KeriMorgret:@fitzwillie I wonder how many patents they have on the sorting and automated robots. Betting they did storage bins in-house,too. 6 days ago
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TODAY’S PUZZLE:
What beast is fought by the man who shines brightly with Alnilam,Alnitak,and Mintaka?
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Search for ["1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.Nf3 Be7"] to find this exact sequence of terms. This is the chess opening known as Catalan. Search [ECO code] to find that it stands for Encyclopedia of Chess Openings. Then,[ECO code for Catalan] find that the Catalan and its variants have ECO codes E01 to E09,but this particular opening is considered the classic,E05.
Okay,being geeks,we know this isn’t actually space,it’s just high altitude. But still,it’s cool and it’s geeky! From the article at Physorg.com:
Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad,both 17,used a weather balloon ordered online and a makeshift Styrofoam spacecraft to send the plastic astronaut 24 kilometers (15 miles) into the stratosphere,reports said. Their high school principal Lecourgos Papathanasakis confirmed the “amazing voyage”to AFP,but neither of the teens was immediately available for comment.
Okay,that’s one small step for a very small Canadian. But I’m thinking we need to do better. How about someone launch a Lego replica of the monolith from 2001:A Space Odyssey with a space-suited minifig? How awesome a picture would that be?!?
Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more,leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle,and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.
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TODAY’S PUZZLE:
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 dxc4 5.Nf3 Be7. What is the ECO code of this opening?
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Search [arrested by Catholic church 1633 pardoned 1992] to find that this was Galileo. Search for [Galileo story stone scrolls] and find that Vicenzo Viviani had Galileo’s life story written on huge stone scrolls at his Palazzo dei Cartelloni.
Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more,leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle,and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.
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TODAY’S PUZZLE:
I was arrested by the Inquisition in 1633 and then pardoned by the Catholic Church in 1992. One of my students had my story written in stone scrolls at his castle. What was my student’s name?
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Search [terrapin stew inaugural ball] to learn that terrapin stew was served at President Lincoln’s 1865 inaugural ball. Searching [1865 inaugural ball location] yields the U.S. Patent Office.
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TODAY’S PUZZLE:
If you were being served terrapin stew at a historic presidential inaugural ball,in what government building would you be?
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Search for [Edmund Fitzgerald] to discover that the ship sank in Lake Superior in 1975 carrying a load of iron ore pellets made of taconite. Search for [taconite] to find that this is a kind of sedimentary rock with more than 15% iron interlaced with quartz,chert or carbonate.
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TODAY’S PUZZLE:
When the Edmund Fitzgerald sank,she was carrying 26,000 tons of pellets of what kind of iron ore?
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Search [U.S. official state sport] to find that Maryland has jousting as its official sport. A quick search for [jousting Middle Ages] confirms that it was popular in that age. A search for [jousting equipment] shows that the competitors commonly carry a lance.
