Brady
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There is Sam, and there is everyone else. I like wordplay, and his is amazing. Like drinking through a fire hose, though. I usually forget to look at the constructor's name first, and when I get so stuck I feel my brain's gone dead, I look up to see Sam as the constructor and think "Phew. I'm OK." With everyone else, I hold myself to a "naked" solve. i.e., as if I'm in a room, naked (lest I look up something off a clothing tag out of desperation), with nothing else but a pencil and the puzzle, and had to submit it a la the computer punch-cards of yore. No music when the last cell is filled? No solve. With Sam, I give myself complete latitude to do whatever I want to solve the puzzle, and I give myself a win as long as my laptop is in 6 or fewer pieces when it is all over. (Kinda like Wordle.) I count 4 pieces today. Win!!!
I am trying to get better at seeing the good in all things. Today, for example, I found myself grateful that so much entertainment-based trivia was packed into one puzzle, which hopefully will prevent said trivia from polluting many other puzzles (by the law of the conservation of uselessness--whiich I suspect does not, but I hope for humanity's sake does, exist.) blah blah emus
Nice puzzle--a fun solve that paid (more than) fair returns on the opportunity cost of the time spent with it. Rather the opposite of yesterday's, I'd say.
@Andrzej C vs K prevented my solve! I haven't been so proud of myself in quite some time ;-)
Strong debut! I didn't know award-winning journalist Linda, nor do I know much about comics... so I was really, really, *really* hoping for the brainwave device to be the CEREFRO. I had a nice visual and everything.
I can't imagine how difficult this puzzle must have been to construct. Jaw-droppinglyy brilliant. The last puzzle to awe me like this was a Sunday Texas-hold 'em rebus. I don't know my artists, so I only spent a couple of minutes on it before revealing things. But that's just one benefit--there are many, in this gamified world--of refusing to build a streak ;-) Huge shout-out, by the way, for the ability to reveal words on the e-versions of these puzzles. Lets me enjoy some amazing puzzles that I don't have the time, desire or knowledge to solve. Worth it for the Zamboni puzzle animation alone! Side note: skimming these comments, I find it odd that apparently, a rebus not reading both ways and "covering up" another letter (part of a nice punchline) is somehow supposed to be a bridge too far... if it's Thursday or Sunday, it's the Wild West, right? I figure rules for puzzles like these are binary: no monkey business, or an arbitrary level of monkey business.
@B I didn't know it either, but for some reason this entry ticked me off a LOT less than being asked about cosmetics brands, bikini-line hair removal products, talk-show entertainers, "who placed 7th in Vacuity Monthly's October 1987 poll", what have you. At least I can maybe try KINPIRA for dinner sometime.
@Adam Every complex number has a real and an imaginary component, either or both (in the case of zero) of which can be zero. So all real numbers are complex numbers, but not every complex number is real. e.g., purely real numbers are complex numbers whose imaginary component is zero, and purely imaginary numbers are complex numbers whose real component is zero. It is fine to write i as the sum of its real and imaginary components ( 0 + 1i ), but this is rarely done. emus can't do math can u emus?
@Bill whitney Maybe he *was* laying in bed. He didn't mention whether anybody else was with him.
@Steven M. I also had the "u" vice "h"... didn't catch it either!
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