woo-hoo, done w/ no greens. def. easier than some of the recent easies.

Piece of pie . .

Difficulty score 13. Simple cross hatching, nothing more.

I really s*ck at easies. Must start over :(

I really s*ck at easies. Must start over :(

darn, NOW it shows. Twice. Stupid site, lol.

ok, it WAS easy

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Happy National Pi Day, all.

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Done. Easy as pi - 3.14

very good, h.

u 2 eyeman. :)

or should i say Pi-man...

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Oops, I broke it.

I need to quit doing early morning (pre-coffee) sudoku

whoo

There we go. Done.

Nothing like trying to keep a bunch of numbers and locations in your head on four hours of sleep and before the coffee is done brewing. ugh

The easy ones haven't been so simple lately. I hope this one is really easy.

Done. I had missed two easy ones, obvious with greens.

That one WAS easy compared to yesterday. Two passes through left enough regions with only two left that I could solve the rest. Hint: All the 1s and 2s can be gotten at the very start by crosshatching.

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starting

oh, and finished

hiding the hints

just in case

Done! Easy! No greenies and no guesses.

done

wat r greenies?

Hi

is it time for contracts class?

wow...today's puzzle was EXTREMELY easy...no greenies or anything, which is usually how i solve puzzles

yeah, it was

it made me feel like a sudoku genius, which i'm not!!! i've been here for over a year and just barely made the regulars.

I'd be in the regulars if I was here more than once every two weeks

:) i didn't solve a puzzle ALL summer...i was good last spring...and this winter, but between that time there's a lot of white boxes filling the archives :)

yeah, I just finished september ... but I did two between October 1 and Feb. 1

:)

i do my daily puzzle and then work backward every day...so each day i get at least 2 puzzles done. it'll take me a while to finish them all at this rate

I kind of do them in spurts. I'm going to attempt to catch up in March over the next couple of days

yeah...i'm not that fast at solving them, but i'm getting better. i didn't use greenies on today's puzzle, so maybe that'll happen more often

yeah ... today's was also crazy-easy

allow me my illusions!!! :)

oh, sorry. =)

no offense taken, don't worry

i don't know...maybe the sudoku gods are with me today because i'm speeding through this medium, which rarely happens

what day are you on?

jan 12

ah. yeah, haven't come near it

don't worry...it's an easy two points. that is how many points you get from a medium, isn't it?

yeah

yes...just confirmed that by solving it!

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grr...i'm stuck. i'll have to guess. i HATE guessing!

An, another easy - let's see how it goes :D

it's VERY easy

whew!!! solved it on the second guess. then i realized there was no need for guessing in the first place, the solution was right there in front of my eyes!

now i KNOW i've already solved this one!

I'm trying to avoid greens, because people seem to be all "yay no greens even!" but I suck at keeping mental track of pairs etc :D

me too...i use greens on most puzzles, including easies

it just helps me keep track. supposedly i'll get better at solving sudoku if i don't use them, but i'd rather be able to solve sudoku before i get really good at it

I'm sure if I use a green it'll show me what I'm missing - but it's gone so relatively easily so far otherwise... hard call :D

Yeah, I dropped a couple of greens and now I'm running through a ton more squares - couple of minutes, tops

and done. Someday I'll finish one without greens. :D

grr....have to start over and forgot to checkpoint

I accidentally browsed to a different page when I was almost done with one, the other day.

dont you hate that? and then you forget your mindtrack...so it's probably the easiest puzzle, but you forget where you're going with it

I'll be a logic whiz in a few months' time anyway.

i start thinking sudoku all the time...and i dream about it, i daydream about it, i write out sudokus all the time...it's a true addiction

I've been thinking in terms of digital roots and logs recently.

i never could get logs...

My math teacher is a nut, but she definitely makes it interesting.

logs are irrational exponents.

you're always talking about her. i'd love to meet a true math nut...i think my sophomore math teacher would probably come close...she's crazy about math!!! and she's the one that got me started on sudoku

My math teacher today wore a shirt with the "Pi" symbol made out of little pumpkins on it. She sewed it herself.

Because it's Pi day. And apparently Halloween has something to do with Pi, also, but she didn't explain that one.

:) that's cool. my math teacher gives awards for creative unit circles. halloween always reminds me of pumpkin pie, so maybe that's the relation lol

aha, pumpkin pi. I feel stupid for not seeing that now heh

:)

that's probably what it meant, huh? she probably has cherry and apple shirts too...

I wonder what she wears on 6/28

will you have her class then? cuz then you could find out

My math teacher is of the opinion that 6/28 is the best day of the year because it's 2*pi, but also because 6 and 28 are perfect numbers.

she'll probably wear something with two pumpkin pies on the front!!!

Nope, I am taking Logic to satisfy my math requirement, and she teaches algebra and calc.

She can relate anything with numbers.

well darn

And I mean anything.

sounds like the movie 23, is that what it's called? with the guy who relates everything to the number23

She's been telling us to go see that recently.

it looked a little disturbing to me

Tomorrow is my last day of class this quarter, though. I will miss my math teacher.

thats sad

It is.

I mean, how often do you get an awesome math teacher?

i know!!! they definitely are a commodity. and i'm stuck on my puzzle

You look at this lady, and three things are obvious: She knows what she's talking about, she loves her job, and she really wants everyone to undetstand.

Also math class is not boring.

i like teachers like that...my chemistry teacher just loves chemistry and she's not in it for the money so you learn so much from her...my biology teacher last year was another story

Also I am also stuck on my puzzle.

heh actually... my math teacher went on a rant today about certain teachers that don't care about teaching.

well there's always me if you need some math help

i happen to be a mathematical artiste

I'm good at math, I just don't know a whole lot of it yet.

I'm finishing HS level stuff this quarter, and I have 4.0's in pretty much every math course I've taken.

have you applied to colleges yet?

if i may plug - williams has FABULOUS math profs.

I'm at college.

adams, berger, garrity...

oh.

nvm then.

Math is great. Having come back and read through the log, it makes me happy. :D I'm wearing a Cherry Pi shirt from dieselsweeties.com/shirts today. :D

The reason I have to take HS level math at community college is because I never went to HS.

how'd you swing that

My mother's a kook.

my mother is a kook too, but in the other direction.

My mother found a loophole in the system wherein I didn't have to go to school.

And, being a kid, that made me happy.

lol

Until you turn 18 and realize you don't know crap about much of anything.

And then you run away from home and go to col... er, yeah.

lol

School is a good thing

I love college. I could do it forever.

I miss the environment, now that I'm out in "the real world" doing the whole career thing. I'm trying to find a way to get a job on campus, to help kind of balance the two. :D

well it is nice to do it when you can appreciate it.

i really regret not taking greater advantage of that time in my life.

i worked on campus after i graduated.

found it really depressing, all these other people with free flexible schedules and me ... not.

but i hope it works better for you :)

must deal with bread, ttfn

grr....i am really stuck

Turn on music.

check...already had it going for...the last yikes!!! um...4 hours

well, change the music then.

check...it's been on random play and it's been playing everything from classical, to country, to rock, to irish, to mariachi

That's why you're stuck then.

too much stimulation? i've really lost my concentration. i've solved at least 6 puzzles today already

Your subconscious is stuck interpreting the ever-changing patterns of sound in the background. Listen to something consistent, at a medium-low volume, and then focus on the puzzle.

but i don't think it has anything to do with music

hehe

i've got at least 5 other things going on

Music affects people in mysterious ways.

Hello Sudokuers

don't i know...i always have sudden urges to get up and sing and dance when i'm listening to shakira

Hello

kjkjoianvwoeriv

IIthdk

oops...
HI!

oops...

Kitty on the keyboard?

i wish.
i tried saying "hi" a few times, but it didn't show up in the chat, so i just went nuts for a while.

ah

you still here babana?

Silly Bloodaxe

I stepped out to pot a plant

how'd it go?

good!

It's spring here!

Not that there was much of a winter anyway, but...

YAY!

It was cold enough to see my breath today.

Wow in Seattle?

Yeah

It must be 60 degrees in Portland, maybe more.

The sun came out this afternoon while I was heading home, but it was about 35-40 degrees up at my school.

It was chilly this morning when I biked to school, but is just beautiful now.

same here. all week people have been just lounging in the grass getting some sun.

like galapagos iguanas

hehe neat

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Piece of pi?

you betcha

how did your presentation go, Blood?

bad.

oh no, why?

i think my senioritis is turning into paralysis of the brain.

did you forget your lines?

but i'm not graded on the presentation...i

sweet

not really. i just made bulleted points and wasn't able to tie them together

I see

I had to do an oral presentation some months ago, and it was awful.

well, I bet you did better than you think

I hate presentations

but you know it's bad when people who don't have english as their first language make a lot more sense than you

In about a month I have to give oral arguments in front of several local judges and legal professionals in the downtown courthouse.

wow...that'll be fun!

You are your own worst critic. You probably did fine.

No it won't.

It's going to suck worse than anything...ever.

really? are they going to tear you apart?

Yeah, basically. I mean they might be nicer to us because we're students, but I'm not going to count on it.

do they give you a critique?

It's five minutes of oral advocacy and the judge gets to interrupt and ask questions at any time.

is it just an exercise?

yeah, it's not a real case or anything, but our entire semester grade for one class is based on it.

wow.

well know you, and you'll do fine.

just be careful...you might actually enjoy it!

Thanks, but I'm not feeling so good about it.

It's a national security issue, so there's almost no case law.

if nothing else it will be a learning experience

Yeah, that's true.

Learning about how much I hate law, that is.

hahaha

Give me pufferfish genomes any day...

haha

You could always abandon law and get a hippie liberal arts degree (like me)

weren't you the one that said the they try to kill you thr first year? and it should get much better once you're studying environmental law?

Actually I have a hippie liberal arts degree... that's why I'm in law school. It was either that or deliver pizzas.

Delivering pizzas isn't bad. You get tips.

The first year is definitely the worst.

I was a pizza delivery driver for 3 years. It was fun! And really good money for what it was.

anyway, I'M the one who gives up...not you.

Yeah, you give up! That's why you're in Morocco doing all sorts of cool things and about to graduate from college.

but after i get home, i'm done.

delivering pizza.

haha

school's too hard after undergrad

just don't work for Papa Johns. They'll steal your soul.

NEVER!

It's not that hard.

and replace it with yummy garlic butter.

i'm going back to Minot to deliver for Sammy

It's just stupider.

ooohhh...garlic butter.

exactly. :)

remember when i'd come home from school and there'd be a stack of 6 large cheese pizzas sitting in front of my bedroom door?
the idea of eating papa johns still makes me a little queezy

haha my soul was replaced with garlic butter long ago...

Ahhh those were the days.

hey babana...pick two numbers
one 1-12 and the other 1-31

7 and 23

ew primes.

isn't that your birthday?!?!

no!

ooohhh...it's an expert.. Reagan-Smash!

I like primes. They're neat.

Gorbachov block!

perfect numbers are neater.

Haha. I was sitting here wondering why you wanted me to pick numbers. Finally got it.

DAMN you communism!

Workers unite! Stabalize! Brace for the Reagan-smash!

i went from a ranking of 13 to 43 yesterday. i'm not too sure what that means, but i'm pretty sure it's an indication of just how little of a life i have.

We have always been at war with Eurasia!

OH NO!!! It's Big Brother!
with the combined forces of BB and Gorby there's no way i can win...unless I enlist the help of my mujahadeen friends!

Yup, that's exactly it. Higher the ranking, smaller the life. For example, mine is 600something and I have no life at all.

Except for the random binge drinking and poker tournaments.

well what more do you need? poker, beer, and sudoku! that's what life's all about.

Our local drunken buffoon seems to think life is all about "girls, girls girls"

most buffoon's have that in common. regardless of their locale.
moroccan buffoons are the same.

Exactly. And it's really all about the booze, poker, and yo mama jokes.

someday I'LL be the local, drunken bufoon.

one can dream.

horah for buffoonery

Aren't you already?

insha-allah.

Is that some sort of insult?

no. the german drinks a lot more than me.

I see. Hmmmm.

insha-allah?
it means "god willing"

That makes more sense.

that's what she said...ZING!!!!!

That's what yo mama said.

ZOOM!!!!

BURN!

were you there the day that all of the babblers were discussing what "snap" means?

no!

babblers are nuts.

That would be neat!

man, that was a fun day.

Babblers are AWESOME!

yes we are orangeslice.

Becuase we're kinda nuts.

Snap as in the sound?

although i haven't played a grid for about a week now.

good thing, yesterday's was awful.

*because. darn spelling

no, "snap" as in "SNAP!" like "Burn!"

Nice

I finished without the list two days in a row, but relied heavily on clues from the chatlog.

was it? apparently i only have time for one vice, which before sudoku was mahjong.

nice job, snap. may i call you snap?

good job babana.

Sure! and thanks

well, it was like 150, so i started, but only i think 70 or 80 were 4- or 5- letters. the rest were all 6+ letters

Oh yeah, that was tough!

Now that I think about it, I think I did use the list yesterday. It must have been Monday.

I hate big words.

i hate words

I hate you

wow that really escalated.

i hate me too

That's really sad.

and your mom

snap!

hahahaha

You guys are the bee's knees.

i just realized that NDSU is on break this week, which explains why Dr. Ambrosio hasn't gotten my research proposal back to me.
and i won't get it before i leave for my break, which means I won't be able to look it over and get it to Dr. Homan for more than a week now.

you're the cat's pajamas.

Oh that stinks.

Hmmmm. I'm about 1/2 way through a glass of wine and starting to get reaaal silly. I have a feeling this is goping to be a rough night.

*going

don't you mean it's going to be a fun night?

good point. Maybe rough morning.

do you have spring break?

Yeah in another week or so. I think we're going to Vancouver and then the coast.

sweet.

Do you, BA

um...yea...

That's right you always get crazy-long breaks over there.

not really. just winter break was long.

Are you taking another fabulous European vacation?

no. my sister and brother-in-law are coming here on satuday, and i'm giving them a tour of morocco.

well, northern morocco anyway.

OHHH Awesome!!!

not really. i'd rather do to cairo or italy with friends.

That will be so fun! Ands I suppose Chelsey will be there in a two weeks or so.

but i love my sister and brother, so i'll make the best of it.

Awwww

chels will be here a week after they leave. and a week after that a friend from Germany will be coming for a few days...insha-allah

Awesome! You'll sure be busy!

yea.

i hope i get time to get work done.

i have a lot to do over this break

hm...my roommate has been walking around with his shirt off a lot.

ew

OH MY!!!

Aaropnj just told me that there are plans in Jamestown ND to turn the world's largest buffalo into the world's largest chia pet!

what??!?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!

It's going to be called the Chiafalo!!!!

they must really be hurting for tourism.

My thoughts exactly.

"The World's Largest..." is the best tourist attraction.

Well, why else would you go to Jamestown?

well i've been able to get quite a few people interested in Jamestown by telling them about the albino buffalo.

Well, I have to go to my extremely boozy study group. I may be back later depending on how much we actually get accomplished.

bye babanna. have fun.

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finshed. Happy World Pi Day all.

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javascript isn't browser-dependent.

yes, in the case of IE6, bookmarklets are

No.

IE6 has a limit of 508 bytes, IE6 SP2 limit is 488 bytes

aha

nevermind.

IE5, IE7, and FF all have 2000+ byte limits

I misinterpreted what you said is all

t'was my mistake.

:) No problemo. Sorry, this has been driving me nuts for a while.

I put 2^(2.321221221221) into the calculator and it froze.

I need to find that number...

Ah, perhaps the math nuts have gone.

wow, my rating has slipped. I havnt [played in more thjan 2 weeks!

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