Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.

Andrew ,'Damage'


Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


§ ita § - Jun 20, 2014 12:24:40 pm PDT #397 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hil, I would never have guessed. Have you completed 11? Any hints? I don't want to look in the comments, because sometimes they just show you the solution.

Thanks, Sue!

It'd be interesting to hear from someone who has been though a fandom attack. Either a creator or bystander.

Interesting. Let me see what I can find.


Hil R. - Jun 20, 2014 12:29:16 pm PDT #398 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yeah, I finished 11. I'm stuck at 19.


Calli - Jun 20, 2014 12:36:38 pm PDT #399 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I enjoyed the interview, ita. I'll look forward to any others you post.

My new passport arrived today. The other one expired last month, so I had to send off for a replacement. Given that I only leave the US every couple of years, it suprised me how uncomfortable I felt without having it handy. I guess I want to be able to jet off at a moment's notice, should my life's plot line call for it. Well, now I can--yay!


§ ita § - Jun 20, 2014 12:41:13 pm PDT #400 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah, I finished 11.

Can I have a hint? What's the first tool you used?

I swear I read someone else being stuck at 19 too. I don't know if it's because of my aged geometry knowledge, but they don't strictly seem to be increasing in complexity. Or they are, and I'm sometimes making great guesses, sometimes bad.

I enjoyed the interview, ita. I'll look forward to any others you post.

Thank you! It was so fun to do, and I learnt a lot.

Okay, if I transscribe on the balconly in the Adirondack chair, it'll go faster, right? That and problem 11.


Hil R. - Jun 20, 2014 12:53:10 pm PDT #401 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Can I have a hint? What's the first tool you used?

Midpoint, I think. I had to try a few different things before figuring out how to do it.


§ ita § - Jun 20, 2014 1:54:54 pm PDT #402 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I am still dead stuck on it, after having used a Compass2 solution that I can't see why it wouldn't get the relevant distances right at the offset angle. Time for something different.


Hil R. - Jun 20, 2014 1:56:28 pm PDT #403 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I figured out level 19!


Burrell - Jun 20, 2014 2:33:52 pm PDT #404 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

geometry play-and-post!

I spent the day cataloguing my sister's Italian ceramics collection. Which sounds like a total first world problem but arrrgh! Because it took hours, and it's only the first part of the work--and not even finished at that!--followed by emails and trying to sell the stuff and probably eventually boxing it all up myself. And I. Hate. Packing.


Hil R. - Jun 20, 2014 2:36:17 pm PDT #405 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I got level 20, but I'm still not entirely sure why my solution worked.


Hil R. - Jun 20, 2014 3:34:39 pm PDT #406 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Playing through Euclid again, I realize I was thinking of the wrong problem when I gave the hint for level 11. My actual hint is to think about what you did in the previous few levels with making line segments of specific lengths.