I don't think *human* is the race they're worried about.

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Puzzle #1045
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Green, purple, yellow. Did not solve blue; didn't know at least one of the members. (Hence its getting submitted first, figuring it was probably purple.)

Congratulations!

I'm a bit over halfway through and am quite enjoying it.

(I will be stunned if anything else wins the Otherwise Award next year.)

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Puzzle #1044
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Green, rainbow herring, blue, yellow, purple. Did solve purple.

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Puzzle #1041
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Blue-yellow-purple-green. Once again purple was obviously purple, the other colors not so much.

Volume 3 came out last week in comic stores, but from things Gillen has said I think it doesn't make it to bookshops until next month. That might apply to libraries too.

_The Power Fantasy_ is so good that I bought the individual issues *and* I bought the trade paperbacks. I haven't felt so strongly about a series since _Astro City_.

Read The Power Fantasy #1 “Superpowered.” You have certain preconceptions. They’re incorrect. Here, that word has a specific technical definition. Namely, “any individual with the destructive capacity of the nuclear arsenal of...

The first issue is available to read online here:
imagecomics.com/read/the-pow...

(Also a big fan of Astro City! It's in fact my #1 superhero comic. Yes, above that one. And that one. But Power Fantasy has the advantage of being ongoing rather than stalled by Kurt's health problems.)

@adapalmer.bsky.social I just re-read your "mitfreude" about manga, and it made me wonder if you've read this. I think you'd *really* like it. (A superhero comic...that namedrops Bertrand Russell and Immanuel Kant in its first four pages.)

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Connections Puzzle #1038
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Yellow first, then had a lot of trouble sorting out the other groups, so submitted yellow. Then blue, green, purple; did solve purple. The mistake was a misclick.

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Puzzle #1039
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Rainbow herring first (eulzrf), then green-blue-yellow-purple. Yet again I find little to choose from in difficulty among the non-purple groups.

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Puzzle #1037
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Blue-yellow-green-purple. Did solve purple.

I did not know that! Thank you for sharing that interesting information.

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Puzzle #1036
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As shown except purple last. I still don't see why yellow is yellow and blue is blue, and not vice versa.

See also www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0...

Then he started carving the name, and began like gangbusters:
C! A! E! S!
"...oh shit, I'm running out of space."
Each letter of E-N-N-A is narrower than the one before it.

Ah, for a record of the conversation between the stonecutter and the family at delivery time. (But they used it.)

I deeply regret not taking a picture of the sarcophagus I saw in the archeological basement of a small museum in Sorrento, Italy. It was for a certain Caesenna. The stonecutter carved a rectangular depression for the name to go in.

I picked up X-Men 110 and 111 (Warhawk and Mesmero's mindgames, respectively) and then for some reason didn't buy 112 and 113 (Magneto two-parter) but bought 114 and then every new issue for many years after. Claremont and Byrne blew my nine-year-old mind.

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Eagle! Beat the bot by 1.

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Puzzle #1035
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Rainbow herring, yellow, green, blue, purple. Did solve purple. Still think that my order here should be a reverse rainbow.

Out of what's pictured here, Adventure (the cover caught my eye) and of course Star Wars.

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Puzzle #1034
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I was surprised that the category name for blue didn't say Rzzragunyre instead of Fjvff.

Almost-rainbow herring first, then as shown. Did not solve purple.

Is this the place to mention Heavy saying he and Etienne don't "get on" instead of "get along"? (Between that and him calling the Major "cunt" I was seriously wondering whether he was meant to be American.)

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Then I spread around the melted butter on the foil. (Heatter says to use a pastry brush but since I don't have one of those I just use a paper towel and this works well enough.)

This, as with your parchment, lets me lift out the entire baked cake for cutting.

I adapt a trick from Maida Heatter's Palm Beach Brownies (my previous go-to recipe): I take a big sheet of aluminum foil, mold it down around the outside of the pan; then fit it into the inside. I put in a pat of butter, and put it for a minute in the preheating oven.

I have often found that the batter is very thick, and must be dug out of the mixing bowl with a spatula and spread by hand. When I give people the recipe I note this and say "this is normal". I'll have to try adding milk. (I usually have 2% on hand...maybe also add a little butter?)

It is my go-to brownie recipe. I have it bookmarked:
nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...

Connections Puzzle #1033
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Rainbow herring first, then blue (and wondered which was the trap). Then green, which strongly suggested which was the trap. Didn't know one of the purples; got the group but didn't get the connector. Didn't solve yellow until it was the only one left.