Move	W (M)	B (S)
1	e4	e5
2	Nf3	Nc6
3	Nc3	Bb4
4	Nd5	Ba5
5	c3	Nf6
6	b4	Nxd5
7	exd5	e4
8	dxc6	exf3
9	bxa5	Qe7+
10	Be2	fxe2
11	Qxe2	Qxe7+
12	Kxe2	dxe6
13	Ba3	Be6
14	d4	b6
15	Bb4	Kd7
16	Rhb1	Bc4+
17	Ke3	Rhe8+
18	Kf4	Re2
19	Rd1	Rxf2
20	Kg3	Rxa2
21	Kf4	Rxg2
22	Ke5	Rxh2
23	d5	Re8+
24	Kf4	c5
25	axb6	axb6
26	Kg3	Ree2
27	Kf3	Rd2
28	Ke4	Bxd5+
29	Ke5	cxb4
30	cxb4	f6+
31	Kf5	Be6+
32	Ke4 |Kc6
33	Rab1	Rxd1
34	Rxd1	Rh4+
35	Kd3	Rxb4
36	Rc1+	Kd6
37	Kc3 |Rc4+
38	resign	...

Move	W(M)	B(S)
1	e4	e5
2	d4	exd4
3	Qxd4	Nc6
4	Qc4	Nf6
5	Bd3	d5
6	Qc3	dxe4
7	Bxe4	Bb4
8	Bd2	Bxc3
9	Nxc3	Nxe4
10	Nxe4	Nd4
11	o-o-o| Bf4
12	Re1	o-o
13	Nf3	Re8
14	Bd3	Re4
15	Nd4	Rxd4
16	Bxd4	Qxd4
17	Rd1	Qxf2
18	Rd2	Qxd2 to make the game interesting
19	Kxd2	g5
20	h4	g5
21	g3	h8
22	Rf1	Bg6
23	Ke3	Kf8
24	Rf4	c6
25	c4	Ke7
26	Rd4	Re8
27	Kf4	Rd8
28	Rxd8	Kxd8
29	Ke5	Kc7
30	b4	Kb6
31	c5	Kb5
32	a3	a5
33	Kd4	axb4
34	axb4	Kxb4
35	resign	...

Watching the students help each other review gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. I know they'll probably think it's a way for me to get out of teaching - and who knows, that'll probably affect my evaluations - but I think that in their communal meaning-making, they're learning a lot more than from my lectures.

What about the primarily visual learners? I've had a number of people ask me for handouts. I should think about doing something in the line of man perlintro...

http://www.lugod.org/presentations/kidslinux/

E-Mail from Martin WHEELER

Ellen Spertus, who runs an interdisciplinary computer science graduate program at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., is attempting to break myths about computer geeks in the hopes of bringing more women--and other persons with non-technical ... http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/1210w.html#item12 / Oooh. Ellen Spertus was geek of the year or something like that. =) Hmmm...

E-Mail from technews@hq.acm.org

Mom brought up ideas for trip abroad. Find am looking forward to travelling the world and exchanging ideas. Am thinking of going to Australia and New Zealand this summer to check out universities, as many of the universities that do ComputerScienceEducationResearch are there. Besides, remember AU as more fun than US, and have many friends to visit. Wonder where Andrew Clausen is now? Homepage says Victoria; should put University of Melbourne on tour map, as would very much like to thank Andrew for helping introduce me to Linux. (Wonder if he still remembers how to play Speed?)

Parents very supportive of CookOrDie project. Suspect they find it funny as youngest daughter makes far-out attempts to become "independent girl" while still remaining v. close to parents. To wit: have told them about double-entry accounting (but have been slipping these days due to rush-rush CookOrDie grocery shopping), CookOrDie project, and even contemplated SewOrDie project as cannot easily find clothes to wear - teacher clothes somewhat boring, but most clothes my size too casual. (That said, find The Black Shop a nice place to window shop.)

As result of parental support, have now acquired full complement of pots, pans, and knives. Parents have thankfully kept space and cooking limitations of CookOrDie project in mind - no huge woks or for-several-thousand-people pans.

Parents unbelievably keen on youngest daughter learning how to cook. Parents enlisted help of company cook in teaching how to make rice, although as had been very busy this weekend, had not actually had time. However, performed rice experiment earlier with mom with great success.

Cooked 1/2 cup rice traditional way and 1/2 cup rice microwave way. Did not actually know correct microwave procedure, so guessed. Microwave finished first, but had problems with boiling over - suspect must use deeper casserole. Traditional way documented on rice package resulted in good rice after 20 minutes, although also resulted in crunchy part which most Filipinos like but personally am not particularly fond of.

Also, prepared very first cup of tsokolate. May need strainer, but is v. nice - although a bit rich. Perhaps water instead of milk is advisable.

- Microwave second pink potato for 5 minutes. - Cook half of second slice of bacon. (Still unable to figure out how to get nice, crispy bacon, and am about to give up and always chuck it into the microwave.) - Brown ground beef. Add plenty of salt and pepper. (This is starting to sound very familiar.) - Flip potato and microwave for another 2 minutes. - Mash potato, beef, and bacon together. - Add diced cheese to amalgam and mix thoroughly. - Pop into microwave and set for a few minutes under "Grill" in attempt to brown potato mixture nicely..

Another quickie meal as had class in less than 30 minutes.

- Grab large pink potatoes from supermarket, as convenience justifies expense. - Also buy 1/8 kg. ground beef. - Ensure that salt, pepper, and bacon bits containers were firmly closed. Throw them into school bag for very quick lunch in school. - Hastily wash large plastic container in school. - Pop washed, pricked, pink potato into container and microwave for 5 minutes. - Flip pink potato. - Pack ground beef into small plastic container and place it into microwave along with flipped potato. - Microwave potato and beef for 2 minutes. - Pour some bacon bits onto plastic lid. Microwave for 20 seconds to make bacon bits crunchy. - Pick up ground beef with fork, as fat had rendered in the plastic container. Place ground beef in large container with well-cooked potato. - Dump bacon bits into large container. - Tear potato apart with fork and spoon, effectively mashing potato with beef and bacon bits. Sprinkle with lots of pepper and mix thoroughly. - Look at the clock and start panicking.

Whoops, hadn't been writing. Have, however, faithfully adhered to constraints of CookOrDie. Last Wednesday, threw together quickie lunch of ground beef, pork and beans, and bacon (real bacon!) in hamburger buns. Decent meal - reminded me a bit of some meal I'd eaten before but forgotten.

Preparation was fairly simple.

- Attempted to cook bacon. - Became disturbed as bacon does not brown after a few minutes of cooking. - Suspected that constant flipping to check doneness did not contribute to quick cooking of bacon. - Consoled self by browning 1/8 kg. of ground beef in same pan. - Opened can of pork and beans impulsively bought day before and dumped contents in aforementioned pan. - Stirred for a few minutes and poured results into hastily cleaned plastic container. - Stuffed extra hamburger buns into storage bags and into ref. - Grabbed remaining hamburger buns and container with meat and beans mixture and headed off to school.