The tournament schedule has been re-jiggered: The Finals of:
- Senior Mixed Doubles
- Women's Singles
- Men's Doubles
Finals of:
- Women's Doubles
- Men's Singles
- Mixed Doubles
The times for the matches remain the same, and the rain dates, September 21, and 22 remain the same.
The next Round Robin, a pizza night, is scheduled for Thursday, June 18.
"The Women's Team is coming off one of its most successful seasons in recent memory. The inimitable mother/daughter team of Williams and Morss had an undefeated record. The rest of us (mortals) scrambled through 3 set matches, managing to win about half of them.
We are indebted to the coaching of Juliet Godson for her encouragement, wisdom and expertise. She kept our spirits from flagging and greatly enhanced our performance."
-Cynthia Ellis
JOKE ALERT please skip this next bit if you want to avoid jokes, or if you think that jokes are inappropriate to the CTC website, or if you're in a hurry and just want information.
Computer Haiku
In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with Haiku poetry messages. Haiku poetry has strict construction rules - each poem has only 17 syllables; 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, 5 in the third. They are used to communicate a timeless message, often achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity.
Here are 15 actual error messages from Japan that are the essence of Zen:
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao- until
You bring fresh toner.Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Rick Rose's Doubles Clinics have started, and will continue for a while on Mondays and Wednesdays, pending the ending of the women's team season, and pending input from attendees and potential attendees.
He's accepting feedback.
The clinics run from 10:00 to 11:30 and cost $14.00. And they are very popular. Check them out.
Club member, Charles Ansbacher is again conducting the Boston Landmarks Orchestra in a series of free outdoor concerts. You can read all about them, and him, and find a concert schedule at the Landmarks Orchestra website.
Here's a link to the espn site, with pro ranking.
Take a look
at what was going on at the club on this date last year. (A pretty good page, we think.)
Website Update: Events, Members, and Reservation Requests are not active parts of the site nowadays. Timelines is not for civilians.
The Governors and Committees page, the Activities page (round robins, tournaments, etc), and the Rules page have all been updated. We thank the folks who have kindly done some on-line proofreading. And we solicit any additional proofreading. Or comments.
The Yearbook link will take you to the last newspage from 2001. From there you can see the whole of the Persistent Archive of last year's news.
Website Note: The time and temperature icon below is a link to a Boston weather site.
Joe DeBassio, Webmaster
Website Note II: The honey-comb icon is also a link. It takes the clicker to an archive of all the past news pages so that you can read the news pages for the whole year (2001). The less-than link (<) next to the honeycomb icon will take you to the last issue of the newspage.
