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Sid
Sid
12:13 AM
..i was pinged..
@EricTressler which answer is this?
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@Alconja, @gareth, @Sid - up for Spyfall?
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
@Sid Gareth had L(O) (look!, watch) + OB(E) (order = Order of the British Empire) = LOB (toss, fire)
 
Sid
Sid
@Mithrandir sorry. I am traveling. Can't pay much attention to the game.
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
@Sid I had C (see, watch) + (R)AN(K) (order minus the ends) = CAN (fire, dismiss)
 
Sid
Sid
The first one is incorrect (too stretchy as a def). So is the second one(implicit homophones)
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
12:18 AM
Alright. Thanks
 
Rubio
Rubio
from earlier:

My only comment is that the hint that a synonym of "fire" is involved is literally Not A Hint if "fire" is def.
So either Sid's not actually provided us any hints whatsoever, or the def is "Watch" (or perhaps "Watch and Order")
@sid I invite any response you care to offer :)
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
0
Q: A Riddle for me

davdi When I'm low you cannot speak When I’m high you'll be drunk with power What am I? Hint: Hint:

riddle
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
@Rubio I agree with you, and I've been taking your hint into consideration; I just haven't had any good ideas since then
 
Sid
Sid
@Rubio one of your conclusions is correct. :-)
 
Rubio
Rubio
@Sid You're not being particularly helpful. :)
 
Sid
Sid
12:21 AM
Okay, potentially helpful hint coming up.
HINT: Order is not an anagrind. However, I have seen (i think)only one other clue in here in which order is used in the same way as used in this clue
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
Okay, does anyone already familiar with the past clues want to translate that?
 
Rubio
Rubio
"want to"? Yes.
Able to is another thing entirely
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
@Rubio if you can show me the link to the archive, I'll dig it out
I didn't save it, under the assumption that it would be pinned forever
 
Rubio
Rubio
nothing is pinned forever.
CCCC is Cryptic Clue Chat Chains! See Deusovi's Cryptic Clue Guide and GPR's Archive & Statistics of past clues. Latest clue is ⤵ there! Join the fun!
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Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
In one puzzle, order is just O
given the brevity of this answer, that seems the most likely
 
Sid
Sid
12:30 AM
(This clue is making me hated around here i guess..)
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
@Sid I don't think so, why do you say that? Would you prefer that I not look through old clues?
Another use of "order" is to reorder the letters alphabetically
 
boboquack
boboquack
In another puzzle, order meant alphabetical order, unfortunately fir(-e) is already in alphabetical order
 
Sid
Sid
@EricTressler no. That was given so that you guys can get into the right track. Reading the transcript shows that you all were hopelessly off mark.
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
But that might count as an anagrind anyway?
Clear these out of order? Difficult(3,7) - SEE-THROUGH is the answer, I don't know.
Other than that, there's Order = O, Order = RANK, Order = Alphabetize, and Disorder = def. or anagrind (neither a possibility here)
@Sid See and O (homophone for C&O) = CANAL, unending = CAN (fire, dismiss)?
 
ffao
ffao
@EricTressler that would be (SEETH)* + ROUGH, but it's "out of order" the indicator there
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
12:38 AM
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland. The canal's principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains. Construction on the 184.5-mile (296.9 km) canal began in 1828 and ended in 1850 with the completion of a 50-mile stretch to Cumberland. Rising and falling over an elevation change of 605 feet (184 meters), it required the construction of 74 canal locks, 11 aqueducts to cross major streams, more than 240 culverts to cross smaller...
 
Sid
Sid
@EricTressler I don't do indirect implicit homophones
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
@Sid I have to look these up to even know what they are, let alone knowing that they're considered taboo.
 
Sid
Sid
@EricTressler almost anything having the word "indirect" usually doesn't have Deusovi' s stamp of approval
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
1:12 AM
I almost hate to mention this, but I'm about to go for the evening. @ffao, avert your eyes: WATCH, put in order, is ACHTW; removing the ending, we get ACH, which is the chemical symbol for Acetylcholine, which causes nerves to fire.
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
that's awful
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
@Deusovi Think of all of the ones I don't type
 
lauir
lauir
My angel (her actual name is Angel) just showed me this puzzle:
Looks like fun, but now we're wondering how much.
 
Eric Tressler
Eric Tressler
It reminds me of the Soma cube, another famous dissection puzzle en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_cube
 
lauir
lauir
You remind me of you.
Another from my personal muse:
Really, dailymotion doesn't flare here either? Oh well.
 
manshu
manshu
1:28 AM
damn... I wish I had time to talk.
 
lauir
lauir
@manshu! And my in-person personal muse is right here giving instruction.
 
manshu
manshu
wondering why I opened this chat I don't have time anyway. O.o
what kind of instructions?
 
lauir
lauir
Next from my personal muse (on this planet), because of the voices:
 
davdi
davdi
@lauir @lauir, I recognize that puzzle :)
 
lauir
lauir
And i don't have a religious bone in my body. Except for the earbones.
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
2:13 AM
0
Q: Hiding Cat Puzzle on a Grid

RileyThe Youtube channel MindYourDecisions posted a video about the "Hiding Cat Puzzle". In the puzzle, you have a line of five boxes, one of which contains a cat. You don't know where the cat is, and your goal is to find it. You can look in any box, but each time you do so, the cat moves to an adjace...

logical-deduction optimization
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
4:44 AM
0
Q: Anyone know what this could be? Its from a holiday themed puzzle

Tyler Kuhn The arrows point to the 4th and 6th blocks in the puzzle.

riddle wordplay visual
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
6:13 AM
0
Q: Numbers in the wheel

Jamal SenjayaArrange numbers 3 to 27 to the wheel with rules : The modulus of two adjacent numbers must equal with the number between them. The modulus here means bigger number mod smaller number. 5 numbers have been written there as Guide.

logical-deduction formation-of-numbers
 
Puzzling Meta
Puzzling Meta
0
Q: my review of the proposed 'honeypot' tag

JonMark Perryas can seen here: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/tags/honeypot/info I have rejected on the grounds that this tag will be deleted soon. I am wondering whether this is the general consensus?

discussion tags reviewing
 
Wen1now
Wen1now
6:59 AM
@Deusovi grid need not exist, I don't think
 
Deusovi
Deusovi
Yeah, definitely not. I've removed it from the only question that had it.
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
7:40 AM
0
Q: 'First one' is just sightseeing

btw irpasoapcopais5 T°,ř1q 850712ab996afedfbb7eb36bc3511dbc →179.64691259 fstrtnmsendrtmd 6°B'Q.4" aff8aa93caedee91d0113e01f200b84c↑16.88455024 name the sleeping giant, find his home, in "pain". (Feel free to smite me if you think there's something wrong. This is my first attempt fo...

mathematics cipher
 
 
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Sphinx
Sphinx
9:04 AM
0
Q: Guess What Am I...?

SidPlease bear with me as this is my first question here: What am I: The person who creates me does not use me. The person who buys me does not use me. The person who uses me does not see me.

riddle
 
Wen1now
Wen1now
9:22 AM
... AND THAT IS THE 11000th question on puzzling! (Give or take)
11000 questions! That is a lot of questions.
 
Wen1now
Wen1now
9:37 AM
Is unsolvable necessary?
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
9:49 AM
0
Q: Try to design a uniquely solvable masyu

Wen1nowWarning: extreme difficulty Does there exist a 6x6 masyu puzzle with one black pearl in each row/column which is uniquely solvable? What about for 7x7 grids? In fact, what is the smallest N such that there exists a uniquely solvable NxN grid? Hint helpfulness level 0 Hint helpfulness level ...

grid-deduction
 
lauir
lauir
@Wen1now , that's the 11,001th question. And you knew it. One of these days we'll get past binary.
Until then, my #1 (who jokingly has called herself every other #) gets this:
She's long gone again by now and i'm almost back to my kickass self. Sometimes when a sidewalk bully bumps me i ask something like, "I can give you a few bucks, a little love, or some hate. Choose carefully." They most often look me in the good eye, scan the history of scars, and say something like, "Thank you."
("Sidewalk bully" is a deliberately fragrant way to put it.)
While the aura lingers, though, Angel left with this:
And just because it's so good and nobody's fighting for the microphone:
^her eyes narrate her voice
 
lauir
lauir
10:41 AM
A a recent recent, this singer's eyes, mouth and message completely overshadow the ridiculous 60s make-up job:
Again and again, nothing but anything new:
I see you, @Vol, and freely associated to this (nonstop FCC protest after all):
(There's so much more to protest than FCC. Signed, @whiner.)
(Yeh, nothing in clothing stores surprises me after those days.)
Had another ticket in hand ("nazi punks fuck off") but it reminded me of this sweeter piece (to you, first #1):
 
Wen1now
Wen1now
11:15 AM
0
A: Try to design a uniquely solvable masyu

Wen1now8x8 has been solved Give it a go! Yes, I know what shape that makes >:)

I saw the word nazi so I linked that to you :)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
@lauir let's try to keep the language down a bit, thanks
 
lauir
lauir
@Mithrandir , trying, that's why i didn't post the actual piece.
But this USA is under serious threat and i climb out of bed to somestop protest.
Some fellow vagrants tell me that panhandle money is going to buy bullets.
^ That message is appropriately veiled, but some other times the seams don't hold.
@Wen1now , thank you!
By the way, @Mithrandir, soother of so many wounds, my protest sign (handwritten) is "Honesty, not death."
 
lauir
lauir
11:39 AM
(Ps, @Mithrandir, thank you for the safety railing, once again. You are both a voice in the wilderness and a girder among the ruins.)
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
 
lauir
lauir
^ = "I love you," like "drive safely."
 
Mithrandir
Mithrandir
Time to put some songs in the blender:
 
lauir
lauir
!
^ Wow, i can only guess where that video was made but it looks a lot like here.
We too have golden hills, mudflats and salt plains.
Not to mention a golden voice or two.
Nor to mention that every lyric has a message, always the last to permeate my thick skull.
Almost speaking of puzzles and golden voices, i've recently had the pleasure of trying to figure out what Angel was saying to contractors who barely spoke the same language.
I'm deluded to understand almost anything said in almost any language.
But last time i just listened as if it were music.
It was gorgeous! The contractor began in their own voice and wound up, gradually, in Angel's register.
When Angel speaks with me, i've always been too caught up in the message. Turns out her vocal instrument is beyond words.
So i challenged her to sing along.
"Next time."
I tried to make it look/sound easy but caught her off guard.
(Her name really is Angel. Plus a few letters and a bunch of related middle names. Her folks had purpose when naming.)
This reminded me of her so much more that she almost kissed me:
 
lauir
lauir
12:28 PM
Trying to funnel back to puzzling videos:
 
Rubio
Rubio
What shall @lauir use
To fill the empty spaces
Where we usually talk?
How shall he fill
The final places?
How should he complete the wall?
 
lauir
lauir
When all else fails, poetry!
(Sure would like to see USA fund "the wall" with poetry instead of misery. More protest.)
 
Rubio
Rubio
I'd rather the USA just plain not fund the wall. Nor force anyone else to. Nor do anything with it at all.
 
lauir
lauir
Sign me up and down.
 
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
@Rubio well, nobody likes chat room inactivity :p
 
lauir
lauir
12:36 PM
Nobody for president!
I go almost nowhere to look for voting booths that used to exist, just to not vote for Nobody.
"Nobody has all the answers. And, more important, Nobody really cares."
"Vote for Nobody. Today. Twice."
 
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
@lauir who cares :p
 
lauir
lauir
Okay, campaign manager, i'm changing my vote to who.
 
Sid
Sid
@lauir None Of The Above!
 
lauir
lauir
@Sid = anarchy
Think i'll start a panarchy party.
Oh, someone beat us to it:
Panarchy
Panarchy (from pan and archy), coined by Paul Emile de Puydt in 1860, is a form of governance that would encompass all others. The Oxford English Dictionary lists the noun as "chiefly poetic" with the meaning "a universal realm," citing an 1848 attestation by Philip James Bailey, "the starry panarchy of space". The adjective panarchic "all-ruling" has earlier attestations. In the twentieth century the term was re-coined separately by scholars in international relations to describe the notion of global governance and then by systems theorists to describe non-hierarchical organizing theories. �...
 
Sid
Sid
Lauir for President!
 
lauir
lauir
12:44 PM
During calm moments, at best.
 
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
@Sid think about all those poor innocent people who get either killed or unemployed because of the domination of crime lords and drug dealers...
 
lauir
lauir
I stopped watching round-the-clock news minutes ago.
 
Sid
Sid
@lauir that is a very good decision if you want to stay healthy.
 
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
@Sid you're going to stuff we can only imagine of...
 
lauir
lauir
@EriktheOutgolfer and @Sid, to stay healthy, and informed, when not typing, i go out and visit innocent strangers.
 
Erik the Outgolfer
Erik the Outgolfer
12:48 PM
...since the first thing to consider would be if you stay alive after all that
@lauir um, that being a good thing depends
 
lauir
lauir
It helps to have no physical fear, which largely comes from a preternatural ability to heal from injury. Most strangers have been sifted the same way.
 
Rubio
Rubio
@lauir How do you know a stranger is innocent?
 
lauir
lauir
Got me, again, Rubio, no one is innocent.
But approaching everyone as if, hear more truth than fiction.
Actually, first fiction and then truth.
Every stranger, seems, has a cover story.
After i rush them through it, they blow that cover.
Another that had to come up for air again:
One of my lines when threatened (semi-appropriate for here): "Safety in numbers."
Usual retort: "Yeah?! Who's hiding?"
"Look around."
Gets them thinking. Instead of acting blindly.
Another another, again again and again:
In spare moments, as if not already, learn to talk/type. It's catching and there's little cure or need for one.
"Paradise is exactly like where we are right now,,,,,,,,,, only much much better."
"Listen to my heart,,,,,,,,, beat."
Were i ever to meet someone who had no vision or hearing (met many without one or the other) they'd probably swallow me whole.
I always look for inputs, and when i don't see them i listen.
Without either, i'm completely in the dark and start feeling around.
^ Completely random roil. This is what happens in the vacuum of outer space.
^ That's for you, Max, wherever you are.
(Max taught me to improvise. Haven't been the same since.)
One of the most important lessons of improvisation is to leave an opening for whoever else is onstage.
Even more important than trying to make it look easy is to actually make it easy.
=
?
^ That played on the radio during summer chemistry class. I was trying to hit on the desk behind us and my labmate got jealous.
Who cared about chemistry technically?
(Spoiler: I did and still do. Who doesn't?)
Music radio in class?!?!?!?! Those were the days.
And so was them.
"rough stuff"
(Yes, i'm reliving that night when my adventure muse woke me up to cover a few hours of radio silence while he passed out.)
(Hours earlier we were breaking into bathrooms for toilet rolls to kick around and unravlel in the snow, as if nobody would notice.)
If you weren't into puzzle-solving locked doors before security cameras, you missed out while the getting was good.
The best locked door was in a steam tunnel.
There were other locks to break just to get there.
That door had everything. Multiple locks, wiring, and a warning sign.
My whiskers (Kevin) said something like, "we can crack this."
 
Rubio
Rubio
2:07 PM
Most cemeteries have to have pretty good security too
... cuz people are just dying to get in
 
lauir
lauir
!!!!!
Race you to the next hospital in the meanhile.
To Kevin i said something like, "Don't you see where we are? We were on the other side of this same door a couple of days ago, legitimately."
So we moved on to other basements.
For you, Kevin:
 
Rubio
Rubio
What a world this is.
I click my mouse a few dozen times
and later today, boxes will show up on my doorstep with things I want in them.
 
lauir
lauir
I need a new mouse too.
 
Rubio
Rubio
my current mouse
 
lauir
lauir
Click! (= thank you, i really do need a new mouse)
 
Rubio
Rubio
2:17 PM
I run linux, and that one has all its spiffy bells and whistles supported under linux.
Even without that, it's a damned nice mouse.
 
lauir
lauir
Mouse of the future.
I once asked Cindy Klaus for a keyboard.
Got two.
Riding the second one now.
@Rubio, if i didn't know you for better or worse, i'd mistake you for @Davdi.
 
Rubio
Rubio
I don't know if that's a compliment or not. If so, thank you. If not, <...> you. :)
 
lauir
lauir
That dang-er sees my eyes go askant and tells me what i'd see if i'd only turn my head.
That is a compliment!
And <...> you too.
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
<o.o>
 
lauir
lauir
And, yes, the adventure has gone both better and worse.
Some puppies are lucky enough to lick their wounds. Others wind up under tires.
Here to tell, as are we all.
I've written my will too many times.
Each time.
And come out bouncin' and behavin'.
Ah, , , , , , ,
Think i'll go huff a few shampoo bottles.
 
Rubio
Rubio
2:34 PM
A minute long spot in 1980 where the only place it would possibly air is on TV at a premium for its length. For that ad. That's sort of bizarre.
 
lauir
lauir
Biz'ᴙ'us
I don't remember a thing before jurassic and haven't learnt a lick since then.
All this is rote by now, on a good day.
@Rubio , and right again, i never saw that ad live. It was a lucky strike a couple of minutes ago.
I was looking for Dorothy Hamill but only found porn.
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
Hey @RnRoger, welcome to PSE!
 
lauir
lauir
You want to talk puzzling, @Ankoganit, don't even try to hide it.
I'm done with shampoo talk.
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
Actually, I want to talk Hyouka
 
lauir
lauir
(that's a looker-upper)
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
2:45 PM
(that's where RnRoger's profile picture is from, unless I'm mistaken)
 
lauir
lauir
Sleuth!
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
Hyouka is the most relaxing sleuth anime ever.
 
RnRoger
RnRoger
Thanks @Ankoganit! It is indeed from Hyouka, but I watched and chose this picture about 4 or 5 years ago. I don't remember much 😅
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
Oh
 
RnRoger
RnRoger
I remember his personal motto
"If I don't have to do it, I won't. If I have to do it I'll make it quick"
Or something like that
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
2:51 PM
I'm midway through the series
I think that's correct, up to translations
 
RnRoger
RnRoger
It wasn't an amaaaazing anime but I used to look just like oreki
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
Oh?
 
RnRoger
RnRoger
So I've used this picture for 5 years on every account I have on the internet
 
lauir
lauir
(looking for the Reggae to Speed Racer)
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
Cool
 
lauir
lauir
2:54 PM
Next best thing in the meanwhile:
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
Listen to all of it. I challenge you.
 
lauir
lauir
I have a møøse øn my lap.
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
å߬˙∆∂¬å??
 
lauir
lauir
Blithering is contagious!
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
¬øåø•ßª!!
 
lauir
lauir
2:59 PM
Easy for you to say/type. Only because you have a working keyboard. Or does it?
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
∑ø´ƒ˙∑¬´ˆ∆ƒ¬ ? ∆¬ß˚!
 
lauir
lauir
Apparently not.
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
H ¨¥˙ e ∆¬∂ª´ƒº´∑9l*#@) p
 
lauir
lauir
Don't make me cross!
(= please do)
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
H e l p ∑∆®øˆƒ ?? !
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
3:02 PM
0
Q: Is there a system to brute force a combination padlock?

RavnOur escape room recently acquired some old lockers with a couple of these combination padlocks on them. Unfortunately, the seller didn't know the code. Is there a mathematical system in cycling through the possible solutions? The code is 5 of the numbers between 0 and 9. The order of the numbers...

combinatorics locks
 
lauir
lauir
! There might be no help for you, @thecoder16. That's all i hope for myself too (no help).
 
ffao
ffao
Watched a few episodes of Hyouka
The only thing I remember is "watashi kininarimasu!"
 
lauir
lauir
(@ffao, ain't if fun to multilingue! I keep forgetting that your native is Portuguese.)
 
ffao
ffao
I think it was translated to "I can't get it out of my head", or something of the sort
But the way she says it is what stuck so I remember it in Japanese
 
Ankoganit
Ankoganit
The sub I'm watching translates it as "I'm curious"
 
lauir
lauir
3:08 PM
What i found is "I'm bothered."
How nice to interpolate between those three points.
 
ffao
ffao
@lauir do you know a third language?
 
lauir
lauir
Not fluently.
But i've translated between speakers of a third and fourth.
My secret is to listen for tone of voice. When lucky enough to hear.
And when someone really wants to get something across, they'll resort to almost anything, including a complete stranger.
My approach is to assume that the message is worthwhile, whether or not the messenger is articulate for the circumstances.
Works every time. Not just almost every time.
Every time the message is someone else's. Mine need the same kind of help.
None so purblind as those ahead.
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
0
Q: My five daughters

Bernardo Recamán SantosThe sum of the ages of my five daughters is 43. The ages of any two of them have a common factor greater than 1. How old are my daughters?

number-theory arithmetic
 
lauir
lauir
@ffao , better answer: yes, a third, body language. And, more so a fourth: lipservice. Turns out i'm a mouth savant.
I can recognize anyone by watching them speak.
 
ffao
ffao
3:23 PM
That is the true universal language
 
lauir
lauir
You see that too?
When someone sees me watching their lips and tongue, they often ask, "why aren't you watching my eyes or physique?"
My answer, in some words or other, "because they reveal factors i'm less interested."
Everyone is a walking/talking(/typing) bundle of clues.
Touch is the most telling medium.
Which is one reason i pathologically avoid it. Except for the most intimate situations.
Touch me and i'll tell your whole story.
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
Ah, that's a good euphemism to try someday :P
 
lauir
lauir
I displace it to other senses.
And you have touched many displaced nerves, @thecoder16.
Thank you.
One of my heros:
And when hypnosis requires stirring, again:
^ a feather in a canyon.
I see you, Mithrandir, and feel safe under your feathers.
Safe enough to leave the corral only to be shepherded back:
Got hungry and just ate a brownie of suspicious origin. "Note to self, stop doing anything."
I've eaten myself into and out of worse situations.
You think i'm weird online? Wait'll you catch me ondrugs.
My favrite drug is carbohigh. But i know how to spell some others.
Really, point me toward starch and i'll beg for more.
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
4:17 PM
My price is high.
 
lauir
lauir
@thecoder16 , ! And lowlife is cheap.
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
Step right up, everybody! I make your dollars disappear into thin air.
 
lauir
lauir
Right before our eyes? Hey, mister, can i fall for that?
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
Sure! Show me your wallet and I'll show you the door.
 
lauir
lauir
I always carry two wallets, one for you and one for me. AAAAAAA, didn't want that known.
I don't usually carry two doors, though. AAAAAAAAAAA, but try to look like i do.
 
thecoder16
thecoder16
4:24 PM
I can show you the dooooooooooor....
(misquoting is fun.)
 
lauir
lauir
!
(^ not the original, but an interesting find)
(Oh wow, Angel spent me for a few hours of sleep and now i'm practically relentless. Apologia.)
Bedtime music (on a good day):
 
lauir
lauir
4:49 PM
More to the point, as if there were one, i bought two copies of this original album. One for playing and the other for recording. Then a CD. And now it's free on YouTube:
Play it loudly!
It quotes all kinds of classical music.
(If you're a thrill seeker, skip the pebble from 4:30 to 17:05.)
So many first albums are the best.
(Yes, to be sure, so many others are second.)
@lauir , the bit that begins at 24:16 sounds like anything but straight 8, which it is.
Actually, my dear mom and i had many controversies about meter with my dear pa. Pa heard things in double time. I heard them in fractions. Ma heard them as a single beat. Just one to start with. She played church organ.
Pa still fiddles 3 times a week, on a good day.
The most fun controversy is "you just don't love music quite as much as i."
My usual answer was, " i love you more than music."
Her answer was, "Haven't i taught you anything about grammar? And thank you."
She drove safely but always wanted to be a trucker.
Truck on, mutha!
As she died i told her for the first time how much i loved her, despite all appearances. Her glass eyes asked "who's gonna care for you now?" Little did she know how indestructible spawn she spawned, despite all appearances.
That was half or full lifetime ago, depending on who's counting.
Think i'll change mynym to @despiteallappearances.
I've done almost everything she never dared.
And some things she dared. Only half as well. Which is more than good enough, as it turns out.
Things nobody else would dare.
 
Sphinx
Sphinx
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Q: Smallest number you cannot make using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and the four basic operations

Marcus86Given how simple this is, I'm not sure if it has been asked before. But I did try searching everywhere and didn't come up with anything. It is based on these two questions I happened to stumble upon: What is the lowest number you cannot make with a set of 4 numbers and the 4 basic operators? Cre...

calculation-puzzle
 
lauir
lauir
Show me a cliff and i'll leap. After some preparation.
That's how i feel every time i pose/post around here.
Been a while. Should pack up the gear and make another jump.
Climbing without gear is what i've survived. Leaping without fear is just the next step.
(But i leap with tons of gear. Almost weighs me down.)
"How high can you fly? And never, ever, reach the sky."
Welcome back to the 1960s. My teachers then were freshly out of college.
One explicitly, and others implicitly, said, "beware plastic hippies."
Lesson learned. Authenticity is worth a little more than presentation.
But even ignorant presentation of truth, i call it reflection, is worth something.
. . . did i mistake this place for philosophy.stackexchange? I went hither and whencefore, but this seems to be the only place others genuinely try to make sense of what gets uttered.
 
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