As bad as I felt last night at this time is as good as I feel tonight. What a difference, as they say, a day makes. I have just rattled off over 3,000 words (~12 pages) tonight, in a remarkably…
Category: A Day in the Life
Frustration
Chapter 32 may be long remembered as the one that got away. After four nights and just shy of 5,000 words, I think I can finally put it behind me (for now), but it’s taken its toll. A lot of…
Crime vs. Convention
Part 7 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 3 (re: Enron executives and their wallets) Today’s round features one of my favorite opp-choice cases from my senior-year case-writing binge. The case was…
It All Makes Sense
This post is an antidote, a message in a bottle, a documentation of a sensation and a perception about the world that is here and irrevocable. It’s something that I may lose, but no one can take away from me.…
Obama Nobel Prize Win Inspires Irrational Exuberance Awards!
Russ and I worked all night to bring you this stunning awards show: Enjoy. Tell your friends. Book your tickets on a dirigible!
Peace is Dead.
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” -Inigo Montoya, “The Princess Bride” (movie) At this rate, Inigo Montoya is the leading candidate to win the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Sure, he’s…
Streak On!
The streak didn’t end tonight after all (as I just just alluded – in fact, I had one of my most productive writing sessions of the whole week. And the word count was higher than it would have been had…
Planned Obsolescence
DOS and Windows 3.1 were great operating systems. DOS was possibly the best, since everything was intuitive and everything was in its place, but if you really require a visual setup, then I guess Windows 3.1 was the answer. It…
When the World is Silent, the Mind Comes Alive
Twice a week, I drive to New Brunswick from Princeton, a 16-mile jaunt that usually takes over half an hour to complete because of the nature of driving in New Jersey. I head up there in the 8:00 hour to…
Enron and the Cops
Part 6 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 4 (re: Stalin vs. Lenin) Today’s round is the only time in my career where I remember someone running a counter-case against an opp-choice…