Chess anyone? I'm rated about 1302 (USCF). Look for me as "MilesDirac" at freechess.org (I'm rarely logged in, however) or gameknot.com (correspondence chess on the web) or send me e-mail.
Favorite trumpeters
Miles Davis · Clifford Brown · Donald Byrd · Dave Douglas · Wynton Marsalis
Favorite authors
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · John Irving · Herman Melville · Vladimir Nabokov · Neal Stephenson
Clever quips (paraphrased)
Physics research is like sex: sometimes something useful is produced,
but that's not why we do it.
-- Richard Feynman
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
-- Albert Einstein
or "Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
-- Wernher von Braun (Thanks Jurph)
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Pál Erdös
He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.
Nodes of mine which need regular maintainance
New York City Marathon · Boston Marathon · Chicago Marathon · Chess · aviation