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progThe real price of homemade coffee is all the washing, no matter what method you use. At least this way is less messy than a French press, which is just atrocious... globs of grounds everywhere, and all those metal bits. And I'm encouraged to wash the rest my dishes while I'm at it, since they're right there and I'm holding a sponge. I am unfortunately a stereotypical bachelor in some ways, so this is a good side-effect.
The hunt was great fun, though I made some real-world mistakes that limited my fun. Namely, I was having so much fun solving on Saturday that I never carried out my plan to T home and come back with my car before midnight (when the T starts shutting down for the night), so when I was really ready for sleep a few hours later, I was still stuck in the classroom. So I soldiered on and was a cranky zombie through the entire next day, accomplishing nothing.
Still a personal improvement over last year, in that I accomplished anything. Of the puzzles I worked on, I solved Found in the Alley singlehandedly, and found the key and solution for A Bunch of Boxes, a Collection of Clues after someone else had worked out most of the first-level clues but given up. (That person came returned to help me with all the busy-work between the key and the solution, and when I hit the solution I laughed spontaneously. It's really good.) I also assisted in some group-solves, and shouted out the key for Rite Awaits Myth to the people actually working on it, though in retrospect it was probably a simultaneous discovery. (Is "key" the right puzzling terminology for "the insight you need to transform the information you have into something else, by applying knowledge from outside of the puzzle"?)
I was still held back in many places through inexperience, and a failure to follow through on hunches. I'm particularly upset that I failed to get the key for Parallel Universe; my intuition pointed me in the right direction, but I didn't do anything about it, and when I did mutter my idea to other solvers they shot it down. I should have chased it anyway! Oh well.
The hunt was great fun, though I made some real-world mistakes that limited my fun. Namely, I was having so much fun solving on Saturday that I never carried out my plan to T home and come back with my car before midnight (when the T starts shutting down for the night), so when I was really ready for sleep a few hours later, I was still stuck in the classroom. So I soldiered on and was a cranky zombie through the entire next day, accomplishing nothing.
Still a personal improvement over last year, in that I accomplished anything. Of the puzzles I worked on, I solved Found in the Alley singlehandedly, and found the key and solution for A Bunch of Boxes, a Collection of Clues after someone else had worked out most of the first-level clues but given up. (That person came returned to help me with all the busy-work between the key and the solution, and when I hit the solution I laughed spontaneously. It's really good.) I also assisted in some group-solves, and shouted out the key for Rite Awaits Myth to the people actually working on it, though in retrospect it was probably a simultaneous discovery. (Is "key" the right puzzling terminology for "the insight you need to transform the information you have into something else, by applying knowledge from outside of the puzzle"?)
I was still held back in many places through inexperience, and a failure to follow through on hunches. I'm particularly upset that I failed to get the key for Parallel Universe; my intuition pointed me in the right direction, but I didn't do anything about it, and when I did mutter my idea to other solvers they shot it down. I should have chased it anyway! Oh well.
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Date: 2005-01-19 05:12 pm (UTC)in the cards
Date: 2005-01-19 05:35 pm (UTC)Don't bogart what little credit I can claim for solving this weekend. :p
Re: in the cards
Date: 2005-01-19 05:38 pm (UTC)Re: in the cards
Date: 2005-01-19 05:44 pm (UTC)Re: in the cards
Date: 2005-01-19 05:54 pm (UTC)Re: in the cards
Date: 2005-01-19 07:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-19 08:49 pm (UTC)