Did you get the set of the puzzles that was promised?
Yes. I need to finish something (damned job!) but I'll send them to you later... using the scanner at work (yay job!). If anyone else wants them just let me know. Jesse already knows this but for anyone else who receives them, puzzles 8A-8C are the championship puzzles: one set of answers, three sets of clues ranging from easiest (C) to really, really hard (A). A, B, and C correspond to the divisions. Only 27 of the 699 contestants were in A (although one B scored well enough to participate in the A finals); there were 74 Bs. This page has videos of the tournament - not that thrilling except to see just how insanely fast the top solvers are. If you click on the Al Sanders (5th overall) link you can see me briefly. I'm in the purple shirt three seats away from him.
Hi, Nilly. I was thinking about you the other day when I was watching Mad Men. One of its stars is Christina Hendricks, Firefly's YoSafBridge. Your long posts on the Saffron episodes were even more excellent than your other Firefly writings.
That would be awesome! I have the championship ones, but not the others.
Also, hilariously, it's me, erinaceous, and her father-in-law (from right to left) behind Frances Heaney and Ellen Ripstein in their video.
Lisa! So cute, those twins! So big!!! The other day lori posted pictures of HER twins, and I wasn't paying attention and thought it was you and was all "hey, we haven't seen them in a while, still cute?"
I was not making the sound of ultimate suffering, but I did make a sound of "Gonna kick your ass from across the country" when someone called me at 6:15AM. He was on the east coast. I did not answer the phone, but when I spoke to him later, I was like "Dude, you DO NOT want to talk to me at 6AM, especially if you have woken me up. Which you did."
meara, it always amazes me how many people seemingly have no concept of time zones, and the fact it's THREE HOURS EARLIER on this coast. Don't wake me up at the crack of dawn! Don't babble in baffled amazement that I wasn't at my desk at work to take your call when it's only 7:00 a.m. in my time zone! Don't gripe because your husband stayed up to 1:00 a.m. watching the Red Sox playing the M's and act like the problem is us having the nerve to schedule games to fit the lives of people who actually live here!
but I did make a sound of "Gonna kick your ass from across the country" when someone called me at 6:15AM. He was on the east coast. I did not answer the phone, but when I spoke to him later, I was like "Dude, you DO NOT want to talk to me at 6AM, especially if you have woken me up. Which you did."
Normally when a call comes in at an outrageous hour, I answer the phone just in case it really is an emergency with the following:
"If this was not a matter of life and deal before, its about to become one".
I was not making the sound of ultimate suffering, but I did make a sound of "Gonna kick your ass from across the country" when someone called me at 6:15AM. He was on the east coast.
HE deserves to be making the sound of ultimate suffering.
Oh, lord. I barely want to call my West Coast coworker before 8, and I KNOW she's up and working at 6!
What seems at first glance like a stunningly bad life decision, for a young writer
I hate this person. It makes me horribly paranoid, especially when I'm in the middle of writing the next non-fiction. Casts a doubtful eye over everyone. I wish I could kick her. She lives nearby, right?
