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Yehuda: BGG.con Friday
More infoRachel is scholar and residence in Dallas this shabbat (not a coincidence). She landed in Dallas at 1:00, at the same time that I found my good friend Chris Brooks. Chris let Rachel crash for an hour in his room, and then I introduced Rachel to A...
Dateline: 2009-11-20 2:46pm PT (436 words)
 
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Yehuda: BGG.con Thurs
More info and picturesMy computer decided to start working again, so I'll write while I can. Games played today:Russian FishThis 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 ...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 11:47pm PT (972 words)
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Yehuda: BGG.con Wed
For more information, see my 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-c...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 9:31pm PT (306 words)
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Yehuda: Last Day in Oxford; Next Stop BGG.con
Visited the Oxford Gaming Club to play a little more Magic. This evening, attendance was low and people had to go early, so we didn't play an entire draft and Swiss rotation like we did last time.I started with a game of ... I don't remember the name. Oop...
Dateline: 2009-11-18 7:46am PT (851 words)
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Yehuda: Slices of Heaven
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.DanteSunday morning I walked down Broadway, endin...
Dateline: 2009-11-16 11:01am PT (323 words)
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Yehuda: Storms
Continental CVG to EWRRachel foolishly scheduled a Skype interview for 3:30 pm, which meant that we had to be at our destination and connected to the Internet by that time. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 11:30 from CVG and arrive at 1:30 in EWR (New...
Dateline: 2009-11-14 11:01pm PT (726 words)
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Yehuda: To NYC
We're off to NYC for the weekend. Rachel was invited to give a lecture in honor of Malka Bina, director of MaTaN, on Sunday morning. I have no idea where we're staying and what we'll be doing while we're there (Rachel does), but I know we'll have barely a...
Dateline: 2009-11-13 6:16am PT (91 words)
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Yehuda: A Revolution With Momentum
I met Philip duBarry over delicious kosher vegetarian Indian food in Cincinnati.Philip is the designer of Revolution!, now published by Steve Jackson Games. Here's the official site and BGG entry. His blog, Starting a Revolution, documents the trials and ...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 8:16pm PT (400 words)
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Yehuda: Session Report, in which Abraham uses a crooked die in Stone Age
The latest Jerusalem Strategy Gaming Club session report is up. Games played: Stone Age, Power Grid.BGG.con prep:I'm flying in on Wed morning and out on Monday morning.It looks like I'll have a convention-wide game for 900 simultaneous players ready for B...
Dateline: 2009-11-12 7:46am PT (163 words)
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Yehuda: I Can't Give You Water Because We Sell Water
Or, Adventures in CincinnatiHalf-Priced BooksI drove along small roads, because I couldn't figure out how to get onto and off of the major highways. Cincinnati's highways look like an overturned bowl of spaghetti. Look at your hand with your fingers sprea...
Dateline: 2009-11-11 9:46pm PT (1600 words)
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Yehuda: Gaming in Dayton
Dayton's game group generally only meets on shabbat, which would preclude me from attending. Perhaps in response to my request for an alternative day for gaming while I was in the area, or simply by coincidence, one of the gamers - Bruce - held a day of g...
Dateline: 2009-11-09 8:01pm PT (773 words)
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Yehuda: Hueston Woods State Park
Some 20 minutes north of Miami University, Hueston Woods State Park is a small lake surrounded by short hikes and picnic grounds, riding, boating, a small nature center and a small beach. The park is entirely tame, the hikes are very simple. Yet it's a ve...
Dateline: 2009-11-08 9:31pm PT (90 words)
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Yehuda: Silvoor Biological Sanctuary
Friday I walked around the Silvoor Biological Sanctuary ...One of several plaquesRickety bridgeI also stopped at the University Coop bookstore, which was a waste of time for anyone not interested in either U of M branded memorabilia or textbooks.Sat after...
Dateline: 2009-11-07 10:01pm PT (85 words)
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Yehuda: A Trip, But Not a Vacation
At least, not yet.Every other time I've traveled, I went out every day, camera and curious eye ready to see and report on something new. This trip, I've just been holed up in the house, working, just as if I was in Israel. One town is really like another ...
Dateline: 2009-11-06 5:31am PT (88 words)
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Yehuda: When Did Lectures Become Entertainment?
I guess I always saw "lectures" listed next to movies, dance, theater, and so on, but somehow I never connected them to entertainment.I must be an adult.Seeing how Rachel prepares for her "performances", having prepared my own, having gone to a lecture ab...
Dateline: 2009-11-05 4:31am PT (92 words)
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