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12:21 AM
...should I provide a CC hint, or has it just been quiet because of the weekend?
 
someone was asking for a hint earlier
 
ok (and now to think of a decent hint, that actually provides something without just giving too much away)
 
@Alconja I was asking if you had given a hint.
 
Cool. I hadn't. But it's been plenty long enough, so I will now...
C4 hint: there's a slightly sneaky/non-standard bit involved in the wordplay half...
 
@thecoder16 Have you thought about the c4?
 
12:26 AM
(though whilst non-standard, I think it is still fair)
 
Nevermind, what I said isn't true; I had forgotten, I tried a number of things.
But among them was that "naked" could mean "minus the first and last letters"
 
 
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2:43 AM
Fug on!
I'm guessing that "final test" relates to "last." "Beatlast" has too many letters though.
And "blast" has too few letters.
"lasted"?
"...ed" as in "educated."
Wrong time of day. All day.
 
3:03 AM
Think i'll go hide in a tree while political protest plays out.
I know how to settle computer protest but not political. And i know how to whine.
(And i know how to hide. Taught by the best.)
(But here i'm overt. This is a safe place. Though i still have some secrets.)
Really, i come here to dance! And i'm not much of a dancer.
The pavement suffers when i stop dancing and go out for a walk. Codespeak.
Drive safely and you'll reach destination after destination.
Yeah, on the last walk someone said, "Hello, stranger."
"How did you find me here?," i asked.
"You're predictable."
That someone is my Angel. My sister. I'm not making this up. We met 20+ years ago. Her boyfriend calls her my stalker.
Her boyfriend is also mine.
We have a lot in common.
Not as salacious as it sounds! Just emotional.
To be affronted out on the street by two of my all-time favrite stalkers was sweet beyond tears.
They were tired. They'd bicycled through tens of miles of snow. And sought me after hundreds of miles of driving home.
That's literal.
Lovers!
They drove safely.
 
3:42 AM
Angel calls me "Butterfly." She knows my real name but just can't pronounce it.
She's the flutterby.
Welcome to retro music!
I'm a century behind.
And five years ahead of my time, all at once.
Actually centuries behind.
If nobody chimes in i'll go absolutely bonkers.
(In a silly way.)
 
4:03 AM
@humn well we can't have that now...
 
oh, you're humn again.. welcome home
 
Gratified!
 
Spoiled.
The bassist in that piece echoes Chris Squire.
Thank you.
 
4:16 AM
No doubt an inspiration.
Just thought I'd give you some local (to me) content
:)
 
Just think i'll thank you again.
When you say "local" do you mean you had a hand in that, @Alconja?
 
Ha! No, just claim the same continent. :) (which is practically the same, no?)
 
I'd love to hear music of your own. I've played every piece but have only one of mine.
(Already posted, awkwardly, and the TheGreat figured it out.)
Thank you for teaching me to dance, @Alconja!
My happy feet might not stop now.
And the happy fingers don't let up.
I live to learn.
And try to forget.
^ tied for best song ever
^ even though the lyrics are incomprehensible.
 
4:33 AM
@humn Tied with what?
 
Don't get me started! These minutes aren't long enough.
But thank you for asking.
Also tied:
That's a naughty song worth playing.
After i'm done being Lesley Garrett and Elana Garanca, i'll be Thomas Waller.
So sweet.
Many performances are tied for best.
(Sorry about misspelling Elina upstairs.)
I so wither for accompaniment. I'm an accompanyist.
The sublingual is the undercurrent.
You know what i mean.
I wish women didn't feel necessary to bleach their hair. Natural color is gorgeous.
That is metaphor.
And literal.
I was once blonde. Things change.
Now i love grays. Given the chance.
. . .
You're still watching, aren't you @Alconja?
Make me climb a little higher.
 
5:02 AM
Not actively, but I have a tab open whilst going about work (which keeps rudely pulling me away)
How game are you for something a little more.. out there?
 
Understood.
I have a few more steps.
Not as well crafted as yours.
 
Here's a track from my favourite album of 2017, but be warned, it's french avant-garde metal...
 
Rip!
 
Yah!
This is drastic. Just what i needed.
So sweet!
You live in a world asunder, @Alconja. Thank you for sharing.
I also live in a world full of pieces. Here to also share.
 
5:13 AM
If it wasn't in pieces there'd be no puzzle to put back together now would there?
 
Ain't life wonderful when it stops being unfair.
I saw the most beautiful sunsets two days in a row.
One was purple, the next was orange.
Both were warm as hell.
Thank you, global warming!
It's supposed to be winter here at the moment.
I had to redress three times both times just to be comfortable.
I want winter!
I want frostbite!
It's summer all year here now.
And this ain't anywhere near the equator.
This global warming hoax has really gotten too far.
Signed, whiner.
Learn English from whiners.
 
 
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7:15 AM
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Q: How long has the warden been the warden? v2

OrayThis is follow up question to How long has the warden been the warden Nothing has been changed, you are in the jail again and the only information you have now is that it can be at most $15$ days since warden has been in his position. With given this very specific information and with the same r...

 
 
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10:07 AM
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Q: Do I need to guess from here on this sudoku?

AdelinI keep staring at this sudoku puzzle and can't seem to find the next move. Is the next move a guessing move? I thought sudoku always has clear solutions, you just need to figure them out. P.S. I only wrote notes where I knew there are maximum 2 possibilities in the same 3x3 cell. I intentiona...

 
10:39 AM
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Q: Card trick with two assistants giving two cards each from a 53 card pack (with joker)

UntitpoiA long time ago, I saw on a website (with a grec sounding name i can't remember), a card trick I've passed a long time trying to solve. I hope it has never been posted there and i'm sure it will interest you. The trick is done by a magician, two assistants and a 53 card pack (with one unique Jo...

 
11:09 AM
And then there's K-woman. Among many K-women, she's the only who can stare me down.
She's rounding 40 now but began as (my brother's) K-baby in my house.
I taught her Legos before she toddled.
And once she began to bounce we had epic pillow fights.
She learns things by taking them apart.
I should invite her here.
She'd shred.
^ That's not she but could be.
(Side note: I'm not at all into guns but am all into rainbows. And into reflecting K-gal at the moment.)
@Randal'Thor , Sorry i missed that. Until now!
Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. For example, a magnet may have more than one possible magnetic moment in a given magnetic field, depending on how the field changed in the past. Plots of a single component of the moment often form a loop or hysteresis curve, where there are different values of one variable depending on the direction of change of another variable. This history dependence is the basis of memory in a hard disk drive and the remanence that retains a record of the Earth's magnetic field magnitude in the past. Hysteresis occurs in ferromagnetic and...
 
11:36 AM
Hysterical!
(I lurk)
 
Do!
And then do again!
 
Hysteresis to genesis?
 
!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I once wrote a rather nice thesis
Upon the world and its genesis.
Then in my hand
I took a rubber band
And learned all about hysteresis!
 
Grook!
 
11:43 AM
(just composed another limerick, but perhaps it's too vulgar)
(wouldn't want to offend anyone's fine sensibilities)
 
Do you sweat English? You make it look easy.
 
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Q: The Riddler - Matchstick Squares

Khushraj RathodTwenty Four Matchsticks are used to create a 3 x 3 grid. Can you remove 8 to from the configuration so that you are left with two squares that do not touch each other?

 
@Randal'Thor , it almost seems safe here.
Tender sensibilities grow up.
 
@humn Merely being in the same room with you is inspiring.
 
I'was 80 before i was 10. Now i'm almost 80.
 
11:46 AM
Under your unknowing tutelage, I've achieved unprecedented poetical feats.
 
Publish!
 
Already did.
Jan 12 at 0:39, by Rand al'Thor
My God, I gave myself the lie and wrote a verse of paeonic poetry!
 
That needs musical accompaniment.
Thank you for the reminder.
(Many times i go along for the ride i forget the scenery.)
(It's called "lost in the moment.")
^ yes, repeat, yes, repeat, YES!
By the way @Rand al'acrity, i hope you looked up some other Fugs songs. They're the ones i didn't dare explicit here.
(Wow, i have more pet names for you, Rand al'nonymous, than for anyone.)
(Stroke stroke stroke)
No need to reply.
"No need to reply" is an even stronger compliment than "Drive safely."
 
12:01 PM
24 mins ago, by Rand al'Thor
(I lurk)
 
^ Don't take that literally.
^ But do give it a listen.
^ Yes's lyrics confound me most pleasantly. They grew up with English and splash it all over like salad dressing.
And the backing music is euphoric.
(That was a good sentence. Yes, i'm an editor, arranger, and artist. Join the club in your spare time.)
"Here comes another one now." I'm also an archivist.
So you begged off, @moehm. Don't know (yet) how you did that. You'll be back and i'll know by then.
I figure things out by putting them together. (Unlike K-woman, who probably does the same by now.)
You can take things apart for only so long before the pieces reassemble.
When someone truly threatens me, i threaten "infarction." They don't what it means but it sure sounds threatening. Works every time. (That was was you, @shpet.)
Legend:
Infarction is tissue death (necrosis) due to inadequate blood supply to the affected area. It may be caused by artery blockages, rupture, mechanical compression or vasoconstriction. The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct (from the Latin infarctus, "stuffed into"). Myocardial infarction is the partial death of heart tissue commonly known as a heart attack. == Causes == Infarction occurs as a result of prolonged ischemia, which is the insufficient supply of oxygen and nutrition to an area of tissue due to a disruption in blood supply. The blood vessel supplying the affected area of tissue...
Don't mess with a medical editor!
But please do mess with a musical @rranger.
Learn medicine from bastards.
And while at it, music.
I learned from the best and teach it like a beast.
Still here, @Rand om? Let's dance. Teach me.
I'm a learner.
Or you, @Alc? Any partner.
Too eager? Will await.
"Any partner" was a ploy, not an insult.
OK, the dance proceeds unheeded.
(They're almost all wearing wigs, by the way.)
 
12:52 PM
@humn I read that as "infraction".
 
And you got my message. Well well!
"Infarct" is so much more deadly.
 
"Infart" means entrance in Scandinavian.
Which you probably knew already.
 
In other words!
Danish/Norwegian/Swedish is different from Suomi/Finnish.
 
Very!
Finnish isn't even an Indo-European tongue.
Closer to Estonian and Hungarian than aught else in the continent.
 
Finno-Ungrian.
 
12:58 PM
(this you definitely knew already, of course, but the lurkers may not)
 
It resembles Latin in ways unpublished.
 
If there are words, let's say them.
If there are lurkers, educate 'em.
(hat tip to Cliff McNish and his Silver trilogy)
(I never could quite imitate the twins' mode of speaking)
(Emily and Freda! those were their names)
(back on the memory-go-round again)
(hat tip to @humn for that wonderful word)
 
Truly.
So you're revealing a couple of superwomen, @Rand al'sortment.
It's only fair.
 
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Q: Hold off before making guns

Brent HackersThe images below are connected by a single word: What is the word, and what are the connections?

 
Let's work together. This might eventually become a world as promised in the brochure.
(I don't have the first step, sorry. I've had so many missteps.)
(Your turn.)
Rererererepeat:
I still don't understand Yes lyrics. And yet try.
But the background music thumps.
Certain repeat, but worth it:
Learn music while listening to lyrics!
Sorry to shout.
Yeh.
 
1:24 PM
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Q: The waiting general

user_194421 "I am waiting waiting for you for you to come... Here I stand facing their lines, the scores of them fill my vision. My troops too few, I can't attack, but you can. Then attack, strike them down, and when you're finished, tell me what you've done."

 
So much more better to make love than war!
 
Jinxed. One thing at a time.
^ the above song "Love to Love" was for the lovers who found me on streets.
Still don't know how they did that.
Now listening to Narnia.
Gorgeous!
Thank you @Mith.
 
Whew!
A glitch sent me Charcoal.
Thank you for bringing me home, @Mithrandir.
(Actually Charcoal could use my advice. But i so much prefer to bring my vices here.)
 
I'm not sure if Charcoal would appreciate you :-(
They're very businesslike over there.
 
You learned the hard way!
 
I rarely spend time in Charcoal.
And only when I have spam or abusive posts to report/discuss/flag.
 
2:03 PM
You are a true softie.
Careful while at it.
 
Tell that to all the spammers I've destroyed :-P
 
You too!
Now i know more than ever about you'al'Thor.
 
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Keelhaul Born on the first soil, aiming for the next Stolen as replacement, his life a lie To be loved, serve but never die Death came in a flash, lost mother Hideous rictus, fear and darkness Insanity lurking in the water A mirror to his own madness Four were in fact five Then five wer...

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Q: Cheryl's birthday with one more dimension/person

AdamI kinda like that viral riddle from a few years ago with cheryl's birthday Today i tried to craft a similar one which one would be solved with the same technique. I especially like how the last line of it communicates information only to the reader and not between the characters. Anyway I faile...

 
yo
 
ho ho!
 
2:07 PM
wassup
 
Sun ain't up but the moon is shining.
 
@humn I wish you realized it earlier.
are you sleep-typing?
 
!
Are you?
 
How would I know? My eyes are closed.
 
You make me hungry, @manshu.
I want to devour you.
 
2:12 PM
You make me wanna open my eyes
 
And have
 
Love duet.
"Tell me what you're thinking of."
 
I am thinking "What should I type?"
 
2:16 PM
What you're thinking of?
 
(Watching. love the subtle lead-up already.)
(Signed, music arranger.)
Yea!
Manshurocks!
 
There are so many musical terms I feel like I should know about.
 
I can help, but it's more fun to learn by feel.
 
But I don't
@humn I think so too.
 
Fellow traveller!
 
2:22 PM
I will probably forget them even if I learn 1 term per day
 
(per diem)
One of these days we'll both learn English. Even it's Latin.
 
I don't know any language fully. Not even Hindi. I am hardly bearing the burden of English. And I can't take the weight of Latin now.
 
Don't struggle with me in the meanwhile.
It's just so much fun to gallop with whatever stride.
 
Struggle feels great in the right direction. :)
 
@Randal'Thor either that, or he would be buried under the bots
 
2:31 PM
Nothing could bury humn.
 
So far.
 
In few years, humn will be the only humn being alive on this planet.
 
Hope not!
I do seem indestructible. And i treat dear others as if the same. Not always a good idea.
 
In that case, it will be your responsibility to repopulate the Earth (or the planet you live on)
 
I will be held reponsible.
And that's the opposite of a threat, much as it sounds so.
It's a promise.
 
2:38 PM
Do you have any plans to repopulate the Earth without using other humn beings?
 
I use every humn being within reach.
And leave it to others to repopulate.
 
Leave what? O_o
 
I'm too busy taking care of that feral kitten you detected a couple of years ago, @manshu.
 
Oh...It means that if we leave the planet in your responsibility then the only thing that will be taking birth will be deadly cute kittens.
 
It'll be raining cats and dogs.
 
2:43 PM
dogs will probably die if they fall like a rain.
 
Then we'd need Rubio as well
 
Champaigne and cigarettes.
 
@manshu Please don't fall like rain, @Rubio.
 
Now who's trawling!
 
@humn As a wordsmith friend of mine often says, "It's raining like a king."
 
2:46 PM
I only fall when it's raining cats and dogs - and I use the cats as cushioning
 
@Randal'Thor , who is that wordsmith? No names necessary.
 
@humn You'll know him if you meet him.
 
@Rubio , i have an umbrella that is covered in cats, dogs, Champaigne and the rest.
 
Kindred spirits!
 
@Rubio I always wondered why cats fear dogs. Now I don't.
 
2:49 PM
@Randal'Thor There is exactly one instance of that on the Internet, apparently.
 
I play World of Warcraft. my main character is a feral druid. Making me a dog who plays a cat.
 
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Q: Use 2, 1 and 8 to make the number 2018

Weijun ZhouThis is another number formation question. You must use each of $2$, $1$ and $8$ exactly twice to make the number $2018$. The rules are Allowed symbols: $+$, $-$, $\times$, $\div$, $\sqrt{\quad}$, $!$. Arbitrary functions (such as the logarithm) are not allowed. The ordering of the numbers are ...

 
@Mithrandir Two, now.
 
And now the garden of Earhtly delights is almost complete. C'mon @Deusovi and @Gareth.
This seems to be the time of day when.
(I'm not naming others by purpose. Some are embarrassed.)
(I'm embarrassed in person. If you met me i might wet my pants.)
(And if you threaten me i'd likely kick your ass. Take your choice.)
 
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