Live Chess 2010
Well folks, it's that time again. Time for LIVE CHESS. We're all starting up and getting set up! I'll be live blogging the whole event here at Cleverpork Central.
15:01 We're late already. woops!
15:10 Drew was speaking
15:12 They're playing the trailer from youtube
15:15 The storyteller is telling the story of what has happened until now
15:16 we had some confusion between kings and generals
15:18 the generals have sat by the world map to plan their moves
15:18 The white king is speaking. something about darkness.
15:19 ravenous applause form the white army
15:19 The black king is criticizing the white king. He wants freedom and peace and get rid of taxation. This is intense. I don't know how I feel about it.
15:20 if the entire game were judged based on the king's speech's, I'd say black wins. sorry white.
15:21 the pieces are being placed by Drew.
15:23 Black queen's speech was short and ended by proclaiming "Black Power"
15:24 White queen talking about being forced to go to war. And the black army being the fountainhead of their plight.
15:26 Wow. If the whole competition was decided by the queen's speeches, then I would say white wins. this is looking to be quite an interesting battle.
15:27 first moves!
15:29 first non-pawn piece moves!
15:29 OOHH! the white king was criticized for his black crown!
15:30 Black takes the first piece!
15:31 White retaliated!
15:32 the black king said somethign about deriving their color from the night. no one understood. he said "you're going down" everyone cheered!
15:35 A white knight was just killed! speeches seem to be stuck on the "his sacrifice will not be in vain."
15:37 the white commander gave a speech about loosing people, but they will succeed. the black king just says "nope!" after people's speeches.
15:40 "don't worry, be happy" just came on over the speakers. it made everyone smile.
15:43 more people are dying. This battle field is vicious!
15:45 the White king was being castled. the castle actually jumped over the king. it was awesome.
15:46 The black king was castled as well!
15:50 OMG!!! the dead black king is speaking from beyond the grave!
15:51 King Heath had a heir?!?!?! Heath Jr. is here!!!
15:52 The black king just invented democracy.
15:53 The rook in H-1 hasn't moved yet. I think he is the only one.
15:54 the black king is making calls of regime change!
15:58 the black king was pestering one of his knights.
15:59 Apparently I returned as a spirt. even though I haven't died.
16:00 hakuna matata? I think this is a ploy to convince the black army to loose all their worries.
16:01 Black army is dancing to hakuna matata. intense.
16:05 I think this is the disney mix.
16:07 OH CRAP THE WHITE KING IS IN CHECK
16:08 problem averted. for now.
16:10 there are a lot of battles just waiting to happen. queens fighting, bishops fighting. all that fun stuff.
16:11 Black queen just had and epic battle with the white queen. oh crap. I don't know what is going on. BLACK QUEEN WON!
16:12 WHITE KING STRUCK BACK AND KILLED THE BLACK QUEEN!!
16:15 DANCE PARTY!!!!!!!!
16:18 Dance party over, everyone is resetting.
16:21 where did that rook get a sword?
16:21 the rooks are getting a little rough!
16:22 that was an intense knight battle. straight out of the trailer too!
16:24 the black king just told the white king that he will be locked in a cage in the middle of town.
16:26 OH SNAP!!! BLACK JUST WON!!!
16:26 Even his winning speech was good!
The Haiku Thesis Project
[below is the introduction to my new project, as it is written in the book]
In the spring of 2010, Chris Cunningham, University of Oregon honors college senior, finished his thesis.In order to save people from having to read pages and pages to understand his topic, he compressed his thesis into a haiku. It grew from there . Soon he began searching for like-minded friends and colleagues who would add their theses and the Haiku Thesis Project was born.
If any one wants to add their thesis to the book, let me know! I am accepting all entries, whether you are finishing up now, like me, or you finished last year, or you are in the process, but know your results. Even if you wrote a thesis 50 years ago. if you can remember your writing and want to paraphrase it into a haiku, do so.
Send me:
- the full title of the thesis
- Your name as you want it to be seen
- the term and year it was finalized (or expected to be if you have not defended yet)
- the school you wrote it at
- and your haiku.
Optionally, you can run into me in person and write it in the little moleskin book I am keeping for this purpose.
These might only be published on my blog (cleverpork.com) or they might eventually be made into a little book. Who knows.
The goal is to present knowledge that is locked away in these theses in a way that doesn't force people to spend hours reading the text.
Here is my entry, as it appears in the book right now:
High School Science Course Order and its Effect on Student Attitudes and Beliefs
Chris Cunningham
Spring 2010
University of Oregon
Why enjoy science?
Probably your teacher's fault
Not your course order.
Thesis Summary Day 2: Haiku
I am providing some amusing ways to summarize my thesis to the world. Today I re-wrote it to fit into a haiku format, you know, syllables in groups of 5-7-5.
Why Enjoy Science?
Probably your teacher's fault,
Not your course order.
Come back tomorrow for Episode 3: LOL Thesis Edititon.
Thesis Summary Day 1, Twitter
I am providing some amusing ways to summarize my thesis to the world. Today's summary is designed to fit a twitter post. It is exactly 140 charachters, which is the maximum for twitter or a text message.
Thought integrated science was good. No correlation between order and enjoyment of science. Other factors impact attitudes and beliefs more.
Check back tomorrow for Episode 2: Haiku Edition
Soundtrack of Science
For anyone who was a fan of Bill Nye back in the day, you may remember the Soundtrack of Science. I didn't, but I ran into a guy who put all of them up onto one youtube page. (hit the break for some awesome ones!)
Go check them out, they rock! You can also find them through the magic of Google for download, but you might have to play around with some search terms.
Cleverpork Olympic Coverage: Sorry for the Break
In honor of NBC's coverage of the Olympics, where "live" means 3 hours delayed, Cleverpork Central is covering the Olympics in a timely manner. We can't promise daily coverage, but we'll try to keep you informed on the important events at least!
We have two days of coverage today. Day 6 brought the end of the luge, my loss of belief in USA curling and Sean White. Day 7 brought Evan Lysacek gold in men's figure skating as well as some other skiing and stuff.
The real excitement though was watching Sean White. There was a point where I poo-poo-ed snowboarding and was like "why is that in the olympics?" But Watching Sean White do his final run down the hill was quite spectacular. He had already won gold by the time he did his last run (it is a best of 2 runs kind of thing) so he didn't worry about it and did the coolest thing he could. And it was cool. He was getting huge air off of the halfpipe and the trick he did at the very bottom was really awesome. I was a little blown away.
Tomorrow is Skeleton medals, likely more failure from USA curling, and the beginning of Ice dancing. If I get an update. Otherwise, Day 9 is more speed skating, Apolo Ohno in short track, and the start of Women's Aerials skiing.