There are things you can do with holes and cut lines to mark cells. (Dashed lines can be good for giving the impression of a line without taking away structural integrity.) But the marks you are using look too complex to reproduce that way very well.
Laser cut acrylic is great for polyomino puzzles. But if there are markings on both sides, it'd be a pain.
Good deals to be had at the B&N.
Let 'em be.
Now, now. God never burdens us with more depleted uranium than we can carry.
Here's one. With additional magic applied:
A while back I looked at connected, hole-free 45-ominoes with the magic square properties. There are 12, up to symmetry.
I mean, they work, but it's never stopped bothering me that the ones you always need (logical operators: ||, &&) take two characters, and the ones you rarely need (bitwise operators: |, &) take one character, and it's like this in every language that copied its syntax from C.
My favorite take on this is this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=02gf...
It is perfectly consistent if (A) always speaks truth, and (B) *sometimes* lies, (and thus was lying when making the statement.) This is not the same as the usual two guard scenario, and does not have the usual solution.
If you have a problem, if no-one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... THE STEVE MILLER BAND.
Pic of some old cuneiform tablets, some with circles & triangles, and a translation underneath showing that they're working on finding out the area of the shapes
nothing like a installing irrigation lines (must do straight lines, strictly north-south & east-west) to make you go
"yuppppp this IS why those mfs invented geometry"
In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president
Which seemed ridiculous at the time, but that was when calculators were hard wired. Now that everybody just uses their phones, I have to assume that the aliens had Independence Day Universal Apple Product Interface technology, and were hacking in and helpfully rewriting the calculator app.
Did you read Greg Bear's Eon too? I remember a bit where human scientists are on this alien engineered space thing where the curvature of space changes as a matter of alien engineering, and the way that they measure the local space curvature is to check the value of π with their calculators.
It gets particularly fun if you're a choral singer. I've gotten to sit through people nitpicking the differences between Austrian Latin and Standard German Latin, as well as those between Modern German Latin and 18th century German Latin, for a Mozart piece.
Scrunching your eyelids up real tight has OD ~2, and grants See No Evil.
given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway
Two radiolarian models sit on a wood table in bright sunlight. The left model is translucent and the right is clear
The optical clarity of these prints is pretty amazing. Model on the left was printed in standard transparent resin vs the right was printed in HeyGears PAT10 + sprayed with g115 clear coat
It's been my experience that morris dancing is incurable, but perhaps it was not always so.
...I'll have what she's having.
#AICouldNever
If you have 28 minutes today for a delightful staging of JS Bach's Coffee Cantata, a comic gem about a young woman who loves coffee (and perhaps other things as well), here it is:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lo...
Possibly the only situation where "more of a comment" is the winning move.
Or Oregon's. (Yes, sales taxes are regressive, and if you're not going to have a tax, that's a good one to pick. But not having diverse revenue streams for a government really bites you when something happens to one of the few you do have.)
Seeing this at the High School level where students are using AI checkers on their own writing and having AI re-write if it scores too much as AI.
Make it make sense
When George H. W. Bush wanted to ban flag burning, there was a Doonesbury strip that had a picture of an American flag, and said you couldn't get rid of it ever, and my mom took it at its word and it's still on her fridge 35 years later. Anyway, this is why I can't have ARCs.
I was very flummoxed about how to get rid of ARCs one doesn't want to keep. You can't sell them, you can't give them away to someone who hasn't made a blood oath to never let them into the hands of someone who might sell them, and you can't destroy them, because they're BOOKS after all.
Become part of Canada! It worked for Nova Scotia, it can work for us.
Somehow the latter lodged in my brain as "was a cloth magnate" for a long time. The truth is still cool, if less unspecifically grand.
Piloted a tugboat in the Willamette for Crown Z, and ran a fabric store in Havana.