26th June 2003, 3:20 PM
My thoughts too, but I wasn't going to share them because I was afraid the sportspeoples around here would all simultaniously attack me in an embarresing (for them) way and say things like "you just don't get it" or "sports are a meaningful and important part of our life, something other games, even though in the end they are all games, can't simulate, and chess sucks".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)