Glad to hear that you struggled, Rex, because ... for me it was impossible. Fridays are my sticking point anyway, but this one was, at least to me, waaay harder than the usual Friday.
You may also enjoy IBM's Many Eyes. I use tools/toys such as these to analyze qualitative information for themes (e.g., your blog and our posts, tweets and facebook posts). The themes identified can then be used in a text analyzer to determine affinities and attributes (e.g., positive or negative).
An interesting approach to text data analysis answering the age old question: Whatca talkin bout?
After a quick glance, I see that UGSOME is hiding in there, and far away, it's also nice to see PuzzleGirl making an appearance elsewhere in the cloud!
A long time ago, I was solving this puzzle and got stuck at an unguessable (to me) crossing: N. C. WYETH crossing NATICK at the "N"—I knew WYETH but forgot his initials, and NATICK ... is a suburb of Boston that I had no hope of knowing. It was clued as someplace the Boston Marathon runs through (???). Anyway, NATICK— the more obscure name in that crossing—became shorthand for an unguessable cross, esp. where the cross involves two proper nouns, neither of which is exceedingly well known. NATICK took hold as crossword slang, and the term can now be both noun ("I had a NATICK in the SW corner...") or verb ("I got NATICKED by 50A / 34D!")
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Haven't had the time to really look at this, but the first word that popped out at me was "Breckinridge".
Glad to hear that you struggled, Rex, because ... for me it was impossible. Fridays are my sticking point anyway, but this one was, at least to me, waaay harder than the usual Friday.
eh, try again
Happy New Year, I really do enjoy this place.
This was meant for 1.1.10 puzzle, ooops
Rex,
You may also enjoy IBM's Many Eyes. I use tools/toys such as these to analyze qualitative information for themes (e.g., your blog and our posts, tweets and facebook posts). The themes identified can then be used in a text analyzer to determine affinities and attributes (e.g., positive or negative).
An interesting approach to text data analysis answering the age old question: Whatca talkin bout?
After a quick glance, I see that UGSOME is hiding in there, and far away, it's also nice to see PuzzleGirl making an appearance elsewhere in the cloud!
Oh, Happy New Year!
A cool thing, Rex, and pleasing to the eye.
Thanks for the site, too - and thanks, DK, for "Many Eyes" - I will check it out.
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