Puzzles, and hunting and writing.
In the aftermath of the KGB puzzlehunt (which my team "won"!) I have written an essay about puzzle-solving, and how information theory pertains to search space when solving puzzles. Problem: It's 1623 words and desperately needs editing before I can post it. Solution: Remind me to edit it tomorrow, and your reward/punishment will be getting to read it.
(What do I mean by "won"? We were third to complete the metapuzzle. First was a remote-solving team, which didn't do the interactive events or the final endgame puzzle. Second made it to the endgame puzzle, but couldn't solve it and got a "bad ending"; one of them ran away and the other three "had their brains scrambled". We were the first team to solve the endgame puzzle and get the "good ending" in which everyone is saved and nobody dies. Yay! I'll call that a win.)
Also, a reminder: You can follow my ongoing foray into lisp interpretation, doing 15 (down from 30) lisp interpreters in the month of November, at nalintmo. I have completed number 5, in Pike, which is a problem even at the 2-days-per-language rate, since it's the end of Day 12. I have a bit of catching up to do. ;-)
(What do I mean by "won"? We were third to complete the metapuzzle. First was a remote-solving team, which didn't do the interactive events or the final endgame puzzle. Second made it to the endgame puzzle, but couldn't solve it and got a "bad ending"; one of them ran away and the other three "had their brains scrambled". We were the first team to solve the endgame puzzle and get the "good ending" in which everyone is saved and nobody dies. Yay! I'll call that a win.)
Also, a reminder: You can follow my ongoing foray into lisp interpretation, doing 15 (down from 30) lisp interpreters in the month of November, at nalintmo. I have completed number 5, in Pike, which is a problem even at the 2-days-per-language rate, since it's the end of Day 12. I have a bit of catching up to do. ;-)