What ever happened to the good old days of skipping tipsily into Novack to check Blitz on your way to Frat Row, or of sneaking upstairs in a frat to blitz your crush on some brother’s computer? Nobody proximity blitzes anymore. As if I didn’t feel old enough already. More »
Apple has just announced a new operating system, and it comes with both new attractions and new headaches. The new version of Apple’s OS X, called Leopard, replaces the previous version, Tiger. (Apple has named all versions of OS X after large cats.) Unlike the leap from Windows XP to Vista, the jump from Tiger to Leopard is relatively painless; Apple has not made any huge changes to the operating system. Although, in Apple’s characteristically arrogant Apple way, they claim it is because they did not need to. More »
For Leon Chang ‘08, the big moment came sophomore winter in a Toulouse internet cafe. He’d been playing poker since freshman fall, when he first played for money in one of the Choates common rooms. Casual, low-money, predominately male poker gatherings were frequent on campus at the time: the ESPN-fueled poker mania hit America when the ’08s arrived at Dartmouth. Chang was not the only freshman guy to learn pong at around the same time he learned No Limit Texas hold ‘em, the dominant variant then and now. (As poker goes, hold ‘em is high-skill and unpredictable; it’s no limit variant more so.) More »
Last week, I discussed the College’s varied failures and successes in coping with one of the greatest challenges it has faced in the past 35 years: how to coeducate a college that, traditionally, prizes hypermasculinity. More »
It’s 11:50 a.m. Yeah, you overslept again. But stay calm. Grab your laptop, launch a podcast and voila — Econ 20, Orgo, Russian History and French 3 all there for you, just one click away. More »
“Wait, who is the chef again?” one of our companions teased. “Chef Giovanni Leopardi,” our waitress cooed helpfully as she sailed past. Considering the enthusiasm and sheer frequency with which our host inserted the head chef de cuisine and proprietor into tableside conversation, it seemed as though we were in the presence of greatness. More »
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