The Sphinx's Lair

Sid

17:01

Weekends are seriously quiet.. No one really posts questions, you don't get upvotes..boo.

Mithrandir

Just hang out here :P

What, a Room Owner can't unfreeze a room?

I was just testing.

The room was frozen like 300 days ago.

Beastly Gerbil

Okay, posted 2/3 of the answers, but have to wait a couple of minutes before I can actually post @dcfyj's

Oh wait no, it just let me

Mithrandir

With this talk about ROs, I wanted to test what I could do as a room owner here, but it's dead. Frozen. Long gone.

Beastly Gerbil

Okay done, now I can give my fingers a rest

Mithrandir

:P

I've only been here 5 months?

Hmm.

I thought it was longer.

Beastly Gerbil

17:15

I'll have been here 1 year next month

Ooh theres a badge for that

'Yearling'

Mithrandir

I've got several site-wide.

I earned my second on SFF fairly recently.

Actually, not that recently

October

Sconibulus

17:44

I think I've been here for about five months?

Beastly Gerbil

2 years 1 month actually

Sconibulus

I don't think just having the account counts

Mithrandir

Of course it does...

Sconibulus

Looks like my first question was the end of august, first answer probably a month before, but hard to check on my phone

Beastly Gerbil

Mobile version is awful

Mithrandir

17:51

Beastly Gerbil

im the only one on a computer then :P

Mithrandir

Nope.

I am on a computer, I just switched to take a screenshot.

Beastly Gerbil

dedication :P

Mithrandir

Annoying. Google. Code. In. Mentors.

Sconibulus

18:07

I'm mostly lurking because I wanted to see if anyone was making any progress on my music box, but maybe that's a naive hope on weekends.

I can read fine on the mobile, just doing the usual idle research is a lot harder

Also, no star list

Display name

Thankfully you can still switch to the standard design on mobile.

Mithrandir

@Sconibulus Link?

Wheee. I've got 109 rep on SO and I haven't posted a thing.

@Will I do read those things.

Display name

18:23

2

Q: My Uncle's Music Box

Unfortunately, my favorite uncle just passed away. He's the one that taught me all about puzzling, and supposedly found Davey Jones' treasure in his youth. I miss him very much, however, I just received a package from his Attorney, containing this letter from him. Nephew dearest I leave to yo...

Mithrandir

@Displayname d g f#-a# d

Sitting here with a list o what the notes are...

Hopefully that's the right track. Please tell me if I'm wrong so that I don't waste 3 hours.

@Displayname lot's of 'e'.

Sid

3

Q: Cheating your Boss is not easy

I stole the thought reading device from Ankoganit. I have already understood how to fit it into people. And now, I have fitted it in the neck of my Boss. Now, I get to know what is going in his silly little head all the time. Now, I can know why he is so cranky every time and if possible, I might...

wordplay reverse-puzzling

Somme one try this- Please. I am getting frustrated with the lack of activity

*someone

Mithrandir

18:40

Too hard. :P

There's no obvious starting point.

Beastly Gerbil

Its reverse puzzling. Sounds like a crossword

Sid

Close

But no, I tried to remove that ambiguity

Beastly Gerbil

Wordsearch?

Sid

I would probably wait for the week to begin to provide some hints..

Beastly Gerbil

fair enough. fwiw I thought 'worsearch' as soon as I saw it

Sid

18:44

Oh, And if possible, try to find out what was the answer to the last part and the question which was there as well...

I believe the clues in the puzzle is enough to find that out. FWIW, I proofread that thing twice.

Mithrandir

@Displayname should I bother posting a partial answers with all of the notes?

Display name

@Mithrandir how many characters is it? (including spaces)

Mithrandir

No idea, didn't finish yet.

I don't actually read music, I just play around with the chords when I play the piano, improvisng.

I have

d g f#-a# d | e e-g g-e e | e-g e-e a-e-e-e e-g | e-g e-f#-e f#-f#-e-e g-e | e-g e-e f#-g-f#-e g-e | e-e e-f# g-e e-e |

now.

(Can't multitask like this!)

(@Displayname ^)

Mithrandir

19:18

That's the first time ever I've had a zero score accepted answer. :/

0

A: How to clean mirror without leaving paper towel specks behind

Just use a regular cloth, such as a towel or even a T-shirt. Rub on the spot that needs attention (I do it in circles), and soon your spots wll disappear.

Mithrandir

19:59

Wow, nobody is here. o_o

Ouch.

I thought you had to have 20 rep to chat.

Therefore, I assume that @Nobody is one of the mods, playing a joke on me.

So who are you for real, @Nobody?

Beastly Gerbil

Lol :P

Mithrandir

20:15

...I'm waiting for you, @Nobody...

Beastly Gerbil

@Mithrandir don't pressurize new users...

Mithrandir

@BeastlyGerbil Heh. That's no new user...

Beastly Gerbil

No, its Nobody

:P

Mithrandir

Exactly.

Beastly Gerbil

This is confusing

Mithrandir

20:30

What isn't?

Gareth McCaughan

@Displayname No objection to being a mod. No desperate longing to be one either. I wasn't a candidate in the last mod election because I was still a newbie.

Beastly Gerbil

Yes you've risen from the depths very quickly indeed

:P

Mithrandir

I was a real newbie on Puzzling for the election.

Like, a week or two?

Beastly Gerbil

I think I had 3k rep. Not sure even that

Mithrandir

Whee I have 111 rep on SO without posting a thing.

Beastly Gerbil

20:33

How?

Edits?

Mithrandir

Suggested edits.

Beastly Gerbil

ninja'd

Mithrandir

Remove 'thank you' from lots of questions = easy rep.

Beastly Gerbil

I have 167 rep.

Mithrandir

On SO?

Beastly Gerbil

20:35

Yeah. I had 1 good question and thats it :P

Mithrandir

Beastly Gerbil, England

167 1 13

python python-3.x file game-maker int pyscripter regex

...But it says that that's your only acount

Beastly Gerbil

Thats me

Mithrandir

BeastlyGerbil

1

What about that?

Beastly Gerbil

Other accounts hidden

Wait theres anoher BG?

Mithrandir

You've got someone impersonating you.

(Did I spell that correctly?)

Beastly Gerbil

20:37

Wow! I don't know whether to feel miffed or honoured

And yels

Sconibulus

@Mithrandir don't sharps and flats have symbols? I didn't think I put any

Mithrandir

At least they have an account on Puzzling

Sconibulus

But I'm also really bad at musicing

Mithrandir

@Sconibulus The little kiddie book I'm using says that where it is is all of it.

Display name

@BeastlyGerbil Actually, you're the impersonator.

Mithrandir

20:38

Like, on the line/in between lines.

Beastly Gerbil

Hang on is that my really old account?

I vaguely remember that Icon

Mithrandir

Heh. They have a different name on Puzzling.

tripid

1

Beastly Gerbil

No thats not me then

Mithrandir

Oof.

I can't think now.

I've been working too hard.

On puzzles, on GCI, on using a website builder...

(@Displayname I kinda left off for now to do GCI, but I'll get back to it later.)

Did I mention that I don't program at all, and yet I'm doing the GCI?

Sconibulus

Oh, huh, I thought that the lines and gaps were both full notes, but it isn't entirely relevant

Mithrandir

20:43

...So transcribing it does matter?

Oh wait.

You're not @Displayname.

:P

Beastly Gerbil

@Mithrandir you know it was @Sconibulus who made the puzzle not @Displayname?

Mithrandir

Nope.

Like I said.

I'm sleeping.

And not paying attention SE right now.

Because I'm very busy.

Beastly Gerbil

I did find it weird how you talked to Display name about it

Mithrandir

Well, he linked it

SO I assumed he made it, and I was too distracted to check

Spam flags on Area 51:

-5

Q: accept Bitcoin on your website

Main task in processing bitcoin payments is generate and monitoring an unique address for each new user or invoice. Once payment received and confirmed, API server forward bitcoins to main merchant address, cold storage or exchange to foreign currency on markets. Simple requests: GET https://b...

technology

1

Bitcoin processing

Proposed Q&A site for bitaps - Bitcoin processing

Currently in definition.

Rubio

Sharps and flats are always marked - -either directly with the note itself or as part of the key signature at the start of each staff. If there are no sharps/flats marked anywhere then they are natural notes.

Mithrandir

20:48

Like I said -

2 hours ago, by Mithrandir

I don't actually read music, I just play around with the chords when I play the piano, improvisng.

Woohoo. It's gone.

Did somebody here flag the A51 stuff?

Rubio

Someone in here a day or two ago was saying there's some bot that watches for and flags spammy posts on SE - and people monitor it and nuke spam when it turns up. Maybe that is what killed it

Mithrandir

In the review queues it sometimes marks things with a warning that it might be spam.

But I don't know if that applies to A51, seeing how outdated it is.

I was considering running for Room Owner, but I'm not sure.

I'm not active enough :P

Winter Bash starts soon!

Sconibulus

21:27

Yay, Winter Bash!

Mithrandir

Like, in ~26 hours.

I should probably get off now.

tries to kick-mute self

realizes I can't, for several reasons

1.) I don't have that power.

2.) I don't think people who do have that power can kick themselves.

I'm going to place this here and walk away to bed.

Adios.

Sphinx

22:52

0

Q: Code-Cracker puzzle

This is taken from a local newspaper Each number in our Code-Cracker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet (for example, today 26 represents D). You have two letters in the control grid to start you off. Enter them in the matching squares in the main grid and solve the starter wo...

logical-deduction word

Rubio

Awwwman, that Randal'Thor guy is going to be active on the proposed Literature site. That's it, I'm out. :)

Sconibulus

23:10

Honestly... my favorite literature tends to also be Science Fiction and Fantasy

Rubio

Yeah, same here actually

20 minutes to do that code-cracker puzzle? slacker

hehe - nice job. it didn't look that easy, but i didn't spend any time on it

Sconibulus

ten of that was figuring out the first word, the next ten was everything else including spoiler formatting :)

Notepad + Find and Replace made it really simple

Rubio

I suppose once you get rolling it tends to fill itself in, yeah

Sphinx

23:44

0

Q: Fruity system of equations

I've seen a lot of these popping up in Facebook lately so I decided to make my own. Can you tell me what each symbol is? There are no math errors in this puzzle. In order for your solution to be correct it must work in all 4 equations.

mathematics lateral-thinking

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