Lunch Hour

Got free smoothies at a "grand opening" event today... tasty!

Also finished up the "Information Age" exhibit. Not particularly fascinating, unless you're into vacuum-tube-era computers. They did have a cool feature on Garry Kasparov v. Deep Blue, which the computer won in 1997. They even had a looped video showing the progress of the decisive 6th game, in which Kasparov made an early mistake and lost in just 19 moves! The most exciting thing about chess is that it's not "hard" in the execution sense: I could have made exactly the same set of moves that Kasparov made (of course, it would have been by accident). There's nothing that separates the novice from the International Grandmaster except the ability to make better decisions on each turn. Does that make any sense?