tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post4860482438879612929..comments2024-03-28T06:58:56.261-05:00Comments on L.A.Times Crossword Corner: Sunday Jan 31, 2016 Mark BickhamZhouqin (C.C.) Burnikelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12750267554729853785noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-76676109283175008742016-02-03T10:02:53.936-06:002016-02-03T10:02:53.936-06:00Oh how I miss Merl.<b>Oh how I miss Merl.</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-89433125862616953582016-02-01T00:30:19.738-06:002016-02-01T00:30:19.738-06:00As an owner of an old MG, I loved the Lucas spoof....As an owner of an old MG, I loved the Lucas spoof. Thanks.<br /><br />Yes, I am too too cutesy and so smart...Bill G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04142837879175561312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-8865433622967387222016-02-01T00:03:09.915-06:002016-02-01T00:03:09.915-06:00
like most of these new ones too too cutsy you all...<br />like most of these new ones too too cutsy you all are so so smartAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-50453686277218639962016-01-31T22:53:18.294-06:002016-01-31T22:53:18.294-06:00Argyle - LOL! I need some of that Lucas for my Al...Argyle - LOL! I need some of that Lucas for <i>my</i> Alfa Spider. They said the British smoke was just as good as the Italian for insulation. Fingers crossed...<br /><br />For dinner I did the course-ground mustard, mushroom & cream sauce again for salmon. I'm getting better, but I over-cooked the poor fish. No one but me noticed. Tomorrow is leftover salmon or...<br /><br />Steve - I've got a 24h sous-vide roast going ala <a href="https://www.sousvidelife.com/24-hour-sous-vide-chuck-roast-with-mushroom-gravy-recipe" rel="nofollow">a take on this recipe</a>. I'll let you know.<br /><br />CED - Yeah, the Yale twiddle-I lost me too; I guess that's why I went to State... I did study a bit of quantum theory in school while simultaneously I didn't.<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-42760006319595504132016-01-31T22:26:48.267-06:002016-01-31T22:26:48.267-06:00Jayce & AnonT, Thanks for the answer. Since de...Jayce & AnonT, Thanks for the answer. Since dental floss was mentioned before the joke, I thought that must be it, but I couldn't figure out why. Duh!PKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-36547037244929703592016-01-31T21:04:28.444-06:002016-01-31T21:04:28.444-06:00Anonymous T @ 5:01
Still trying to understand the...Anonymous T @ 5:01<br /><br />Still trying to understand the vectors, I was watching another introductory<br />lecture before I could get to your Yale lecture, (which helped a little.)<br /><br />I just finished watching the entire Yale lecture, & as far as the math goes,<br />I was lost at "I twiddle." (how does a twiddle change anything?)But I stuck with it.<br /><br />Very interesting!<br /><br />I thought my Bass Booster picked up CB radio due to poor shielding.<br />But now I see my capacitance values must have been off.<br />Fun thinking about those old variable capacitors. ( Do they ever use them anymore?)<br />The longer I watched the more sense I could make of it.<br /><br />One thing that Professor taught me though,<br />is that I should be studying Quantum Mechanics...<br />(No one understands it!)<br /><br /><br /><br />CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-28363572247028594742016-01-31T18:56:18.324-06:002016-01-31T18:56:18.324-06:00Credit where due. 62 Rampy first brought the Lucas...Credit where due. 62 Rampy first brought the Lucas replacement smoke article to our attention. It is CLASSIC!<br /><br />Fun puzzle today. Didn't see the O in the double F entries until the reveal. But it became evident. Thanks for the write up Gary.<br /><br />Bracing for serious winter here in the plains. Batten down and take care all of you affected.Avg Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02301873113962640644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-57537087988794500642016-01-31T18:22:04.695-06:002016-01-31T18:22:04.695-06:00If you have the time, Lucas Replacement Smoke Kit....If you have the time, <a href="http://www3.telus.net/bc_triumph_registry/smoke.htm" rel="nofollow"><b>Lucas Replacement Smoke Kit</b></a>.Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09472446316589207365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-16572600975106312132016-01-31T17:54:54.620-06:002016-01-31T17:54:54.620-06:00"What does a Chinese person use as a blindfol..."What does a Chinese person use as a blindfold?"<br />"Dental floss."<br />Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-75635275341945727422016-01-31T17:43:44.846-06:002016-01-31T17:43:44.846-06:00HG - Re: card trick. Of course, I was one of the ...HG - Re: card trick. Of course, I was one of the millions that "did it wrong." For those who don't get it - there's a 1 in 52 chance of someone thinking "7-diamonds". If you did, your mind was blown 'cuz that's your card! I did it right on my second go ;-)<br /><br />PK - you posted while I was too... Jayce's story is of a joke playing on the stereotype that Asian's eyes are "squinty." Hence, dental-floss is sufficient to blindfold 1bn people. It's a joke. And funnier since an Asian dude at a Chinese restaurant said it rather than a "round-eye" (what Mr. Dia would call us) like me. :-)<br /><br />Personally, I love this kind of breaking-down-stereotype humor. In my ute, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy started chipin' away at it and, through humour, sent the message that people is just people and we can all laugh at the barriers in our thinking we once had.<br /><br />I hope that didn't get to political. I'll let Argyle judge...<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-46822333205904208162016-01-31T17:01:53.559-06:002016-01-31T17:01:53.559-06:00Sunday Lurker says...
HG - Great writeup. Thank...Sunday Lurker says...<br /><br />HG - Great writeup. Thanks. I leaned a thing or two today sans puzzle play.<br /><br />CED - re: second to final fail: Who let you in our data center? [It was that bad once]. Did you ever get your vectors to match? Also, if you watch the Yale class, you'd see at ~20m why your base amp picked up CB radio.<br /><br />Jayce - In my early EE labs I too learned that electronics run on smoke - let out the smoke and it no workie no more :-)<br /><br />Along those lines, burnt electronics has a very particular smell. I had an oven that blew something on the board. I took out the board and sniffed it. DW looked at me as if I was nuts (or worried I needed a cheep high). I found the burnt relay and replaced it. [note to self afterwards - <b>never</b> use the self-cleaning feature.]<br /><br />I'll share one of my big fails - remotely changing firewall rules w/o a time-based fail-back. I was doing modifications at 2a and committed changes that locked me (and all other traffic across it) out. Calling at 2:30a to get building/console access does not make for a happy client.<br /><br />Big E - Friday I'll be joining y'all in NOLA for Mardi Gras. Save me some King Cake!<br /><br />Cheers, -TAnonymous Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459563526290288425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-38165397938539932312016-01-31T16:55:22.979-06:002016-01-31T16:55:22.979-06:00But Jayce, I DO NOT know the answer to "what ...But Jayce, I DO NOT know the answer to "what a Chinese person uses as a blindfold."PKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-8768116430475217282016-01-31T16:20:05.686-06:002016-01-31T16:20:05.686-06:00Oh, and Gary, terrific write-up today. Your time a...Oh, and Gary, terrific write-up today. Your time and effort are greatly appreciated.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-63551331029689399612016-01-31T16:12:25.813-06:002016-01-31T16:12:25.813-06:00This puzzle was really fun, I thought. After I got...This puzzle was really fun, I thought. After I got the reveal entry I looked back at THEOFFICE and took 5 minutes to finally realize the OFF was NOT off center. Very imaginative, Mr. Bickham! <br />Sometimes several of us don't know the same things, such as ERDRICH, LILA, and EMMA as clued. Yes, I know, many of you DID know those.<br />CrossEyedDave, those engineering "fails" cracked me up. I have made my share of goofs, of course. One of the more spectacular ones was when I shorted out the power and ground traces on a circuit board; there were some serious sparks and the copper trace on the board heated up and melted when it was turned on. Then there was stinkiest, most smelly error I made, which is a surprisingly common and easy-to-make mistake: I mounted a tantalum capacitor backwards and when the circuit was turned on the capacitor literally smoked. The thing is, those suckers stink like hell when that happens; it took quite a while to air out the lab.<br />Speaking of dental floss, at a Chinese restaurant that my wife and I were dining at, our waiter, who was Chinese, a confessed stand-up comic wannabe, asked us, as a joke, what a Chinese person uses as a blindfold. You already know the answer. You had to be there, because the way he told it was truly funny.<br />Best wishes to you all.Jaycehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15906163232315177399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-84650599483923900022016-01-31T15:05:32.152-06:002016-01-31T15:05:32.152-06:00Oh, my goodness! I was in such a rush this morning...Oh, my goodness! I was in such a rush this morning that didn't even notice Gary's byline! I apologize and thank you for your efforts. I also hope C.C. is all right.<br /><br />Lemonade and Dudley:<br />I apologize to both of you for mistaken identities and wrongly attributing Lemonade's remarks to Dudley. Oh, my, I'm a mess today.<br /><br />I agree that EVER AND ANON was often used in puzzles for many years. Lately, not much.<br /><br />Fermat:<br />It may be too late as I only now saw your question about the stuck walnut. Do you have dental floss? I find that effective when anything gets lodged between my teeth. Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-55310814415436478892016-01-31T15:02:09.677-06:002016-01-31T15:02:09.677-06:00Um, er, Bailiwick...Um, er, Bailiwick...CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-58129603552269716952016-01-31T15:00:51.890-06:002016-01-31T15:00:51.890-06:00This puzzle was right up my baliwick...<a href="http://www.engineeringexplorer.com/funny-architectural-and-engineering-fails/" rel="nofollow">This puzzle was right up my baliwick...</a>CrossEyedDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745913007262424048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-16742204513248918912016-01-31T14:58:04.973-06:002016-01-31T14:58:04.973-06:00Slow and steady - but finally finished. Wonderful...Slow and steady - but finally finished. Wonderful, creative theme which made the theme answers easier than the fill for me. ERDRICH came out of the temporal lobes - we read her book The Round House for book cluba few years ago. Just finished "A Man called Ove" by Fredrick Backman for this month's book club, really entertaining quick read. The main character reminds me of the Norwegian bachelor farmers on A Prairie Home Companion.<br /><br />Thanks Mark and HG- I'm with Dudley - as I was reading I thought - this doesn't sound like CC but more like Gary! Our beautiful warm weekend is slipping away fast - big storms are supposed to come Tues/Wed - so stay safe to those affected.inanehikernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-29267210690419320042016-01-31T14:55:43.684-06:002016-01-31T14:55:43.684-06:00Not too easy, not too hard for a Sunday puzzle--th...Not too easy, not too hard for a Sunday puzzle--thanks, Mark. I had to cheat a little, but not too much, and enjoyed the theme, which helped a lot. Thanks for the write-up, Husker.<br /><br />Hi C.C., hope all is well with you.<br /><br />I have a friend from Vermont visiting this weekend and was looking forward to showing off our sunny beaches and the like. Instead, we're having a miserable raining and windy Saturday and Sunday making it almost impossible to go out and do things. Bad luck on this one, after a beautiful sunny week. <br /><br />Have a great day, everybody!Mistyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17570695193695039956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-90001706127474907312016-01-31T14:45:30.271-06:002016-01-31T14:45:30.271-06:00Easy, about like Tuesday difficulty.Easy, about like Tuesday difficulty.Paul in Montebellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17745565294434034976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-88638700934419038982016-01-31T14:29:34.466-06:002016-01-31T14:29:34.466-06:00Hi Y'all! Wow, what a lot of stuff in this puz...Hi Y'all! Wow, what a lot of stuff in this puzzle, Mark, good one! I kept moving around getting letters or words here and there until it filled. Had noted a lot of OFFs so wasn't surprised at the reveal. However, I kept looking for a pun, of which there were nun. Was way OFF about that.<br /><br />Cassis aperitif = KIR? two out of three words were unknown and the other, I was not sure of the meaning.<br /><br />Meal opener = OAT? Real misdirect here. Took A SEC to suss that.<br /><br />Lots of multiple word fillers. A few red-letter vowel runs didn't help at all.<br /><br />Dinner DATE, not bell or time. Haven't had a DATE in so long, never thought of that.<br /><br />High degree = DOCTORATE. My child with the most education makes the least money. Has not had a full-time job in years and now is juggling four part-time jobs to stay afloat. <br /><br />Didn't know ERDRICH, all perps. Got IRWIN from perps then waited and waited....but not for GODOT.<br /><br />Knew ASLAN only because my granddaughter played Mrs. Beaver in a school production.<br /><br />Thanks, Gary, thought it was you. Hope C.C. is well.PKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-68025688838201372812016-01-31T13:29:01.121-06:002016-01-31T13:29:01.121-06:00Dudley:
Yes, that's one of the truly wonderful...Dudley:<br />Yes, that's one of the truly wonderful things about this Blog: we share and benefit from the knowledge of others. I'm always grateful for that.<br /><br />BigEasy:<br />I envy you your diet. It's obvious you don't suffer from diabetes!Lucinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16278649651081244724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-2262815822413119972016-01-31T13:10:58.785-06:002016-01-31T13:10:58.785-06:00So Food service trade can mean a restaurant, eh?So <i>Food service trade</i> can mean a restaurant, eh?Argylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09472446316589207365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-67121774554240399062016-01-31T12:14:11.072-06:002016-01-31T12:14:11.072-06:00Well I see 'see see' took a day of and HG ...Well I see 'see see' took a day of and HG picked up the slack. I noticed the OFFs early but as usual I couldn't put two and two together to make the puzzle easier. By the time I filled OFF CENTER, all the theme filled were dont. I had a few unknowns that were solved by perps- Jay MOHR, ERDRICH, STAMOS, ASLAN, and three unknowns that kept me from completing the puzzle-LILA, EMMA, and ARRAS. I tried ERMA and LITA/LISA but couldn't work SLIMINESS into the puzzle so a late DNF.<br /><br />I had to laugh because TGIF, aka T.G.I. Friday's, was the restaurant that we ate at Friday night between the two performances by Dr. John.<br /><br />D-O-- you're not the only one with a spare tire. Two ways to lose it-exercise more and eat less OR wear bigger pants and use suspenders. Unfortunately I won't use any of my suggestions.<br />ANON@11:17 'ever and ____' used to be in a puzzle every week 30 years ago.<br />LUCINA- at least you got SLIMINESS out without knowing LILA or EMMA- I couldn't. So with that remark, I'll TAKE LEAVE OF the fellow SHIP OF FOOLS, remove my SWEATSHIRT(s) and go to a Mardi Gras parade. D-O; to help remove my 'spare tire' I'll have a diet of fried chicken, king cake, and wash it down with beer. The 'Band Perry' is playing tonight-FREE.Big Easynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5995532066584316410.post-37169487619213399322016-01-31T11:59:34.951-06:002016-01-31T11:59:34.951-06:00maripro, ASLAN is the lion in The Chronicles of N...maripro, ASLAN is the lion in <i> The Chronicles of Narnia </i> the C.S. Lewis fantasy books. It may be the Mr. Beaver is not too well known.<br /><br /><br /> It is reassuring that there is always someone in our group who know the things I do not know. Thanks Lucinda, the information about her husband may very well make ERDRICH stick in my mind.Lemonade714https://www.blogger.com/profile/13642909374639570868noreply@blogger.com