My mom informed me a week or two ago that I have a worldwide fan club. So I figured I should post something for all of you. This isn't exactly that post.
I haven't exactly had a packed schedule the last three months. The garage door is now half-insulated; I gotta finish that. I have get-togethers away from the house on Sundays and Tuesdays, though ( Read more... )

Yeah. So... yeah, I didn't have a Tuesday Teaser for New Year's Day. I've been alternately sick and working on the Mystery Hunt. And more recently... neither.

*sigh* I'll have something more substantial up in the coming week. But for now, a terminology note. I propose that "hybrid" and "chimera" not be strictly interchangeable.
With regard to ( Read more... )

http://cyrebjr.livejournal.com/41220.html?thread=86788#t86788

...Yeah, why not.
Banged out this Tapa variation in an hour or two. The usual 2x2 Tapa rule manifests here as not coloring all three triangles and two squares around a point at once. Could've been used more, ( Read more... )

*bats uselessly at idea*

This was going to be a full puzzle with one solution, but I'm getting so "meh."
The pentominoes are often labeled with the twelve letters FILNPTUVWXYZ. Can they be arranged in a loop so that the positive differences in alphabet position between consecutive letters are the numbers 1-12, in some order? For example, P can't be ( Read more... )

"This week," phooey. Seems there's a type of spambot that preys particularly on deserted journals. Maybe I'm making that last part up, but hopefully, I can chase this bot away by posting.

And Another Thing is a good title for Who's-On-First-type conversations, as was noted with Up. As a book... well, it's OK. I found it a little lumpy in places, ( Read more... )

One of the things I've distracted myself with recently is FiMFiction.net. I don't consider myself a brony, despite how much I follow the fandom, because I don't actually watch the show. It took me a while to call myself furry, but that doesn't have nearly such a clear cut-off.
Anyway, I want to tangent off that. One of the fics I saw was "Spike's ( Read more... )

Some of you may be wondering whether I have any New Year's resolutions, like posting Tuesday Teasers on a tighter schedule. Well, I'm sorry to say, not really.
At least, nothing I wasn't already thinking about pretty continuously. I have trouble actually resolving to do things, and it doesn't carry special weight around the 31st and 1st. (The 3/1st ( Read more... )

...Yeah, sorry. Didn't get that much done this week. I found the cryptarithm THREE + FOUR = EIGHTY, which solves all right.
I've been trying to follow "Harry's Law" and "Psych," which is trickier than it should be because the first shares its timeslot with the second's first slot. I'll have to check online for the most recent episode of each. But I' ( Read more... )

Well, the last month was quasi-hectic, or at least, busier than I usually make it.
First, I sold an ambigram at more than my listed price. Yay! Then a close family friend died. Mood whiplash, to say the least. I muddled through a little job-finding over the next week. Then a week ago, I saw a ballgame with my dad's networking group, at which his ( Read more... )

Fast, Medium... Large? No, that can't be it.
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Her parents didn't recognize her tablet and stylus, so they threw them out? Oh, I understand now.