"marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> My first Poast as Marika January 7, 1999 (I think this was the first)
>>> excerpt
>>> Boris Bacynskyj died this week, no one can quite find out how or why.
>>> He was in his late 50s.
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>> he is the cousin referred to
>>>
>>> I memorialized him here with some of my first poasts.
>>>
>>> Here's a copy of his book
>>>
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Chess-II-David-Welsh/dp/0697099113
>>>
>>> there's lots of other links about him on the net
>>>
>>> =======================================
>>>
>>> Speaking of religion, this is Christmas and I feel somewhat sad,
>>> because I have no family nearby. I made a traditional Christmas
>>> eve dinner, I called out the forces of nature and invited the
>>> ancestors to dine with me. Tomorrow, friends will take me for
>>> Christmas dinner and a play, so I won't be too lonely.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry if I sound a little disorganized here, but I am so
>>> terribly missing my family.
>>>
>>> I just got a Christmas card and my friend put in a Japanese
>>> inscription. That is one of the languages I have not yet
>>> studied. It may be a while before I get the translation
>>> because there are no Japanese in the city where I am now
>>> residing. I am thinking of xeroxing it and sending it to my
>>> American cousins in Cambridge. One is a social worker in a
>>> South East Asian nonprofit organization. Obviously, Lao,
>>> Cambodian and Vietnamese are not the same. Still, she might
>>> just know someone who knows the language. In addition, her
>>> brother Boris might, too, because he spent Peace Corps stint
>>> in the Far East. He is achessmaster who many years back
>>> worked on one of the firstchesscomputer programs. He also
>>> lived in perhaps Syracuse, maybe Albany, where he edited
achessmagazine.
>>> He abandoned that comfort to play "pick up"chesson Harvard Square.
>>>
>>> Speaking of coumputers, I don't know very much about them.
>>> I wish I understood what those lines with x mean. I read
>>> somewhere that x-face is to remind women to put on their makeup
>>> before they write email. I don't believe this. It sounds like
>>> a joke.
>>>
>>> In addition, I wonder what it means when someone says at the top
>>> of the post in the headers: X-marks-the-Spot. I must learn a
>>> great deal more about computing.
>>>
>>> I also was wondering if anyone out there is a numerologist. I
>>> wonder if believers in numerology will not read the posts that
>>> have numbers of lines that do not fit with their lucky number
>>> for the day. I saw someone, I do not remember where, post a
>>> message about the New Year, and it had exactly 99 lines it.
>>> That was very clever.
>>>
>>> Happy Christmas everyone
>>> Marika
>>> ***************************
>>> EVERYWHERE
>>>
>>> May Language Kiss Your Hearts With Poems,
>>> And Every Blessing On This Earth Be Yours,
>>> And Those From Other Worlds As Well...
>>>
>>> Alan Kaufman
>>>
>>>> I would only agree to play if we drew random numbers, and kept only
>>>> that
>>>> many random pieces and arranged them randomly on the board according
to
>>>> yet
>>>> another random numbering system. Making up the random numbering
system
>>>> was
>>>> the only way I could keep my mind on the game.
>>>
>>>
>>> My cousin used to make up many variance. For example, when he was in
>>> Southeast Asia during Vietnam war, chess were played as if there were
no
>>> war and all the pieces cooperated.
>>>
>>>> Chess cereal. Now there is a great name for cereal, especially cos
>>>> those
>>>> little pillows in the party mix look like mini chess boards.
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes when I see this cereal I think - Oh ChEKA the cereal of secret
>>> police.
>>> I don't know how to make Italics, and I don't like these American
quotes
>>> so I will make quotes with commas.
>>> ,,Come with the supernova, l'il sister"
>>> Worked a long time to jump ,,this" bad.
>>> And she sashays, she struts, she levitates...
>>> Patricia Smith
>>>
>>> There might be someone out there that still remembers him
>>>
>>> mk5000
>>>
>>> "Having been there in those conditions, and having taken the possibly
>>> bold step of removing my feet from the deck, I have had the chance
>>> to ?" Levitate "? inside a G-pod for what seamed like a considerable
>>> time. My point here being, that when so isolated ?? from regular ??
>>> gravitional forces { while levating }? time ( seamed to me to slow )
>>> {visual precption become acute} < and tranquility prevail >
>>> [ in what otherwise was a nontranquil surroundings ] "--Manley
Hubbell
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