2006 Prospect: articles in books & other pseudo-academic conceptoids or business activities.

1) Just about finished now with my paper Advances In Losing, for the Cambridge University Press MSRI combinatorial games book.

2) My partially ghostwritten Klarner article Satterfield's Tomb is going to be in this book edited by the Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine, and Tom Rodgers. Looks like it's coming out in June 2006.

3) Aaron and I need to finish The Phi values of Various Games.

4) Also want to write The Model: How to Quit Your Lowly Computer Programming Job and Become a Millionaire, Instead, with Greg.

5) Hatching a new company with Joshua, maybe. He has a good idea.

6) Still want to whack together my special top secret project, code named "Program 48." Do I have the Sitzfleisch to do it properly?

[you don't need to click that link for a definition of "Sitzfleisch"....here you go...couldn't have said it better myself...]

Sitzfleisch is another one of those inimitably useful German words. Literally it's "Sitting Meat". What it means is patience --- as associated with the gluteus maximus and surrounding padding that enables someone to perch on a hard chair for hours. In a chess context Sitzfleisch describes the kind of dogged analysis that a good player has to do in a complex position. (A:vimo)

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