What's everyone up to right now?

[arewethereyet]

Celebrating...alone, away from people of course, that:
1) my unemployment came through after all - before COVID19 contract workers weren't eligible.
and
2) I finally get to have a cavity fixed Monday now that the restrictions have been eased.

[Nay_Sayer]

Doing a cryptic crossword.

[Little lunch]

Coffee.
It's getting cold here.
I had to wear me trakie daks this morning.:-)

[Rev. Rye]

Doing a cryptic crossword.

You know, I was tempted to post a clip of the scene from that Inside No. 9 episode where the guy's creating the "I teach Wild Creature without hospital building. 12." riddle, but I couldn't find it. Oddly enough, while looking for one, I found my old Anglotopia article about Kit Williams' Masquerade that used it as an example of how baffling certain peoples' riddles can be, especially since he claimed it was a fairly basic riddle. And I found someone commented upon it, specifically one passage about how the riddle was actually solved:

“When a line is drawn from the eyes through the longest finger/biggest toe on each creature in every picture in the book, the lines point to the letters on the border, which spells out words.

This is never brought up in the book.”

The commenter rebutted: "It is brought up in the book. You just have to figure out how."

This may be true, but bear in mind, Bamber Gascoigne, a certified genius who was the only other person besides Williams to know where the Golden Hare was, later admitted that even he found Williams' solution so convoluted that he was worried that, if he couldn't follow it even after just being told, there wasn't much hope.

[Jackalope]

Every riff except lonely. Fuck that's one beautiful complicated piece.
I love the man.

Challenge accepted.

[Nay_Sayer]

Doing a cryptic crossword.

You know, I was tempted to post a clip of the scene from that Inside No. 9 episode where the guy's creating the "I teach Wild Creature without hospital building. 12." riddle, but I couldn't find it. Oddly enough, while looking for one, I found my old Anglotopia article about Kit Williams' Masquerade that used it as an example of how baffling certain peoples' riddles can be, especially since he claimed it was a fairly basic riddle. And I found someone commented upon it, specifically one passage about how the riddle was actually solved:

“When a line is drawn from the eyes through the longest finger/biggest toe on each creature in every picture in the book, the lines point to the letters on the border, which spells out words.

This is never brought up in the book.”

The commenter rebutted: "It is brought up in the book. You just have to figure out how."

This may be true, but bear in mind, Bamber Gascoigne, a certified genius who was the only other person besides Williams to know where the Golden Hare was, later admitted that even he found Williams' solution so convoluted that he was worried that, if he couldn't follow it even after just being told, there wasn't much hope.

I actually recently saw a youtube video about Hareraiser being the worst game ever.

Apparently the sequel involved an even more convoluted video game.

[Rev. Rye]

You know, I was tempted to post a clip of the scene from that Inside No. 9 episode where the guy's creating the "I teach Wild Creature without hospital building. 12." riddle, but I couldn't find it. Oddly enough, while looking for one, I found my old Anglotopia article about Kit Williams' Masquerade that used it as an example of how baffling certain peoples' riddles can be, especially since he claimed it was a fairly basic riddle. And I found someone commented upon it, specifically one passage about how the riddle was actually solved:


The commenter rebutted: "It is brought up in the book. You just have to figure out how."

This may be true, but bear in mind, Bamber Gascoigne, a certified genius who was the only other person besides Williams to know where the Golden Hare was, later admitted that even he found Williams' solution so convoluted that he was worried that, if he couldn't follow it even after just being told, there wasn't much hope.

I actually recently saw a youtube video about Hareraiser being the worst game ever.

Apparently the sequel involved an even more convoluted video game.

Was it by Ashens? Because I actually gave it a shoutout in my article. Hell, it inspired me to write about the whole affair.



And Hareraiser’s puzzle wasn’t so much convoluted as nonexistent. To be sure, Masquerade’s puzzle required moon logic (and some hints that Williams gave because he basically became a glorified mailroom boy for Jonathan Cape with all the mail sent to him) to figure out, but to call Hareraiser’s solution convoluted implies that there actually was a puzzle, and the consensus is it was just a scam, and there were no real clues in the game.

[Nay_Sayer]

I actually recently saw a youtube video about Hareraiser being the worst game ever.

Apparently the sequel involved an even more convoluted video game.

Was it by Ashens? Because I actually gave it a shoutout in my article. Hell, it inspired me to write about the whole affair.



And Hareraiser’s puzzle wasn’t so much convoluted as nonexistent. To be sure, Masquerade’s puzzle required moon logic (and some hints that Williams gave because he basically became a glorified mailroom boy for Jonathan Cape with all the mail sent to him) to figure out, but to call Hareraiser’s solution convoluted implies that there actually was a puzzle, and the consensus is it was just a scam, and there were no real clues in the game.

Yep, That's exactly the video. 

I think if you took every 3rd letter of the book and cross-referenced it with the phases of Jupiters 3rd moon [15 paragraphs later] you get the obvious solution which converted from binary is the location of the treasure.

[Violet]

My heart is hearting me very much.

Well actually, I've got a nice scene here, maybe I'll just listen to my happy place? It's a better nighttime writing thing anyways, oh yeah.

King of the road, fam.

[The Valkyrie]

Bit concerned about one of the cats.

She spent Friday before I went to work just sitting on the arm of a chair. Wouldn't come for food or anything.

Then I couldn't find her when I got home. Called her and searched but nothing.

Saturday morning, as soon as it was light enough, I went out and searched, finally finding her asleep in some bushes in the garden but she wouldn't come out.

I gave her some food and she ate a little but went back to sleep. So I left her there but checked on her every couple of hours.

She ate some more food outside but, again, not much.

But she came running when I shook the treats and scoffed those. Then she spent last night sleeping in the same spot again.

Now she's sitting on my knee purring like mad.

And I've worked out what was going on.

She was SULKING!

She jumped into bed with me late Thursday night and clawed my on the face so she got yelled at.

It's been so long since she sulked that I forgot tge pattern.

She sulks for two days! Every time!