I like Sudoku puzzles. I love Charles Schulz’s Peanuts. And, curiously, there is a book that combines them both — the Peanuts Sudoku Comic Digest. I say “curiously,” because there’s nothing intrinsic in Peanuts that lends itself to Sudoku. Schulz had passed away before the Sudoku craze became a craze, and there are no PeanutsContinue reading “On Peanuts and Sudoku Puzzles”
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There is one thing I never do, never ever do, when I complete a Sudoku puzzle. I never guess. Sherlock Holmes famously said in The Sign of Four that a guess is “destructive to the logical faculty,” and I am not inclined to disagree. When it comes to Sudoku I puzzle it out, I thinkContinue reading
On Light Rail Travails
Some days, I think the universe is conspiring against me. It doesn’t want me to get to work. Or to get home. This was one of those days. The light rail is powered by a distributed electrical grid. Sometimes, when it’s rainy, you can hear the sparking of the contact against the high-voltage wires. AndContinue reading “On Light Rail Travails”
On Sudoku Puzzles
I have to tell you, this has kept me up nights with worry. The world is not going to run out of Sudoku puzzles. It’s an obvious worry. You go in the bookstore, and you see hundreds of Sudoku books, many of them written by Will Shortz. Surely, you think, there’s a limit to Sudoku.Continue reading “On Sudoku Puzzles”
On Sudoku
I own a Nintendo DS, the limited edition red DS system they released with Mario Kart DS. I love my DS. I love the color, that solid, vibrant red. It looks classy, not girlie or gay as Marc Klein called it at last year’s Shore Leave. It’s funny. I may have scoffed at the ideaContinue reading “On Sudoku”
On Sudoku
I’ve discovered the joys (and the addictions) of Sudoku. I never understood it, that strange numerical puzzle. What’s the appeal, I wondered? Why are people wanting Sudoku games for their computers? I picked up Brain Age for the DS several weeks ago, but hadn’t tried the Sudoku puzzles. Indeed, I didn’t even know what SudokuContinue reading “On Sudoku”