Miscellaneous

Ice Hockey!

I started playing ice hockey relatively late at the age of 15, but it's been something that I was into much earlier from watching the New York Rangers on TV as a kid and playing hockey in the driveway with my brother with our precious few hockey sticks procured from Canadian Tire during our summer trips to visit family up north. These days it's playing sloppy beer-league hockey and driving my kids to their own practices and games, but it's still very much a part of life.

In 2015, worlds collided when the ISCA conference held the first unofficial ISCA ice hockey game! We've held quite a few of these over the years in several cities including Madison, Boston, San Diego, Austin, Portland, and Toronto (in the original Maple Leaf Gardens, which is now part of Ryerson University upstairs from a Loblaws!).

I even got to play ice hockey while I was in Korea (see below) with the Seoul Chiefs, which was great for mental and physical health (it was my only real exercise, and also my main source of hanging out with native-English speakers as the players were predominantly Canadian expats with a few of us Americans thrown in the mix, mostly from the military base).

For the last two decades, most of the leagues I've played in maintain online player statistics of varying levels of detail and accuracy:

Seattle 2010-present (gshockey)

Seattle 2002-2003, 2009-2010 (Pointstreak)

Atlanta 2004-2009 (W'04, S'05, W'05, S'06, W'06, S'07, W'07, S'08, W'08)

Austin 2003-2004 (Pointstreak)

Old, Unmaintained Blogs:

Gabe's Korea Blog: In 2007, I spent four months living in Seoul, teaching a graduate course as part of a dual M.S. program between Georgia Tech and Korea University. I maintained a low-key set of blog posts of observations, interesting experiences, etc. You can see what my experience was like as a foreigner in a foreign land.

Gabe's Food Collection This includes all of the overflow entries on food in Seoul as well as other things. This ended in 2008 after which everything pretty much moved over into the land of social media platforms.