CUTwC and tiddlywinks news
There will be a meeting via Zoom on
Wednesday 27th of January from 7:30pm.
There will be a virtual Club Dinner via Zoom on
Saturday 30th of January, starting at 7:30pm
for 8pm.
See the CUTwC and ETwA mailing lists for Zoom link and password.
Details
- Devise your own virtual dinner ticket at a cost of zero guineas.
- Supply you own wines, port and other drinks as appropriate.
- Bring an interesting cheese, an After Eight mint, and a joke.
- (Formal) dress is optional.
Schedule
- 7:30pm
- Reception. Drink bubbly or be bubbly.
- 8:00pm
- Anthem in place of grace. Even though we know singing does not work well.
- 8:10pm
- Breakout to tables for "starter".
- 8:24pm
- Table rotation for "fish".
- 8:38pm
- Table rotation for "meat".
- 8:52pm
- Table rotation for "dessert".
- 9:10pm
- Backwards perambulation.
- 9:20pm
- Cheese.
- 9:40pm
- Mint off
- 9:45pm
- Jokes.
The winker formerly known as Prezzy B is attempting to consolidate
a set of winks shot videos to put on YouTube; please email her contributions.
(The site maintainer's efforts have been added to the updated
shots page.)
Tiddlywinks is normally a game played with a group of people sociably
standing around small tables in a nice warm room; this aspect of CUTwC
meetings has obviously been rendered impractical by COVID-19 safety
concerns. As such, for the last few months, CUTwC members have been
"meeting" on Zoom.
Given the announcements of January 4th, this seems likely
to continue for the foreseeable future; the University has moved
to on-line education as much as possible for Lent Term, so most
members are not currently in Cambridge.
Site news
- Yet more polish
- Shortened navigation to work on an iPod Touch(!)
If titles seem to have odd names (Constitution → Charter,
Committee → Board, The Game → Sport,
Drinking Games → Games, etc.) this is why.
Also now scrolling the whole page wherever possibe, mostly to
get rid of the enormous address bar.
- Turned off attempts at swoosh on webkit (unsupported).
- Fixed hrefs to work around sticky headers.
- Fixed various typos and HTML breakages throughout the site.
- Various mobile navigation changes
- Collapsible fixed headers, etc.
- Added dark mode
- Based on your browser settings, don't blame me.
- Delayed the splash image, looked at the swoosh
- The loading of the splash images (which had a typo affecting
the load quality) on the home page was (slightly) impacting the
PageSpeed Insights rating. The first image now starts to fade
in after the page has fully loaded, which helps a little, gets
us to 100%, and might actually be relevant to someone with a
really slow connection.
- The title bar swoosh on the home page bugged me, because it
eventually gets out of sync. I looked at activating the animation
from JavaScript, but because of the way it's implemented, this
turns out not to be an option (you can't access the SVG DOM
of a background image and you can't use JavaScript inside an SVG
being used as a background image). I may eventually have to replace
the title with a (responsive) image, but since it is a title
I'll feel bad about it.
- Added custom link buttons
( )
and improved navigation
- We apparently look a bit dated...
- Added a custom 404 page
- There is now a custom page with some navigation and a silly
animation for broken links.
- Usability fixes
- Tried to make Google happier: CSS is now inlined, there are
resolution-aware versions of images and some background loading,
etc. It's still only 95-98% happy (even with images cached for
an hour), but short of losing image quality, resorting to image
format compatibility risks or just getting rid of the images, there's
not much more to be done.
Also made things a bit nicer in Lynx and added breadcrumbs to the
top couple of levels of the site.
- Canonical redirect
- All the site name variants now redirect to (https://)cutwc.org.
The ETwA National Singles (and ETwA Congress)
has been postponed until the COVID-19 situation is resolved and it is considered
safe for the community to play.
Watch this space and etwa.org, and please stay safe.
The "You I Have News ForGot" Charles Relle Trophy was won by Zach Bond according
to the scores sent to the web site maintainer, Sophie Brawn according to the
announcement at the end of the meeting, and Stew according to tradition.
The AGM happened, and Marc Mills is the new President; see
the Committee,
Constitution
and results pages for details.
The Varsity Match was won by CUTwC 82½-29½ — ratings have been updated.
The Cambridge Open was won by Patrick Barrie.
Zach Bond played a Peterhouse Pot friendly against Edward Brown, but this was
deemed not part of the tournament due to meteorological interference.
Given additional restrictions on play, Edward Brown was declared as "probably the winner".
Zach Bond beat Sophie Brawn 5-2.
Edward Brown beat Ed Green 6-1.
Calendar (Lent 2021)
Details TBD, but assume meetings on Wednesdays (via Zoom)