*blows dust off journal*

Hi there. With the dawning of a new year, I've decided to make some changes. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to try to post on LiveJournal every day.

I'm certainly keeping up my puzzlemaking, and I'd like to point out that some of my creations are going up on Grandmaster Puzzles. Moreover, I intend to put out some life updates ( Read more... )

Funny thing, free will. The only way I've found to test it seems to be impossible.
The idea of free will is that an entity with it isn't fated to one choice vs. any other, right? They might have a preference for one or several options over others, and they might be open to outside persuasion, but that's no guarantee of their future decision. In ( Read more... )

My brother downloads and watches a bunch of things on the family PC. A few nights ago, he had a friend over to watch "Capitalism: A Love Story" (is that ironic at all?), and I joined them. It didn't significantly change my views, but it brought back a few memories.
For instance, at the point near the end where the talking heads accuse Obama of ( Read more... )

So my mom is on FaceBook and saying I should join. I'm wondering how many sites is appropriate to join, and how many is too many. I like furry art, so I browse FurAffinity; should I join that site? Either way is free, but one allows access to poarm, and that is not an advantage to me.
But I'm wandering. The question is, when does joining a site make ( Read more... )

I may not be old enough to remember the good old days, and there probably weren't that many, but I get nostalgic for when the stock market meant something to people. I mean, money makes the world go 'round, don't get me wrong, but recently money's made the world go pear-shaped.
See, markets are places to buy and sell goods, and the stock market used ( Read more... )

Okay, I know I don't reveal a lot about myself here, but I must now declare I LOVE TAURS. They are a sort of weakness of mine, but I should probably put off a deep psychological discussion for later.
Anyway, the "Nip & Tuck" comic linked above (where I say I LOVE TAURS) is a distinct rarity. While N&T is a furry comic, it's generally slice-of-life ( Read more... )

I recently cleared off a chair in my room because I never used it for sitting. It has now been taken to the church. I missed the returns of "Monk" and "Psych" yesterday, but I'll get another chance in half an hour and a day, respectively.
Right, you may be wondering about my new userpic. (I plan to change the userpic associated with some of the ( Read more... )

I watched the premier of Code Monkeys on G4 yesterday. This was probably mostly because I recognized the theme song from this video, as flimsy a reason as any, but whatever. It deserved a shot.
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I just participated in the Google U.S. Puzzle Championship and boy are my arms tired. Ha! But seriously, folks, I need to apologize to whomever made puzzle 7, Circuit Maze. Here, let me start at the beginning.
A few months ago (March 23, apparently), I was browsing the Google group at Read more... )

All right, it's later. Apparently, I don't have class today. So let's get started.
The most problematic part of the "Heroes" timeline (at least in my mind) is whether "save the cheerleader" was carried out. Future-Suresh certainly remembers that Peter received the prophecy, but future-Peter's scar implies he never met Claire. (Actually, there might ( Read more... )