tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post8158232795313100276..comments2024-03-19T00:21:49.519-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Like non-oyster months / WED 1-13-10 / Unit of cultural information / James Bond antagonist * Largo / Noted mother of nineRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2767354218197741752010-01-15T01:06:55.928-05:002010-01-15T01:06:55.928-05:00Apologies if I misremembered Murdoch's writing...Apologies if I misremembered Murdoch's writing The Collector! It was very long ago, whatever it was that turned me off...<br /><br />∑;(ArtLvrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33664241562060480212010-01-14T14:43:31.687-05:002010-01-14T14:43:31.687-05:00@william e emba
Tishrei - right on the tip of my ...@william e emba<br /><br />Tishrei - right on the tip of my tongue, jeezAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84248787553875279232010-01-14T02:24:21.388-05:002010-01-14T02:24:21.388-05:00I think these days that trustworthy seafood vendor...I think these days that trustworthy seafood vendors are more important than months with or without Rs.<br /><br />BTW had some great oysters this morning in Morro Bay.<br /><br />--Stan (posting under his nom-de-laptop)Arundelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15171078182761035785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8086755251568545522010-01-13T23:38:11.858-05:002010-01-13T23:38:11.858-05:00@Kartoffel - Hubster said he had a multiple murder...@Kartoffel - Hubster said he had a multiple murder, multiple murderer case with many stolen items and a trail of credit cards that had more than 200 EXHIBITs. One side uses numbers, and the other uses the letters. When you get to the end of the letters, you can either go AA or A2. <br />Most cases are drug cases and have about 35.Sfingihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06903616949048940858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28510736600088214902010-01-13T23:17:00.120-05:002010-01-13T23:17:00.120-05:00I remember reading Iris Murdoch's "The Se...I remember reading Iris Murdoch's "The Sea, the Sea" and wondering what she what getting on about. This is close to 25 years ago and I thought she was figuring out a difficult father and son relationship. Apparently it was rather highly regarded in more austere British circles than mine.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22709928081755736182010-01-13T22:21:41.015-05:002010-01-13T22:21:41.015-05:00This week's relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week's relative difficulty ratings. See my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&postID=3588389571383499624&isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation. In a nutshell, the higher the ratio, the higher this week's median solve time is relative to the average for the corresponding day of the week.<br /><br />All solvers (this week's median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 6:52, 6:54, 0.99, 53%, Medium<br />Tue 9:10, 8:47, 1.04, 65%, Medium-Challenging<br />Wed 9:53, 12:03, 0.82, 12%, Easy<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:44, 3:40, 1.02, 64%, Medium-Challenging<br />Tue 4:52, 4:30, 1.08, 78%, Medium-Challenging<br />Wed 4:59, 5:55, 0.84, 14%, Easy<br /><br />Thoughts and prayers to those affected by the disaster in Haiti.sanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48292693062742024912010-01-13T22:19:48.855-05:002010-01-13T22:19:48.855-05:00@Icculus - I'm with you as seeing this as a co...@Icculus - I'm with you as seeing this as a confidence builder. LYSINE is one of the Codons of amino acids making up RNA.<br /><br />@Anon201 - Or, Does the Pope shit in the woods? <br /><br />Personal Nattick at the A in ARNIE and EXHIBITA. There are no Morton's Upstate. <br /><br />ATEASE and LOOS reminded me that facility is from facile, meaning easy. How about "vaysay"?<br /><br />That Iris Murdoch was brilliant and ended her life in deep dementia, reminds us how we do not own anything, even our intelligence.<br /><br />@Greene - interesting info. Keep it coming!<br /><br />Just cuz someone's poor at English, doesn't mean they'll be good at maths. (That's how they say math in English.)<br /><br />In the news - Who is this Kristi Watts and why is she Pat Robertson's best girlfriend? There's nothing in this world that could get me to sit next to him.<br /><br />If you had a flower name, which one would you want? Columbine? Heliotrope? Dandelion? Fern isn't a flower.Sfinginoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43146257080874656482010-01-13T22:07:54.361-05:002010-01-13T22:07:54.361-05:00I remain adamant about the distinction between AVE...I remain adamant about the distinction between AVERSE and ADVERSE. If this one dissipates, so do I.<br /><br /><br />(... yes I'm averse to the consequences of adverse reactions to qualms about self-consciousness, or least their spelling, wherein I erred, earlier.)fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10848551726066579462010-01-13T22:04:46.322-05:002010-01-13T22:04:46.322-05:00@michael, Keith Olbermann uses it all the time. Ca...@michael, Keith Olbermann uses it all the time. Can't get more "appropriated" than that.fikinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06324570637549775751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75632983559733484482010-01-13T21:59:52.098-05:002010-01-13T21:59:52.098-05:00Found this harder than average Wednesday -- maybe ...Found this harder than average Wednesday -- maybe because I was doing it in a cool new cafe, and felt self-consious? <br /><br />I strongly took aversion to 44D. Not that I was completely averse to the Clue, but it did adversely affect my appreciation for the refined distinction Will makes, or doesn't, when editing.fergushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17056002311944010536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-75316090204798735962010-01-13T20:49:32.868-05:002010-01-13T20:49:32.868-05:00As a socioculural anthropologist, I have mixed fee...As a socioculural anthropologist, I have mixed feelings about "meme." Yes, I've heard the word and know what it means. But I associate with a certain type of sociobiological/evolutionary thinking (i.e.Dawkins) and it certainly isn't a generally used term in my field (which at least in theory is about "cultural information"). However, the term seems to have gone into more-or-less general English with perhaps a somewhat different meaning from what Dawkins had in mind.michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-36553921252217112742010-01-13T19:07:23.344-05:002010-01-13T19:07:23.344-05:00@Tinbeni: thanks. D'oh.@Tinbeni: thanks. D'oh.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11073079331549941282010-01-13T18:59:55.771-05:002010-01-13T18:59:55.771-05:00@ Charles Bogle,
If you want to cue more Twilight ...@ Charles Bogle,<br />If you want to cue more Twilight Zone music I believe I just saw an obit for Dan Naddor yesterday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82747270247465638722010-01-13T18:48:14.990-05:002010-01-13T18:48:14.990-05:00@mac - If you are really looking for Largo well we...@mac - If you are really looking for Largo well we have two in Florida.<br />One is in the Fla.Keys - Key Largo, site of Bogart movie.<br />The other is just South of Clearwater (which is just South of my Dunedin).<br /><br />Or you could look at 47-D clue.Tinbenihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661395078047234853noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51353845634775486472010-01-13T18:39:24.089-05:002010-01-13T18:39:24.089-05:00For the next several thousand years, Yom Kippur ca...For the next several thousand years, Yom Kippur can only be in September or October. Eventually it will start showing up in November. The correct punchline is "It's not a problem! Tishrei has an R in it!" (The 10th of Tishrei is the official date.)william e embanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61203311133473573492010-01-13T18:33:20.152-05:002010-01-13T18:33:20.152-05:00I liked this puzzle a little better than most of y...I liked this puzzle a little better than most of you. Had a rough start because I also wanted the alga and the Quai(e?). Guess I wanted a pangram.<br /><br />I've been looking for "largo" ever since someone mentioned it. Where???<br /><br />@dk: I too thought for a few seconds that you had been hurt skiing into a tree....<br /><br />@hazel: I've read a few of Murdoch's books. Some of it heavy going...<br /><br />How about Violet Gray and Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet)?<br /><br />When we arrived back in CT we found the burners not working. It's cold. The heating guy is in the basement, talking up a storm. Guess my husband is keeping him from his work.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4944246136562981512010-01-13T18:12:25.179-05:002010-01-13T18:12:25.179-05:00@Greene-
I remember that thinking about TV.
The ...@Greene-<br /><br />I remember that thinking about TV.<br /><br />The observation that TV would become an all-consuming medium turned out to be ultimately correct and spectacularly wrong at the same time as it became just another way to advertise Broadway shows while expanding the employment opportunities of everybody involved.<br /><br />I also remember when VCRs were marketed as a way to warehouse sporting events. Imagine owning your very own copy of last years Super Bowl! That also turned out to be spectacularly wrong as suspense is an integral part of watching sports on TV.edith bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12048817959846956992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9923917025189072322010-01-13T17:32:40.667-05:002010-01-13T17:32:40.667-05:00@edithb, @hazel, all: just after posting this am, ...@edithb, @hazel, all: just after posting this am, I turned to the intro to my new Everyman collection of early Raymond Chandler. Intro by John Bayley (didn't register) opening sentence: "When my wife Iris Murdoch..." Segues into joy of reading inquisitively. So- cue the "Twilight Zone" music pls. Also, I highly recommend today's LAT by late Dan Naddor--a real treat and IMO heads and shoulders above this messCharles Boglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15667976595355657752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52946187180249090612010-01-13T17:24:34.880-05:002010-01-13T17:24:34.880-05:00@icculus That's IT! Thanks!@icculus That's IT! Thanks!CoolPapaDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11542059534657415505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4279579963622594872010-01-13T16:23:07.495-05:002010-01-13T16:23:07.495-05:00@Gorge NYC: What happened? Did you not pay them o...@Gorge NYC: What happened? Did you not pay them on time?<br /><br />@bookmark: Thx for the suggestion--I was vaguely aware of the book, if only b/c seeing the Tugendhat House is on my bucket list.Ulrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02086202853174403008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23299437517452662010-01-13T15:47:41.565-05:002010-01-13T15:47:41.565-05:00@andrea [insert flower of your choice] michaels......@andrea [insert flower of your choice] michaels...<br /><br />I did not skip over you post at all. I appreciated your shout-out to my rants. :-)Van55https://www.blogger.com/profile/15904942044695917615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42126474547095941132010-01-13T15:46:29.454-05:002010-01-13T15:46:29.454-05:00@ACME et al.
This is weird: The Collector just arr...@ACME et al.<br />This is weird: The Collector just arrived at my door from Amazon.George NYChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11844466463123158982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8650797815315677502010-01-13T15:31:11.504-05:002010-01-13T15:31:11.504-05:00Late to the NYT party.
MEME sounds like cream (ha...Late to the NYT party.<br /><br />MEME sounds like cream (had to Wiki), not "même" loosely "the same" in French although it shows in a lot of idiomatic expressions.<br /><br />prefer the French word<br /><br />Theme pretty so-so, it's all been said.xyzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08287781952915413013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80080254702554891562010-01-13T15:08:51.156-05:002010-01-13T15:08:51.156-05:00Midday report of relative difficulty (see my 7/30/...Midday report of relative difficulty (see my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&postID=3588389571383499624&isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation of my method):<br /><br />All solvers (median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Wed 9:51, 12:03, 0.82, 12%, Easy<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Wed 5:15, 5:56, 0.89, 18%, Easy<br /><br />Based on the online solve times, this one will definitely wind up in the Easy category for a Wednesday. But it's probably slotted correctly as a Wednesday since these solve times would put it solidly in the Tuesday Challenging category for both groups of solvers.sanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-384032120002486182010-01-13T14:24:00.877-05:002010-01-13T14:24:00.877-05:00@ andrea, that is awesome.@ andrea, that is awesome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com