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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by southendmd on Today at 08:24:28 am »
5/5 difficulty today.

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Puzzle #830
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Skill 81/99
Uniqueness 1 in 9,434
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by southendmd on Today at 08:21:30 am »
Wordle 1,552 3/6

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Skill 92/99
Luck 75/99
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by serious crayons on Yesterday at 11:04:30 pm »
Wordle 1,551 3/6

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 SHIRT
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 DEATH
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WordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 67/99



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Puzzle #829
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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by serious crayons on Yesterday at 10:48:51 pm »
But isn't this criticizing an author for not writing what you think they should have written?

I don't think her point was to tell how the MN SF differed food-wise from other fairs.

True, but if the idea was to write about food at the MN SF, there's a feast of article possibilities (pun intended, obviously), so this is kind of an uninteresting way to do it. As Lee noted, the writer says she thinks the cookies are so-so, and the presentation is the main thing. OK, fair enough, then let's move on to a more interesting food. 


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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on Yesterday at 06:15:18 pm »
What a waste of time and ink that article was! There was nothing to tell me how the MN state fair is different than any other state fair, foodwise. Even the author admitted that the chocolate chip cookies were unremarkable, the only thing noteworthy about them was the way they were packaged so that they overflowed their bucket. If it were me covering Minnesota food, I would have hunted down Sean Sherman and Winona LaDuke to see what unique indigenous foods they had come up with.

But isn't this criticizing an author for not writing what you think they should have written?

I don't think her point was to tell how the MN SF differed food-wise from other fairs.
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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on Yesterday at 06:10:27 pm »
I usually agree, but I didn't like this one. I couldn't tell when she was joking and when she was being factual. Maybe that's the point, since the article is about AI? I may give it another shot.

Yeah, it was not up to her usual work.
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Cellar Scribblings / Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Last post by serious crayons on Yesterday at 04:42:43 pm »
I ran into Santa at the grocery store a couple of Christmas seasons ago. He and I were both trying to find fresh dill in the produce department. He had a big white beard and was dressed in a bright red jacket with fuzzy white trim, red pants and red hat. I let him ask the staff person for the dill because I figured they wouldn't say no to Santa. I kept calling him Santa, even though he had not introduced himself. He asked if I had anything to play a DVD on and I said no, which was too bad because he had a pocket full of CDs of Christmas music he'd recorded and was handing out.


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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by serious crayons on Yesterday at 04:37:00 pm »
I went directly to Patricia Marx's article. She's a pretty good read.

I usually agree, but I didn't like this one. I couldn't tell when she was joking and when she was being factual. Maybe that's the point, since the article is about AI? I may give it another shot.


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The Culture Tent / Re: In the New Yorker...
« Last post by serious crayons on Yesterday at 04:35:15 pm »
What a waste of time and ink that article was! There was nothing to tell me how the MN state fair is different than any other state fair, foodwise. Even the author admitted that the chocolate chip cookies were unremarkable, the only thing noteworthy about them was the way they were packaged so that they overflowed their bucket. If it were me covering Minnesota food, I would have hunted down Sean Sherman and Winona LaDuke to see what unique indigenous foods they had come up with.

Yeah, indigenous foods at the MN State Fair could be interesting.

Supposedly the MN SF is one of the best in the country -- competing only with Texas, and some say better.



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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!
« Last post by CellarDweller on Yesterday at 03:42:51 pm »
Sonja update:  she is walking better and will go home tomorrow!


Great news!  Thanks for the update!!
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