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My computer decided to start working again, so I'll write while I can. Games
played today:
Russian Fish
This is Go Fish for six players (possibly more). The 8's are removed from a
deck of cards, yielding 8 sets of 6 cards in each suit (high clubs, low
clubs, etc). All cards are dealt out.
On your turn, IFF you have a card from one of the eight sets, you can ask any
of your opponent's for a specific other card from that set IFF you don't have
that specific card. For instance, if you hold the 9 of diamonds, you can ask
opponent B for the jack of diamonds. You can't ask for the jack of diamonds
if you already have it, and not if you don't have one of the top six
diamonds. if you get the card, you get to ask one of your opponents for
another card, using... (more)
The 2009 Jewish Bloggers Conference has ended. It was something of a mixture,
with many signs of improvement, but the conference still has a ways to go to
reach maturity.
It was good enough to give me hope for future iterations.
Location and Organization
The location and organization was excellent. Food was fine. Service was fine.
Acoustics and timing were fine. Things even went, roughly, on... (more)
The Secrets of Corporate Blogging
I would like to begin with defining what corporate blogging is. There are
actually four types of blogs that can be considered corporate blogs; I will
list these definitions later. For now, suffice to say that I am most
interested in corporate blogging as “professional blogging on behalf of a
company”.
So first I have to explain: what is professional bloggi... (more)
For more information, see my prep-day/">Purple Pawn entry.
Games I saw a lot of, so far: Tichu, Race for the Galaxy, Endeavor. Mischa
brought me kosher food from New Orleans. Yum.
After helping set up, I played some games:
Peeper: Ted Alspach demonstrated this ladder-climbing game from Korea for me,
Rick Thornquist, and Marshall. The game uses tiles, instead of cards, and his
version was a d... (more)
I'm usually the one who leaves his cell phone (or overcoat) in the airplane
lounge. It wasn't me this time. I gave the phone to the agent at the gate,
and it turned out to be the guy sitting in front of us.
Dante
Sunday morning I walked down Broadway, ending up at Kosher Delight. It may be
fast food, but nothing beats a real New York hot dog, followed by a dish of
Chinese beef and snow pea... (more)
Yehuda Berlinger has been programming since he was eight years old, and consulting about the Internet since he was twelve. He has worked professionally for more than fifteen years as a UNIX systems administrator, a web programmer, and a technical writer. His interests include social aspects of technology and board games. He is now 37 years old and lives in Jerusalem, Israel with his wife and four children. He blogs at 
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