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I don't think buffers work for me. I sometimes write a bunch of puzzles to post over the next few weeks, but I usually don't come up with more during the intervening days.
I also seem to be having trouble posting things besides puzzles. I get afraid of the latest puzzle and the latest non-puzzle post competing for attention and one of them losing. This of course means Friday/Saturday is the safest time to talk about anything else.
This is one of those non-puzzle posts. And yes, it's on a Sunday, but never mind that.
A week or two ago, rhjunior uploaded a page of "Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger," which is a (pick one: companion, sequel, sister) series to his "Tales of the Questor." In particular, TotQ takes place in the past, QQSR takes place in the future, and the Quentyn of QQSR is a direct descendant of the Quentyn of TotQ.
Recently, the title character of QQSR has been on vacation, and readers have gotten to see more of the shared-universe nature of the two series. The comic linked above features a gragum-- first described here (though those ones were a lot less friendly)-- and a couple pages later, Tír na nÓg gets name-dropped, so that's pretty neat.
But what I'm writing about now (and the reason I'm embarrassed to have waited two weeks to do so, since it's so inconsequential) is the gragum's name. It's not immediately pronounceable, because it is upside-down. (The family computer's screen is a little fuzzy, so at first I thought it was supposed to be "Brother Hsein." It isn't.)
As a visual aid, here is a blowup of two lines from that page, both bold-italicized, with corresponding letters respectively underlined and barred. Yes, the image is greatly pixelated, but it works for fuzzy screens and showing small underlines.
Sooo... am I supposed to be having trouble pronouncing "Huish," or "Hsiuh"?
On another note, spell-check still doesn't recognize "pixelated": pix elated, pix-elated, peculated, exalted, percolated, proselyted, exulted, legislated
I also seem to be having trouble posting things besides puzzles. I get afraid of the latest puzzle and the latest non-puzzle post competing for attention and one of them losing. This of course means Friday/Saturday is the safest time to talk about anything else.
This is one of those non-puzzle posts. And yes, it's on a Sunday, but never mind that.
A week or two ago, rhjunior uploaded a page of "Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger," which is a (pick one: companion, sequel, sister) series to his "Tales of the Questor." In particular, TotQ takes place in the past, QQSR takes place in the future, and the Quentyn of QQSR is a direct descendant of the Quentyn of TotQ.
Recently, the title character of QQSR has been on vacation, and readers have gotten to see more of the shared-universe nature of the two series. The comic linked above features a gragum-- first described here (though those ones were a lot less friendly)-- and a couple pages later, Tír na nÓg gets name-dropped, so that's pretty neat.
But what I'm writing about now (and the reason I'm embarrassed to have waited two weeks to do so, since it's so inconsequential) is the gragum's name. It's not immediately pronounceable, because it is upside-down. (The family computer's screen is a little fuzzy, so at first I thought it was supposed to be "Brother Hsein." It isn't.)
As a visual aid, here is a blowup of two lines from that page, both bold-italicized, with corresponding letters respectively underlined and barred. Yes, the image is greatly pixelated, but it works for fuzzy screens and showing small underlines.
Sooo... am I supposed to be having trouble pronouncing "Huish," or "Hsiuh"?
On another note, spell-check still doesn't recognize "pixelated": pix elated, pix-elated, peculated, exalted, percolated, proselyted, exulted, legislated