I agree with WacoKid's tenth finger note.
Championship (15:40 15-Jun-02 EDT): Congratulations! You have won the 5 0 Championship U2100 Class Final! Tell LittlePer grid 155550! Championship (15:32 20-Dec-03 EST Congratulations! You have won the the Thematic U2000 Final! Tell tomato grid 206147!
Championship (15:40 21-Aug-10 EDT): Congratulations! You have won the 5 0 Championship U2000 Class Final! Tell LittlePer grid 369046! "The man who really counts in the world is the doer...not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done."--T.Roosevelt
other hobbies: epistemology, poetry (writing and reading), collecting "dream music" (music and poetry with the word 'dream' in it). Did you know that the word 'dream' comes from an Old English word meaning "joy, or music"? Did you notice that the word 'dream' occurs a disproportunal number of times in music?
My favorite poet is Kahlil Gibran, author of 'The Prophet', the most published secular work in any language. Dubbed 'the William Shakespeare of Arab literature', Gibran's work permeates the English language. John F. Kennedy lifted his inaugural keynote from Gibran's
'Your Lebanon and Mine' ; "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." Let me close with some of my favorite 'dream poems':
"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I, too, was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time, limitless. And dreams were space, without measure." -- Kahlil Gibran's 'The Forerunner'
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?/ Or does it fester like a sore and then run?/ Does it stink like rotting meat?/ Or does it sugar and crust over like syrupy sweet?/ Maybe it just sags like a heavy load./ Or does it EXPLODE??"-Langston Hughes' 'A Dream Deferred'
" I had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. The eye of man has not seen, the ear of man has not heard, the hand of man cannot report, nor the heart of man conceive WHAT MY DREAM WAS." --Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream" (with liberties)
"Where does true love come from?/ And where do our dreams go?/ Life is made for finding out/ And someday we will know. " --Cheryl Bergstom
| Type | Rating | Best | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Wild | Rating | 1511 | Best | 1538 (31/Jul/2000) |
| Type | Blitz | Rating | 1587 | Best | 2068 (11/Oct/2006) |
| Type | Standard | Rating | 1789 | Best | 2069 (09/Sep/2004) |
| Type | Bullet | Rating | 1478 | Best | 1794 (04/Feb/2005) |
| Type | Bughouse | Rating | 1327 | Best | 1397 (22/May/2000) |
| Type | Loser's | Rating | 1343 | Best | |
| Type | Crazyhouse | Rating | 1449 | Best | 1543 (22/Oct/2002) |
| Type | 5-minute | Rating | 1780 | Best | 1895 (21/Mar/2012) |
| Type | 1-minute | Rating | 1454 | Best | 1552 (30/Mar/2003) |
| Type | 15-minute | Rating | 2013 | Best | 2075 (23/Sep/2023) |
| Type | 3-minute | Rating | 1380 | Best |