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I think five days away from a computer might be my longest stretch in the last, oh, five to ten years. Next year I'll know that the B&B in Cambridge I stay at during the high school tournament has a computer guests can use and I'll probably check my mail at least once. As it was, I got to skip=800 before I got back to Friday. If that's a slow weekend on LJ, I'd hate to see a busy one.
Anyway: not dead, and also we completely dominated the tournament! That is, when you run a tournament with 2500 high school kids, nine separate events, and a dozen buildings in February in Cambridge, the tournament itself is the enemy. And this year, for the first time in the 17 (!) years I've been going, it ran without any substantial delays or major disasters. We kicked its butt! Mostly this is due to the progressively improving application of technology to the problem at hand, from cellphones (so we don't need to run from building to building to get messages out), to a customized computer program (which among other things spits out a sheet for each judge to know where s/he's going), to shuttles to the farthest buildings, to the website where we posted the schedule and location for each competitor. If it weren't for the people, the tournament would be easy to run; as it is, it's just exhausting and horribly stressful. I'm really jazzed that a bunch of people commented on how well-run the tournament was; even if it felt like we dashed from near-disaster to near-disaster, barely making it each time, from the outside the thing looked good. If only we can keep up the performance.
Just seen in the elevator at school: "Diverse students are encouraged to contact OCS to be added to the diversity listserv." Somehow I don't think that sentence came out the way they intended it to.
Anyway: not dead, and also we completely dominated the tournament! That is, when you run a tournament with 2500 high school kids, nine separate events, and a dozen buildings in February in Cambridge, the tournament itself is the enemy. And this year, for the first time in the 17 (!) years I've been going, it ran without any substantial delays or major disasters. We kicked its butt! Mostly this is due to the progressively improving application of technology to the problem at hand, from cellphones (so we don't need to run from building to building to get messages out), to a customized computer program (which among other things spits out a sheet for each judge to know where s/he's going), to shuttles to the farthest buildings, to the website where we posted the schedule and location for each competitor. If it weren't for the people, the tournament would be easy to run; as it is, it's just exhausting and horribly stressful. I'm really jazzed that a bunch of people commented on how well-run the tournament was; even if it felt like we dashed from near-disaster to near-disaster, barely making it each time, from the outside the thing looked good. If only we can keep up the performance.
Just seen in the elevator at school: "Diverse students are encouraged to contact OCS to be added to the diversity listserv." Somehow I don't think that sentence came out the way they intended it to.
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Hi
Glad the weekend went well, however, call me shallow but I'm sort of really curious about the school that showed up on the wrong weekend. Did they stick around for the event, or were they a no-show?
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