#632 One-dimensional Japanese Crossword #633 Array Balancing #634 Subtle Substring Subtraction #635 The String Has a Target #636 Luntik and Concerts #637 AquaMoon and Two Arrays #638 K-th Largest Value #639 Odd Subarrays #640 Eleven #641 Patchouli's Magical Talisman #642 Tokitsukaze and Al...
meet her in the waiting room. I’d have my needlepoint, she’d have her crossword puzzle books. Between appointments we’d moon over how sweet her oncologist was, and we’d walk the long mural-lined hallways to the cafeteria where we’d both get the soup we’d decided “wasn’t hal...
too, paired her coffee with a slew of chain-smoked cigarettes. Later in life, still missing a “good cigarette” with her coffee, she busied herself with crossword puzzles and sudoku after she was finished browsing through the newspaper
I wanted to try sprouting mung beans in a cafetiere, as I’ve seen it can result in really plumptious beansprouts. (Apple really doesn’t like that word. It’s very red and wiggly underneath. Well Apple, Google says it’s real and has a pronounciation guide, it’s not a Rachel Speci...
In fact, I’ve stayed up way too late on a couple of nights working on a crossword! I don’t think I’m going to pay for the full trial just because the NYT puzzles are pretty difficult for me still. So I’ll probably buy a book at the store to get back into the practice of...
What a great present. I can totally see why she sent it this week. I’ve looked at those make an origami-whatever or solve a daily crossword type of calendars, but have never seen a crochet version. It’s an American product which my cousin saw in a garden centre here. I bet you...
Now, before I go any further, I have to say this: The show is not good. This is hardlyBig Little Lies, a series I unabashedly loved, even with a story conceived of by the same author and some similar beachside thriller aesthetics and themes. Brie, Lacey, Neill, and Bening give partic...
I know ‘enate’ only because it’s an example of crosswordese, that is, a word that shows up in crosswords and nowhere else because it has a useful sequence of vowels and consonants. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen ‘agnate’ in a crossword. The sequence VCCVCV is not so unusual...
And I have never stopped. I’ve read it every year to every class and it breaks my heart and gives me hope and makes me long to be such an author. We are in the midst of the book now, with my two fourth grade ELA classes. We use it to work on our summarizing skills as the ...