I’m here! I’m at Strange Loop! It’s opening keynote time! The opening keynote was presented by Felienne Hermans. This was more like two talks which are sort of connected, but she didn’t make the connection explicit. In the first half, she talked about the work she is more known for, about spreadsheets. Her grad studies […]
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Electrical Engineering 101
The current state of Firepower- after fixing a couple of broken connections and replacing all (ALL) of the fuses, most of which were horribly mismatched, Firepower boots! Sort of. One of the coils is most likely shorted, as evidenced by the knock you hear when you flip on power, the horrible smell, and the immediate […]
Stats
My late-tournament rise and fall in graph format (lower on the X axis is, confusingly, higher in the rankings)
And it’s done
Finished with a whimper- Creature – second Hulk- Third Title Fight – last Final results will be in soon- I think over the course of the early morning I went from somewhere around 55th to somewhere around 90th. Ugh. Still, a ton of fun and I’ll be here again next year.
Round 15
Medusa – LAST Blackjack – LAST Congo – LAST So frustrated with myself right now. This was the worst possible time in the whole tournament to take a zero, and I played like hot garbage and let my disappointment about it get to me. Ugh.
Round 14
Dialed In – LAST Frontier – Third Baseball – LAST My right big toe hurts very badly. Coffee #2. It’s raining. The sun is up.
Round 13
Eight Ball Deluxe – Third Hokus Pokus – First Jack*Bot – Second
Round 12
Robocop – FIRST Stars – Second Tron – FIRST Where were rounds like this twelve hours ago….
Mental and Physical State
Everything starts to feel a bit floaty. For one thing, it is just a weird, very mentally taxing environment. You are in a pretty small space with 100 people and a lot of very loud pinball machines. Between rounds you can escape outdoors or to the hallway, but when you’re playing it is really a […]
Alien Poker Third Flip Flop FIRST Full Throttle…
Alien Poker – Third Flip Flop – FIRST Full Throttle – FUCKING LAST FUCKING AGAIN I hate Full Throttle.