Official Community Thread [11/12/2011] Crow, Part of a Balanced Breakfast

I go in a speed mode and trust my gut instinct. Also I look at the board diagonally because most players ignore that and my bishops are monsters

I once lost to my sister, who was then 6, when I was 20.
There is only one person I’ve ever beaten at chess, a former apartment-mate. I suppose it’s a consolation that he’s a lawyer now.

Sometimes.

That’s how much it affects it.

yes I do…

never will get a chance in the playoffs.

it’s at this hip bar/pizza joint and I have a feeling that the game will be on in the part of the bar with the TV (since this is a Giants/Jets/Patriots fanbase here in Connecticut.)

If the game is on and we are sitting in view of the TV, I’m going to come across as distracted/disinterested. If the game isn’t on, I’m going to be getting gnawed up inside (especially if the game is close before I leave for dinner).

I’ve come to you, mcwagner, because in this darkest of times I have but nowhere else to go.

Check the battery, is their a problem with the cord connection, and the power supply, do you have to reset the time each time too?

that will fix any software problems.

If your computer keeps shutting down, then it’s a hardware problem.

Step One: Become a citizen of some other nation.
Step Two: Get a student loan from the US Government.
Step Three: Buy a new laptop.
Step Four: Go to the other nation that you became a citizen of.
Step Five: Stay there, forever.

This plan ought to work perfectly, as your crime won’t be big enough for the US to go through all the trouble of having you extradited and tried for fraud. The hardest part would be gaining citizenship in the foreign nation. You would most likely have to settle for much, much less. Step Two should be the easiest part, as the Government seems to hand out student loans like the loans are candy, the Government is the place that always hands out tons of candy on Halloween, and it’s Halloween. Just dress up as a student, pinkie swear that you will pay them back, and boom, you’re in. Make sure you send me a “Thank You” post card from your new home Seven, and enjoy that awesome new laptop!

the fact that he thinks ant-killing is illegal, or that he totally just kicked a dog.

I still pay for cable. In SF we get all the 49ers games, but for games on NFL Network and ESPN, I like having them on a clear view rather than trying to find streams on my computer.

haven’t missed it. DirectTV treated me like trash so I cancelled them the second my cancellation fee was cheaper than staying with them. Got a Wii and watch Netflix instead. I was pretty ticked when they raised their prices and acted smug about it, but they are still so much cheaper and I prefer movies than commercials (which is all that is on t.v. with quick spurts of the world’s fattest couple doing a sing off) and I watch streaming sports.
No regrets and I really don’t see myself changing that.

Play Duck Hunt and pay some local 8 year olds to sit in your living room and scream homophobic slurs at you.

Same experience — except you actually get to hold a plastic gun. Ooooooooooooohhh.