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Hi, I am Peter. And I really should not be left alone, bored and next to my sketchpad or a computer. I am going to occasionally jot down random ideas and drawings and create games, polls, trivia (no cheating), riddles, etc. Posts will be rare, but if you use a device, use it to think. Even when I was a kid, I had to wait till the next morning to find out the Caps' game results and recap and check the closing prices of the stock market. It was yesterday's news today. with a bo

Well, what the heck do we do? I keep my kids off this site and won't feature them unless they allow it. Chess teaches me you protect the king and queen at all costs. Which I do. I do have a boy and girl, both currently elementary school age. An actual observation from watching them from afar—not stalker-like, just an unwelcomed engaged parent type. My daughter is for sure the queen; she moves erratically to get what she wants. My son is the king, stoic beyond a doubt a

"Sorry I am late. I did not want to come" would be the byline. I have not set up comments yet; you so this is a rhetorical question. What event is designed so that no one leaves happier a week later than they were the week before? All my friends are on their second, some on their third, weddings, and it is that season.I get the invites.I am happy that you think of me. I am happy for the couple that has decided to share their happiness with me. I am happy that all of the vend

So I wrote a game. Nothing glamorous, just one task. The news keeps referring to Tehran as the one who responded to the USA's return to the détente memo. Now the problem is that Tehran is a city, a rather large one. The Tehran metro area has nearly 17 million people. For comparison, the DC metropolitan area has a population of fewer than 7 million, and this number increases to only 14 million when the Baltimore metropolitan area is included. This raises the of which person