[maggieb]

What are your new years resolutions for 2009? Are you planning not to yell at partner? Are you planning to count every hand, and think before you play to the first trick? Will you finally write down all those little agreement you and your partner make? Are you planning to take the next step in the coming year, and if so, how?

[Fluffy]

When my friend comes back from Saudi Arabia, I hope we will finally start learning Viking club wich we have been talking about for 2 years.


*Help*: How do you say in english when your work sends you to a different city/country for a long period?

[helene_t]

A friend of mine said that I should try to get a life besides bridge and computers.

I think that advice is well taken. So I will take at least one non-bridge vacation where I don't bring my laptop with me.

[kenberg]

I have never much thought in terms of New Year's resolutions in bridge or otherwise, but I do try to take stock from time to time.

Bridge:
A. I have the briefest start of a web page, putting down some of my preferences. The idea would be that a partner could could scan it over and say let's do this, let's not do that. In Bridge, Zia and Me, Rosenberg asserts that it is not so terribly important which agreements you have (obviously it has some importance) but it is vitally important to have an agreements. So I think it would be a worthwhile project. Of course I could just use, for example, BWS to serve the same purpose.
B. I have generally had a very casual approach to online bridge. But it is a maturing environment and I think I would like to try taking it more seriously.

Non-bridge:
This is easy. In September my blood pressure was up and my cholesterol was up and there was some talk of medication. I have a lifelong aversion to medication and decided it was time to get some exercise and lose some weight. Twenty pounds so far and my blood pressure is in the normal range. I'll be continuing this. The good news for me is that once I overcome the inertia I actually enjoy working out and I like vegetables.

[whereagles]

Fluffy, on Dec 18 2008, 12:31 PM, said:

When my friend comes back from Saudi Arabia, I hope we will finally start learning Viking club wich we have been talking about for 2 years.

Viking club is rather boring and non-mnemonic. Much rather Truscott's TSR strong club. Plus, the book is an horrible read.. lol.

But yeah, it's good stuff.

[han]

I've seen you use mnemonic in another thread and from the context it was clear that it has a different meaning for you than it has for me. How do you mean it here?

My bridge new years resolution is that I will stop posting on the BBO forum but first I'd like to get to 8888.

[matmat]

my new years resolution is to quit bridge or to start taking it more seriously. the middle ground feels like quick sand.

[jmc]

I always try and make a few bridge related goals for the new year. I think its important to always be improving and a few goals can help track one's personal performance.

jmc

[Al_U_Card]

My NY resolution is to not try to remember what my resolutions last year were...(so what if I repeat them...again)

[Winstonm]

helene_t, on Dec 18 2008, 08:01 AM, said:

A friend of mine said that I should try to get a life besides bridge and computers.

I think that advice is well taken. So I will take at least one non-bridge vacation where I don't bring my laptop with me.

Just take a virtual vacation...

[jdonn]

Fluffy, on Dec 18 2008, 07:31 AM, said:

*Help*: How do you say in english when your work sends you to a different city/country for a long period?

I don't think there is a word meaning exactly that. Here are some options.

Sabbatical - An extended period away from work, can be months or even a full year (college professors often take a semester). The time away is generally spent training and gaining new skills or knowledge.
Outsource - Losing one's job because it is sent to another country, usually because the labor is cheaper somewhere else.

Otherwise the word is 'transfer'.... to another country for a long period.

[dicklont]

helene_t, on Dec 18 2008, 08:01 AM, said:

A friend of mine said that I should try to get a life besides bridge and computers.

I think that advice is well taken. So I will take at least one non-bridge vacation where I don't bring my laptop with me.

Walk along Hadrians Wall can be done without those two.

[Fluffy]

Thanks Josh.

[Fluffy]

whereagles, on Dec 18 2008, 06:25 PM, said:

Fluffy, on Dec 18 2008, 12:31 PM, said:

When my friend comes back from Saudi Arabia, I hope we will finally start learning Viking club wich we have been talking about for 2 years.

Viking club is rather boring and non-mnemonic. Much rather Truscott's TSR strong club. Plus, the book is an horrible read.. lol.

But yeah, it's good stuff.

I'm afraid my friend has already played Viking club, and is not willing to learn a new system*. Can't blame him for that!

*In fact he has several improvements in mind that he has been cooking for years.

[whereagles]

han, on Dec 18 2008, 06:30 PM, said:

I've seen you use mnemonic in another thread and from the context it was clear that it has a different meaning for you than it has for me. How do you mean it here?

'Mnemonic' refers to something with a structure that's easy to remember. Check wiki for a better definition

[vuroth]

NYR:

Bridge: Finally finish Watson (edit - if I can find it in all these boxes). Count more often. Read a whole entire bridge book, cover to cover.

Non-bridge: Half-iron in June.

[Elianna]

whereagles, on Dec 19 2008, 04:04 AM, said:

han, on Dec 18 2008, 06:30 PM, said:

I've seen you use mnemonic in another thread and from the context it was clear that it has a different meaning for you than it has for me. How do you mean it here?

'Mnemonic' refers to something with a structure that's easy to remember. Check wiki for a better definition

No, a mnemonic device IS the structure that helps one memorize something.

Example:
"My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nachos" is the mnemonic that helps us memorize the order of planets in order of distance from the sun.

Reference:
http://dictionary.re...browse/mnemonic (specifically http://dictionary.re...ic#dict_header)

[Aberlour10]

hmmm, maybe to try play more offline bridge, in the passing year I did not manage even a single board this way.

Robert

[Al_U_Card]

Elianna, on Dec 19 2008, 08:32 AM, said:

whereagles, on Dec 19 2008, 04:04 AM, said:

han, on Dec 18 2008, 06:30 PM, said:

I've seen you use mnemonic in another thread and from the context it was clear that it has a different meaning for you than it has for me. How do you mean it here?

'Mnemonic' refers to something with a structure that's easy to remember. Check wiki for a better definition

No, a mnemonic device IS the structure that helps one memorize something.

Example:
"My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nachos" is the mnemonic that helps us memorize the order of planets in order of distance from the sun.

Reference:
http://dictionary.re...browse/mnemonic (specifically http://dictionary.re...ic#dict_header)

viz

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (music)

or

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly (electronics)

or even

My Next Effort May Only Need Insignificant Creativity

[Gerben42]

Math:

Sir, I send a rhyme excelling,
In sacred truth and rigid spelling,
Numerical sprites elucidate,
For me the lexicon's dull weight,
If nature gain, not you complain
Tho' Dr Johnson fulminate.

Astronomy:

Wow! Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me Right Now. Smack!

German:

Mein Vater Erklärt Mir Jeden Sonntag Unsere Neun ... nur noch 8

Dutch:

Een Aap Die Geen Bananen Eet (music)