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3 more hours until a 6 year streak bites the dust. It’s small potatoes, but there’s a lot of work and sweat and perseverance in there. Nevertheless, I’m a lifelong union member, and I don’t cross picket lines.
A little over 3 years ago, commenter “Mr Mark” and I arrived at simultaneous 1000 day streaks. I haven’t spent much time here of late, but I was reminded of that when I finished this puzzle this morning and reached my streak’s 6th anniversary. I hope Mr Mark is still puzzling out there somewhere too!
A nit, but… tuning a piano really isn’t “fixing” it. Fixing implies that something is broken, and a string going slack under use isn’t broken.
@Stephen It’s usually both! You are getting better, *and* you had a Vulcan mind meld going with the constructors. Once in a while I encounter a puzzle where the answers just flow like that. It’s a great feeling! And then there’s usually one within the next few days that smacks me upside the head lest I get too cocky…
@Andrzej Even musicians think double sharps/flats are annoying and pedantic sometimes. It’s true that if you want a group of notes to be immediately obvious as, say, a triad, the most common type of chord, they have to be “spelled” with the right note names. An A Major triad is A on the bottom, then C sharp, then E. A major triad that’s a half step higher, starting on A sharp, still has to have some “flavor” of C and E in it, otherwise it’s not a triad. So that chord has to be spelled as A sharp on the bottom, then C double sharp, then E sharp (which is the same as F natural). This drives string instrument players crazy, though, because for us the most vital information is not the name of the note, it’s the distance, the interval, between one note and another. So a composer might be technically correct to write a B double sharp followed by an E double flat, but that’s problematic for us because the brain sees B to E and assumes it’s some variety of a fourth, when it’s actually a half step since B double sharp is C sharp and E double flat is DNATURAL…
@Red Carpet Shim shimmery shim shimmery shim shim sheree?
@Søren Thustrup Me too! My high school Latin teacher is tut-tutting from the afterlife. Maybe “vidi” will appear on a Friday or Saturday…
@Suzanne I learned “Kings Play Chess On Fine Gold Sets,” also in 7th grade.
@dutchiris Did you see the tributes in the pregame show, from Coach Kerr and the players? I’m just a casual fan but that was really touching too. So happy he got the hero’s welcome he deserved. Now let’s hang onto that shrinking lead…
@MFSTEVE On iPad, you hit the 123 button in the alphabetic keyboard to switch to the numeric keyboard which contains the hyphen/dash key, and then hit the ABC button to go back to the alpha keyboard.
Finished it in the iPad app despite the circles not displaying. Overlays were on as they always are. I didn’t get nagged to update the app until I’d already finished and gone on to Spelling Bee. Is this yet another in the long list of things that would have worked in Puzzazz?
@Mimi Mine didn’t show the animation last night when I finished it, but it’s there today. What fun!
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