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…
Category: A Day in the Life
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…
In Which I am (Again) a Blue Pyramid
Last night, Emily and I joined some of her school friends in attending a reading by noted “humorist” David Sedaris. It was kind of appalling. It should be noted that I have avoided reading Sedaris, despite recommendations from many of…
The End of the Season
It’s October. There’s a lot of sleight of hand involved in October, but perhaps its greatest achievement is bringing an end to baseball season without generally making me upset about said end. Granted that the excitement of playoff baseball and…
The 20th Century: All About the Soviets
Part 5 in an 8-part series regressing through the Stanford 2002 APDA tournament. Last week: Round 5 (re: Native American Reparations) Today’s round features one of the best cases I ever hit in my tenure on APDA, run by a…
Lights, Pumpkins, Action
In October 2002, back in the relatively early days of Introspection, I first came up with the idea of altering the whole theme of the blog site to celebrate Halloween. In 2004, after two years of just changing the color…
Monday Monday
Days like this, I miss having Introspection. I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed and uninspired and like I have thousands of things to catch people up on. Just like 2.5 weeks ago, it’s time for bullet points: I spent most of…
Solitary, Bookish, and Mid-Sized
September still has a week to go, but the stats are looking pretty good for work on American Dream On. While work on various other projects, including three short stories and a quiz, has slowed substantially, this has been the…
The Most Open Case that Never Lost
While we’re waiting to see if I have the inclination to post my journal from last year’s India/Nepal trip, I figured I could trot out the rest of the Stanford 2002 filmed rounds as a recurring set of content for…