Today was spent making preparations for placing a new puzzle cache out in the wild. This puzzle has been something that has invaded my brain for a while and I hope is going to live up to the difficulty we are presenting it as. I solved the puzzle in around two hours the other night, […]
The title… well it’s about a quiz on BBC Four. Some people call it Only Connect. Because that’s its name. A few days ago I posted about the Lazy Caterer’s Sequence and this was the answer to a question on the quiz. I knew it instantly because of writing for this blog. That’s rare that […]
Yet another day that has flown by. I needed to go to Ikea for a few bits for my classroom, Mrs Pitts needed to go too. However, today was a bank holiday. I thought it would be awfully busy and didn’t really fancy going, however Mrs Pitts was convinced that since it was such a […]
No one made any effort on the homework. Disgraceful. Most of today was spent out caching or sitting around staying out of Mrs Pitts’ way. We only found two caches during the day, we attempted four. Tech Ricks Gifts is a series of 7 caches, mostly puzzles with unknown locations, each one leading to the […]
So far, all I’ve done is shop and sleep. The sleeping was a little more enjoyable than the shopping overall. I’m not a fan of going to placed to buy things, I prefer doing it online wherever possible. Still 7 shirts, a tie, a pair of shorts and a few other bits later, we returned […]
It’s been a long day. I don’t really feel like I’ve had a weekend at all to be honest. Yesterday with band took up most of the day and today band has taken up a lot of time too. Worth it though as it was very entertaining and people enjoyed it. I love hearing positive […]
Ah, Catchphrase. “It’s good, but it’s not quite right!” And all that guff. Anyway, this bloke recently bought the board game, clearly has nothing else to do. Hang on, neither do I… Anyway, when he opened the box he saw a burning Christian symbol. Click the link for more details. [via… er, I can’t remember. […]
The first in a semi regular series, everything looks better in slow motion, the cigarette lighter. Smoking may well be evil and cancerous. OK, no ‘may’ about it, it is evil and cancerous. But this video of a lighter in super slow motion is really quite interesting!
[From David Chess] A game, a game, a game! To play this game (and it’s not a game that has points really or rules or winning or anything, but a game nonetheless) be walking somewhere (somewhere very familiar, at least the first time you play it; somewhere that you walk several times a week), at […]