Thursday, October 24, 2013

Handwriting, part 1 (Puzzle No. 3,300)

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Is that a 2 or a 3? While Sabers was refereeing at the Swarthmore Invitational Sunday, I was working the Bout Committee desk: setting th...
Monday, October 21, 2013

Dido vs. Dido (Solution No. 3,299)

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Sabers (who is 15) refereed a college fencing tournament Sunday. Competitors from (l to r: you can tell them by their socks) Navy, William...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Left-handed cronuts (Sunday brunch: October 20, 2013)

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I had a split doubleheader last Sunday: you heard about the  morning game , and the afternoon game was better in several ways.  Next age gro...
Thursday, October 17, 2013

Fifteens and fours (Puzzle No. 3,299)

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Hex had a very unique grid for their National Post cryptic last weekend .  Never seen anything like it before.  The top row and bottom row...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Comment spam

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This morning I deleted two new comments from the blog.  They appeared to be automated comment spam, intended to promote a site selling custo...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Squirt B game in October (Solution No. 3,298)

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The ice was dead at the rink where I had two games yesterday.  I don’t know why or how--maybe it’s that they didn’t melt down and remake the...
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

Keep your sweater untucked (Sunday brunch: October 13, 2013)

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One of the other NHL rule changes taking effect this season is a delay of game penalty for players who tuck their jersey into their pants...