Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Very useful! Andrei and I started doing NYT crosswords a year ago. We feel very smart on Mon and Tue, then get progressively dumber and border on retarded on Fri and Sat. Sunday puzzle is not that hard. We worked out most of Shortz' hints in the article on our own. The hardest is to erase the word you've come to love and cherish... Do you like to solve puzzles?
My mother always did the sunday times puzzle and hated when shortz became editor. I grew up around this but was never very good. At some point in the 90s I started to try and could do mon, tue and maybe wed. Sunday I could do some but rarely could I finish it on my own. I did have to look things up in the dictionary but I was okay with that. Not speaking french, I hated when they used french words or names. There are common things you learn. A dog is usually Asta from the Thin Man series. I did get a NYT crossword puzzle book at my level and that did help a bunch, but I haven't been into it in a while. I have been doing sudoku and enjoying that.
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Very useful! Andrei and I started doing NYT crosswords a year ago. We feel very smart on Mon and Tue, then get progressively dumber and border on retarded on Fri and Sat. Sunday puzzle is not that hard. We worked out most of Shortz' hints in the article on our own. The hardest is to erase the word you've come to love and cherish...
Do you like to solve puzzles?
My mother always did the sunday times puzzle and hated when shortz became editor. I grew up around this but was never very good. At some point in the 90s I started to try and could do mon, tue and maybe wed. Sunday I could do some but rarely could I finish it on my own. I did have to look things up in the dictionary but I was okay with that. Not speaking french, I hated when they used french words or names. There are common things you learn. A dog is usually Asta from the Thin Man series. I did get a NYT crossword puzzle book at my level and that did help a bunch, but I haven't been into it in a while. I have been doing sudoku and enjoying that.
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