Puzzling thoughts:
C-Moe here reviewing a Friday physics farce constructed by Jeffrey Wechsler. Wechsler, who has more LA TIMES Friday crossword puzzles than you could shake a stick at, provides us with his OWN schtick with a quintet of fun and farcical physics-related phrases that have you groaning and giggling, all at the same time. First and foremost, let me start by saying that I never took Physics in either HS or College. The bulk of my Physics lexicon came through watching every episode of The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon. So please take my comments in today's recap with a grain of NaCl
And unlike the cartoon above, if you want to defy gravity (check out the non-physics definition) in today's puzzle you have to look "across" to find them. As in the following examples:
16-Across. Atomic physicist's favorite cookie?: FIG NEUTRON. So as this was the first of the five, I wondered, could this be so simple as FIG NEWTON? I mean, NEWTON is a physicist - albeit not an atomic physicist ... well, NEWTONS fit but the clue wasn't plural so that one stayed unsolved for awhile ...
22-Across. Atomic physicist's favorite Golden Age movie star?: QUARK GABLE. I actually "got" this as I was completing 22-Down (He directed Samuel in "Pulp Fiction"); the Q in QUENTIN helped me to correctly spell the word QUARK. Not sure how my phonics and physics got mixed up, but whatever ...
35-Across. Atomic physicist's favorite side dish?: BOSON BAKED BEANS. Well, now the "theme" has started to form for me as I was literally jumping all over the grid trying to get a few footholds. If memory serves I finished the puzzle on the far left coast ...
44-Across. Atomic physicist's favorite wall builder?: STONE MESON. Of the five, this one was the closest to being a homophone. The word "MESON" can be pronounced by any of these five sounds, according to Webster's: me-ˌzän, me-ˌsän, mā-zän, mā-ˌsän, mē-ˌzän, or mē-ˌsän ...
55-Across. Atomic physicist's favorite spy novelist?: ION FLEMING. Maybe the easiest of the five for me to figure out. You?
So there you have it; five funny physics phrases - atomic physics phrases - with no unifier other than the five "key" words are terms used in atomic physics:
NEUTRON - an uncharged elementary particle that has a mass nearly equal to that of the proton and is present in all known atomic nuclei except the hydrogen nucleus. "The conditions inside a neutron star are not powerful enough to create elements heavier than iron; only the collision of two neutron stars can do so." — Priyamvada Natarajan, The New York Review of Books, 15 June 2021
QUARK - any of several elementary particles that are postulated to come in pairs (as in the up and down varieties) of similar mass with one member having a charge of +²/₃ and the other a charge of −¹/₃ and are held to make up hadrons
The MESON field is characterized by a constant X = μ/h of the dimensions of a reciprocal length, μ being the meson mass, and as X -> 0 the theory of this paper goes over continuously into the theory of the preceding paper for the motion of a spinning particle in a Maxwell field. FUN FACT: "A MESON could consist of a red and an antired QUARK" - Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2021
BOSON - a particle (such as a photon or meson) whose spin quantum number is zero or an integral number. "The BOSON is at the heart of physicists’ understanding of the universe, responsible for the mass in the atoms that make up galaxies, planets and people." — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2013
ION - an atom or group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons; a charged subatomic particle (such as a free electron). "Since 1991, the cost of lithium-ION batteries has fallen by 97 percent, and analysts expect that price to keep dropping in the coming decades." — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
Wait a second, Moe, you said that Physics is fun. All those definitions and examples has made me yawn
OK. Then how about a fun video to liven things back up? This is worth 6 minutes of your time, trust me
Across:
1. Like Jack Sprat, one would expect: SLIM. Fun fact about the word SLIM: did you know that Jack Sprat had a brother named Jim? The evidence is shown below:
When waiting to make his transaction
At convenience store; the distraction
Of seeing SLIM Jim
Brought on a strong whim
He had a "need-jerky" reaction
5. Role in a Gershwin opera: BESS. BESS, only because PORGY wouldn't fit
9. Fellow: CHAP.
13. Her musical career started at age 16 at the Cotton Club: LENA HORNE. More facts about her
15. Pre-euro currency: LIRA. Lots of great info about the LIRA - both current and historic - is found here
17. "__ a girl who sang the blues": Don McLean lyric: I MET. A lyric from the hit song "American Pie". It appears toward the end of the song just before the final refrain:
"I met a girl who sang the blues,
and I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't playAnd in the streets, the children screamed
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were brokenAnd the three men I admire most
The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music diedAnd they were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' "This'll be the day that I die
This'll be the day that I die"They were singin' bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
And singin' This'll be the day that I die"
Source: Musixmatch
18. Musicologist's term: OPUS. OPUS - from the Latin, meaning 'work'; used to reference a musician's composition, e.g.
19. Deity with an eponymous day: THOR. Thursday, "THOR's day," gets its English name after the hammer-wielding Norse god of thunder, strength and protection
20. Gaping mouths: MAWS. MAW can also mean 'stomach'. And could this be a CSO to Misty? Our erstwhile Pennsylvania Dutch resident who most certainly remembers this traditional dish
21. Uncommon sense: ESP. ExtraSensory Perception
25. U.N. Security Council permanent member: RUS. From Wikipedia: "The permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (also known as the Permanent Five, Big Five, or P5) are the five sovereign states to whom the UN Charter of 1945 grants a permanent seat on the UN Security Council: China, France, RUSsia, the United Kingdom, and the United States
26. Poetic adverb: EER. Or a suffix (as in auctionEER) denoting a person engaged in an activity; or as an acronym for Energy Efficiency Rating
27. Say further: ADD. Moe-ku:
"Two plus two doesn't
Equal three; It's four, dummy!"
If I might just ADD ...
29. Word after look or sound: ALIKE. I started with ALIVE before the perps
32. Wafer brand: NILLA. The boring truth about this eponymous cookie
34. "__ awake?": YOU. Margaret and I usually add the words 'for the day' after we ask one another, "YOU awake?"
38. Consume: USE. Wechsler had to USE a lot of 3-word entries in order to have 5 longish themers. Oops - wrong USE of the word USE as it was clued today!!
39. Lion __: TAMER. 'KING' wouldn't fit
40. Mounted, as gems: INSET. Not familiar with this term; all I could find for a definition of INSET (courtesy of RhymeZone dot com) was this:
noun: a small picture inserted within the bounds or a larger one
noun: a piece of material inset to strengthen or enlarge a garment
noun: an artifact that is inserted or is to be inserted
verb: set or place in
41. Rightmost bowling pin: TEN. A CSO to Boomer; I'm sure that he can tell us all about the number of times a TEN pin leave prevented him from stringing another strike ... these guys make picking up a corner pin spare look easy
42. Wrath: IRE. One of 19 3-letter words in today's puzzle
43. Not leave alone: NAG. "Alright, Moe, quit NAGging Jeffrey about all of the 3-letter's, OK?"
48. Beret relative: TAM. Beret: French; TAM: Scottish
51. Move a bit: STIR. What usually happens after our conversation in 34-Across
52. Superior cousin?: ERIE. HURON, MICHIGAN, and ONTARIO are the other cousins
53. Takes charge of: OWNS. I OWNS today's recap
54. Filled food: PITA. This was not as easy to 'fill' as the clue might suggest
57. Painter Nolde: EMIL. I had no clue; all perps. This is one of his works:
58. As initially evident: ON ITS FACE. A crossword introduction today! No trace of this entry having been used before. So, what does this expression mean? Well, our resident attorneys may disagree, but Wikipedia uses this explanation: "Res ipsa loquitur".
Prima facie is often confused with res ipsa loquitur ('the thing speaks for itself', or literally 'the thing itself speaks'), the common law doctrine that when the facts make it self-evident that negligence or other responsibility lies with a party, it is not necessary to provide extraneous details, since any reasonable person would immediately find the facts of the case.
The difference between the two is that prima facie is a term meaning there is enough evidence for there to be a case to answer, while Res ipsa loquitur means that the facts are so obvious a party does not need to explain any more. For example: "There is a prima facie case that the defendant is liable. They controlled the pump. The pump was left on and flooded the plaintiff's house. The plaintiff was away and had left the house in the control of the defendant. Res ipsa loquitur."
In Canadian tort law, this doctrine has been subsumed by general negligence law
59. Cozy places: DENS. Was this guy the first 39-Across?
60. Comprehends: SEES. What I finally did as today's puzzle solved
61. Cretaceous giant: T-REX. The dinosaurs of the last 10 million years of the Cretaceous Period in North America are some of the best known in the world. They include tyrannosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus, diverse small theropods, ankylosaurs, bone-headed pachycephalosaurs, horned and frilled ceratopsians such as Triceratops, and “duckbilled” hadrosaurs. As copied from nps dot gov
Down:
1. Lingerie items: SLIPS. BRAS, PANTIES, NIGHTIES, et al, didn't fit. Does yours fit like this? The image said this was a "plus size" ... ladies??
2. Assistance, with "a": LEG UP. And a similar clue that fits the following image: (24-Down. Versatile mount: ARABIAN.
Any equestrians out there?
3. Accommodating places: INNS. BNBS fit, but INNS made more sense
4. W.C.'s "My Little Chickadee" co-star: MAE. As in MAE West, who played the role of Flower Belle Lee in "My Little Chickadee"
5. '80s South African president: BOTHA. Pieter Willem BOTHA
6. Misstep: ERROR. Know misteak hear
7. Coral reef visitor: SNORKELER. Picture is worth a thousand words
8. Snowe of ME, once: SEN. SENator Olympia Jean Snowe is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States Senator from Maine from 1995 to 2013
9. Begin a flight: CLIMB. One of the most exhilarating CLIMB's I have ever done is The Sydney Australia Harbor Bridge Climb. The toughest part of it I found was CLIMBing straight up four vertical ladders; each with about 30 steps or so. The operators of the CLIMB don't allow you to bring personal cameras or cellphones, so any pictures taken are by your guide. I have some pic's somewhere on a CD I think, but it was in 2008 when I did this
10. Region from the Sanskrit for "snow abode": HIMALAYAS. The word HIMALAYAS shows up more often (in crossword puzzles) than I thought. Was used 3 times last year by the NY Times Xword Puzzle
11. "Anything else?": ARE WE DONE?. Nope, we are not done; 25 more clues/words to recap
12. Light touches: PATS. A CSO to WC as our resident PAT'S fan (New England PATriotS)
14. Many Rwandans: HUTUS. Rwandan history. HUTUS and Tutsis have the same language; the same religion; the same culture. They have lived intermingled for centuries on the same land, in the most densely populated part of sub-Saharan Africa. Learning moment for MOE
16. Other side: FOE. MOE is not your FOE
23. Do a vet's job: GELD. No images! You'll just have to use your imagination
25. "Notorious" studio: RKO. Radio-Keith-Orpheum Studios operated from the late 1920's until it dissolved in 1959. Other notable films produced there include "Citizen Kane", "King Kong", "It's a Wonderful Life"
Irish Miss: this trailer is just for you, kiddo!!
28. Roomba target: DUST. For the cat lovers out there:
29. Lie next to: ABUT.
30. Falls behind: LOSES TIME. Kinda like after the autumnal equinox when Daylight Savings Time ends. We 'fall' behind and LOSE(S)TIME when we set our clocks back an hour
31. Possible "Finish your tax return yet?" reply: I SENT IT IN. 'I SENT IT IN' is another phrase/entry having its debut in a major crossword puzzle. But I am curious whether anyone actually "SENDS IT (their tax return) IN" anymore? That would imply mailing it. Sorry, but I have filed electronically for a decade or more
32. "Got any examples at all?": NAME ME ONE. Well lookie here! Another debut phrase. For as many 3-letter entries, JW redeemed himself by coming up with some fresh fill to fit into some otherwise, unfillable spots. As a fledgling constructor I have yet to figure out how and where and when to use them
33. Dick was his veep: IKE. Richard Nixon - Dwight Eisenhower's Vice President. Nicknames. IKE and DICK.
I don't think the US had another Dick in the White House until Cheney arrived in 2000 as Dubya's veep
36. __ minimum: BARE.
37. U.K. part: ENG. ENGland
43. Holiday songs: NOELS. I think I have finally rid my brain of all the Christmas songs, so they are no longer spinning in my head. "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" was the last NOEL to leave
45. Tests without papers: ORALS. What Doctoral students take more than any other academic group*
46. Orange Muppet: ERNIE. He's the only one I see who's orange; front row, center
47. Goes (through) carefully: SIFTS. Something the old prospectors from the 1840's and 1850's became skilled at when panning for gold
48. Safer way to think: TWICE. My first thought about 'TWICE' is a TWICE-baked potato. My second thought about the actual clue is how Santa's 'making a list and checking it TWICE...'
49. Wing: ANNEX. If the Thesaurusaurus says so, it's so
50. Umami source: MSG. MonoSodium Glutamate, also known as sodium glutamate, is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. MSG is found naturally in some foods including tomatoes and cheese. Here's what WebMD has to say about it
51. Broke the law, in a way: SPED. Moe recently had his first SPEDding ticket in well over a decade; maybe longer. They've gotten expensive
53. Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan __: OMAR. "No politics, Moe." "Wait a minute, you just took a shot at the Dicks in the White House. How about fairness to both sides?" OK, just this once . . . but PLEASE don't open this link if you prefer not to know what's in it
55. Apple product: IOS. Apple Computer's "Operating System. I have an iPhone and an Apple Watch. When I went to sync my watch with my phone, Apple required me to download the latest iOS (15.2) so they could communicate. Compared to iOS 14, the 15 version was horrible, IMO. Too many changes. Maybe the "kids" like it, but not this curmudgeon
56. Young newt: EFT. ARE WE DONE? Yes. See you in two weeks. Moe has left the building
*A MOE WAG
The grid:
64 comments:
FIR, but erased LIRe, usa for RUS, eat for USE, IaN, skindiver for SNORKELER, board for CLIMB, and dele-ed, then stet-ed, ABUT. Unbelievably, my only unknowns were EMIL, BOSON, and MESON. I thought that I DNK TREX 'til C-Moe caused the forehead slap.
For TWICE I thought of the rfrain from Phil Collins' "Paradise":
Oh think twice 'Cause it's another day for you and me in paradise
I wonder if there has ever been a prettier name in the Senate than Olympia Snowe.
RIP Meat Loaf. DW loves his music. Wonder if COD was omicron.
Thanks to JefWech for another fun challenge that even I could finish. And likewise to D-O, for the clever review.
Hope everyone hangs in there during this next cold front. Here, tomorrow's high temp will be 62 (at midnight tonight), with a low Sunday morning forecasted to be a bone-chilling 45 degrees.
I had a knock-off of a Tardis design.
It seemed to work, and it was mine!
I try it and it jist
Floats in a weird mist.
It finds the right Space, but LOSES TIME.
*For Doctor Who virgins, Time And Relative Displacement In Space (TARDIS) is his traveling box.
Things get more complicated by the day. A
Visit to a chicken coop in Jamaica
Found a rooster's nest
Among the rest.
"Oh, him transgender. HIMALAYA!"
{B, G(roan).}
Good morning!
Stumbled here and there (THIN/SLIM, TACO/PITA, etc.) but Wite-Out saved the day. Those ROOMBAs are handy, but not so useful against pet puke...or worse. Understood all those physics puns, and that helped bring the train into the station right on time. Changing DABS to PATS was my final fill. Thanx, Jeffrey and C-Moe.
TEN -- If the TEN is the rightmost pin, does that make the seven the wrongmost?
I SENT IT IN -- I e-file our taxes, but I have to follow it up with a paper-filed Form 8283. It requires signatures from the donor, donee, and appraiser, and cannot be e-filed. It's a hassle that slows things down every year.
Happy birthday, Madame DeFarge. We've missed hearing of your knitting exploits. And happy birthday, Blog. And thanx to C.C. for making this our home-away-from-home.
Jinx, though I'd be proud to claim it, it was C-Moe who created this morning's expo.
Barely got this under 15:00. It was a workout.
Happy Anniversary/Birthday to the Blog (C.C.).
Thank you to all of you who contribute.
RIP Meatloaf! You were like a Bat out of Hell!
DNF. Just too tough for old unclefred. Gave up after 30 minutes or so with still half the CW blank. Very nice CW, JW, just too much for me. Terrific write up C-Moe, thanx. Great explanation, fun video links, all good.
Happy birthday Crossword Corner and many happy returns. I found this site later in 2008 when I filled in an answer which made no sense to me. I Googled and as they used to say here VWALLA! When did you start?
I too wish Meat Loaf's family sincere condolences. ROCKY HORROR was a regular event in my life for a long time. It is interesting to note that the hit maker CLIVE DAVIS passed on signing Meat Loaf. He also passed on AXE so my comment may be prejudiced. He is related to the attorney I work with who had dinner with him last month in Miami.
Jeffrey is always entertaining and mix that with Chris' sense of humor and a good time is had by all. This does exemplify that change in the blog from the early days.
Thank you gentlemen and thank you our Queen. Another Friday night prayer for Boomer.
D-O, decaf strikes again. Sorry, C-Moe. Nice job.
The crossing of proper names, Bess and Botha. Ugh!
I have not had time to finish today's puzzle as yet.
I found yesterday's puzzle more difficult than most Thursday puzzles. I got the fine theme, but sank in the central Atlantic east coast. I didn't have REHAB or FOG. Tut Tut, easy ones. I think I was demoralized about not getting a synonym for arrogance. I never thought of arrogance as huffiness. IMO not just a stretch, but so wrong. Huffiness is about being easily upset, especially about petty issues. I have found many sample sentences for huffiness, all with the above definition, none about arrogance. Does anyone have a logical explanation?
Really enjoyed this double feature Friday, first an always fun and challenging JW puzzle, then C-Moe as emcee at the after party! When I first saw the “Atomic physicist” start to each themer my thought was Oh Boy, gonna be a tough one, which it was, but I did manage a FIR in 24 minutes with a lot of deep thought, typical of JW’s unique clueing style.
C-Moe ~ very excellent detailed and educational write-up today, the physics lesson was particularly informative as I’m pretty much as knowledgeable about the subject as Penny is in the BBT video, but as you so expertly played Sheldon in today’s expo, I may be able to spout off about quarks and mesons etc. 😂. Only one minor nit (not a NAG) - don’t we actually lose time in the spring when we set the clock ahead an hour, and gain the hour back when DST ends?
Congratulations C.C. on the 14th b/day of your blog! I’ve only been around for one of those years but I have certainly enjoyed my time here, such a fine group of eclectic people, bloggers and commenters so willing to share their wealth of knowledge for everyone’s enlightenment. Please give my regards to Boomer, hope he is progressing along!
Good Morning:
Well, JW gave me a run for my money today but P and P eventually paid off. I didn’t mind the struggles too much because the theme was a return to the word wizardry that Jeffrey is famous for and which we haven’t seen in awhile. The cluing was especially devious, IMO, but fair. The SW quadrant was my brick wall for ages because I mistakenly filled in Abet which gave me Eat for Consume. I pondered over that whole area until I finally saw and corrected my error, then Abut lead to Use, and I was home free. Overall, though, it was a tough solve but very satisfying, as usual with JW’s offerings.
Other than a couple of the physics terms and the painter, Emil, which I successfully WAGed, the fill was pretty straightforward, but I still had several w/os due to the aforementioned tricky cluing: Trim/Slim, Necco/Nilla, Eat/Use, Mac/IOS, and Ahead/Twice. On the plus side, we had numerous fun pairings: Nag crossing Arabian, IOS/Ion, Ike/Alike, Geld/Arabian, One/Ten, Ire/Ike, Ten/Sen, and Rus/Eng. My favorite theme answer was Quark Gable.
Thanks, Jeffrey W, for a challenging but enjoyable and doable Friday and thanks, Moe, for a highly educational and entertaining review. Half of your graphics and links were invisible, your CSO to me included, so I can’t comment until I make a return visit and, hopefully, be able to see the missing links. My favorite cartoon was the Lion tamer and favorite Moe-ku was the Slim Jim. Nice job!
Congratulations to CC on the Corner’s 14th Birthday and many, many thanks to CC and the blogging crew who work very hard to inform, educate, and entertain us day after day. I am so glad to be part of this wonderful family.
Happy Birthday, Madame Defarge, hope it is a special day. We miss seeing you so drop by when you can. 🎂🎁🎉🎈🎊
Happy Feast Day of St. Agnes.
Have a great day.
Puzzling thoughts 2:
Jinx - no worries about the Moe/d-o mixup. And if you believe the tabloids, yes, I think omicron was the COD for Meatloaf. As I recall he had a recent surgery to his back. One might suspect that a stay of any length in a hospital now would cause concern about catching Covid. Condolences to Meatloaf’s family
Jason - thanks for the link to Clive Davis. Interesting read
YooperPhil - like the actor who plays/played Sheldon on the Big Bang Theory, I know absolutely nothing about physics. But give me a script (or in today’s case, Google) and I can sound like a genius!! 😂 But seriously, I appreciate the compliments and I enjoy providing a bit of humor to balance the difficulty of most Friday puzzles. And yes, you also corrected me regarding DST. But to my defense, I live in AZ and we don’t change our clocks! We are always on Mountain Standard Time.
Fine Friday finish with inkovers: thin/SLIM, (*without perpchecking how many made the same error? c'mon..😒). Inkovers: swarm/CLIMB, USA/RUS,eat/USE*. The theme was clever but inconsistent; some answers missing a letter: BOSON... others with an additonal letter: NEUTRON..., others with a different letter: MESON..., QUARK substitutes two letters, then, end with ION a homophone.(or maybe that was the idea?)🤔
I was curious so LIU.. LENA HORNE was cast but never played BESS. (liked the songs but didn't care for the rest of the play).
Porgy and Bess
IMHO although "Porgy and Bess" is referred to as an opera the great songs are not in an operatic register and the addition of dance routines would classify it more as a dramatic"musical theater" piece like "Showboat" or "South Pacific"
PLEASE don't open this link either😉
HUTUS, but don't forget that Dustin Hoffman played a TOOTSIE 🤭. "Vets job:" spay wouldn't quite fit. GELD (fancy way to say the same) owie!!😰..(is that what makes an ARABIAN versatile?).
Don't THINK TWICE
Building additions prohibited .....NOELS
Illiterate signature..... ANNEX
Long journeys....TREX
HBD to the Madame and to the blog: 14 y o (you know-it-all moody teenager!!😉)
Poor Meatloaf RIP...guess we will never know that which you "wouldn't do".🤫
Yellow Rocks, Merriam-Webster.com/thesarus provides, as follows:
Synonyms & Antonyms of huffiness
1an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims
the huffiness in his voice put off his coworkers
Synonyms for huffiness
arrogance, assumption, bumptiousness, consequence, haughtiness, hauteur, high horse, imperiousness, loftiness, lordliness, masterfulness, peremptoriness, pomposity, pompousness, presumptuousness, pretense (or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness, self-consequence, self-importance, superciliousness, superiority, toploftiness
On my return visit, all links and visuals were visible, so thank you, Moe, for the Cary Grant trailer. I never get tired of seeing his handsome face or hearing his charming, distinctive voice. [Sigh!] You warmed my heart on this frigid day. Merci beaucoup, Mon Ami!
Maybe some people who were not familiar with sub-sub-atomic particles like QUARK, MESON and BOSON might not know of them. Luckily I did.
I was on his wavelength at FIG NEUTRON and that gave me a SLIM LEG UP to guess the other theme fills. Proton, neutron, & electron are what's needed for chemistry but there are 33 more lesser known ones that only post-grad physicists talk about. EMIL Nolde was the only unknown filled by perps today.
Nabisco them today- NILLA vanilla wafers and FIG NEUTRON (Newton). I buy generic fig bars. They have more fig, less bread, and taste better.
CLIMB- our HS track coach would have us run up and down the steps of our football stadium
I SENT IT IN- not yet; waiting to download brokerage 1099s
People who do the BARE minimum at work are the first to complain when others get raises and promotions. Clock watchers.
Jinx & Chairman- Meatloaf had a heart attack many years ago while he was performing. If Omicron COVID was in his system it may has hastened his demise. He didn't get the name Meatloaf by being in prime physical shape.
Ray-O, Meatloaf, why he'd "do anything for love".
Happy Birthday, Janice!
Happy Birthday, Blog!
A fun puzzle and a "funner" recap. I wasn't Bohr'd at all.
Time, now, to get to work. Perhaps a break for some fission chips at lunch time.
Musings
-Jeffrey has left his art side of the street and come over to my physics side and I loved it!
-ETTA JAMES could have gotten her start there too and fit into those cells. Just sayin’…
-C’mon, try to listen to this OPUS and not tap your feet
-I had 7th grade triplets in class Wednesday and they did not really look ALIKE. One was even 6” taller than his brothers
-EMIL Nolde, now you’re back on your side of the street, Jeffrey! :-)
-We solvers have prima facie evidence that any Wechsler puzzle will brighten our day
-ERROR? TREX filled in but I didn’t get it. Reading crustacean and not cretaceous didn’t help.
-I sometimes forget that some apps work with IOS but not OSX.
-We’re very happy that the temp will get up to a “bone-chilling” 45F today
-HBD, Madame! BTW, do you knit?
I didn't have too much trouble with the puzzle today outside of trying to spell "snorkeler" as "snorkeler" and w/o with "lose steam" which was actually "loses time". But I fir eventually. A fun puzzle! (and thank you, C-Moe, for the physics lesson).
Sorry, I meant trying to spell "snorkeler" as "snorkler" (auto-correct changed it, so that's why it didn't make sense at first)
Happy BD CC blog! Enjoyed the Physics review. Fun fact, shook hands with Dr. Werner Von Braun as a shaver when my Physics teacher Dad studied at Oak Ridge for a Summer. Enjoyed this solve today as I could amazingly FIR. Also enjoyed C Moe's fun explanation. Couldn't help but think Quark Gable would have said, "Scarlett, I don't give a 'shake' !"
Fabulous Friday. Thanks for the fun, Jeffrey and CMoe.
I hopped around this CW looking for the hanging fruit. BOSON BAKED BEANS was the first themer completed, which gave me the physics theme. NW and SE corners were the last to fill.
But I arrived here to discover that JW beat me. I FIWed with STONE MASON (didn’t know MESON), and missed correcting Arnie to ERNIE (although I watched enough Sesame Street when my kids were young).
Hand up for Thin before SLIM. Did others want the favourite cookie in 16A to be an Oreo?
My giant was Trix before TREX perped and parsed.
Runs changed to OWNS when I got OMAR. SEN Snowe for this Canadian today too.
My Roomba was chasing dirt before DUST (loved the cat video!).
I noted a mountain theme today with HIMALAYAS, CLIMB, ARABIAN mount, INSET mounted gem. (CMoe, rings commonly have IINSET diamonds or other gems).
New clue for ERIE today. EFT is an oldie that I learned early in my CW solving.
Jinx- bone-chilling LOL. We are currently -12C ( 17F). That’s bone-chilling.
Ray-o- Vets Spay a female and GELD a male. Not the same procedure.
FLN PK- what wonderful memories you have from that Alberta trip. And yes, First Nations hunters used every part of their catch, and protected and reverenced nature.
IM- Happy Feast Day.
MadameD- Happy Birthday. Hope to hear from you.
HBD to the blog, and thanks to C.C and bloggers. I joined in late 2012 when I retired and had more time. But I had lurked for more than a year. Like others, I found my way here Googling for an explanation.
Wishing you all a great day.
Hola!
Happy birthday, Blog! And congratulations. C.C., for creating it!
Happy birthday, Madame DeFarge! I hope you check in today.
Though I am definitely not a physics type person I enjoyed this puzzle as I always do if it's a Jeff Wex! He has a unique and clever way of twisting the language.
GELD next to ARABIAN is appropriate and ARABIAN IS rarely spelled out in full. In parts of north Scottsdale it was once exclusively horse property and many streets have equestrienne related names.
As CMoe mentioned, in Arizona we don't LOSE TIME because we don't change. It's always Mountain time.
I also like seeing HIMALAYAS spelled out. That's rare, too. MAE crossing LENA HORNE is ironic since they were so different in many ways and not just appearance.
Yes, I started with THIN instead of SLIM for Jack Sprat and had to change O'ER to E'ER.
Have a fabulous Friday, everyone!
Ach! It’s colder than I thought.
-12C is 10.4F
I puzzled early today but had an appointment so no time to post until now. What a fun Jeffrey Wechsler challenge! I had a FIR, partly due to DH's interest in physics. With FIG NEUTRON, I got the theme and enjoyed the various entries, QUARK GABLE, especially.
C Moe, I wanted ro put in "lean" for Jack Sprat but saw perps didn't work. Thanks for your extensive review. Good CHAP to be so helpful and informative! And your humor is always welcome.
Irish Miss, Happy Feast Day to you. I had similar WOs as you, with "eat" and ABeT slowing down my solve, too.
Madame DeFarge, Happy Birthday to you. We miss your posts. Stop by.
And finally Happy Birthday, Blog! I too found the site when Googling an answer and it was so helpful. It took years of lurking before I got the courage to post. Thanks C.C. for starting up this friendly community of puzzlers.
Yay! I filled a Friday right using lots of P&P and erasures. I have heard all of the physics terms used, but I am certainly not into physics. For crosswords sometimes we need only to have heard the word without understanding it. Lots of fun. I liked think twice.
How does a Roomba clean corners? Moe, cute and funny cat pictures.
"I sent it in" can be by computer. That's why we have a SENT box on our email app..
My mom cooked hog maw a few times with potatoes and sausage. The pork part has very little flavor IMO.
INSET, no prob. The jeweler insets the gem in the mounting.
We had children take turns bringing in cookie for snack time. One boy would eat only NILLA WAFERS. He particularly disliked homemade cookies.
Anonymous @ 9:46 Thank you for the learning moment/ I have never heard or used it that way. I use it in the sense of making a big deal over nothing.
Madame D, Happy birthday. We all miss you.
Happy birthday Crossword Corner, my favorite computer site. Thanks for the dedication of CC and all the bloggers and thanks to all the Cornerites.
I guess I may be the only one whose first thought about Jack Sprat was “lean”, which is what his wife would not eat.
As for the temperature here, when I greeted the day it was negative 1F with a wind chill of -11F, but now it is bright and sunny and warming up to a balmy 18F so DW and I are going snowshoeing. Beach combing in FL coming in February/March.
Thank you JeffWech for a Friday challenge that involved SPLITTING enough clues to FUSE them back into a FIR. The theme was very clever, providing a punny tour of selected members (NEUTRONS, QUARKS, BOSONS, MESONS and PROTONS (IONS of hydrogen atoms) of the STANDARD MODEL of the subatomic particle zoo. IMHO to make this a complete Wechlerian romp, I'd replace 22A with "Atomic physicist's favorite Shakespearean ASS" : NICK BOTTOM, a character in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and also one of the 6 FLAVORS of QUARKS (see interactive chart in the link).
And thank you CMOE. Loved the video. All I know about TBBT (TV series that is), I've learned hanging around the corner. Also loved the lyrics to American Pie. The only way I'm going to get rid of that WORDWORM is with this EARWORM.
The themers were my favorites, but here are selected seconds ...
5A BESS. Sportin' Life was even longer.
18A OPUS. Plural is OPERA
52A ERIE. A Superior clue!
54A PITA. I wanted to fill it with TACO.
4D MAE. Among other punny quotes, Ms West is famous for "I was pure as snow as a girl, but then I drifted".
28D DUST. ROOMBA looks like the new CATNIP.
53D OMAR. Thanks for the link MOE. You've more than ATONED for your indiscretion.
Cheers,
Bill
phenology •
Pronunciation: fi-nah-lê-ji • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. The cyclic and seasonal biological phenomena caused by climatic conditions. 2. A subfield of ecology focusing on phenology in the first sense.
Notes: Phenologists study the dates of bird migration, the date of leaf coloring in deciduous trees, the comings and goings of honeybee colonies and their relation to climate changes. Aside from the agent noun we see above, this word comes with an adjective, phenological, and adverb, phenologically.
In Play: The first sense of today's word shows up in claims like this: "Climate change is having dramatic effects on the phenology of the planet." The second sense has a role in expressions like this: "Phenology, the timing of bird migrations, animal feeding habits, changes in plant growth in relation to climate, is an engrossing field of study."
For more on this word see the Alpha Dictionary.
I came to this site because the wonderful lady who used to do (by herself!) Crossword Confidential got extremely burnt out with the whole thing and directed her followers to the LA Times Crossword Corner, for which I am extremely grateful.
Becky
Canadian Eh thanks for the neutering clarification. Spaying is an oophorectomy.
GELD 🐎
When was probably 12 y o I was reading a story that referred to a horse as a "gelding"
Asked Dad what it meant. He appropriately gave me a very direct and str8forward answer. I remember I turned 50 shades of purple. 😳
BTW it's a balmy 3 degrees (F) right now
Fun Friday toughie, but still many thanks, Jeffrey. And cool commentary, Chairman Moe, thanks for that too.
I too had LEAN before SLIM, CanadianEh.
Lovely to see the lyrics for MISS AMERICAN PIE, Moe.
Easiest item for me today was ORALS for tests without papers.
Owen, your poem didn't make me groan.
Happy St. Agnes Day, Irish Miss.
Happy 14th Birthday to the blog. I do believe I have been a member from the very beginning. And what a morning blessing this site has been for so many years.
Thank you, C.C., for this great gift.
I hear congratulations are in order. Happy Birthday, C.C., for your "crossword corner." Like Yellowrocks, this is rapidly becoming my favorite site on the web. I come back to it multiple times a day, to see what other comments have been made and by whom. C.C., your blog is the best!
Irish Miss @9:20 AM Darn you beat me to it. Happy Feast Day Agnes. Everything in the LOTH Morning Prayer today is proper for you.
And HBD Corner! What an incredible group. I've been been participating in "computer mediated communication" since the early 80's and this place is the best. And special thanks to our foundress C.C. You're the greatest!
And HBD Madame DeFarge!
Oh, wow. This entire puzzle felt like a CSO to this physics guy! Delightful! First to get was ION FLEMING and then I got the theme concept.
Here I was with Sue the T REX at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Have others met Sue the T REX?
Learning moment about HIMALAYAS. Once again we have MSG. Thanks for the WebMD information. I think there is only a problem if you take huge quantities. And it is a natural byproduct of cooking. Thanks also for the LENA HORNE information. So many lives ruined by the anti-Communist hysteria.
Happy birthday CC's Blog!
would you believe there is a Blog for cakes?
Hbd Madame Defarge,
a knitted cake for you.
And the only physics pun I would dare post on the Blog
would be for Husker Gary...
CC Happy Birthday to your CC creation!
From Yesterday:
Bill Seeley If you don't mind, I am still interested in your deeper insights into the political theme meaning yesterday. Perhaps you could privately email me from the address in my profile?
Chairman Moe Thanks for validating the SPUNK/SPARK write-over.
AnonT If MS DOS isn't running under Windows 10, what is the "real" OS running underneath?
AnonT, CanadianEh, Vidwan, LEO Thank you for the kind words about my FOG and SWAMP photo. I was bicycling to the bluffs to practice my music and passed this scene. I realized how amazing it was and actually had to double back to take the photo!
CrossEyedDave Thank you very much for the detailed retracing of the Heathkit story. I learned just as you did. Salvaged parts from scrapped TVs and such. I also never could afford a Heathkit or most new electronics parts growing up. We probably had the best learning possible. But I did later have to unlearn some of my salvage habits when I was working as an engineer!
First things first,
C E D .... your cakes images are FANTASTIC !!! Especially, the playground cartoon ... it would take a physicist to understand the joke ... #@!@#
Picard, I have seen the Rex sculpture, at the Field's museum, and have been to Chicago, many times, thanks to the courtesy of a niece who works for Google, who lives there.
I have a question ... How did they know that 'Sue' was a female ?? .....a) she had a complete set of all her ribs, unlike 'Adam' ? or b) she was the one with an 'attitude' ? or c) or she was discovered in a position of 'lordosis' ?
Thank you Canadian Eh! for the difference between spay and GELD ... which I had never thought about ... and EVEN Ray O Sunshine ( Horrors !) did not know. Although I am well past my prime, I am determined to read up on this subject and satisfy my curiosity ... my learning moment of the day !
Unlike most people on this blog ... I am here for all the wrong reasons. As to how I managed to solve the CW puzzle is of least interest to me ... or the words and language and their arcane meanings ... I am far more interested in the Learning moments and the rabbit holes that esoteric subjects may lead me to. Just a few more factoids to clutter up the dendrites in my decaying brain. BTW, I know one of the founding editors of Mental Floss, and I have great respect of him.
BTW, GELD is what you do if you have a hankerin' for homemade Rocky Mountain oysters or lamb fries. I learned the latter in a restaurant on the Oklahoma side of Lake Texoma. I asked the maybe-17 year old waitress what they were. She turned beet red, and asked me if I knew what Rocky Mountain oysters were. Then I turned beet red, and told her "thanks, but no thanks".
Picard @12:28 PM Will do. Going for a nap at the moment (up since 5 AM) but will email you later in the day.
Hi All!
I may not be an atomic physicist but I did stay at a Holiday INN last night.
The physics theme was right up my alley and I was off to the races after I got my 1st themer (QUARK GABLE).
//LOL, Riddler, 'shake'
That said, FIW. Like KS, I bolloxed square 5 (I had TESS). Oh, well. Thanks JW for a fun puzzle.
C. Moe - your Google-Fu was strong considering you don't know physics :-) Fun expo, old CHAP; thanks for the effort & MoeKus.
WOs: a ShaRK was going to visit the reef, I really butchered QUINTINS' name (more than once), eat->USE, TREe -> T REX
ESPs: EMIL, [see: FIW]
Fav: ESP's clue.
Runner-Up: Lion TAMER [Python]
No one else wanted a 'lean' Jack Sprat? //he writes b/f 4 others say yes :-)
{B, <grin>}
Louie Anderson and Meat Loaf on the same day? Bless my Soul.
Picard - Windows NT (now Win10) was a whole new re-write after MS & IBM split ways on the upgrade to OS/2 that MS was developing for IBM. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the OS/3(?) code was in NT.
Happy Birthday MdF - hope you stop by today.
And, finally, a very Happy Anniversary to The Corner.
Becky - I found The Corner after LA Crossword Confidential ended too. I didn't join until '13, though.
Thank you C.C. for a place to play and the bevy of hosts who kick-off post-puzzle-parties. Your little outpost on the web has attracted genuinely nice, smart and diversely-interesting folks [current poster notwithstanding]. The Corner has become its own vCommunity.
Cheers, -T
Thank YOu CC for this wondeful blog, and your yeoman service in starting this wonderful addictive, informative, participatory, culture, that goes waay beyond CW puzzles.
Happy Birthday Blog. !!!
My hopes and prayers for your CC and Boomer ... hope he keeps well on his way to recovery.
Thank you Jeff Wechsler for a great and charming puzzle, which I enjoyed very much. I got some hint of the theme early, though I have never eaten a Fig Newton ... the problem is that you have to buy the whole box of them...
Thank you Chariman Moe for an intense, well reasearched and informative blog !
I have very little knowledge on Atomic and Quantum physics ... but I thought of Waseely and Picard, as the ones who I thought, would. Unlike 'meeting' movie stars and baseball players, my dreams are of 'seeing' and reading about leading physicists, and other scientists.
I had linked about S N Bose, whose name is the inspiration for the term, Boson ... and I thought it was the Bose who invented the Bose speakers ...
I have met Hans Bethe, and heard his lecture on stars ... and remember his famous joke, '... no, Beta rays were not named after me ...'.
I have heard a lecture from Richard Feynman who invented ?/ discovered and coined the term, named the Quarks, and the 'charmed' quarks ... and whose work, even in recreational mathematics is incredible !!@!!! .. and his contemporary, George Sudarshan. I have seen and heard, S Chandrashekhar, in Chicago.
I have hosted a yound lady, who was a part of a team that tried to 'capture' a neutrino ( a lil eyetalian neutron ? ...) in 44 tons of Heavy Water, in a mine, 2 miles deep ... down in Minnesota ... they didn't succeed ...
My first answer for 61 Across Cretaceous Giant was CRAB ... Alaskan King Crab, would not fit ...
Have a nice day, and a good weekend, you all.
A doäble Wechsler on a Friday!
Much fun was had!--abetted by Chairman Moe!
One cheat (to look up EMIL), otherwise this was all by my lonesome.
Fave? Gotta be QUARK GABLE, right?
ION FLEMING a close second, 'cuz this was the clue/fill that explained the theme to moi.
Here's wishing a very Happy B'day to Mme D'Farge!
Nice to see her (and many fellow Cornerites) living well and doing their best to catch up to me!!
~ OMK
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DR: Just one diagonal today, on the far end.
This diag only sports two vowels & so offers not so much in the way of anagrams. I can force one (12 of 15 letters), thusly:
Think of a sadistic kid who really enjoys giving (politically incorrect) "Indian burns" to his victims. Each instance is, to him, a...
"DERM PRANK, "MMM(mmm)..."!
Musings2
-I loved the playground Newton’s Cradle CED!
-The most famous physicist I ever met was Konrad Dannenberg, one of the last surviving Nazi rocket scientists. I was at a NASA symposium in 1993 at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
-This site and the wonderful people here have become a big part of my life. Thanks C.C.!
Happy 15th birthday to Madame DeFarge; I recall when you started. Bastille day was a somber reminder of life's trials and tribulations when my mother left us on that day in 2005.
Well, this was at least 3 pay grades over my solving ability. I know how to spell "physics" and that's the extent of my knowledge of that subject. Thank you for the challenge, JeffWech. Some day I may be able to do your Friday puzzles. Many thanks, C. Moe, for explaining things to me.
I'll take a CSO at 12D. PAT S. My maiden name starts with "S".
Like Becky and -T, I came here when the Crossword Confidential stopped. I lurked for quite a while before I felt I had anything to add to the conversations. Happy Birthday, Blog!
Happy birthday, Madame DeFarge!
From Wednesday, WendyBird, I do the puzzle on newspaper with ink.
Our high temperature is supposed to climb into the 30's for a few days!!
Enjoy the rest of your day!
Becky, as the unoffical record keeper of puzzles for the Corner, your recollection of Crossword Confidential may be a bit skewed. It is true that it ended because Puzzle Girl (Angela Olson Halstead) was abandoned by her two other founding partners Rex Parker (Michael Sharp) and I think Doug Peterson who blogged the Sundays. I read Confidential every day in my beginning years and was thrilled when Angela and Michael had a publication here at the CORNER which you might find fun to read. In the very early days Rex would often come to comment here and we had some lively debates with him especially about Dan Naddor puzzles. Dan would chime in as well.
For the oldtimers here, am I wrong?
Hi y'all! Thanks, Jeffrey, for a real QUARKy puzzle. Thanks, Moe, for trying to make it understandable.
I got the theme early with QUARK GABLE because QUENTIN seemed sure. Helped with others. Didn't know what BOSON & MESON are but knew a physics mind would. As to the explanations: Hunh? Are you making all that up?
Last to fill was the SE corner and the ANNEX/TREX cross. Hand up for reading "crustacean".
Though LENA HORNE was going to be a theme entry. NOPE.
DNK: BOTHA, SEN Snowe, OMAR, EMIL.
In Dec. I got a letter from IRS saying they had my check crediting me with a certain amount, but had no paper work filed for the 2020 tax return. I SENT IT IN together in FEB. of 2021. SO I copied my forms & SENT IT IN again. A month later, no further word. I don't have a clue how to e-file. I'll file a new set next month.
Happy Birthday, Madam DeFarge. Miss you.
Happy Blog Anniversary, C.C., et alia. Ain't we got fun.
Lemony
Is that back when the crossword was done on the back of a shovel with a piece of coal?
🤭
Happy Birthday, Madame Defarge !
Happy Anniversary to the Crossword Corner !
Cute puzzle. I always like JW's, but today's was not my cuppa. Maybe because I was tired and testy this AM. Still aced it under 20, with just a few write overs here and there that slowed down the speed of the solve.
I like they way you laid out and explained the theme answers, Moe.
"Know misteak hear" - I here that ! :>) I read unami instead of umami, confused it with unagi, and entered eel. D'OH !
"A CSO to WC as our resident PAT'S fan (New England PATriotS)" - Also, Jay from Vermont.
That cat and the Roomba video made me laugh.
Once bitten, TWICE shy.
Hand up for lean. Then thin, and finally SLIM.
Sometime in May, June or July 2012 for me. Lurked a couple of days. I never much solved crosswords, but occasionally would try a Sunday puzzle in the morning while waiting for a game to start on TV. One day back then I got close and googled.
Neutrino - In Italian, "Little neutral one", Fermi's name for the ghost particle. I've gathered some notes that will be in my next comment.
-T @ 1:30 PM Outrageous clips. LMAO!
Vidwan @1:46 PM Ahem. I'm not a physicist, nor do I play one on TV. OTOH Picard is. Or to borrow an NT phrase "I am unworthy to untie the man's sandals".
"Actually, every second, a hundred million million go through our bodies. It's fine. They go through." - Claire David, The Drift - What's so special about neutrinos ? - Sanford Underground
For those interested, have you heard of DUNE ? So they are going to shoot this beam of neutrinos from Fermilab to the Sanford Underground Research Facility in S.D. Over 800 miles through rock, up to 19 miles deep.
In 1965, Ray Davis, Jr went deep underground in an old mine in Lead, South Dakota to prove what makes the sun shine, and intended to capture solar neutrinos. 37 years after beginning his experiments, Davis Jr was awarded the Nobel Prize.
The famous Standard (Particle Physics) Model had to be wrong, at least in terms of there being three neutrino types. There must be a fourth.
I think that DUNE will prove it, and lead to other discoveries and experiments along the way. The case is compelling. But as Georgia Karagiorgi has said, trying to understand the properties of neutrinos is like playing the ultimate puzzle game. Like playing a game of battleship against an unknown number of opponents on a grid of unknown proportions.
If you are at all interested and haven't seen this program, you must watch it. NOVA - Particles Unknown
You should be able to see the video after entering your local PBS station letters.
No Ray, in stone with a chisel
Lemony, I didn't even know the lovely lady's name, and had no idea she had any other people involved. And I have no recollection how I found that site, I may have read about it in the Times, a long, long time ago.
Becky
OK, I got the Q from QUARK. I already had ?UEN* but I'd forgotten the director's name
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Great lick C-Moe. I was thinking Billie Holiday but couln't extract that name anyhow.
Consume was not eat. Ink over. I get the week's la-xers in a Sunday INSERT
WC says "Wait 'til next year" on those PATS
Hbd Mme Defarge. Miss your posts
Thanks to Misty I get IM's Saints Day. Is there a Saint Wilbur?
I FIR earlier this week. But I'm having trouble with Saturday. I'll get to that when I put the cel down.
Yes, thank god ERNIE was solid so MASON became MESON. I naturally got the BAKED BEANS but where's the T?
Loved CC's blog. Can't remember when I joined but Argyle was there encouraging newbies
WC
I wasn't questioning your recollection Becks, I was merely adding to your story. We had many from Confidential join the Corner, which was probably our second biggest (though accidental) marketing success. I do enjoy being the historian here, and it forces me to keep my brain working.
one month of winter gone
Well I finished Saturday. Never thought I'd get 99% right. Perhaps I should have slept on it and I might have spotted the devilish clue that caused my FIW
This one was the best example of P&P working ntsof* how the brain works. I'd started last night and had virtually nada. Square by square it filled.
Difficulty can be hard to assess because there's proper names that some know others don't as well as subjects like geography and music.
Please tell me tomorrow that it was one of the more difficult Saturdays
I remember FIW on a Saturday when I misspelled the Dnieper River.
Good luck, don't give up, don't ever give up
WC
* Not to speak of
Hi everybody,
Thanks to CC and Rich and everybody that contributes to making this such an enjoyable place to visit. Best wishes for Boomer.
I'm enjoying Wordle. It's harder than it seems at first glance.
AnonT asked about Jordan. He’s a senior and has a part-time job at Trader Joe’s so I don’t get to see him as often. He’s enjoying watching his savings account grow. I miss not seeing him as much as I used to as well as missing reading Calvin and Hobbes together.
How about a new TV show with Morse and Thursday teaming up with Endeavor and Geordie? Then they will get some animal advice from James Herriot and crew. I would tune in just for the speech patterns and accents. I love the way they talk in addition to the story lines.
~ Mind how you go…
Bill G
Sometimes We Shoot Ourselves In The Foot Department --
Seeing this was a Wechsler creation, when I saw 16A's clue, I thought I would 'OutWechsler' Wechsler, so I figured the answer was FIGsNEWTON, as he was encoding a clue by using the normal word as the answer. Sometimes we are so-o-o-o wrong.
(Wiki: The newton (symbol: N) is the SI unit of force. It is named after Sir Isaac Newton because of his work on classical mechanics. A newton is how much force is required to make a mass of one kilogram accelerate at a rate of one metre per second squared.)
Michael, I know you are generally one of the last to comment in this blog, but your comments always make a lot of sense...
Regarding a Newton , of a force of 1 Kg. @ one meter per sec per sec...
Since the Earth's gravity is 9.8 meters per sec per sec, ... if someone dropped a one Kg ball, it would be a force of approx ten Newtons ? ....
Lemonade, I was just reading up the last posts before I went to sleep, and as you are the Unofficial Historian of this blog, I just had to read your posts of Jan 19, 2011. I wondered if I might have been around on the blog back then .... and wonder of wonders, I had 2 posts on that blog, as Anonymous. I guess, I was too cautious, and too bashful to choose an Avatar, so I signed in as Anonymous.
I can make out the two posts, one @ 4:16 pm on Sherman Alexia, whom I had read about the book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven ... and seen his movie, 'Smoke Signals' ... so I wrote in to say that his name should have been known...
My second post @ 4:41 pm was about donations to the blog, a few minutes later. I was well acquainted with the story of Milton Friedman and Rabbi Hillel from an article I had read in the NYT.
When I started, on the blog, I was very shy and bashful, but now as I have grown older, and though not actually wiser, ... just more thick skinned and not worried about my public persona... what I write and state does not bother me, although I do try to impart some info that may be useful to other folks.
Have a nice night, all.
Oops ! I forgot to thank TTP for that very interesting points he made about Neutrinos !!
Thank you ! It is quite late today, my time, but I will archive that page and see what I can learn on all the links that you have provided.
Hopefully, I will learn a lot of stuff, and I hope I will be able to understand atleast some of it. I did know that those particles are very very elusive... The US Govt had spent over 30 million dollars just to find ONE .... at THAT time, 15 years ago, ... so they are worth ... say, as much as locating 3 dangerous terrorists, for example, at a bounty of 10 million apiece... ;-o)
Tomorrow I have Book Club and then dinner with the family later that evening. So I may not get here unless I happen to get up early. We'll see what happens.
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