Theme: The Three Amigos - synonyms.
20A. Seaside shade provider: BEACH UMBRELLA
37A. Philatelist's volumes: STAMP ALBUMS
44A. Practice that develops a variety of employee skills: JOB ROTATION
59A. Kid's imaginary companions, and what's literally found in this puzzle's circles: SECRET FRIENDS
Argyle here. Bit more secret with out the circles but you should know where to look for them, spanning the two words. Definitely a male slant to the entries but are there feminine equivalents?
Across:
1. The "m" in E = mc²: MASS. This formula states that the equivalent energy (E) can be calculated as the mass (m) multiplied by the speed of light (c) squared.
5. Put into force: ENACT
10. Wood-shaping tool: ADZE
14. Severely damaged sea: ARAL
15. Morning show featuring Al Roker: TODAY
16. Drubbed or whipped: BEAT
17. Calf-length skirt: MIDI
18. Lady's canine love: TRAMP. "Lady and the Tramp" Disney Movie (1955)
19. Omar of "The Mod Squad": EPPS. Popular guy in crossword land.
23. Bone: Pref.: OSTEO
24. Second person: YOU. I am first person.
25. Grammy category: RAP
28. "Don't play" music symbols: RESTS
32. "I'll do that!": "LET ME!"
34. Opposite of pos.: NEG.
40. Soothing succulent: ALOE
42. Inclined: ATILT. 'A' words. 53D. Come to light: ARISE
43. Sitter's nemesis: BRAT
47. Letters after ems: ENS. Alphabetically speaking.
48. "Not __!": "Quiet!": A PEEP
49. Macho guy: HEMAN
51. Not agin: FER
52. Musician's gift: EAR
55. Curriculum __: résumé: VITAE
64. Remove a rind from: PEEL
66. "Ask me if __": I CARE
67. Pigeon banter: COOS
68. Drops the ball: ERRs
69. Country south of Egypt: SUDAN
70. French I verb: ÊTRE. (to be)
71. Path behind a ship: WAKE
72. Poet's muse: ERATO
73. Taken in, as a movie: SEEN
Down:
1. Cuban dance: MAMBO
2. Spring zodiac sign: ARIES
3. '70s-'80s Egyptian president Anwar: SADAT. Ended in assassination.
4. Deli machine: SLICER
5. Caesar's ides-of-March words: "ET TU?"
6. Good name for an average guy: NORM
7. Not much (of): A DAB
8. Top-selling Toyota: CAMRY
9. Blood bank spec: TYPE 'O'
10. Second son: ABEL
11. Act of leaving: DEPARTURE
12. Microwave: ZAP
13. Sci-fi beings: ETs
21. Long-handled garden tools: HOEs
22. Break in the action: LULL
26. Capital of Jordan: AMMAN
27. Annoying types: PESTS
29. "Now!" in the OR: "STAT!"
30. Brit's sign-off: TA-TA
31. Northampton women's college: SMITH. Smith College is in Northampton,MA. Established 1871 (opened 1875).
33. Flow back: EBB
34. City south of Baghdad: NAJAF. Minneapolis and Najaf are Sister Cities since 2009.
35. Wed on the wing: ELOPE
36. Lose it big-time: GO BERSERK
38. Ballet dip: PLIÉ
39. Tiny physics bit: ATOM
41. Poetic palindrome: ERE
45. Oil gp. that includes Iraq: OPEC. (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
46. "Avatar" race: NA'VI. The movie.
50. Nephews' sisters: NIECEs
54. Happen multiple times: RECUR
56. Govt. security: T-NOTE
57. Love dearly: ADORE
58. German steel city: ESSEN. "European Green Capital 2017"
60. Beyond that: ELSE
61. "Look what I did!": "TA-DA!"
62. Group with pledges: FRAT. (college fraternity)
63. Nevada gambling city: RENO
64. Church bench: PEW
65. Notable time: ERA
Argyle
Why is it spelt ALBUM but pronounced alblum? Or is that just me?
ReplyDeleteShould YOU be invited to dance with ERATO
Be forewarned that she shakes a mean MAMBO!
LET ME share
That because I CARE,
It's best to prepare a smoothie of ALOE!
SADAT was a nasty kid from NAJAF
He wasn't liked, he was such a BRAT!
And as he grew older
His hi-jinks grew bolder --
So he was welcomed as a BRO when he joined a FRAT!
A BEACH UMBRELLA if days were sunny,
A STAMP ALBUM for when rain was runny!
He brought things he ADORED
So he wouldn't get bored
When he went off to RENO to ELOPE with his honey!
{B-, B, B+.}
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteThis was a typical Monday speed run. Only over-write: DEPARTing to DEPARTURE. Thanx, Mark and Argyle.
OwenKL, it's just you. Album is pronounced the way it's spelled -- \'al-bəm\. I have heard folks mispronounce it as alblum, though.
Just ran across this whatchamacallit I'm sure Yellowrocks will love! I even managed to find the text so you don't have to click on that link! I haven't compared the to, two be sure they match, but spellcheck hasn't flagged a single word in it, so it's probably okay!
ReplyDeleteAcyrologia — An incorrect use of words, particularly replacing one word with another word that sounds similar but has a diffident meaning, possibly fueled by a deep-seeded desire to sound more educated, witch results in an attempt to pawn off an incorrect word in place of a correct one. In academia, such flaunting of social morays is seen as almost sorted and might result in the offender becoming a piranha, in the Monday world, after all is set and done, such a miner error will often leave normal people unphased. This is just as well sense people of that elk are unlikely to tow the line irregardless of any attempt to better educate them. A small percentage, however, suffer from severe acyrologiaphobia, and it is their upmost desire to see English used properly. Exposure may cause them symptoms that may resemble post-dramatic stress disorder and, eventually, descend into whole-scale outrage as they go star-craving mad. Eventually, they will succumb to the stings and arrows of such a barrage, and suffer and complete metal breakdown, leaving them curled up in the feeble position.
Good morning Cornerwriters,
ReplyDeleteWhere is everyone? OKL is all alone. Not to worry sir. I'm here.
The date was Jan. 21, 2008 when C.C. posted the first blog entry. It was so cute. It fit on the screen. The first commenter was, you guessed it, anon. The weather was crisp and sunny, and the theme was "Dry."
Tues. just barely ran off the screen, and C.C. and anon each wrote. C.C. posted regularly so I will allow you to expect that.
Wed. drew no comments.
Thur. anon.
Fri. anon.
Sat. puppy said "I like to tell myself that it's ok to 'cheat' a little because that's how I learn new things. puppy What a wise puppy.
Sun. 2 anonymi. The review had filled in.
Mon. Jan. 28, 2008, one week after starting the blog, the weather was cold and gray, and the theme was "All wet." I found that for which I had been searching, Anna, the first blue bird who had been blue since Mar. 2007. Eueka I have found it.
Yesterday there were 6 anonymi which makes it hard to know who is writing.
Now to today's comfy puzzle. It filled in nicely as I went across then down until I was left with the natick of 51A fER and 34D NAJAf. I gave up and bought a consonant. If I lived in Minneapolis I might have known of this sister city, but I am ignorant of the cities in Baghdad. Would someone please explain "Agin and fer." Agin could be again, but what should fer be?
I see that DO and OKL have each posted anew.
Dave
Nice Monday speed run - so I won't be late for work!
ReplyDelete@D4E4H - if you are a hillbilly - when you are against something you could be "AGIN" it and if you are for something you can be "FER" it.
Enjoyed the Acyrologia paragraph from OwenKL!
Off to work! Thanks Mark and Argyle
Nice Monday puzzle with a just a little crunch. Didn't know NAVI or ETRE (maybe I'll remember it this time). Erased Tbond for TNOTE. CAMRYs are built in Georgetown, KY which is a very short drive north from Rupp Arena (in Lexington). I liked TATA and TADA, which were almost vertically aligned.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Mark and Santa for getting us off to a fine start to the post-holiday work week.
OKL - Great paragraph. Evoked Prof. Irwin Corey, who died this year at 102.
D4E4H: W...S is Cornerese for "What ... said", so mine yesterday (WBES) was "What Big Easy Said".
OKL737A
ReplyDelete-I was half way thru the paragraph before I noticed something was wrong. I ended up in the feeble position with post-dramatic dress disodor. A sophisticated review software with sintax would have caught errors. The sintax in Las Vegas is 6%. I anticipate the YR review.
INANE759A
-Thanks for the agin/fer review.
JINX800A
-Thanks for W...S, another addition to the abbr. list.
Dave
Funny paragraph, OKL. Ya got me! I can't argue that any of that is normal, in spite of being approved by spellcheck. Yes, it reminds us of Prof, Irwin Corey.
ReplyDeleteOff to Alan's commute. We are starting the fourth week of wellness.
Thanks, Mark, for a good start to the week. Wed on the Wing was my favorite. Argyle, always a pleasure.
ReplyDeleteOwen, fabulously funny paragraph! Haven't we all heard people say some of these things? And the poems were good, too, even if they were spelt correctly.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis was an easy, breezy Monday solve with nary a hiccup. Unknowns were Najef and Na'vi but perps were solid. I noticed Aries/Arise, Ets/Ens, and TaTa/Tada. I think Bro is the only male-specific term, as Chum and Pal are neutral, although Pal is used more frequently by men, I think. I'm partial to Chum.
Thanks, Mark, for easing us into the week and thanks, Argyle, for the fun expo. (I hope Santa is getting ready for the big day!)
I have a busy few days ahead but nothing that involves Christmas shopping, thank goodness. The weather man has been kind to us but he might have a change of heart come the weekend. We'll see.
Have a great day.
YR, Congratulations to you and Alan on your fourth week!
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-Hmmm… A JOB ROTATION with a principal
-All states need to ENACT legislation prohibiting this activity
-The POS/NEG symbol on our Apple Number Keypad is incredibly small
-Omaha has many families from SUDAN, some with this skill
-How did the idiotic “I could CARE less” become part of our language?
-CAMRY is on the list of “most all cars look the same” these days
-Our blood bank advertises the need for TYPE O NEG
-I loved when Oregon fast paced FB greatly reduced the LULLs
-Brick layers with whom I worked insisted on pronouncing columns as coll’ yums. We all knew what they meant.
Nice puzzle Mark. I did not know NAJAF either, but agin/fer was a gimme as they are common crossword fill. We have a few other cities in this puzzle - AMMAN, ESSEN, RENO - we have ERRS and EPPS and we have a fun day.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mark and Argyle.
Fairly easy Monday puzzle but I hit a Natick at NAJAF/FER. Had I thought about it, FER would have occurred to me but I left it blank. FIW on a Monday! I can't believe it. Although NAVI seems crunchy, too. For me, it just emerged.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Mark and Argyle.
Have a great day, everyone!
Good Morning!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Mark, for relief from my long journey through the puzzle yesterday. Lots of fun.
Argyle, nicely done. Thanks for the photos, and the map. My perspective of the size of SUDAN was not quite correct.
OKL: Fine offerings as we've come to expect. Thanks for the good humor. I am in English Teacher rehab, so I laughed fully--mostly at myself!
Still sunny here. I hope you feel the same light. Have a fine day, everyone.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteThis was mostly a speed run, though I needed ESP for NAJEF and had to WAG the "V" in the crossing of VITAE and NAVI. I thought "Second person" was a clever clue for YOU. Thanks for your faithful Monday service, Argyle. What a lovely photo of AMMAN.
YR--Such good news about Alan's continued good health.
Enjoy the day!
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteI was not agin FER. I was just not for FER, and had a little trouble spelling BERZERK. Otherwise all was A-OK and nothing was ATILT. (I was afeard there might be other A- fill.). COOS are probably named after a famous bay in Oregon.
No searches were needed.
ESSEN's name stems from the Roman Assindia. But it shares its name with the famous German infinitive - ESSEN - 'to eat' and its gerund ESSEN - 'eating' or 'food'. Wie ein Ferkel essen - 'to eat like a pig'
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteChiming in today with a nice story involving Smith College, a nearby landmark. Argyle’s Smith College image is from a well known postcard, showing the handsome College Hall, the campus centerpiece. Its tower is home to a large four-dial clock, plus a carillon that started small (just 12 bells in 1919) but grew to an impressive 48 bells over the years.
The biggest expansion of the carillon took place around 1975; I had the pleasure of snooping around the yard while the steel erecting firm hoisted all the structural materials and the new bronze bells with a seriously tall crane. It took months, but when the project was finished, the college held a big dedication recital. They hired carillonneur James Lawson of Riverside Church in New York to perform. Somehow, my dad was acquainted with Mr. Lawson, which meant that we got invited up to the tower to watch the performance. A big day for a little kid.
One consequence of adding those bells was that there was no longer room in the tower for the beautiful 1875 E. Howard clock mechanism to run those big dials, so the college retired it and put in small electric drives. The gleaming Howard was stashed in a basement, where it stayed for decades before disappearing to parts unknown. It was a sad historic loss. Quite by chance, while I was visiting a truly eccentric clock collector elsewhere in Massachusetts about ten years ago, I spotted a huge, dusty Howard clock in the man’s garage. I soon learned it was the old Smith clock.
Then, in 2011, a tornado wiped across much of western Mass, roughly from my town to HeartRx’s (for those who remember our dear Marti). Along the way it hit a church in Monson, sending its old clock tower to the ground. The collector was so moved by the loss of that landmark that he donated the Smith clock to Monson, so that they could rebuild what was lost, complete with an antique clock to drive the hands. It was a marvelous gesture and a fitting use for the grand old Howard clock.
We return to our regular program. :-)
For some reason I hadn’t done any LA Times puzzles since the NYC Marathon. Glad to be back today. Nice start for the week. No problems, but enough crunch to keep it interesting.
ReplyDeleteDudley, very interesting carillon story. How wonderful that the antique clockworks could be put to good use. To match Gary's "columns as coll’ yums," I had a friend who pronounced "carillon as kuh RILL yun."
ReplyDeleteSptiz, we used fressen instead of essen when describing eating like an animal.
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Mark McClain, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Argyle, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteThis was a good Tuesday level puzzle, that we did on a Monday. No problem, just a little tougher than most.
Theme appeared easily, however.
NAJAF was unknown.
ARAL seems to have appeared many times of late. OK with me.
Did not know CAMRY until I had four letters. I am not big into cars, especially Japanese cars.
I have TYPE O blood. I give it every 8 weeks.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo( )
"Puzzling Thoughts":
ReplyDeleteTo the "new blue", Dave (poster, or blogger?), yesterday's "WMOS" ---> what most others said. Glad you liked the Moe-ku. Mo' coming ...
WLS (what Lucina said) ---> I too, couldn't see the "forest FER the trees", and left 34d / 51a as NAJA?/?ER. Not even an alphabet run helped. F off ...
Not sure my "SECRET FRIENDS" growing up were named CHUM, PAL, or BRO. As an adult, I will use the term PAL, or maybe BUD, to refer to someone whose name I've forgotten
I knew the term, "Curriculum VITAE", but did not know the meaning of the word NAVI. As this link shows, it could've been clued several ways. Of course, my favorite use of the pronunciation of this word, is in "Father of the Bride", in the scene where Martin Short and Steve Martin discuss the torn tux. I couldn't find a YouTube clip but here's the dialogue:
Franck Eggelhoffer: Uh-oh, I bring the wrong color thread. I assumed you’d be wearing a black “tuxado.”
George: It is a black “tuxado.”
Franck Eggelhoffer: I don’t think so, babe. This tux is "navi” blue. No doubt about it.
George: What’re you talking about? Armani doesn’t make a blue tuxedo.
Franck Eggelhoffer: Armani don’t also make “polyaster"
Of course, 67a reminded me of one of my first "M-k's":
A pigeon flew by.
Landed on a church steeple,
Uttering high COOS
Today's new Moe-ku:
Would The Home Depot,
Offering wood-shaping tools,
Run some ads for ADZE?
YR @ 1025. You are right, of course. Fressen refers to animals eating. But if the person is eating in ever which way, it is still a person eating. Depending on how much you wanted to insult the sloppy eater, you could use either verb. The citation I used is in the language.
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ReplyDeleteGood late morning all. Thank you Mark and thank you Argyle.
On a new winning streak ! One FER one on this current run.
I too now have a new perspective on the size of SUDAN.
Nice story Dudley.
Illinois is one of the eight or nine states that have enacted a law that was supposed to curb distracted driving. My impression is that it's not working as well as it should. The fines and repercussions aren't hefty.
Perhaps changing it to an automatic $500 fine and 3 month suspension of license for a first offense DUIE ticket would do it. Escalate - at least double - the fines and suspensions for each subsequent violation. Until they make it hurt, most violators will continue to scoff at the law.
Very nice puzzle, Mark. Thank you for a great way to start the week!
ReplyDeleteArgyle, always love your pics of different places. Today, you've outdone yourself, and I agree with MJ on the lovely photo of Amman.
Dudley:
ReplyDeleteFirst, it's so good to "see" you! Second, what a touching story about that clock. It shows respect for fine, old things.
Abejo:
What do you have against Japanese cars? I never thought I would have one but when I bought the Nissan it changed my perspective completely. It ran wonderfully for 12 years, over 150,000 miles and might still be running today had my granddaughter not totaled it. Now I love my Honda.
YR:
How wonderful that Alan is doing well. I hope it continues.
Argyle:
I also enjoy your photos and agree that today they are lovely.
"PT 2 ---> Moe-ku sequel:
ReplyDeleteWhat would the name be
For a wood-worker/blogger?
Adze-vise columnist
I'll use PAL and BRO but CHUM will always remind me of this CHUM.
ReplyDeleteHi Y'all! Good puzzle, Mark! No circles but I found the FRIENDS. I think women mostly just use the term FRIENDS without getting cute about it. UM in the first two theme answers had me looking for UM in the other one.
ReplyDeleteGood expo, Argyle, but why is SUDAN plunk in the middle of USA? That threw me for a loop. And if they are thinking of moving the whole darn country over here, I'm not FER it! Trump better build his wall fast. LOL!
NAJAF/FER = equals natick. Didn't remember NAVi. SMITH was a lucky WAG.
Dudley, liked the SMITH clock story.
FYI
ReplyDeleteToday's (11/27/17) edition of the Wall Street Journal crossword puzzle is constructed by C.C. You can access it at wsj.com to print or solve online.
Good morning all,
ReplyDeleteLike many others I was stymied with Najaf crossing fer and navi crossing vitae. Even going thru the alphabet would not have saved me. Other unknowns, like Amman, were easily filled with perps. Thanks Mark and Argyle.
Enjoyed your story, Dudley.
It think pronouncing album as alblum is very similar to pronouncing saw as sall. Many of these pronunciations come from an area that you were raised. Closet is another one...some people say clouset.
It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day. Yesterday's showers did make a carpet of golden leaves on our morning walking path.
Thanks, all, for comments and critiques. On this puzzle, I think I would have run it without the circled squares, probably putting it a little later in the week . . . but from my experience there is a high demand for Monday puzzles, so here it is. NAJAF is the fourth-largest city in Iraq and a site of major battles in the 2000s in what we call the Iraq War, so it's a good one to have on your list of cities in the world that you've heard of. Someone commented about the Sunday puzzle, I believe - I just solved that one today and completely agree that it was a slog, but I finally conquered it with some help from my lunch partner. I'd also like to mention (for those who enjoy doing puzzles on your mobile devices) that Patti Varol (assistant editor of LA Times crosswords) is now editing a series of small-size (13x) pop-culture themed puzzles called "Daily POP Crosswords" available via a free app at the Google Store for Android or iTunes app store for Apple. You'll see more of my puzzles there.
ReplyDeleteKind of a crunchy Monday puzzle, but no complaints, got the solve.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate the history, Dudley.
Japanese cars... I bought a new Corolla SR-5 in 1972....$3050. I blew the head gasket in 1981. My Dad was a mechanic, we pulled it to his house and pulled the head. He took the head to a machine shop to have it checked before reinstallation. It had about 100k miles on it.
The guy at the shop could simply not believe the condition. He said it looked new, it spec’ed out new and needed zero work.
My Dad said “If that’s how they’re all made the American cars are in trouble”.
They were, and they were, it took years before the domestic cars caught up.
The computer ate my half finished post, and that pretty well finished me. I have used AOL to compose, but have to endure ads. I can copy paste to the corner if I open on AOL. I had it open on google chrome this time.
ReplyDeleteI have wordPad which shows copy paste, but I don't know how to do that to the corner.
Is anyone able to help me with this?
I was Dave before the breakdown.
Another fine puzzle from Mark McClain and thanks Argyle for your great expo. Najaf, Navi and Vitae unknowns.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Mark
16. Drubbed or whipped: BEAT
ReplyDeleteShouldn't it be "beaten"?
Spitz, I agree that "Wie ein Ferkel essen" is in the language. The use of fressen is an even bigger insult.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid we called someone who was "pigging out," a Wootz. "Du Wootz, du."
I am on my third Nissan. I had close to 200,000 miles on the first two, and have comparable mileage on my three and a half year old current car. It will last a long time.
It seems to me we had fer and agin before.
JB @ 1437 - They're all in the past tense so they do agree. Puzzlers do that a lot to mess with you.. Put is a good example. Present, past, and past participle all have the same form, 'put'.
ReplyDeleteA fine start to the week from Mr. McClain - with its lead-off reminder of Professor Einstein's famous formulation.
ReplyDeleteDo we have any advanced physicists among our cruciverbal fellowship? I have long been fascinated by this brilliant, breakthrough formula but, after several decades of pondering it, I confess I am not much nearer to understanding it.
I "get" the basic observations of relativity, but when it comes to Energy being equal to Mass-times-the-Speed-of-Light-squared, it still seems to me a matter of comparing apples and oranges.
It is not helped by those who insist that a Lightyear is a measure of distance rather than speed.
I freely acknowledge that the misunderstanding is entirely on my part. But I would love it if some day someone could help me understand how the bulkiness of Mass can live on the same plane as the brilliance and tempo of the Speed of Light.
And whether we are to understand that the formula is a description of Mass in its common static state, or that it only applies when Mass is converting to Energy (i.e., during an atomic explosion).
On other fronts, this was a fine way to start the week, and Argyle's response was first rate!
John Brydels @2:37-- if you were getting drubbed or whipped, you would certainly have been BEATEN. But... if you were going to drub or whip someone else, you would be going to BEAT them.
ReplyDeleteD4E4H, you highlight the text in WordPad and [Ctrl]+C to copy. Then go to the blog comment box and [Ctrl]+V to paste it.
ReplyDeleteOMK, I tried to write down what I understand about Einstein's equation. And discovered that I didn't understand what I'd written. But here's a Scientific American article that'll make it all as clear as mud.
I read "French I (first person) verb" and wanted "SUIS"; when crosses gave "ÊTRE", I realized the clue was "First-year French".
ReplyDeleteFER gave me NAJAF.
NA'VI was buried someplace in my subconcious from reviews and disussions; never saw the movie.
A nice Tuesday puzzle this fine Monday. I got NAJAF, but only because I knew FER from having encountered it in previous puzzles. Then I remembered the city of Najaf. I liked the clue for YOU. And I very much loved the clue for NORM, as much as I loved the clue for MORT the other day. Chuckled at seeing FRAT and BRAT, as well as TADA and TATA. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteDudley, good story. Thanks for telling it.
Ol' Man Keith, I'd love to 'splain in more detail how Einstein came up with that formula and what it means. It all boils down to Einstein's insight that it isn't time that is constant, it is the speed of light (in a vacuum) that is constant. Time actually speeds up or slows down depending on how fast you are moving or how far away from a massive object you are. This was the breakthrough idea, and it leads to some interesting and weird conclusions. In one experiment scientists took one of two extremely accurate clocks up high on a mountain while the other half of the team stayed with the other clock at sea level. A month or so later, when the "mountaineering" team came back down and rejoined the "flatland" team, they compared the clocks and found the clock that went up the mountain actually had run slower than the other clock. Time had literally passed more slowly, albeit by a tiny fraction of a microsecond, for the mountaineers, confirming that Einstein was right about time being the thing that changes according to circumstances. For more, check out this brief explanation.
Best wishes to you all.
D4E4h@1:46
ReplyDeleteI am a little confused as to why you would have to leave the Blog
to compose a post. All I can tell you is what I do...
I just type away, add my links which I have saved on other open tabs,
& just before I hit "I'm not robot" & Preview, I use my mouse to hilite everything
I typed, right click, and hit copy...
Then if anything goes Kablooie, I can always start fresh and just paste my entire post back into the posting box.
Dear desper-otto,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link. Much appreciative.
It looks promising. I will save it to read at a leisurely time.
And ...
ReplyDeleteOh, yes!
Ta- DA!
Well, I tried.
ReplyDeleteDear desper-otto, I truly appreciate your link to the Scientific American article on E=MC2. I said I'd get to it later, but I couldn't resist an early peek.
The essay by Ronald C. Lasky, director of Dartmouth's Cook Center, begins with such promise. He says "The elegance with which [Einstein] ties together three disparate parts of nature — energy, the speed of light and mass — is profound."
That got me to salivating.
But then I read on.
Dr. Lasky illustrates the 'elegance' of the famous equation through a series of elaborations involving hypothetical boxes of photons getting knocked about through a combination of Newton's Laws and Einstein's observations.
I'm sure he makes his point, but I'm afraid he left me in the dust.
What is most infuriating is that I'm sure there will come some future time when every schoolchild will understand the equation as being as natural as Newton.
Meanwhile I am stuck with this 20th C brain - grateful that I'm up to solving a few Xwds!
Anonymous PVX said: "My Dad said “If that’s how they’re all made the American cars are in trouble”.
ReplyDeleteThey were, and they were, it took years before the domestic cars caught up."
I'm not sure they have caught up in Detroit yet. I was looking at Consumer Reports, where the reliability reports for cars show that most "American" cars need repairs more than, and don't last as long as, "foreign" cars. (The quotation marks are because the 'foreign' cars are mostly made in the States, and the 'American' cars are partly sourced from Mexico.)
YR836A
ReplyDelete-Well, well, well, Alan "Has been" for more than two fortnights. May it last ad infinitum.
JINX800A, and IM845A
-You each allude to Argyle as Santa. Please elucidate.
MD921A
-You mean Sudan is not on the western prairie? It is on the map.
DUDLEY1006A
-thanks for the PSA.
CM1057A
-Moe five for the moe-kus. I want moe of them.
PK1234P
-Did the Sudanese into America? Do they all drive sudans or are they hunch backs?
JD1243P
-The area you are from allows southerners to say "Tump." when they empty a bucket.
DO355P
-Thanks for the copy paste info.
CED402P
-Thanks for your copy paste info.
Dave
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mark FER a geography filled fun puzzle. Educated in US schools, I typically stereotypically stumble on Geo. Not today (ok, maybe a little - uRAL until I got to the dance) - we've bomb'd most of these places, sos I knows. [Wasn't in theater but I know NAJAF from my Desert Storm days]. Thanks too for stopping by the Corner.
Very nice expo Argyle. Not only did YOU link the NORM I was thinking of but the overlay of SUDAN on the US provided perspective. Tsk.. after Saturday's kerfuffle, you still posted sexy calves :-)
Oh, and I ADORE'd your title. Salute!.
WOs: uRAL, CARE in COOS' squares, and BERzERK (don't tell my little zecret)
ESPs: ETRE, NA'VI
Fav: The jury's still out - could be OPEC depending on tomorrow's meeting (nothing in your Dec 3rd paper, eh?, Becky? :-))
{B, C+} {cute, meh; grin}
Thanks Dudley for sharing that wonderful SMITH clock story.
YR - Good news about Alan. Keep on truckin'.
I just checked, my 5-on-the-floor Civic has 206,101mi on it and still running like a top. You can't kill a Honda engine.
OMK - OK, LET ME start w/ light-year -- the distance light travels in a year. Light goes about 186,282mi/Sec. There's 356*24*60*60 = 31,557,600 seconds/yr. SO, a light-year is 31,557,600 sec/yr * 186,282mi/sec * 1yr = 58,745,89,152,000 miles. Be sure to to get your CAMRY an oil change when you get there.
E=mc^2 in a nut-shell: energy and mass are directly proportional to a constant. Too, MASS can become energy and energy, mass. I.e - mass and energy are one in the same but with differing levels of entropy. Corollary - time is relative; one second is 'slower' in a gravity well than a second further from mass.
Cheers, -T
Anonymous T is right. The higher altitude clock ran faster, not slower. Sorry I got it backwards. https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2010/09/nist-pair-aluminum-atomic-clocks-reveal-einsteins-relativity-personal-scale
ReplyDeleteAnon T....oh you technical/engineering types are soooo sexy!
ReplyDeleteYes! I almost understand that. Energy and mass....well....yes. If ya set on fire a mess...er mass...of charcoal it becomes heat. And time is relevant...well, sure. Have you ever had to wait for a spouse to finish whatever seemed so important to them?
Ok. So I don't really understand.
But I got the crossword clue right!
Just to muddy the waters..... Ice, water, and steam are all the same. Which is the mass? Please explain. Hehehe
ReplyDeleteOwen, I enjoyed dancing with Erato. But Sadat is definitely a brat! All A's!!
ReplyDeleteSwamp - those are phase changes. The mass of H20 remains the same though not in the same cubic space. Then there's plasma-phase. When you burn somethin', like a mess o' mass of charcoal, you are breaking bonds and releasing energy; E=mc^2 does actually apply albeit weakly.
ReplyDeleteJayce - we'll just call it a TYPEO :-)
-T
Anon T... yes actually I did know that...but it was fun messin' with ya head! What fun we have here!
ReplyDeleteAs if Monday isn't easy enough anyway, do they really need circles to reveal the theme? C'mon. Too many puzzles with circles lately, getting a little gimmicky.
ReplyDeleteNot Agin - Fer? ...lame
ReplyDeleteQuick fun run!
ReplyDeleteThanks OwenKL for the amusing bit of Acyrologia. Learning moment! I find it very annoying when people try to show off in such a way that it out of their league. My biggest language pet peeve is when people use "I" when "me" is correct. As in "He gave it to Alice and I". Argh!
Amused to see the relativity questions about MASS and the explanations! I actually taught relativity in a high school before I went on to grad school. Those students were smart!
Hand up for doing a copy of my post in case something goes wrong.