on a qwerty keyboard "left of b" would be "v" and "right of r" would be "t", and then rot2 would yield xv or tr, depending on which way we go, but none of that seems much use
as in the little verse by Ogden Nash (IIRC). "If you should happen after dark / To find yourself in Central Park, / Ignore the paths that beckon you / And hurry, hurry, to the Zoo / And creep into the tigers' lair. / Frankly, you'll be safer there."
well, e.g., good busy would be "I am a consultant and just got a new contract that is going to require a lot of work and bring in a ton of money" or "I just had a baby".
Bad busy would be "I am working for a company that makes computer games and the game we're working on is over schedule and management has said we're all working six 12-hour days a week until further notice". Or "my partner just died and I have to sort out funerals and things".
I agree it's unlikely that someone called Sid will be having a baby any time soon (though you never know), but "my partner just had a baby" is also busy-making.
@Sid actually I guessed that Sid wasn't your real name (I'm pretty sure you said you were from India and I don't think Sid is a common name anywhere in India) but I wouldn't expect it to be a name a woman would adopt.
even in the USA it's relatively unusual to have babies while still in high school. Also, negatively correlated (for whatever reason) with intelligence and academic success.
other possible explanations include: cleverer people have more foresight; intelligence correlates (again, for whatever reason) with social class and different social groups have different mores; cleverer people have more to lose from having babies early because they're more likely to want to go to college etc.
@dcfyj I mean to toddler, they can be annoying, but they're learning to communicate at least. All the parents of 3-month olds or whatever seemed like they were constantly near tears
While I believe that, the alleged evidence shouldn't be released publicly, Rand's defence also sounds convincing in which he says that People have the right to know that they are voting for what he believes to be a sockpuppet.
I believe that Rand should follow his own convictions, but until I have undeniable proof and/or the mods say so, I'm not going to worry who I vote for.
Which is precisely why I am somewhat opposed to the idea of posting his "evidences" on meta. For all we know, The mods have probably seen all that and decided it was not enough to punish the user in question.
@boboquack Does "French and co." in your clue refer to a specific company with that name? If so, you might need to narrow it down, since in just a couple of minutes I've found realtors, art dealers, solicitors, and antique dealers.
Hm... I can't promise anything, but if you mail me the video I could make it work (although that could take some time). Not sure how I can convince you I'm not going to post that as an answer on my own... But this message will stay here forever, so I guess I would be shamed for the rest of my Puzzling life :P
If you want to post it, that'd probably be fine anyway, I can't imagine it's worth very much rep, and I already got the fun of coming up with a solution :)
I made an answer in a certain open-ended question on Puzzling.
I revisited the site later, to find that another answer had been posted and accepted. The answer was identical to mine, only with a different move-count (which I assume was the reason the answerer posted their answer as a different o...
@Sconibulus I was afraid this question would be asked :P I can't think what came over me, but I wanted to keep those "hop" transitions (i.e. when a piece gets lifted up), so I just recorded while a program moved & pressed the mouse accordingly.
With a perfect delay of 250 milliseconds after lifting/dropping, though. Also the green highlight is gone, so I think it was worth it. (I don't think I could've been any faster if you want to keep the lifting effect, except you have your own code for it).
