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Done

gogogo

done. no greens

whoopie. done. bed is calling.

Quuckest to date 14mins-not bad for me!

soz quickest, even

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Its fairly easy for a medium.

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gotta finish later. Time to get kiddo to school

I'm frigid today

Is it that cold Angie!!

Cold as a gravedigger's bum

Yes - that's cold!!

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and a fairly chilly morning here, as well... with a brisk 1 degree F. or -17.2 for you celcius fans

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It is 29 degrees in Florida and it is cold...

looks bad for my vitamin c

Done, needed a few greens.....

Frozen fast to my chair, but finished

mwah hah hah!!! Archives finally complete!

WTG tuco

Ummmmmm.... can I buy a number 3?

wow tuco, that's awesome!

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needed greens unfortunately

Go.

done, with greens

hello everybody

hi yul, how are you?

surviving in the land of cold and stomach bugs

ahh, icky

how are you btwrt?

yeah i was in florida over christmas and now that i'm backing in my cold northern state, i'm not very motivated to go outside

also i'm not motivated to get any work done after 10 days of vacation ;)

I fill very low energy all together

I think I will do nothing today :)

yeah, i don't have much until i start eating my christmas candy ;) then i get energy but i still don't want to do anything

haha, me too

except finding some sweet oranges for my other half

that is hard enough

i know it, i went out in all this snow and got groceries yesterday, that was exhausting

btwrt, do you have to deal with typographic solutions in your work?

it's about 6 degrees F here today and i'm not going outside

typographic solutions? i'm not sure what you mean ... but i haven't been doing as much graphic design as website design lately

I see.

I just wanted to get an opinion on on of my creations

i'd love to see :)

It's just a postcard. I can't upload it on the net now but I can do it tonight

oh ok :) yeah i'd love to see some of the stuff you do.

postcards are fun, i haven't done one in a while. i was marketing director for a mortgage office but it closed, the whole industry took a huge dive out this way

I can show you a couple of my books. go to http://rupix.com/pdf/

the telephone book is mine and the other is an exercise in InDesign with improvements from myself

The telephone book is not finished yet. I have to include stills from 'the powers of 10" in several places

sorry about the wait. the pdf froze up my firefox ... my acrobat doesn't work right for some reason. i'm going to try IE

i got it to work :) this telephone book is awesome, i love your work

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going green. frak

Difficulty score 25. I made it much more difficult for myself. I guess I was a little blind this morning.

you are not the only one dr who

Some days I just can't see the obvious.

you and me both

it's because you are doing all that calculus while you are figuring the puzzles, dr w :)

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done. once i finally opened my eyes

and used greens

Naw, I do more linear algebra than calculus these days.

oh, sorry, my bad

Yes, you would think linear algebra was custom made for Sudoku, but alas, I haven't found any help there.

apparently i play too much sudoku, most of my christmas gifts were sudoku related ;)

I'm heading out to do some ice skating. Bye.

done.. slow again.. grrr...

hi mom :)

btwrt thanks, sorry about the Acrobat thing.

Big negatory on the ice skating.

oh it's no problem, i just haven't updated it in quite some time it nearly always errors out when i open a pdf. i'm lazy to update it because then i have to restart everything and i'm always in the middle of something ;)

i want to go ice skating ... i just tried skiing for the first time, now i want to try ice skating. but after some of my bruises heal up ;)

DONe

Done. Took me 7 hours, needed greens, reds, blues, purples, yellows, and even green clovers. Was the hardest puzzle I've ever found. Finally had to find a gifted, if troubled, child to help me solve it. And even then I ended up using two imaginary numbers and one fraction.

Well, Andy, you did something wrong. You could not have solved this puzzle using a fraction. It's unpossible.

i dunno how so much silliness developed on this site without any assistance from me!

Andy's a funny guy.

yesh.

Sometimes intelligent people aren't funny or have no sense of humor, and I don't like that.

You rang?

it seems to me it's much more common for unintelligent people not to be funny...

speaking of humor... :)

Well, if you're talking about laughing-at vs. laughing-with, everyone is kind of funny. But then I guess that's kind of mean spirited.

I thought you were talking about people who aren't funny ..

um...

torgone is being funny by pretending he isn't funny

i know. i was being funny pretending he's not funny.

ohhh, see i don't know you well enough to know yet :)

Now THAT'S funny ..

Come on, people. Got to keep up!

clearly i am the least funny one here.

[crickets chirping]

You very clever and funny, and you know it ..

:P

November 27's puzzle is a bit funny ..

i forget what that one was like

NOT

it's so long ago

I've missed so many, I'm going back in time to try and get some points ..

how martyish of you

who's marty?

is a namesake a person who you're named after, or a person who is named after you? i must look this up.

marty mcfly of back to the future, after whom my cat at left is named (thus prompting my wondering).

named after you

you're cat's the namesake

unless i'm wrong, of course.

yes, that's the main usage, although it can sometimes mean any person with the same name!

i think that before they had sorted out grammar and whatnot, sometimes people used it the other way round.

<-- marty mccat

mine are GoGo and Pepper. they are neither nor do they have namesakes.

i tried to name one of my cats pepper, but it didn't work. she was my first cat and i just kept calling her mitten bc it rhymed with kitten. so that is her name.

pepper was named gilda first. then something else, which i forget. then it was really clear that she was pepper. this was over about 2 weeks. i really, really wanted gilda to work out, it just wouldn't.

i didn't have too much trouble with cinder. she's all dark grey so it just fit.

and marty, well, his personality was so martyish!

what do you have like 42 cats?

no just those 3.

but 42 is a multiple of 3, if that helps.

Are we done talking about cats yet?

dude, you can introduce new topics at any time, have you not got that about chatrooms yet?

No I have not .. I'm not very bright you know ..

it's one of the basic laws of modern life. chatroom chat is random, thank you notes are only sent to old people, and ... i have a skype.

Did you get it from one of your cats?

no, one of my bosses.

it is not a law of life, obviously, just an interruption.

thank you emails or skypes can go to anyone. the physical notes are reserved for old people. it's not the thanking that's out of date, it's the trying-to-fill-up-a-whole-card-when-all-you-h
ave-to-say-is-thanks that's out of date.

and apparently this chat doesn't know to split at hyphens...

there, that's yesterday's done which i messed up yesterday, so now i'm caught up.

two mediums in a row is so harsh.

ttfn

man, this is a breeze compared to yesterday's puzzle - so far

woo hoo - done!

moedog, I am thinking this one is harder, by a loooooong way, yesterdays was a breeze compared to this

hi hurshy nice to see you again

ah hello

Hey gang

think I'll be moving up to the elite class tonight!

hey haxored & mousey :)

awesome hax, good job!

Thanks!

Although, now will I do at work?

im gonna save as checkpoint and ger outa heyah bye guys

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hmmm... tricky...

auto g+r and done.

Ah! Look! Archives!

did it once again

woohoo. Check in the AM, gang, because I am elite!

Gratz!

I'm a few days behind you... I have about 40 left, all easy.

Well, mostly. Just a few non-easy left to do.

67 easy, 1 medium, 1 expert. That's all that remains for me.

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needed greens

i'll just starts now.

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