.264-07:00And I never figured out where the anal beads fit i...And I never figured out where the anal beads fit in, so to speak.<br /><br />jtbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-65736437774133143602022-09-24T00:15:28.284-07:002022-09-24T00:15:28.284-07:00Starting in around 2000, Deep Blue and other chess...Starting in around 2000, Deep Blue and other chess programs started beating human players. Between 2000 and 2015, there was a dramatic increase in computer speeds (usually measured in millions of instructions per second [MIPS]). This enabled chess engines (as chess software is now called) to use brute force to play the best game possible.<br /><br />Brute force simply means that a chess engine Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-9293578538249104222022-09-23T20:47:25.499-07:002022-09-23T20:47:25.499-07:00That was a complicated joke, but it worked for me,...That was a complicated joke, but it worked for me, and I laughed out loud for about ten seconds.<br /><br />I've been somewhat sleep deprived lately, though, and that might be a factor. :)Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-75882706009130573162022-09-23T20:40:24.646-07:002022-09-23T20:40:24.646-07:00My assumption is that online cheating involves usi...My assumption is that online cheating involves using a computer to pick or advise your moves. How anyone would detect that, though, I can't guess.<br /><br />Have you played in tournaments, or RU just a fan? I played chess competitively, badly and briefly, some decades ago, but don't follow the game at all any more. All the names in this scandal were new to me, but naturally, they had me Doug Hollandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-34612216955178880682022-09-23T18:59:19.559-07:002022-09-23T18:59:19.559-07:00You have two stories about naming things: One abou...You have two stories about naming things: One about the Tampa Bay Rays, which is trying to get Ray's Boathouse's Website name to use for their team site, and a lane in England that wants its name changed because it embarrasses them.<br /><br />I suggest that the problems be combined. Let Ray's Boathouse keep their Web name, and rename the Tampa Bay team after two Republican leaders Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811987615829975890.post-50849503164773446842022-09-23T01:38:43.699-07:002022-09-23T01:38:43.699-07:00As someone who has defended NPR content and presen...As someone who has defended NPR content and presentation on this site, I should say that the above article on international online chess chess cheating and Magnus Carlsen's recent walkout of a tournament game after the first move was badly written. The piece didn't explain how online chess cheating works, nor how it is detected. It would have taken less than two minutes to explain how Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com