A Recent Chess Game

Date: 21/9/2003
White: My opponent
Black: Randy McDonald
Opening: C00 French Defense

1. e4 e6 2. Be2 Be7 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. O-O O-O 5. d4 d5 6. e5 Nh5 7. Ng5 Bxg5 8. Bxg5 Qxg5 9. Bxh5 Qe7 10. Qf3 Bd7 11. Nc3 Nc6 12. Rae1 Rae8 13. Re3 Nb4 14. Qg4 Nxc2 15. Rg3 g6 16. Bxg6 fxg6 17. Ne2 Rf7 18. Nf4 Ref8 19. Nxg6 hxg6 20. Qxg6+ Rg7 21. Qh6 Bb5 22. Rc1 Nxd4 23. Rxc7 Qxc7 24. Qh4 Qxe5 25. Rh3 Qd6 26. Qh8+ Kf7 27. Rf3+ Ke7 28. Qxg7+ Kd8 29. Rxf8+ Be8 30. Rh8 Nf5 31. Qf7 Qc6 32. g4 Nd6 33. Qxe6 d4 34. Kf1 d3 35. Ke1 Nc4 36. Kd1 Nxb2+ 37. Kd2 Nc4+ 38. Kxd3 Kc7 39. Rxe8 Nb2+ 40. Kd2 Nc4+ 41. Ke2 Na5 42. g5 b5 43. g6 Qd7 44. Qxd7+ Kxd7 45. Rf8 Ke7 46. Rf4 Nc4 47. g7 Nd6 48. g8Q Ne8 49. Qf7+ Kd6 50. Qxe8 Kc5 51. Qd8 b4 52. h4 a5 53. h5 a4 54. Rf3 b3 55. axb3 Kb4 56. Qb8+ Ka3 57. bxa4+ Ka2 58. h6 Ka1 59. h7 Ka2 60. h8R Ka1 61. Rh1+ Ka2 62. Qb1#
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Finances

My student loan check came in from the Province of Prince Edward Island last Thursday the 18th, and today I've signed my teacher's assistantship contract.

I'm really doing it.

Some art reproductions on my walls

Positioned, in clockwise order, beginning at seven o'clock and continuing through to one o'clock:

Van Gogh, "Terrasse de Café"



Monet, "Tulip Field With the Rijnsburg Windmill"



Utamaro, "The Lovers"



Waterhouse, "Lady of Shalott"



Monet, "Crepuscolo"



Van Gogh, "Starlight over Rhône"

[ARTICLE] On Censuses and their Political Uses

This reminds me so much of linguistic censuses in Canada.

From the New York Times:

A Jewish Recount
By J.J. GOLDBERG

According to reports in major news outlets, a study published last week included a startling discovery: the nation's Jewish population is shrinking. The study, the National Jewish Population Survey, found 5.2 million Jews living in the United States in 2000, a drop of 5 percent, or 300,000 people, since a similar study in 1990. What's truly startling is that the reported decline is not true. Worse still, the sponsor of the $6 million study, United Jewish Communities, knows it.

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