

Everything by Wardruna. Gregorian chant and medieval music, particularly by Hildegard von Bingen. Music by Enya in Gaelic.
Everything by Wardruna. Gregorian chant and medieval music, particularly by Hildegard von Bingen. Music by Enya in Gaelic.
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Puzzle #737
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Jun. 17, 2025
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My Score: 2300
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Fire Birds
“Shoot ‘em, blast ‘em, nab ‘em, grab em, dang gum, bang em, cook em, clean em, hose em, boil em, kick em, nab em, twist em, fry em, ALL GONE BYE BYE!”
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My ex wife would only ever do house work after 3am, who cares if anyone is sleeping?
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Puzzle #731
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And in winter, put your weetbix and Milo in the microwave for 45 seconds to make it nice and warm. A little bit of cinnamon and sugar helps too.
Either works in Australian English. Don’t know about the rest of the world.
“You have to want to be better”.
Q: How many psychologists does it take to change a light globe?
A: Only one, but the light globe has to want to change.
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Jun. 10, 2025
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My Score: 2020
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I’ve been thinking about a toroidal world for literally decades, on and off.
(This is a magic planet for fantasy based role playing games, so I don’t really care too much about real physics or gravity. Anything that doesn’t fit physics “just works” because it’s magic).
I have notebooks full of maps and diagrams, trying to work out how to map it (possibly two equators, no singular north and south poles), how the cycle of day and night; and seasons; would work. What would the view be like from the “inside” of the donut hole? Is it better to rotate “horizontally” around the centre of the donut hole (I think so) or “vertically” around a north and South Pole on the planet?
Maybe the universe could be like a foam, with each planet being a bubble with a star at the centre. Sometimes there could be conjoined bubbles — two or more bubbles joined together with stars at the centre of each one. Travel between planets (bubbles) could be by flying your spaceship “down” through lava tubes or similar that join the bubbles. I’m imagining a universe that might look like one of these:
There is a Hide my Email extension for Firefox, which allows you to create new passwords and review existing ones. Works well for that usage.
But I don’t know how to get to the Passwords password manager application from Linux.