Jen and I did the Washington Post Hunt today with Sheffi and Clint. It's a short (a few hours), fairly easy annual puzzle hunt written by Dave Barry, Gene Weingarten, and Tom Shroder. We had lots of fun and came very close to winning, but did not.
( Long write-up of this year's Post Hunt. Spoilers ahoy. )

This was a strange mystery hunt for me. My team (Metaphysical Plant, which wrote the S.P.I.E.S. hunt) got our asses kicked, solving close to all the regular puzzles but only one second-half meta. Yet unlike a lot of recent years which defeated us, we were steadily productive and having fun throughout. The puzzles I worked on were my largely ( Read more... )

Inspired by Aaron, a list of the places I have visited this year, in approximate chronological order by first visit. Multiple visits on non-consecutive days marked by stars. One or more nights spent in all listed places ( Read more... )

If anyone here is interested in a nice, 2.5-year-old 1.25 1.33 GHz 15-inch Aluminum Powerbook G4, let me know. I just got a new Macbook Pro, and Apple just replaced the Powerbook's hard drive, so now I have a spare. It's still in Applecare.

Edited to add: Okay, it's a 1.33 (not 1.25) GHz G4 with 1.5 GB of RAM, a 60 GB hard drive, and a combo (DVD/ ( Read more... )

Per MyDD.

See also http://web.mit.edu/raf/www/

( Google baiting; ignore this. )