Posted in On-line journal, Sources of inspiration on July 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I’ve started linking media from the website Reddit and will continue to do so because the community of chess enthusiasts and sub-categories is broader than most media platforms, meaning that it’s easy to find content that you can’t find elsewhere. Moreover, I do suggest you have a look at the site itself, as it has come on leaps and bounds from its early days…
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/ (this is the main one for chess but there are very many others).
Posted in Chess, Sources of inspiration on December 30, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Humour, My own warped humour, On-line journal, Personal Interest & Experience, Sources of inspiration on August 31, 2020| Leave a Comment »
A still tongue makes a happy life. A still cock makes an unhappy wife. Is it not plain to see: questions are a burden to others, answers a prison for oneself…cult following or no cult following sheepishly, as well as, an intrepid blogger who endured sub-zero temperatures on a photoshoot or no intrepid blogger who endured sub-zero temperatures on a photoshoot once upon a time and whilst holding his camera never asked himself whether he could grate cheese off his scrotum because it was that f**king cold because he believed in the above.
The above applies, to lifelong fans of The Prisoner to questions posed by yourself to yourself also apply, as I found out today.
Eleven years ago, I posted the following on fb on this day.
“Okay ladies and mentalmen, should black play e3 or Qb2 here? Hint, decide what you think white’s primary defensive resource is first.“
A still tongue makes a happy life of that there is no doubt. Why imprison myself with answers when I can open up Stockfish and put that bastard-bitch to work instead? All it took was ten seconds or thereabouts: me less than one to be sure Qb2 was the stronger by far. But do you know why I saw the solution much faster than Stockfish? Dare you guess why? It’s because unlike Stockfish or any chess program or platform: I am bone all over. Bone is, of course, stronger than plastic and silicon, much stronger in fact. In being bone all over, I’m just too strong… .
“GIVE IT TO ME AGAIN. GIVE ME THE REST” I hear you echo f**king obscure characters who catch eye, ear, and brain of f**king obscure viewers. Digging deeper, from a perspective with a physiological lean “them bones gotta walk around”, furthermore anthropologically, “and a hipbone, and a thighbone, shinbone, kneebone, backbone, all yours dad” ...and if by now you are thinking ‘what’s all this oscure shit Mark’s coming out with this time? What’s he on now?’ Believe me, it’s all early 90’s identity conferring content…in my youth I even modeled myself on Alexis Kanner’s tv roles, hoping for his panache and suave befuddlement. Let us conclude by remembering what has already been stated.
I sign off proud and unpuzzled. Perhaps it’s clearer, I really do write for myself only.
A still tongue makes a happy life. Offload analysis onto whatever app you’ve lumbered yourself with. No need to open your gob then.
Mark
Posted in Sources of inspiration on April 2, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Not for the first time, big thanks go to: https://www.facebook.com/MemoryChess/
You may have noticed that the headers (the images or banners you see on each page were varied but are now much more so. Some are very personal, many from MemoryChess. It’s well worth a look if you have the chance and use facebook.
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